Bodily intelligence is superior. Thought can only comment on what the body knows and or interfere with it. Thought is slow and stupid. The body records, responds in real time. It is just the responding or recording of vibration and that vibration cannot be incorrect.
If you touch your hand to a flame you will feel it. Thought on the other hand can convince you that you cannot feel the flame. It is bizarre that we want to trust thought.
The body knows vast things that thinking has no hope of comprehending it will only get in the way of that vastness.
We don’t need to be told what to eat or how to eat or when to eat. But how many of us are truly in touch with that ability. And how much suffering does this cause.
From time to time I find I am in touch with these nutritional needs in me and indeed I can be in touch with someone else's and there is no thought involved, thought can’t do that.
It is like following a smell. Like smelling a rose in a large unfamiliar garden and you can’t see it but smell leads you until you find the plant. In the same way you feel out the ingredients of what is needed for that meal for that person for example.
These things didn’t come about because I decided I wanted to work it out they come about because I was interested or had the feeling to want to nurture myself or others.
In the same way you turn at the last minute just before you trip over something you can't see, your body knows that something is there if we are interested and quiet enough to listen. If you are distracted you fall over and it is the same with all of life.
This is what I am discovering for myself from sitting quietly with my pain on retreat and felt like I wanted to share.
post submitted by Anonymous
