Moving from head to body

Listening to things you agree with gives you more information and makes you feel not alone in your thoughts and experiences.

How do you go from listening in your head to really feeling in your body? How do you create change within yourself and move what you learn into how you act and who you are in this world?

How do you go from hearing I love myself, I am love, or I am enough and worthy and not really believing it for yourself to feeling it deeply within you and believing it from your core?

Let me tell you a story to illustrate my process of moving from my head to my body and heart. I used to live solely in my head, I was extremely disconnected from my body but never realized it. At that time I didn't have the words to describe, I was overthinking everything, analyzing everything, on constant loops in my head, always thinking about what I could do, eat, say, plan differently to move forward. I was overwhelmed often and thought this was the norm, I didn’t know how to handle my feelings and believed I could think my way to fixing situations or problems. If only I knew the right way to handle this situation which would lead to so many google searches or reaching out to others on what I could do or try.

Yes, the search for information helped in many situations and served its purpose, I was an overachiever and did well in school and work. However, always needing more information didn’t help with feelings of overwhelm, it would keep coming back for the new situation I found myself in that required answers I didn’t have, I’m a great problem solver due to this. This is how the feelings of overwhelm can come into all areas of your life, this feeling of you not being enough and not able to deal with life. The feeling of no matter where you devote your attention that some other area of your life will be let down somehow.

So what happened with me?

Well I began to listen to my body and intuition without really realizing it. The signs became so loud that the best choice was to listen. When everything is crumbling around you then you really want something to hold onto, and that something for me was my values of family, equality, and equity. I started consciously choosing family and relationships over everything else. I started consciously choosing equality, respect, equity over everything else. I held tight to my values and fought to protect them, in my way. What was happening in my body was a huge amount of discomfort and pain over the injustices I felt. My body felt at war, the stress was high, the frustration was through the roof, I was exploding inside and feeling drained by it all. On the outside I was maintaining the image of having it all together, but I wasn’t able to be fully present and really enjoy myself, I was devoted to change. Settling and just letting things be just felt like death to me. I was learning to choose myself and say yes to myself, my needs and values. I was learning the power of listening to my body and paying attention to my intuition. Going against myself was a cost I was no longer willing to pay or suffer from. Ever since then I’ve devoted my time and energy to things I’m passionate about.