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Listen
to Your Body
by Zoosh
If you
are seeking someone to lead you to the physical mastery
that will allow you to be comfortably healthy in your
body, seek no further than your own physical body. Now,
all people, if they were going to pound a nail into the
wall, most likely would not use the wrong end of the
hammer. And yet, why is it that you feel obliged to use
your physical body in a way in which it was never
intended? You are surrounded by examples of the harmony
of nature, and yet you have been slow to accept that
this harmony of nature requires you to live at least in
harmony with yourself if you are to be comfortable.
You
could say, "But trees get struck by lightning and
they must not like that. Sometimes they develop diseases
or are infested with insects, and they must not like
that." But I will say that the consumption and the
recycling of all that is physical reality in this world
is but a portion of your reality. You accept that, to
some extent. It is just that you have all been raised in
an artificial environment.
Look to
your ancient tribal cultures, not only in North America,
but in South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
and places that have tribal cultures that go way back
and that still have members who talk about their tribal
wisdom. These people know, whether they tell you or not,
how to live in harmony. It may be that they have adopted
the ways of the technological world and thence have
turned their backs on the natural harmony. But the
tribal elders -- they know. Yet, for the bulk of the
readers here, how will you be able to tap into the
wisdom of the elders in tribes if you cannot see these
people or talk to them? The answer is that you must tap
into your own wisdom.
You
know, all physical matter that exists in your body has
been a portion of someone else's body or something else
and has been recycled all over Earth for millions of
years. Because of the accumulation of experience
transmitted into the cellular and atomic particle
structure in your physical body, it has more wisdom than
you can actually tap and use, much more than your mind
will ever be able to garner.
The
challenge with your mind is that it is a totally
polarized instrument. The ideas of "yes" and
"no" are built into your mind as constants,
whereas the idea of feeling good is built into your body
as a regulating device. You know when you feel
good in your body, and you know when you don't. It is
true that you do not pick up on all the subtle
discomforts, but you usually notice discomforts that
come to your attention. In that sense your body provides
you with a weather vane effect. You always know when the
wind is blowing from a favorable direction and when it
is not.
How, then, to tap the wisdom that has been
placed in the atomic structure of the cells of your body
simply due to the nature of the physical matter
recycling through Earth history? How to do this? It is
necessary to make this a non-thinking process.
Understand that this is a physical planet. This you
know. There is much wisdom here. This you know. There is
much mystery surrounding wisdom. This you know. But it
will show you, if you desire that it is so and if you
allow it.
In order
to allow your physical body to share its knowledge, you
will have to allow it to do what it does best: that is,
to live in harmony with itself. So, homework -- genuine
Spirit and Zoosh homework.
Most of
you go to the grocery store (the favorite Zoosh homework
playground) from time to time. Next time you are there,
pick up some food that your mouth loves to eat but that
you know the rest of your body isn't too fond of. Hold
that food eight inches from your mouth. How does your
mouth feel? Maybe you start salivating a bit.
Now move
that food down so it is centered in front of your chest
or heart chakra. See how that part of you feels. Next,
move it down so it is in front of your intestines or
your solar plexus. That's where the action is as far as
the retrieval of nutrients.
See
how those different places feel. Chances are that when
you hold it in front of your mouth, you experience at
least the guilty pleasure of desire. But by the time
that food item descends toward the action places, your
body begins to respond with the "oh no"
feeling.
Learn to recognize those physical feelings,
because that is wisdom instantly imparted to you from
your physical self. It is not laced with multi-syllable
words, nor does it contain an intellectual message that
is the likes of that which wins Pulitzer prizes. No, it
will be pure, simple, and easily understood by anyone.
It will give you an immediate message about how you
feel.
Next,
find some food -- perhaps a vegetable -- that you are not
crazy about but will eat if it's placed in front of you
with a smile and a nod. Make this a food that you know
is good for you, such as broccoli, squash, or carrots.
Same test. Hold it in front of your mouth. Chances are
that you'll be feeling, "Well, OK". Then hold
it in front of your chest. See how that feels. Then hold
it in front of your gut. See how that feels. You will
definitely notice a difference between that and the food
laced with guilty pleasure.
This is
a technique by which you can begin to receive
communications from your physical body. It will
establish a communications network with the portion of
you that has totally mastered physical reality. It is
because you have not listened to these messages that you
get into
trouble with illness or at least indigestion. Understand
what I am saying. If your body gives you a message in
these three chakras that the stuff you want feels pretty
good, then go ahead, buy it, and eat it. But if there is
one portion of you that says, "No, no, I'd rather
you wouldn't," then set it aside.
Now,
understand that this might very well not apply to every
brand, or to every variety of food, for that matter. Say
that you pick up a carton of milk and hold it in front
of your mouth. "Oh, OK." Hold it in front of
your heart. "Well, all right." Hold it in
front of your gut. "I'm not so sure; gut feels kind
of uncomfortable." Does that mean that all milk is
bad for you? No. Hold up a different carton. Hold up a
variation on that milk. If it is something you really
want, keep trying, but if it does not feel good,
especially to your chest and your gut, then let it go
for a time. Maybe it will be all right the next time you
come back to the store.
Understand
that the purpose here is really to establish a new level
of trust between your instrument of teaching of the
physical-material mastery level that you seek -- otherwise
known as your body and your conscious mind. It is your
job on this planet Earth to accept the instructions of
your physical body as being the most valuable means of
determining what is best for your physical body. Wonder
of wonders! Is it possible that
your physical body, which experiences the reality that
you intend to improve, might just be the most expert in
communicating to you in its own language that which is
best for it? Could be.
The
biggest challenge for you now is to move away from the
seduction of the mind. Remember that the mind has been
trained to be 100% polarized, analytical, pro and con,
yes and no. The mind is never absolutely certain of
anything unless it is caught up in rigid dogma, which is
always limiting.
The body
knows what feels good to it at any given moment. The
body has the advantage of being in touch not only with
the emotional body, which gets inspiration from the soul
and from the Creator through the soul, but also with
what I prefer to call the instinctual body, which is an
energy field made up of the auric field and the body's
interaction with the auric field. The instinctual body
knows without thinking what is good for it and what is
not. Your body is your own best tool for learning what
is good for it.
 Recommended
book:
Aura Energy For Health, Healing & Balance
by
Joe H. Slate.
Info/Order this book.
About The
Author
The above was
reprinted, with permission, from the June 1992 issue of Spirit Speaks
magazine. Each bi-monthly 80-page issue focused on one topic such as
lone, health, money, relationship, fear, etc., offering points of views
from several spirit teachers.
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