Comments on: Something true deep in your body

By: Jeanette LeBlanc

Jeanette LeBlanc — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:10 +0000

I am so very, very glad I found your blog. You echo so many of my own thoughts and questions. It’s such a physical sigh of relief when I encounter another questioner, when I recognize a fellow seeker. Your words give me chills.

By: schmutzie

schmutzie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:04:48 +0000

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By: Ronna Detrick

Ronna Detrick — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:03:47 +0000

First: I feel like I always say the same thing when I comment here: beautiful, amazing, true, profound, brilliant and shining light. No less true with these words. Perhaps even more so.

Second: I am humbled and honored to be included in even a small part of what is shaping your faith, your thought, your life, you. Thank you.

Third: Whether this quest, this hunger, is one of finding faith or finding self, I do not know. I wonder, increasingly, if they are one in the same – especially for women. Faith is wild, untamable, and impossible to completely capture. If it were anything other, it would not be worth our pursuit. And I think women are the same in their truest selves: wild, untamable, and impossible to completely capture. If we were anything other, we would not be worth others’ or our own pursuit. You embody this pursuit, Lindsey – of faith, of self, of wildness. And you are so worth it!

Fourth: The words of a wise and wild woman – Clara Pinkola Estes ~ “Our experience of her within and without are the proofs. Our thousands and millions of encounters with her intra-psychically through our night dreams and day thoughts, through our yearnings and inspirations, these are the verifications. The fact that we are bereft in her absence, that we long and yearn when we are separated from her; these are the manifestations that she has passed this way…”

Indeed, faith has passed your way, Lindsey – but has hardly passed you by.

I am grateful to see it in you.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:52:50 +0000

Lindsey, I firmly believe that listening to our bodies will help us lead more happy, productive lives. (Not that I do this.) The mind-body connection can provide us with insight into slowing down or speeding up. For example, right after birth your body will tell you when you are doing too much.

You, my friend, have a gift with words.

By: Kristen @ Motherese

Kristen @ Motherese — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:42:01 +0000

When someone dear to me was experiencing terrible insomnia, he was advised to scan his body each night after getting into bed, to look for hidden tension. He was amazed – just as I was during my few rounds with guided meditation – at the stuck spots we all have in our bodies. You are (characteristically) wise to acknowledge the truths that we all carry within ourselves. I join you in looking for the ways to connect with that knowledge.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:25:16 +0000

I believe so much that there is “more.” There is an energy. That our bodies, our spirits, our instincts, are all part of the Universe. I just don’t know yet how to settle into that, how to let it be, how to let myself be. I think I listen pretty well, to the Universe, to its messages. But sometimes I choose to ignore what it says or shrug it off.

By: Suzicate

Suzicate — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:18:48 +0000

Beautiful post. Ronna’s words are deep and full of wisdom.

By: BigLittleWolf

BigLittleWolf — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:00:10 +0000

This is lovely. Both elusive and tangible. I believe that our finest wisdom is “the wisdom of the body.” We simply haven’t always tuned into it.

When we do, we may not have words to articulate that knowing, but perhaps that’s just as well, as long as we recognize it is a knowledge we should abide by.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:32:46 +0000

Lindsey, what an amazing post. As a teenager, I was always on a quest through all sorts of religions and movements, trying to find my place. And then one day I just heard this little voice inside of me that directed me back to what I had been born. I then realized that it had been there all along, walking beside me all the days of my life, inside me and around me, and all I had to do was look with my spiritual eyes to be able to see what was clearly visible.

Thank you for reminding me of this. It’s just what I needed to read today.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:17:12 +0000

These words: “The answers you seek are already there: you just need to know where to look and how to listen.” I am so happy these are the last words that I read. I was planning to write these exact words in my comment. But now I don’t have to.

Let go of your mind for a moment, Lindsey, and look around at what is there–inside and out–and you may find peace, if only for the shortest of moments, but it is there, within you and without you.

My heart,
Sarah