Your Body Sends Notifications

06 08 26

Waking up? Physically. Spiritually.

Try practicing feeling your emotions—or your vibrational set point—before analyzing them and allowing them to take over your thought process.

Recognizing the different feelings within your physical body before becoming mindfully aware of what they mean is the beginning of being able to choose. You can choose whether to remain in that vibrational state, allow it to control your mood, or simply observe and move through it.

Think about the feeling you get when startled by something. Say you come upon a spider or potentially a snake—something that immediately creates fast, shallow breathing, a racing heart, or sudden perspiration. Once the threat is removed, your body eventually returns to its normal breathing pattern and temperature on its own.

But what if you shortened that response even sooner?

Remove or move away from the threat. Intentionally breathe. Continue with your day from your natural set point, your natural disposition, without carrying the experience any longer than desired.

The feeling is there as a gift, a warning, an alarm bell reminding you to watch your step or perhaps veer slightly from your current path.

The same is true with all notifications. Some are simply not as easily recognized.

The cells within your physical body are always alert for guidance and subtle modifications that help keep you on your path of least resistance. Learning to feel and allow even unconscious adjustments is one of the smoothest ways to flow with your internal guidance.

Learn to recognize the nuances—the tingles, the twitches, the chills—and adjust accordingly, until it becomes innate not to hold yourself in opposition to your guidance.

Holding yourself in opposition becomes increasingly uncomfortable. That discomfort is your sign to release the grip, release the tension, release the resistance, and allow.

Begin with noticing. Adjust with your breath. Practice.

Try it during your next heightened moment of awareness.

Notice what happens in your body when a particular name appears on your phone. As you scroll through messages, emails, or contacts, pay attention to the subtle shifts that occur before you “think” about them. A smile. A tightening in your chest. A softening in your shoulders. A sense of excitement. Resistance. Joy. Dread.

Before the story begins, the body speaks first.

You don’t have to analyze the sensation. You don’t have to justify it. Simply notice it.

Feel it.

Breathe.

Then choose.

The chills and sensations in your body are notifications—not necessarily meant to be analyzed by the thinking mind, but first to be felt, acknowledged, thanked, and adjusted to.

Awareness is the key.

Once you become aware, you have a choice. You may choose to continue in that emotional state if it serves you. You may choose to protect, engage, pause, or proceed. Or you may choose to breathe, release, and return to your natural state of balance.

The notification itself is not the problem. It is simply information.

Listen.

Adjust.

Allow.

Otherwise, the notifications may become louder, even painful, if they are ignored or held onto while you remain stretched too far from the direction you are being guided to follow.

Your body is always communicating.

The question is:

Are you listening?