Your Body Hears Every Word You Say

Science has shown us that our bodies are intelligent, interconnected energy systems. Our cells are also intelligent and aware of their “specific work” within us in ways we may not have realized. Our bodies have wisdom and are indeed listening, taking in everything and everyone we encounter, including all experienced environmental stimuli, visual images, and even those images created from within our own imaginations.

According to Candice Pert, science has proven that each and every cell in the body carries the full memory of every single thing we have ever thought and experienced, as well as the compaction of unresolved issues still festering away, as they wait to be released (Pert 2008–2016). Pert found through complex biomolecular experiments that the body and mind are involved in a constant, responsive, and dynamic information exchange. (Pert 1997, 144).

Barbara Hoberman Levine states that our body is like an “emotional barometer” in that our bodies will never lie to us. (Levine 1991, 69–78). That’s why in order to find answers, we can also look within and fine-tune ourselves in listening to how our bodies are feeling.

For example, if we are in an acute or prolonged state of stress of any kind, our bodies will begin to signal that discord with aches, pains, nervous energy, and sleep disruptions; later on, we may well experience a more pronounced set of responses and symptoms, to tell us to take immediate action to resolve our imbalance, and thereby alleviating a potential illness or disease.

Our spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical realms are in constant intercommunications, showing us the immense interweaving of the intelligence that we are. This information is empowering for any of us, because the more aware we are of our own mind/body/spirit interrelation, the more we can consciously influence positive change within ourselves, in our bodies, regardless of our genetic makeup.

The fact is, we can choose to be more loving, caring and compassionate to ourselves – to our bodies, like we would want to be, in caring for a dear friend. Because you see, your body really is your good friend, no matter what shape or size you are, no matter your age, scars, or wrinkles, or however else you have been taught to negatively judge yourself, as not being “good enough”. Just stop now, and look at your body differently, with compassion and love, like a friend that has carried you a great distance, in spite of the challenges it has endured when some of us have, at times, ignored our body’s needs for proper nourishment or sleep, or have ignored its pains and its signals of distress.

It's good to ask your body what it might need in any given moment and see what you notice, what comes to mind. It’s also good to sincerely thank your body for what it has done for you, rather than what it has “failed” to do.

Perhaps, when we can remember in all our daily busyness to honour and care for our bodies, by nourishing it more, keeping it less stressed, resting it, and by telling it more often, out loud, that you do love and appreciate it – all of it. With more heartfelt support from you, your body will be able to give you back more energy, because it will be able to experience your extra nourishment and it will certainly be able to hear all that you are saying to it.