It’s something we were all told just so many times:
You’ve got a brain!! Now, use it!
Yep. That was the drill, eh? Using that little grey noggin of yours was considered the only truly valuable thing. It was the one thing you could count on to give you the answer – everything from Pythagoras’ theorem, to existential despair, to how to recover from your post-drunk-dialling shame.
Oh, if only you were just a little bit smarter…
They even said we only use 10% of our brain’s capacity – so we tried to train it harder, use it better, be more clever. That’s what you did – even in your most confused and discombobulated states. And if you were “smart”? Well then, you were worthy. If not… oh well. Tow yard for you.
So, you grew into your blessed adult self, attempting so valiantly to give the impression of total control.
Yet…
In truth…
Let’s face it – you’d be there, writing to-do lists, weighing up pros and cons, going in endless loops, scratching the very head you had to stop yourself from banging against the wall.
Like: What the hell is this confuddling maze?
What to say? What to do next?
Hmm… what a tangled web we weave —
when first we practice to deceive… ourselves.
Because here’s the real twist:
The biggest obstacle is the belief that all your life’s problems can be solved by turning the volume up in your head.
I once believed it too. Until I got so tired of the mind-loops.
Of figure-of-eights that held me hostage to psychological patterns I couldn’t think my way out of.
Dramatic, much? (Well, I do have a boatload of planets in Scorpio…)
But honestly, now. If your brain knew how to fix your life, then why are you still lying awake at night?
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The Truth They Never Taught You at School:
“Don’t think. Feel.”
It’s been meme-d to death, but it’s the key to everything.
As Nietzsche said:
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Yes, the body is intelligent – and modern science is finally catching up. But this kind of wisdom isn’t just about wellness or nutrition. This is the wisdom known in shamanic, magical, and occult circles:
Your body is the messenger of your Soul
Every single cell responds to every thought, every word, every vibration.
As Louise Hay said: “Every cell in your body is listening to your thoughts.”
Yes, the body can heal itself – just look at the rise of juice and water fasting. But what about answers? What about guidance?
What if the answers you’ve been searching for… were already there?
What if your beautiful, fleshy, sensual, meaty body – the same one that has carried you without complaint since birth – is the actual oracle of your soul?
That sounds profound… because it is.
Like all myth and magic, the greatest truths are hidden in plain sight.
And some call it gut instinct, but it really is the whole damn package. The whole snapshot of the Universe that is you is vibrating; all your atoms and cells are talking… and they have so, so much to share.
What We Forgot When We Left the Forest
The functioning of (what is essentially) our incredible multidimensional bodies got forgotten about, dismissed and denied just as soon as humanity started making its plunge to more matrixy realms – away from the teachings of Nature, and towards the delights of the Church instead, and all those patriarchal institutions based on mind, rationality, logic and control…
…leaving its old shamanic roots for dust in its trails.
We didn’t just lose our wildness. We lost our body’s intelligence. We became disconnected from the way the whole system speaks – through gut instinct, breath, sensation, tremor, pain, pleasure.
And let’s be clear – this isn’t about love, light, and fluffy bunnies.
The journey back to the body is often a long one.
Why? Because the mind doesn’t want to die.
It knows it’s not real… but it doesn’t want to let go.
But oh, the moment you choose to dive deep –
To rip the plaster off, to fall down the well –
This is where your power begins.
Because living in the dreamworld of the mind – in Samskara, the karmic maze of repetition – only leads you further into disconnection.
Life becomes a drama.
Every situation feels like déjà vu.
Different outfit, same damn emotional spiral.
And the longer you ignore the truth, the more extreme your experiences become – until the only way forward is through the body.
Everything in your reality is a reflection of your energy.
So, then… here’s the question:
What’s it going to take?
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The Descent is the Doorway
The good news? Once you leap, the rest is history.
Falling into the body can happen in an instant.
The moment you stop trying to think your way out…
And instead, let yourself drop =
into sensation, into breath, into the silence of your own fertile soil…
…that’s when the answers come.
As Byron Katie said,
“A question, when asked in stillness, is an opportunity to be shown what is true, beyond what we think we know.”
By simply feeling what is present – especially those sensations that you don’t consciously like – you open a portal. You begin to receive.
Tuning into your body’s messages is like sitting with Mother Ayahuasca on a multidimensional carpet ride. Because what else is your body but Nature itself?
A living, breathing snapshot of the Universe.
You don’t have to seek.
You don’t have to go anywhere
As Glinda, the Good Witch, said to Dorothy:
“You had the power all along, my dear.”