Your Body is a Sentient Being. How much are you allowing your Body to express itself, to work with you, and to have its own autonomy? The relationship between our Body and Being will dictate how well we show up in this world and how enjoyable our Earth Walk is. This article is an exploration of what it means for your Body to Awaken alongside your Being. Enjoy!
As a conscious Being on the path of awakening, I have always struggled with how to balance my Body and Being(aka Higher Self, Spirit, or Soul) together. Every time I have an emotional/mental/spiritual breakthrough, my Body has had to take time to sleep, feel sick sometimes, and just process all of the previously unaddressed energy that was stored in my Body. When my Being connects with this unaddressed energy of outdated programming, beliefs, and/or physical infections/stagnations he/she/it brings awareness to the stuck area. Bringing awareness or consciousness to a stagnant area helps the stuck energy move, thereby instigating my Body to finally detox old gunk. This process can take time. Sometimes, in my opinion, waaaayyy too much time! It can seem like I am forever processing out old gunk and feeling low energy. No bueno!
On my path of awakening (at least over the last 6 years) my spiritual awakening has predominantly come first. “What am I feeling?” “Where is that feeling in my Body?” “What does that feeling mean??” etc. etc…. These are questions and awarenesses that always seem to be in the forefront of my awareness. As my Body gets to work detoxing these new areas of stuck energy (I call them ah-ha discoveries), I notice that frustration and anxiety over how long the process is taking and what the process feels like, is always present in some form or fashion. Especially if my life is really packed when this process goes down. When life is busy, I don’t have as much patience and time for revelations to come in, for energy to feel low, for uncomfortable feelings to move through and out of my Body.
By the time my Body (finally!) gets rid of all the stagnated energy, my Being has already moved on to the next discovery, putting this seemingly endless pattern of stagnation, ah-ha discovery, and then detox on repeat. Granted, sometimes there is a lull in this never-ending process, but since the energies are getting so much faster on the Earth now, as time speeds up, the lull time has also frustratingly become shorter and shorter.
My first way of looking at this pattern was to think that I should just get better tools to help my Body to handle my Spirit’s growth.
I strove to find more efficient spiritual tools and perspectives, better supplements to support my Body, better ways of resting, etc. And those new tools were/are great! The downside of to these discoveries, however, was that these new tools not only helped make the process more fluid, but it also sped up this pattern of awakening both Body and Spirit, speeding up this never-ending pattern even more. Though, as time progressed, these tools did take make the pattern more bearable….but there was always still the underlying goal of making the Body catchup and to discover how to be able to power through moments of Body catch-up time more easily.
Then came a life coaching session that flipped my script. My very intuitive life coach voiced how she could almost palpably see my Body trying to chase my Spirit as it almost inexhaustibly strove for more and more awakening. How exhausting for my Body! And how frustrating! And not at all how my Body wants to live! This realization brought forth the question:
“What does the Highest expression of my Body truly want?”
For me, the answer to this question is the same thing that my Being wants: to live on the edge of discovery. To always be learning, growing, and discovering new awarenesses and ways of moving energy. To Awaken the Extraordinary within! This ah-ha moment, though not intellectually anything that amazing, made me realize that my Body really is incredibly intelligent. She is in fact, Sentient. She is a partner in life, there to fulfill Her greatest desires, just like my Being is. She is not just a vessel, She is a feeler of all of the extraordinary feelings that this Earth walk provides. My Body is the physical embodiment of a Being who energetically travels Universes and goes into all sorts of crazy situations.
Since my Body is my Being’s counterpart on this Earth, shouldn’t my Body be just as capable and flexible as my Being is?
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It’s just like having two police officers, or acrobats, or psychologists, etc. working together and having one person be doing all of this crazy, on the edge stuff, while the other one just barely investigates anything, barely works out, or barely knows psychology. How well will those teams do together in the long run? There will probably be frustration, anxiety, repression, coping mechanisms and even disrespect between members of those teams over time.
On the flip side of this analogy, the greatest teams are the ones that admire, respect, rely on and love one another unequivocally. This will ensure the police officers have one another’s backs in precarious situations; the acrobats catch one another in the air; and the psychologists make great assessments for their clients. This realization prodded me ask myself:
“What would it take for my Body and Being to not only work as a team, but to truly admire, respect, rely on and love one another?”
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I liken this line of questioning to that of really delving deep into knowing the masculine and feminine sides of our Being to the extent that they are so in love with each other that they almost become one. They still keep their own identities, but they just work so fluidly with one another to the point where it isn’t work for them to get along.Them getting along is as simple and as inherent as breathing. Their level of getting along then is seen on the external world as balanced, loving, low-drama relationships.
So I ask you:
“What does your Body truly want for Himself/Herself/Itself if He/She/It could have anything He/She/It desires? What would life look like then?”
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“How can your Body best evolve with your Being so that the life is fun, enjoyable and full of ease?”
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“What actions, perspectives, habits, ways of thinking, or ways of Being would have to come to fruition make that way of being a reality?”
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For me, I realized this level of integration, trust, respect, and love between my Body and Being would require a lot more trust to succeed. My Being would have to trust my Body to do more guiding, to be able to move more so that it could move (and even discover) all of the emotional, stuck energy out of my Body that my Being helps to uncover. Also, as my Body gets to move more, He/She/It is given a chance to discover His/Her/Its own limitations, stagnant areas, and belief systems, thereby helping both the Body and the Being evolve together. Go figure my Body and Being have the same ambitions and they were also paired together, right?
This revelation bodes the questions:
“Why do you think your Body and Being were paired together?”
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“What has their pairing together helped you learn?”
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These are just a few questions of so many that could come out of this exploration of the relationship between your Body and Being. I encourage you to do some exploring of your own in this area and to really treat your Body like its own Sentient Being who is truly married to your Spirit. See how that marriage is going. See how much they trust each other, respect each other, and love each other. And then do everything in your power to give them both the most beautiful marriage they desire. Because you, and they, deserve it!