The body knows

Let it lead!

The first psychedelic experience I had involved a profound realization that I was not my body (as well as an interaction with the spirit of my beloved dog).

I’d learned this truth intellectually, that bodies are separate from selves, but didn’t know it to be true until this trip. It became so clear — my body is not actually me, I’m just looking at it in the mirror, here I am inside, watching it breathe. It’s just where I live, for now. It does its own thing. It breathes and blinks and sleeps and moves, and knows where to go and what to do. This moment (45 minutes) of staring in the mirror was extraordinarily healing to my little disordered self, who had decided not to listen to anything her body told her. Thanks to the mushrooms who said no, this body is your buddy and its entire job is to take you through life and have some fun. So like, you have to take care of it.

Amazing, incredible, so very beautiful.

Let it lead.

There’s a human design concept called ‘form principle’ that describes how when you make decisions from your body, it will always take you exactly where you need to be. It will have you do what you need to do, and know what you need to know, exactly when you need to. It will lead you into the relationships and experiences that are right for you, even if they are sometimes hard. Your body will always reveal answers to you when you are ready to receive or need to take action on them.

It’s easy to see how form principle works when you look at the basic functions of your body — it laughs and cries and walks around and beats its heart and digests without you doing much of anything. The more you stop trying to interfere with the natural movement of the body, the less resistance you will endure.

If and when you need to, you will. 

Eventually, something will tip the scales, and even if your mind does not want to, you’ll be doing or saying or ending or starting it.

I wonder when my body will move, I wonder when I’ll text them back or get up and eat something, I wonder if I’ll actually go over there or if I just think I might want to, I wonder if my body will wake up at 3am even though I’d really rather it didn’t.

Your body will make it happen, and then, it will have happened.

If you’re not in the mood for it, don’t do it. Maybe you’ll be in the mood later, and if you really need to get something done, you will end up getting it done “in time” without unnecessary force. It always gets done, because it has to, and if it doesn’t, did it really need to?

If the mood never arrives, maybe you’re doing the wrong things. ‘Wrong’ as in you don’t actually want to be doing them in the first place, or your energy would be better invested in something else. If you’re stuck or pushing too hard, change course! Stop! Pivot! Move on! Quitting just frees up your energy so it may be redirected.

There is such ease that comes with allowing your body to align with what your energy wants to be doing. Mentally forcing yourself to arrive at a decision or make yourself do something will only throw up more roadblocks and burn you out.

The only body who knows what’s right for you is the one you live in. What if we trusted that our bodies will naturally move us toward what is right, and that we will always know what to do, when we need to?

Agency and abundance for all, always,

xx, maggie