Warning: The Body Also Speaks!

He speaks, whispers, shouts… He expresses himself as he can, sometimes as we allow him. It is always a good idea to pay attention to what it tells us, as our mind receives from the body all the information detected by our senses. Thanks to our body, we can therefore enter into connection with the external world, and it is the nerve impulses that pass through it that act as an intermediary for that precious information.

We must be very careful what the body tells us, since it is often it that gives us all the concrete clues to solve some situations. Listening to your body carefully, therefore, means listening to the essence that makes us different and unique people.

Stop for a moment to think and surely you will think of at least one situation in which your body has shown itself shaken, annoyed and anxious to escape from the space – physical or symbolic – it occupied. You have probably found yourself in a friendship, couple or professional relationship in which no matter how involved you were, something in you was telling you that it was not the right thing, that it was not what you needed. Sometimes we notice something “strange”, we experience a feeling of imperceptible discomfort, part of our body.

Some ways of expressing the body

These are some examples of how our body talks to us, or rather, how it asks us for help:

• The feeling of having a lump in the throat
• The feeling of having a knot in the stomach
• Sudden acne
• Menstrual imbalance in women
• Hypertension.
• Tachycardia.
• Headache.

The people most likely to suffer from psychosomatic disorders are usually those who have more problems expressing their emotions in everyday life. The mismanagement of one’s emotions, consequently, leads to the emergence of problems that will be difficult to deal with. Psychosomatic disorders are therefore defined as those injuries that have psychological origins. Patients who suffer from it usually undergo therapy in which their emotions are analyzed from a somatic, psychic, social and cultural point of view.

When a person is unable to resolve or accept a certain situation – whether with himself or with others -, the latter leaves an imprint on the body, “incarnates” in it waiting for his master to become aware and decide to remedy it in order to move forward.

Resentment: an everyday evil

When we build up resentment, we slowly damage our body . Resentment is an undigested feeling , a feeling that has not been expressed and that remains there, generating pain while waiting to be resolved. It is like an open wound waiting to be healed, increasingly fragile and vulnerable.

How can a connection be made between resentment and the body? Resentment takes on the characteristics of that heaviness in the stomach that plagues us after we have eaten too much, which makes us feel bloated and unwilling to try anything else. It is so difficult to digest that it can lead us to skip one or more meals, despite wanting to eat. After all, we won’t be able to get comfortable again until we complete digestion.

In this sense, treating the hidden resentment, revealed only by the inquisitive finger of the signals of our body, will help to restore the natural dynamics of our organism. Digesting the resentment will end the muscle tension and allow you to enter a state of relaxation in which the body will finally be able to feel good.

Strategies for listening to what our body has to tell us

There are several techniques aimed at redirecting attention to one’s body and its ways of communicating, each of which has its roots in Buddhist meditation.

Similar techniques are based on the ability to focus one’s attention on one’s body for a few minutes a day, so as to become aware of every emotion, sensation, feeling that arises, without judging it. It is about accepting them as part of the message our body sends us, using the information contained in those signals to eliminate our feeling of discomfort.

Our body is the greatest source of truth we can tap into. Everything that springs from it is true and authentic. Our head, with the impossible labyrinths of thoughts and reasoning that populate it, cannot disturb its essence. Listening to him therefore means listening to oneself – it means becoming a little wiser and living life by holding on to who we are.

So… listen to your body, it has a lot to tell you!