Your Body Communicates

• Conversing with Your BodyConversing with your body involves learning how to communicate with your body in a reliable manner, without interpreting vague signals or making assumptions.…
• The Body’s ResponsesYou can trigger responses in any part of your body. Responses in your hands tend to be the most versatile, however there are many situations in which another…
• Foot ResponsesRepeat this with different body positions until you are comfortable with it. You are looking to identify and get used to: Now try it with food. Pay attention…
• NeedsNeeds are your body's current behavioral priorities, usually for self-care purposes. However, there are a lot of nuances to how they function and how they are…
• Notifications of NeedsFor the first few years of communicating with my body, I tried to query my body’s needs regularly, all day, every day, each time not knowing what I was looking…
• Boredom, Fatigue, and Attention DeficitsBoredom, fatigue, and attention deficits are notifications of needs . They are common expressions of your body trying to get your attention in similar ways.…
• Yawns and sneezesYawning is a behavior that is seen in a wide variety of species. It appears to be almost universal for vertebrates. There are many theories on why yawning…
• Self-soothing behaviorsYou often find someone tapping their foot, tapping their pen, or doing other such small repetitive motions. We associate the behavior with tension. It is,…
• Music need cutoutWhen a need is trying to get your attention while you are listening to music, often one of the easiest notifications of a bodily need for you to recognize is…
• HeadachesIf needs are ignored for long enough, headaches will sometimes result. These will be alleviated the moment the causative need is taken care of. These more…
• Difficulty sleepingWhile rebuilds are conducive to sleep, most bodily needs are not conducive to sleep. For this reason, if you find yourself in bed for a while and unexpectedly…
• Non-sexual erectionsWhen an erection is experienced for seemingly no reason, the cause always appears to be an ignored need to alter body positioning. In that situation, if you…
• Leading Your MovementsYou may have noticed that some areas of the body feel more natural for some queries than others. Your hands feel better at querying picking things up, while…
• Massage SenseMy mother has been ill all my life. One of her symptoms is constant and severe muscular soreness. Imagine if every day was the day after leg day, except you…
• SynchronizationOne day, during the first semester of earning my psychology degree, I hadn’t slept the night before. I don’t remember why. My lack of sleep, however, showed.…