Your Body’s Quirks

• Positive and Negative StatesIt can be hard to go through a breakup, to grieve someone dying, to deal with an extreme event such as a cheating spouse. The pressure in your chest. The…
• HeartacheHeartache is the group of physical and mental sensations that tends to accompany highly emotional, negative events. It can occur in response to many…
• DepressionDepression is a negative state that affects thoughts, feelings, motivation, and behavior. From a body communication perspective, it's caused by nodes…
• Suicidal IdeationSuicidal ideation s are thoughts about the possibility of ending one's own life. From a body communication perspective, it is caused by the activation of nodes…
• AversionsSome nodes on your network can create aversions to change your behavior. The most common thing that they do this with is food. As mentioned in 6.1 Your Body’s…
• RebuildsThere are a lot of warnings about respecting rebuilds throughout this book, without much explanation yet as to what rebuilds are or why I call them rebuilds.…
• ProblemsIgnoring bodily needs can reach a point of a weakening ability of your body to communicate with you by pulling on your attention. This is, itself, a…
• Remote QueryingBack when I first learned that I could teach others how to communicate with their bodies, I got curious about something else. I frequently pictured myself…