Conversing with Your Body: Difference between revisions

If you have trouble finding the sensations, no need to worry. That’s happened with about a quarter of the people that I’ve taught body communication to. It may take a little more time, but you can get it working. This can be for several reasons. Your body may have found, at some point in your life, that these default responses were ineffective at getting you to take care of your body the way your body wanted you to. As a result, your body may have completely abandoned activating these behavior-directing sensations. In some cases, your body may have switched to providing alternative responses, such as aches or pains. In other cases, there is no noticeable, reliable alternative communication method being employed. Either way, it’s not hard to get it working again.

In addition, since internal attempts at getting our attention and directing our behavior are often experienced as negative symptoms, there can be interference from medications or other substances, such as alcohol or marijuana. So far, I do have some evidence that marijuana causes interference with getting body communication to work, but I am unaware of what other substances and medications may also have this effect.

One of my friends had an issue like this when I taught them body communication. They tried to get their body to respond in their hand, like I usually taught people to start with. The sensation, however, wasn’t the normal, light tingly sensation. Instead, it was an ache. It wasn’t even in their hand. The sensation appeared in their [[The_Body’s_Responses#Arm_Responses|arm]]. It was extremely unusual. They later tended to use their [[The_Body’s_Responses#Leg_Responses|leg]] for these responses, as the sensations were easier to trigger and use in their leg, for some reason. It was a reliable way to query, but not ideal. A few years later, they did work on and quickly fix this issue, resulting in normal sensations working rather than having to rely on these pain sensations that their body had been using. Their body needed to run a [[Rebuilds|rebuild]] to get it working.