Listen to your body ( louise hay )

Let’s affirm: I listen with love to my body’s messages. Love, 8 Ways to Listen for What Your Body Wants by Louise Hay, Ahlea Khadro and Heather Dane Intuition or your inner voice is there to support you in moving toward your highest good. While symptoms are just one way your body speaks to you, there are many other ways your body or your life could speak to you. Additionally, each person is different when it comes to how they get these signals. Here are some ways your inner guidance may signal you: Feelings Some people refer to them as “gut feelings,” or getting a “bad vibe” or a “good vibe.” You may not know what the feeling exactly is, though: it could be very vague, like something that just feels bad, uncomfortable, or “not right”; or wonderful, uplifting, or “right.” Emotions Similar to feelings are emotions, yet to some, they have subtle differences. You may experience an emotion that seems to come out of the blue. Perhaps you have thought of something or someone right before that emotion came up. Or maybe you walked into a place and felt the emotion. While emotions, like symptoms, feel as if they’re really ours, remember to check to see how this emotion is speaking to you. It may be telling you that something is or is not aligned to your greater good. Years ago, for instance, Heather was walking along and suddenly felt depressed. Her first thought was, I haven’t been depressed in years, so why am I feeling this way? As she tuned in, she realized that it was not her emotion—it had come from a woman she’d just passed, who was sitting on the porch and talking on the phone. Heather sensed some things about this woman and her life and sent her the energy of love. The depression immediately went away. At that point, Heather began to think about all the years she had depression, wondering what really belonged to her and what she was picking up from others. As you can see, if we don’t learn to tell the difference, we can be caught up in or hold on to emotions that are not ours. ESP Extra sensory perception is a category of intuitive abilities that includes telepathy (the ability to read people’s thoughts), clairvoyance (the ability to see what is happening somewhere else), precognition (the ability to predict the future), retrocognition (the ability to see things that happened in the past), psychometry (the ability to touch something and pick up information), and mediumship (the ability to channel spirits).1 Symptoms This could be any physical sensation, such as tingling, chills, fatigue, energy, pain, “pit in the stomach,” aches, lightness, and so forth. One of the easier ways to notice this is to see how you feel when you’re with different types of people. Notice if you feel normal (that is, as you usually do), energized (or uplifted), or drained. If you consistently feel drained with certain people and you look more closely at how you feel about them, you may find that they are not right for you. Some teachers refer to these people as “energy vampires.” We like to think of them as not being aligned to what you need in your life. Thoughts Sometimes you may think of something and it’s actually your intuition guiding you. An example of this is when Heather first started recovering from bulimia, she would notice that she’d think of food when she wasn’t feeling physically hungry. She judged this as old, disordered eating behavior, as if she “could not stop thinking about food.” Within a week of watching her thoughts around this, she realized that within 30 minutes of having a thought about food, her blood sugar dropped so drastically that she was in blood-sugar emergency. At that point, her body was so hungry that it felt like no amount of food could solve the hunger. Overeating can be very common as a way to get the body back into comfortable balance when blood sugar has gotten too low. What was happening is that Heather’s digestive system hadn’t healed enough for her body to get the right signals of hunger at the right times. A bloating in her small intestine sent a signal of fullness when her stomach was actually hungry. What she realized is that her body was compensating for her digestive issues by using her thoughts to send the “time to eat!” signal. She began to eat when she’d think of food, and this worked beautifully until her digestive system healed. See, our bodies love us! When we judge the signals we’re getting as “wrong” or “bad,” we lose the opportunity to allow our bodies to guide us to better health. Words Louise has always been incredible at listening to the words people use and understanding how they play out in their thoughts and beliefs. She has seen the relationship between how they speak and how things happen in their lives. Listening to the words you use, along with the words other people use, is another way you may get an intuitive hit on what is working or not working for you. For example, do you find yourself saying things like “This is so hard,” “I can’t stand this,” “The body starts breaking down at the age of 40,” or “They’ll never accept me”? If you’re saying things like this, it may be time to look at your belief systems and see how you can change them so that you can love yourself more. So remember to use loving words—your body is listening. Listening to your words, using affirmations, and doing mirror work can help shift the thoughts you think and the words you use into more loving ones. Dreams For some people, signals come in dreams. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, believed that dreams tapped into the unconscious mind. According to some researchers, he may have been right. In one study, amnesiacs with no conscious memory of their past would have memories of their past when they dreamed. Studies like this have led scientists to believe that when dreaming, we are accessing parts of our brain that we don’t often use in our waking lives.2 If you’re unsure of what steps to take in your life, ask yourself before bed to have a dream about the next best step you can take. Another great way to work with your dreams is to write them down when you wake up and ask yourself what meaning they have for you. There are many books on dream interpretations that you can use if you want to learn more. At the same time, make sure you practice paying attention to these interpretations so that you can learn the language of your dreams. Patterns Some people get signals through recurring events: Perhaps someone tells you about a book they love, then two more people tell you about it. This kind of pattern could be a signal to check out the book. Or maybe you keep having the same experience over and over again, but in different situations. Notice the patterns that keep happening in your life, whether they’re circumstances that occur, things people keep telling you, or situations you keep finding yourself in. These are signals that can help you take action in your life. Footnotes: Harris, Tom. “How ESP Works.”HowStuffWorks.com. 3 Sept 2002. Web. 14 Feb 2014. Science Channel. “Are dreams a window into our unconscious?”Curiosity.com. n.d. Web. 23 Feb 2014. Loving Yourself to Great Health Find out more about Louise, Ahlea and Heather’s new book and get their 7-step guide on how to eat, think and love your way to great health as well as a free recipe for Vanilla Spice Ice Cream. If you order Loving Yourself to Great Health by November 30th, you also get 2 bonus gifts. More details »

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