I trained myself in being able to hear what bodies are saying. I did it through Reiki - when I lay my hands over a person’s eyes, I could see out through their eyes. Hands on the top of their head I could see how their brain worked. Hands on the back of their heads and I could see what was hidden from them. So it was not a stretch when I started doing Reiki on myself while doing the foot cleanse yesterday. My head’s felt uber funny for quite a while - hot, achy, sore jaw, stuff from my tooth extraction, but more, it seems. I ask my friends for help, as sometimes I can’t see myself clearly. Or I should say I DO see myself clearly, but I don’t always trust what I’m seeing. It comforts me when others affirm what I’m getting for myself. Funny, isn’t it? When I’ve done thousands of readings for others, and have 100% confidence in what I’m doing, then doubt myself when it comes to me? Guess I’ll want to keep working on that. I’ve heard it said that most intuitives CAN’T read themselves at all, and that’s certainly not my case. I read myself crystal clear, but like I say, I have the tendency to doubt myself when it comes to physical things. Too much ‘stuff’ has happened.
As I sat there with my feet in the warm salt water, I put my hands behind my head and jumped. Why? Because I heard yelling, and the words were, “SLOW DOWN!!! SLOW DOWN!!!” and I know it was my body talking to me. Now, we’ve talked about this before - the tendency to do 150%, and only slow down to 110% or so, but Maggie helped me understand it yesterday. We know the physical body is the slowest of all three of our energies in our energy system because it’s material on the physical plane. It’s dense, it moves the slowest of the body, mind and spirit energies. So when I constantly expect my body to keep up with my mind and spirit (two VERY powerful and fast energies), it’s constantly stressing my physical body. Like you’re on a walk with two others who are faster than you. They keep moving away, always bitching at you to go faster. That’s gonna stress you out after a while, right? Because you’re focusing on what’s WRONG with you, and why can’t you be faster, and how you’re letting them down, that that lower energy actually makes you slower. So what then could we do to help the slowest one (body) catch up? The first thing is to slow down the other two so they’re not always ahead and frustrated with the other for lagging behind. When they stay back and encourage and support, they build up the slow one so that it gets stronger and CAN and WANT TO go faster and further. That’s what I’m doing ‘wrong.’ I’m using negative reinforcement with my body instead of the gentle, loving, understanding energy that I use so well with others.
So my SLOW DOWN is a good message - eliminate the extraneous, leave breathing room, breathe more, really sit with what’s important and meaningful in my life, then drop the rest. Ask what I can do to support and help my body right now. It runs on a 2-3 day lag, and in my world of instantaneous results, it can get pretty frustrating, but how do I know what’s possible for the human body, or all the intricacies that go on in its running? It’s got to be astronomical, the body’s job to keep my whole life going smoothly. Do I appreciate that? It’s kind of like the three people are a mom, a dad, and a child. Child is Spirit, light and able to run fast and forever. The dad is like Mind, fast and powerful and unhindered by too many physical demands - he’s here to play with the child. But if I continue with my sexist analogy, the mom is like Body, which carries most everything (think handbag with everything possibly needed) and takes care of most everything (did we pack everything? Did we forget anything? Did we put the fire out? Are the sleeping bags all rolled up?) so she is slower, and burdened with other physical concerns. Maybe that’s the key. Please forgive me if that felt sexist - I was just using symbols, but I do see like bossy male sergeants as the symbol for the mind, a lot of times. Well, hopefully you get the idea, anyway. Feel free to change up any of those people if you’re upset I used moms and dads and kids. It can always certainly be reversed, depending on the situation and the people involved. What’s most important is the interplay between people and their agreements to what roles they’ll play, and what the others allow them to do or not do. If everyone has respect for each other (all three energies), they can sit down and talk about what’s going on. I don’t think I’ve let my body talk very much. I’m not sure. I’ll have to sit with that for a while. It’s just what I’m thinking about this morning, as I sit here, exhausted after not sleeping for the last two nights, and still able to hear that loud voice telling me to SLOW DOWN. Yes, yes, I hear you. Now let’s see what we can do to change some things around here.