SPIRIT OF THE BODY
Intelligence expressed
Everything that is living is alive with life. While that might sound obvious it needs to be said. Most people are out of recognition with the living life, spirit, breath or essence that animates all living forms. While we might conceptually understand that life is within all, if our minds don’t understand how to be in connection with it, then subconsciously we treat bodies or forms as if it they are inanimate. We don’t communicate or register that there is something alive and intelligent within all that we see. We live disconnected from the life that makes the form come alive. This leaves us operating inside of a conceptual bubble where we objectify and create separation, all without the awareness that there is something more that is present within. Our limited capacity to acknowledge, perceive and understand the aliveness of life keeps us from a wealth of information about the nature of life itself.
Life is wildly complex and intelligent. Filled with information that organizes everything in the entire universe, including your body. Even though your mind only minimally knows how the body works, how it organizes itself and how it came into form, the body still works, organizes itself and is clearly here. Considering that our minds don’t need to understand something in order for it to exist so intelligently is important to note. It distinctly points to an awareness that knows beyond our mind. Since we rely so heavily upon mental understanding we often don’t know where to put this information. We think that anything we can’t perceive with our physical senses or logical mind is woo woo or simply doesn’t exist, yet it’s existence is in plain sight, not hiding even a little bit.
That aliveness – call it energy, breath, spirit, or essence – is undeniable, and the fact that it is highly intelligent is indisputable too. I know of no human mind that could so eloquently and precisely place everything together inside of a human body and get it work so seamlessly. I also know of no human mind that could place the planets, stars and all of the rotations and movements of the cosmos into perfect arrangement so that everything just works. That intelligence is here right now inside of your very body, within each cell, every organ and gland, and inside all of the bones, muscles and nerves. Absolutely nothing is separation from it. Not only is that aliveness within your body, but within the bodies of trees, flowers, lakes, animals, insects, and the earth itself. It’s all the same intelligence, expressed in a multitude of ways, creating all the forms we see.
COMMUNION WITH LIFE
Into the unified field
For some it might be helpful to take spirit out of spirituality for a moment. Spirituality can be filled with lots of concepts and even dogma, rather than just the pure recognition of spirit, which is what it is without concept. Humans however are concept creating machines. We often lose connection to the source of what something is and lock it away inside of an idea instead. This is how the experience of separation gets created and why we feel disconnected from life. Regardless of the experience of disconnection and separation, we are inseparable from life. In fact your body is so filled with spirit that if your eyes could see, the brilliance of it would blind you. This isn’t because you are special, magical or because you call yourself spiritual. It is just a fact. Our physical eyes only let us see a limited spectrum of light frequencies, but if they were able to perceive the range, you would see radiance being emitted from every living form. That radiance is the aliveness that is life itself. It is spirit that is manifesting as form.
How do we recognize and relate with what our eyes can’t see? We need another mode of perception. In order to move beyond using only our physical senses we need to come into the heart. The field or intelligence of the heart is vaster and more inclusive than our mental intelligence. It still uses the physical body and mind to perceive through, but it has expanded perceptual capacities as well. It’s range is larger. It’s analogous to using the world’s fanciest telescope to look at the night sky rather than a pair of binoculars from 1970. The clarity, detail and focus is much more significant, therefore more information is available to you.
How do we come into the heart? We do the work of dismantling all of our self-defensive patterns of protection that keep us inside of our bubble of separation. We experience merging and exchanging with the larger field of intelligence that we are. I call that field the heart. You can use whatever name you like. This is work we each must do. Not even death is an escape from it. We take our nonphysical self (spirit) to the next plains of existence. While we don’t have our physical body to tend to there, we still have our mind and all of it’s ideas, beliefs and perspectives to resolve into love and unity.
Doing this work while we are in a physical body allows us to have a more expansive experience of this physical plain of existence and to be in communication with life as it expresses through all forms. including our body. Rather than thinking that we can’t communicate with our liver, brain, muscles or bones, we realize that we can. Instead of assuming that we can’t talk to a tree, flower, the sun or the planet, we see it’s possible. This can also open us up into the world of communicating with life that doesn’t have a physical form. This includes guides, our higher self, family members that are nonphysical, and beings on other planets and in other dimensions besides the one we are physically focused in. This isn’t a matter of belief, it’s a matter of opening ourselves up to more of what is already here. Our beliefs can interfere with our experience of communication with life, but they can’t interfere with the fact that life exists and that spirit is universal. It is, whether or not we believe in it. The universe, including your body, is blatantly intelligent. You are not separate from life. You are are it. You aren’t the body, you are the spirit of the body. Through this recognition you realize the life that within everything.
Dr. Amanda Lalita Love, Subtle Energetic Chiropractor & Somatic Healer, Boulder, Colorado
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