752 thoughts on “Common Sense – True Medicine”

1. This is a great conversation to be having and to remind ourselves that we did practice common sense otherwise we would not have the words for it, now it seems we rely on what we are told or see rather than exercising our own common sense. We seem to believe what we read on social media for example rather than using our common sense to feel if what has been written makes sense or not.

2. “… anything to help us not feel how we truly are, and the consequences of the choices we are making.” Once we break away from common sense it can become like a addiction, a joy-ride of pushing the boundaries in a way that is in opposition to what is truly needed, to see how much we can get away with. We may know the mistakes we are making away from our common sense are a failure but not admit it and embed ourselves further, instead of coming back to ourselves and what we know and feel is true.

3. “Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are; the innate qualities of love, stillness, harmony, and joy that are our birthright. It is our way back to the love that we are.” Amen to this.

4. “Well, it’s common sense to know that when we feel tired, we should rest, and if it is in the evening, maybe even go to bed! Yet how many of us actually do that? How many of us go to bed by 8 to 9 pm, when our bodies start to wind down, and we are falling asleep in the chair in front of the TV anyway?”

5. So simple, we all have a common sense. So the phrase “where’s your common sense?” should actually be “Where is the honouring of your common sense?

   1. Love this Leigh – honouring – such a great word to use in this context – yet so many of us don’t honour our common sense and what we know deep down to be true for us our body and our health.

   2. Brilliant distinction Leigh, it honours the fact we all have common sense equally, yet how are we using it?

6. I love the lightness and also the depth that this blog offers, which come from the same lived qualities in you both that are felt in all your sharing about common sense. It feels what it is, something easy to connect with, always available if we just take the moment to listen and honour it… an immense source of wisdom at our hands.

7. Anne and Paul you use the word over riding a lot; that we over ride what we feel. We cannot stop feeling so what is it about our feelings that we want to quash or dull by using something to dull or numb or worse try to obliterate ourselves. We all feel the unsettlement of the disconnection to our bodies and our soul and in this disconnection we can and do abuse our bodies in the myriad of ways we have devised to quell the unsettlement which actually can never be quelled as the truth of who we are can never be dulled, hidden, squashed, obliterated. Ask any scientist and they will tell you energy cannot be destroyed and we are a mass of energy. So while on the surface it may seem we can harm ourselves and others in the physical sense, energetically the energy is made up of particles that are the same particles that make up the universe and so we know we are everything the universe is. At some level we know this is the unsettlement we feel and try to run away from.

8. It is a bit nuts that we allow our common sense to be overridden. For example, we all know that children play naturally, love to do it and have fun. When they are given space to do this they feel open, joyful, are in their bodies and ready to learn. Why then is it that in some parts of education, only after some research and some ‘scientific’ evidence for it has been produced, that it is accepted that children need to be given the opportunity to play in school? Honestly, this defies all common sense to me!

9. I loved this, conversation about ‘common sense’. It’s not from the intelligence and it is from the heart, we all know this and we have separated far from it. We use this term for granted and from this lack or separation, weird expensive projects, come along to bring us back to this ‘common sense’ and it’s a no wonder they seldom succeed. Or if they succeed, they are only temporary.

   The whole body sense is within us all, are you ready and willing to tap into it or be obedient to it. For when we are obedient, the wisdom will flow to serve you and everyone else around us.

10. What we cannot be robbed of is our common sense, that innate feeling/knowing we have that resonates as true in our bodies… it is always there.

11. I love common sense and our bodies’ way of sign posting us. And then there is something else that I am exploring at the moment which is the innate intelligent sense we have that considers and plans eventualities and the things we can choose to take care of ourselves and others.

    1. I feel ‘common sense’ has been tarnished so many of us can become entangled in what is “right” or what is “wrong”. The question we need to be asking more is, what is “true”. When we live from here, the world will become a different place to live and be around. What will health services or businesses or anything that serves people, be like when we came from the place of truth. Worth pondering on…

12. It is a great point – can ‘common sense’ be a commonly held sense that is universal across the board? We think that it’s a set of a rules we adopt ourselves to through our upbringing and societal environment, and we can re-write if our circumstances change, but I get a sense that in truth that is not so.

13. What a great conversation to share with the world! I had not considered the origins of the expression ‘common sense’ I just knew that it was a sense I deeply valued. We seem to have gone wayward the moment we devalued the word common and put more value on individuality – just for starters!

14. I agree Doug, ‘religion, science and philosophy’ these three things alone which are considered to have a high authority tell us our common sense cannot be trusted. It’s time to start questioning those in authority!

15. I really get it when you say here that despite what we might believe or tell ourselves, when we abuse or disregard ourselves we are actually harming the common unity and oneness that we all share as human beings together – so our actions are much further reaching than we perhaps allow ourselves to be aware of?

    1. Yes I really got this as well. We have an opportunity to question where that voice and nudge comes from that means we end up doing something we later come to look at as entirely illogical.

    2. I baulked at this responsibility for a long time but lately I see things differently. My interest is seriously woken up and I am super curious about all that is at play and how things unfold.

16. There is truly a wealth of wisdom here, examining common sense in such detail is so supportive, it could truly be every human being’s foundation for life. I like how you point out that this sense we have in common of what is true or not is something we all equally have, yet we may choose to dull our awareness of it, or deny what we sense. I know I have had periods where I felt my common sense of something, yet no one else was living this way or aware of what I was and knew to be true, so I didn’t honour it instead I doubted myself. It’s so crazy as we do know the truth.

17. A fascinating conversation on common sense and its use and misuse. In the UK we still have common-land which is an area of land that has open access for all.

18. We actually all do know what will support us and what will not but we choose to not listen to ourselves. I know this for myself when I first tasted alcohol and cigarettes as the taste was disgusting but like many others, I overrode my initial disgust and persevered.

19. I love that definition of common sense ‘a feeling we have in our whole body’ and one we all share, for that’s what it is but we’ve lived and still live in a way where we do not honour this sense, and so our path back is to understand those ways we want to be individual and not come back to the common whole we are all part of, for we all share this equally and with this sense we all contribute to and support each other to be and live the wholeness we are.

20. The most common unsense to overwrite common sense is selfishness.

21. Common sense and our innate knowing are the same but once taken in and a thought or belief added it changes everything and allows a false sense of knowing that we begin to trust. True medicine is connection to our innermost and living from here from our bodies the wisdom simply makes sense and living this way brings a joy and healing to our lives.

22. Common sense – the simplicity of just knowing, but the moment we allow doubt to analyze it things get complex and complicated. And still we can discern and or validate our common sense by the use of the right means which is part of common sense.

23. I’ve come across some stunningly clever people, rocket scientists and Physics olympians who have no common sense in the practical world. So how is that? And why do we value intelligence over the other – it makes no sense (nonsense).

24. From this blog, it’s clear to see how we have overridden our innate common sense for nonsense and run with that. The thing is this overriding is not getting us anywhere except going around in circles.

25. Life is very simple when we apply common sense to it, it becomes complicated when we override the common sense we have.

26. When we get so well trained in believing what is outside us has power over us and tells us what is right or wrong etc. it is understandable how we find it hard to trust what we feel and hold it as the authority we can live by.

27. Love the true empowerment you offer here in that we all can equally connect with a universal form of wisdom from our body, a sensing of what’s needed in life rather than thinking that we have to learn it all from people who are more knowledgeable. Knowledge is very needed but not at the expense of also being connected with our innate wisdom.

    1. Yes Fiona and it is vital for the health and wellbeing of ourselves, our families and our communities that we investigate this possibility and this relationship.

28. Paul and Anne, I absolutely love this. It is the most life expanding conversation, one that every single one of us on this planet needs to have. You have shared so much as to the lack of common sense so many of us live with which is totally at odds with what we actually know. Common sense comes naturally from being in connection with our body, and as this is the place we feel it, maybe if we listened to our body more often those choices which lack any form of sense may be replaced with choices that are oozing with life changing, and sometimes life saving, common sense.

    1. I agree Ingrid, one section that really stood out for me was that common sense comes from a connection to the whole of ourselves, the whole body and being, and so the sense that comes therefore supports the whole, rather than one part like the mind alone that then makes decisions as a part irrespective of the whole.

29. Common sense may contain the message that you don’t need to be special to understand what is happening or to respond to what is happening – that you are already very capable of that understanding and response and there is no need to make it more complicated.

30. Common sense is to honour our body and not listen to our mind that can choose to over ride the intelligence of the body whenever it sees fit. By honouring our body, and living by the rhythms and cycles that are all around us life has a renewed vitality a vitality and vibrancy that is a kin to when we were children. “ ….to see the sun rise, nature in all its glory and what it holds for us, to spend the day with our selves and the people around us is a joy, and the feeling of a sense we all have in common with all of that.” Absolutely love this, I can feel the simplicity and beauty of life when we all have and listen to our common sense.

31. There is a lovely bonding/union that comes when we share a common sense. Something two or many people are all feeling in their bodies to be true.

32. When I read this blog again it occurs to me that common sense in its true meaning is not an intellectual thing but a form of intelligence that comes from listening to and responding to our bodies and what they are communicating to us. The whole body intelligence.

33. This is a sweet article about the commonality of what is felt to be true amongst all people. And it would seem that, in looking at the media today, there is a constant struggle between what is commonly known to be true and what is being chosen. So in a sense we all seem to be defying our common sense, even though it is our way to, at the very most basic level, live connected with eachother.

34. I had never really considered the word common sense and how much we have allowed it to be changed from its true meaning, to feel what is there to be felt from our bodies and not from knowledge. How often do we say that someone does not have any common sense, meaning they are stupid when in fact I love your description from the sensus communis … a feeling felt and shared by all equally so.

35. So when someone says “They just have no common sense” – that’s not true, as in is a shared sense of something, a feeling. The only reason why someone may not have observed the same feeling is that it’s been overridden in some way.So we all have common sense.

    1. That’s true Jennifer, it would be correct to say “That person is not connected to their common sense”, and it’s much more respectful and equalising.

36. “brings us back to the truth, that we all share a knowing we have in common”. Common sense brings us back to truth that is felt by all.

    1. Yes, and that is available for all – should we choose to avail ourselves.

37. Common Sense is something that we innately know to be true, and the more we use our common sense the more we realise how much better our body feels when we honour the common sense we know, if I have a big meeting the next day I know that it makes common sense to prepare everything the day before and to have an earlier night than usual.

38. Like in maths where the shortest distance between two points is a line, common sense is the shortest way from where one stands to truth.

39. Common sense is simplicity and truth in the most practical way.

    1. And the simplicity of that is mirrored in your comment Alex.

40. I love it – when we dissect words we can reconnect to the power and truth that has inspired the words to be formed and uttered in the first place.

41. “Yes, I remember feeling trapped in the sadness and loneliness of life growing up, and ended up doing things, like eating and drinking in a way that was not healthy, just to cope with the way I was feeling.”
    This was my way of living, until I found my way to Universal Medicine and the Ageless Wisdom, that I have always known inside out. It is very joyful to now feel sadness, without feeling trapped in it as I used to. It is there at times, that is the reality of allowing myself to feel, but it is not there forever. Eating and drinking to numb sadness only keeps it trapped in our bodies, so then we do feel as though we are trapped in an endless cycle where there seems to be no end.

42. “Common sense has been demeaned by Religion through its dogma, and Science has created a complexity around understanding, where things can’t be that simple, and Philosophy made it even more obscure. The word common has been twisted to mean something or someone that is of lower standing to the ruling class ­– i.e. commoner – or someone with lower moral values – i.e. they’re common – or that’s just too simple to be the answer. And so there has been a setup of some people thinking they know more than the masses (the ‘common’ people) and the masses going into a lack of confidence in what they truly feel and know.”

    This is a long paragraph, but it clearly exposes just how it is that as a humanity the simplicity of common sense has become too difficult to attain, why there is constant complication, over thinking situations, wanting to know more than an other, not wanting to be seen as common. It is really very insidious, the legacy that organised religion has left upon our world.

    1. Thanks for what you have shared here Leigh, I feel “common” as a word in its truth is really another term for equality, not something lesser. If we strive for individualism them we may want to either be less or more than what we all commonly are, we want to stand out in some way as an individual instead of surrendering into the beauty of oneness and equality, and all that we are and share in common.

43. The simplicity of applying our common sense to honouring what our bodies are feeling is all too easy, yet it is something that we fight, tooth and nail to not do. If something so simple is dishonoured, what else do we dishonour in our lives, what people do we ignore, how do we treat others when we are speaking with them, how do we respond to workplace issues? The impact grows and grows and it all begins with our first choice to ignore the common sense that our body communicates.

    1. Yes, it’s a denial of our power, the current of truth and love that exists within us all equally.

44. There is so much in this article that I want to comment on. For now though to connect common sense to a bodily feeling makes it very clear to me why so many in our world are living ways of life that make no sense.

45. Great to have common sense defined so clearly. Something we can all work on.. with our body.

46. How different every aspect of life would be if we all applied common sense to everything that we do.

47. Thank-you for revealing for us all the true meaning of the saying, common sense, this has taken on a very different feel now.

48. Common sense is the ultimate form of medicine and self-care treatment… it just makes common sense.

49. I love the dialogue outline of this blog. This real and practical conversation should be front page of our leading health journals and magazines publications.

50. ‘Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true.’ yes building a loving caring relationship with our body and staying present with it allows us to feel and be guided by the common sense our body has in abundance.

51. I really enjoyed reading this again, thankyou. The way common sense has been twisted over history through the bastardisation of words and by religion and science is very interesting. Common sense is something we were all unified by, it’s a sense and a knowing, not a knowledge, and requires no hierarchical structures because we have it equally.

52. Who does not love to have a person with common sense around? I know I do, as they feel very safe to be with and to work with. We all at some level want the common good for all.

53. Common sense = common good for all.

54. I cannot count the amount of times I have laid on the couch falling asleep and yet feeling too tired to get myself to bed. But, in the hour or so before this occurs what was I thinking and where was my mind in not clocking my day is complete and it is time to go to sleep.

55. “Common sense is definitively a knowing – not a knowledge-based thing – which also explains why it transcends all belief barriers.” That’s brilliant Anne and Paul. I’d never considered that before. Common sense is a universal language.

56. There seems to be a big divide between those that know common sense and those that don’t in any area of life and for those that do it can be hard to make sense of the fact that there are some that don’t. What is key here though is that we do all know common sense to the nth degree, but we have just lost touch with how to connect to it.

57. Great blog, there is much that common sense offers us, yet we so often disregard what our body is telling us and override what we truly know, and as a result we end up damaging our body by the choices we make, it makes common sense to listen to what our body tells us.

58. We all know that it makes sense to look after ourselves, yet somewhere along society the common sense of that got lost, to the extent that disregard and self-admonishment has become commonplace, the ‘norm’ acceptable way to be.

    1. When we don’t speak up about the norm we are allowing this norm to continue, which as we all know becomes another moment that gets forgotten but returns with escalating health statistics we are seeing in our current world climate.

59. It is often jaw dropping the extent to which we ignore and override our senses and the messages from our body… often each choice taking us further from ourselves until we suffer in the outplay of our choices… pointing the finger at the world or at God for our bad luck or ill health… choosing ignorance to the fact that we are responsible for our choices and at any moment can connect to the truth and begin to live it.

60. I love this conversation and the way that you and Paul are both woven into this blog seamlessly is very beautiful too. Common sense is something that we all know deep inside works but as you have pointed out in this blog, we turn our backs on it. Universal Medicine offers tools to help this “common sense”, that we all have naturally, be more at the fore ground, with this support I am way less likely to override these feelings when they arise.

61. I love what is discussed here about ‘common’ meaning community or equality. It feels so inclusive – and so common sense is what makes sense to everyone from what the body tells us 

62. Paul and Anne, are you telling us we’ve known all along how to live and be?!! And that we turned our backs on this innate knowingness, investing in what others told us, what so-called religious experts decreed?? I think you are – and now we need to commence the slow and steady march back to the common sense that is common to us all.

63. Well said Anne and Paul. The sense that we all do have in common, when we choose to listen to it, is the amazing sense of the body that feels everything.

64. I never saw common sense in this way, yet it makes sense!!! And I love that it’s something we can all share and access, and it’s interesting to feel how much we can ignore it and how it’s when we’re not with our bodies that we really do so.

65. “Common sense is what we know, what we feel to be true, and we all feel this. The only difference between us is how aware we choose to be of it, and how willing we are to use and honour it, or ignore and or over-ride it.” Common sense is an inner knowing of what is true- but our pesky thoughts can override this., Then we are in trouble. Trusting what we feel to be true has more value I have found.

66. It’s the inner knowing that is treated as something revolutionary when the whole time is has been available in abundance to support us all.

67. Thank you Paul and Anne for making it so clear. I can really see how our common sense and the value we placed on it has been eroded and diminished over time in the name of inequality.

68. Always great to re read your sharing on common sense, and appreciate how important it is to acknowledge that it is something we all have, not just a few! The more we use it the more it will serve us.

69. Even though common sense lies equally within us all, each and everyone of us has overridden it at some point in our lives whether that was by drinking alcohol, over-eating, watching tv, rushing etc., but in the overriding we can learn so much about what common sense offers us if we choose to be totally honest with what is going on within ourselves and in life when we chose to ignore the simplicity of common sense.

70. I love the attention you bring to the word ‘common’. So often it is used in a disparaging way, that something is common as muck and so it gets devalued. And yet within common are the shared values that make up humanity, the rich feelings that we all share and can relate to. A common sense of things is always felt by others… these are the people who are deeply practical, understand and can feel how the universe works, and apply that understanding in any situation.

71. As I read this tonight, it takes me to an aspect of ‘common sense’ that is deeply missing in society today. That absolute knowing and understanding of another, clearly reading what they are thinking that is behind the actions or words spoken. A common sense that feels, understands and supports.

72. It makes no sense to keep doing these things over and over without learning from them. When reading it all in black and white I can see how ridiculous it all is and the level of disregard that goes on when we ignore and override the messages the body is telling us.

73. Wow, it is fascinating to consider how throughout the ages, with the onset of the championing of knowledge that we still have to this day and the promulgation of institutionalised religion that would prescribe us with what was good and not good for us and our bodies, that common sense, our innate wisdom, has diminished the way it has in our modern times. It is an eye-opener to consider this – that in ancient times we lived by our own inner code which was universal at the same time, uniting us all, and how now, divided we sadly stand, having given our power and common sense away to what remains today over us – through our own choosing – as the dark rule.

74. Common sense equals the simplicity of life, when we don’t add anything else to silence the clarity we receive from within, in front of every situation.

75. Reading this dialogue one would wonder about the intelligence of our species. It seems there is a brilliant intelligence to be applied to technology feats, but that this intelligence stops short of common sense – particularly when it comes to the body. But perhaps there is something else going on – perhaps, there is an intelligence at play, that has nought to do with common sense and everything to do with keeping ourselves lesser than the true intelligence and gladness we actually are…

76. “I demand the freedom to choose what I want, to do as I please, no matter what” Ouch! This is so often what we say to ourselves, and it does so much harm to our body. It is also totally arrogant of us to assume we can do as we please, as every choice we make affects everyone else too. This freedom we demand is actually not freedom at all. In fact it imprisons us deeper in behaviours that do not serve ourselves or anyone. If we listen to our body it will show us the way. In this we find true freedom.

77. “Common sense is a knowing” yes it is, we like to think that it is something that is knowledge, but it is anything but that, it is innate within each of us all.

78. In many ways common sense is so obvious and simple it is a wonder how often we choose instead common nonsense.

79. ‘Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are; the innate qualities of love, stillness, harmony, and joy that are our birthright. It is our way back to the love that we are.’ How wise common sense is!

80. There is a sea of difference between the knowing that comes from the body and the knowledge we access through the mind. The neglect of the body, the neglect of what we feel through it, the alleged primacy of the mind explain why, people tend to live lives contrary to any true notion of common sense and do things which do not make any sense.

81. Our common sense, inner knowing and innate wisdom are our divine right. Over riding our truth for the sake of any mental thoughts may be an incredibly familiar response done by the masses but it doesn’t make it true, loving, harmonious or joy-full for anybody.

82. Thank you for breaking down the original meaning of common sense here. I love that it is a sense or a feeling that we can register in the body and something that unites us all. I find whenever I am faced with a problem or a disagreement it is usually common sense that is the one unified truth that I find everyone can agree on!

    1. Absolutely agree Andrew. To understand that common sense is directly related to what we feel in our bodies makes complete sense!

83. It’s so crazy that we override our common sense. Our common sense is there to guide us, yet we constantly make decisions that go against it. Life is so much easier when we listen to it. When we don’t it simply creates a whole lot of drama in our lives.

84. Thank you for exploring this together and exposing the many ways that we have lost touch with our common sense but if we choose to re-connect to it then we have access to our own ‘true medicine’ and natural living way that will restore us to joy and harmony and be a growing reflection to others.

85. It had not occurred to me that common sense is a knowing but it is exactly that. Instead of feeling something to be true which can take slightly longer. common sense instantly knows whether something is right or not – there is no time to feel; it just knows and there is not one drop of doubt whatsoever, yet even with this absolute knowing we still override common sense because we simply don’t want to know who we truly are and the responsibility that comes with this, our part that makes up the All.

86. I went to a community talk on vitality last night and it was discussed how little attention we pay to actually preparing ourselves for a rejuvenating sleep. Considering the level of exhaustion far too many of us are feeling in today’s world this is quite obviously something we all need to both ponder and sleep on…

87. Common sense because it is common to us all shows that we are here to support each other. So if someone overrides what they know to be true then another one has a responsibility to express their concern to remind that person of the truth. A very long time ago when I was giving up smoking and doing well I relented and went to the bar of the jazz venue I used to frequent and as I asked for some tobacco a voice from the other end of the bar said ” Don’t serve her, she wants to give up” This gave me a stop moment and a chance to checkin and remember my resolve. I did not buy any tobacco and it was not long after that that I could firmly renounce any form of smoking. Support from friends in those moments is invaluable.

88. I love learning about words and their true meaning, even though in reading this blog I realise that many words I don’t question or look for their deeper meaning. The meaning of common sense is beautiful, a feeling in common, which alludes to the fact that we all feel things and are energetically connected through our sixth sense at all times. This is a body wisdom we can all call on at any time.

89. I love this no-nonsense and practical approach to common sense. Thank you Anne and Paul.

90. Anne and Paul – I love the playfullness of this blog and how you have written it! I also could not help but notice a one liner saying how growing older is not the same as growing up! I could not agree more…and I have to say that there were many a time in my early to mid 20s and then my early 30’s when I just kept wondering when I would feel like I was a grown-up. I mean, it was strange because… I had a drivers licence, I studied and had degrees, I got married, I had a child, house, car … etc etc, but not one of these things actually made me feel like I was really an adult, a grown-up! I always had this feeling that I there was something missing, something I was still waiting for. And in all honesty, as crazy as it may sound, I don’t feel I really ‘grew up’ until I encountered the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and began to live these principles in my life on a day to day basis, to the best of my ability. For me, today, real growth, real wisdom is based on energetic responsibility as taught (and lived) by Serge, and not based on the age we are. I have been so deeply inspired by this man and his family and his presentations, and have made choices in my life to begin living more and more of this energetic responsibility and I can say that hopefully next time around it won’t take me so long to live it. Having said that, I can also say that the levels of energetic responsibility are never ending and so the growth and opportunity offered is also endless. So having grown up now, I cannot wait to grow up more!

91. The unraveling of common sense in this article brings a depth of understanding to its nature that I personally had not before allowed myself to connect with. It makes enduring sense that what is felt in one is also a common knowing in another. The mechanics of this may be different for each person, but the essence of truth is what we all hold in common.

92. What an amazing sharing of the truth of common sense known in our bodies but not lived, I love it. Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true. But if we separate from the whole of who we are, a part of us can take over and let our thoughts run the show. This leads to ill health indulgence and the lack of all we know inside and goes against all our bodies are telling us. However the simplicity of connection and flow really does change everything and allows a true caring way of living and being for us all.

93. Love this breakdown of common sense Anne and Paul, a ‘common’ ‘sense’ that both connects us to and helps us to better understand humanity, as well as ourselves and the flow of how everything fits together!

94. I love the simplicity of common sense – and yet, we often baulk at it and want things to be complex, expertise-driven and complicated. This is when we drift towards fancy and mind-full solutions rather than the innateness of our true knowing which delivers the answers to our woes.

95. Loved your blog, common sense is something that we all have available to us as an inner knowing if we choose, it is a depth of wisdom that can help us to support ourselves and others.

96. Thank you Paul and Anne, I enjoyed reading this again and coming to a deeper understanding of how knowledge is very different to knowing – which is part of our common sense. In a world full of ever increasing information, fads and trends we have much enticing us from outside of ourselves to make choices and live in a way that overrides our inner knowing and developing our common sense.

97. Anne and Paul, I love this, and the feeling and understanding I now have of common sense that we all have it, it’s our innate sense within and that we have it in common, so it’s micro (us) and macro the all. And to adhere to this sense we are indeed in the rhythm of life, in the grace of meeting life in the joy we are.

98. Sad but true, we lost our collective common sense as human beings when we fell for the lie that we are individuals on a lonely crusade in search of ‘self’ and thus not part of the Whole we are each an irrevocable part of no matter our chosen ignorance to it. By living apart from the whole, which is the community and Oneness we each know ourselves to be an important and working part of, we have subjected our bodies to a vastly reduced form of intelligence that will not let us know the truth of our origins and thus the All, we all, are each a part of.

99. When we have ‘common sense’ put into action as a truth known by all, we will have a harmonious society.

100. I love the word ‘common sense’. It immediately says that we have a way of sensing or ‘feeling’ the truth and that it is something we all have in ‘common’. The question then becomes, what has happened for us to go against our most natural way of being to create such division, separation and hatred when underneath this there is a truth we all hold in common?

101. If common sense is definitively a knowing, we’d clearly be living with a common sense once we connect to that knowing.

102. “Having common sense ……makes us part of a community.” I loved reading these words as I can so clearly feel not only the “common sense” but the truth they convey. It then follows, that we all, as individual members of this community, have a responsibility to all other members of this community to live this truth in every single moment.

103. Common sense “brings us back to the truth, that we all share a knowing we have in common.” The more we connect to our inner-heart the more we realise that we share a love in common with everyone else.

104. In response to Simon, what you describe reminds me of a film, I think it was ‘The Imitation Game’, based on a true story.

105. Its funny – I remember a friend at school who was an alma mater in mathematics, truly a brilliant mind. Yet what was interesting was that he lacked even the most basic common sense and his ability to interact with the world at a day to day level was poor. This disconnect between the mind and someone’s livingness is really what should be taught – otherwise we have minds that will create incredible technology, but with no livingness of then how to apply it and if it really supports humanity.

106. Overriding what we know to be true makes absolutely no sense. What you have shared in this blog Anne and Paul is simple and full of common sense and wisdom, thank you.

107. “To wake to another day having slept a sound sleep of early to bed and early to rise, having eaten what was true for our bodies, not having stimulated our senses or dulled our selves with our particular choice of drug, is to be part of a symphony of rhythm – to see the sun rise, nature in all its glory and what it holds for us, to spend the day with our selves and the people around us is a joy, and the feeling of a sense we all have in common with all of that.” Absolutely gorgeous – this sounds and feels like common sense to me!

108. Thank you Paul and Anne for your expose on Common Sense. I relate to this comment “Our common sense- is actually an impulse of truth, a road map if you like, of our way back to a more simple loving way of life”

109. Common sense is listening to our bodies – but we fight this – we call in something more important and that comes first. But what if that is exactly the recipe for sickness? Ignoring the wisdom of our body? When we have an amazing opportunity to connect to a wisdom that can forever support us and show us that our bodies are not ‘bad’ when they are sick or ‘good’ when they are healthy, but rather an honest marker for how we are living.

110. Common sense is really not that common that’s for sure that’s because common sense is the wisdom of the body and generally speaking we neglect to re-connect with our bodies and access the wisdom available to us.

111. Sensus communis – a feeling we have in our whole body, not just a thought we have in our minds, that we all share and have access to equally so.

112. That is a really interesting blog which was adventurous in where it went all in the name of common sense! I can feel my choices contribute to a ‘a symphony of rhythm ‘ and that is actually quite a beautiful responsibility.

113. When I was young I had no idea what people meant when they said ‘what does that feel like?’. I went straight to my head to try and analyse the problem. Today I often get asked to look at things I have no idea how to fix, no experience with… and if I just stop for a moment and allow myself the space then invariably my common sense and ability to feel brings about a positive next step. It’s a wonderful feeling!

114. Common Sense comes with a simplicity that doesn’t need second guessing. This my body knows and what I am learning is certainly not common in the world to the point it is considered disturbing to the part of me and to others that wants to live life in a complete lack of common sense but with an arrogance of thinking that it is right anyway. Rocking the boat or not I can’t deny that following my body makes the most sense in and of life.

115. I often felt that farmers and people who were connected with the land had more common sense – maybe because they are also more connected to the wisdom of their bodies.

116. Another thing that we were not taught as children is that our essence and what it holds is needed to be lived in our world, as every where there are people that do not yet know that there is a difference in energy and that we are responsible not only for ourselves in how we live, but that how each of us lives affects the whole world.
     These are common sense facts that we have let go by the way side. Facts that we need to again re-introduce to our lives and ultimately the world.

117. It is common sense to live from our body. Simply feeling this leaves me sad that we were not taught this simple truth as we grew up.

118. Growing up, my dad often shared with me that most people don’t have good ‘common sense’. We had interesting discussions about this, and that I needn’t expect someone to be wiser, simply by virtue of their age. What a gift it was to have had such openness with my father on this…
     The thing was, I was also acutely aware that no-one around me seemed to have a fully intact sense of the ‘common sense’ of which you speak Paul and Anne – this ability to truly live in honour of the myriad of signals and messages given to us everyday by our own bodies and the Universe, messages that let us know where we are honouring ourselves and all those around us, and where we are not (inclusive of our care for our physical bodies).
     I remember well, thinking and saying that everyone was ‘a little bit mad’ (myself included) – such was the sensitivity to the wayward way we all lived, and the knowing that by not following the great gift of sensus communis, we were living less than we could, a distortion of who we innately are…
     It was not until coming to the work of Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness, that true sensus communis was found – here it ALL was, the whole, encompassing way of living in such connection confirmed, a way that of course has no end to the depth of love that can be lived. For if we restore the knowing that true common sense is inextricably a part of our whole and divine natures, then of course our experience and awareness of this will continue to grow, and deepen. For in true common sense, we are in ‘communion’ with God and our innate divinity – and no less.

119. Love this: “Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.”
     There is true freedom, the true energetic freedom I have heard Serge Benhayon present on so very well, in these words – the breath of life, of true life. Thank-you both Anne and Paul for sharing your illuminating discussion.

120. “Yes, the way we are living is making us sick, as people and as a society.” There is a lot here in this sentence, there is an acknowledgement that how we are living is no ok anymore, that there is a level of awareness we do have, but say no to that awareness by overriding it, with the greater need to enjoin, rather than go with what we feel. This is what is damaging and dishonouring. There is much for consideration in what you have shared here Anne, thank you.

121. I have always considered common sense to be something that is not knowledge, something that is innate. It makes sense to me that it is something we can all tap into. I considered that it is the kind of sense that means you innately know how to live well with other people and how to look after yourself and others well. I remember the first time I came across academics at university when I was 18 and had just left home. I said to my family that what struck me was that they didn’t seem to have common sense. Of course this is not true for all academics, but intelligence and knowledge does not bring common sense, that is something quite different. So my feeling is as soon as we make knowledge far more important than what we feel and know in our hearts and bodies to be true, we are setting ourselves adrift from something very precious…common sense.

122. I had never considered our common sense to be our 6th sense but that certainly makes sense. More and more I realise the first feeling i have about something or someone is the true one….unless it is a reaction of course, and then it can’t be, in truth, the first feeling because it is a re-action , so `i must have overridden and or ignored my first feeling like you say.

123. Over riding our inner knowing and looking for solutions outside of ourselves can become a full time occupation, which inevitably only leads on to us going around in circles, and becoming frustrated. The funny thing is when someone says something that is just common sense and we then realise actually I knew that all along, and ask ourselves how come I didn’t think of that myself.

124. What I am slowly learning is sometimes the meaning of words and sayings can be twisted and turned over thousands of years, we end up having a modern day meaning that is the complete opposite from its original intent. It’s beautiful to see that we can give these old sayings a new lease on life.

125. This is what is needed, a no nonsense common sense reality check. When I first started to attend Universal Medicine presentations, a lot of subjects were discussed reminding everyone of the harm we do to ourselves and how by making simple every day common sense choices our health and our lives would improve, and they have ten fold, but I remember saying to myself ‘I know that, so why haven’t I made better choices’ and I can only now say that I was asleep to common sense and it would seem that so are many, many others.

126. Common sense is the wisdom of our body. It is shrouded by our minds through academia, sport, culture, religion and even the norms and expectations of the modern world as nearly everything is used at the expense of the body and not in true harmony with it. Enter the ageless wisdom. It shows us how there is a way to live that is in alignment with the body and hence allows this common sense to be the way we live. It just requires a lot of love honesty and truth.

127. Common Sense is the knowing from the body, rather than relying on a mind that feeds us all sorts of misinformation. As our body is there to support us in full I know which one I choose.

     1. When I choose from my body, sometimes my head is in strong disagreement and it doesn’t always appear to be the common sense choice to make, however undoubtedly it will be a true choice and eventually the loving outplays of this will be felt by all.

128. I really believe you have highlighted another change and emphasis on the word ‘knowing’ to be ‘knowledge’ very different indeed. As you say ” Knowing that comes from our bodies – a feeling we all share, to Knowledge, that was attributed to our minds, and held more by some than others, in separation to the whole.” In our society knowledge is championed whereas, knowing is held in scepticism.

129. Wow there is so much here showing us all how we can choose to live that not only considers the whole, but can create the world we all want to be a part of. We all say we want ‘peace on earth’ or wish everyone would work together for the greater good etc. (many at times fly away comments really, without common sense) but with all our little individual play-outs of life we are all adding to what this world looks, feels, tastes and is like. If we lived by our common sense we can not but be more harmonious, accepting, understanding and loving of each other and ourselves. Brilliant sharing Anne and Paul, thank you!

130. Common sense is something we all have in common regardless of what nationality we are, or what religious beliefs we have, everything can be brought back to common sense if we choose to listen to our bodies. Overriding common sense and following the masses only leads to more complication in life and discomfort within the body.

131. One thing that the Ageless Wisdom presented by Serge Benhayon makes a mark is that it makes sense of everything- of why there are so many fractured truths in our world, dressed up in the flavours of major and minor world religions, of why we have a ‘new age’ spiritual movement that seems as wayward as conventional religion, of why the promise of drug-fuelled or yoga-fuelled enlightenment ends in disaster, sickness and mental disturbance. It also brings an understanding to why we have so much corruption, cruelty, ignorance and hence suffering and misery on this earth. Everything I have heard presented by Universal Medicine not only makes sense, it offers the understanding of how we can live without this denseness affecting us (‘observe and not absorb’), and how it can truly change, simply by us becoming more true to ourselves.

132. Common sense gives me space, which would otherwise be filled with complication, analysis, worry and delay. It is is the simple, no frills, stream-lined route to the truth – which we all already know.

133. Common sense has been reduced to following life saving precautions like not driving into oncoming traffic or using electrical appliances in water! If it not life threatening, I can play around and risk getting a disease or the resulting social or emotional impacts of my behaviour. Responsibility is ignored. Common sense is truly that which affects our commonality for which we are all responsible.

134. A great re read Anne and Paul. The fact that we have deviated so much through history and personally from what makes ‘common sense’ tells me that I am seeking something else, not trusting in what I know to be true. This turning away from the truth that is held in my body and our collective bodies, is an arrogance of the highest kind.

135. “Was our common sense, our knowing living way, cherished and nurtured?” This to me is why we stopped honouring our inner knowing, a sense that we understand much more than what we have allowed ourselves to feel. As children we have a natural spherical understanding of life which is simple, it either is or is not, but this gets clouded as we conform to life and its lineal way of seeing everything. Just honouring our children and their feelings and allowing them to express their wisdom allows them to stay true to themselves and this is what we need to be able to take into our adult life.

136. Returning to this blog and re-reading it confirms the importance of us listening to our inner knowing of common sense. It’s so easy, why do we have to make life so complicated? As our awareness increases, so the common sense comes to the foreground, simple answers and choices become available to us, from keeping the questions simple, connecting to the truth we know and feel in our bodies.

137. When I bring things back to common sense all the complications and confusion just seem to disappear. So bringing medicine back to this makes total sense. Just the words ‘common’ and ‘sense’ say it all. Common unites us and sense is something we all feel.

138. The way you tease it out makes me feel like common sense is something we all have in common and that comes from the body whereas everything else are justifications and mind-driven solutions.

139. Common sense can be useful. Common sense tells us that doctors shouldn’t have burnout. They know the body, they have the training. They know exhaustion is bad for you, yet that is what many of them have. It is therefore interesting to know why many doctors, in practice, abandon common sense.

140. Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true.’ A solid foundation of common sense supports us to know truth.

141. Common sense, or the lack there of, is often used as an insult or put down. It feels like there is little value placed on the true understanding of this shared common wisdom and the appreciation that we all come from something far greater than what is visible to us here on earth.

142. A beautiful remembrance of what words really meant and how they have been changed. Truth and its impulse is so important for our bodies, our selves and the world, and simply makes sense of everything. Learning to trust ourselves in all we feel and to honour this is a great journey back to living who we are and expressing this lovingly with the common sense it simply comes with.

143. Paul and Anne, I loved reading your blog again. “Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.” It makes sense to use our common sense and not to override it!

144. Common sense is simple and down to earth and then as we deeply understand those two words we realise its profundity – being something we all innately share. More evidence for me of our intrinsic connection.

     1. This connection we all share is quite profound. We actively chose not to see it when in fact it surrounds us all all of the time.

145. How often have we had the thought to not do something or do something and over ridden it, only to see the disastrous results of our blocking our common sense? Thank you Anne and Paul for this great discussion and clarifying the meanings of these words..

146. Thank you Paul and Anne. This is a beautiful reminder of the common sense that we all share that is innate. Trusting our known common sense rather than overriding it with the million thoughts that come into our mind leads to the beautiful connection to a natural rhythm that you describe.

147. I love how you have both taken the words back to their true meaning. It is amazing how much we have changed the meaning of words to be almost the complete opposite of what they originally meant.

148. Being a person that has valued ‘ common sense’ in life I am pleased to see it highlighted as the a guiding light in our life to bring us back to connection with others and our deep feelings. Common sense is as individual as we are, it’s our own instruction manual to be trusted and followed.

149. We have not valued the ‘ common sense ‘ our body is always reflecting, preferring to override this known innate way in preference to following an impractical, unreasonable path, and this is where we make life complex, not trusting the simplicity our body presents.

150. More common sense, I do love common sense, makes me wonder why do we let ourselves get shifted from it in the first place, It is surely great to come back to it, ‘Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are; the innate qualities of love, stillness, harmony, and joy that are our birthright. It is our way back to the love that we are.’

151. I love this Anne and Paul. I always had feelings of things that just ‘made sense’ to me, though I rarely seemed to meet people who felt the same way. When I met Serge Benhayon however, it was like meeting myself in a way that I had never met myself before, as everything he talked about made such sense to me. I felt like I had at last come home. And I thank God for the day I met Serge.

152. “Common sense has been demeaned by Religion through its dogma, and Science has created a complexity around understanding, where things can’t be that simple, and Philosophy made it even more obscure.”

     We have brought so much complexity, around our health and our common sense is, “thrown out of the window”, ignored, many of our health problems and illnesses could be improved and rectified with common sense. By eating a better diet, going to bed earlier, saying to others what we truly feel, instead of being nice or pleasing, exercising in way that is gentle and connected to our bodies, instead of pushing them in a driven or hard way. Then when we go to our medical professionals, and doctors we would be working together with them and collaborating, rather than not taking responsibility for our health, asking them to fix us.

153. “Paul: Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true. But if we separate from the whole of who we are, a part of us can take over and let our thoughts run the show – the part that wants to do it our way, that wants to be individual, that wants to be special, and separate from the whole.”

     It is our strong identity with being individual, separate, and the belief that we have free choice to create our lives in our way with no regard to our bodies and others that seems to be the underlying root cause of all our woes, problems and global issues. In separation from our bodies, inner feelings in our hearts, closed off to others, we are all capable of making choices that harm our bodies and also of harming others, making choices that better our lives with no regard for others. Arriving at a common good, or agreed on common sense, a truth that unifies and unites us as one, is the only way we will live in harmony with one another on this planet, and will cease the wars, conflict and atrocities we inflict on one another, in our separated state of being.

154. We consistently override what we know and feel in our bodies and hearts, compromising our health and quality of life, not expressing our true selves and what we really feel to others, has this un-natural way of being become our normal? Is dis-connection from our bodies and not honoring and expressing what we feel, actually the root cause of our dis-ease, are we resisting the natural harmony and innate, in-built intelligence our bodies offer us every moment, by being busy and in constant motion, not stopping and allowing ourselves the communication our bodies are giving us, on how we can take better care of them?

155. Anne and Paul, I love what you are presenting, it makes sense that we return to a simpler way of being and living, which is impulse from our inner heart, our natural love and deep self respect and care for our bodies and all other people. I don’t mean we try to go back to some hippy utopia of living off the land, we can still have machines and technology, but more return to the simple and common sense truths of life that unify and connect us as a race.

156. What you share here Anne and Paul, shows how much, and frequently we override our common sense, not so intelligent for supposed intelligent human beings. A great question to ask ourselves, ‘Common sense is definitively a knowing – not a knowledge-based thing – which also explains why it transcends all belief barriers. So knowing all that common sense offers, why do we not live that? Why do we choose to over-ride it, knowing the repercussions?’

157. I’ve been allowing myself to have negative thoughts about myself recently; even to the point that others are thinking the same about me too. Now, that just does not make sense and is as harmful, if not more so, as a night out drinking – the effects are worse than a hangover. But I still choose it. ‘Makes no sense’.

158. I just love that the true meaning of common sense is the one unified understanding of what is truth. That just resonates and ignites the spark in me that knows this as a truth.

159. At last, a common sense blog about common sense. It makes me wonder when we often make things complicated, that otherwise would be so much more simple if we applied and lived common sense!

160. There have been many occasions in my life where those with high levels of mental knowledge and intelligence have been said to be lacking in common sense. It is as if the more we delve into the intellect alone, the more we disconnect from the innate intelligence – common sense – in our bodies. If this is true, then it is a price that is not worth paying in my view – for real common sense is very much needed in our world.

161. Thank you, Anne and Paul. This sentence says it all for me – “Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true.” When we stop feeling the whole, the mind is able to take over and fill us with its own agenda which seeks to remain individualised and not connected to the bigger picture of what we are a part of.

162. I love how you’ve collectively re-connected the link between common sense and true medicine, Anne and Paul, and the way you’ve shared it, it’s like sitting on the couch with you both. So casual and yet so powerful, effectively undoing aeons of strategic burying of the truth. The two of you should share more of these chats.

163. “sensus commmunis”
     There is something very beautiful with how this term in its original form looks and feels and sounds. To commune (be in intimacy with) with one’s (full suite of) senses feels rather divine.

164. “When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us. When we don’t, we are in disregard, not only of our selves and our own bodies, but of everyone and everything else too.”
     What this says to me is that the wisdom that naturally resides within us all, is not ours, and not for us to decide when we turn its tap on or off. There is a huge responsibility in us allowing this wisdom to flow from our bodies and from our mouths, and to remove any obstacles that may obscure its flow. As the evolution of humanity literally depends on it.

165. I love the word ‘senseless’ and the saying ‘it makes no sense’ as both indicate how lost we are when we are not connected to whole and therefore aware of what we sense is true and loving or not.

166. There has been great effort made over time to disconnect ourselves more and more from the universal truth that we have access to and that will show us without fail our waywardness and who we truly are. However we cannot in truth turn away from our essence, for it is who we are, but we can find ways of living that will make us forget who we are and what we have access to.

167. To me ‘common sense’ always meant that it was the most logical. When we look at the energetic workings of our body, the world and the universe there is grand logic in it all.

168. “Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.”
     This is awesome. It beautifully illustrates that the university of life resides within us all. And that everything is already known, as it is all the one original knowing. Our job then, is to return to this simple and loving way of life. And our bodies know the way.

169. Anne & Paul whilst driving home yesterday, I got a sense of the fact that as a child we know everything, we have complete common sense but are not practically versed in the world. So today the more we bring life back to sensing and feeling rather than the analytical mind, the greater service we bring to everyone in our lives. But learning to trust that sense is the next step even though common sense, as you share, would know it to be true. I’ve often overruled common sense with analytical thinking – something that makes no sense at all.

170. This is awesome: Anne: Yes, and if we drink alcohol, for example (which does not make sense, given that it is a poison), we lose our common sense, and sometimes we lose so much of it that we even think we are ok to drive, putting ourselves and everyone else at risk. And when we sober up, we ‘come to our senses’ and feel the full force of the sense-less choices we have made.
     Our common sense is so knowing from within but with outside ideals and beliefs we get led astray and over ride what we know so strongly so that we fit in, and as Paul said so we don’t have to feel. This all makes sense to me.

171. I love how you have exposed how we do not value our common sense when actually it is something that we all have in common and is actually a great thing.

172. I love reconnecting to the truth of ‘common sense’. There is such a feeling of unity in it – a place where we are all equal and we all have access to the same intelligence – not from our heads but from within. It feels like a grand ‘equaliser’ in life where we can live beyond or beneath our differences and see how much we really do have in common.

173. Someone was saying to me recently, ( to do with health and safety, storing flammable liquids ) how common sense does not work, because we know, we have the common sense, but we don’t listen to it. When I thought and felt into it, that’s not the fault of common sense, that’s to do with our free will not to listen to the common sense. It’s an example of how we can be as humans, knowing the common sense and choosing not to follow it.

174. To use common sense we have to be ‘common’ in the sense of joint/together/united and ‘sense-ful’ in the sense of sensitive/feeling/aware. So translated that means: we have be connected and aware. Interesting how much we attack both conditions in the way we live…so we do a lot to not be able to use common sense – but separated nonsense.

175. Love how you explore this phrase together, I enjoyed finding out more about the true meaning of ‘common sense’. It’s beautiful to read about and discover what a blessing this phrase can actually be when used correctly.

176. A great sharing and as Paul says ‘common sense is felt by our whole body’ – this seems such an important point, as how often do we just lead with our heads or google something or go to a doctor and not truly trust and feel what is there in our bodies. We accept a professional opinion but we don’t trust what we already know.

177. To focus on what we have in common is far more expanding that to focus on what our differences are.

178. How beautiful and simple is the true meaning of ‘common sense’. Something totally innate and universal, and our particles confirm it so.

179. I love the way this blog is written, capturing the dialogue between you, and unfolding the layers and truth of what common sense really is – something we all hold within in us that is simple, true and connects us all.

180. I love how you both explore the word common and are bringing it back to its original meaning and I was fascinated to read how it was hijacked along the way and that we have been hoodwinked into favouring complexity over simplicity and choosing ourselves over the common good. Great article thank you.

181. Love how you both have broken this down, Common sense is better seen by “the feeling of a sense we all have in common with all of that.” It’s great to see this phrase more clearly and when I hear it again or think it again it won’t have such a tunnel vision. In other words I won’t be as quick to use it to put someone else down or in their place but rather see what the sense is we have in common.

182. ‘Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true.’ And one day we shall all live knowing the truth of this.

183. ‘When we are young, we look at the way adults are living and it does not make sense to us.’ – How true is this, as children we watch and we feel and we know it all – the sad reality is that we learn very quickly to distrust what we feel.

184. Anne and Paul – I have enjoyed re-visiting this communication between you on common sense. It outlines in a very understandable way how easy it is to be in our minds, using it as knowledge and how easily this can override the true common sense – the knowing that comes from our bodies. Serge Benhayon reflects how we can all live from our knowing from our body if we choose to do so – as students of life, we are on the returning to that which is true.
     “It was known and practised by the ancients, but somewhere between Plato and Aristotle we reduced this knowing that comes from our bodies – a feeling that we all shared, to knowledge, that was attributed to our minds, and held more by some than others, in separation to the whole”.

185. I agree Anne and Paul; we don’t need medical reports or loads of statistical data to tell us what we already know. e.g. smoking is bad for you, alcohol is bad for you and all the other things our common sense tells us. I think we choose to appear ignorant because it suits us.

186. “When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us. When we don’t, we are in disregard, not only of our selves and our own bodies, but of everyone and everything else too.” This line stands out to me and has been my experience also that when I don’t listen to the common sense my body present to me I absolutely am already in disregard and disconnection from my body.

187. Reading this blog highlights the fact that we are masters at overriding common sense even when we feel it strongly, otherwise our health would be in a far better state than it currently is. How many of us have eaten, drank, smoked or physically done something we know will harm us and yet do it anyway. We know common sense but have been conditioned to ignore it.

188. Common sense, as you state, is a communal thing, something we all feel, a knowing we have in common. It cannot be confused or doubted, as it is a true knowing in the body, it is a shared lived experience that we all know deeply.

189. I still love the fact that if we apply common sense to life, our choices, what we eat and the way we live then everything seems to make much more sense and flow. I have been a student of the Way of the Livingness as presented by Universal Medicine now for the past 13 years and it presents a common sense very real and practical approach to life. Yet a part of me has wanted to fight this. Why? Why because common sense does not leave room for the individual it is inclusive of the all, of everyone and so there is no recognition.

190. It’s not common knowledge to use our sixth sense. It’s not common to know what the truth is. It’s also not common that we ask for the Truth. If it was not for Serge Benhayon showing me the way, I am not sure how I would develop true awareness, true connection, being able to read life from a true sense, and be seen for the sensitive man I am, rather than the clever ways I fitted in and hid from the world. We are not generally taught there is a spiritual version to our words and feelings and a soul-full version to the true meaning of our words and language.

191. Thank you Anne and Paul. Your commentary tells us we aren’t making the most of our ability to feel what amazing support ‘our common sense is’ and the potential it offers. Instead we go out of our way to avoid it, to pretend it is not there and to run away from it.

192. It is ironic when you see the bastardisation of true words and how this can be used in a way to have power and control over another, organisation, religion, etc – what ever it is, the fact is that we have interpreted it as a word that has a false meaning, whereas it makes complete sense in the true meaning of the word when we see where the world is at today.

193. Knowledge from the body and knowledge from the mind are two entirely different experiences and give completely different results. One (the body) holds all as equal and never makes a decision that leaves anyone lesser. Whilst the mind is capable of making decisions that override the body but generally at the expense of the body. And so it is…Anne and Paul I have loved your dissection of common sense and how you have shown it is knowledge from the body and that we can all be amazing ‘commoners’ which actually is a beautiful thing indeed.

194. Our ‘common sense’ is a reflection of who we all are, that we are all of the same quality in essence and as such, when connected to our bodies, all equally have access to the same great wisdom. This also beautifully reflects our relationship of ourselves with our Universe which we are all an essential part of, in that we can only be unified when we live in harmony with ourselves first then together, the same way that our sixth sense is confirmed by all other senses to restore union to our body and Soul. A Divine reflection of how everything has a true purpose, is connected to and part of a bigger plan and our responsibility is to be aware of and honour what our purpose is.

195. Thank you Anne and Paul for bringing back the true meaning of the term ‘common sense’. When you break it down like you have, it is easy to see how powerful it is to engage our ‘common sense’, rather than over riding what we all know is true, our common sense, and give our power away to the senselessness that currently runs us into the ground, and avoiding how we truly feel. As a society we are exhausted, un-well and not living with the vitality that we all rightly could be living, as is reflected by our rising numbers of illness and disease. We all want to live with vitality, joy and in harmony with each other as this is the natural expression of who we are, and it is through honoring our ‘common sense’ that will guide us all to come together to live in this way.

196. This is a great way to look at the true saying ‘common sense’. I can totally relate to the mentioning of having someone feeling they are more powerful or intelligent if they see themselves as having more common senses than another. It is ugly to see and feel, and one that I am not exempt from. But bring understanding to situations and bringing to light that we have energy coming in and through us, then one lives and breathes True Common sense and one does not; depending on what energy they are aligning to.

197. The word common does at its core imply union. Unity of us all together, connecting with what is common between us. We think we are all so different, but we have more in common than we think.

198. It is much more common for people to express common nonsense than common truth these days. Farmers are more likely to express common sense as they are generally in deeper connection to the land and their bodies. Our bodies know the truth whereas many a common lie is fed through our minds when we are in disconnection to our body.

199. ‘Common sense is what we know, what we feel to be true, and we all feel this’ – this is something we all hold in common and what is common about this is that we fight this ‘knowing’ and allow what is coming from outside of us to be the decider of truth. How different the world would be if we all claimed the truth from within and made it our way – what we would find is that our ‘common sense’ would connect us all in a common knowing of what is true and how to live as one in Humanity. Common Sense is something to be treasured and shared.

200. Hello Anne and Paul, how do we have many versions of ‘common sense’ when there is only one true version? I was just reading your article and Anne how you say it’s common sense that if you are tired we should rest. Go back a few years and we would have said that’s true, but now we would probably say common sense would see this as “have a coffee” or “ignore it you can sleep when you are dead” or something similar. So it would appear common sense keeps moving with where we are collectively at. While we assume everyone knows something we see as common sense, we need to truly look at what’s in front of us to see if that’s true and not just assume it’s true because it’s that way for us. Keeping in touch with what’s going on with people around us is important and if something doesn’t fit, then speaking up or making a change yourself so it inspires others is also important. We shouldn’t just sit on common sense, but share the truth of what we know by our living way.

201. Very beautiful Anne and Paul. Thank you for sharing a reflection of how we can connect with each other so we can be in relationships that are evolving – we can all work off each other in conversation, beginning with a basic premise of the way we live and how it does not make sense and develop it back to a loving way of being that makes total sense. This is the common sense of what relationships can be about, that is so undervalued and untapped.

202. I love to read this – supports me to let go of taking issue with knowing common sense. I grew up distrusting my body and what I felt but looking back I know my body never lied- I just didn’t like being asked to be who I am. I strove to achieve an idealised version of myself because this got me out of loving myself in the hope others would do that for me. I created such complication living this way.

203. ‘ When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us.’ We honour our common-unity. 🙂 🙂 🙂

204. “The word common has been twisted to mean something or someone that is of lower standing to the ruling class ­– i.e. commoner – or someone with lower moral values – i.e. they’re common – or that’s just too simple to be the answer.” If common sense is what comes from the body and actually holds the key to ending our woes it is very deceiving to change the meaning of the word common into ‘being less’, ‘too simple’ etc. It is actually very wise to listen to our common sense I have found and it brings great clarity and joy to my life.

205. I love it that we can trace words back to their Latin origins. I took Latin for a year at school and did quite well at it but the one thing that they failed to teach me was the importance of the fact that it is so well rooted in many European languages. I heard many students at the time say, what is the point of learning a dead language. It is by no means dead but alive and well and will be till the end of this planet or our existence on it anyway.

206. Imagine if our world was one where we all chose to make our day one where we intimately tuned into our senses in every way? Our touch, our smell, our sight, our taste and combined this all with a knowing of our heart? What if we felt all this, without judging or preconceiving? Perhaps then we would see as you say, Anne and Paul that we are all divinely wise, we all are true ‘know it alls’ who simply have chosen to try to live another way. It’s common to see it is fundamentally not working.

207. There are Universal Truths. They are felt by all in our bodies. These are the foundation of common sense. All other ‘truths’ feel like more like excuses to me.

208. I find it interesting that if we are discussing common sense and bemoan the fact that a large number of people seem to lack it whether we could make the connection between this and our current education system? In a climate where we get conditioned to be told what to do and to not creatively think for ourselves outside the box or problem solve, is it really any wonder that many find themselves at a loss over what to do when not being given a directive? It feels that so many lack trust in their innate wisdom and knowing that they can’t get access to it.

209. I love this Anne and Paul. Everything does come down to ‘common sense’ in the end.

210. Common sense can then be accepted as a true gift of our natural way of living. It’s our sixth sense, as we all have this potential.

211. As I was reading I was realising that the deliberate demeaning of the word ‘common’ has been instigated by the part of us that doesn’t want to know that we are all one, all share a common intelligence that leaves no person greater or lesser. As you say “the part that wants to do it our way, that wants to be individual that wants to be special, and separate from the whole.”

212. I had never considered it before how much control religions exert over our choices, telling us what and when we can eat, how we can have sex and with whom etc. Science has since told us that we can’t trust our bodies. It needs to be proven in a clinical trial and by an expert, who has to give it a seal of approval. As you have pointed out, often our parents did not nurture our common sense either. The knowing that someone or something wasn’t right was often dismissed and we learnt not to trust it, even though our parents on some level could feel it too.

213. What a revelation that we used to live according to the common sense of our bodies around the time of Plato but lost it when we started to revere the mind and perceived intelligence over the wisdom of the body. We really have been suffering ever since for that choice.

214. Common sense is about humanity. It does not recognize culture, race, religion etc. It only recognizes that which is common to us all, the way things would be without the above ideals and beliefs that separate us.

215. I loved reading the term common sense in its derived meaning. Common sense is often talked about as though it is taken for granted, nothing special at all. Yet this definition of a whole body knowing, that we all equally share brings quite a feeling of nobility and grandness to the term. What more could we want than to have this quality?

216. I agree we do override common sense because we carry hurts deep within us. If we do not heal the hurts we carry on ignoring and overriding the common sense. It makes total common sense to heal the hurts within my body so that I can be a reflection of love.

217. I love how this blog breaks down the words ‘common sense’ to bring them back to their meaning which is a shared bodily experience of truth amongst us all.

218. We all share a common sense because truth is unifying and the same for all.

     1. also in common sense it is all very simple and clear because in truth things are very simple and known.

219. “This is the sense we feel first, and then we use our five bodily senses to confirm or override what we have first felt. This sense is not a mystery, but a simple everyday reality, that we just know, that we all feel.” – this explains our sixth sense which feels everything, and then we interpret that with our other 5 senses. We all know this and can all give examples of times we’ve ‘had a hunch’ or ‘sensed something isn’t quite right’ and we either listen to it, or we override it. Listening to it is common sense.

220. This is quite a blog, there is so much in it. Common sense is such a widely used term but it tends to be used in the context of having intelligence and using the mind to make decisions. But what you’ve unpacked here Anne and Paul, is that common sense actually comes from our body, and not our mind.

221. It’s great that the dictionary tells us that common sense is a sense felt by the whole body, for that is what it is, although I had not really clocked that before. It is like an all knowing, something that just is and however one looks at it, it still feels the same.

222. Common sense really keeps life so simple. As soon as we override our common sense, that’s when all the complication (and often misery) comes in.

223. Absolutely great how you have unpacked the word common and reinstated its true power. So many words have been twisted and humanity has fallen for it. Religion, God and Love are a few that repel people miles away from the truth and beauty that is embedded in each of these.

224. This blog reminds me of one of those old philosophers’ conversations that are recorded in books about Plato and others. There is so much wisdom to be discovered when we are open to discussing a subject, committed to discovering a one unifying truth and being open to where it might go or what that truth might be.

225. A great blog, Anne and Paul, you have made so many valid points here. We have lost our common sense or at least, we have buried it by over-riding it with so many tricks we have learned to play on ourselves. We know that we need to look after our bodies, we know we should not be eating so much, but we no longer appear to be able to gauge just how much we are eating, or how much our bodies truly need. So many of the foods we choose to consume now are heavy and rich, which tend to numb us so we no longer feel the signals that our bodies are giving us all the time. We have lost all sense of responsibility for our own health, and this is becoming a disaster for our world health budgets. It is time we made the choice to allow our common sense to shine forth again, our bodies will really thank us if we do.

226. “Isn’t it common sense to know when we have eaten enough? We all know that feeling and yet we override it all the time – we take no notice and just keep on eating. If we eat more food than we need, the excess food is reflected in excess weight in us.” I would feel that most of us in the western world are guilty of the lack of common sense in this regard. I remember when I was growing up, a long while ago now, that people did not eat a fraction of what they place on their plate now. I know that over the years, the amount my family (and I) ate at a meal became a very much bigger meal, we used bigger plates than we ever did in the past. It is as if this habit crept up on us and we did not realise what we were doing. Of course, we put on excess weight, not enormously and we tried to exercise to counteract that. Now that I eat far less food, I can definitely attest that I feel so much more comfortable in my body, feel much more flexibility and feel so much brighter than I did when I was eating in excess of what my body required. Yes, it is common sense to know when we have eaten enough but, although we live a much more affluent lifestyle now, this lifestyle brings about far more stress in our lives, and we over-ride our common sense by numbing ourselves from feeling that common sense by eating far more food and less healthy food. What crazy lives we now live!

227. I love what you are presenting about the whole body. It’s awesome and makes such obvious sense. If you were using a computer to work something out, you would want to use all the processing power of that computer. If you were flying an airplane, you’d want all four jets to be working. If you were cooking dinner you’d want all the heat rings to be on. Our bodies are wells of wisdom, engines of energy, markers of truth and limitless expressers of love…..so crazy to only partially use/listen/tap-in-to them. Full bore from the body is the way!

228. The irony of the pursuit of individualism is that in fact it makes us all so very similar. When we give up this game and accept equality and unity we will all realise our truly individual expressions and see how they are all part of a whole. The bastardisation of the word ‘common’ has made this unity and equality appear to be a reduction of our expression – fostering separation. Speaking for myself, as soon as I allow myself to see and feel truly equal to my brothers, it is then that I see the full glory of my own expression and of theirs. A massively different version to that which comes from the pursuit of individualism. ‘Common’ certainly does not mean less.

229. One great example of overriding common sense is when people say a little indulgence is good for you. Two things I notice about this, is when you add up all the little indulgences we might allow ourselves – a chocolate here, ice cream there, alcohol drink and late night elsewhere it amounts to a big disregard of the body that takes out its natural vitality. The second point is that it is common sense to not need something harming to us to feel good, if we choose to feel great naturally.

230. It appears to me that we are all born with common sense, but this natural way of living in the world is slowly eroded as not only do we observe many around us acting in ways that show no, or little, common sense, but we are not encouraged to stay connected to our bodies, which innately know what is the wisest thing to do, or not. Common sense feels so very simple and natural, so why then do we often set out to override it, and in the process begin to complicate life instead?

231. ‘Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true.’ YES and we become more in tune with it (common sense) as we build a respectful and listening relationship with our bodies, rather than letting our minds run the show.

232. I love the fact that ‘common sense’ means that we all have a mutually shared wisdom about life. We know that we all know what life is about, whether we want to admit it or not.

233. Common sense is so simple we over-look how profound it actually is for us.

234. This is very important for me..”And what about eating? Common sense tells us, with the feeling we have after eating – be it racy, lethargic, bloated, dull – whether the food we have eaten suits us or not, yet we continually disregard that feeling and we never question the energy we are in which leads us to keep on choosing those same foods.” To check the energy we are in while eating or that drew us to eat certain foods. This is evolutionary truth which I call common sense.

235. Simply acknowledging our innate common sense is one of the huge keys to an inspiring relationship with ourselves and life.

236. I have often heard the saying that you cannot teach common sense – it is something that you either have or don’t. My feeling is that if you are brought up in a way that understands we all have a role and responsibility to make things work you will have a degree of common sense. As shared it is a knowing.

237. Common sense is what we feel first and comes from a deeper level of feeling from within our inner heart , we feel it to be true and if we don’t over ride it brings a knowing and simplicity to life . Throughout the ages Religion and customs have brought about a shutting down of our knowing with introduced dogmas that takes away our own trust and leaves us empty and lost and searching. Thank you Anne and Paul for your brilliant observations.

238. We may cal it funny that we struggle with the true meaning of common sense but in fact it is said that we have lost our natural distinction between what is good or not good for us. In a way we have made our mind of more value that our body, while in fact it is our body that holds all the wisdom and knowledge that is needed for us to live healthy and vital lives, not the mind that makes us having hangovers more than once, something our body will never do.

239. It does indeed beg the question why do we as a supposed intelligent species over ride common sense facts at the expense of our bodies and others. Perhaps we need to look deeper at what we are allowing to run the show in this case the great and not so great ideas our minds come up with all for the sake of an experience of some kind.

240. “Common sense has been demeaned by Religion through its dogma, and Science has created a complexity around understanding, where things can’t be that simple, and Philosophy made it even more obscure.” The intellectualised, complex version no longer has any human reference – could this be a deliberate manipulation, to fog the meaning in order to disempower, control and separate humanity?

241. Thank-you Anne and Paul for taking us on this journey to the true origins of “common sense” used in its original meaning I am struck by how confirming and binding this language is, indeed words that draw on a way of life that we have turned out backs on. Sensus Communis a one unified truth that serves all equally.

242. Common sense is commonly used in a mental sense, where Truly common sense is – literally – when everybody agrees on something. Then that is common, lived common. That makes perfect sense;-). But as long as we choose to ignore our sixth sense, common sense will not be what it should be – an all encompassing unifying Truth.

243. Anne – what stands out to me in this conversation is that we did live in a way where we knew black and white what common sense was. As you share – Aristotle and Pluto seemed to have this absolute knowing – and yet we have developed a society that ignores it. We praise ourselves on being so advanced in technology, and yet the basic way of how we live seems to have been cast aside.

244. There is an awful lot over overriding the body that goes on in life. It is even supported and encouraged in many circumstances with phrases like “push through the pain”, a belief that will have its repercussions presented at some time and usually in the body.

245. A complete new take on how I have misunderstood the words “common sense” and now it really make sense!

246. It’s amazing how for so many years we can use words and phrases choosing to be unaware of the depth and truth they hold for us should we choose to connect to it.

247. Common sense implies a common truth – one that we all sense.

248. Wow Anne and Paul I was not aware of what common sense truly means, so I really appreciate what your have shared. I like the following sentence as it summed it up for me:
     “Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.”

249. Thank you for a great article about common sense. I did not realise before how empowering common sense is and how far from it we have moved as a species.

250. Thank you Anne and Paul. I loved this point you made Anne . . .’When we are young, we look at the way adults are living and it does not make sense to us ‘ . . . Yes I can remember thinking this as a young child but then I was looking at young teenagers and young adults recently and was amazed at how little common sense they had . . .not all, granted, but many . . . I wonder if I was like that when I was young and came up with YES. I was fully lacking common sense once I became far too self-conscious to doing anything except get in my own way! Common sense requires taking the ALL into consideration and that starts with listening to your own body, but when you are self obsessing this is quite impossible, as you are unable to observe, listen and act in the understanding of what has been delivered.

251. It is very interesting how you have highlighted here in this blog how the meaning o the word ‘common’ has been changed from meaning ‘unified ‘ to meaning ‘inferior’ or ‘stupid’ or ‘poor’. The reinterpretation of words is a great weapon that has caused much damage on this planet of ours.

252. “sensus communis” – love saying this word (!) .. and when I relate to this word in its Latin, it has a certain precision about it.. one coming to their shared sense in sameness (commonness, or commonality) – meaning unified, universal and hence true. It has an equalness, inclusion and community feel about it, which I love.

253. Very interesting post Anne and Paul, love the dual conversing, yes, ‘common sense’ has had the inference of being attached to an ideal/istic level of thinking or perception, i.e. one that is ‘very basic’ and even absurd to not have ‘common sense’, to render someone as stupid, to denigrate in being without it.
     But, as you write, this is not common sense but more a mockery of both the word/its meaning and the person too. When we go back to the origins of the word and see that common sense is the truth we receive from our body, and from not our thinking head that’s been infiltrated with certain views/interpretations or beliefs, let alone another person’s head that’s filled with the same – then this body-sense is what has made perfect sense to me.

254. Equality between people seems like an impossible dream in today’s world, and yet it is possible. What you have presented on the word “common” shows us how a word that was originally about equality and being brothers the world over has been changed to mean “lower” in many contexts. This shows us how our language has been changed to match a way of living that is not loving nor true.

255. Listening to our bodies and the knowing we have is common sense and this makes all the difference to our lives if we listen and honour what we truly feel and not give our power away to so much we are told to believe. A great sharing together Anne and Paul thank you .

256. I second, what you are sharing , Linda, and the great thing is we all have it.

257. I liked the writing method and the topic of common sense, and its application to our livingness can’t be underestimated.

258. I can feel from this a reminder that we know, through our bodies, all that we need to truly making choices which are medicine for our well-being. As supportive as our current accepted form of medicine can be, we are all too ready to defer responsibility from what we know from within and can feel naturally. Such a powerful realization for in allowing this we are empowered to return to our shared knowing and put ourselves back in the driving seat.

259. Common sense could also be called collective sense – something we all sense and know is true.

260. Aha! So common sense is possibly the thread that is throughout humanity that could actually unite us all… a Great revelation ☺

261. “When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us. When we don’t, we are in disregard, not only of ourselves and our own bodies, but of everyone and everything else too.” This is so true. I see an example on the train almost every day, where there is a packed carriage, people spilling out. It is common sense that there is no room for more, yet one of us decides to go against their own better judgment and squeeze on (and I hang my head in shame knowing I have done it myself too). What happens as a result is that the doors keep opening and closing delaying everyone and agitating the driver, because the person has a limb or two still outside the train and this goes on until the person manages to fit completely in, very likely hurting themselves in the process. Also as a result everyone ends up getting pushed further in, many people end up stepping on each other’s toes or poking their bags into the next person.This is such a classic case of us simply deciding to go against what we feel to be true simply because we can! And not only does it have an impact on ourself, but it clearly impacts everyone else.

262. I love Paul’s response here, “Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.” Now that makes common sense to me. What a different world we would be living in if we all lived according to the feelings in our bodies, the body is the holder of true common sense, it will not lead us astray, and we would all be living “a much more simple and loving way of life”. Now this would be great for all of us.

263. Yes, thank you Anne and Paul for bringing Common Sense back to the honourable place it deserves in our lives and in our language.

     1. I’m with you there elainearthey, thanks to Anne and Paul they have brought common sense back to its rightful place in our lives and our language as we are after all, one.

264. I have heard that only 1 in every 10 people have common sense.. even if that is true, is it not exposing that the ones that apparently do not have common sense are not connected to what the body is already telling them?

265. Common sense is actually to be celebrated – there is nothing to demean about common sense. I love how you both have exposed the fact that there is an arrogance that is around about the ‘commoner’ and hence implying that our common sense is not the grand support that it actually is. Fantastic blog Anne and Paul!

266. That makes total sense, that common sense is a “knowing that comes from our bodies” – great blog. I like how you have described that common does not mean lower on the social scale per se, but actually a community – and that common sense is in the feeling of community, that feeling in our bodies – and not in our heads as we are taught to believe.

267. Common sense is a far deeper source of wisdom than knowledge. It has nothing to do with how much information we have studied or can recall. In fact I have known some so called very intelligent and well educated people who have little common sense e.g. what’s the point in knowing how to do high level mathematical equations if you don’t look after yourself and your body?

268. Common sense for me is a wisdom that we all can access regardless of race, education, culture, religion, location, age, gender, wealth etc.

269. Common sense for me is the intelligence of the body that we all have equally because we all have a body!

     1. Common sense = the intelligence of the body. This is my favourite definition of common sense as it makes it simple to access and exposes the main detractor of common sense – thoughts that attract complication.

270. Why do we choose to over-ride common sense (a clear knowing in our body) especially when we know the repercussions of this ignorance is great question indeed

271. common sense and common knowledge are two very different things indeed. Thank you for this expose around common sense including the historical aspects – very valuable.

272. “This is the sense we feel first, and then we use our five bodily senses to confirm or override what we have first felt.” I love this. We all know common sense in our bodies yet we allow the mind to come in and convince us otherwise. Once we go down that path, the mind goes into defence and will rationalise its stance forever onwards, until we are willing to come back to common sense and what is true for the body.

273. What a beautiful journey through common sense, and I love the writing style Anne and Paul.

274. ‘This is the sense we feel first, and then we use our five bodily senses to confirm or override what we have first felt. This sense is not a mystery, but a simple everyday reality, that we just know, that we all feel.’ This is huge – the fact that our five physical senses are only merely confirming what we have already felt in energy. It also makes me question what am I missing through those things I am choosing to not be aware of as they are not confirmed or are overridden by the other senses? This is one to ponder for sure.

     1. Great expansion on this point Michael. I have also noticed how much I over-ride my sixth sense – the ability to feel and discern energetically what is going on – if it clashes with what my other 5 senses are telling me.

275. I am a big fan of common sense, and the beauty is when it is expressed, everyone knows it. Common sense unifies us and removes complication that can cloud and obscure.

276. “Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are . . .” Thank you so much Anne and Paul for revealing us what common sense truly means.

     1. As I’ve come to understand I may say I don’t know what is going on but the truth is I do. Common sense would therefore be to foster and build a way of living that supports this. I also love the playful and powerful sharing Anne and Paul bring.

277. “The word sensus means a sense, a feeling we have in our whole body, not just a thought we have in our minds.” I like that very much as it reveals for me very simply the lie we are living that we have every answer in our minds . . .

278. Brilliant conversation and sharing of a saying I have heard hundreds of times.
     When I hear the word ‘common’ I have the feeling of ‘less than something else’, I want to disassociate myself from whatever it is so that I don’t get ‘tarred with that same brush!’
     Breaking it down as has been done here makes perfect sense and confirms what we innately know – we know what is going on in our own bodies and we are all connected. We can choose to dull, block or ignore this fact but we each have an understanding of how to live that supports our health and well being and our relationships with everyone else.

279. Anne you sum it up beautifully-” Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are; the innate qualities of love, stillness, harmony, and joy that are our birthright. It is our way back to the love that we are.”

280. “…we have demeaned it so much so that we often don’t use it at all” – maybe common sense doesn´t support us to feel special, unique, individual. As long as we seek recognition and identification common sense is a no-go, simply too dangerous as we could lose our self-centered egomania in the process – or simply said, we care more for ourselves than for each other. The very cause of a dog-eats-dog attitude based on overriding common sense.

     1. However the current state is, i.e. about the individual, it is obvious that we have a choice here, it is not a given – in any moment we can choose to connect and feel the fact that we are a part of the greater whole, eg. a group of people, and that our every action, word, movement and even thought have an effect on everyone else around us. And maybe then we realize how much we have to offer for the good of all and how deeply fulfilling it is to contribute in a harmonious, loving, inspiring way.

281. Common sense = our common denominator = equality = oneness.

     1. Spot on Alex, I love how you have spelt common sense out so clearly here. I also loved another of your earlier comments . . .”Es-sense: the one sense at the very core of our being.” I looked up the origin of the word essence and found it comes from the Latin word ‘essentis’ from ‘esse’ which means ‘be’.

        1. Beautiful that when we come back to the origin of words, i.e. their true meaning coming from a lived expression, we also come back to our common foundation of oneness.

282. There is the natural Common Sense we ALL have in common and there is a version of common sense that is an agreement of some whom we join because we want to belong; this version is also called normal.

283. Communicating with my daughter who lives in a different country last night, we discovered that we both chose to walk and be in the glory of the full moon. I felt the commonality that we can share of a moment in our day/night no matter how much distance is between us.

284. ‘Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body’ This is such a great antidote for the overactive mind which is in disregard of its body

     1. Great point Jane, we can then go so far as to say that we all have common sense, and it’s common sense that we always come back to our body. We all know this as true because we all know common sense.

        1. So true Kim. I have often heard the expression ‘too many brains and no common sense,’ as a description of someone, which is just not true. We all have common sense, we all have the ability to come back to our body.

     2. Yes, Jane you have nailed the very thing that gets in the way of us trusting our body and reading what is common sense to do – our negative thoughts from our mind coming in to sabotage us and delay us from truly connecting to the love within.

        1. I agree Loretta and at these moments our body is our truest, dearest friend.

        2. Wow I so completely know this one, we have the knowing and can easily have the trust of common sense but a thought pops in that we make more important that what we feel. Crazy but occurs daily.

     3. Yes Jane I agree – it also brings back the simplicity to our lives.

     4. absolutely Jane – a great tool indeed

     5. I love how truth can be expressed so simply.

        1. I agree Michael and then when complications come in they stand out like sore thumbs.

285. ‘Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true.’ I love this line. Common sense is not just common amongst us, but is common throughout our body in each cell.

     1. Yes Karin, I have the feeling our body is the holder of our common sense.

286. Common sense – is it also the sense of something we all share, a something that binds us and unites us beyond any outer differences, an underpinning truth and foundation?

     1. Awesome – that resonates deeply for me Gabriele, the unification of the (es)sense which is shared and accessible to us all from within.

        1. Yes, this resonates strongly with me, too, and as Paul says, “When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us.”

        2. Es-sense: the one sense at the very core of our being.

     2. This feels true Gabriele – beautifully expressed!

287. The point about ‘common sense’ is that we are all part of a oneness, and we are all connected to each other, which gives us a great magnetic attraction to be with another.

     Simply all sports are giving us a sense of team attraction, which causes a disconnection from our essence; I felt that pull again while driving past a soccer field, the exact same energy from when I was seven. We relate to these things because there is a “common” theme, from a thing like nationalistic point of view, which we share with others, all the way to the drug user who shares a joint, we all have our stereo type with which we have a “common” click. Separation is caused when we bring in any attraction or ideological points of view that causes separation from the true self. It would make sense to focus on the overwhelming majority or commonalities rather than an ideal or belief about some sort of click.

     The energetic truth is we have an extremely strong magnetic pull to be in connection with humanity because we have way more in “common,” almost everything about us is the same.

     As Paul states “Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.”

     Supported whole-heartedly by Anne, “Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are; the innate qualities of love, stillness, harmony, and joy that are our birthright. It is our way back to the love that we are.”

     Brilliant dialogue, which shares “to belong to a whole where we share this gift of truth.”

     You do not have to agree with all that has been shared but at least consider, the possibly and take “our body” for a walk, without any thoughts just an allowing, which brings a feeling of connecting. Feel the feet as they move, the arms and hands as they swing, hold your head high, feel and allow the feeling of connection to you. Take your “sixth sense” for a walk and allow the connection to deepen, the feeling of “joy” without overriding the true power of connection. The power of moving / walking to get clarity on an issue has yet to be given it true and right-full place in history!

288. Just as we push the question ‘why?’ to the side, we push our common sense to the side. If we were to move in a way that had complete trust in our common sense and moved in accordance to its impulse, one could not help but move with the grace of God, for it is His light that we all have in common.

289. This blog is an incredible way to show how we all share a knowing that comes from the same source. It makes complete sense, and if we were to use our common sense, which as you both have shared is our connection to our inner heart, we would feel how incredible being common is. May we all be common and share in this one common sense that knows the answer before any of our 5 senses.

     1. I love what you have shared Kim. The part that is ‘common’ among us all, our connection to our inner heart is truly worth nurturing and deeply appreciating.

     2. I agree and feel this also exposes the preoccupation with academic intelligence from outside of us, as an avoidance of what is truly known by us all within.

        1. Very true Michael, whilst we clearly need to learn skills such as how to fly an aeroplane, perform surgery or build a bridge – generally our education system disempowers and disconnects us from the true knowing that we all carry equally within. All this knowledge means that we end up living and spouting common lies and not common truth or common sense.

     3. Hear hear Kim that is so spot on, to be all connecting and living from the one common Divine source it makes complete sense for us to do so. We are made to be this so why resist it and make if difficult for ourselves.

290. Paul and Anne, a beautiful job uncovering the true meaning of common sense. It’s a saying I had never taken the time to feel into, yet reading your blog I realised how often I’d used it, and how often I’d used it in the wrong context. It is actually a beautiful saying, bringing brotherhood, harmony and connection to all. Thank you and deep appreciation for bringing the true meaning back to my body, feels good.

291. Linda I agree, it shows how simple we can have life yet how complicated we choose life to be.

292. I love that affirming feeling that we all have common experiences, and they do not differ from one another. Even if that is as simple as we have all seen sunrises or sunsets, or we have all felt the wind on our skin. The simplicity of commonality is far far greater than the things that make us individuals, because it is what connects us.

     1. All so true Naren. I’m beginning to open up to the possibility that the oneness we share is way greater, way greater beyond words than any fruits individuality can bring. So next time I’m feeling like I have to make my mark and stand out in any way, I can stop and feel the oneness that is always there to connect to.

        1. And that is so reaffirming of the fact that we already have all that we need with us at all times. It is within us, and not found in the things outside of us. Those external things only confirm what is already there by our choices.

        2. Beautiful, Karin. And that oneness is something that does not need to be searched for, it does not need to be achieved. It is simply here for us whenever we choose to return to it.

     2. This is gorgeous Naren, ‘I love that affirming feeling that we all have common experiences, and they do not differ from one another. Even if that is as simple as we have all seen sunrises or sunsets’, it feels like our society is set up to compete with each other and stand out as different from each other, when in truth we are all the same in essence, we are all loving beings, I too love the simplicity of commonality, it feels very uniting.

        1. I find it very uniting as well. Our commonality is so much more powerful and so much more of an honest reflection of who we are and mean to one another, than any competition or temporal hierarchy we create. Seeing each other by our sameness instead of our differences is brotherhood in action.

293. Thank you for reminding us of how we have lost the value of common sense and how it is there to help us if we care to take notice.

     1. Yes it is Julie and how much easier is life when we apply common sense.

294. I love how you have brought truth back to this term…and what a beautiful, full and spherical term it is when felt and used in truth.

295. I am only halfway through reading this article and it is so FULL of great wisdom and common sense that I wanted to comment on what I was feeling as I was going along. The explanation about how we converted knowing to knowledge is brilliant and exposes our rejection of simplicity… ‘somewhere between Plato and Aristotle we reduced this knowing that comes from our bodies – a feeling that we all shared, to knowledge, that was attributed to our minds, and held more by some than others, in separation to the whole.’

296. Brilliant blog Anne and Paul – a perfect example of how we simply accept meanings of words without questioning if they feel true or make sense. I feel we often get a sense that all is not what it appears to be, but we tend to ignore it and go with the flow, rather than questioning and seeking a deeper understanding.

297. “Common sense is what we know, what we feel to be true, and we all feel this. The only difference between us is how aware we choose to be of it, and how willing we are to use and honour it…” So true Paul… it is always our choice in every moment – how aware of our feelings are we, and how willing are we to honour them? Love the simplicity, and no blame in sight… simply being responsible for our choice.

298. It’s no wonder then we see a society full of many walking (and running) around lost, yet all the while every one us equipped with our innate compass.

299. Thank you Anne and Paul for sharing this far from common conversation, so rich yet succinctly satiating. It makes no sense we have reduced ourselves to championing only our trusted 5 senses while attempting to dismiss the sixth, as it is the sixth that allow the other 5 to blossom or not.

300. I agree that ‘Common sense is definitively a knowing – not a knowledge-based thing’ and if we are encouraged to tap into that from birth, the world might be a different place. Living from what we have been taught to hold in our minds as the way to be doesn’t always work.

301. Common Sense – Love it, I call it truth’s little brother…

     1. Love that, Matts!!

302. It’s wonderfully revealing to get back to the true meaning of a word. Anne and Paul, this is a great case in point.

303. I meet so many young people who question the common sense of adults, don’t know how to express themselves and instead rebel and get themselves into a whole heap of trouble. If we could have a public health program on common sense that would save the health services millions.

304. Wow I love this image “is to be part of a symphony of rhythm” I feel that very deeply in my body. I have forgotten to apply common sense all too often and will hold that expression with me so I can feel my rhythm to be as magical as the rhythm of the reflections in nature.

     1. They are one and the same, Lucy. Whenever we need to reconnect to the simple fact that we are more than our problems, there is a rhythm to nature, the planet and the universe that is eternal and inseparable from what we are. It is the most beautiful symphony indeed.

305. Feeling from the body vs. thinking from the mind: body trumps mind every time, but the mind in service of body and soul is divine intelligence indeed.

     1. Well said Victoria. Interesting how ‘common sense’ is usually referred to in relation to the mind but when I read this article I can feel how it is actually referring to the body and the sense of what we know as truth.

306. I loved this ‘discussion’ and I love common sense. Not only does it feel like the most natural thing in the world, it has the quality of equalness running through its veins: common sense is something we can all feel and work from in unity. And, it’s supremely practical. What’s not to love about practical too!

     1. Agreed, Victoria. I love common sense for all its simplicity, unification and practicality; this discussion and the sharing of the definition of common sense confirms why.

307. Common sense , just what it says and we all have it in greater or lesser degrees. I personally feel it is the most important thing we need to pass on to our children, that will hold them in good stead for the rest of their lives. Thank you Anne and Paul for reminding us just how important it is.

308. Anne I can relate to this paragraph ‘There must be something wrong with me – as in I cannot trust my feelings – or there is something wrong with them – and then do we give up on living a true life and use this as an excuse to indulge ourselves in the same, or worse, wayward behaviours?’. I feel I gave up commonsense very young, but thankfully I am again honouring this feeling as nothing else works! It is restful to know that I do know and thus rebuild trust in myself.

309. Yes Gill, it takes someone who is in touch with themselves to be able to go against peer pressure and the adults norms. It’s great that we now have teenagers who refuse to do sex, porn, alcohol and drugs which is having a ripple effect in the schools because it reminds other students to come back to their common sense.

310. It may not be common practice however choosing “trust and abide by what I know, and live in a way that honours that”, is a wonderful way to be living.
     Once done a few times and we start to understand how it feels when we do honour our selves first. It becomes simpler to make more common sense choices, and the body magnifies the appreciation.

311. “Common sense is what we know, what we feel to be true, and we all feel this. The only difference between us is how aware we choose to be of it, and how willing we are to use and honour it, or ignore and or over-ride it.”
     Paul, what you say here points to the fact that we are actually all responsible for our actions.

312. We often use words without really feeling the depth of meaning they contain so going back to the original derivation of words, reminds us of its true meaning and restores the power of the word. So thank you Paul and Anne your discussion of ‘Sensus communis’ reminds us of the importance of common sense and how we can use it in our everyday life.

     1. Sandra I agree that Anne & Paul’s exploration of a simple word like commonsense has revealed the power it carries. It makes me revisit kindred words, such as commonplace, and also other words with are long history that are common in our language.

     2. I love looking at derivations too. ‘Consensus’ or ‘feel together’ is a close cousin: how gorgeous both these concepts are.

     3. I agree Sandra, also we often use words to sum up entire sentences which means equally we are not actually expressing what is there to be said. It is like swearing – a whole package of words and energy put into a single explosive word. I quite often ask people to explain what they mean when they give a very brief answer.

313. How do we know what is truly common? Yes this is something we can begin to sense, but more so it seems to be revealed from us sharing. This is why it’s so beautiful that this blog out of all, was written by you two Anne and Paul. Because by openly discussing what it is we feel, without agenda or goals we build a bridge to a unified truth. When we persist in the tunnel vision that we are alone, or have a specific issue no-one else can know, we are deeply lost. The reality is that we are each part of one big whole, so connected and close, so big and strong. It’s only this ‘common’ idea of individualism that is keeping us small and thinking we are weak after all.

     1. Yes Joseph, sharing these insights does bring depth to our common understanding. However the ‘common’ practice of being individualistic and not sharing what we know is very isolating. As a child I felt this isolation but have now found that through sharing experiences truthfully from my body I am gradually regaining trust in what I know and feeling my connection to others.

        1. Beautifully said Anne… truth is a great leveller, bringing understanding and equality, and in this trust naturally builds within all relationships – with self and with others, creating a harmonious way of living together.

     2. That is indeed the beauty of this blog Joseph, that it is an open discussion in which an understanding is built and commonly shared, which counters the common beliefs we all hold on how to be in life, with the common sense we all equally have access to through our bodies instead.

     3. Joseph this is an absolutely gorgeous observation, and harks back to the true Way of the Philosopher we once lived and knew: open-hearted and divinely curious exploration, reaching one unified truth together. Anne and Paul have set the tone here – and so have we all with our comments.

314. It is ironic that we spend so much of our life trying to understand things and get a sense of what is going on. And yes as you say Susan with common sense we have “an all knowing feeling in our bodies” and ” there is a feeling of completeness, a oneness”. But we encourage our young to abandon that inner knowing in favour of external beliefs and knowledge. And we continue it when we are older. Conversations such as this are great so we can see what we are doing.

     1. I agree here also ladies, as Universal Medicine and the presentations of Serge Benhayon have brought me back to my inner knowing and this I can say is and has been something I have been searching for since I can remember.

     2. Well said Amina and ditto for me – now that’s when using our ‘common sense’ really kicked in!

315. Now that is common sense! Great expose Anne and Paul.

     1. I agree James, so beautifully written. I enjoyed reading every word and felt I was part of the conversation.

316. “Somewhere between Plato and Aristotle we reduced this knowing that comes from our bodies – a feeling that we all shared, to knowledge, that was attributed to our minds, and held more by some than others, in separation to the whole.” The etymology of the word knowledge brings us to “capacity for knowing, understanding; familiarity.” This is the key, as beautifully put in the text (which I love by the way), the capacity of knowing was located … in the mind, was attributed to it and was elevated to the defining characteristic of the human being in detriment to our innate capacity of knowing derived by our innate capacity to feel it all and confirm it with our bodies.

     1. It makes sense to locate ‘knowing’ to the body and not specifically to the brain – which makes no sense at all. How could this falsity take root so quickly between Plato & Aristotle? What was at play? It certainly has led us to a path of separation from our selves. I see how education for the masses has become a means to break down this elitism, but until we root out the belief that knowing is about brain power, it will not encourage us to bring common sense to the way we work to resolve problems in the world and work together to find another way, this time from the knowing of our bodies.

317. Human beings fight common sense with their way of living and the choices that sustain it so they can feel and preserve their individuality. They override what they feel so they can feel individuals who are ‘sovereign’ over their own bodies. Illness and disease are a byproduct of that fight.

     1. Indeed Eduardo, we all know that through our common sense we are all equal, but that is something we do not prefer or like. We prefer championing our individuality instead and in that we have to override our inner knowing and in that make choices that are not common sense, of which we can see the results in the ever rising illness and disease rates we are all confronted with.

     2. Great point Eduardo. ‘Human beings fight common sense… so they can… preserve their individuality’ – making choices that make no sense for their own wellbeing, let alone that of others.

318. Knowing is indeed a key element in the common sense equation. Knowing derives from our equal capacity to feel and from what we all feel when we are offered truth. Once we felt it deeply, it becomes a knowing that cannot be disputed. Knowing is a whole body experience.

     1. And the knowing is a confirmation of the simple fact that we are from an all-encompassing source that is made to express with and from it and never in separation to it. A way of life we are yet to truly commit to.

     2. Great point Eduardo!

319. The first time I listened to Serge Benhayon everything I heard simply made sense and this has been the same ever since . The amazing thing was that it felt so beautiful in my body to finally know what was presented for my self instead of having to believe what did not make sense before from everywhere else.

     1. It was the same for me. Truth is something you feel in your body and know without a doubt – it is quite literally a ‘no-brainer’ and requires no belief at all. Serge Benhayon’s presentations are the real deal for me too.

320. What I find really interesting is how common sense in its true meaning differs from what the word ‘normal’ implies. You can have something categorised as ‘normal’ that defies common sense in every way. This is particularly clear when we try to relate both expressions to our way of living and with medicine.

     1. Yes, great pick up Eduardo. ‘Normal’ is indeed not necessarily grounded in common sense. Just because a certain phenomenon has become the norm does not imply it is common sensical or helpful in anyway. Drinking for example is considered normal but there is no common sense in it at all. Indeed we might say it makes no sense; that it is in fact ‘nonsense’.

     2. Agreed. The word ‘normal’ is about statistical prevalence and does not have to contain any common sense what so ever. How cool will it be when common sense is our normal?

321. It is important to be as precise as possible regarding the true meaning of common sense. Is it something that we all feel. Is it more an ability to feel that we all share equally? Could it be that both are related? Independently of our capacity to override what we feel, could it be that we feel something because we have the ability to feel it in the first place. So, could it be that common sense alludes to both?

322. I agree, Shirley-Ann it is refreshing to see it as simple as it is- we all have a common sense, which unites us as people and reflects our equality.

323. You ask, ‘Isn’t it common sense to know when we have eaten enough?’ well, to be honest, when I was binge eating, I couldn’t tell the difference between hunger and emotional upset, I only knew that by eating I’d feel more comfortable, and couldn’t feel when to stop until I had gone way over what was true and actually felt ill.

     1. I can relate Carmel, I know that no matter how innately I could feel the truth of something be it a choice to make or I had made, my mind was so strong in convincing me otherwise by its very nature to come between that choice and knowing, pulling in whatever stream of doubt based thoughts to convince me I actually didn’t know at all.

     2. The power of our mind, when disengaged from our bodies, to make choices that are abusive and completely absent of common sense, is alarming. The repercussions of this are evident in our addictive behaviours and health stats.

324. I love the concept of common sense being that which impulses and guides us to a simple and loving way of life… bringing us back to the truth of who we all are. It is crazy we would bastardise something so innately beautiful.

325. Forever knocking on the door of our awareness is who we truly are, and this is the common sense approach, to choose who we truly are.

     1. That’s beautiful Harry “Forever knocking on the door of our awareness is who we truly are”

326. We are either who we are or who we are not, there is no need to make people feel bad for not choosing common sense. The energy that chooses things that do not make sense is not us, and it is just choosing things that it knows will delay the choice where one is back to choosing who they truly are.

327. Quite often when I was younger and I didn’t know something I was given the response “are you kidding? that’s common sense” the thing is, all our behaviours are choices of energy. If we aren’t taught to choose the energy of who we are, we will choose the energy of who we are not, because it is seen as an example somewhere when we are growing up.

328. It is the simplicity of common sense that is hard to accept for many of us so we keep making life full of complications and issues as a way to not feel and deal with what’s there to be dealt with.

     1. Well said Francisco, common sense and simplicity go hand in hand. Yet as you say it is us who make the complications and issues to avoid evolving and truly living life.

     2. Yes, sadly I think you are right Francisco, simplicity has lost its value. Complication has become familiar and almost addictive like a drug.

        1. You’re right Lucy, we have really lost the plot when we choose complication over simplicity.

329. The utter importance of common sense is clear from this blog. Common sense, as a way back to living a loving life, has to be a most health-full way to live.

     1. I am with you on this one rosannabianchini.

330. This one of ‘I want to do it my way’ I know very well. It is very separative and brings in divisiveness in relationships. What if the only true and harmonious way to live is to live by a one unified truth that pulls us all in the same direction? In very practical terms I am realising that this includes asking for support when we need it, rather than believing or thinking that we can do it all alone.

331. I love that you remind us of the meaning of common sense as being part of a community, that it’s something we all have

     1. Yes Carmel, there is something very lovely about ‘common’. Rather than look down upon the status this word implies, it feels inclusive, steady and true.

     2. Yes. Common sense is something we all have and it is something that builds and supports community – a shared quality that founds unity.

     3. Who would have thought that we could get the meaning of something so simple as common sense so wrong?

332. It is common sense to take care of our body that en-houses us in every way. It is common sense to avoid eating or drinking what causes us to be lethargic or dull. It is common sense to take care that we sleep so that we wake up refreshed. It is common sense that we pay attention to our relationships so that they are loving and harmonious. It is common sense to learn from what life presents and keep expanding our awareness, responsibility and expression. It IS common sense and we all know it. Yet – somehow we have beliefs that it is clever to go against it and try to get away with it. Yes we call that clever! How arrogantly unintelligent do we tend to be.

     1. Oh hang my head in shame! This blog and your comment highlights how often I get swept up by the illogical when common sense means I feel so much better in every aspect of my life. Inspiration indeed to become very smart by using common sense.

333. I love how you have both shared your exploration of the words ‘common sense’ and what they mean and what a truly valuable thing ‘common sense’ is for everyone. It’s interesting to observe the behaviours that we use to numb the main sense that we have in common, the one that we actually do share…our ability to feel everything.

     1. And our ability to feel everything Jennifer is surely far more exciting than any stimulant, the sixth sense is a very real and tangible quality that can make life far more multi dimensional than we are ever taught to see as our truth. The less we numb, the more it is there to explore.

334. Anne and Paul- such a great conversation allowing one to ponder on what is common sense in our everyday lives that we so easily override.

335. The interesting thing about eating too much food is that it is hard to tell what reaction we have to what foods. For example, fat is always held as a bad thing for dieters and many foods are chemically processed to be fat-free, but contain heaps of sugar or worse, sugar substitutes. So we end up eating loads of sugar and/or chemicals that taste great but are not necessarily good for our health.

     1. So true Carmel. Clever advertising has fooled people when it comes to what foods are healthy or not. I listen to many people who can easily feel how different foods affect them. If we were to start with these simple messages from our bodies, we would each be eating the food that is just right for us. Paying attention to advertising is a convenient way to be less responsible for our choices.

336. We grow up thinking we are unusual, a solitary creature, separate from others in this world. Yet when you actually talk to other people, and honestly open up about life, what you find despite nationality, language and culture is that we share so much in common underneath. Contrary to the vision we see painted in news and TV, people you meet are more often than not caring, considerate and longing for a time where they can share Love.
     Anne and Paul you sum it up here. Like reunited family members separated at birth, who have finally been reunited at long last – we all have so much in common in this world. It’s time we woke up to see it’s only common sense that you and me, are part of one great family. So why not live this quality today and make this Love our common way?

     1. This is so true Joseph, ‘we all have so much in common in this world.’ There is so much that seems to separate us such as cultures, beliefs, clothing, jobs, but actually these are very surface things and are not who we are, in truth we have so much in common, we are are naturally loving beings.

     2. Yes Joseph we do have so much in common with others and this should be celebrated. Some cultures have extended families, everyone is a brother, cousin or aunty, but without true brotherhood or love it falls flat and can be oppressive. True family is universal, Love is the foundation.

     3. I agree here Joseph, and simply surrendering to this simple fact and our natural way of being is what will naturally bring our true light back to this world.

     4. Great point Joseph…”..it’s only common sense that you and me, are part of one great family. So why not live this quality today and make this Love our common way?” Absolutely!

     5. Beautifully said Joseph and I whole-heartedly agree – it’s high time that we should shake ourselves out of our slumber and open our eyes wide to see and acknowledge the fact that “we all have so much in common in this world”.

337. This conversation is truly beautiful, inspiring and full of common sense. I just loved your summary, common sense as to the way we live our lives in a ‘nut shell’.
     “To wake to another day having slept a sound sleep of early to bed and early to rise, having eaten what was true for our bodies, not having stimulated our senses or dulled our selves with our particular choice of drug, is to be part of a symphony of rhythm – to see the sun rise, nature in all its glory and what it holds for us, to spend the day with our selves and the people around us is a joy, and the feeling of a sense we all have in common with all of that”.

338. ‘Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are; the innate qualities of love, stillness, harmony, and joy that are our birthright. It is our way back to the love that we are.’ All of this and yet we are relying on our ‘intellect’ and scientific developments to find the answers to our problems which have arisen out of a separation to our true sense in the first place.

     1. Yes MIchael, “…we reduced this knowing that comes from our bodies – a feeling that we all shared, to knowledge” and then we set ourselves or others up as authority figures e.g. priests, doctors, academics which created separation and we forgot that we all have this knowing and we lost our access to this inner wisdom.

        1. What strange creatures we are that we all go about our daily lives with such arrogance thinking that we are the most advanced and progressive civilisation ever when the truth of the matter is quite the contrary – we have, in fact, fallen into the trap of reductionism.

        2. ‘..we set ourselves or others up as authority figures e.g. priests, doctors, academics…’ This is so revealing in the power we give to these types of roles to further control what is deemed as acceptable; not only do we assign them authority over what is known, but also over discounting that which is truly known by others.

339. I love how you have explored the original meaning of the words common and sense and how everyone contributing has shown there is one way, the way of common sense, which is both Love and unifying. It is amazing to read the comments and see there is one way of thinking, yet everyone expresses it in their own unique way. This is really hot stuff….

     1. I agree Toni… it is very inspiring to read all the comments written on a common theme yet uniquely expressed by each person, and in this way the topic is expanded bringing greater understanding and connection for all, which confirms we naturally unify when we each connect to common sense!

     2. It is such transformative and playful attention to detail to review words in this way. There are so many that are just neatly embedded into our vocabulary without awareness of their origins, mutations, and real meanings. This article has taken ‘common’ from something derisive and divisive to something unifying and inspiring and I can feel the freshness that ripples out when I use it.

340. I Love how you have shared your conversation and pondering with us in a blog, brilliant. Imagine if these were the types of conversation we had with people while waiting for the train, having a cuppa or eating a family dinner. We could blow so many myths out of the water.

     1. I agree Toni, and in fact these conversations on any topic would be bringing in common sense itself!

     2. Yes Toni, this is a truly intelligent conversation on something that has meaning for us all and if more couples spoke together like this there would be less room in relationship for bickering and petty concerns.

     3. I totally agree Toni – now that would be quite something to behold – true ‘common sense’ in practice.

     4. It’s common sense to communicate and express like this! Sharing ideas, sharing our perspective on things, opening our minds up.

     5. Every true connection we make with another person offers us the reflection of common sense and the awareness that we are all the same in truth. This would for sure blow a lot of myths out of the water

341. “Why do we ever have more than one hangover? What drives us to do this to ourselves, over and over again?” – Good question, doing things that we know hurt us just does not make sense rationally, so we need to look at what is there driving us to do these kinds of things in order to truly heal and change.

     1. I agree Fiona – alcohol affects our judgment, rationale, motor skills and yet people who drink still choose to get behind the wheel of a car and drive or do other harming behaviours under the influence of alcohol – porn in adolescents, domestic and social violence, sexual abuse, crime etc. This is a serious issue.
        What is driving this kind of harmful behaviour?

        1. The crazy thing is that in our youth hangovers are cool, it has the appearance having a hangover you belong to something but the question is what consequences this belief and lifestyle has in the end. It is against common sense.

     2. I agree Fiona, we have given ourselves the title of the most intelligent species of our planet but there is so much evidence to the contrary. Perhaps we should accept that our form of intelligence is the one that allows us to make that decision to have more than one hangover and realize that it is misguided for all it endeavors to do unless impulsed by our heart. In the latter there is no way that we could make the choice to drink alcohol.

     3. A hangover is choosing a little pain now but not having to feel how the world truly is. A bit like taking a hammer to ourselves in order not to notice the devastation around us. There is a logic to it but it is not sensible.

        1. I agree Christoph, it allows for a moment of relief and the hangover is a continuation of this relief as means that we still have something to focus on something that means we do not have to feel the intensity of the world and the reality of what we are living in along with our own choices and our part in it all.

        2. Now there is a great point Christoph, “a bit like taking a hammer to ourselves in order not to notice the devastation around us”. Obliterating the world only to find it is right there knocking at your door the next morning. A vicious cycle sadly embraced by many. I used to be one of them.

        3. It is a logic that requires us to suspend our knowledge of the truth of what we feel. Which is surprisingly easy to do, unfortunately.

     4. I agree Fiona and these unloving behaviours do not just stop at hangovers there are so many to speak of, for example our interactions with others, our intake of food, our working routine naming but only a few, all are indicators on how we are with ourselves and so showing how important it is to make sure that we look at all our behaviours whilst revealing the core issue.

     5. We might not be getting drunk or experiencing hangovers, but are often lulled into a false sense of security because so much of every day behaviour that abuses the body is considered ‘normal’ and generally accepted. Looking back, I always had a sense the way I lived my life was wrong, something didn’t feel right, but didn’t know how to change things. As you say Fiona, healing began when I understood the reasons why I disregarded myself.

     6. Indeed Fiona, why would we ever need to repeat something we know is harming us? It is like we do not want to learn, let alone admit what some things do to our bodies. We all know when we first taste alcohol the effect it has on our body, yet override it. The more we honour our feelings and listen to what our body is telling us, the more in harmony we will live.

342. I couldn’t agree more Susan, what Serge presents is indeed good old common sense, every particle in my body knows and recognises the truth of what he presents.

343. ‘Anne: Well, it’s common sense to know that when we feel tired, we should rest, and if it is in the evening, maybe even go to bed!’ When I read this, it feels so ridiculous that we are not honouring the feeling of being tired, that we make other things more important than a simple signal from the body and push through.

     1. Yes, Annelies, we completely discount that what we feel is important and has consequences, depending on how we respond. We know this but ignore it.

     2. I agree Annelies, which then brings us to the simple question that Anne is clearly calling out, have we lost our connection to our bodies and how important they are and so make everything other than them more important, and if we listened to our bodies how would our life truly look?

        1. If we were to truly listen to our bodies, then we would be living in a way where we reflect heaven here on earth.

        2. The abuse that we cause to our bodies by ignoring what it is telling us becomes routine after a while. We wake up tired so we consume copious amounts of sugar and caffeine all day and at the end of the day we require a night-cap to reverse the process. I have been there and lived that normal life in the past. As you have asked Amina what would our lives look like if we listened to our bodies? I would suppose most of the people that have replied to this blog only have to look in the mirror for the answer to that question!

     3. Yes Annelies, we discount the importance of sleep and stop seeing it as something sacred so common sense would be to honour the feeling of being tired.

        1. That is a beautiful way to put it Francisco; our sleep is sacred, we certainly do not see and use it like it is sacred, not even as an equal and very important part of our 24 hours.

        2. It would be Francisco! But how many of us override our bodies when we are feeling tired? I am always amazed when I listen to people who are fitness trainers, so called with so called healthy and vital bodies, and part of their morning routine is an expresso or two. It makes no sense if you are fit to need something to stimulate the body. It goes to show how we have normalised things which are far from normal for the body.

     4. Our need to be successful or to be accepted easily overrides common sense.

     5. It is ridiculous to override what our body is telling us but we have made it our ‘normal’ way of being and even give ourselves and each other a pat on the back for doing it!

        1. There might be some remains of the flesh-being-weak-and-mind-being-strong attitude as known from some religions and cultures – a completely bastardized version of overcoming the attachment to creation by blaming and robbing the body of its sacred connection and expression.

        2. In addition, the consciousness playing out in overriding what the body is telling us is a purely spiritual endeavour with the sole purpose of confirming each other (pat on the back) in a ‘normal’ that is far from who we ‘naturally’ are – an agreed upon ‘common sense’ that is perpetuated by confirmation, repetition and ignorant arrogance of what every cell of our body knows to be true and is clearly expressing.

        3. Gabriele your great comment gives people the possibility to have an other look at the meaning of the word “normal”.

     6. Also a clear expose of a being with free will inhabiting this body, choosing as it likes either in harmony with the body and common sense or in disregard and opposition to it.

     7. Ahaha Annelies I agree now it really feels ridiculous to read this . . . but I have to admit that I was also trapped in the belief that other things are more important than a simple sign from my body. My common sense knocked out at its best – perhaps we should name our behavior the missing common sense disease.

     8. Annelies, I love the simplicity of what you have shared, ‘it’s common sense to know that when we feel tired, we should rest, and if it is in the evening, maybe even go to bed!’ It makes me realise how often we do not use our common sense and override it, such as not going to bed when we feel tired, the same could be said with so many things such as drinking alcohol and taking drugs that after the initial high leave us feeling tired and ill the following days, I also now find that if I do not express what I am clearly feeling then this does not feel like common sense.

344. Thank you Anne and Paul for sharing the truth about the term common sense and how this leads us to live a life of truth, like you’ve said; ‘Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.’

345. So funny that we have so lost touch with this common sense that we need someone else to remind us of it so that we can reconnect to our own shared inner wisdom.

346. Common sense is indeed true medicine. If we were to listen to our common sense more than we do, we would definitely be ill less often.

347. “This is the sense we feel first, and then we use our five bodily senses to confirm or override what we have first felt. This sense is not a mystery, but a simple everyday reality, that we just know, that we all feel”. That is so clear and really helps me to feel that innate inner sixth sense and differentiate it from the other five; and that is so true, I had never thought of it that way — that we have a choice to override that sixth sense and that choice t is taken by our other five senses. I always thought I had no “common sense”, but of course I have, everyone has! Thank you Anne and Paul, for making this so clear. It is really very simple, and the understanding of it brings us all together as one humanity in brotherhood.

348. Thankyou Anne and Paul, this is a brilliant expose´of the absurdity of letting our heads break away and run renegade to the love and wisdom held in our bodies. These bodies are designed to be vessels of Heaven in which all that we are; the light and wisdom of God, can pour forth. But instead we fill them up with the spoils of a life we have created that is all about excess and indulgence so that we end up with ‘full tanks of poison’ and thus we overflow with all that we are not. This is what happens when the fragment deviates from the Whole in which it is held – pure non-sensical, wayward and radical behaviour completely at odds to the wisdom held within.

349. It was once so common to live the love that we are and by this have a measure of all that is not of this magnificent love. The fact that now our common sense is not so common, shows us how far from our innate truth we have travelled. This we do in full illusion that we are ‘getting somewhere’ when the furthest we have got, is far away from our divine origins. That is not what I would call ‘evolution’! In order to truly evolve and return to the love that we are, our common sense is the compass that guides us safely back.

     1. Liane, I love the way you have expressed this – there is no doubt that we, humanity, have travelled very far from our innate knowing, our common sense. The good news is that it is never lost, we all have it and can make the choice to re-connect.

350. Our sensus communis is our clairsentience; our ability to discern what is true and what is not. It lives deep in our inner heart and is the pulse that unites us all when our hearts beat as One in true union. Because everyone has a heart, everyone has the ability to use this heavenly faculty. Just because we choose to override it by adopting food and behaviours that clearly do not and cannot support the body, does not mean it stops working. We simply develop a layer of falsity that sits over the top, like an excess layer of fat around the heart, so we are dulled to the majesty of its simple workings.

351. Awesome re-claiming of the true meaning of these two words thank you Anne & Paul, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this… it makes perfect sense of many things, including the ill-use of the term common sense. The fact it takes us back to a ‘sense of things’ that comes from the inner, and that this is common to every one of us, explains a lot to me about why we have strayed so far from its true meaning in our use of the term.
     This requires a level of honesty about our choices that is often very revealing… and not always desirable if we don’t want to then take responsibility for the consequences far and wide for those choices, let alone to our own bodies.

352. The phrase ‘common sense’ like most things has been bastardized throughout history to become nothing like the original meaning. The final paragraph is the road map back to who we all truly are; the choice is ours.

353. I agree Susan, Serge Benhayon’s presentations felt very different in my body to any new age presentations I had experienced, which always left me feeling apprehensive and mentally questioning. When true common sense is spoken, it leaves me feeling completely in a state of knowing and confirms the knowing I have always had.

354. Is it possible the reinterpretation of the word ‘common’ to mean stupid or less has occurred through the reality that we ignore our common sense and have turned it into common ignorance? As stated we override what we know to be true. The increase in diabetes, was reported in a popular media event last night as moving towards being as common as obesity, meaning of course as frequent, but you can’t help but feel such a phenomenon being almost completely avoidable and based on lifestyle choices, shows an astonishing lack of common sense.

355. Thank you Anne and Paul for this lovely exploration of the all too uncommon common sense. It is lovely to feel common sense as a shared wisdom that we all have access to and this serves as a reminder for me to regularly connect to this shared wisdom.

356. Thank you Anne and Paul. This makes perfect sense to me. I also understand how easy it is to override the wisdom that is our ‘common sense’ and how quickly this can lead us astray.

357. Love this common sense blog Anne and Paul – funny thing is that I have always interpreted this term exactly the way you describe it to be in truth, it always made sense to me that this means a knowing that we all have in common, I just haven’t understood that other people interpreted it in a different way.

     1. That’s a really interesting observation Eva. Maybe when we grow up with the term ‘common sense’ (or any word), we take on the mis-interpretation of the words without question – but that if we come to the term not as part of our ‘mother tongue’, we are able to feel more the true meaning and less the imposition placed on the words.

        1. I hadn’t considered that Rosanna – that could certainly be the case. However I also notice from the many comments here that there is a great variation in the way people have interpreted ‘common sense’ even if they come from english speaking countries.

358. What I love about common sense is the harmony it brings. When someone is using common sense you cannot help but nod in agreement, as no one gets excluded when common sense is adhered to. In that way using common sense is very good for our health.

     1. True Elizabeth. Common sense is natural wisdom we sense from deep within and in its simplicity it includes everything all round – a great medicine.

359. When we see someone using their common sense, we recognise the simplicity and knowing a way of doing something. It takes the complexity out and is inspiring.

360. In the UK, parks and open spaces in cities are often called ‘commons’ for example Clapham Common. Spaces and land, usually gifted by rich philanthropists in previous centuries, giving poor city dwellers access to much needed green and natural space. Your blog expands our awareness of the word ‘common,’ its relationship to class and status, how being classed as common is often synonymous with being ‘less than’. Aa a child, I remember this term being used to put down people considered to be ‘not good enough’ often it was used against women. Anne and Paul by going back to source you resurrect the true meaning of the word and remind us that as human beings commonality is our strength, not our differences.

     1. Yes I agree Kehinde. It is such a shame when words lose their true meaning and become lost in the vagaries of the human mind and its wanderings. A word holds energy and we can choose the energy that we give to any word. When the true energy has been usurped the word loses its fullness and original truth, it becomes hollow. Great to see this one, common sense. restored, or rather resurrected, as you say.

361. ‘Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are; the innate qualities of love, stillness, harmony, and joy that are our birthright. It is our way back to the love that we are.’ This is a beautiful, still blog with a powerful yet simple message. Thank you Anne and Paul.

362. Common sense brings us to our truth and sometimes we shy away from it and prefer not to listen to it.

363. Anne and Paul thank you so much for this. As I was reading I realised what your writing exposed was an arrogance I was holding about wanting to be clever, to override my common sense and not trust it even. I’d hadn’t realised how common in the derogative sense, I’d considered common sense to be. Wow, I can feel how I’ve bought into the consciousness of religions belittling the masses and also how I wanted to hide my common sense, to consider myself stupid for not understanding the attraction of the things that override it. I had no idea I’d been signing up to this which now opens the door to honouring my common sense and me.

364. Love the way you have written this Anne and Paul, capturing your conversation and sharing such gems of wisdom that expose the many ways we choose to not live our common, unifying and known way.

365. “from our inner-heart, the place within where a deeper level of feeling (the so called sixth sense) resides. This is the sense we feel first, and then we use our five bodily senses to confirm or override what we first felt. This sense is not a mystery, but a simple everyday reality, that we just know, that we all feel”. Yet we choose to dismiss this sixth sense (this common sense) at our own expense knowing full well we will inevitably suffer the consequences, the complications and ill health, we must be crazy. Thank-you Anne and Paul for bringing this topic to our awareness.

366. Common sense: it makes sense that it is a unifying and equalising expression. Nothing lowering about it, but yet it is not so common to live it every day. Love your examples — like when we would stay up later than we need to, grab a drink or chocolate when we know that going to sleep will make us a zillion times better tomorrow.

     1. Interesting isn’t it, how we know going to sleep will make us feel a ‘zillion times better tomorrow’ and yet we still override it.

        1. Yes Carmel, not a lot of common sense in that, but we still do it.

        2. Yes so many examples of this including repeating the same ill behaviour, knowing the outcome but still hoping for a different one knowing nothing has changed. I’ve done this with relationships for example. If we didn’t override our common sense but honoured it, we’d observe what was going on for us to want to override it in the first place, and give ourselves the opportunity to heal what was going on.

367. Amazing Dialogue Anne and Paul. It seems common sense is something we all have, but don’t really want to live! Ignoring what is simply presented to us in plain vision is not common sense, but it is the most common thing.

     1. I agree Harry. This blog simply exposes how often we choose to live non-sensically rather than with common sense.

     2. Well said Harry – just another expose of the irresponsibility we as humanity are choosing to live. We bastardise what is age old and common knowing.

368. Susan I can relate to this completely. Serge expressed in a way that cut through all the dross and went straight to the heart. I felt similar relief and sense of ‘at last’ someone speaking in a no non-sense ‘commons sense’ way. A turning point for me and I never looked back.

     1. So true, I agree Kehinde. There is so much nonsense that makes no sense in this world and yet we allow it because we don’t make life about simplicity and common sense.

369. This is a great blog to read and re read again. It shows us that to listen to our bodies is our responsibility and the body doesn’t lie!

     1. Yes, and our body is our common form of sense.

370. When I was 18, I left home to go to university. I was shocked to meet intellectually smart people who did not appear to have any common sense. I remember clearly saying this to my mother. I felt like this because they did not seem to know how to get on harmoniously with other people. Their intellect seemed to disconnect them from wisdom. I feel lucky in a way because I have to credit my upbringing with showing me a lot of commonsense. I managed to ignore this all on my own, later, when I found the world hard to take. Now I understand the value of this connected wisdom that comes equally to everyone no matter what their IQ.

371. I love your sharing, Anne and Paul, it is so simple and practical.

372. What a brilliant and needed discussion this captures on the truth behind words. Common sense. From this, sense in my body is even more instant than a feeling – it is a knowing. And the thoughts come in when I override the knowing with stimulation. Our bodies continue to talk to us and tell us where they are at all the time, and to listen is common sense in itself. To honour what is there is common sense, and anything that goes against that is not. Simple.

373. I think this is why there are so many people at the end of a presentation who feel like Serge was talking just for them. What he presents makes so much sense on a very simple level and that can be related to our everyday lives. There is a common sense to it all.

     1. Yes Simon, Serge Benhayon presents a completely common sense approach to life. It’s common sense to apply the tools and methods of his teachings.

374. I remember at school thinking that there were some total geniuses, scholars of the highest order, and yet they lacked common sense. There was a disconnect about some of the truly simple things that do not need to be learnt from a book, but are available to us all if we pay attention, just stop for a minute and feel what is appropriate. Of course the genius was the thing that was promoted, praised and rewarded… and the disconnect brushed aside as acceptable given everything else they could offer the world.

375. Thank you Anne and Paul, this is such a beautiful reflection, bringing simplicity and knowing to common sense and the realness of this. A Beautiful reflection.

376. I loved hearing about the root words and meaning of the term ‘common sense.’ It made sense to me as I’ve always attributed common sense as something we all should know. Like a basis of understanding that we all share – simple feeling. When people are disconnected from themselves, this is lost.

     1. I agree Emily. ‘Common sense’ should be just as it’s written – a ‘common’ or unified feeling/knowing/behaviour that makes sense!

377. I love reading this blog and the way in which it is written. It is interesting how over time words get lessened in their meanings, so slowly we lose touch with the truth of what they mean and therefore question and or deny what we feel inside. Thank you Anne and Paul for raising our awareness to this and bringing back a true understanding of common sense for everyone.

378. I love the fact that common sense, when broken down, is about a unified feeling that we all have…plus the fact that we can bring in all manner of ideals about how life should be to override how life actually is.

     1. Yes the simplicity of common sense is there for all until we try to override it and introduce complexity.

379. Gorgeous blog, Anne & Paul!
     So we could also call ‘common sense’ our ‘inner-heart sense’ or simply ‘truth’.

     1. haha yep – seems so Carmin!

380. What I find interesting and hugely ironic, is the fact that through our common sense, a common sense we all have available to us equally, life can be very simple, harmonious, productive and joyful. Our common sense can guide us through life if we choose to listen and respond to it. However, the majority of people choose complexity, which is a choice for life not to be simple, harmonious, productive and joyful. What we say we want and in truth do want, we can so simply and easily choose, but we actually choose not to allow ourselves to.

     1. Love this Kate ‘Our common sense can guide us through life if we choose to listen and respond to it’.

381. I loved reading this exchange, thank you. And this line particularly “When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us”.

     1. I agree Sarah, this is really lovely, “When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us”. I can feel how gorgeous and inclusive common sense is, it feels like a sense for all, a knowing for all, it feels very unifying.

     2. Makes sense 🙂

     3. Spot on Sarah! It’s common sense all the way!

382. Common sense is that it is better not to overeat. I wonder how many people would say that it is common sense that you can overeat a little bit and that it is common sense that you can always make up for it later. However, they may admit that it is common sense that the ‘making up for it later’ usually doesn’t happen.
     To me it feels like we have two levels of common sense. In the first, superficial level we justify whatever we want to and call it common sense – just listen to a talk show. On a deeper level we may then accept whatever is clearly true and not just our opinion as common sense.

     1. Precisely Christoph. There is the common sense that is felt deeply within our bodies and then there is what we would like common sense to be and therefore ‘make it so’ with our thinking. I wonder how many other deep truths have been affected by this very same ‘alteration’ process.

383. Reading your comment Susan made me smile as this is so so True. ‘Good old common sense’, simple, profound Wisdom is shared by Serge Benhayon. More and more I’m realising that everything he shares is actually ‘good old common sense’. I am the one that bastardised it and made it sometimes about behaviour, where really – it’s just about being with ourselves with everything we do. Thank you Susan! I love it.

384. “I feel that we have gone out of our way to squash our feelings, to make them less than the truth.” This is something that I see especially in modern day science research, everything needs to be proven and simple feeling is not enough. This is to great detriment of ourselves because most wisdom comes from our bodies.

     1. To want things to be proven is very exposing of the energy running Humanity at the moment – if we accept that ‘common sense’ is true and shared by all then there is much that will have to change and many of us that will have to take more responsibility in the choices that we make.

     2. Absolutely Lieke, as you say our body holds the wisdom not the so called intelligence we turn to. It seems crazy we ignore the feelings that are so instant and all knowing, in favour for the result of biased experiments on paper.

        1. I agree David, it is crazy how we have sold out to a scientific concept as ‘the truth’ when each and every one of us holds the wisdom and the knowing within.

385. It is crazy that we do anything and everything to avoid feeling or re-connecting to the loveliness we are within and stay with this! … something I have very much been aware of and seeing and feeling within me this last week.

386. I felt the same way Susan, and what stood out for me is how many years I had known this common sense myself but never listened to it, or followed others.

387. The feeling of common sense being in the body is what has guided me on the path of the Way of the Livingness.

388. We tend to think of life’s beauty as being scarce, unusual and hard to find. We value things like gold, or diamonds as if to say ‘you don’t have it and this one is mine!’. Yet what if we have this all around the wrong way, and the most obvious accessible, natural and abundant qualities, common to you and I are actually the biggest wealth, the greatest fortune or prize? Then we would have to admit that there is no way we can ever be truly poor, or unwise, for we each have this common sense in spades underneath. Thank you Anne and Paul for this conversation that inspires me to unlock this shared natural treasure.

     1. I love that Joseph – you just flipped the world on its head! The most precious thing in the world is the essence of who we are, and there are over 7 billion living breathing examples of that, and we interact with each other all day long. It’s priceless, and yet treated like it is as common as muck! We need to learn to value it.

     2. It seems we value the things that make us special or seemingly better than others. Perhaps this is why we are loathe to admit and accept that we all have access to this ‘gold mine’ of common sense because it means we have to accept we are all absolutely equal too.

        1. Absolutely, equalness is our greatest asset and strength, and yet we seek separation at any cost.

        2. Yes, well said Kylie Jackson.

     3. Joseph I love your comment. We have been brought up to value what is scarce more often than not just because it is scarce – which diamonds are the most valued? The rarer ones.

        But it doesn’t make sense that only a few have or even if there was one who had not. Indeed, what is so beautiful is realising what is most valuable in the world, love, is also the most abundant, never ending thing there is. But we’ve distorted our reality and made love into something other than it is. We’ve even made it scarce – e.g. looking for ‘the one soul mate’ to fulfill us – when actually when we reconnect with ourselves we realise it is who we all are.

389. Anne and Paul I love the way you have both opened up the word ‘common sense’ and made it a universal sense that we all have, and not the narrowed reduced version that we have taken on through religions and various eras through life.

390. I see many people look for solutions in diets as a way to lose weight and feel better, and it makes me wonder about my own attempts to find solutions to problems by outside sourcing. Yet there is so much wisdom in our bodies, that more often than not the answers are there, and it is really about our will to see and feel what is best for us. When we remove the complication, the drama, the stories, the need for a certain outcome, then the answers are almost always right there in front of us.

     1. Yes outsourcing is never the answer, the vast wisdom contained in our bodies is always there to be connected to once we make the choice and this is a sense that is common to us all.

391. Anne and Paul, I was watching a documentary yesterday in which the discussion was about “common sense” the scientists said they didn’t care about “common sense” as they wanted “proof”. It stood out after reading your blog as it makes no common sense to want “experimental proof” and ignore “common sense”.

     1. Very true, David. Culturally we have come to a point where our common sense isn’t valued and ‘evidence’ is needed in order to to back or support a decision. This is huge, because the subliminal message to all who need to practise ‘evidence based practice’ within their work are learning that they can’t trust what they feel and their own instincts are not correct.

        In addition, the ‘evidence’ is often biased and corrupt, as the research has been conducted for self interested or out of greed. In a time that calls for ‘evidence’ that frequently can’t be relied upon anyway, our ‘common sense’ is more needed than ever before.

     2. Wow, we are so reliant on proof… shows how disconnected from our common sense we are ;). There are things we all just know, and this level is deepened by the connection to ourselves.

     3. To me, things like common sense are just self-evident. It is an inner experience we all have and this is the proof of the matter. Whether we choose to listen to it and act upon it is another thing. Wanting proof of common sense is a bit like wanting to prove that all have noses – even though it is fully self-evident that we do.

     4. The arrogance of our so called intelligence. Whereas ‘common sense’ is the foundation of our true intelligence, because no one is left out or behind, because it is completely shared.

392. I had no idea about the origins of the word ‘common sense’ but it makes absolute common sense to me that “common sense is a communal thing, the feeling we all share, that we all have in common”, and when we follow the common sense that our bodies are telling us, it’s such simple and practical ‘common sense’!

     1. Interestingly until I read this article I have never thought that ‘common’ sense was used to describe an inferior ability. I have been brought up with the real meaning of the phrase ‘common sense’. It was always conveyed in my family as something that is of value and a attribute that supports us to navigate our way through life, in fact it was emphasised that there’s no point in having other attributes without common sense.

393. ‘…brings us to equality and shared values. It transcends all the barriers we have put between us – gender, age, colour, race, religion, nationality, culture – and brings us back to the truth, that we all share a knowing we have in common.’ And this is what we have all to learn, that despite our differences, we are the same. Genocides committed through the centuries have been based on our differences, how many more must die before we learn that we are all the same? And that in all our different lives, we have all experienced being different races, cultures, religions?

394. I didn’t realise ‘common sense’ had been bastardised until I read this post. I absolutely love feeling the truth about what it is to be ‘common’.

     1. There are very few things in this world that are common. We are always separated by one belief or another; however common sense is one thing that cannot be argued, it just is.

     2. The human spirit loathes what is the true ‘common’, for in the Oneness of this, the self is dissolved and we have nothing left with which to identify ourselves. Hence the bastardisation that exists to keep us well away from our saving grace – our 6th sense that is our clairsentience.

     3. It’s beautiful isn’t it? Our shared sense, the one we all share whether we are aware of it or not. I didn’t realise either until I read this blog but it make so much ‘common sense’.

395. I really liked your blog and the exposing of how the meaning of words has been changed to create a completely different meaning. Today’s understanding of ‘common sense’ is a severely reduced version of something quite beautiful. Thanks for putting it back up where it belongs.

     1. I agree, Mathew, it is beautiful to discover the true and original meaning of words again and bring it to life.

        1. Yes, it’s truly beautiful. That we all share this sense is profound. It means though we may have different expressions of our common sense, we are united by it. It is no wonder its meaning has been distorted to allow for living the lie that we’re separate from each other so we can behave accordingly – vying for recognition, competing, being irresponsible etc. We’re unique but we’re all connected through a great inner wisdom we all know, that is familiar to ourselves when reconnected with, as it is a part of us.

     2. Yes Matthew it is remarkable how complex thoughts and analysis is nowadays favoured as ‘clever’, ‘superior’ and ‘significant’ compared to the simplicity of common sense which is seen as ‘plain’ and ‘insignificant’. Yet when we consider ‘common sense’ in its true essence, is the shared wisdom we have within us all. Nothing insignificant about it at all.

     3. Absolutely Matthew, ‘the meaning of words has been changed to create a completely different meaning’, until reading this blog I had not really considered the meaning of ‘common sense’ and how this meaning has been changed to mean something that is lesser, being ‘common’ feels like brotherhood and togetherness – very simple and lovely.

     4. I agree Matthew. The other thing that has changed with common sense is that it is always used as a put down or a negative rather than as a support for our shared wisdom.

396. If we consider ‘common sense’ to be the shared unified truth that we all hold within and have access to if we choose, then it is True Medicine indeed.

     1. And therefore, to live our inner truth, is True Medicine.

        1. Yes, True Medicine that works and also physically heals us.

        2. Absolutely. And this lived truth then offers a reflection to all that shows that this truth is shared and accessible to all.

        3. I Love the conversation Anne and Paul have inspired here.

     2. Agreed Golnaz, and is all about connecting to that truth within us through our bodies and the way we move and offer this reflection to others.

397. Thanks Anne and Paul. The best way to override what is common sense is to introduce complication into our lives. This then creates the illusion that helps us to ignore the simplicity that lies before us.

     1. Beautifully said Adam, ‘The best way to override what is common sense is to introduce complication into our lives.’ I love the simplicity of common sense, it is simply a knowing that we all have.

     2. I like the comment Adam – a common sense approach to life follows a simple path.

     3. Absolutely Adam. Every situation is a choice, and a choice of simplicity or complexity.

     4. True Adam it is simply a choice – to honour ourselves or choose complication or distraction.

     5. Absolutely Adam. It is so easy to bring in complication and distort the simplicity. This adds a stress and busy-ness to our lives that creates a momentum that results in it being difficult to connect to our shared wisdom.

     6. Spot on Adam. There was a time when it was common to live our truth and our love. But we have become so used to complexity and drama that we now have a complete reversal of this situation so that now we tragically live what is common, but not at all true.

        1. Too true Liane – ‘we tragically live what is common, but not at all true.’ Like the words… we live a bastardised version of ourselves… so far from the truth and love we innately are.

     7. This so true Adam. And how complicated has life become. There are times when the penny drops and the simplicity returns, but how much do we champion complexity in our daily lives? Serge Benhayon is great at posing questions that offer a stop and a possibility to return to the simplicity of the common sense.

     8. Agreed Adam, as humans we like complication as we like to think we are the creators of life as the moment we let complexity go we experience the simplicity and magic of the universe within us.

398. It doesn’t make any sense that we ignore our common sense.

399. In most cases I have seen ‘common sense’ interpreted as ‘what most people think’ and in some cases as ‘everything that I think’ – the latter kind of person I tended to meet in any pub. The former type is one of the favourite tools of the media ‘it is only common sense that all politicians would get their snouts in the trough whenever they can’ – in other words ‘common sense’ stands for ‘I want to say this and it to be right without me giving any reason why it would be right’.

     1. absolutely, great comment Christoph. What a lot of people may call common sense may just be what most people think or what is safe.

     2. Thank you Christoph – you have highlighted the re-interpretation of words clearly here and how the bastardised form changes everything.

400. Thank you Anne and Paul for sharing a deeper understanding of what common sense is all about, which is common to us all when we connect to the truth from our bodies in simplicity.

401. I love common sense. True common sense happens when it all adds up, and the beauty of this is that it is undeniable. – If you do ‘this’ … then ‘that’ happens. It doesn’t mean that we necessarily follow our common sense, but when it comes down to it, it is there with us, all of the time. We often choose to be sense-less – but that is totally up to us.

402. So many truisms shared in your blog, each one their own example of common sense in their own right. But to be ‘part of a symphony of rhythm’, resulting from the choices made when we live from our whole body and not merely our head, makes the most sense of all – to be part of the rhythm of life, the thing we all have in common.

403. I remember as a teenager I used to think that there were people with common sense and then there were those who did not have it, like the academically minded. I admired people with common sense as they always felt more real and true to me. What I didn’t know then was that we all have common sense and that it is nothing other than simply being connected to the wisdom in our bodies. I love being someone now who displays common sense.

404. What a dichotomy we exist in when we do not apply and live by the common sense we all innately possess.

405. Love this conversation between you Anne and Paul. An inspiring and evolutionary communication to expose all the ideals, beliefs and assumed understanding of words, that this blog shows are highly misused and bring totally different connotations and meanings to what is truly being said.

406. If we would use our common sense, in other words, live from a sense of truth, the world would be in a completely different state than it is now. I just read the newspaper and the first thing I thought was: what world are we living in? A world without common sense.

407. Thank you Anne and Paul I enjoyed your conversation. Very inspiring. Conversations like this let us connect to our common sense which shows that we all know what is common in sense, it only needs to be re-activated and lived.

408. Thank you for this new understanding of common sense.

409. ‘When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us. When we don’t, we are in disregard, not only of our selves and our own bodies, but of everyone and everything else too.’ Simple and available for everyone, beautiful.

410. Common sense is not an accumulated knowledge it is a sense of a deep knowing of what feels right for us.

411. Thank you for showing so clearly that common sense comes from a knowing in the body which our forefathers lived by until this was bastardised and replaced by mind-based knowledge that taught us to override what we truly felt, at great cost not just to us but also to society, with the resulting ever increasing burdens on our medical and other services. Great that this is being exposed and more now have the option to reconnect to themselves and the common sense of their hearts.

412. It is incredible what ‘common sense’ now stands for. Abusive ways and behaviours of mistreating ourselves, our bodies, and each other now seem the norm until a certain point – deemed as common sense. We seem to have become blinkered to the fact that we lost our ‘common sense’ a long time ago.

413. Intelligence is often celebrated in families, especially if a child makes it to University and qualifies with a degree, but sometimes common sense is missing: there is the phrase ‘Yes, he’s very intelligent, but has absolutely no common sense’ meaning that he is so much in his (or her) head that they are not part of daily life, can’t manage simple relationships, or simple everyday tasks.

     1. I agree Carmel – there often seems to be an absence of common sense when a person lives completely in their head. Understandable really because common sense is felt within the wholeness of the body, not just the head. We have promoted mental intelligence beyond its capability.

414. When we use our senses we connect to the wisdom within.

415. This is something used so insignificantly and said in a way that is it seemingly “not so important” and less. Very well described in the blog above. You nailed many aspects of how we have used common sense as a point of withdrawal instead of divine origin which is: a sense within us we all have, that is not to be disregarded but to be reminded by and lived from (deep inner knowing). So bringing up what common sense means is actually very important. Thumbs up Anne and Paul.

416. ‘The only difference between us is how aware we choose to be of it, and how willing we are to use and honour it, or ignore and or over-ride it’. Common sense can happen in a moment but as you are saying do we choose to acknowledge what we are sensing and act on this or do we choose to go with the pressure of what society says is true. The outcome of this can be the difference between stillness in the body or living with anxiety.

417. A gorgeous playful conversation Anne and Paul. Common sense is a universal known that comes from our body.

418. “When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us. When we don’t, we are in disregard, not only of our selves and our own bodies, but of everyone and everything else too.”
     The common sense is what we all know to be true, and what cherishes us all.
     Common sense is uniting and all encompassing.

419. I really enjoyed and loved reading this, it’s somewhat comical, if it was not so serious, how we have a knowing of common sense but completely ignore it. All the examples you share are things that I can relate to, like knowing drinking was horrible and then spending later years indulging in it. However the point I am left to ponder with is the fact that I still had the belief that “common sense” was a knowledge thing rather than an all body knowing thing. The latter makes sense, it’s common sense really!

     1. I love the Lightness in which you are referring to this blog David. It’s so True. It is comical if you look from a distance. But when we’re in it, we’re fighting with everything in us, our own ‘common sense’, but then (only) from a mental perspective. How important is the body! Yet, we’re actually seeing the body as the lower aspect of ourself and hardly care for it – generally speaking that is. Your lightness brings light and joy to it!

     2. ‘Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.’ I love the way you brought this ubiquitous term back to these basics, Anne and Paul.

     3. So true David. The litany of things mentioned in this blog about common sense that I have participated in and yet not arrested when I felt them in my body is truly self degrading and sabotaging. This supports me to understand just what a force is around me to stop me ‘going for’ and supporting what and how my body is naturally built to be. Once again it comes down to making a choice about what is common sense or not!

     4. I, too, had not appreciated that common sense was a body knowing but once brought to my attention it is obvious. And that I find is so common with common sense because I have lived so much from my head and mind.

420. Common sense is an impulse of truth that we feel in our bodies. Common sense is simple and profound and yet we choose to ignore it or override it all the time. That does not make sense. A great sharing – thank you.

     1. Yes, common sense is plain, simple and true – and is not used much in today’s world. If we truly considered that alcohol was poison then common sense would tell us not to drink it. But it is poured into fancy bottles and flavoured, and we are looking for comfort and distraction so we don’t want to look at the label that says alcohol = poison. It is a matter of employing common sense, because when we don’t – that is when we have the problem.

421. Thank you for sharing this Anne and Paul. It is interesting how our ‘common sense’ in this day and age doesn’t seem to make all that much sense. The dramatically increasing rate of lifestyle related illness and disease are just one example of how what we allow into our relationships with our bodies as ‘common sense’ has led us to disregard and poison ourselves. It seems that instead of realising the harm that things like alcohol and drugs can do to our body, our ‘common sense’ tells us that we can only have ‘so much’ and that it will be fine.

422. Simple and true. Common sense is an impulse of truth and truth is common to all men equally.

     1. Simply and exquisitely expressed Rosanna 🙂

423. Thank you Anne and Paul for bringing back the real meaning of “common sense ”
     This blog is a gem. You really have used your common sense to share what you really know. From that everything becomes simple and true.

     1. Hello Victoria and I agree. A throw away comment that is often used, “common sense” but without us truly knowing what it means and how it is used. It’s great to shed some light on phrases like this one so we don’t walk away further from their true meaning or their true point of origin. Thank you Paul and Anne for bringing it back.

424. ‘Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.’ I enjoyed the way you expose current use and abuse of the term ‘common sense.’ It’s true meaning desecrated, now resurrected through you. Thank you.

425. This article brings light imto what we call is norm, but in truth it is abusing our bodies to follow a belief, an ideal, something which is not connected to our bodies instead of using our common sense and listen to our bodies.

426. I love the last paragraph of this blog outlining all the natural rhythms and cycles of the body, so much is natural to ourselves and in life when felt of in terms of its cycles.

427. What a great conversation on ‘Common Sense’. In particular, this makes complete sense to me …”Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life…”

     1. This paragraph simply summed it for me too Johanne. I will not say these words in the same way again after reading Anne and Paul’s dissection and teaching of the term ‘common sense’.

     2. Incredible wisdom, that our body knows the road to take to the life we actually dream of.

428. Anne and Paul, such a great thought provocking article. I had never before considered how religion goes againgst common sense. When I read how some religions dictate what we eat, I thought about the religions that promote fasting for long periods and then at the end of fasting, they traditionally eat particular traditional foods. Often the fasting includes no liquids as well. This practice seems to be devoid of common sense.

429. Reading this blog left me wondering about all the non-sense that the media and a handful of people go on with in continually denigrating Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. If the people involved in behaving this way were to apply the yardstick for common sense as you have described it Anne and Paul, they would retract what they were saying immediately because they are out of sync with where the rest of humanity is feeling drawn knowingly and unknowingly to go in honour of individual and collective common sense.

430. “Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.”

     We need to get used to stopping and feeling at every moment of choice, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, to give ourselves a chance to choose wisely and NOT override.

431. I love this blog, Anne and Paul!
     I just love the way you have shown how historically we have chosen to step away from our innate knowing; around the time of Aristotle when we reduced our knowing to knowledge and again in the Dark Ages, when our knowing was made complex and obscure and overridden by the doctrine of Religion. And also showing us how we belittle the term ‘common sense’ thinking it too simple to actually live by, exposing the arrogance of the type of intelligence we have allowed ourselves to be ruled by.
     This paragraph stood out for me as saying it all:

     “Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true. But if we separate from the whole of who we are, a part of us can take over and let our thoughts run the show – the part that wants to do it our way, that wants to be individual, that wants to be special, and separate from the whole.”

     Personally, I have lived this to the max, I know it all too well.
     And having finally seen through what I was choosing, I feel the joy you describe in your last paragraph, of living a simple life.

432. Collectively we seem to be acting in such opposition to our common sense, that anyone acting with common sense is now seen as weird.

     1. I have noticed the same, Melinda. By overwriting our body based common sense and accepting this overwriting as normal the balance shifted completely the other way around. Common sense is seen as abnormal and weird.

        1. Even if it is not seen as normal, when it is lived and the body responds as gracefully as it does, people notice and perhaps begin to question the so called normal.

        2. True, by living something different you offer another the possibility to question the so called normal and facilitate them to also feel their body and make decisions from there.

     2. Well said Melinda. How crazy is it that we have got to a place when “acting with common sense is now seen as weird” – the world is definitely upside down when this falsity is accepted as normal.

     3. A sad truth exposing the rot we have allowed to permeate our senses to come to a place where we believe that because something is common/normal it must be okay… when world health statistics show us our normal is not working for us… and our common, far from sensical.

433. Thank you for bringing such simplicity and clarity to two words … “common sense.”
     It begs the question… how many other words have been bastardised over time, and where is Truth in our world these days?
     It has only been through Universal Medicine workshops and presentations by Serge Benhayon that I have come to understand true Truth.

434. Uncommon commonsense! Thank you Anne & Paul for this delightful and playful insight into the innate wisdom we all share in common, and how come we tend to override it.

435. Our best medicine is the way that we live in every moment of every day, good medicine is our ability to choose that which is in honour of our common sense and awareness and true medicine is this as a way of life that continues to expand our depth of understanding of ourselves and of life.

436. Great and revolutionary conversation Anne and Paul, thanks for sharing! Our common ability to sense life and read the intricate details of all that happens, is felt and unfolds is a right of us all and we deserve nothing less that to be able to choose to live this way as our natural, normal way; without imposition, judgement, comparison etc. from others. Unfortunately this is not the world we live in, however, this does not change our right and so we can choose to live our way regardless of external influence and allow our common sense and knowing within to move us throughout a joyous and loving way of life.

437. There is so much we do in life that does not make sense. Smoking and filling our lungs with a deadly poison makes no common sense, neither does drinking again after a hangover, one seriously should be enough. We have become so accustomed with shutting down our sixth sense that sometimes we deny its even there.

     1. Yet no matter how much we ignore or override our senses, they are still there waiting to be heard, and continuing to repeat what needs to be said.

438. When you hear Serge Benhayon speak you may not understand all that he is saying or even catch every word, but it will not stop you feeling everything he is saying, which makes so much sense.

     1. I agree Fiona, you just cannot deny that everything Serge presents makes complete sense. Even if it stirs you up all over because you really don’t want to hear it, our common sense is universal, and this is what is invited when Serge Benhayon presents the truth that is common and universal for all.

     2. Fiona it’s so true what you have shared about Serge Benhayon always making sense. When I listen to him, my body seems to open to everything that he says, not because I am gullible but because my body vets the energy of every word and recognises it as either the truth or not. When my body listens to Serge Benhayon presenting I listen with my whole body and my whole body recognises that what he is saying is the truth and the truth is also common sense, it’s what we all inherently know to be true.

        1. Yes, it is what is felt during the presentations which is key. During one of Serge’s courses I was sitting next to a Spanish lady who spoke no English. at the end I asked her in my basic Spanish if she understood what Serge Benhayon had presented and she had a beautiful smile on her face and said ‘yes, I felt it all’

     3. Indeed Fiona, we can never stop feeling what is true, only dull or stimulate ourselves to over ride our common sense.

     4. Very true fionacochran01. Feeling and connecting to the essence of what is being presented is entirely different to trying to understand it all mentally. I agree, when I feel in my body what Serge Benhayon presents everything aligns and expands and this to me is my body saying yes.

439. ‘Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life’. Why would we have it any other way, yet we do. As our common sense has ‘all the anwers’ to life.

     1. This simplicity is definitely a key here, we live in a world that is full of complication and dramatic emotions that are quite simply unnecessary. The more simple we feel in our connection to ourselves and the more we make choices from here supports us to not indulge in the complex ideals and beliefs that we’ve lived under and by that make life much harder than it needs to be. From this point and the beautiful space that presents from living such a simple life, what on earth would we even need to override anymore?

        1. So very true Cherise “simplicity is definitely the key”. When we begin to complicate our lives we begin to bury the common sense, that innate knowing that we were all born with, and as a result the complication grows and life becomes extremely hard to live. Letting go of the complication and replacing it with simplicity offers us a whole new and wonderfully spacious way of living.

     2. If only we would follow this common sense road map in the same way that we follow our sat navs!

440. We have ‘…reduced this knowing that comes from our bodies’ and as stated by Anne, made it about knowledge from our minds’…common sense does not live in our heads. Why is it that we avoid our common sense and make the head more important and hold knowledge as some accolade, when in fact as common sense knows – this has simply made a mess of things.

     1. We do indeed need to use the whole body and mind for true common sense to prevail otherwise every part and everything is not considered.

     2. We often fight the common sense that our body presents, but nevertheless it is always there.

441. This is a very powerful point – ‘it transcends all belief barriers’
     This is because it is a fact, known to all, we’ve all experienced it, or we know it. It is a factual truth! This is the quality, the simple common sense that we all have within us, yet we put beliefs, and other stuff before our common sense. Imagine a world lived on common sense, it certainly would not be so complicated and separative.

     1. Karoline, I can imagine a world in which life would flow with simplicity (though not without challenge I am sure). It would be a joy to live in common sense with everyone and I am sure so many world problems would drop away.

     2. Such a powerful possibility – that we all tap into this one common source of wisdom and knowing. I feel we have diminished our perception of common sense to our great detriment.

442. Wow what a blog, exceptional, I loved it, who talks about ‘common sense’ the way you have? I just want to be, live ‘common sense’ all the time…

     1. This blog transformed my understanding of ‘common sense and exposed that I don’t always live it. Much to ponder on here.

443. What I want to say is that this all makes ‘sense’ to me – and I love the simplicity of it. The whole Divine setup is perfect and the connection to the natural way, which is held by all, is innate – or ‘senses communis’. This exposition of the meaning of ‘Common Sense’ has healed something within me and made me aware of how the true meaning of two very simple but profoundly beautiful words have been ‘bastardised’. Thank you Anne and Paul, ‘Common Sense’ has been re-imprinted with truth.

444. Haha, classic. Thank you Anne and Paul, it makes me wonder, are you a couple?, Maybe married? Or is that just ‘common sense’?

445. Thank you, Anne and Paul, what a great understanding you both offer on what common sense is all about. I love that you expose the fact that it has nothing to do with being “lesser than” and that this interpretation has been introduced to humanity to try and offset the power of applying common sense in our lives. You have given me a true appreciation of what common sense is all about.

     1. I totally agree Elizabeth, this is a really powerful article that has given me a great perspective and understanding of the ‘untruth ‘ that ‘ common sense ‘ has become. I love how Anne and Paul develop this piece together unravelling how such a natural and powerful sense of wisdom in our body that we all have – is common to us all – was diminished and changed in its true meaning.
        Their revelations here open the door and the way back for us all to be living from listening to our body – it’s common sense which is the truth of what is supportive for us or not – it is this truth – our inner-knowing that unites us all.

     2. Yes – nothing to do with being ‘lesser than’, nor ‘more than’ – but a foundation for equalness with all. There is great power in this awareness.

446. It’s interesting to bring in how the major religions demonised common sense to the point where anyone expressing it would be burned at the stake for being a witch, or slaughtered en masse, like the Cathars were, for not bowing to the religious autocracy.

     1. Any religion that proposes that ‘the commoner’ ie humanity in general do not possess innate wisdom requires us to ask why. Without commonsense terrible acts are committed, all in the name of that religion or God, against fellow humans who have been demonised or otherwise cast as ‘others’.

     2. Oh so true Lucy. And the ‘demonisation of common sense by the major religions’ is still going on today – without the burning at the stake. Some are seemingly more liberal without the physical retaliation, but still riddled with dogma and imposing their doctrines on society. And some are brutal in their modern day punishments of going against what they preach. Common sense – what is feared by all who wish to dictate their view on others.

        1. Great summation here Golnaz, ‘Common sense – what is feared by all who wish to dictate their view on others.’

447. When knowledge is made more important than the true and equal sense we have from our whole body, we are choosing to live reduced. The highlight of how reductionism does not truly serve us and the world comes from the fact that when we “think” from the mind, we make infinite choices that actually harm ourselves and others, although we “think” that is a self-righteous choice and we have all the right to do these things; but when thoughts come from our entire body, they are impossible to harm ourselves and anyone else, so which is a wiser way to live?
     And yet, why do we still fall back into unwise choices? How would a correction be possible? To not be controlled and led by thoughts that obviously do not serve us, requires a body which support us with different thoughts, a body which is first honored deeply as a whole, that is just a way common sense would go about to re-correct the harm of what reductionism has brought.

     1. ‘when thoughts come from our entire body, they are impossible to harm ourselves and anyone else’. This is absolutely true Adele.

448. Thank you Anne and Paul for the very clear definitions of the words ‘common’ and ‘sense’ … now I can see how bastardised this term has become.

449. ‘I feel that we have gone out of our way to squash our feelings, to make them less than the truth.’ This stood out for me. It doesn’t make any sense to do this as it dis-empowers us and distracts us from truly living a quality of life that is true, connected and soulful.

450. Anne and Paul, your blog sheds a whole new light on the term ‘common sense’. Common sense is not something we use our mind to know, but something that is known in our body – hence not drinking alcohol is common sense. And so, this makes sense of the numerous times I’d drink alcohol and suffer with a hangover, only to swear to myself I wouldn’t do it again, but did, for years, because I wasn’t connecting into my body to make the decision. My mind overrode any decision I’d made to not drink alcohol because of the short term relief and stimulation it provided.

451. This whole article makes actually a lot of sense, common sense that is. First of all I agree on the importance of words and how often we just use words without being connected to the True meaning. Secondly, I’d like to share from my own life experiences that there is indeed a world that we have in common, the world of True Love. Most of us have forgotten or ignored this Magnificent world – yet, there’s nothing bigger or grander than re-connecting back to the Love that we are and everywhere around us.

452. Its truly lovely to feel the honoring of everyone when we choose ‘common sense’. “The impulse of truth” – honoring our innate wisdom and living this, makes perfect sense to me.

453. Thank you for sharing this very enlightening conversation and for the definition of common sense – it makes sense to me!

454. This way of expanding on our feelings through open dialogue is a perfect example of common sense. Just like you Anne and Paul, we all have so much to share, and in truth so much that is commonly felt between you and me. When we start to make life about this shared truth, we begin to build a world, that includes everybody.

     1. Beautifully said Joseph and so true. We certainly do have a lot to share with each other and when we do we realise how much we do have in common with each other. From openly sharing we get a sense that we are all really the same.

     2. How awesome is that!? A world inclusive of everybody. I love it.

455. I love how you both have an open conversation with each other yet sharing the wisdom that is offered to us all at the same time. I have a dialogue with myself often with my body and mind. One tells me one thing, very honestly, nothing can be hidden (my body = common sense, impulse of truth) and the other (my mind = just leads me astray – I allow for this to happen through my choices). I have the awareness to what is ‘true’ but, the vulnerability with no foundation built with/of love to drop into old patterns and behaviours that felt comfortable which used to win every time. Not now! Self-love has come into my life and has started to shine through. Common sense is starting to become an everyday livingway and to not override those first initial signs that say you ‘have a choice’. Thank you Anne and Paul for sharing ‘common sense- true medicine’, for the good of all.

456. A knowing from our whole body is truly what common sense is about to me too. We seem to have made things so much more complicated than that through some forms of science, which is nonsensical in itself when you really look at it!

     1. Our bodies show us the power in simplicity…. There is no wisdom in complication.

457. Thank you Anne and Paul for making your conversation on “common sense” communal. There are so many absolute gems you have shared here – what struck me first is just how far words can morph and be reinterpreted from their original meaning. The “Latin sensus communis meaning ‘feeling in common’” is so very different in meaning (and feeling) to the way the term is used today.

458. What a top blog and as its a bit long for me, it deserves a re-visit so I can say more.
     For now – thank you Anne and Paul for the examples you are giving which makes ‘common sense’. This is about lifestyle choices.
     The bit that really sticks out is when Paul says “Common sense is definitively a knowing – not a knowledge-based thing – which also explains why it transcends all belief barriers”. Saying that it goes past all our beliefs sums it up for me. No wonder it makes sense to live like this. I have this thing where I am always saying to myself or someone in conversation “stick your common sense hat on” and things change instantly when we apply this as it really is so simple.
     Serge Benhayon is all about common sense stuff and if you ask me common sense is medicine we should take every day no matter what. No surprise this blog site is called Medicine and Serge Benhayon.

459. Beautiful blog, which makes a lot of sense. It brings the awareness back to what we all know inside, that it is not about what we have learned and taken on over the years. But the knowing inside of what is right for us or not, being free to feel. And not being distracted by the false ways that are so common in society today, overriding all that we know.

     1. Yes, well said Benkt van Haastrecht – common sense makes a lot of sense!

460. It seems all the comments have already been written by the lovely Anne and Paul.

     All I will say is I completely concur

461. This is a delightful article to read and says so much about how we are living and how much our common sense can guide us to make different choices if we pay attention to what we feel in our bodies. It makes sense.

     1. Yes I agree Carmel. It all comes down to simply trusting our feelings and let them guide us through life.

        1. Yes… surrendering to the simple knowing of our bodies and allowing the true and innate wisdom to impulse us from there. A truly stunning way to live.

        2. It is amazing to appreciate that we are all given everything already to live this stunning way, our body will naturally guide us once we surrender, trust and accept how incredible everything already is.

462. I always felt that I had a lot of common sense but I still used to do things that were damaging to my body and I could never figure out why: why the common sense would be overridden by a blatant disregard of the possible consequences to my body never ceased to amaze me and even though I would be determined regularly that this would be the last hangover etc. the overriding continued. It has taken me a while, and the wise presentations of Serge Benhayon, to realise that, as you have written: “if we separate from the whole of who we are, a part of us can take over and let our thoughts run the show”. I can see now that I definitely had separated from who I truly was allowing the energy behind those devious thoughts to convince me to ditch the common sense and just have “fun”. Unfortunately that fun came at a huge cost.

463. There are many people in this world who are now returning to a natural way of living, we have all lived before, that makes absolute sense. To live from their bodies, inner-heart and Soul.

     1. Yes, and there is a big joy-full ‘ahhhh’ moment when we do so – a confirmation and celebration from our bodies and our Souls that we are back on track.

     2. If I ever have any doubt, I come back to how it all makes sense. There has been nothing else that I have ever found that absolutely makes total sense.

464. Common sense is listening to our body, our Soul, not our Spirit and our head.

     1. Hear Hear Gyl we have been listening and reacting way too long from our heads cutting ourselves off from the wisdom of our body and soul.

        1. Working things out in the head and having a knowing from the body are two very different feelings. Common sense does come from our body! and not as has been implied as we’ve grown up; that it’s some kind of rationale.

     2. Gyl, the simplicity of your comment makes it so easy to understand. Our bodies connect us to our soul, to God and our heads take us away from this connection.

465. I love this ‘ common sense’ means a ‘common feeling’ one we all know, and share to be our truth.

466. What you share here Anne and Paul reveals that common sense comes from our inner heart, “the place within where a deeper level of feeling (the so-called sixth sense) resides.” Our inner heart is place within us where we can rediscover exactly who we are, and so when we aren’t connected to ourselves in this way all manner of random thoughts, that are not who we are come in, and the non-sensical behaviours start – behaviours that are made to individualise us, and make us separate from the whole, ie the ‘common’ part of common sense. So what I take from your conversation is that, commonsense is there when we connect and when we are present with our bodies. Love the simplicity of this!

     1. Beautifully said Rosanna, living in connection to the whole, present to our bodies and what is going on around is a natural way or a common way to live that we have separated from.

467. Anne and Paul, what a great ode to common sense. I love hearing and understanding more clearly what it means and it pulls me up as I see and feel how much I’ve not allowed common sense to be the lived basis of my life. And in doing so, I’ve abused myself and others, and yet as you list your examples, many of which I know personally from my own life, I see the silliness of what I do and yet I can still do it, and it hurts when I do. So I’m learning to not be hard on myself when I catch this, and I can see that in those moments when I deliberately ignore my common sense (and I do) that I’ve left myself and my body and the simple job thereafter is to come back and choose my next movement in connection with my body, which my common sense supports.

     1. Awesome sharing Monicag2, you are very honest. I can relate to what you’ve shared. It is great that you are learning to not be hard on yourself with your choices but allow them to be a learning. I also realise that even though at times our choices may hurt ourselves and others but as long as we are willing to learn from them and not beat ourselves up is key to assisting us to make more loving choices. To understand that everything is a learning and an opportunity to evolve brings appreciation for everything that unfolds.

     2. Beautifully said monicag2. So important that we don’t go into ‘beating ourselves up’ when we slip – but just choose again in the next moment to reconnect.

468. Through this conversation I can feel how strong our desire is to change how we feel and generally this is for short term gain overriding our common sense. Do our true feelings make us feel uncomfortable – and hence rather than listen to what they are saying, we simply choose something that numbs our awareness of this and returns us to comfort again?

469. ‘There must be something wrong with me…’. This ‘decision’ about ourselves runs deep in my experience. If we decide there is something wrong with us do we then live in self-doubt and seek all our answers from outside for we cannot trust what is within? I have done this for sure but can feel the importance of returning to that decision once again and pondering the possibility that there is another way – one that honours the innate ‘common sense’ we all know within.

     1. It’s sad that we grow up thinking we cannot trust what we feel because the role models around us are living so shut down from ‘common sense’. But I do see light at the end of the tunnel, for every person that chooses to reconnect to this innate wisdom offers the choice to do the same to every person they meet. It might take a while to change this deeply ingrained ‘common’ habit, but it will happen, of that I have absolutely no doubt. The pull of our innate magnificence is too strong to avoid forever!

470. I have seen many people fall asleep on the sofa and be ready for bed at 8pm but override it and stay up another 2-3hours. I have heard people say I can’t go to bed its too early, and that I wouldn’t know what to do if I woke up really early. So there is a huge conditioning by society with popular TV programmes and normalised social hours that makes going to bed early seem silly, yet common sense which comes from within our bodies, is telling us something completely different.

     1. In our language, we have words like ‘early’ and ‘late’ to describe things like going to bed. And so if there is an ‘early’ and a ‘late’, then there must be a ‘normal’ or a ‘usual’ to measure these against….this is the conditioning I feel Stephen. I’m aware I still use this language and describe my sleeping rhythm as ‘going to bed early and getting up early’ but early compared to what and to whom? Yes early compared to what it used to be for me, and early by other people’s standards, but this is now my ‘normal’, my ‘usual’ and so, this has made me very aware of the language I’m still using. My sleeping rhythm is based purely on my body’s sense of what works for me…common sense indeed.

        1. That’s such a great point Sandra, it isn’t actually early to bed at all, it is bedtime that feels right, and the only normality of early and late is if we are trying to fit in to a way of living that is constructed by something that is not at all related to our body’s natural rhythm. I still override my body, as sometimes I feel tired at 7pm and could actually go to sleep, but I don’t as it doesn’t feel ‘normal’, a conditioning pattern I know I should and will break.

        2. This has brough my awareness to other words that are used in this way too that use an external guage to mark against, such as ‘less’, ‘more’, ‘slow’, ‘fast’ – they are all used in comparison to something. If we simply go on what our body is telling is, then there is no need to use these words to describe our actions and choices.

        3. I know this one too Stephen. It shows me that I still have something I’m carrying as ‘normal’ as a time to go to bed. 9pm has become my normal but as you’ve said, going to bed a lot earlier even if I’m tired is something I override, mainly because I’ve told myself I’ll be awake ‘so early’.

        4. Wow Sandra, I notice this in me all the time. I’m often saying ‘I’m going to be late’ or ‘I got up late’ which opens the door to criticism and self bashing. What if we are never early or late and all we need to do is ‘to be’, be with ourselves in the moment. I feel it would be an enormous change in me to drop the use of this language and allow myself to accept I am where I am because of the choices I have made and there is really nothing more to it. No need for self bashing or self critique, only an opportunity for reflection and learning. A newish day today to put this in motion.

        5. If ‘I got up late’ was changed to ‘I got up later than I wanted to/intended to’ there is less opportunity for self bashing or criticism, and an opportunity for honesty with ourselves to see how we set ourselves up. From here there is the choice to adjust our rhythm in such a way so that we don’t put ourselves in that position.

        6. Great point made here Sandra, we are conditioning ourselves by the mainstreamed normal and go into comparison with those words instead of feeling what is true. We deviate truth by comparing it to untruth and putting a measurement on it. How crazy is that!

        7. And we do this a lot rachelandras and this blog has brought this to my awareness even more. I’m going to observe where I do this in other areas of my life and see what shows up!

     2. If I ever share with people that I wake up in the wee small hours of the morning, the first question is always, ‘but what do you do?’. It really exposes the conditioning you write of Stephen. Why do we think it’s weird to cook, clean, exercise, write at 5am? Purely because most people don’t do it, and yet it totally makes sense to be productive in those hours when we are full of vitality than trying to fit it all in at the end of the day when we are physically more tired.

        1. I know that question too, but I also have the tendency to explain, and this shows that I am held in this conditioning Sandra talks about and therefore putting a measurement to my normal, making it the exception and not presenting what the truth is for me. We are ruled by so many images and ideals and bedtime is definitely a big one on this.

        2. Good call Rachel – that if we find ourselves trying to explain something, to justify it, then we are holding back, measuring our commitment to love. Living true to ourselves never needs an explanation just so we can feel accepted.

     3. Perfect example Stephen G of how we give our power away to societal norms. Falling asleep on the sofa at 8pm is ok, but going to bed is not. It seems ridiculous now that we allow something like TV to dictate to us when it is acceptable to go to bed – but I have certainly been there. Reconnecting with the wisdom of our body is a wonderful thing and reclaiming our true sense of power equally so.

        1. The societal norms are so ingrained that we don’t even realize how we live subordinated to them. People used to make fun of my “children’s hours” when sharing about the time we go to sleep and then having to admit, that they basically pass out on the couch in front of the TV and then around midnight just shift their body from the couch to the bed and then having difficulties getting up in the morning because they did not allow themselves to have a proper rest due to the belief of that as adults we are missing out on life if we go to bed early.

471. I am absolutely certain that there is a much deeper truth to ‘common sense’ than we have come to believe at the present time. It is felt in our bodies, as you share here, and is accessible to us all equally. Not only is common sense something we can all connect with, and when we connect with it the wisdom we feel is about everyone and everything – it has reference to the all – and when we live from it and act in regard to it, we act in regard to everyone. Thank you for sharing your conversation here. What a wonderful way to show how this wisdom is here for us everyday.

472. “When we honour common sense, we honour ourselves and we also honour everyone around us” – and that is common sense.

473. We live in a world that recognises achievements such as gaining degrees and PhDs as all important with little if any consideration to the part common sense plays. Thank you for sharing that common sense is in truth all important, for it brings us back to the truth of our body, the truth that we are all love.

474. “So do we say: Well, that does not make sense, because I know what feels true in my body, so I will just trust and abide by what I know, and live in a way that honours that.” Not often in my view, instead we go against ‘common sense’- overriding our innate feelings on a host of things. Love this; “Common sense brings us back to the truth of our body, and the truth of who we are; the innate qualities of love, stillness, harmony, and joy that are our birthright. It is our way back to the love that we are.” Great post Anne and Paul, thankyou.

475. Great article Anne and Paul, this question really made me ponder ‘Was our common sense, our knowing living way, cherished and nurtured?’ I can feel that as a child my common sense was not nurtured and so I rebelled, started drinking, smoking, partying when actually i was a very sensitive child and this way of living was a million miles from natural for me, my natural way was to express what I was feeling but this did not go down very well and caused a lot of arguments, and so I abused my body to not feel how sad it was to not be nurtured and honoured for who I was and what I felt.

     1. Yes R Wingrave – going against common sense is going against our natural way and often leads to self-destructive behaviours in one form or another. I suppose this is inevitable because common sense says that we be self-loving and self-nurturing so anything that goes against this will be self-destructive in some way.

476. What a fantastic sharing, Anne and Paul!. It seems to me you have beautifully covered it all here, and I especially like this sharing “Our common sense-the feeling in our-body-is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple loving way of life” Thank you both.

477. I love that the term ‘common sense’ is a common thing that we all share. Yes, it is our feeling sense of what is true that does not give itself away to high flying ideas. When we come back to common sense we know the answer.

478. This was a great blog to read for me, as I got to see how I had subscribed to the version of common sense which was intact derogatory. I absolutely love the turn around to mean shared by all equally. Thank you.

479. What a great blog, it highlights so clearly the infinite wisdom that our bodies hold and how we over-ride the common sense it is constantly communicating.

     1. Yes Jenny, it is amazing to feel how much truth and common sense our bodies hold. Right there with us all the time, if we but pay attention to it, honour it and listen.

     2. Yes Jenny, not only do we override the common sense communicated from our own bodies, but in doing so we also ignore that same infinite wisdom that is constantly communicated from everyone around us.

480. Common sense is the knowing that we are divine and that our wayward will has chosen to ignore the fact and do its own thing. We will fight true common sense as long as we keep on believing this self created big fat lie and reduce ourselves to a lesser being in order to stay in this created individuality that pretends to not belong to a greater Universal Order. In this self-created individuality we do anything to twist truth to maintain the matrix of our own creation. Everybody knows who we truly are, it is a choice to pretend not to know.

     1. Love it! Telling how it is and no holding back.
        Feel the power.

481. This blog just makes so much sense! Thanks Anne and Paul for lifting the lid on such a well used saying, I was going to say such a common saying, but strayed away from yet another pun.This is a classic example of the way language is bastardised to keep us in the dark ages and away from connecting to our inner truth.

482. How apt for me to read this first thing this morning. “Common sense is felt when we are with our whole body, and then we know what is true” and I certainly know then that feeling of what is not true, it stands out very loud and clear.

483. Thank you for a fascinating discussion on our shared common sense. “Our common sense – the feeling in our body – is actually an impulse of truth, a road map, if you like, of our way back to a more simple and loving way of life.” When we hear something or experience something that is a common sense we just know it is true. How we respond or react to that truth is always a choice.

484. Beautiful to wake up to a new understanding of common sense. In fact it is not new , but old!

485. Your final paragraph is the prefect summation of what true common sense is and on how we all can live.

486. What amazes me is that common sense is so obvious that we do not see or honour that as the wisdom it truly is. It is amazing how we condition what is in fact so obvious, and simple and easy to follow, and at times make it almost impossible for us to adhere to its reasons.

487. Anne, this is a blessing for me to read this blog on the early morning, as common sense connects and confirms who I truly am, and in adhering to this common sense I am in full appreciation of who I am. A great starter of the day and something to take on board as being my guide in life, common sense.

488. “The word communism means something that we all share and have access to, equally so, no matter who we are.” And on reading this feels to me like the foundation society and humanity should be built on and possibly has been built on but which we have slowly allowed to crumble away through neglect and our lack of connection.

     1. Yes deborahmckay, and the communism becomes the dirty word and concept because it has bastardised — that is we have have bastardised – the truth. We are naturally designed to live in brotherhood — absolute common sense.

489. Wonderful wonderful blog Anne and Paul! Thank you for unearthing the origins of the term ‘common sense’ – ‘sensus communis’ – feeling in common. This is deeply beautiful and unites us all in knowing what is true and what is not , no matter who or where from. I love too how you have made clear how the word ‘common’ and so the term ‘common sense’ has been degraded, as if something that were ‘common’ and not unusual or exclusive was something to look down upon, when all the beauty of the world lies in that which is held in common between us all, love.
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490. Common sense sounds too simple, too innocent and often I have heard it said that “oh that’s just common sense!” as if we should automatically know it when we are all grown up. Yet for most people it is not our living way and it raises the point that if we had degrees in common sense alone the world may be a very very different place

     1. Yes Joshua, we have often dismissed ‘common sense’ yet it is the gold in the treasure, gold within us all. Yet we treat it as some cheap metal?

        1. That’s right Karoline. We do often treat common sense like a piece of cheap metal, yet often such metal could be the foundations of something grand and glorious. Never dismiss our foundations for the finality is founded from them.

     2. Yes most of us have chosen to turn off or bury our common sense under layers of disregarding behaviours, but incorporating it into the education system and the earlier the better would be a great way of starting to turn this around.

491. It certainly does not make common sense to smoke as it stinks for a start: your breath smells, your hands smell, your cloths smell, it costs an enormous amount of money for a packet of cigarettes, you waste a huge amount of time if you consider the time it takes to smoke a cigarette and add this all up, it is a dirty habit with all that ash and butts, it rots your teeth as well as many other organs in your body, it prevents you from healing as quickly as you can, it creates a smoke screen between you and another….and the list goes on. So a great question to ask, is, knowing all this why do we smoke?

492. I remember as a child knowing that my parents and the other adults were living a lie.
     There came a time where I chose to let go of this knowing and instead make myself wrong for what I was feeling as I wanted to fit in and be liked by others. This was at a huge expense to my well-being as from that day on I hated myself for going against what I knew to be true. My sense of self worth plummeted and I went down the path of bulimia and drugs all as a consequence of a choice I made to stop trusting what I felt.

     1. Good point here marylouisemyers. How many of us believe that our sense of self-worth comes from the acceptance and approval of others and yet in truth it is more about ‘making ourselves wrong’ and denying the inner wisdom we all know within?

493. Fascinating. Thank you for this exposing and fun dialogue, Anne and Paul. It is really fascinating how we have allowed the absoluteness of words to be manipulated and reduced. Common sense in many cases has just fallen to mean a frequently applied statement according to our convenience.

494. Thank God for common sense, because that’s where it comes from. Common sense is our God given and innate sense to guide us through life. It doesn’t come from our head and thinking it comes from our inner-heart and the connection we have to the truth of who we are. Common sense is not so common these days but anyone who lives by common sense is living a true life with simplicity and ease in my experience. With common sense the struggle of life disappears to reveal the beauty of life.

     1. We all know what is common sense but few of us choose to live by common sense. It is too simple, if we chose to listen to what we feel and be present with ourselves, would we then have to start taking responsibility and no longer be able to indulge in comfort?

     2. Well said Susan, our body knows it inside out.

     3. Music to my ears Susan Wilson – and to my whole body in fact.

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