By Dianne Trussell, BSc Hons, Goonellabah, NSW
As a child I suffered from hiccups. And when I say ‘suffered’, I mean SUFFERED! Once they started, they’d go on and on, every 5 to 6 seconds, 24/7, for days and days. I’d be sleepless, frustrated, irritated, driven crazy by them. I was in despair. I tried every remedy suggested: held my breath, breathed into a paper bag, put sugar under my tongue, drank water upside-down, fasted, ate…. all to no avail. By the time the hiccups would subside (by themselves) I’d be exhausted and very sore in my throat and chest. And in dread of the next bout. It’s one of the reasons I became such a slow eater – to help avoid the ‘hell’ of hiccups!
One time when I was in my early teens I had absolutely had it with the hiccups. This had to stop. I was determined to find out what would work. What did my body want to do? I sat down, relaxed, and closed my eyes. When my mind had settled, I asked my body: “What do you want me to do?” and to my unending surprise, I got a clear answer, rather unusual, but very logical. The method my body ‘told’ me is this:
Breathe in slowly, but not all the way. Stop breathing in before it feels finished or satisfying. Then breathe out slowly, but not all the way. Stop breathing out before it feels finished or satisfying. There were a couple of hiccups at the start, but I ignored them and kept steadily doing my shortened breaths. Suddenly there was a flush of heat, then a hard-to-describe feeling of ‘descending’ or relaxation in my diaphragm. At the end of this feeling – no more hiccups! The method worked every time, and my hiccups diminished until they became a rare event that didn’t take long to stop. And it worked for some other people with intractable hiccups too. On later reflection I could see that this method solved one of the failings of all the breath-holding methods for me: that I’d run out of air before the hiccups would stop!
So there you go, years before I’d ever heard of Universal Medicine, and me being a skeptical, practical young scientist-in-the-making, I had a conversation with my body that solved a long-running and very annoying health problem.
Various detractors and ‘skeptics’ have criticized Universal Medicine practitioners for claiming to ‘talk to patient’s ovaries’ etc. Well for starters, they don’t do that or claim that at all. But consider this: we can certainly talk to our own organs, as I did with my errant diaphragm in the hiccups saga. Anyone who arcs up and says this is non-scientific garbage ought to remind themselves that their bodies are made of cells, and all cells in the body (including the brain) communicate with each other in both close proximity and at a distance, using chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic signals. This is how the entire body knows what’s going on inside it from moment to moment, and what to do about it. So it’s perfectly reasonable that, if one so chooses, one can ‘tune in’ to one’s body and access the messages that are flying hither and yon like information packets on the internet. It is also possible to tune in to a particular part of the body to find out what’s going on there and what is needed.
Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
Of course our body communicates with itself and us, if it didn’t we wouldn’t be alive. If there is anyone out there in the world who thinks differently, then perhaps they need to go back to school and take a class in Human Biology. Even plants respond to verbal communication and there is a brilliant piece of research with water that when frozen, the particles of water freeze differently when spoken to harshly or kindly. Now that seems to me to be amazing and showed me the possibility that the energy in our words has a greater effect than we realise.
The body does talk to us, not it words but in a feeling that often the brain then has words for. I find this my experience everytime I ask my body a question.
“… all cells in the body (including the brain) communicate with each other in both close proximity and at a distance, using chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic signals.” The body is truly amazing, and it’s intelligence is so far ahead of the mind, the body and what it does daily is a true source of wonder and awe. We may find in the future that talking to ones body and listening to its response (as a conversation) becomes quite the norm and is a part of our health care. For some of us exploring Serge Benhayon’s work on whole body intelligence and body awareness this is already a reality.
Why are we so determined to treat our bodies as though they are like some sort of machine and instead treat our bodies as the delicate organism it is? I remember quite clearly my body recoiling at the taste of alcohol so I drowned the taste of the alcohol by adding sugar which was a double insult to my body. I compromised my body just so I could fit in now looking back on that part of my life I wonder why on earth I was so wayward. Thankfully through the teachings and presentations of Serge Benhayon I have learnt to love and appreciate myself and to treat me as the precious being I am.
I love the simplicity in which our body communicates with us. It’s very revealing and truly transforming when we simply listen to it.
Dianne yet again I read another article about your conversations with your body. I am wondering whether this is a clear message for me to communicate with my body parts, clearly unhappy with how I am eating or treating it, from time to time.
In all honesty what you present, is a no brainer (pun taken). The cells are living, they communicate, just like nature communicates to each other or to us. I feel I need to take my relationship with my body to another level, or to a level when I was first born. There’s nothing whacky about it, if it’s worked, then no harm done to another. I much rather this, then a voodoo doll, myths or what ever beliefs we carry thinking it will help.
If we can be fascinated by certain animals’/plants’ ability to communicate telepathically amongst themselves to migrate or mate etc., it makes so much more sense to embrace the possibility, and afford the same appreciation, that we humans can communicate with our own body, and it is actually very evolutionary to do so.
I get that feeling also sometimes that my body is trying to tell me something and if I really stop and listen like you did Dianne in your example then I get the message.
Our body is constantly communicating and when we tune in we can be in tune with all that it is sharing with us.
When science comes with a label and boundary of ‘do’s and don’ts’ it can’t truly be science, because as soon as exploration stops the science is lost. A great line here “It is also possible to tune in to a particular part of the body to find out what’s going on there and what is needed.” It seems that everything is communicating all the time. If we felt the true Universal or divine intelligence behind everything, including our bodies, and opened to a communicative relationship we would be in a very beautiful exploration of the science of life.
Melinda, I feel there’s a whole spectrum of the unexplainable, science cannot fathom or explain. Why is it, that everything has to be scientifically proven? Why couldn’t there be another way, the intelligence of the body and the universe.
Could we be open to the fact that there’s more to life than the physical body? I’m open, are you?
I love the simplicity you bring to us and how beautifully experimental you are in knowing your own body, and how inspiring that is for us all.
I love how you bring science based information together with the ‘Body being the marker of all truth’ that simply communicates with us when we are in conscious presence with our body.
To pause and take a moment to communicate with the body, be open to receive its reply and take action from this, is life changing and empowering.
“Anyone who arcs up and says this is non-scientific garbage ought to remind themselves that their bodies are made of cells, and all cells in the body (including the brain) communicate with each other in both close proximity and at a distance, using chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic signals. This is how the entire body knows what’s going on inside it from moment to moment, and what to do about it”.
I so love this – how the answer is in simple asking, and in the asking, we allow communication and relationship. How often we avoid this and try computing an answer instead via complicated analysis and thinking, that is a sheer indulgence.
This is a great example of how our body’s purpose is to communicate to us what is needed to live harmoniously or return to living in harmony. Our body is always guiding us, even when we are not listening it never ceases to reflect the truth, and we are already living in response to a degree of this communication or intelligence. When it’s cold we put a jumper on, we have a drink when we are thirsty and so on. We respond every day with the needed basic functionality when our body communicates to us, but we limit the degree we are willing to live in connection to this intelligence due to the responsibility and honesty, that through the truth of our bodies, we are being called to live.
Our body will always have an answer when we genuinely ask, “what you want me to do”? Unfortunately, our relationship with our body is most often the other way around, with us telling it what we want it to do, and like a dictatorial parent saying, ‘and no arguments!”. What the body shares will always be simple and involve being more aware and more respectful of ourselves.
I so love your blogs Dianne, as you did not only show the ease of being able to communicate with our own bodies – become still and be open to receiving it – but you also gave scientific facts and understanding to the sceptics. Just because someone disconnected from their body to the extent that they cannot even fathom a communication from it does not give them the right to write off the personal experiences of others.
Unfortunately Carolien Braakenburg this is exactly what is happening. Modern science is only offering us its own reduced version of science and what is even worse is that we seem to be accepting it without questioning whether there is more.
I love the simplicity of this blog and in these communications from the body.
Dianne, I love your down to earth practical, and no nonsense approach to your relationship with your body and your simple to understand explanations about how its workings. It is quite amazing that we can actually have these conversations and that they do clearly have an impact on how our body responds to them.
I was shopping in a local supermarket recently and had gone on auto pilot plucking things from the shelves not realising I was in my head and had left the wisdom of my body behind. My mobile phone rang and it was a good friend and in the course of our conversation I realised how I had been shopping and immediately started to feel into what I had chosen to put into my trolley. several special offers found their way back onto the shelves and when I went to the check out the contents of my trolley positively beamed at me in their freshness and clarity.
We can help ourselves and our body by simply tuning in and listening to our body, there is a huge amount of wisdom that our body holds that is conveyed to us when we listen.
This blog has changed my life. Having conversations with my body have and continue to be insightful and supportive.
There is such a power in stopping and listening to what we are feeling in our body. Could it be that we are avoiding this simplicity and power by always being on the run?
As I child I did the same thing Dianne, my hiccups weren’t as severe as yours were but they were certainly annoying. I did the same ideas of drinking water backwards, holding my breath and getting people to shock me with back slaps none of which worked. It was not until I listened to my body and explored my breath that I too was able to stop my hiccups. It’s interesting how without being consciously aware of the wisdom from our bodies (because it is not taught and celebrated) we all to a greater or lesser degree tap into those messages that are constantly on offer.
I am curious now that we have two childhood ‘hiccuppers’. If the answer to hiccups is in the breath, could this indicate that a disharmony in the breath is part of the problem? As a nurse I know that the breath is the first vital sign to change if there is any stress or imbalance in the body. I wonder what you had in common with the way you breathed when you used to have serial hiccup attacks.
To deny the wisdom of the body leads to all sorts of problems, I know I did it for many years and ended up pretty exhausted and sick, I now listen to the messages my body is sharing as it can be amazing what can be offered to us.
‘Conversations with your body’– Love it Dianne!
Try putting your hand over a flame and see what your body has to say – in my experience it will speak very loudly.
Conversations with my body.. great title, the more conversations I have with my body, and listen, the more it reveals to me in how I live and the choices I make in how I live, bringing me the truth of these and therefore the choice to make changes.
Reading this, ‘talking to our body’ starts to sound like the most basic scientific approach we can apply in solving any physical issue, and ridiculing this way of building a connection with the body feels very unscientific – after all, it is a physicality, and it sure does produce a series of evidence and we call that a life.
There is no doubt we have a very very very beautiful and intricate master piece of science and magic, order and flow, harmony and rhythm with us all the time. Imagine what this says about us, the being inside and who we truly are if our body is but a mere smidgen of the stupendousness we come from?
This is a very interesting piece Dianne and very informative. Thanks for sharing.
This is so fascinating to read, allowing for the understanding that our ability to breathe our own natural breath not too long, deep, shallow, fast or slow is innate within us all.
That is an extraordinary story of listening to your own wisdom, and through that you offer a great lesson for us all.
Listening to your body makes so much sense. If you listen to the radio without tuning in you won’t hear anything.
I love the science you bring to your example of the body’s wisdom with your hiccups, practical and undeniable in what it offers. ‘bodies are made of cells, and all cells in the body (including the brain) communicate with each other in both close proximity and at a distance, using chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic signals.’
me too Ruth, bringing it back to basic physics takes out all the so called mystical and makes it practical to the point where it is accessible to the greater many.
I’m in awe of how detailed and precise the communication from our body can be. Inspiring.
I simply love your practical science lessons. And this one is no exception. It simply goes to show that we are enhoused in one amazingly wise and intricate vessel which most of the time we ignore. Taking the time to stop and listen to our body is one of the wisest and self-loving choices we could ever make.
Conversation comes from the Latin from Latin com “with, together” (see com-) + versare, frequentative of vertere “to turn.” The image of turning together makes clear that conversing is a movement that brings the ‘other one’ with you. When we converse with the body, understood as just described, the effect is profound.
By focusing on our breath we can experience many changes in how our body reacts to situations!
Our body is amazing at how it looks after itself, the question is how do we assist it to work at its best, it’s like tuning up an engine, you have to listen to it, until you know it’s working as well as it can, it’s like learning a new language, that we already know, we just forget that we know.
I’d never heard of hiccups hanging around that long and I can relate to all the remedies that are claimed work. For some reason we avoid asking the very part of us that has a problem or isn’t at ease and I know this is the last thing on my mind to do if it’s on my mind at all. This article has broken new ground though and I can see very simply this is the way we should be going about everything and in place of asking everyone or everything around you why not ask you. When we hold onto to seeing life in a certain way or living a certain way then we close off to the ‘all’ that is available to us and like this article presents if your body has something going on or you have something going on with you, take a seat with yourself and take the time to ask, like the author you may be surprised at the answer you truly get.
Next time I get the hiccups I will definitely be applying your technique Dianne!
Yes absolutely what you say, and also it is not crazy to know how to heal ourselves because it simply is our body, a body we live in day in day out which makes us the most skilled in knowing what is going on and how to heal ourselves.
Agreed, our whole body communicates within itself at all times, we are a mass of cells, a community working in harmony, a big reflection for us as a human community as we go about our day.
I love that you are living proof of our ability to tune in and communicate with particular parts of the body and in this case determine what was needed to heal your suffering. We are remarkable creatures with remarkable capabilities not yet fathomed… science has only scratched the surface of understanding the wonders of our makeup.
Very good point and one that we are not taught enough about. We have become so disempowered by information over load that we have forgotten our secret weapon; our relationship and connection to ourselves. Unfortunately we have become so accustomed to living in our heads that we can forget that the rest of our body is very intelligent too, if we only take a moment to tune into it.
Love the science that you bring into this very handy hiccup hint. I have been waiting to try it since my first read but the hiccups have not obliged, as yet. I too love the fact that we can have conversations with our body but we need to know at what point to stop talking and to start to listen, as you did. I am endlessly amazed at what my body tells me; I mightn’t always like the answer but I can never deny that what I am hearing is the truth.
“So there you go, years before I’d ever heard of Universal Medicine, and me being a skeptical, practical young scientist-in-the-making, I had a conversation with my body that solved a long-running and very annoying health problem.” Love this – yet we so often look outside of ourselves for answers. Looking to our body rather than our mind – makes so much sense.
Our own questions answered when we accept that we do already know… to deny this as a possibility is to deny ourselves true health and wellbeing.
You make a very convincing point for tuning into one’s body and getting a sense of what is needed and might help. This evidence and those from the many other experiments you have conducted are a testimony to the fact that we are all scientists and experts on our own body and life. We do know but it suits us, more often than not, to not know.
A beautiful sharing Dianne, thank you. I love reading your blogs, there are so many lessons you share in an interesting, real and fun way.
It’s an interesting thing to observe, that there are those that claim you can’t talk to a body, when their very intelligence is very disconnected to the body! I really enjoy being an open person and exploring things for myself. Life itself is a science and we can each observe, test and evaluate outcomes and be our own natural scientists. I personally feel that true science is innate, children are a great example of this, they are such amazing little scientists and they live in the wonder of what they explore. Adults can be too quick to shut down to possibilities, which to me says life is more about safety than true exploration.
This blog and the following part 2 has changed my life, having conversations with my body has brought in so much wisdom and understanding of why things occur and how to move out of them in a way that supports the body to heal not only physical but mental states as well. Listening to what is being communicated is a huge dose of medicine we all need in our lives.
This makes complete sense Dianne but I am left wondering then why we give the mind the upper hand when there is such wisdom our bodies are willing to share?
It is such a natural way of finding answers to messages of the body but do we trust what we feel as being the answer? For me it’s work in progress to embrace the sensitivity and wisdom of the body but when I am honest and do tune in and ask my questions I receive the messages of (a part of) my body very clearly.
Incredible what lengths we go to in order to cure hiccups getting caught up in myths and beliefs, rather than quietly connecting to our body and allowing our own body to deliver its own wisdom to us, great example Dianne of how the body can guide us to exactly what is required.
Its beautiful to feel this kind of sensitivity and common sense from a scientist. In many ways and generally speaking scientists have gained a reputation for being quite the opposite.
I agree Elaine, Dianne makes science very simple and practical for everyone.
As you described your shortened breath it seemed to be a re-set movement – which reminds me of a particular Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy movement, where we can use the introduced rhythm to also bring the body back, to then deepen its natural rhythm.
It is beautiful to consider that our cells are communicating constantly with each other – cellular harmony in action!
I absolutely love your description of the body communicating Dianne, Thank you for sharing.
I have wondered if Einstein were still alive today, and given that we now accept the ‘everything is energy’… not only relate and reserve this statement for astronomy and physics, I wonder what discoveries Einstein would have made in relating this to the human body… as it too is a bundle of energy, atoms, molecules, particles, quanta – visible and invisible to the naked eye… We do have the intelligence to tune into the communication between all the energy movement within our body, it just that we have got too used to looking ‘out there’ for the answers rather than looking in right under our own nose…
It is interesting to read stories like this, especially when all tried and tested methods do not work and the answer is within the body all along. I have an example such as this, where my throat gets sore if I have spoken up about something but not fully said my piece – once identified the sore throat clears up on it’s own.
This is an inspiring story on many levels. I love the way all the usual treatment methods failed and you had to ask your body how to do it. I love that a sceptical scientist was able to discover how amazing their body is. And I love how this scientifically makes sense.
Beautiful Dianne, I love this, so real, so practical and so doing-able. Tuning into our own body is a most sensible thing for anyone to do.
I love how you bring science to everything or more so how you show and thus allow us to see the simplicity of science in our everyday life.
I just knew I had to read your contribution again for its clarity and pioneering qualities – as you say, our body does communicate with us, continually so in many minute ways and much louder in a health crisis. As you say, “one can ‘tune in’ to one’s body and access the messages that are flying hither and yon like information packets on the internet”. I’d go as far as saying that the internet is a pale imitation of the goings on in the human body – for one, there is not a hint of abuse in its pursuit of homeostasis unless of course, we introduce it from the outside by the way we treat our body.
The breath is fundamental to life so, in a way, it is not surprising that simply changing the way we breathe could have such a marked effect on us, literally changing our life. I have noticed this too, when my body is in pain, by breathing gently and focussing on my breath, or within my heart, the pain diminishes and can completely disappear.
I love this. Thank you Miss Scientist for further confirming the truth about science. Why we waste time ignoring our bodies everyday is beyond me. I say that despite the fact that I ignore my body more than I realise…but it still baffles me that I would choose to do this, because I know it has all the answers.
That’s awesome. Of all the different ways to ‘cure’ hiccups, who would have thought the easiest way would be to listen to your body and to focus on your breath?! Simple isn’t it? Amazing how easy life is when we tune into our bodies.
The more we have conversations with our bodies the wiser we become.
Finding answers to our personal question through our bodies is an ancient technique found in many societies around the world.
We are finding out more bout the amazing bodies we have everyday! I am blown away every time I read or experience something new connected to my body. I love reading your blogs Dianne and appreciate your sharing of your experiences as a Scientist.
When we listen to our body it will tell the truth and when we listen to our mind that is full of ideals, beliefs, education and thoughts it can lead us a merry dance of deception.
Makes perfect sense to me Dianne. Those who do not ask questions of their body do so because they do not want to hear the answer. That is to say, we have become rather complacent or, we could say, downright arrogant as the ‘driver’ of our bodies. If we have no true impulse to change the path that we are on, then we will hold tight the reins and continue on our not-so-merry way regardless of what the vehicle we ride within has to say about it. If we don’t want to know, we simply won’t ask. But – how cool is it when we allow ourselves to not only ask true questions but also be open and willing to receiving the true answers?
(And I simply cannot wait until my next bout of hiccups to try your method…although perhaps my body may have a different way…)
Thank God for Dianne Trussell – she is a living, breathing, sparkling example of the miracles contained within our bodies.
Tamara, I echo your appreciation of this gorgeous woman – Dianne Trussell. She has the wisdom of an elder infused with the wonder and play-full-ness of a child. My favourite mix 🙂
A year on since reading this and the following part two my life and the relationship I have with my body has completely changed and is still deepening today. From exposing all the beliefs I had around the body as an object or something that is within my care my whole life, to dealing with the imposition of the expectations I have placed onto the body these conversations are constantly inspiring. I now relate to my body in a way that I know it has the most loving of intentions, even if I am choosing otherwise it never stops being willing to communicate that which is most loving for myself and all equally so. And I doubt I would have come to this point if it were not for your own experiments and conversations that you’ve shared here Dianne, Thank you so much for writing these blogs.
This is such a brilliant reminder of not only how our bodies are forever communicating to us what is to needed to maintain a state of well-being or harmony, but that we already are responding to this communication from our bodies throughout our every day, yet we just simply do not appreciate it. We feel when there is a stone in our shoe, when it is too cold and we need on put on a jumper, or when too hot and need less clothes so as to not over heat, when we need a drink etc. But imagine if we choose to develop our awareness and appreciation to this communication and deepen our relationship with our bodies so that we are guided to live with a deeper connection and knowing of what is true in every situation, as this is what our bodies are forever presenting us with.
Love it Diane, it does make sense and clearly I am way more scientifically minded that I gave myself credit for because this is entirely logical to me! In terms of your treatment here for hiccups, well, fantastic. I have used a few times since reading this blog the first time round and found it works every time. I just needed to slow myself down.
It sometimes takes an illness or uncomfortable situation for us to be humble enough to ask our body. This is a shame, as our body is like our best friend, constantly giving us advice and encouragement of how to live in a way that maintains harmony within and without.
I love that this blog shows that the wisdom in our bodies is not the domain of adults, special people or enlightened ones. It simply requires us to become still, quiet and listen to what it has to say. Sometimes the advice may not be what we want to hear or make sense to us at the time but the more you listen and respond the more you will be amazed by how spot on and intelligent the body is.
It is super important to develop a relationship with ones body and when we do that, the organs being a part of the body, also are included in that relationship. Hence it is normal to care for oneself and ones organs, and why not tune in to feel how the organs are feeling – how does your stomach feel after a too large meal? How do your lungs feel after being in a room full of smoke? How does your heart feel after you have been running around? Building awareness of our body helps us to tune into what works for us and what does not. This is practical and purposeful!
How very practical that we can ask our own bodies what to do, and it is interesting as that most of us actually know this, we just do not abide to what they are communicating.
For me this sort of communication and what can be gleaned from such exploration is beyond doubt. After having applied this into my own life, having conversations with my body, I am learning that there is so much to explore about life from looking within and how our bodies are in constant communication with itself and the all more than I could ever and have ever understood without this feedback from the body.
Our bodies have an extraordinary intelligence that can really only be tapped into if we choose to listen, and the listening can only happen if we choose to be still, and the stillness can only happen if we choose to feel, and once we really start to feel then the healing can begin.
What a beautiful example of enquiring into our bodies and its responses. Allowing for a deepening relationship and communication where we become connected to the body’s natural wisdom.
You are an absolute expert and dedicated student of your own body and have made so many discoveries – to me, this is true and honest science, unsponsored and not shackled to any institution, creed or ideology.
Dianne I love how you so simply share the wisdom of the body here – that cells communicate to us all the time and that we can certainly tune into our bodies – which is exactly what Universal Medicine supports us to do. It is science based on communication, and something that we’re all capable of accessing. How does the body know to sweat when we are too hot, to give us a cramp when we have eaten the wrong thing, to feel thirsty when we need more water – the body talks to us all the time.
I love your pragmatic approach to tuning in to the constant communications that are flying around our bodies every moment. Of course it makes sense. Just because it’s not the norm does not mean it’s ‘way out there’. I’ve been one of those who couldn’t imagine hearing messages from my body, but as I’ve reconnected to myself more and more, the louder and clearer the communications from my body become.
as Dianne says… It is actually perfectly reasonable and indeed preferable that we do communicate with our bodies and the communication can be as deep and profound as we choose,
Ha ha – I remember how I too as a child tried to find a cure for hiccups by drinking water upside down! Now where on earth did that come from?
Makes perfect sense to me that we can ask our body what is going on and get an answer as to what we need to do. We are so used to giving our power away that we sometimes forget to tap into our own resources. Thank you Dianne for reminding us.
What a piece of gold this is “bodies are made of cells, and all cells in the body (including the brain) communicate with each other in both close proximity and at a distance, using chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic signals.” all we have to do is slow ourselves down to be able to connect with that communication. It makes so much sense. Amazing, I love science, not bamboozling at all, instead it is incredibly logical.
Amazing Dianne Trussell, I love reading absolute Truth that comes from the body for that is what we hold. The way you describe how the body communicates is music to my heart (my body). A true scientist inspires us.
If we go to the doctor with a medical concern and the doctor asks us what we are feeling, we are being asked to express what our body is communicating to us. It is very simple. Our bodies are full of great wisdom and hence it is pure common sense that we should listen to what they communicate.
I remember trying to drink water upside down – absurd suggestion but when you get sufficiently irritated by it you would give anything a go. Suffice to say that it did not work! Of course no one ever suggested just stopping and figuring out what your body is looking to do…!
This blog makes me want to ask my body what it needs, but also to show me what I have done to it so that I can take more responsibility for how I care or not care for the body I have.
Loved hearing about how you naturally overcame your chronic hiccup problem Dianne- by asking your body and tuning in to get an answer. Great reminder that our body is very intelligent and if we are prepared to listen to it, great wisdom can be obtained.
‘The body is our marker of truth’ as Universal Medicine has presented time and time again. Our relationship with our bodies and listening to it is a direct reflection of our relationship with truth (ouch) How truth-full are we willing to be? and if there is resistance then why? What is it about the truth that is so avoided? I feel a body conversation is required for these answers. Thank you Dianne.
Dianne, your blogs are always such a great science lessons for me! It’s really amazing that we have all this communication zinging around inside of us constantly but we have turned down the volume dial so much that most of us live unaware that our bodies are even sending us messages, let alone hearing what they have to say. Thank you, it’s all a great reminder to stay tuned in.
Absolutely no doubt and it IS perfectly reasonable, that we can ‘tune in’ to our body and access the messages that are ‘flying hither and yon like information packets on the internet.’ We simply need to be willing enough and still enough to do so.
Thank you for addressing the imbalance that is so pervasive in our modern society and for celebrating the wisdom of the body, Dianne. It is inherent within us all, as natural as breathing, yet it’s intelligence is continually overridden by a a world that says it’s all about the mind and that the brain is somehow in control! In the long term, the patience of the body conquers all.
If there will be a future book by you Dianne it will be the saviour of all time for schools. Children will be inspired to learn more about what is going on instead of reading something they cannot truly relate to.
A lesson in the science of developing an intimate relationship with one´s body – a true all-time bestseller.
This makes total sense Dianne and if there are voices of scepticism it’s just a measure of how willing or unwilling one is to truly look at what is truly going on and how our body truly works. Scepticism in our world as it is, is coloured with fear of what we cannot see and if it cannot be proven with measurements that are very limited of actually discovering new things, which in itself is ironic, then it’s not considered worthy of being looked at. Isn’t it strange that we have set our own standards of how much truth we are allowing ourselves to discover by our own methods of moving forward scientifically. It’s like we limit ourselves before we even start. And if there are some that claim something that is beyond the mainstream scientific discoveries, they are looked and with ‘sceptical’ eyes. Perhaps because there is jealousy towards those that choose to be more open to what is actually there to be discovered…
What I’m getting from this article is to form a connection or relationship with your body, and let the body navigate.
Yes no surprises for those who listen to their bodies, it makes complete sense.
I agree Dianne – “…it’s perfectly reasonable that, if one so chooses, one can ‘tune in’ to one’s body and access the messages that are flying hither and yon like information packets on the internet.” – Makes complete scientific sense to me!
Likewise Fiona. The body is so absolutely incredible and there are so many parts of it that are there to support us. Even the fact that our stomach is filled with bacteria and bugs that actually are there to help us – and that the food we put into our bodies can change the whole makeup of them. I mean this is just fascinating and not appreciated enough. Our bodies offer us signals all the time, and how brilliant is that to be open to listening and responding to them. To me that is true science and health.
You are such a great writer Dianne – those hiccups for so long must have really hurt, how awesome that you went straight to the source, the wise body itself and were given the answer so swiftly. Our bodies are truly stupendous communication tools.
Having attended a wet lab recently where I got to see and touch a cadaver to learn about muscles and bones. This has left me with a newfound appreciation for the physicality of our body but also that we are so much more than a physical form it truly is a vehicle that is left behind. What brings it to life is the energy that we allow to run through it.
That’s awesome our bodies are absolutely incredible.
I am just having fun reading this blog as recently I have had hiccups – and to have this insight and awareness here has been brilliant for me to sit with and really appreciate my breathing and how being aware of something like this can change so much.
Allowing ourselves the grace to be truly aware of our body is the key as Dianne states ‘It is also possible to tune in to a particular part of the body to find out what’s going on there and what is needed.’
Listening to our bodies is such a powerful and poignant message for me at this time.
Your blog is a beautiful reminder to have clear conversations with my body; I just love the way you lead the way in doing this Dianne.
Science when it develops far enough will only confirm what the Ageless Wisdom has been sharing with us for centuries, I Love how your piece of writing connects the dots between science and the Ageless Wisdom.
Imagine if everyone in the world started to ask their body to show them what it needed, what supported it. Our healthcare system would change overnight, as would our health.
Such a shift, would very likely yield some incredible discoveries, David. The level of trust in not only ourselves but in others would create an arena of ideas in so many different areas, we might see a new renaissance.
We would have a revolution, a health revolution that is so needed.
It is vital to connect with our bodies, listen to them, and make lifestyle choices that honour what our bodies lovingly communicate.
When everyone begins to feel the simplicity and beauty of what you say Sylvia we will have a gentle revolution of love and that will bring about a deeper sense of harmony and joy to our inner sense of well being. We will begin to live with true vitality and a sense of being at one with ourselves and others.
Can you imagine the benefit both health-wise and financially… Could be that this will be the only way to avoid total bankruptcy (and health-ruptcy…) in our society.
I still find that at times that I am resistant to what my body is telling me – it feels like a very ancient energy that I allow to creep in and pervade my body rather than seeing the simplicity of what is the underlying truth. As we all open up to the truth that Dianne shares with us in her blogs and see that life can be as simple and sensible as we choose. As you say Matts this would both benefit our health and our quality of life and in this way we will be supporting the health system and not draining it. When we see life as a whole we are more able to appreciate all the details and magnificence that God is offering us in each moment.
I love what you shared here Dianne, how important is it for us to build a loving and caring relationship with our bodies.
It’s our number one job, before anything else in the world.
Absolutely agree Matthew – isn’t it amazing that the majority of us don’t actually see that at all. And yet our body is with us 24/7.
Absolutely gorgeous blog Dianne, thank you. When I read this ‘Anyone who arcs up and says this is non-scientific garbage ought to remind themselves that their bodies are made of cells, and all cells in the body (including the brain) communicate with each other in both close proximity and at a distance, using chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic signals’ a great big ‘yes’ emerged from all the cells in my body in agreement.
Our bodies DEFINITELY communicate with us, for example if I over-indulge on food my tummy hurts, if I eat the wrong foods for my body my nose gets a bit stuffed up. It’s constantly communicating to me all the time, with a wisdom that is never present in my mind.
Yes, Meg! I love that “a wisdom that is never present in my mind”, for the wisdom of our body is no place else but in our body, and the only way for us to access it is by feeling it.
Very true, and often my mind comes up with the exact opposite to what my body feels. The difference between feeling and thinking is oceans apart.
Indeed. If you have ever had to convince yourself to do something that is the ‘thing to do’ then you have overridden the wisdom of your body. If you have ever eaten something after saying ‘what the hell, why not?’ you have overridden the wisdom of your body. Our body knows, it is really as simple as that.
Eating something after thinking, ‘What the hell, why not?’ is something I am super familiar with, and you are absolutely correct, in that moment I am completely switched off from my body and what it truly needs to nourish it, and focused entirely on gaining some kind of relief.
I’m really familiar with it too, Meg. It is either a relief from the pressure I am feeling, or it is looking to indulge in something like a flavour or texture. Again, that is only there to try and distract myself away from what I am actually feeling.
The term “big, fat goose chase” comes to mind, Shirley-Ann.
Same here Meg – and what a gift that is to have a marker of what we our bodies will allow. I am also finding that as I listen to my body more and more it is becoming more sensitive – so for example, I may have been able to do something or eat something in the past which I know I can’t today – so it is a constant refinement based on how much we are willing to listen. I love that about our bodies and how they are a guiding light and support.
Our bodies are truly amazing, and I always feel my body has so much more to teach me.
I too know that the body is an honest reflection of how my choices have been made, it speaks absolute volumes. It wasn’t until meeting Serge Benhayon when I started to make this connection with my body my focus and stop any numbing ways that I have actually been able to truly listen to my body – I find it remarkable and fascinating to the detail how the body reflects exactly what we need to now.
Yeah – I am constantly amazing at what my body knows and how accurately it reports the truth to me. Often I don’t quite believe it, but several weeks or months later find out that what I felt and what my body communicated was absolutely spot on. In fact – it’s never been wrong!
I am so looking forward to Dianne’s book… She gives us all such extraordinary and delightful glimpses into the fascinating and wonderful relationships go on within our body, in our relationship to nature, to the wonders of the cosmos, and the interrelationship of it
Yes cjames it would be a sell out for sure. Dianne brings such joy, curiosity, detail and common sense to each moment she lives in. It is such a beautiful way to live and I am very grateful that she shares it with us. She has been well ahead of her game with her lived experiences and it is fantastic evidence that you can’t not question. Love it Dianne, bring on the book I say!
I totally agree, Dianne has such a wealth of wisdom and knowledge regarding the wonders of us, our make up and this world – it would be an amazing book!
So am I, what a gift such a book can be. Combining such an understanding of life and science with gorgeous expression.
Likewise cjames2012 – Dianne really does share insights into the body that marry science with love and wisdom, and it is so beautiful to see this all working together as one. Dianne has brought a solid understanding of true science to me and many others, and shared how fundamental relationships are.
Can’t wait either – a celebration of the body which will be straight forward, fun and TRUE.
Thank you Diane,I am so inspired by your innate curiosity and your natural willingness to experiment, try things out and to look at everyday life from a different perspective. In sharing your experiences so simply and in such an accessible manner you continue to inspire me to deepen my own understanding and connection to my body and the everyday occurrences in the natural world surrounding me.
Yes Dianne gives science a place in everyday life, with everyday people and events. Science is simply the living of our day and observing the effects of our choices.
Since I read this blog for the first time I’ve been dying to get the hiccups so I could try out your remedy so I could share it with any other sufferers, but alas I haven’t had them since.
I absolutely love the fact that my body converses with me all the time. The body is our greatest ally if only we would accept this fact.
Oh so true Elizabeth, “our body is our greatest ally” and just imagine how the health of the world would change if we were taught this from young. No more long hospital waiting lists, no health providers on the brink of bankruptcy and a world of people able to live life to the fullest. How amazing would that be?
“The body is our greatest ally if only we would accept this fact.” Alas not only will we choose to fight this if we prefer to remain irresponsible with our choices, but most of current society runs on banking that we do not listen to our body, because if we do we would have less need for what they provide and we would be able to tell when they are providing false information that only serves their pockets. The good news is whenever we choose to become friends there it is waiting, a very loyal ally.
Very good point Golnaz, no matter how far away we can run in our minds, the past, the future, a previous or soon to be or possibility of a situation, when we stop and come back the body is there for us. We can’t ever escape our bodies completely because it keeps calling us back to it even in the basics such as sleep, food, bathroom and even those messages can be disturbed but never severed. It would be wise then would it not to settle down into the body, down from the mind, we can’t but live with for this life rather than run the body down and only look down from the mind when something is wrong? Only addressing the ‘gone wrongs’ makes for a very low quality relationship when given attention the body can give us such clear and much lighter messages than just warning signals.
Elizabeth I am also loving the fact that my body has this wonderful conversation with me – if I allow myself to listen. If I do so it feels that my body appreciates that and starts to give me even more information – yes I only can agree the body is the greatest ally.
Absolutely love this Dianne, you have such an eloquent way of merging life experiences, with science and the ageless wisdom and in this instance, the wisdom of our bodies. It is so easy for the nay-sayers, intellectuals, skeptics and the like to not agree with being able to listen to the body. To do so requires one to feel connected, be open to it and listen. It doesn’t speak by putting up neon sign posts, we need to develop our own relationship, which is unique for us all, with our bodies. This is where we get to feel and understand incredible insights.
I Love the way you study and observe your body and are able to share with us such incredible insights.
I agree Nicole, Dianne is truly leading the way in bringing back that childlike wonder at the fascination of our own bodies.
An amazing science professor who is enriching many with the wonderment that comes with the sciences.
What you present here Dianne is so simple yet more deeply wise than the entire body of scientific research collated to date. Our body speaks very loudly if we choose to listen to it and can tell us far more than any document or body of research outside of us.
Dianne- What an amazing discovery you learnt from having intractable hiccups- by surrendering to the body and asking within what it needed your body responded.
It just proves how intelligent our body really is, more than we give credit to.
Two simple words that you have used that make what you say so huge. “our WHOLE bodies…..our LITTLE minds”. Society has lived exactly the other way round – with all the emphasis on our minds. 100%. When have you ever heard anyone being praised, appreciated, recognised or given an award for the intelligence of their body?! Once we start to redress this balance, much will change.
This is such a simple shift in mindset to change, yet the results are huge and the difference the world would feel by living from their bodies and not their minds would be greatly felt by all.
Hear hear Otto I love what you share here. It is kinda crazy when you stop and see it for what it really is. That we seem to have a level of illness that is so far from being harmonious and vital, the statistics are showing us the complete opposite yet we still don’t stop and consider what the body is telling us. How much further does it need to get before we actually stop this momentum of destruction towards our own bodies and start to honour what the body is telling us?
I agree Natalie. And when you start to study other organs in the body it becomes ever more crazy that we keep the brain/mind on such a pedestal. Every part of our bodies is incredible. I know so little about them, but when I I listen to people like Dianne I am just deeply humbled – our bodies are absolute miracles – how arrogant of us to not be listening 24/7.
Brilliant Otto for bringing this – so true how we have got it all upside down and back to front.
Thank you Dianne, what you have shared is so confirming of the intrinsic intelligence within our bodies available to us at all times, all it takes is a choice to bring more awareness to our physicality and pure wisdom is there for us all.
beautiful presentation Dianne. I have always wondered why we are not enamoured with the ability of all of our bodily cells to so intrinsically know their role without needing to pause to be reminded of their true purpose. Our whole body speaks to us of an intelligence that is beyond the grasp of our little minds.
Yes Adam, why not be enamoured? Most of us take for granted that we feel heat, cold, pain, sleepiness, emotion, fatigue, full stomach, bladder or bowels, hunger, thirst, sexual arousal and stress. You’d think those overall status updates were not only ho-hum but also the only things our body has to say! There is way, way more, yet for some people even the basics listed above are beyond their awareness. I have known people who would walk about for a long time on a cold day with goose bumps, and when asked if they’re cold, be surprised as if it had never occurred to them. ‘They’ say they don’t feel cold, that is, their heads are overriding it, but their bodies feel cold and are trying to raise the feeble little skin hairs to stay warm! Once the person’s attention is brought to the issue, they start to actually feel their coldness and welcome being handed a spare jumper or jacket. Some of the same people don’t know when they are hungry or thirsty, and when I notice they are cranky, low on energy and a bit spacey, I ask if they’ve eaten properly and been drinking enough water. Same surprised look. And same outcome….. suddenly they become aware of their bodies. If we all became ‘enamoured’ of the miracle of our body’s communication and stayed connected and listening, I’m sure everyone would be healthier and more even-tempered.
As children we live with such openness for exploration, our acceptance of magic is unquestioning and hence to ask our bodies for an answer is very natural.
Agree lucindag, It is the innocence we had as children that we need to come back to as it allows us to know the wisdom of the whole universe is within us .
I have been a very detailed diary of how my body communicates to me. I have to remember though to add to the relevant section about hiccups. I had some the other day and completely forgot that I was having them. Even the smallest thing is the body communicating. This is taking the relationship with the body to a new level – the true level!
Reading this blog and all the comments has left me feeling very appreciative and awestruck about the way the human body works. When I consider the complexity of its functioning and how delicately balanced it all is, and the amazing way it communicates with us, I am totally bowled over.
The very notion that we are separate from other people, even our own bodies, the planet and the stars, feels a very ignorant if not arrogant stance to live in, and one that only can serve irresponsibility and us not being accountable for our every action and thought that we allow or choose, a position that says I can do exactly as I choose as its my life and no one is affected by my actions. If we could physically see how we affect others, maybe then we would realize how much responsibility we hold for the way we live and the choices we make.
If we could physically see the effects our choices have on others, then perhaps we would stop and take responsibility. When I read this it reminded me of a couple of days ago when I was swimming – it was warm in the pool and I needed a wee, I knew it would be cold out and I wouldn’t want to get back in – so it would have been an easy choice to pee in the pool…so I thought imagine if there was a chemical in the pool that turned purple when you peed. It would spread throughout the whole pool as people swam through the waters. Before you knew it the whole pool would be affected. Knowing this, the visibility of the effects, and the direct responsibility clearly pointing back to me, it becomes very easy to make a choice. It is very revealing that we are happy to make choices behind closed doors that we would not make in public. Let’s bring out the purple dye in all of our choices!
I would say that we CAN physically see/read how we affect others. Because our sixth sense is not acknowledged, our deep knowing and understanding is over-ridden, for we actively choose to deny energy.
We have given so much emphasis and building our intelligence and intellect, but it feels we have used that over or even against the wisdom of our bodies, driving our bodies to achieve what our mind desires or pursues, this has come at great cost for the health and well being of our bodies, what I feel Dianna is presenting is to re-connect to the wisdom of our bodies and to live from there, rather than our minds.
I never knew hiccups could be such a awful condition in ones life Dianne, what’s very inspiring is how you took it upon your self to ask your body what was needed and then listened and gave it a go. I feel we have forgotten this form of communication with our bodies, there is much wisdom and information available from our bodies, when we choose to firstly stop and be still and allow our bodies to communicate what’s going on, I have experienced this with Universal Medicines yoga courses.
I agree Thomas, it does seem to be a forgotten form of communication with our bodies and what Dianne has shown us is that this is just one example of how the body is communicating and one we give no attention to. How many other little messages do we get and override and choose not to feel.
I am inspired by your curiosity about bodies and health and willingness to try things out and experiment Dianne, together with your simple to understand scientific explanations, you bring a everyday practicality and interest, to what can be quite a dry subject for many people.
I love the way you talk, and listen, to your body Dianne. You not only have a deep understanding of how the physical body works but an even deeper connection with your innate wisdom. This is very inspiring.
A sensational blog – scientific as well as simple!
Breathing gently is like pulling on the hand brake in a speeding car. It can really support the body to pull in the out of control movements and thoughts, then letting the breath evolve as the body instructs. It is a very self regulating action and the thing is it is so very simple as we breathe every single second.
Boom. As a man who has been caught for speeding WAY too often, I can absolutely attest to what you sat Matthew. I only wish that I had taken greater responsibility and actually actioned this gem on those occasions (and the countless times when I wasn’t caught) – because I know it works. Ignorance is definitely not and excuse on my part. It is 100% responsibility. Super simple. Very humbling.
The simplicity of Dianne’s expression makes science a day to day reality, she does not separate it from life, allowing us to see and feel it’s relevance in our very own lives.
I love what you wrote rosemarydustan and I agree – imagine if all scientists would see their science like this – people could understand a bit more about what they are studying.
“this is non-scientific” – what is this actually supposed to mean??? Doesn´t it imply that everything that is not scientific due to the definition of the time is not of any truth or value?
One should expect that especially any scientist will agree on the fact that he only knows a tiny fraction about what he knows everything about that is known in his field of expertise at the time. Isn´t science defined by a curiosity for what is unknown and to delve deeper and deeper into its object of study? And has history not proven again and again that what was known yesterday is already expanded upon today and further tomorrow?
How can science be considered static and limited to what is known today? Actually it stops being science when taking such stance.
Amazing how much is called ‘non-scientific’ when it concerns natural knowing! Yes indeedy Modern Science is about the quest to find out the truth of the ‘unknown’, so you’d think there’d be a bit more humility regarding what it doesn’t understand! However, because Modern Science is very far from God at this time it’s not surprising that more is unknown to science than is known. The search for truth by Modern Science can only eventually lead back to God. Meanwhile we watch many (but not all) scientists claiming that our Modern Science is the only science, when it’s actually the lost one trying to get home, surrounded by the true universal science it’s looking for!
I was always fascinated by what we call ‘universal genius’, mostly meaning someone of versatile talent and knowledge, but I suppose it actually is simply someone who is open to see, explore and understand life as One Whole where every part is interrelated with every other part, thus the study and practice of several sciences, art forms and a very practical approach to everyday life would just be natural. And the very term ‘university’ still speaks of the universal and all-encompassing approach towards life that was the cradle of all true science and study – forever approaching ‘the true universal science’ we live in.
Humbleness – I guess that is the missing quality in ‘evidence based medicine’.
Thanks for this simple reminder that we have the answers inside us already, all we need do is create a space for the body’s voice to be heard.
Exactly Sarah, we have all the answers inside us, our bodies are very wise, it is up to us to choose to listen to them.
What you say is so profound yet so simple! Our current illness and disease rates would be completely lowered if we where all taught from an early age how to connect to our bodies and really listen to that inner wisdom.
Yes, learning the science of knowing ourselves and our body inside out – a true and forever active living science.
I am always left wanting more from you Dianne, as a scientist and communicator, a teacher, you are A star! You make what I know to be true inside of me, out side in black and white, factual and simple. Thank you!
Totally concur Vanessa, imagine a weekly lesson with Dianne called “Conversations with my body”! what empowered learning, what confirmation of our great wisdom. In fact would this not make a great series of children’s books?
Don’t keep it for the kids. I want to read it too!
I love the way you write, Dianne – the authority of your scientific background with a super-simple, super-practical dose of common sense. Having pretended for a very long time that my body didn’t communicate with me (in spite of the chilblains – no socks in the winter; chronic bronchitis – smoking; exhaustion – being nervous all the time…), I am blown away on a daily basis by the clear and supportive dialogue my body is always ready to have. All I have to do is listen.
Ha ha Matilda that made me laugh, your poor body communicating loud and clear only for you to override with feigned deafness! It is crazy how we dismiss the symptoms our body is showing us all the time of what is working or not working for us. It’s time to listen up!
I agree Vanessa, like Matilda I feigned deafness for many years, all the while my body was screaming loudly at me. In the end I could no longer ignore my body and even after years of abuse my body was and still is patient and continues to communicate……so yes, it is definitely time to listen up!
Yes Matilda. Yes Vanessa. Yes Rosemary. But if we listen to our body, then we have to take responsibility. And that is the step that most aren’t prepared to take. We look after our cars, computers, fancy clothes and houses all way, way better than we look after our own bodies. And all of these are easily replaceable – the ultimate comfort blanket of irresponsibility – if it breaks, replace it. Easy. Not so with our bodies. Which is so perfect, because if we don’t listen, then…consequences.
And….this irresponsibility is the perfect playground for the insurance industry. Every single thing we buy now comes with the option of an insurance package – which is, in essence, just buying irresponsibility.
Very well written Dianne. We are, after all, much more than just a brain on a stick.
I read the blog title out loud to my son and he said ‘If you have hiccups you need to stop and breath really gently’. Then I read the blog out to him and we laughed together as this is in line with what Diane was saying too! How much power do we hold in our hands and hearts when we listen to the body? And how many of us use that power wisely?
It is so beautiful as you and your son have identified, we have such a powerful knowing if we connect to our hearts and listen to our bodies.
Spot on Jenny, the power that lies within is indeed one that blows the mind away!
Awesome blog Diane! And what you have shared is so true about tuning into the body and listening to what is needed. I feel the hardest part is actually not tuning into the body and hearing what it says, rather it is the respecting of what the body is saying and actually carrying that out. Sometimes it can feel like there is another will at play that wants to override what we know that the body actually needs. Like going to sleep when we are tired or over eating etc. Such simple things that we know to stop and go to bed or stop and not eat anymore but the little voice that says ‘oh don’t worry it will be fine just this once’ – but it is not fine as it always has a consequence that we then have to live with. And over time, the repeated choices to override the body’s messages lead to the bigger ills we get.
Dianne once again you have so beautifully and clearly explained the science of the body and how very simple it is when we are prepared to listen. Yes Universal Medicine has been presenting this for over 15 years and this has supported me to actually go there and really listen to my body. This doesn’t mean I wasn’t to some degree listening to my body prior to this relationship that I have built over the years with my body. What I have discovered since attending Universal Medicine is that I can listen and be aware of my body much deeper than before. I also honour and act on what the body is telling me now.
There’s nothing as real and natural as the intimate communication we may have with our bodies if we listen to them.
Too true.
And isn’t interesting how we feign to be deaf to the communication, that we often dismiss, override, ignore, blame the body rather than tune in and listen, I think often we simply do not want to hear the message, as it will require change, and that is something many of us are not so keen on.
Vanessa, there is actually a science to avoiding awareness.
Yes Amparo, our bodies are ever willing to communicate the answers that are already within us, all we need do is listen.
Thank you Diane, for confirming something I have long known to be true – that our bodies speak loudly and are our most wisest trusted friends.
The truth is there in simple, black and white, nothing complicated….”Anyone who arcs up and says this is non-scientific garbage ought to remind themselves that their bodies are made of cells, and all cells in the body (including the brain) communicate with each other in both close proximity and at a distance, using chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic signals.” This is what occurs within our bodies and it is something that is often denying, ignored and over complicated. The truth is if we want to connect with our little toe, our heart, ovaries etc we can, by being open and ready to feel what there is to feel.
I agree Samantha, and as a human race we have chosen to ignore the fact that the innate and wonderful consciousness of our bodies is a whole incredibly sensitive and communicating system. We have stopped feeling and listening, and allowed ourselves to harden in protection for fear of being hurt. Diane always makes it possible for us to reconnect with the amazing systems of our bodies in a very accessible way.
I love the authority that you speak with Dianne especially about the cells communicating to each other, and how you use everyday language, which makes what you share accessible to all, including children.
I agree Annie, I love Dianne’s way of communicating science so simply and playfully as she has done so here with the tale of her hiccups.
I agree her everyday language has made science totally accessible for me. The love she has for her subject and her joy in sharing it is infectious.
Yes, and what first appears to be just a very scientific and somehow abstract information becomes very relevant and practically available for everyone, everywhere, at any time – science for and from people.
Wow, it goes to show that when we really want clear answers our body can deliver it.
Absolutely Annie…..”ask and ye shall receive.”
Your blog highlights just how little attention we give our bodies and how arrogantly we expect it to do whatever we ask of it. Our brain will not independently offer advice, this is why developing self care and being responsible with our actions gradually brings everything into alignment.
It’s true Matthew. It makes me think of a relationship with a child. If you haven’t got a loving relationship with a child you can’t then just walk up to the child and jump straight in to a connected and truthful conversation. Most children want (absolutely rightly so) to trust and feel you first before they open up. It is a relationship that needs commitment, nurturing, equality, openness and humility. All of which feels similar to my relationship with my body. For lifetimes I have imposed upon it, been its boss, ordered it around, ignored it and only ever stopped to listen when it has shouted very loudly at me. It is only recently that I have begun to spend the time with it, connect to it, listen to it, respect it, hang out with it, play with it, walk with it, appreciate it and marvel at its brilliance, that I am now beginning to build an equal and open relationship with it. Exactly as with a child.
This is very true ottobathurst, I would say that the friendship i am building with my body is a powerful benchmark for all my relationships for the qualities that unravel as I consistently choose self love, are all equally the aspects that make true friendships.
Like this. It feels like a very practical interpretation of that fact that you can not love another until you love yourself.
Dianne I love how you share your experience and relate it to science, it makes so much sense and so simple to understand science when we relate it to life, our body is extremely fascinating. It would have been awesome if I had you as my teacher at school, I would definitely would have taken biology up, I did to chemistry and physics, but I love the body now and having returned to it via studying anatomy and physiology it’s been awesome to understand the body.
I remember running experiments with my body when I was younger… in particular when I had trouble sleeping at a particularly turbulent and unhappy time at school. I had no experience of meditation or anything like that, but found that by relaxing my eyes, and in particular my eyelids, that this would put me in a very deep place of relaxation, and sleep came soon after. Effectively by connecting to and concentrating on a part of my body, my mind stopped racing. It seems insane to NOT think that we have a very intimate and natural relationship with our bodies, if we but allow ourselves to feel.
Your exploration and discovery about your eyes and eyelids is gorgeous to read Simon. Most of us were open to experimenting and learning from what our bodies and life reflected when young. How tragic that at some stage we became so arrogant with all the knowledge we proudly gathered that we closed off to the possibility of anything more or different. This is exactly how man vehemently defended such ideas as a flat Earth for so long.
I really like how you are able to use science to support what you say Dianne, that it does make sense that our bodies talk to us.
Dianne, the way you listen to your body and feel what is needed makes total sense. I know this is true and possible for us all but what you are reflecting is truly about the science of the soul and body and is very inspirational.
I agree Anne, Dianne’s listening to her body here is super inspiring. Imagine if we all stopped whenever our bodies had an ailment and asked them this same question – whoa.
I agree Anna, Diane’s enquiring mind and way with her body is truly inspiring.
Whilst I totally agree with your comment Anna, it is in fact utterly insane that what you write is a “whoa”. I don’t disagree – it definitely is a “whoa”. But if you think about it – then it is totally nuts. If your car breaks down, you (or a mechanic) examine it and see what the problem is and what caused it. If a system at work isn’t operating how it should, you examine it, work out what was wrong and approach it a different way. Everywhere we walk in life we are looking at problems, relationships, situations, analysing them, fixing them and adapting. It’s common practice in all kinds of avenues. So why any different with our bodies? Utterly insane. Especially when, unlike most other things, it is irreplaceable and our only one. It puts in to perspective the level of irresponsibility that we are saying yes to, doesn’t it?
I’m with you Otto on this. The whoa was to imagine the state of the world, of humanity, if we approached our bodies in this way – things would be very different.
Having been plagued by hiccups also, I felt that all the ‘remedies’ out there were simply distractions from feeling what the hiccups were actually communicating. It’s almost like ‘look as silly as you can to take your mind off them until they are gone!’.
Dianne, I love your true and reflective inquiry into the body that actually listens and understands that the body is communicating even before your career is very inspiring. I look forward to communicating with my body more.
Practical and fun, your article shows the wisdom our bodies carry, if we just ask and listen. Thank you Dianne.
On a biological level, we are so interconnected and intertwined, there is nothing that is separate and does not have an effect on another part. What struck me Dianne is that the message you heard from your body was so clear and it worked to arrest the hiccups. The relationship with ourselves and our body is vastly underestimated.
Beautiful, Beautiful! Dianne Trussell. What I so like is that you do not let yourself be ‘set off’ by all those comments from society that things are not proven like they want them to be, etc.etc. It is so simply that it more exposes the fact that researchers or anyone that is not satisfied by living proof, can be so heady (used to being in their minds) that they can only relate to it in a scientific way on paper. To me this is not true science, but mental recall. It is beautiful to feel that science comes from all of our bodies and that it is time to stop our mind’s arrogance of being the recipient of all information – as this is the body’s #1 job! Time to call it out as it is, as you so beautifully have done Dianne.
Very interesting on how you managed to cure your hicups, and the underlying message of how beneficial it can be to just feel into what the body needs.
Dianne what you are sharing here is gold as if we all would allow ourselves to listen and to speak to our bodies – we would have a real chance and possibility to minimize the costs for our health-system very easily.
Dianne, you are changing the face of science. I love your playfullness in your expression and how you approach science with the innocence of a child. It is a delight to enter your classroom.
Absolutely Dianne is one amazing science teacher, and how she is able to share through her expression and playfulness is so beautiful. Really loving her sharing through the blogs, it is a classroom via the web.
‘It is a delight to enter your classroom’ – what a super-sweet tribute to Dianne’s way of sharing her expertise – I agree completely!
That is the kind of science class I would immediately sign up for as it is about and with and for life, simple and practical, not that kind of scientific education that is out of touch with everyday life.
Yes thank you Dianne, your expression and playfulness is an absolute delight, I also am really loving your insight-full and inspiring blogs and being part of your classroom.
Brilliant as always Dianne and you are so right – why is it seen as so absurd to listen to our bodies. The movie Star Wars comes to mind – over 4 generations in love with the theme, The force is with you, all you have to do is connect within and listen. Why can we accept it on the big screen and all agree, but make a big deal of it off the screen. Perhaps it has more to do with responsibility than it does with believability. Truth is how many of us truly want to listen to our bodies, if we did, would we eat, drink, move the way we do? And that is just for starters – our body even tells us what relationships, jobs, cars, holidays and etc are true for us… the body has a lot to say and it is our greatest marker if we so choose.
Great comment Laura. The success of all these films that show the supernatural, the magic and our relationship to them is very revealing. Of course its much easier to look at it for a couple of hours on a big screen rather than in our lives. We have invested so much of ourselves into our own little drama, and it can be very upsetting when we truly look at where the choices we are making have got us to. However, our body is not going to let us forget it, if we just take the time to listen….
Science is forever catching up to what our bodies already know. True science is being able to read what is being communicated through these wondrous vehicles of expression – our bodies. Dianne Trussell, you are a true scientist for you have never stopped listening to the voice of God inherent in every living cell and as such, you are able to reflect the gorgeous simplicity on offer when we choose to connect with the Light of the Soul. Thankyou for yet another blog full of playfulness, wonder and wisdom.
True Liane – science certainly is catching up. Yet as you say our bodies are masters of communication and evolution and so much can be learnt from them. I just love this blog and how there is so much wisdom we naturally are simply by being our true selves.
Well said Liane. Listening to our bodies is a true science. All the knowledge in the world isn’t worth a penny if it cannot be applied to real life, and our relationship with our body – is the qualified ‘Doctor’ or ‘Physicist’ a true scientist if they go home and overeat, disregard their body and ignore what needs to be done to look after it?
This is awesome Liane, to allow ourselves the space to listen to every communication of our bodies, the voice of God is super natural and yet we have made it so difficult and in some cases untouchable to connect to ourselves in this way. The beauty of who we are and how we are made is that at any point we can stop and listen its a choice to connect to ourselves on this level. Our cells never stop communicating period.
Liane I just love how you have described Diane, as a ” true scientist for you have never stopped listening to the voice of God inherent in every living cell…”. In reading your words I could see so clearly that this is why Diane is able to make science come alive and make sense for those of us, me included, who struggled to understand the static and rigid presentations from our school days; presentations that appeared to have put us off science forever – but along came Diane, and for me, all that changed from the first time she stood on stage and began to share the wonder that she knows science to be.
Yes, ‘Science is forever catching up to what our bodies already know’. Our bodies hold true intelligence.
Brilliant Dianne. Proof that the answers always lie within. Our bodies always talk but do we listen?
Liane I agree Dianne’s story is really a wonderful proof that the answers are lying within our bodies and to answer your question from my body (hahaha) – we are not used to listen to our bodies anymore. Most of us gave up to celebrate this wonderful ability and therefore I love it very much that Dianne – a true scientist for me – shared this so that we get a lovely reminder of what we are capable of to do.
Liane, that’s it we do not always listen we get caught in the world of illusion and we are not still enough to listen to what our body is saying. Instead we let our minds take over go into panics looking for the answer outside of us, when all along the answer is within.
‘Proof that the answers always lie within.’
Simple and true, Liane Mandalis you are also a true scientist, of the body and the universe – one in the same really. What a relief that we no longer need to be tricked into searching for answers outside of ourselves and that we have allowed the inherent understanding that all we need is already within.
No we don’t always listen, Liane. Definitely not. And further proof of the glory of God is that, despite this, our bodies never stop communicating with us. Divine patience.
Sometimes it seems that we ignore the little messages from our bodies because we do not deal with the irresponsibility of the choices we have been making.
These stories are always fascinating to me, and I have experienced them myself. There is a never-ending wealth of communication coming from our body, that is there for us to be guided by in how to take care of ourselves. It is not hard, but requires that we not think that we know better than our body.
That communication is something that I need to cherish more than I have been lately. It is very powerful – ceaseless, true and comes from love.
I have found that it is a conversation of continually refining what I am being told by my body, and like you, sometimes I realise that I have not been listening very well. But when I accept that what we are talking about, my body and I, is about how to bring more love into my life and the lives of those around me, it gets a whole lot easier and a whole lot more joyful.
I love the poignant and lighthearted response to ‘skeptics’ who slam the possibility that people can tune into a particular part of their body and ascertain what is going on and what is needed. In fact considering what this article covers I wonder how on earth did we end up giving more credence to someone cutting up a dead body, examining it and coming up with theories of how our bodies should be working to someone feeling what is going on in their own body and sensing what is the most harmonious way forward for themselves! If we are in the business of supporting humanity’s Health, how about as well as training professionals, we also formally educate people to deepen their connection with themselves and their body and fine-tune their sense of what is required and what it might mean in terms of how they are living. The increased health and well-being of thousands of people who have been supported by Universal Medicine to deepen their connection is evidence that this is in fact the way forward.
Great point made here Golnaz, it does feel ‘lighthearted’ and absolutely why is more research not carried out on people who are alive and can feel what is happening in their body. There is a wealth of information there waiting to be shared and developed concerning the changes that can occur in peoples body through choice and deepening awareness and feeling what there is to feel.
It just dawned to me how wonderful a book for children would be teaching them how to communicate with their body. I feel to do something with this someday.
Oh I would love to read this book. Dianne the blog is such an eye opener that we can all communicate with our body and hear loud and clear what it needs to tell us.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
When can we pre-order copies?! A book that inspired children to maintain and build their innate connection with their bodies would be a glorious anti-dote to the cold, disconnected and functional way in which these subjects are taught at school. A grand idea.
There is something truly wondrous in reading an article that brings to life what is happening in our bodies on a cellular level, to bring an understanding to the parts that make up our whole and give order to our lives, to read of the organs and the communication that is always flowing. Science at school was boring to me, something that Dianne Trussell could never be accused of. Perhaps this is because she has grasped the connection between science and reality, our real daily lives, our philosophy and our religion and is really able to explain how science is part of the whole.
Yes Stephen, what I am more and more realising that ALL true communication actually comes from our bodies. And that the way we are with ourselves determines the quality of being and in doing so it effects our communication with the ‘outside world’. So basically by evolving we’re actually constantly choosing to restore the true flow of communication through us. Of course, this entails organs, but also arms, legs, heads, heart, lungs, feet, hands, etc. Communication is in all of our bodies. And we do listen a lot… For example when our body’s communicating to have food, that it’s tired, that it needs food, that it needs to express something, etc. There’s magic inside:-).
Floris you’ve explained this so clearly. The way we are with ourselves cannot but be communicated all the time to others and the universe. How we are with ourselves resonates in our every cell and our every movement, we cannot escape this only try to pretend otherwise. It’s a beautiful responsibility that’s always there asking us to be in harmony with others and the world in every moment.
Yes Karin, I love that you write “the way we ARE with ourselves cannot but be communicated all the time to others and the universe”. It is in the word ARE that lies the Wisdom for me. Because we can disconnect from ourselves as much as we can, but our bodies will never ever tell a lie. It is just communicating constantly how we HAVE BEEN and ARE with ourselves. The responsibility that – naturally – comes with this is in fact a lovely responsibility. Because it is offering us the possibility to BE with us in every moment of the day. There’s not a single ounce of DOING in this. It is us people that try to convert, bastardise and / or manipulate BEING into doing. Which – of course – doesn’t work. So why not stop the trying? And let go of that what can be ignored but never be changed.
Yes Dianne is taking us deeper. lt is time to listen more attentively. There’s more to feel. She is evolving us to that deeper level through these simple yet profound conversations.
Yes, Dianne is taking us deeper. She’s inviting us to start to listen more and more to ourselves to find that our answers live within us. Dianne is an amazing ‘subject’ of science, whose stories and experiences support me to understand myself and others as living science as well. Thank you Irena. Well said. Spot on.
yes – there is magic within us all.
The Magic within us all is superb. And is continuously deepening and deepening. The stillness and beauty that is within us all is inspiring us all to evolve together more and more. This is truly magic. The polar opposite of fireworks. Magic.
I loved what you both shared here Floris and Karin. The body is constantly communicating and we cannot escape this. In our attempts we only hurt ourselves and everyone else by reflecting that ignoring the communications is successful when it is not. Rather than ignoring or arrogantly keeping this ‘it’s not true’ wall up it would be much healthier to accept the fact of the constant communication as a fact would it not?
Floris – I greatly appreciate the openness, humility and – most importantly – the lack of judgment in your expression. It is wonderful to read and feel. To hear a man being so gentle with himself and his evolution is a very powerful break of an age old consciousness for so many men (myself very often included). Thank you.
Hi Otto, thank you for your True appreciation. It is lovely to feel that from a man. This is also consciousness shifting. As men (including myself) we often choose to fight / compete with each other, rather than loving each other. As this blog so clearly reveals, this has everything to do with the fight within us. There’s been so many times that I’ve not been connected with myself, with feeling my Love, Tenderness, Sensitivity and innate Joy, that it cannot but be that at those moments I am actually fighting myself. How blessed I am with Men in my life (including myself :)) that reflect a different way of being. Because if I would not have had different reflections than the competing and hard ones – how on earth would I have ever found my way back to the True me? Thank you dear Otto, Serge Benhayon, Michael Benhayon and so so many other students of The Way of the Livingness.
Yes Leigh, life would be so much more easy when we actually choose to accept that life’s constantly communicating with us and we’re with life. Including people, nature, etc. Of course, if we keep reflecting our worthlessness to the world which ignores the very fact of the constant communication, we are adding this worthlessness to the world. Writing this makes me even more aware of the arrogance and ignorace that we choose rather than accepting and allowing life to guide us all along. Really, there’s in fact no other option… Yes, fight it – but that doesn’t help either, does it… It’s quite hilarious if you would make a comedy act or a drawing of this ‘game’ we’re playing with life – including ourselves and others.
Yes we have to listen to the intelligence our bodies continually communicate to ourselves, it is to our peril if we ignore these wise messages as Dianne shared.
I love what you share here Lorraine. We are to listen. Not because we have to… It’s not a doing. But because our lives are completely different if we would start admitting how much we value life and that we aren’t always living according to this value. We could and to me should call this abusing ourselves. Because we don’t and then become sick or ill, many of us tend to look back and blame incidents and/or persons outside of us. Rather then honestly start the conversation of what could have possibly led to this illness and/or disease. But how do we start a conversation on this fragile topic when so many along us have chosen to protect themselves (almost) completely towards the world. Nevertheless it is important to share our stories and be honest, even if people might not instantly take it in. From my own experience I can share that I remember the moments that Truth has been shared with me. Some Truth took me years to take on board, but Truth remains. It is a seed that grows. Even if we’re not consciously aware of the growth. This is the beauty about Truth.
I agree Stephen, Dianne lives the science. At the essence of science is an extraordinary capacity to view our bodies as an instrument that can align to energy. In asking her body about the hiccups, without any knowledge getting in the way, it offered the healing of it by knowing how to align with energy that heals. There may be ultimately an instrument that can read energy like this outside our bodies but in truth, our bodies already do.
I agree, Simon, Science has not yet come up with an instrument as refined as the instrument that is our body – it has the ability to measure infinitesimal changes in energy and to communicate instant instructions to its different parts so that minute changes in chemical balance can be effected that enable us to survive. It is an awesome piece of engineering/science/design and the more we can learn to read it, the better informed we will be and the more able to maintain a healthy, harmonious balance.
So true Carmel – there is no more accurate, amazing and multi-functioned measuring device than the human body. Thus, it would be wise to listen more acutely to what it is saying.
Indeed Simon the body is such a wonderous instrument that like everything in the universe can be studied as a science. But rather than the clinical science we have come to accept as the only science, perhaps if we study our relationship with our body and its systems as Dianne has done, we may achieve way more insight and harmony.
This is a great point Stephen although I found science one of the more interesting of my subjects I still knew it was missing something. If Dianne was my science teacher bridging the physical to the energy as she does I would have been a straight A student. And even if I wasn’t it would have been my most favorite class.
I literally hated science at school, I was normally quite a well behaved and compliant student but in science I was the naughty kid at the back who eventually the teachers gave up on as I was more interested in french braiding my friends hair than having anything to do with biology.
What a total miss, I LOVE science now and biology, but only when it is shared like it is by Dianne and a few others, the presentations of how truly magical our bodies are is a revelation and makes so much sense of what I felt to be true, but couldn’t understand why I was being taught something so dull at school! One day there will be a whole team of teachers around the world teaching biology and science as the magic and connection to the universe that it is.
Yes – I feel if Dianne Trussell had been my science teacher I would have had a very different relationship with it! Bridging the knowledge of it and relating it to life lived, for me makes it make total sense and makes it much more real – not something for the intellect but something for daily life and daily experience.
Enjoyed your comments Simon, Laura B and Michelle. The beautiful elder energy that can relate and share about the ‘science’ of life in the way that Dianne does – there is no trying to prove anything it is shared with gentle enthusiasm and from a lived experience that just oozes an inner knowing which continues to inspire another. I would have been at the front of the class with no fidgeting and wanting every last drop of the lesson to last. Not day dreaming looking out of the window and sitting at the back of the room – completely switched off and un-interested.
I agree Michelle and Marion, I am sure I would have been more interested in science had it been taught to me by Dianne or someone who has the same natural ability to put across the wonders of the body and all of it’s workings. I can relate to what she writes about, whereas in school I just didn’t see the point.
Absolutely Michelle, science is a living experience, one we can take part in, creating our own “scientific experiments” through our way of being, the choices we make and through listening to our bodies, this way science becomes a personal experience, which is very exciting and inclusive, far removed from the dry and uninteresting science classes I experienced at school.
Yes – exactly – science is not something that is reserved for academics in the laboratory, but something we all engage in on a day to day basis. My son, who is 7 years old, constantly shares with me his observations of the world, be it light refracting in water, or how he sees people behaving. He, at 7 years of age, won’t be writing a PhD on the subject anytime soon, but that does not diminish his astute powers of observation and knowing. He is so awed by the world and what he himself learns, I wish this inspiration was captured more in school.
I love what you share here about your son! The fact is we are all experts in science as our bodies are connected to nature and the universe (they respond to cycles in exactly the same way as everything else). If we connect to them in this way then we would realise how much we do know and your son is putting two and two together in the world around him and making observations showing the awareness of what he knows.
Totally agree Michelle. I would have aced Science… It shouldn’t be about rote learning which is the emphasis in schools. This is needed to some extent but it needs to be relatable to life and support us to better understand life and the divinity we are a part of and come from.
Learning becomes wholly confirming and empowering when we can draw from our lived experiences, the children in Dianne’s classroom are offered an opportunity to feel and explore true interconnectedness, to leave the class knowing the oneness from which we all come.
I agree Lucinda – whenever I am able to connect to what I am learning with what I live it is a truly joyful “aha” moment. These moments to me are priceless as I can feel my awareness expanding in what is already a known. I feel so much richer as a result because another piece of the bigger picture puzzle fell into place and I realise in that moment that I fit precisely into that puzzle too.
l agree Stephen, what Dianne does is so simple amd yet so profound. She is bringing us closer to our bodies. Retraining us to realise it is all science, of the highest order and that it belongs to us, that we have dominion here. That our body’s awesomeness is ours to claim. No excuses.
I agree Stephen G, it is ‘truly wondrous’ to share in an article that brings to life, ‘life’ on a cellular and energetic level. This is available to all of us and yet often we are told in society and school it is only for a few. The way that it is shared here is an invitation to get to know our bodies on a deeper level, and it is clear there are only self made barriers here to doing it. Science is for all and it is a joy and celebration of life to appreciate how we interact and respond on a cellar and energetic level.
That is it Samantha, it is an invitation, and everyone is invited to the party. It makes me realise the importance of creating even the smallest of tips that allows people to connect to the feelings they are getting from their body. Connecting to this is so simple and yet so massively profound.
I agree Samantha. Surely true science is the ultimate egalitarian subject, in that, through our bodies, we all have the greatest teachers on earth. There is stuff that my body can teach me that University Professors wouldn’t have the foggiest about.
I agree, Dianne is so not boring! She is a wonder and makes Science a wonder.
Yes- and something practical, relatable, simple and fun. Dianne has such a vast knowledge of science and the body, but speaks about it in a very down to earth way, rather than being arrogant.
True Stephen- Dianne brings science to life. She doesn’t separate it from life but always connects it to how it is relevant to our everyday lives.
Kristy, that’s what I love about Diane’s presentations: she makes science come alive but does not separate it from life. She simply makes it so relevant to every part of lives, from our hiccups to our intricate cellular system, and most importantly everything she shares makes sense.
So true Kristy, Dianne brings her own livingness to the science of hiccups, which seems to live on past the event. This seems in contrast with other science methods seen, when studies and results can become obsolete after the research is completed.
Yes I agree Stephen. Dianne really brings science to life which is what it should be – not just boring facts but something very relatable to our everyday living.
I find it quite arrogant to think the described communication wouldn’t be possible. Or that nature or stars communicating to us and visa versa wouldn’t be possible.
Felixschuhmacher8 I had to laugh as what you wrote is so true – arrogance is really something we can find so often and is not exposed as such.
An arrogance fuelled by massive irresponsibility – because we all actually know this as a truth. But, denying it allows us to continue our errant ways.
Well said Otto, our current claimed ignorance and lack of connection to our bodies, allows us to continue to disregard them and our health, and leave it to the capable hands of the doctors and medical experts when something goes wrong, only to return to our irresponsible and disregarding ways, this is the arrogant way we live as humans.
I enjoyed your use of the word ‘claimed’ in the phrase ‘claimed ignorance’. Super true and super exposing. That we have actually chosen, claimed and embraced the ignorance. As if that somehow gets us off the hook. But as the temporal law correctly states “ignorance of the law is not an excuse”.
I know I’ve always known our body knows exactly what’s happening (and therefore what’s needed), and so the best way to stay ignorant of harmony in my body was to avoid being still and feeling what it had to say. Serge Benhayon brought the Esoteric Yoga modality for us and it has redefined our relationship with our bodies, I’ve found it’s been the most powerful counter to this chosen disregard of my body – a very practical and easy in-road to a more attentive and aware relationship with myself. The support we afford ourselves when we are attentive is phenomenal.
I got the hiccups just the other day after reading your blog Dianne…I gave your technique a go and perfect, within moments I was clear!
This is such a great example, and I know from your other blogs Dianne that you continued this relationship with your body; you’ve been prepared to go with what it is communicating, even though to your normal behaviour or usual habits it seemed a bit unusual! But that’s the point – it’s our usual habits or patterns of behaviour that often brings the body to these points of disharmony….It’s brilliant you show us here that the body really does know what it needs to bring us back.
Dianne, yet again you have presented clear, simple, easy to understand truth that is light and enjoyable to read. Love it!
Dianne, in this blog you show how readily we can read the body and that “It is also possible to tune in to a particular part of the body to find out what’s going on there and what is needed.” It would be interesting to hear from you why your body produced hiccups in the first place. Were you eating too fast, not being aware of what you ate, were meals a stressful time with the family?
Dianne, here’s another of your light-hearted blogs with a full-bodied message. It’s amazing how we try all the things we are told first before we stop and ask the body, and how if we really listen to it, the answer is provided. Or if we don’t feel clear enough to do that we can have a session with an esoteric practitioner who can support us to reconnect to the body so that we can tune in more easily.
What I love about our body, and you’ve presented it in your sharing Dianne, is how simple the message comes from the body. It gives it to us simple and clear, with no fuss. As I was waking one morning and had started to trust the conversations I was having with my body, there was a very clear message as it said out of the blue, “drink more water”. I asked it why and it answered “because of your lymphatics”. That was all it answered and I understood the message completely as I had always remembered through my nursing training learning about the amazing Lymphatic system in our body that was predominantly water and the water carried information through the body and if I wasn’t drinking enough water then I wasn’t able to access the information my body had for me. Simple.
Always such a joy to come across your blogs… my body thanks you, as you confirm it has a part in my existence. It’s more than a vessel to keep my organs from spilling out but deeply interconnected cells that all have a purpose to support life, it makes sense that it is also part of the continuing communications that come from my body once we choose to ask and listen.
Awesome sharing Dianne. Like your body my body has been showing me things for years, I just ignored it because I felt I could get away with not taking any notice. I’m starting to respond to the smallest thing these days as it shows me there is a little pain or discomfort, maybe in the way I’m standing or sitting or closing a door too hard, speaking too loud and being harsh on my throat and vocal cords, all things I had never taken notice of. It is making the world of difference as always, behind these daily practices, there is a beautiful feeling in my body that is my natural essence waiting to confirm who I truly am and who I’ve always been. Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and now many others have shown me another way that, surprisingly, once I started to listen to my body again, I realised I knew all along.
Great comment Doug. I also loved how Dianne connected to her body and the answer came to her, she didn’t question it but simply trusted what she felt and followed it. I also loved how Dianne was explaining at the end how our body is in constant communication, I am appreciating how she made it so easy for us to understand and relate to it.
Wow Dianne, our body is truly amazing. Reading your blog confirms how easy it is to connect to our body. The possibility of connecting to our organs is something I have often wonder and your blog really shows that we can and denying this now sounds pretty crazy to me. What you did to get rid of your hiccups by asking your body what to do is absolutely amazing, I love reading every part of your blog. Thank you!
When we stop and give our body the space to speak, we can have the best and most truly intelligent conversations. Thank you for this reminder Dianne.
Dianne another beautifully written blog. There is nothing to be argued with here. It is black and white. Your body spoke to you, as it speaks to itself every second of every day, the only difference is that you took the time to listen. Beautiful.
Imagine everybody communicating with their bodies and taking loving care of themselves.
Thanks Dianne, that’s not only very helpful for next time I get hiccups, but a great example of the wisdom of listening to the body for the answers we seek. Serge Benhayon has been saying this from Day 1 l’ve known him… and as a result of listening to him and applying what he has shared, my life is completely different. Something 15 years of so-called personal growth and new-age modalities hadn’t managed. Such a simple remedy to our ills…
Yet another brilliant blog!!!
l have never, ever know a scientist and science to be so entertaining , accessible and engaging. And it just keeps getting more enthralling. l love reading your blogs Dianne. Makes me wonder why l bothered with buying all those Quantum science journals, what a waste. Any chance you are starting up a website with regular articles to read???
This is amazing Dianne. Very beautiful that such a very real and accessible science is being put into words. This ‘tuning into our bodies’ is a very beautiful science that is available for us all.
So true Dianne. Our body is constantly able to communicate to us, and this can be the basis of our own medicine. When we can connect to our body, and listen to what it is truly telling us, we can then make decisions that honour and support ourselves, deeply so.
A great blog Dianne, as always you so beautifully connect life and science together and make it a life science. It is so simple, just ask the body, it knows all.
Thank you Dianne, I love what you have shared about the innate wisdom of the body talking to us and the scientific explanation of this. Absolutely makes sense.
When things work, you have to distort them to criticise them. That is very common.
We tend to think that we can only have a dialogue with someone else and that our own body can’t never be party to one. In truth this is not the case. Call it a dialogue or call it something different, it does not matter. What it matters is that our body can teach us the way and that we can not just learn quite a bit about us interacting to it, but also that we can also change how we hold ourselves as well by being playful with the body.
That’s a great point Eduardo, how often do we really allow ourselves to enjoy our body in a playful way. We all know that we learn best when there is a lightness and playfulness – I’m going to play with this Eduardo!
Beautifully put Eduardo. We also don’t appreciate what incredible teachers our bodies can be too – in the same way we think we can only have a dialogue with someone else we also doubt the fact we can receive incredible lessons with our own bodies, not just ‘teachers’ (by profession) or other people.
I did a technique called “talking to the body” about 20 years ago and despite its doubtful origin, it actually worked because one part of it was simply listening to the body and I remember getting a very clear, simple and useful message.
Great point made here about believing that we can only have a dialogue with someone else. If we are open to it we live in constant communication with our body and the ongoing dialogue is the quality we can choose to live in. Living with our body and not at the expense of it.
Thank you Dianne
I love your practical blog and how your example empowers me to listen to and trust my own body more deeply without the need to search outside for answers that (like the many so-called remedies for hiccups!) may simply add further strain and frustration to the body.
Fortunately I rarely get hiccups…, usually it is when I have rushed eating and my body then speaks to me quite literally in complaint for how I have just shoved food into it with no real care or presence. Funny, because that happened when I went back for some seconds after dinner this evening, I hiccuped, and have now come across your blog! Timely!
I love too how this message of stopping and asking our body can apply to everything. Wow, like as I write, asking my body how it would like to hold my iPhone and tap the letters out – very different and less driven and controlled and allowing my body to be gentle and surrendered.
from reading and commenting on your blog I am committed to allow myself to openly communicate with my body in everything I do and wherever I may be.
My body thanks you!
Awesome Dianne, I love that you actually felt into what your body needed rather than just kept going with all the different methods people were telling you to do, like holding your breath or fasting. I wonder what would happen if we all considered our body when facing something like hiccups or a headache – could the antidote to these things have been stored in our bodies all along?
Thank you for proving for yourself and others that when we ask our body parts what they need, we can get an answer if we tune into our body. It speaks very loud if we are willing to stop and listen, as you have shown by finally solving your chronic hiccup problem.
This is a great point Doug as it is true, any form of investment and or trying would possibly get in the way of what the body is communicating.
Talking and listening to our body makes so much sense, especially when you just take a moment and think about the fact that our body is with us all of the time. We can run away from situations or people, but there is no escape from our body. Why not then have a relationship with it, connect to it and listen to what it says?
Absolutely Mariette, and it is actually not responsible to not be listening to our bodies and their messages of truth for us.
Love how you flatten any criticism or scoffing of the connection we are able to make with different parts of our body, by your scientific explanations of what is happening at a cellular level. You provide a bridge of wisdom that explains that gap in which so many sceptics hover and hope to survive but which has in fact become a hollow place, devoid of proof and full of fear.
I agree Cathy that Dianne is showing how “it’s perfectly reasonable that, if one so chooses, one can ‘tune in’ to one’s body and access the messages that are flying hither and yon like information packets on the internet.”
Love it Dianne, how you have simply demonstrated that listening to our bodies is natural and more commonly done than we think. We all are already responding to our body’s messages. Some of these message are more obvious than others but all the same still messages, such as putting a jumper on when we feel cold or drinking when we are feeling thirsty. But what as you have highlighted, what if we paid more attention to and tuned into the more subtle messages that we are also always receiving? It seems only natural to do so and to honor what is being presented as the purpose of our body is to guide us to live in a harmonious equilibrium with the world we move in and are part of.
Yes, Carola, if we all decided to listen to the simple messages from our bodies for a month, I feel the world would be a different place. It would be interesting to see what that kind of intelligence would look like en masse.
It would be very interesting Janet.
Now that would be worth experimenting with… It would bring awareness to the internal dialogue our body is constantly communicating, that we pay little attention to, instead choosing to go with the overriding messages from our brain in isolation ( the source of intelligence supposedly) tells us it’s ok to keep drinking when we in our bodies know we have had enough. Really ask your body – it is the marker of truth!
Dianne, I love how you bring both science and the Ageless Wisdom to life. The Ageless Wisdom presents that the body is the marker of all truth and the scientist in you just knew there had to be a way to cure your hiccups. Combining the both brought truth and gave you a great result.
Our body has a clear voice if we are open to listen to it, and what it shares is the Ageless Wisdom as our bodies arde directly connected with it. This is the science of life that Dianne so playfully shares with us.
Elizabeth this shows to me how western medicine and Universal Medicine complement each other to support a true healing and true understanding of what is going on. If it’s possible with hiccups then it’s possible with other conditions as well. I look forward to the medical community embracing this approach.
Yes I believe it must be possible with other conditions as well. It has certainly inspired me to approach any physical problem in this way in the future.
Great point David, if what Dianne has shared about hiccups works, then the same principle surely could be applied to other conditions as well. So long as we consistently talk to our bodies and listen to what they are telling us, they will respond positively and the changes we will see in them are potentially enormous. This is already happening amongst the world-wide esoteric community who are living in connection to their bodies – you only have to look into the eyes of another student to see the difference.
For years and years I suffered with terrible heart burn which without medication used to stop me from sleeping. All it was, was my body telling me it didn’t like gluten,dairy and alcohol and now hot chips. I didn’t even put two and two together, although I probably did but just used to ignore the extreme tell tale signs. That was until Universal Medicine taught me the importance of listening to what the body has to say.
That is such a common experience Kevin, been there, seen the film and got the T-shirt. How often do we wilfully choose to ignore the messages our bodies clearly send us because we like indulging in particular foods, substances and beverages. Chocolate gave me shocking headaches, milk products made me snotty, gluten made my stomach ache, coffee made my heart race and alcohol would give me the worst hang overs imaginable and yet, I still persisted in consuming them.
Meeting Universal Medicine was an enormous and life changing revelation, it provided some pretty simple tools that enabled me to gain a bit of distance between me and all my self indulgent habits and to feel that I am supremely worth looking after. Gently I began to put two and two together and have not looked back since, no more headaches tablets, no more intolerable pain and hours spent “talking to God on the big white telephone”. These days I lovingly respond to the messages my body sends me, it is so sensitive and responsive and I shudder in horror at the way I used to treat it.
Oh, Rowena, you have made my day! I have never heard this expression before – ““talking to God on the big white telephone” – but will certainly be using it again (hopefully as a figure of speech rather than describing my own reality!)
Thank you for the laugh and for the awesome truth you landed with it, with which my own body certainly resonated!
Despite our so-called “intelligence” we can do some pretty dumb things over and over again, in will-full ignorance of what our bodies are telling us.
Awesomely funny to read Rowena, mainly because it is so true of my own past experience. I also cannot believe I used to treat myself in such a way or that I considered it normal and unavoidable. I will never return to that as my body, now that it is clear of those impediments, and I, converse regularly and intimately. It is a beautiful relationship well worth cultivating.
Wow, Rowena – you have certainly pushed some buttons with your honesty and sense of humour. When we do begin to put two and two together? It seems to be so blindingly obvious that we wonder how come we spent so long fooling ourselves!
I’ve never before considered that the hiccups have an energetic reason behind them, but it stands to reason that they do. Every action we make has a consequence and the hiccups are just another example of this. It is great to read a well explained scientific account of this process.
“non scientific garbage” = “I don’t have that experience and I deny you had that experience”
You are so very fluent at speaking the language of the body Dianne, a language that should be taught to us all everywhere from an early age. I can only really profess to know a bit of the holiday lingo, pretty basic stuff but with practice and experience maybe I will just know why the toe next to my big toe throbs quite painfully sometimes. Any ideas?
So cool…. how our body is always communicating with us, if we listen…..it has all the answers.
That’s right Jody. We have been taught to listen to advice from other people but almost unheard of to listen to our body. It’s interesting, like you shared when we do connect to our body we certainly do have the answers but this is not what is being recognised.
How beautiful that you thought to ask your body directly, and why not? And how even more beautiful that it gave you the answer. This is reminding me to ask my body more and to go with it’s advice.
This story reminds me of when I was in Egypt and the temperature was super hot and my body was over heating, I paused and listened to my body which was telling me to focus on my breathing (making my breath gentle) and so as I did my body cooled down and I felt normal again. This was also well before I came in contact with Universal Medicine so I agree Dianne these detractors are criticising Universal Medicine but how can they with so many miracles such as your story.
True Aminatumi. Children naturally listen to their bodies and let us know how they are feeling, so why does it suddenly become a problem when Universal Medicine asks us to listen to our body? It is the most natural thing to do, but we tend to do it when all else fails.
Great point. We only tend to start listening to our bodies when all else fails. Our society teaches children to toughen up asap when in fact it is the worst thing they could possibly do.
Yes, alisonmoir, children respond instantly and often we as parents could be partly responsible for them losing that ability to read the body so readily if we try to shut them down or ignore them. If we listen to them and acknowledge that they are accessing the wisdom of their bodies, this encourages them to stay connected even once they start to get distracted by the entertainments of the world. Universal Medicine is just reminding us of a natural ability that we all have.
And sometimes they still do not listen, even when all else fails, which gives us an indication on how far away our thinking and way of living has become.
Hi Amina,
This is how I feel in saunas. My body also showed me how to breathe gently in these moments too.
This is brilliant Dianne, and what an inspiration. When I had hiccups as a child I would drink 7 drops of water which always seem to take it away so your breathing technique is now also one to try should I have them again.
I love this Dianne!! An awesome example of the wisdom we can connect to when we simply ask our bodies and ourselves a question that comes from a solid intent to know, not from reaction or despair. I too had experiences as a child when I was able to access this too, way before Universal Medicine came along. I love also how you communicate to the lay person scientifically how this all works too as it supports in cutting through the cynicism.
That’s a great point Michelle – about connecting with a solid intent to know what’s going on, the whole of it rather than from just trying to get relief.
I know when I have asked from reaction I haven’t got very far! However when I get myself still and simply feel – what I need to know comes to me including how and where I have been irresponsible. In being open to look at this without judgment it is quite an easy process.
I love the whole you express from too Michelle, and for noting how you also had experiences well before Universal Medicine that, lived and felt from your body presented undeniable truth and clarity.
It is my experience also that my body communicates so well what it truly needs – from my early teens I would always feel ill after eating rich, sugary and/or milky creamy foods, and I always sensed coffee was not supportive for me…and the one time I did have it my nervous system went into overdrive, I couldn’t sleep that night and my body was shaking…! When Universal Medicine presented how these foods and drink affect the body (noting that it was always a presentation of the impacts to the body and never about rules to have these products or not), I found it refreshing for it did not impose or override what my body had already felt. This has allowed me to gently and slowly build trust in myself again.
Yes my body communicated clearly on many things which I did not override, like going to bed early – if I ever went to bed past 10.00 pm I would feel awful the next day – if I went to bed at 9 I always felt rested, likewise with coffee as I experienced the same things as you Susan. What is interesting though is that I didn’t always listen to my body.. I ate copious amounts of sugar as I was addicted to it and I smoked until I was in my early 30s. When I understood that I used these substances to fill my emptiness I understood why I was overriding my body’s signals and I was more open to listening to them.
Hiccups is just one example of the messages we overlook which are given to us by our bodies, and it is not until the messages get so loud that we sit up and pay attention and then want the messages gone at all costs. This blog has me wanting to investigate other messages my body may be giving me which I am ignoring, no matter how subtle.
I love this. Just imagine if we asked our bodies every morning ‘How are you?’ in the same way we ask people when we meet them. Then the next bit…we actually listened to what was shared!
Yes Matilda, listening seems to be the pertinent part of this conundrum – and learning to truly listen is for me the challenge at times, for having over ridden my body for so long I can feel a reticence to finally letting go and letting everything unfold to it’s natural conclusion, as the spirit still holds on to the power that is slowly slipping away from it’s grasp.
It is interesting to consider that in general there is the belief that as a race of human beings we have evolved to great heights – mainly because of all the cool stuff we have created. However, how can we genuinely be an advanced species if listening to our own bodies and having the will to honour what we feel from our body’s communications with us, is not the norm?
What is normal is checking out on tv, dulling ourselves on foods, accepting abusive relationships with eachother, self-abuse, lying, feeling lost and disconnected to the divine, seeking outside of ourselves for the answers. None of which makes any sense when seen in the light of the fact that our bodies are communicating to and with us all of the time. So how evolved exactly are we?
Good point Shami, we are disconnecting from ourselves and getting distracted by all the fancy technology and expertise. Only by reconnecting to the body will we restore balance and harmony and be able to truly connect with each other. If science can get this it will stop the ‘progress’ towards making “evidenced-based” research the only evidence worthy of note, for this trend is taking us further away from recognising the wisdom of the body. Dianne is doing a great job presenting powerful anecdotal evidence which has weight due to her strong scientific background.
I love what you share in your awesome blog Dianne – I love it because you are a scientist and your are writing in such a way I would not think a scientist would write. That is very healing for me as I was a person who always thought that scientist would only talk and write in their own not really understandable language. I find them out of space so to speak and not really interested in the real world – Thank you so much for breaking the rules (I always thought that they have this unspoken rules) and being such a wonderful normal und understandable scientist.
I agree with you there Esterltmiks, Dianne does have a way with making science fun, interesting and easy to understand. For years I went under the mis-guided belief that I just didn’t understand science, so what is the point in paying attention (probably from my school days), but I know now that that isn’t the case at all. We all know science as we are a living science, and an amazing one at that.
This is precisely the point, Dianne is able to write in this way, because of the conversations she has with her own body. Nothing of what she presents escapes from how everything is related to life, hence to the body.
I had the same experience Julie and looking back I can see why I did not pay attention to schools or the knowledge that they were delivering. My body was desperately waiting for true science, where it is brought back to the body and our connection with the universe.
In believing we know nothing about science, medicine etc. we are giving our power away to an intellectual approach instead of feeling into subjects and tuning into what we innately know.
I love what you have shared in your beautiful comment Julie and I agree that we are all are a living science and that it is time also for me to leave such mis-guided belief that I do not understand science behind me.
Absolutely Dianne, listening to our body is a very, normal practical and wise thing to do, how else are we to understand how we feel and what is going.
‘So there you go, years before I’d ever heard of Universal Medicine, and me being a skeptical, practical young scientist-in-the-making, I had a conversation with my body that solved a long-running and very annoying health problem.’
Dianne what you’ve written here makes complete sense. There is a conversation i’ve never sat down with my body and asked, a few actually. It’s like living in the same house but never speaking to one another – crazy!
I remember a few years ago, having literally a conversation with my body that was quite revealing. Using a contemplation technique as taught by Serge Benhayon, I asked several questions and felt into the possible answers while I was deeply connected to my body. The difference of what was happening inside me when I connected to one answer or the other was just remarkable. There is no human being in this world that has the authority to deny that mine were indeed conversations with my body and how important these were for me. Who has told us that conversations like this are less enlighting, revealing and scientific than any other?
Hear hear Eduardo, there is no greater authority than our own when it comes to our bodies. The trick is to take the moments to listen, they are worth it.
So true Eduardo, I too have found that the more I come back to asking a question and then feeling how my body feels in response to the question, the more I know the what the answer is, because I felt it. It’s not something that happens in my head, the answer comes from the whole of my body, all my organs, skin, bones, hair and the bits in between all have something to tell me. Learning to tune into my body to feel answers is a growing art and one important part of it is realising that in order to feel the answer, my body has to feel very calm and still inside. The more I have cut out all the stimulating and stodgy foods, the clearer my ability to connect to and feel what my body has to say.
I agree Eduardo, there are indeed teachings in this world that either explicitly or implicitly educate us that listening to our body is not needed. It is indeed interesting that this has been the case, as our bodies are a great and constant source of wisdom, and the show the path to our true wellbeing.
The way the world of ours is configured is that listening to our body has to say has no value. It cannot have because of the previous belief that the body cannot tell us anything. So, our only chance is to look outwards and listening to what others have to say, overriding our body and what was felt and realised in the way.
Our relationship with our body should be our primary relationship! As Jeanette says we need to take the time to cultivate it and learn the language our body speaks. More than precious and in the end if illness comes, the outside world can only offer options and their experience of the condition and the final call is ours. And we are the only ones really who know what is the right way for us.
As of late, for me the key is the relationship with how my body moves in relation to the rhythm of the universe. Is it a harmonic part of the whole or not? In relation to movement, what I realised is that for each of us, the ‘true movement’ has to do with the quality of God we hold as our primary.
As always Dianne Trussell you bring science to life and make it real, practical and most of all evolving.
Dianne, I love the way you link your practical and personal experiences back to science in away that is completely accessible for all.
Yes me too Fiona. It goes to show that science is a huge part of our lives and the way that it is taught in school does not serve the entirety of our being.
I agree Jinya. Children would feel a lot more understood if things like this would be taught in school and openly discussed.
And me, too. True science is what happens in life and not just in the laboratory or in outer space and Dianne shows us every single one of us is a living science experiment and a scientist in our own right.
Ditto – it sets us all free from feeling like we need a degree to understand science, whereas it’s all there in the body waiting for us, if we just learn to listen.
I agree Fiona, in the past I would not have been interested in what I thought “science” was, but through Diane’s brilliant blogs so simply sharing her personal experiences, I now see “science” as the magic and magnificence of bodies, and the wonder of every day life.
That’s awesome Dianne, it just goes to show what is being taught by Serge Benhayon is a universal truth known by all.
This highlights how we ignore our bodies, fight against them, treat them, when everything we need to know comes from the awareness we have within our body.
Brilliant! For a couple of years now my body has been telling me when its had enough food. My nose runs. The food could be hot or cold, spicy or bland. It took a while, and several boxes of tissues, to understand the message, but i’m hearing it loud and clear. What a wonderful collection of cells we live in.
Ignoring our bodies, fighting against them, treating them as if it were not ours, are all consequences of denying what our bodies can teach us to avoid the physical consequences of ignoring our bodies, fighting against them, treating them as if it were not ours, if we are open to this fact.
Yes Jennifer, and what you say makes it so obvious that symptoms are just the body’s way of trying to get our attention because we haven’t been listening way before they even develop.
True Jennifer. This should be the first lesson we learn in life, our body is what we make it and the best medicine is to never stop listening to it.
Love it Dianne. I usually gets the Hiccups because I have just shovelled food in (because I don’t want to feel what’s going on) without considering, is it eating that I really need?? So I agree we can talk and listen to our own bodies and there is a very deep wisdom in this, especially when we look at our own behaviours and see how they truly affect our body.
I too have actually done what Dianne has described to get rid of my hiccups. I had tried all the known solutions but none ever worked – today I can stop my hiccups immediately. All I do is connect to myself feel and allow by breathing to correct and all gone. Why is this not taught, yet standing on your head and drinking a cup of water backwards is ???
I like your blog, showing that the biggest issue is, to not ask the body and to not listen to it. We are simply not raised to consider asking our body and organs for answers, but this doesn’t mean, that it isn’t a way to receive true answers and true medicine from ourselves. How amazing is that.
Super amazing Stephanie! It’s interesting the myriad ways we have to not listen to the wisest part of us!… Our body is so, so often way more intelligent than the thoughts we have.
I love it Dianne. Conversations with our bodies.
Morning ‘Tuning in’ to the bodies cells and less seeking outside of ourselves for the answers is required by all. We have all the answers within.
I love it Kathryn, the new morning show: tuning in with your body, how do your cells do today?
The truth is that my body informs me all the time about how to support myself, whether it be a slight shift in posture, the way to initiate movement if still, the quality required in movement to stay present, when and what to eat and drink, what activity is most needing of attention. All of this is related to what rhythm I choose to live in, either one free of self or one governed by self. In other words, the constant choice to live in a rhythm which offers something to life simply through my being, or a rhythm which seeks something for it.
I have found this blog really encouraging Dianne. I am currently having some health problems and whilst I am receiving fantastic support from the medical profession and Universal Medicine practitioners, reading this has confirmed further that we do have a relationship with our bodies and at anytime, if we have the willingness, we can connect with our bodies on a deeper level in order to understand what is going on.
When we choose to drop our expectations and stay open, while we observe, read and learn from life, we are graced with the most precious relationship we all naturally have with Science. It lives and breathes through us.
It really is awesome that our bodies will tell us the answers if we ask and listen. Perhaps our bodies are constantly trying to communicate with us and it is us that are not so good at the listening.
Dianne, you make science come alive with your practical examples about how interactive the body actually is. It makes absolute sense that the body knows how it should be supported and has the capacity to communicate that to us if we were only open to listening to it.
In search of answers we’ll read a million books, scan papers and magazines, search websites and dig in libraries, yet what you show so beautifully here Dianne is the simple possibility that our body already knows, and all we need ever do is bring an openness to hearing what it has to say. Our inbuilt expertise is something to behold.
Amazing, amazing, Dianne! Why can’t some more scientists reflect like this and make the complicated – simple? Awsome read as always. Has the world of science and medicine forgotten where it comes from? Observation, listening, feelingn of the nature and the body. You can’t step forward if you forgot where you come from. And did Einstein not say: ‘If you can’t explain it simple, you have not understood it.’ 🙂
Hiccups is one amongst many communications from the body – that most have grown up to ignore or wave off as an annoyance. How empowered would we be and how respectful would we be of our bodies if we all grew up with this knowledge.
I am full of awe at the magical, and practical at the same time, way in which you deliver scientific wisdom Dianne. It is so lovely and always makes me look with more awareness at myself and the world. Oh to have been taught in this way as a child.
Thank you Dianne, you have shared a wonderful tool which I in turn can share with people who have intractable hiccups. It makes sense.
Dianne what I can take from this blog is that you have always made yourself/your body your first and foremost science project, you did not deny your place and importance in the universe and you have always stayed in touch with the bigger picture. This is what makes us so grand in whatever field we choose to bring our wisdom to.
Very beautiful comment Esther. I love the great point you have shared, that through our bodies we can access and live the grandness we all naturally are – so true.
Instead of detractors or skeptics pointing the finger at others criticising a well respected and loved organisation why don’t they instead just take a moment to listen to their own bodies over a period of time and see what happens. My guess is first in order to do this arrogance would need to be removed, as there is no control in listening to what the body is telling us.
I relished reading this again Dianne. I know absolutely, 100%, that my body communicates to me all of the time, no doubt what so ever. The more still I let myself be, the more clearly I can hear what’s being communicated.
I love how you are claiming this fact rosannabianchini! And it is exposing of they way we live as a society that we are not all able to make that same claim.
Dianne I absolutely loved this. I was surprised to hear how long your hiccups lasted at a time – that would’ve been annoying as hell. But I loved how you stopped and simply listened. How amazing that that is all that is needed. Yet we avoid this like crazy.
Dianne, I love – such a great valid point and way to back up what Universal Medicine is presenting with science. It is common sense and extremely practical.
Beautiful Dianne. this makes total sense. All we need to do is stop and feel. The messages are already there.
Dianne this is such a great example of how listening to our bodies can be very easy. We really don’t seem to hold our bodies in a high enough regard or give it a voice, especially as it has its own way of communicating to us. This is what we need to be taught in schools and at home with our parents.
I love the title of this blog ‘conversations with my body …..’ To consult your own body and follow the wisdom given is self responsibility. While there are times when we need to consult medical and complementary health practitioners, it’s empowering to know help is at hand much closer to home.
Wow Dianne love your expression and how you demonstrate tuning into your body works in such a practical way.
Listening to our bodies and exploring what makes it function well and what makes it truly feel well is certainly a scientific experiment which everybody can conduct on themselves.
That has to be one of the best scientific experiments we can all do!
Isn’t it interesting how we are trained to think that science is this complicated and hard to understand mental exercise, that only a few trained people can really comprehend. Thanks Dianne for bringing science back into everyday life!
This is such a key point you share Judith “we are trained to think that science is this complicated and hard to understand mental exercise”. This is exactly what happens we go to the mental understanding and lose the most precious resource we have available and that is our connection with our body.
If we are going to ‘train’ in any form of understanding, let’s choose the direct and pure source of intelligence – our bodies.
Yes Sandra – its a bit like religious, legal, political and educational systems too, whereby they make it so complicated for the average person to understand and speak the language of the system that we are disempowered to question the wisdom of their ways. Dianne definitely bridges science to the layman but in no way ever diminishes the truth.
I agree Judith. Science in fact belongs to every body and really we are living breathing science works in progress. It’s sad that we have not connected to this fact and see others as knowing more about our own bodies, even though we live in them 24/7. A doctor’s knowledge is very needed (for example) when we are sick, but our part is knowing our own body through listening and observing and how to care for our body both when we are well and when we are unwell.
Thanks Dianne for this reminder, I am so trained to turn to someone to get information about my body that sometimes it simply does not occur to me to do what you describe here, stop, sit down, feel into it and ask my body. Even though I fully agree the body does communicate with us very clearly, for me it is more a question whether I honour myself deeply enough to listen and adhere to what it says.
Great point Judith that we are so educated from young that when something comes up in the body or goes wrong that we need to ask someone else, an expert to sort it out for us. Sure of course sometimes that expert help is very needed, but we should always do our part as well by stopping and really listening to what our body is telling us.
I agree Dianne, to listen to our bodies is natural for us. To numb our bodies is unnatural, because which kind of species would harm the body where it is living in? Still in our society numbing and not listening to our bodies is so common that it seems to be normal or human, as a consequence getting ill seems to be normal as well and most of the people think they cannot do anything about it, they are the victims of the illness.
This is a great sharing on listening to our bodies and all it tells us when we are prepared to listen. Thank you Dianne, I love reading your blogs and the simplicity and understanding you bring. Beautiful, hiccups will never be the same again 🙂
That our body is our closest confidant and reveals me to me! A lesson so well worth learning Dianne. I totally appreciate and resonate with your sharing about our wonderful vehicle of expression that is with us constantly and as you have described here, responds in the most supportive way when we collaborate with it! Thank you.
Beautiful Bernadette – ‘That our body is our closest confidant and reveals me to me’. This is a truly loving and nurturing relationship if we choose to honor it, as our bodies never fail to share with us the truth of who we are and how we can lovingly live.
Dianne I use to wonder why we get hiccups, especially when I noticed some babies get them quite a lot after feeding. It may not be the complete picture but I too decided they can come from eating or drinking too fast, perhaps this is driven by excessive underlying nervous tension. Next time I have hiccups may well be a good time to ask my body about the underlying cause.
Maybe this highlights that we already know how to numb what we feel and that it’s already a highly developed skill, no matter our age?
As we become more skilled at disregarding the warning signals that the body continuously sends out, our health and well being take a battering, and we ‘wonder’ why we don’t feel well.
This is so great Dianne – I am just feeling appreciation towards our bodies, and how they breathe for us and keep us alive; and we have two choices – to love it or to damage it. But we all have a choice to reconnect and feel, and to re-build this relationship regardless of the past.
Yes, Dianne has gotten me to remember and appreciate just how miraculous and wonderful our bodies are. We have a marvellous ‘body’ of wisdom right below our heads that is constantly communicating with us. All it needs is for us to take a moment or two to become still enough to listen.
Our bodies are superbly amazing and incredible and what I love is that they are always always honest with us, never letting us down, even though we may think the opposite.
What a fabulous confirmation of oneself at such a young age, and endorsement that wisdom is present at all ages, not just the privilege of adults.
I love how you present the ‘far out’ in such a way that is not longer far out.
I agree Jonathan. The ‘far out’ has become as such through our choices to override and separate from what is in truth natural, makes absolute sense and is innately known within us all.
Thank you once again Dianne. Our body is so amazing. It is through listening and being with our body that we get an intimate connection with who we are and get to know how we move and live.
This is fabulous and proof positive we only have to ask our bodies, and wait and listen for an answer to know exactly what they need at any given moment.
How paradigm shifting is this, Dianne Trussell. I recognize completely what you’re saying. That is indeed up to us to communicate, listen and respond to our body. The wisdom it carries is enormous. I’ve even found that the quality of my thoughts depend on my relationship / connection with my body. The deeper the connection with my body, the clearer and more loving my thoughts are and vice versa. Thank you! This blog could be studied big time and there’s lots of space for expansion. I love it!
Thankyou Dianne, I have also listened to my body to understand what’s needed and find answers. I have miraculously cleared pain, discomfort and other conditions just by listening to what my whole body has to say and by connecting deeper to myself. With rates of illness skyrocketing, it makes sense to listen to our body and make choices based on its various methods of communication.
And that’s that! Great blog Dianne, the great body carries on regardless of what our mind believes, doing what’s needed. And I think that is very cool.
There is so much we could learn from the wisdom of our bodies if we just choose to listen and surrender to them.
Somehow along the way the mind starting thinking it was the wise one and has done a very good job of convincing itself of that.
Having these self discoveries years before Universal Medicine was co-created is confirmation that The Way of the Livingness is the real deal. The presentations allow us to tune in more to our bodies that have forever been talking to us.
I love reading your blogs Dianne as you always make science simple and practical. I do get hiccups occasionally and up until now I have just viewed them as a nuisance at the time and was glad when they settled down again. I can see that I have overlooked an opportunity to receive a message from my body and so plan to stop and pay more attention next time. Thank you!
What a great confirmation from a young age that when we nominate wanting to know and heal something, if we are open to it, we can hear the messages the body is sharing with us.
Your comment Tracy reminds me to continue to ask my young daughter to ask her body what it needs in any and all moments. To have a relationship with the body from a young age is priceless.
Dianne Trussell, you are always the voice of reason in a world of unreasonable reasoning.
I second that Adam. In Dianne’s simple blog, she manages to silence the unreasonable with the marriage of science and lived experience. True Beauty.
Yes, it is through this marriage, which is powerful and at the same time loving, that enables truth to heard and Dianne is a master at it.
Agreed. Well said Adam.
Yes indeed. And so reasonable in that voice that there is little room to say otherwise.
Such a simple clear sharing Dianne, that is so easy to relate to our everyday living. I am inspired to listen more carefully to my body for the answers it offers. Look forward to more of your sharing.
Personally, I find it strange that people would NOT talk to or listen to their body: simply feeling what is going on in the body has brought such a wealth of understanding to me, whilst ignoring and overriding my body has only brought discomfort, pain and disease.
Thank-you for another brilliant blog Dianne. I love how you bring and connect science with lived practical experience, making it clear that this is something we can all do if we too choose to listen to our bodies.
Wouldn’t it be life changing if we learnt how to listen to our bodies when we were younger and experimented with this relationship with ourselves. Tiredness, hunger, headaches, hiccups all taken seriously in context of communication! Indeed seriously curious that this has not occurred already with what we already know about our bodies. We have an amazing teacher in Dianne Trussell!
It’s definitely not rocket science and something we are not only all capable of, but something that is innate. Most of us have spent most of our lives overriding this ability.
I agree Deidre as the life we live and are a part of is a very tangible and living science.
Thank you Dianne for a wonderful understanding of combining your wisdom of science with the wisdom of your body. How you describe what actually happens with cells and how we can choose to respond to this is the most wonderful and simple medicine. It inspires me greatly to realize that I can be very actively involved and responsible for listening and responding to what my body is letting me know. It feels like we can co-create well-being together.
So true Sandra, wonderfully simple medicine, listening first, and asking the right questions.
Dianne, thankyou. This is just brilliant. I love how you bring your scientific knowledge to the ageless wisdom, making it super practical and understandable for us all. Our bodies are indeed truly magical in the way they will communicate to us and to each and every part within it, if we will only choose to listen. What a beautiful example of how this works. If you had been my science teacher I would have paid much more attention!
Me too Sandra! I would loved to have had a teacher with so much enthusiasm in the subject and so much willingness to listen to and learn from their body. We are walking around in a Wisdom Machine and what do we do most of the time? Take no notice of its wisdoms what so ever! Looking back I have no idea how I ever convinced myself to smoke cigarettes or even drink alcohol, both are so disgusting to me now, yet I stubbornly resisted all my body’s signs, signals and messages and usually made myself extremely ill in the process. Studying Universal Medicine has enabled me to redress the balance so that these days listening to and loving my body is my first and only choice and long may that live.
Yes it is ridiculous when we stop to consider it – that we are walking around in these wisdom machines, being stubbornly not so intelligent by filling them with noxious substances and overriding everything they are communicating to us.
So true, Sandra. Dianne brings science to life through her infectious wonder and awe of the divine order in the body and in everything. This is true education!
Super agree Sandra. I love the way Dianne presents science. Makes it understandable for everyone.
I love how you share Dianne that the answers to our problems are in our own body and that if you truly want to know you can ask and get a true answer.
Yes it’s good to be reminded of this Lieke. Sometimes I get a little lost and look on the outer for the answer. Now I know the answer is within me, all I have to do is ask.
Well said Lieke, and that ‘solutions’ are only temporary or to fix the problem, but we can choose to live in a way that constantly ‘checks in’ to not allow it to get out of hand. Very empowering that our answer are in our own body!
Very true Arianne. It is empowering to listen to and honor what are bodies are telling us. Our bodies know us better that anyone else and as such are the beholders of our wisdom within.
This is very beautiful Carola…our bodies “are the beholders of our wisdom within”. Claiming this level of authority within ourselves, exposes the emptiness of any outside ‘knowledge’ we can learn and remember. This is why we need to love our bodies! From our living wisdom and way – we know who we are…that being love. It is true we are what we live – and I am choosing love more and more.
We are an open book… we just have to choose to read what is presented.
Yes, the body does ‘speak’, and very loudly at times. It is just a matter of whether we choose to listen or not.
How beautifully expressed Steve. We are an open book and sometimes we might ignore we know how to read it but it is for me the best book ever.
It is as simple as that Steve. It’s a choice, each and every time to read or read and then pretend we didn’t.
I like this analogy Steve Matson!
Sometimes I think I am a ‘closed book’, when I shut out people, but that seems like an end result of not claiming that we are in fact an open book.
Someone I know finds it difficult to sleep at night and switch off the mind. The mind constantly fires all day long, leading to constant activity for activity’s sake and an absolute dread of doing nothing, and being still. I wonder what the answer would be if this person asked her body what it needed her to do. Too often we are so detached from our bodies, we don’t have conversations with ourselves, in the way Dianne did. Now we know we can, if not doing so already.
Beautiful sharing Dianne: stopping to ask for help, listening to the wisdom of your body and most of all putting it into practice. And it worked. The body is truly miraculous if we work with, not against it.
Super true. When we stop working against it it’s almost like magic happens. Yet this magic is completely normal and natural for all of us.
This is great, there is such a truth in feeling and listening to our bodies, there is constant communication so why wouldn’t we be able to listen and receive?
Very inspiring to read Dianne about your insights about hiccups. For me it makes absolute sense to listen and to talk to my body. My body knows, what it needs and what it has to tell me. I can deepen my relationship to my body every day, i.e. the conversation between us is getting easier and easier.
We are chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic, we are just incredible, are we not. I used to place my hands on my body when in pain, this is before Universal Medicine. It always worked, sometime so well I was shocked. What seems odd or unusual today, like talking to your body, will one day be accepted as normal, just like once everyone believed the world was flat.
There is still so much we don’t know on an intellectual level about the body, yet there is plenty we do “know” from observing and experimenting with it. Most families have methods and remedies they know work for common conditions and ailments. Science sometimes catches up (such as chicken soup for colds and illness) but other areas they have not yet confirmed. Regardless, we see the evidence before our eyes and through our experience. Science’s agreement on these things will not make them any more real or factual. They are still true.
This is certainly a blog that is relatable to my livingness Dianne, listing to the body and the cells talking to each other … When I first started feeling this I was blown out that you can really feel what is going on in our body and the body talks to you when anything doesn’t feel right. Whether it be food, conversations, I feel twitches in the face and I choose to listen.
I am the one in control of my own health and communication with people and that is needed to bring all of me to the world.
I remember one of the hiccups remedies, pinch your noise and hold your breath …
Dianne, I love how you share here, that by asking first, with the full intention of truly wanting to know the honest answer, and second, choosing to become very still and present, that the answer was very clear. How simple life can be, if we truly want it to be.
Our bodies are a fountain of wisdom and listening to it has been the most loving choice I have made.
It certainly is a very uncomfortable feeling, having hiccups that will not go away. Thank you for sharing another pearl of body wisdom with us all.
Dianne, you surprise and delight me. How amazing that in the midst of your adversity, you were able to stop and tune in to what your body really needed! And then to explain this scientifically, as tuning in to the signals the body is constantly emitting, I like that. Well everything IS energy so I guess our cells are responding to the movements of energy and something such as this can be explained by how energy works or on a physical, scientific level.
Dianne, this is pure music to my body. The way you have made such sense as to why we are able to tune in, is brilliant!
There is no doubt that if we listen to our body in this way it holds all the answers, deeply inspiring article.
I love how you put the scientific aspect and the energetic feeling aspect, which is in actual fact a science itself. together in a way that makes absolute sense. Of course all the cells in the body communicate with each other, so it makes perfect sense that by tuning into them they can communicate with us as well. The body is such a wondrous thing, constantly trying to communicate with us about the choices we are making in our day to day lives. And when we allow ourselves to listen, all the answers are there.
Wow I had never heard of such an extreme case of hiccups. I sometimes get them and it might last for an hour at most, but that is exhausting enough. Crikey for it to go on for days! What you share about connecting with the body is hugely powerful and something I need to do more of, not just to find the answers to ills but to be in communion with it and be open for it to be a two way street where I am open to feeling its impulses, rather it being just about me listening in at times when I’m not feeling great for some reason.
Jinya, what you write is a great reminder that we don’t need to wait for an ailment or ill health to connect to the body. Taking a stop moment and asking ourselves what is going on can be immensely powerful. When I took a stop yesterday I felt a fair bit of anxiousness, it is great to build that awareness of those feelings and not just push on through, that to me seems like the best medicine I can administer myself.
Thanks Dianne, it is wonderful how you talk to your body. Over recent years I have discovered that my body is constantly talking to me and I have started to listen more and more. I have also learned to greatly respect my body as my very dear and very wise friend. In terms of hiccups I too used to have them a LOT as a kid and spent long periods of time standing outside the classroom at school because they didn’t believe the very loud noises I made were real. I finally found the cure that always worked for me and that was to drink a glass of water whilst I had my fingers in my ears or pressed against my ear lobes. It is a bit of a feat to hold the glass with some fingers whilst the others are in the ears and then tip it up to drink, but it is worth it although your method sounds much more simple if that works too!
A beautiful real and simple answer to hiccups from listening to your body Dianne and a great sharing. Listening to our bodies and all it is trying to tell us is very real true and well worth living with this awareness and connection. This really can change our lives
I love the way you put take the ‘I’ in science and bring it back to the ‘I’ in simple.
I love how you explain the fact that the body is made up of cells that constantly communicate with each other, this brings the understanding that the body is a “living vessel” and not just this functioning (or not functioning) object.
Awesome Dianne a great example of how our bodies communicate with us if we are open to it. It is so easy to dismiss the science of communicating with our body in the simplest form when we are not even open to this fact and have a body that is so numb that we can hardly understand the communication as there are so many layers the message has to get through. But as you describe from your experience if we just sit with our bodies and connect there is always a communication, we just have to learn to listen to it.
Great point about our cells talking to each other Dianne, there is communication going on all the time with our body down to the minutest level so it makes sense that if they are communicating we should listen. We have learnt to rely heavily on researchers and scientists to tell us what is going on in our body when in fact we know as much if not sometimes more. Children naturally listen to their body, they say when they are tired or hungry, if they have a stomach ache, we should not only encourage this as they get older but open up the conversation especially by the time we get to adults and look at why our bodies are having to give us these messages.
What I love about this blog so simply marries metaphysics, science and the Ageless Wisdom with your own experience. This is the way forward for humanity to understand themselves from every aspect.
Yes that is what I also loved Jeannette. The way forward out of the health situation of millions of people is the marrying of medicine, science and the Ancient Wisdom as presented by Universal Medicine.
The body is the vehicle that houses our soul, thus it makes sense to be loving and respectful of our bodies, so that we can hear the wisdom it imparts to us.
Thank you Dianne, I really enjoyed reading this. Our body is constantly communicating with us and we have to take a moment to stop and feel what it is telling us rather than listening to the babble that the mind absorbs from outside.
Wonderful article, thank you Diane. We really can talk to our bodies and connect to the wisdom within it. It doesn’t really make sense that we don’t use the obvious wisdom of our bodies, as it is doing more than science has yet discovered.
It is so very obvious that the body is always communicating with us, yet for years I put things down to bad lack or genes etc. It is empowering to now know that everything is happening for a reason and I have the power to connect to that reason and to heal it.
Great point Tracy, I agree, it is empowering to know that we can connect to our own body and learn the detail of why things happen in the body.
Interesting and funny Dianne, you once again shows us that science is that much more that the current scientist do us want to believe. It is possible to connect and communicated with our bodies – by the way, who told us that this was not possible?
I love it. It’s a simple, childlike innocence of why-not ask its very subject. When we think things happen at random, and we are the victims of our circumstances therefore powerless, it kind of severs our inter-connectedness to the all, and we blind ourselves from this very obvious option to simply ask and be open to communicate.
“So it’s perfectly reasonable that, if one so chooses, one can ‘tune in’ to one’s body and access the messages that are flying hither and yon like information packets on the internet. It is also possible to tune in to a particular part of the body to find out what’s going on there and what is needed”. That makes absolute sense to me, Dianne. If anyone can make contact with my body to see what is not right, surely it should be me. The key is to be very still with myself, really connect to myself, and just be. It is amazing how the body communicates with us when we are open to listening to it. The more that we do this, then the more our bodies will communicate with us.
I wonder if part of the reason there is a belief that the body does not communicate is because we have falsely associated communication to be something that only occurs with words and or sounds, when in fact, communication can be entirely non verbal, as well as being solely energetic, chemical, electrical and so in the form of an impulse. We are so accustomed to communication being a dictation and to the dominance of words, we tend to be dismissive of other equally valid modes of communication.
Just be… it’s true isn’t it Beverley, if we just be, we realise the body is communicating with us all the time, we are just not listening all the time.
I find the functions of the human body amazing from conception right through till death. When we look at the development of a baby from the embryotic period when cells begin to take a different function. The brain, heart, lungs, intestinal organ and limbs begin to form right through as the fetus grows and develops to term and is born. The cycle of life and functions of the human body fascinates me. When we connect with our bodies and listen to the messages it is offering us we know it tells us everything we need to know to maintain a healthy lifestyle if we just stop and listen.
We live in a way that has very little appreciation for the wonders of the body. The act of giving birth is but one miracle the body performs and there are many more daily miracles that go on in our bodies unnoticed by us. Listening to our bodies is a step in appreciating what our bodies are not only capable of, but what they do minute after minute.
Very true nikkimckee after many years of abusing my body ignoring and overriding any messages I felt from it, I am finally learning to respect and appreciate the miracles it performs on a daily basis. The depth of the love, nurturing and tenderness I allow in my life and treat myself and others with is ever increasing.
Just another quick comment…It is really bizarre how there is such a huge amount of criticism from such a small number of people for something that is so logical. As you say, our bodies organs are talking to each other all the time, they don’t need our help or interference at all, that is why we have an autonomic nervous system…so we can’t interfere on the basic things that need to happen to keep us alive. But in order for the body to be able to work as efficiently and harmoniously as possible we certainly can help. We can play an active rather than passive role, listening to our body and getting support with how to make this connection for ourselves and from practitioners who have equally been working on this is logical and sensible way of living.
I worked out the same thing Dianne and it worked for me too! I had to slow myself down not run out of air but be incredibly ok with my body. I had to pay very focused attention. If I jumped right up and carried on at the same pace as before back they would come, so for me I think there was an element of slowing down too!
I loved this Dianne, you just can’t argue with that level of scientific knowledge and empirical evidence combined. You are living proof and your story a powerful reminder of what we are capable of when we choose to connect.
How we communicate sure does affect our physiology, Debra. We know this, yet we have waited a long time for the science of psycho-neuro-immunology to show us how our thoughts and emotions can make us sick or well!
Brilliant Dianne – so simply put but yet so powerful. I think we forget we are made of cells and that our body is a communication super highway. So it can absolutely talk to us if we allow it too. I love your example of hiccups – what an amazing experience to simply surrender to the body and allow what needs to be done. There is so much wisdom in true science.
Dianne you remind us so eloquently to connect, listen, trust and respond to our body by doing this we will have the answers that many of us rely on google to provide; but to no true avail.
You have done it again Dianne, you have delivered a simple truth that blows the skeptics out of the water. Your dose of common sense, observation and experimentation, followed through with the lived end result is pure science that cannot be denied, demonstrating very clearly that the body is continually talking to us . . . whether we listen or not is up to us.
Yes Kathleen we always have a choice whether we listen and then we act surprised when we spend ages ignoring something and then get sick…
Yes Helen and the interesting thing is that the surprise itself is showing us just how out of touch we actually are with our own body.
It’s true, there has been a lot of nonsense written by skeptics and the like who have picked up on certain phrases such as ‘ovary reading’ and ran with entirely different stories than what was intended. No one I know ‘talks’ to my ovaries as has been erroneously reported, except (and in the same way Dianne discusses) me. It is however possible for very sensitive healers to ‘read’ a body and I have also experienced this as both a client, and on occasion as a practitioner myself. This is no different to any one of us ‘reading’ an interpersonal situation in which dynamics are flying so thick and fast as to be palpable (‘you could cut the air with a knife’). And so it is that our bodies similarly speak – it’s just that not all are attuned to hear.
Perhaps the skeptics would do well to ‘talk’ to someone from Universal Medicine, rather than running with third hand information passed on to them by someone who hates the organisation.
A rather more scientific approach than gossip and Chinese whispers.
Perhaps it could be said that with even the most “scientific” of skeptics, true science gets thrown out the window when there is an agenda at play. To me science is about remaining open and continuing exploration. If a matter is decided before it is thoroughly explored, that cannot be science.
Yes it is amazing how anything can be taken out of context and appears ridiculous. That IS the result from letting the head alone lead the way with no connection to the rest of the body and its natural wisdom. We can and do feel, but it is a choice we make as to what we allow ourselves to feel.
‘Tune in’ is significant for me and has been for some time. I liken it to tuning in to the right radio station – in this case I tune into my body’s radio station so I can hear the signals and signs of what it is sharing. Our bodies radio stations are highly sensitive and responsive and come in loud and clear when we simply stop, tune in and feel.
Super Diane, what an experiment, and also an option for hiccups too! Agree, talking-through-feeling, or communicating to parts or organs of the body I find not odd at all, but in fact valid conversation typically occurring when there’s a connection to, or at least willingness to be connected to the marvels, workings and intricacies of the human body. Because when we do listen to our body, great insights can be given, just like yours.
Dianne, you really know how to bring the energy and science together in an always relatable and common sense way – it’s just glorious. Thank you for sharing this very simple and refreshing approach to your health. Who would have thought it could be so simple?
Dianne you are a master in bringing back the simplicity of truth with our bodies. If our body talks to us all the time it simply feels natural to communicate with our organs, after all this is a relationship, as life is all about relationships. This shows us a lot, how are we listening to our organs is how we will then listen to people in life; are we hearing or blocking what we hear? In acute situations we have the choice to listen immediately as the body feels extremely uncomfortable, in less acute situations actually we also have this choice, we do know what has to be done, it is only if we are willing to truly go there without delay.
This is a great point Adele, we do always register on some level what is going on in our body, our relationships and our lives, but whether we choose to listen, or hear in full is a matter of responsibility.
Great point Adele, how we listen to our body reflects how we listen generally – in my case not very well for many years. As I become more aware of the messages my body is giving me, I can also feel how this is impacting on my ability to listen in other situations and read what is happening and thus my life runs more smoothly.
Dianne, I love how simply you present it and how we can tune in to our bodies at any time and access that intra-cellular communication (I have this great image now of packets like cars running back and forth from one cell to the next). And best of all our bodies tell us exactly what is needed.
I love the way you so expertly combine sound scientific knowledge with a willingness to listen to your own body and heed its messages, no matter how illogical they might seem to our very limited rational mind.
I love this blog Dianne. Absolutely brilliant! You show how simple it is to connect to our bodies and find real answers from an inner knowing. Thanks for sharing.
Great sharing and great practical advice for anyone who suffers from hiccups.
I have always been in awe of the functioning of the human body. Amazed by its ability to know how to react in every situation without any conscious control from me. In every moment, sending signals via the brain and nerves, releasing hormones and killing foreign bodies. I am fascinated by how it produces snot and saliva, makes ear wax and even self-cleans the ears, coordinates a woman’s menstrual cycle and supports a pregnancy. I could go on and on. We think we have an understanding of all the bodily processes and how they work, but science is still constantly discovering new chemicals, connections and functions in the body. Just because we haven’t yet documented the exact way our body communicates with us, we know each part communicates with all other parts in the body. The exact mechanism is yet to be discovered, yet science is on to it. Do we need to wait for science to give us the okay to confirm what we all already know and experience?
Good point – why wait for science to confirm what we already know? We all knew passive smoking is terrible for our health but we didn’t claim it until science stepped up and stated it thus. The same is going to happen with alcohol, even if it will take a while. We know all that we need to know but we choose to play dumb. Why?
Well said Gabriele, why wait for an outer authority to give us permission to honour the wisdom and understanding we have already clocked ourselves? Based on a true definition of science, perhaps we ourselves are already highly qualified scientists!
Good question Gabriele. We can use science as a convenient excuse for doing things we know aren’t loving or we can pay attention to what we know in our body..
I agree Gabriele, in the areas where we do not want to let go of our habits we play dumb and we will refer to the existing or non existing scientific proof that will support our decision. It is as Fiona says: ‘a convenient excuse for doing things we know aren’t loving’. So in the end it is never about science, but about how much we are willing to be honest with ourselves.
Great question Carmin. My answer is ‘No’. But I guess this is what gets up the noses of the skeptics, who in their observance of ‘evidence-based everything’ (sounds like a kind of religion to me!) are completely missing out on what is actually right under their noses – their own lived experiences. Surely they don’t deny these too? Surely at times they have felt sad (for example) – a phenomenon we can’t see and can measure only through subjective report yet we all accept exists. What they argue does not hold up.
Awesome observation about sadness (or emotions) Victoria in answer to Carmin’s great question. How odd that ‘science’ asks us to ignore our selves, the living experiment right under our noses, in favour of a different kind of evidence based research that isolates parts away from the whole.
I get a picture of scientists examining only the various part of an elephant that they can see before them without taking into account the enormity of the animal let alone its grace in movement and other aspects of its nature and way of being.
The other part of this is the absolute magic of the body’s processes. Yes, I’m going to mention that other skeptic’s nightmare – divine intelligence. Yet how else to explain the exquisite detail of design that is so evident? I have heard Dianne and others present on some of body’s inner workings – they are mind-blowing in their precision and purposefulness. This cannot be some sort of evolutionary accident.
Love your comment, Carmin. I am also constantly amazed at the intricacies of how every part of the body knows what to do. What a great inter-connectivity and communication there is between all the large and tiny details of the human body. It is up to us to respect and look after our bodies, and connect with them as far as possible, so we can work in harmony with them. We have a huge responsibility to be truly looking after our bodies, our bodies are here to enhouse the soul, so we need to nurture ourselves as much as possible. The more we connect to our bodies, the more we will come to understand them ourselves, and gradually up to a point even become our own ‘doctors’.
Thanks Carmin, I love your sense of wonder and appreciation of the body’s ingenious systems – there is so much wisdom in the body for us to connect to and learn from.
The speed with which science can currently prove anything is slowed down by two factors:
– we so far only accept our 5 senses in qualifying evidence, so we are limited by the rate of coming up with methods of measuring things in a way that our 5 senses can see and acknowledge the evidence.
– we have pockets of humanity that actively fight against any new discovery, because as we get closer to the truth in any area, the more the lack of truth we are living in all areas gets exposed.
Whilst when we experience something, our knowing is instantaneous.
We simply cannot afford to doubt our inner wisdom and knowing while we wait for science to catch up. The state of the world and the illness and dis-ease in our bodies are evidence of that.
I love your comment Golnaz, it is a call for us all. Why wait when we can choose to live with all that is known already?
That level of awe is beautiful to read. The science conducted in laboratories is a great tool for understanding our bodies but it can only comment on that which it has studied. There is a vast unknown, for there is so much more to us than can ever be analysed in a laboratory. Dianne has shown with her blog that there is vastly more to science than that which is found in a journal or paper, and that we do not ever need to wait to have truth confirmed by an expert. We are all experts when we apply observation and bring awareness to our own processes. That is living science and it is beautiful indeed.
Love it Carmin. So often we don’t trust ourselves enough and have to wait for someone else to be the first. Why not listen to your body? It’s always with you after all.
Our bodies tell us everything, we just need to stop and listen.
Simple, Rosie. Isn’t it crazy that we don’t give ourselves those stop moments, we can learn so much about ourselves when we stop and listen to what our bodies are communicating to us.
It’s amazing how much time we spend listening to the radio, music, the TV, to others, but we do not listen to our own body! I can’t truly remember anything from the media I’ve carried with me, but snippets of wisdom from my body were taken with me through life. It’s quite a wake up call looking at what I’ve listened to in my life, realising it was not valuable, when my body held so much usable wisdom.
That’s the key, first stopping and then listening. It’s so easy to ignore what our bodies are saying and to carry on regardless with with no responsibility for our actions.
haha this is very funny Dianne, love your humorous blogs. Also how is it possible to drink water upside down? I used to get the hiccups occasionally too and I didnt even bother to check how or why I might be getting them, “they just happen”. But one thing I did notice was that I always got them and got indigestion immediately after eating bread!
I’m still an occasional hiccupper. When they occur it is only ever 1-3 at most. I’ve always wondered exactly what they are about, physically and energetically. Clearly the lungs and diaphragm are involved, and some sort of contraction. They occur for me after or before eating so food is a part of it – ingestion of some kind anyway, be it food, drink or perhaps even air. My reading: not allowing the breath of God to fill me.
Hi Harry you drink from the other side of the glass, it stopped my hiccups every time by doing this.
Haha, I used to do this too when I got hiccups. I wonder if, in the act of stopping and focussing on doing this the body registers that we are giving ourselves a moment and thus it lets go. It is a strange and amazing response when you think about it and clearly is telling us something. It would happen to me when I drank extra hot tea (which was often). I no longer do that and rarely, if ever now, get hiccups.
I used to get hiccups whenever I swallowed a laugh and also on many other occasions.
My “hiccup trigger” was soft drink. Literally the moment it hit the back of my throat I would make a giant hiccup. That is what I can only describe as a mammoth “no” to any drink with bubbles…didn’t stop me drinking them for a long while though!
It’s amazing what our Bodies tell us…. and what we ignore.
I was one for getting hiccups too but by and large drinking out of a cup upside down worked. When it didn’t work I came to realise that adjusting my breath was the way to go; it’s interesting how so many children get hiccups and how they ensure that we remain connected to our bodies.
Wow Dianne. This shows the power and simplicity of listening to your body.
Dianne, another cracker! I love your articles, and I especially love how you always talk about your own experiences. So awesome!
It makes perfect sense Diane that if we live in our bodies and they are made up of cells that are in constant communication with each other all the time, of course we can talk to them. I know for a fact that when I receive a genuine loving comment from someone it changes my physiology. I can feel it in my body. The same goes for a negative comment. It’s not about the words but the intention to be in communication with the body that allows us to feel the messages it is constantly sending us. How we respond is up to us, but my experience has shown me if I ignore these messages, it leads to ill health.
Brilliant Dianne. Experiences like yours blow skeptics out of the water. It makes so much sense to me that we can know what is good for our own body…we do live within it after all!
Dianne, I do love your wonderfully wise and inspiring conversations with your body and I look forward to the next part, and maybe even a book of them. The deepest appreciation for once again bringing the wisdom of the body and the knowledge of science together to make sense of so much in a world where, up to now, very little has made much sense at all.
I love this Dianne, thank you for sharing. Of course there is a lot of constant communication going on in our bodies – why should we not be able to tap into it? Being still and calm I feel is important.
It would seem that so many of us have lost the art of truly listening. Life can be so busy and we can so easily switch to auto mode and miss the delicate communications from our body, our most willing and consistent friend.
Oh yes, the auto mode sounds familiar to me. Our body is such a tender and delicate instrument – if we look after our body very well, life starts to blossom.
The body is very honest, and when we listen has a wealth of wisdom to share with us.
I occasionally suffer from hiccups and have found if I stop and bring my attention to my diaphragm and consciously let go of the muscle it stops them every time.
Thank you Dianne, you are a living science and I love how you bring science alive.
This is so cool Dianne, and makes a lot of sense. Why would the same form of science that tells us exactly how a black hole works thousands of light years from Earth not consider that it is possible to talk with our own body parts that we are actually physically attached to? Quite silly to think that way, I feel. I have had enough personal experience of actually giving my body commands (such as telling my nervous system to settle down and get very still when going to bed) that work as if a switch went off inside me to know that this is quite normal and explainable in the ways you have already described.
Reading what you say Dianne, its more absurd to me that we believe we can’t communicate and talk with our body. How can we walk around as one joined up whole and not have all the parts working and communicating together? When I consider life and my body this way its like my body has been constantly chatting away to me the whole of my life. Beautiful now to be on speaking terms and embrace this as a two-way discussion.
This is delightful to read Dianne. And I just love the way you already answered the ‘skeptics’ among us that would jump in with an ‘oh but…’ with what you already know about how the body cells communicate with one another, and how very possible this makes it for us tune in to the messages that are available to tap into. In fact how crazy that we do not make use of this ability more often.
Thanks Dianne for such a simple and comprehensive article to explain how our body communicates with us always, maybe if we don’t ‘hear’ it we are more focussed on something outside of ourselves thereby giving our power away to an outside force.
Wow Dianne, there is so much evidence of the power of listening to our bodies and what they are sharing with us in all your blogs and others on this site. I love how you make science so simple and amazing.
The intelligence of the body! Look how no Doctor or professional had to tell you that, but through your willingness Dianne to listen to and connect with your body you’ve been able to heal yourself. Awesome! We certainly need conventional medicine but your experience shows us that we equally need every human being to be connected to the wisdom of their own body, for true healing to occur.
WOW Dianne, how Amazing at such a young age you consciously stopped and asked your body a question AND got yourself out of the way to listen to the answer AND responded to what was expressed AND it worked. This here alone is an instruction manual for all … not about the hiccups but about everything. You also remind us that the body is constantly talking to us, communicating messages it is just do we listen to them or not! Thank you.
Love it Dianne – it does make complete sense that we can tune into our body and get a deeper understanding of what is needed – totally scientific to me!
Another awesome sharing Dianne. The amazingness of our bodies is endless. Thank you.
Hiccups for days sounds like torture… What a simple and great example of how our bodies are talking to us all the time, taking the time to stop and listen, as you did is what is missing.
Awesome blog, Dianne! Our body talks to us constantly. It gives us very clear signals about how it wants to be treated in the way we handle it, move it and what we put in with food, drinks and thoughts. And we are communicating back constantly to our body. We can be willing to listen, be open, feel what it is actually saying or we can override what is there on offer and communicate to our body: you are not important. Our body consists of particles that want space and expansion. We either offer it that by surrendering or we create compression by ‘trying and pushing’.
It is absolutely true that our bodies send us messages all the time and it is a very unwise person who ignores them. We seem to be the only species on this planet who has become so smart that they can afford to be disconnected from the truth of their own body. So clever, so smart and so ill.
I love it Amanda, ‘We seem to be the only species on this planet who has become so smart that they can afford to be disconnected from the truth of their own body. So clever, so smart and so ill.’ True! And funny if it wasn’t so tragic.
What an important fact that so few are taught and aware of … “our bodies are made of cells, and all cells in the body (including the brain) communicate with each other in both close proximity and at a distance, using chemical, electric, quantum and magnetic signals”. Thank you Dianne, this is certainly a fact I have overlooked yet the simplicity is so important to our everyday living.
How arrogant it is to conveniently dismiss the fact that the cells in the body do indeed communicate with each other continually and all the time, needless to say it doesn’t change the fact.
It seems a sensible thing to do to what you did Dianne – to stop the frustration and reacting to and fighting the body and instead work with it and seek its counsel and voila – your answer was there!
Amazing story, I am impressed with how connected you were to your body Dianne to then receive the answer to your hiccups. And yet this should be second nature to us because, as you describe, our bodies particles are communicating all of the time.
Sally this impressed me too, in my youth I was a long way away from my inner voice stating, perhaps if you just listen to your body it will tell you how to….. I get the feeling from what Dianne is sharing that our bodies can share very practical details, and also very profound universal ones as well.
Your experience of hiccups sounds nightmarish Dianne. i can’t imagine having them for days like that. But your body knew the answer as it always does if we can listen and decipher its messages. You seem to have always had a real and profound connection with your body and its intelligence – wonderful to have this and yet be a scientist. So many of the scientists I have met have seemed quite cerebral and disconnected from their bodies. That’s why I love your writing and your science presentations, they make sense to me and my body and are so interesting – we need more scientists like you in the world.
ahh Diane, I love your articles – always supremely practical, illuminating with your no non-sense approach and backed up with the beauty of science 🙂
So do I. These articles are just a pleasure to read, easily accessible, focussed and precise to the point and you have such an amazing way to put simple words to complex topics.
Wow this is awesome Dianne and such confirmation that the body knows, it’s just waiting for us to ask.
For what it’s worth, whether you talk to your body or not, it is absolutely talking to you non-stop all the time in an endless communication of exactly what is going on in you, around you and everywhere.
Great comment Helen. I agree communication is going on all of the time whether we like it or not and whether we listen or not.
So it’s like sitting with someone who is super wise who is speaking truths non stop and saying ‘will I listen or not?’ – it’s completely up to us as to whether we listen to what our own body is telling us.
A no brainer when you put it like that Sandra! So true.
Yes Helen, on an everyday level we take it for granted that the body tells us when it’s in pain, when it’s hungry, when it’s too hot or cold, when it’s tired etc.
You are right Helen – we had better listen, otherwise the body has to talk louder in the form of pain or other diseases. We can learn so much from our body and the body is the marker of truth.
Absolutely Helen. “Our body is the marker of all truth” – Serge Benhayon
Interestingly you found a variation of the gentle breath meditation to cure the hiccups. And when I got to know Universal Medicine and learned the gentle breath meditation, I started to use it to stop my hiccups that occur when I eat hot spicy food. Let’s take the communication with one’s own body as given. Could it be that we still know little about the actual communication going on? Could there be communication beyond time and space?
Absolutely awesome Dianne. I love knowing the scientific explanation for the realities we feel and live every day.
Our bodies have an innate wisdom within – it is simply a matter of choosing to feel what is there to be felt.
As you explain here Dianne, our bodies are entirely made of cells which communicate in way or another, at short or long distances, and we are also constantly communicating with everything around us – we cannot not communicate – it’s just whether we choose to listen to the wisdom our body is offering us!
Yes Paula, when we are feeling out of sorts we can simply ask “What am I being communicated?”
Oh Dianne, yes! I just love what you have shared here about the opportunities consistently presented to ‘tune in’ to ourselves and read the answers like Braille from the intelligent communication that is our bodies.
I like the words “tune in” very much. When we really listen to our body, not only do we learn everything about our body, we start to understand life in general. Everything what we need is inside us, we just have to connect.
I suppose this is the point Dianne, the irresponsibility that people run does not allow them to be open to the possibility that we do naturally have the awareness and sensitivity to not only listen to our bodies but also communicate with them. An investment in ‘science’ is unfortunately for some an investment in shutting down that natural sensitivity and championing that ‘we can only know’ through external scientific instrumentation. Yet you are leading the way to show it does need to be this way and it is greatly inspiring.
Totally Simon, and the waiting for something to be confirmed before we try it or believe it or listen to it, is also a form of delay…. giving ourselves time to keep living irresponsibly and making unloving choices because we can, with the motto ‘it hasn’t been proven yet.’
So true, Simon and Aimee. Why wait for scientific confirmation when our bodies know right here and now? Having been in scientific research for many years, I can say that it takes a huge amount of time and resources and hard work to actually prove anything, and even then it may not be correct. If you wait for science, hold back on listening to your body and changing your choices until science confirms something, you’ll still be waiting while attending your own funeral!
Yes Dianne!! And the waiting to have it confirmed is giving power to something outside of ourselves. Listening to the wisdom of our bodies is the most powerful tool and gift of all.
Another great gem of wisdom here Dianne about the innate wisdom and knowing of our bodies… it seems all we often need to do is simply stop, be still and listen!
I love Dianne’s writings and gems of wisdom, keep them coming Dianne.
“So it’s perfectly reasonable that, if one so chooses, one can ‘tune in’ to one’s body and access the messages that are flying hither and yon like information packets on the internet. It is also possible to tune in to a particular part of the body to find out what’s going on there and what is needed.” I so agree Dianne. Our body is giving us messages all the time – sometimes loudly – ‘ you need to go to bed as you’re tired, or you ate too much just now.’ Its more subtle messages can get lost in the busy-ness of the day – but if we are open to receiving them, it delivers.
Listening to one’s body is nothing new, in many ways it is very main stream. But like always when an event is taken out of context anything can sound ridiculous.
Main stream, I totally love that Luke, and you’re right. We all feel the body, we all know how to respond to the body, its just the response that changes from person to person.
That is very true Luke. Most people know that if they hold their hand over a flame their body will have something to say about. It is simply ridiculous to suggest that our bodies don’t talk to us not the other way around!
Totally Agree Nicola
I have never heard this remedy for hiccups before. A good friend of mine has regular hiccups so I will be sure to pass this on.
On another note I totally relate to how you communicate with your body. We do this all the time – a classic example is with children, their bodies give them loud and clear signals as to when they are tired and when the way they play gets a bit rough. Every mother I have known can read these signals in their children and I am sure many of us have experienced our bodies communicating with us when we have a hangover.
Anything that discredits the fact that we communicate with our bodies is utter nonsense.
These examples you give Abby complement Dianne’s blog and highlight the many practical ways our bodies communicate with us.
A very simple message but one that is transformational for the world – our cells are communicating – why aren’t we listening?
Exactly Carmel, why aren’t we listening. Just the thought of what is there to be ‘listened to’ brings joy to all the cells in my being. It is the knowing that there is an un-tapped source of understanding of the body that can be used from the seemingly simple dis-ease of hiccups to the more complex nature of the multi-symptomatic man, that brings the feeling of inspiration. That there can be answers to why the ever changing/morphing dis-ease states of the human body are happening and ways that we can approach that ourselves, in the way that we live and respond to what the body has to say.
This makes so much sense, Dianne, I love it! I too will often ask my body what it needs and can feel a response that is unquestionable. It is all there to be felt and known if we stop glorifying the mind as having all the answers.
So true Janet, The other thing that happens with me is that I can hear the messages my body gives me – I just have to stop being stubborn and honour them.
‘It is all there to be felt and known if we stop glorifying the mind as having all the answers.’, awesome and so true. The limitations of the mind make it a meagre resource for what is actually available to us if we connect to universal wisdom, through the body.
I love it, the simple science of the body’s own healing ability at work, when listened to.
As ever Dianne you offer us with such grace and beauty the most divine wisdom that will support our body, and assist us in understanding and comprehending the meaning of life.
I love what you write here Dianne, you are a true Scientist coming from your own lived experience of listening to your body supported by your Scientific training. You make Science and the way you explain it all so relatable. Reading your blogs and listening to you present is an absolute joy, thank you.
This is great to read Dianne, I love the simplicity with which you write, ‘It is also possible to tune in to a particular part of the body to find out what’s going on there and what is needed.’ This does not sound airy fairy at all, it sounds very practical and makes complete sense that all cells in the body communicate with each other and so we can tune in to these messages.
A cure for the hiccups that actually works!? that’s pretty awesome. But even more so is how you came about it. All the research, knowledge, old remedies in the world can’t top simply tapping into our own internal information internet in our bodies.
I agree, Leigh, it is quite awesome. And people have been known to even die from very long bouts of hiccups, so medicine does not always have the answers. Yes, “all the research, knowledge, old remedies in the world can’t top simply tapping into our own internal information internet in our bodies.” And so simple. We can learn how to fix some of our ailments, and when to make a visit to the doctor. And there is no cost whatever for that advice from the body.
I love having conversations with my body, I mean, why shouldn’t I? It is there 24/7, can’t avoid it, even if I try at times, and it never lies. So why not have a loving relationship with my body which includes daily conversations?
I know right…..it is there 24/7 but rarely we do really take the time to connect with it and then take it a step further and actually ask it a question.
I love your explanation at the end Dianne, this blows every argument of skeptics out of the water. How simple starts life to be when we recognise we have the power to treat our own body, we know what to do and we know when we need the assistance of the medical world to treat something when necessary. We know what is going on in our bodies!
Yes, Annelies life is simple and what could be more simple than connecting to our body and more important truly listening deeply.
I agree Annelies. Dianne has such an amazing matter of fact way of delivering an argument, with absolutely no arrogance attached to it at all.
So true Annelies. We know what our bodies need, what works and what does not and when we need support and the type of support required.
That is very true Lee which begs the question as to why so many of us abuse our bodies in one way or another with poor diets, taking drugs, smoking, being emotional etc etc.
Absolutely Annelies – our body is the greatest teacher we have, we just have to listen.
Oh how I love your blogs Dianne, you bring everything back to simplicity. I love the fact that when all else failed you sat down and asked your body and it responded.. I find that a true miracle and the other miracle is that you listened. I know before Universal Medicine I wanted to know why my back was so painful and I am fairly sure I was given the answers but I never took the time to really listen because that would mean making different choices in my life.
I agree Alison – it is one thing to ask the body, but to listen and then respond by acting on it accordingly is the miracle. What is shared by Rachel is inspirational, as this way of being with our body is there for everyone. It is not a special gift.
When you think about it why don’t we listen to our bodies and why would we think it strange to listen to our bodies and why do we consider it a miracle to respond to what our bodies tell us? We certainly have everything upside down and not just the water!
Thank you Dianne, what a superb example of finding the resolution to a problem from within your body rather than from a theory or ‘wives tale’ and simply proves beyond doubt that our bodies hold the resolution to all our ills. I have never met anyone who “talks to ovaries” or any other organ for that matter, but I know some amazing people whose sensitivity and awareness is very astute and are educating thousands of other people to re-claim this awareness for themselves. Taking a moment to sit and feel what our bodies are truly needing can be an amazing revelation, as you have experienced. We are sitting on a gold mine of information all we need to do is stop, feel and explore it.
So true rowenakstewart. The ability to be still and listen to your body is so supportive. As Dianne has shared in this piece, our body knows if only we take the time to ask and then listen to the response.
“We are sitting on a gold mine of information all we need to do is stop, feel and explore it.” Love that, rowenakstewart, it is so true, it is up to us to try it out, it will be amazing how you will understand what is being communicated to you from the body. Otherwise, we are over-riding all the messages that the body is giving to us.
‘We are sitting on a gold mine of information all we need to do is stop, feel and explore it.’ So true Rowena, I love the way you say this. A gold mine we are.
Thank you Dianne for your sharing. There is someone I know who suffers from this conditions, once he gets the hiccups it stays for months, leaving him very sore. He dreads when the next episode comes. Once the hiccups lasted a few months, which went onto extremely bad fever. I will definitely share your blog with him.
Amita, I feel to just support your thought of sharing this valuable understanding as presented by Dianne Trussell of how it may be possible to dissipate the presence of the ‘hiccups’ as it was an experience of mine some time ago of a neighbour that passed away, supposedly as a result of a bout of the hiccups that lasted a couple of years. It is amazing to me what we naturally know from a deeper wisdom but it seems to me that in many instances it has not been remembered until we have been reminded by Serge Benhayon via the presentations of Universal Medicine the blessing of once again learning to ‘listen to the body’.