How to Listen to Your Body

The lost art of connecting and uncovering what’s in your highest interest

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We live in a very, very noisy world. I’m not just talking about the sounds in our environments, but also the brain chatter in our minds. Sometimes the outer world even echoes in our inner world — stories that we tell ourselves about how we should look, feel and behave, what we should own, how we should be, everything.

Constant chatter, chatter, chatter.

And though meditation (quieting the mind) is a practice more and more people commit to, it’s still something most people seldom use — especially when life kicks in with all kinds of distractions and challenges.

Somehow, we tend to forget the ‘highest’ things we can do when adversity strikes. This goes for adversity in all forms, from catching a cold to the passing of a loved one, from being stood up at the altar to being late for a meeting. As soon as we (feel we)’re thrown off our path, we forget wat would be in our highest interest and go to ‘lower’ solutions. Most of them involving eating, drinking, a couch and something along the lines of Netflix.

Even if we know those might not be what serves us best at that time.

I notice it when I am tired. From a false sense of ‘maybe some fuel will help me…