981 thoughts on “The Test of Life”

1. We have so much wisdom inside our bodies. Often I know that a certain food is not good for my body and I don’t have to try it out to get this confirmed. Almost like the body signals in advance: no thank you, not supportive for me. And I have the choice to ‘try it’ (playing ignorant and overriding what I know) or putting it to the test and be willing to observe and experience the consequences.

   1. I’ve had this as well, my jaw will harden or my nervous system will start to fire off or I feel really heavy just looking at certain foods! There are other times where I don’t listen and those messages just get louder. But they start as a whisper if I am paying attention.

2. There is an absolute honesty that resides in the body that frequently signals whether the substances (both physical and energetic) we ingest are harming or healing. If we ignore these signals, they often get louder and louder until a state of ill health prevails. However, there are also those times when we override the body’s innate wisdom such as in the example here given of ‘teaching’ our body to tolerate a substance it has already deemed harmful (in this example it is gluten). What follows is that our body begins to lose its level of honesty as the toxin takes over and so far from building up a tolerance, we have simply taught our physical instrument to turn down its astute capabilities of discerning what heals and what harms and from this point a cementing of the adopted ill way takes place that may or may not manifest into an obvious form of illness.

   1. It’s no longer obvious when we are so ‘trained’ to ignore the body that we don’t notice the effect of the cause any longer.

3. “we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.” We are clearly responsible for the choices we make in every moment and movement of the day and night.

4. These are great points and medicine is also quite aware – with perhaps some uncertainty – what people need to do. Where they may have difficulties is what needs doing for people actually to live in a healthy way.

5. Life opens up when we are willing to feel what’s going on.

6. Relationships go to another level when we address situations from the quality of movements we notice and feel from another.

7. Everything does make so much more sense of others and of my own behaviours when it is brought back to energy first.

8. There are many instances where I have made a choice and felt the consequences afterwards, especially with food, even if I eat something my body knows it didn’t want and I overrode it, I get a mouth ulcer, which is always a reminder that I need to move in a way that allows me access to what my body is telling me.

   1. Yesterday I discovered that nuts give me sinus pain, there was a direct relationship from eating then seconds later intense pain (I repeated this experiment over the day) I love nuts, especially almond butter. But it gets to the point of asking what do I love more? Almond butter and intense face pain or no nuts and having a clear head? If my answer comes from a connection with my body then it’s not hard to give up certain foods. If I come from my head chances are I will go buy nuts again and have to learn – do I love connection or disconnection?

9. What I feel being brought back to in reading this is deep self love, one that allows me to trust my feeling completely. That is where I see myself getting stuck at times – doubting myself, doubting my perception, as if the ultimate ‘right’ lies somewhere out there, with someone, and I was ‘wrong’ to be feeling what I feel.

   1. Or what is true can’t be so simple as the body presents it so.

10. This is a great distinction to make – the difference between change and managing what is not right for your body. And I have noticed how management of ill conditions is what we as a society do very well, with true and everlasting change being something of an enigma.

    1. I’ve noticed this too in myself and others as well as a want to manage rather than change. If there is a want to manage rather than change then complaining about a situation or condition is not asking for change but actually maintaining that lower quality of life. If something is truly disturbing and not perceived/believed to be of any benefit then there is less attachment and more change.

11. I love this curious, open inquiry into what we are feeling and why.. it’s impossible for life to be boring when there’s always more to feel, more to observe and more to learn.

    1. If life gets boring or emotions get heavy asking about and feeling the energy behind it all starts to lighten everything up.

12. It took a while for me to get the confidence up to do my own experiments on my own body. This was mainly due to the belief that I had to listen to everyone else before myself. For instance, reading something in a magazine and then trying that out without considering if it was something that my body would want or even if it was harmful or not. It makes more sense to listen to our bodies and what suits it, rather than forcing it to adhere to a diet or foods it cannot tolerate.

    1. In the care industry that I work in we are told to ask the person what they would like and rather than going by what we think they should have/wear etc. So then why not ask our own bodies the same?

       1. Wouldn’t that be too simple? 🙂

       2. It would as it challenges the part of us that likes to calculate and mentally concoct the answer so that it can claim some sort of victory. Whereas the body just knows the answer instantly.

13. Reading this today it seems it is all about how much we care for ourselves and in what energy, and thus the quality that we bring to everything.

    1. How much we care for our bodies determines how much of the energy is running our lives we are able to read and understand.

14. It’s great that you’re exploring the steps BEFORE we do something, such as running down to the supermarket, because it is these movements that manifest what plays out in our actions.

    1. Before, during and after. Reading at any point is always illuminating. But generally after the behaviour, for example eating something that doesn’t agree with me, it’s harder to read because the energy that fuelled the behaviour was intended to not allow for clear reading. It’s like wanting to hide, jumping into a well then wanting to look around at what caused the want to hide in the first place…but now you’re in the well and have to get out first.

15. ‘Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.’ The fact that changing the quality of our movements is so simple and so immediate shows us that it is our awareness and willingness that comes in to play for this to occur… and then the allowing and activation of Divine energy does the rest.

    1. It’s the willingness to be aware that can prove to be the difficult part as we deal with the part of us that has chosen to be ignorant, arrogant and wants to avoid wounding its pride.

16. To question and ask ourselves how we are feeling whether it is to confirm or to ponder on how we came to feel in that way throughout the day is medicine. It is never to be undervalued or a waste of time to address where we are at or what is going on for us. We seem to place what needs to get done, money, people, situations etc above and before ourselves but what is truly missing is a loving relationship with our body first.

    1. It’s valuing the quality we do in rather than solely what we do. Connecting to ourselves at the start, during or at the end of the day can be like a quality GPS system within us. Telling us where we’ve gone and/or are going along the lines of what quality are we living in.

17. When we are willing to be aware of the underlying cause and subsequent effect of the way we are living we realise our body has all the answers and we have a responsibility to listen to our own inner wisdom.

    1. I’ve certainly found that the body holds all the answers and it is most definitely my responsibility to stop and listen.

18. This is brilliant, to bring up the conversation about having moments of stop and what they are really for. Recently I have been experimenting with this and learning how to ‘stop’ does not necessarily mean to ‘let go’ but rather to ‘check-in’ with oneself. It is actually an act of self-responsibility, and dictates what will come next.

    1. Aye, stopping doesn’t have to mean we physically stop doing everything and just stand still or lay on the floor – That’d look funny at work or the supermarket. But it’s stopping the mental focus and registering how the body feels which can be done by starting to feel my feet or how I touch/grab things with my hands – rough and harsh or gentle etc.

19. And I am finding the key to understanding this is taking notice of how does how I move feel?

20. It is key to clock our behaviours and then trace them back to a picture we are holding onto – often we will find that the belief we are holding onto comes from somebody else and we have just said yes and ran with it – usually without any true understanding of what we are saying yes to.

21. “The more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own” – so simple and makes absolute sense. Why don’t I do that more often?

    1. I could ask myself the same question and what I am realising is that the unloving behaviours and thoughts aren’t random or just fall on me. Under false beliefs of myself or wanting a perception of that that isn’t true to start with to be true and trying to force it onto myself or others the unloving behaviours are adopted as a means to an end. Like wanting a person to change and keep berating or ‘advising’ (read: judging) them. Whereas accepting myself doesn’t need the other to be a certain way nor need those behaviours to push.

22. The deeper we connect with our body the easier it is to move in a way that supports it.

    1. Definitely, any choice made from my mind doesn’t stick or quickly deteriorates. Example: 15 minutes of exercise every day, it’s too rigid whereas my body knows that how much it needs changes everyday and needs connecting to.

23. ‘Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.’ You have made it very clear Leigh with the examples given that when we follow our mind it never will bring us true change, only relief of having a solution for a while but no true answer that last because we have embodied the change.

    1. That relief doesn’t last very long, sure it breaks the tension or numbs me for a moment but it doesn’t take me to joy or feeling lovely on the inside like connecting to my body does.

24. We are responsible for how our lives play out, and this can be terrifying concept or opportunity for empowerment because we can make choices – big and small – that support us and many other people.

25. ‘Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.’ This is awesome and just goes to show how possible it is to change what we think is unchangeable. It may take a while but with consistency, like water wearing away rock, it happens.

    1. In the world today instant gratification and instant results are in high demand. But there is a lot to be said of the consistency of love and how steady it’s results are and lasting. 10 years ago I would feel miserable 24/7 and EVERYTHING would be terrible, but today when everything has gone pear shaped I can still find a beauty in life to reflect on.

26. Its amazing what is revealed to us if we are prepared to reflect on how we feel after doing even the simplest of everyday things. Walking is such a great example of this as our body will show us exactly how we have been living when we walk.

    1. Without checking in to register how what we do makes us feel we can get swept up and away into a rhythm that’s not true for us to move to. For example I was watching TV yesterday at work and saw others get sucked into what was playing out on TV. I checked in with myself and felt buzzy and awful so I chose to not get engrossed in what was being shown.

27. Life is a school, it’s just about whether we repeat the same semester/year over and over again or whether we actually initiate through.

28. What is it that attracts us to the cookie jar? is it a memory of sweetness? of doing something off limits? of reward? of comfort? 0f a pavlovian nature? Whatever it is, it is our movements that take us to that jar so focussing on our movements and allowing them to be of the highest quality we know, also allows us to become aware of the honour we can bestow upon our body by staying in that quality.

29. A great reminder for me re-reading this has been the focus on loving movements and the unloving actions and behaviours will fade away.

30. You have just made me realise how important stop moments are no matter how short they are, I find it far too easy to be in the motion of what is next particularly when working although these days my body is very quick to let me know if I am working in a way that is not honouring.

    1. Even just closing my eyes in the bathroom and focusing on my breath can be a stop, or making an effort to focus on how gently I wash my hands. Or stopping mid walk (hopefully without someone behind me) and stepping off again differently helps change the energy I am in.

31. By focusing on your movements, you are inviting yourself to develop and/or deepen your relationship with your body.

32. ‘So then what are our movements and patterns that lead to illness and disease?’ Great question! Clocking our movements is a big one; the capacity to discover and deal with the patterns behind our movements is bigger still, and takes a willingness, grace and dedication to be with whatever emerges.

    1. Imagine a medical book with all the diseases listed and as well as the pathogenic causes it lists our movements that lead to illness. That’s what I find in Universal Medicine’s presentations – it’s about our movements.

33. We can get so lost in our patterns and behaviours that it can be very hard to see where we are going wrong, even though on some level we know that something is not right. Cutting out certain foods from our diet is a great place to start, as it gives us an opportunity to feel how our bodies respond differently to what we put in them, and gradually we get to feel how it’s not just foods that affect us, but it can be any number of things that we do.

    1. And for other behaviours such as getting angry at a certain person every time we see them, sharing how we feel with another who doesn’t pander or try to fix the situation, someone offering an open space for us to express. I find this helps curtail the behaviours that lead to the repeating end result as well.

34. This blog is exactly what I needed to read at the moment as it’s wisdom has given me the most beautiful insight. Thank-you Leigh.

35. In the great laboratory that is life, it stands us well to not peer into the microscope blind.

36. “By taking regular moments to stop we can find patterns and if there is a pattern of end results, then there is a pattern of steps leading to that end result.” So true Leigh – looking at our behaviours before the ‘end result’ can show us so much – if we choose to stop and feel.

    1. Unfortunately it takes the end result in some cases for us to stop and feel our behaviours. But what if a cold was no different stop sign to cancer? What if we took these ‘smaller’ messages as seriously as the bigger ones. I often think of Japanese Knotweed – the seeds are small but it grows and in time becomes the greater problem that then we are forced to deal with. Why not address things ‘while they are young’ so to speak.

37. Our patterns and behaviours definitely dictate how our life is, yet how often do we actually take responsibility for our choices, that lead to those behaviours or patterns, we all have a choice to make different more loving choices which are able to change how we feel about ourselves and how the rest of the world inter-reacts with us too.

    1. How often do we appreciate how powerful our choices are on how we live?

38. Understanding that we have the ability to choose how we feel and what state of health our bodies can be in simply by how we move and the quality that we move in, is a hugely empowering moment, and when you’re within that choice, you feel the responsibility of you doing that as part of your service which takes it away from the self and back to the whole.

39. I love what you shared about movements producing the quality of our thoughts… this is profound. So many are plagued with thoughts that are unpleasant or unloving so to know that we have the power to change their quality through altering the quality of our movements is extraordinary and ultimately life changing.

    1. Yes, what this could do for people with depression for example.

40. “Clocking the thoughts has been the first step and I feel now the next step is to bring it back to the body that is creating the movements that magnifies the energy that allows those types of thoughts in the first place. By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.”

    I love what you share here as it feels quite ground-breaking. We often try to control the mind with the mind but here you are offering us that movement can be much more power-full.

    1. The mind likes to make everything really complicated. Yet my friend encouraging me to make funny silly moves in the the middle of the living room as I was feeling grumpy proves – movement really is powerful. After that I wasn’t in a grump but had a lovely conversation with her.

41. Realising the importance of movement and learning what that actually means and feels in my body has been life changing and very eye opening for me. It becomes not about a physical movement but an inner energetic movement that aligns one back to their essence.

    1. I agree Kim, many a time I have changed how I walk to change how I feel but it’s not the mechanics that I focus on but the intention and the quality of the movement. And that intention is already a movement.

42. Movement is the key – so simple and yet we avoid it, looking for a key that is more complex, that the mind can claim as being its creation, more intricate but the truth is that our movements dictate our thoughts and if we move in a way that is loving, there is no room for anything but that love.

    1. Aye, often the complex solution may have surface results but the issue comes back or is still hanging around in a different form. I am learning that all of life’s answers are incredibly simple.

43. Great clarity here Leigh explaining that we are all where we are at, because of the patterns we repeat. This all comes from the body, how we move and what we think. So it is our responsibility to change this when we can, our own test, only we can do for ourselves, no-one else.

    1. Unfortunately the repetitive moving feeds the repetitive thoughts that act together in a feedback loop. Illness, disease and ‘accidents’ actually helps break these cycles as we cannot live how we used to. So really they are a blessing as they support us to get out of our ruts.

       1. Equally we can be inspired to change when another lives responsibly, taking care of themselves deeply can pull us to do likewise, bringing awareness to the lack of success the repetitive life brings.

44. ‘By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.’ The detail you expand on is so supportive and I feel inspired to explore this in more depth because it is so true that it all comes back to the way I move and for so long that has been in disregard of my body which then reinforces the quality or lack of it in my thoughts.

45. Thank you that was a very moving read.

46. It’s so important to ask ourselves questions as to why things are happening, to go deeper, this supports our evolution rather than staying comfortable in what is usually not so comfortable.

    1. I totally agree with you Ruth. Being open to questioning why life is occurring and my choices and responsibilities for it occuring makes life much more joyful. Uncomfortable for exposing unloving choices and my irresponsibility but ultimately joy is left when everything else is cleared away.

       1. And the moment in time it takes to feel what ever is there, like a deep hurt or lack of self worth, is only momentary, but the Joy that there after it has been let go is innately us and there to be lived everyday.

       2. So true and from my experience the letting go and the ouch moment is happening faster and faster.

    2. It also supports us to see our own part in why things are happening – to not just cast things aside as ‘random’ or being victims of anything.. we always have a part to play in any situation that we’re involved in, anything we are reacting or responding to.

47. The quality of our movements holds the quality of energy we allow in our body. When I bring awareness to my movements and decide to change them if they are not loving, there is always a shift in my perception of life, my purpose and my choices. This is very simple and life-changing at the same time!

48. Leigh this really is an extraordinary blog – your observations and awareness are so detailed and precise which I deeply appreciate. Love this line in which you bring the link between energy of intention, quality of movement and outcome all together as one. Really awesome thank you. “This is the path that takes us back around to the quality of that initial choice, in the form of an end result (the bloating) which actually is just the start (the energy) presenting itself again in a much denser form.”

49. This blows apart the old beliefs that life happens to us and we just have to deal or navigate it as best we can – quite a copout and excuse for not stopping and feeling what is true, a copout for not taking responsibility for the fact that we build the momentum in our lives that brings about the dis-ease we experience. The process of stopping, reflecting and moving with love is so simple and so profound in its outcomes – Thank you Leigh for sharing this with us.

50. Yes the elimination of gluten, just gluten from our diet can assist in increasing our energy levels, plus so much more.

51. The other thing I felt about this blog today is that it encourages us to be our own scientists. We have at our disposal plenty of material in the form of our bodies, our movements and our choices – and our reactions or responses – to be able to conduct all the experiments we like. Life is our laboratory and we are our own test subjects, compiling beautiful evidence to support us to build the truest foundation for living possible.

    1. That’s cool Victoria because the very nature of life is multifaceted and multidimensional – there is literally no end to the experiments we can conduct!

52. Great explanation Leigh of how one thing leads to another. Always it comes down to the quality of our movements and choices.

53. What a great reminder, this blog has just made me sit up and go to a deeper level of listening to my body. I have just been having reactions to foods that I used to be able to eat, but overriding those feelings because of convenience and not really going to the fact that it is incredibly self honouring and loving to let go of those foods, instead of clinging to them like i am going to miss out. So thank you, very timely reading this indeed.

54. Playing with our movements changes how we feel about/in life I am finding. Walking up stairs with an open chest vs shoulders rolled in and leaning forward results in two very different people at the top of the stairs. As adults we tend to get stuck in our ways, where I’ve been finding having a wiggle or moving slightly differently, starts to shift things.

55. I can learn much about another observing their movements yet I have had a tendency to listen to that which was coming out of their mouth. Movement cannot lie but what is spoken can certainly be untrue. Some great questions Leigh to ponder on. Thank you for sharing.

    1. This is where I found a presentation from Serge Benhayon on watching videos on mute to be fascinating. We can read so much with movement and watching muted videos is a great way to start, as life doesn’t come with a volume button!

56. An old pattern of anxiety recently re-surfaced after starting a new job, and what I discovered was that I was choosing the anxiety, believing that it was more powerful than me choosing to focus on my feet, hands or say my breath, but what has come about is that it is very easy to feel the start of an anxious moment and then choose to breathe gently – instead of going full blown into the anxiousness and then feeling rough for days afterwards.

57. This is an interesting approach to life. You are showing a curiosity Leigh that always has you asking why. I like it, because too often we accept that this is just the way things are, or we say ‘it just happened,’ but there is always a reason and it’s worth getting to the bottom of why we make the choice we do.

    1. It certainly makes life less dull the more I open up to the fact that there’s always something underneath waiting to be understood, or something within me waiting to come out and show how much I already know of life. As we do know everything but we have to make the choice to be aware of what we do know.

58. It is interesting to consider that everything is a movement. Different from how I perceived a thought to be you say that we can consider it as a movement in not such a dense form, but still a movement that is affecting how we actually make movements with the body. You can say that it amplifies through the body through entertaining thoughts in our mind. As it feels as a simple truth to me, how important it is to study this and make it available to all people to help them to get an understanding that we all have a responsibility in maintaining a healthy body and mind and that it already can start with being aware of the thoughts we entertain in our mind that could be the cause of the ailments we experience in our bodies on a daily basis.

59. Gauging the quality of our quality – what a great litmus test for life.

60. Amazing that we live in a world where we are taught to override the truth – a world that we have created to harm and hold ourselves back. It is worth pondering why we have set up and continue to support such a situation.

    1. As is so clearly presented in this blog Nicola, it is all about our movements and because we live in a society these movement will affect it, which in turn make that same society to reflect that same movement back to us and in that is making healthy or unhealthy movements perpetual.

61. It takes a great commitment to truth and thus to transparency to even want to peer beneath the curtain we have erected to hide the error of our ways. Yet as you show us Leigh, it is so simple to make adjustments to the way we are living if the way we are living is not leading us to greater settlement in the body but in fact in the opposite direction, if our current rates of disease and illness are anything to go by. Thus it can be said that if we truly want the world to change then we have to be willing to change our movements within it. And if not then we keep going as we are going, stumbling blind in an abyss of irresponsibility that will take its toll on the human form by way of greater illness, disease, misery and loneliness.

62. You have given me something to really consider here. I want to copy bits and stick them on my wall so I have little reminders! I wonder if, when there are patterns of behaviour we don’t seem to be able to move on from, an example might be eating something that makes us bloat but equally it might be smoking, then we clearly have to step back into our movements to understand what has lead to the point of wanting the food or the cigarette to understand why the coping mechanism is there. What are we feeling that we are reacting to. Being bold enough to stop in the moment might well be the key to breaking lifelong habits.

63. Listening to our body is so important. Then comes the next part, acknowledging and appreciating its messages. Then making new and different choices…. this is a forever ongoing and deepening process.

64. I am beginning to feel the quality is everything, for the moment we choose the quality we know ourselves to be from deep within, it reflects to us that our posture needs to be adjusted, how we respond and be with people changes, how we move changes. But nothing happens without first choosing this inner quality. Accepting that I have lived most of, if not all of my life with out making this choice means there are many old patterns of movement that I slowly but diligently will feel and from once felt begin the process of acceptance of the movement that is inspired from within, to live the quality.

65. Leigh I love your experiences and what you have learnt and shared, we can all take the time to experiment with ourselves, and the more we become aware of how our body feels after certain foods or the way we move, we have the opportunity to change what we eat and the way we move in order to feel better.

    1. Yep, these experiments don’t just work with food. What I found this morning was I felt how sending a text message left a bad ‘taste’ in my body. I found that if I speak in a certain way, tailor my words to avoid something that I think will happen according to the narrative in my head (which it didn’t in the end) that this leaves me feeling yuk. Whereas just coming out and texting what I felt brought afterwards a feeling of lightness.

66. i love how you have shared that you didnt really ‘grow out’ of gluten intolerance, your body just got used to masking it. I love how now such things are not ignored, not feared, but taken seriously as our body communicates with us readily about how we are handling food/life/choices and what works or doesn’t is made abundantly clear.

67. I understand that end results do not just happen, yet I can often fixate on those end results and want to solution or fix them, but of course that never works, it’s always about tracking that back to a movement, to a decision to align to a particular energy or way and then the movement ensue. And it’s not about being rigid or fixed about this, but observing where our movements lead us and understanding that a harsh mind comes hand in hand with a harsh body. To introduce gentleness to that body is like opening a window or a space to allow gentleness in everywhere, this is how we change, we move differently, we look at the quality of how we move and everything changes.

    1. I had last week some very ugly days, with complete ‘don’t care bear’ movements – as in I was eating terribly and allowing the negative thoughts to dominate and couldn’t care to stop them. So I sat on the bus going home, completely defeated in my efforts to hold back and avoid my feelings from the week before, and asked myself ‘Whats the one loving thing I can do right now?’ and without thinking started to gently stroke the back of my hand. After this choice I felt the space for more loving choices, opening up to express what I had been feeling for two weeks and all that negative pressure released. While I focused on the behaviours I avoided the root of avoiding my feelings. Gentleness I find helps me get closer to opening up and feeling that which I have avoided.

       1. Such a simple example of how we can give ourselves the care and love that we need to bring us back to ourselves with ordinary gestures wherever we are – in a sense parenting ourselves. So cool to ask that question of ourselves when we feel out of sorts ‘ What’s the one loving thing I can do right now?’

68. Giving ourselves space is definitely the key as I am learning. In the sense of say you have a thought to eat a food that you know makes you feel rubbish – dulls you down – makes you feel heavy – then taking the time to give yourself space to ask why? What is it I don’t want feel? What’s happening? What am I feeling more of? What can I do instead of eat this food? It may be have a drink of water or go for a walk. What’s going to help me create more space in my body and around me. I observed a child do this at school recently, something had happened to their work, and they were offered a choice, so they asked for time ( space) to think about it instead of reacting to what had happened and rushing. They took till the end of the day to feel into what they wanted to do and the true decision for them. Very cool and a great learning for me.

69. It’s imperative that we are students of life rather than subjects of it.

70. Love this blog Leigh – so the answer and the exam paper is written by our own body.

71. Recently I had the experience that made all of this make a lot more sense. Sitting on the floor cleaning the oven I sat in a funny way that made my leg slightly uncomfortable, and the longer I ignored the uncomfortable position my mind got wilder and more distracted. Addressing my seating position my mind snapped back into line with enjoying my task. Any time, no matter how ‘small’ we assume a discomfort to be and no matter how insignificant we’ve painted our feelings to be – when we ignore them that is the opening for the mind to wander and become abusive.

72. Leigh, this article totally rocks. You’ve spelled out something that seems obvious but that I hadn’t previously considered – I’d never connected the dots. It can always be brought back to energy, but to consider the movement is awesome.

73. Having moved to London about three years ago, one thing that really stands out is the rush hour on the London underground and there seems to be an energy everyone locks into which feels like anxiousness, and at times aggressive. It does feel very strong and you have to make a conscious choice not to go there, and to walk at your own pace which does get easier with practice.
    I mention this in reference to this blog because it makes me wonder what the quality of energy we arrive home in after a full day’s work, and how will we be with our family, as in would we want to engage with them or switch off, and is the energy within the underground a collective result of how we have moved during the day magnified?

74. ‘The quality of the experiments will vary, depending on how willing we are to be aware of what we are feeling.’ I feel this also depends on how honest we are willing to be!

75. This is gold Leigh. A while ago I noticed that the way I move when I am walking to the shop to buy food my body reacts to is harsh and fast. People often turn to glare at me as they can feel the imposition in my footsteps. On the same note people are lovely and open with me when I am purchasing food that nourishes my body. At these times my movements are fluid and graceful and there is no trying or defence.

76. I love how you have simplified everything. Just becoming aware of our movements lets us know how we are really doing, and we can change this at any time. Likewise the tone of our voice is a great give away as to how we are really feeling. Being aware of ourselves in this way we can bring ourselves back from reactions and begin to truly respond from a centred more loving place. Looking at why our movements or voice became less harmonious can also support us in discovering the hurt that is lying underneath and by allowing ourselves to feel this rather than ignore it we can unravel the energy that has been holding us back, understanding ourselves and appreciating ourselves too.

77. “By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.” This is so true Leigh. When I choose to move in true connection to who I am it is my body that speaks louder than my mind.

78. Are we not the only creature on this planet that lives everywhere! We have adapted fully to survive anywhere! Do we start off, living as you have said, to attempt to fit in? Do we at some point just accept this as the way it has always been done and forget who we are?

79. Coming back to this blog has got me curious. It’s not normal to listen to your body, the world we live in is geared to be in one’s head. So do we live in our minds, thoughts and pictures in order to appear ‘normal’? I feel for myself this has been true, as there have been thoughts of being alone or separate from everyone else if I were to fully live from my body and not my mind.

80. How often do we feel something within our bodies and dismiss it as if it is insignificant and we carry on – numerous times, in fact too many to even clock. Then because we ignore it and ignore it, something serious presents itself and we have to listen, but do we really listen to the messages of the body or do we rush to get well so that we can continue along in the same vein. It seems that by giving the body a louder voice it has much to teach us, and responds magnificently when we pay attention.

    1. What you are sharing here Julie is really important to understand, that when we allow our body to speak to us and we take the time and the care to actually listen to it, it really will respond in ways that we could not imagine possible. Even a tiny movement that comes from the truth of feeling what is being asked for has the potential to change so much about how we feel about ourselves and a consistent choice to move in this way can consequently lead to magical things happening in our lives.

81. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.” This is really bucking the trend of what has generally been accepted as a way of changing our lives, simply by changing how we think about things. But what you are saying here is that our movements include even our thoughts and how we sleep, as every single thing that our body does is a movement. If we stop and really consider this, there are endless possibilities as to what we could change about our lives, simply by the detail of our day to day choices.

82. It feels really simple. By stopping and taking note of how our body feels after doing anything, eating, having a conversation, or whatever else it may be, we get to feel if we have reacted and if so, what to. It is a constant study of ourselves, not in a critical or judgemental way, but in a way that constantly observes how our body feels.

83. We are our own science project and at any time we can test what does and does not work for us. Our body is very specific and loud and clear if we just stop and listen.

    1. So true. Stories like this one have inspired me to make big changes in my life. It’s clear there is a lot to gain from letting things go.

84. I love what you are saying here Leigh, it is so simple and so fundamental: “harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts” these harsh thoughts of course mean we will have harsh actions towards ourselves and others. This feedback loop of movement-embodiment-thought-action-movement is a great example of how energy works and is magnified in our bodies through motion. The great thing is we can choose whatever energy we want at any time. If we want to feel calm and alert, if we move with that energy it gets magnified in our bodies. Pretty cool huh.

85. Life is certainly here to teach us… The thing is can we look at this is an amazing opportunity, or as a jail.

86. This is just what I need to read today, thank you. “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.”

87. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.” At a time of year when everyone is having “new year’s resolutions” the key missing part is what you’ve shared here, that in order for these resolutions to stick they have to be whole body movements and a building on a quality in the way we live. Before Serge Benhayon I’d not even considered that movement impacted how I felt and what I choose to turn to.

    1. Good point MA, how many new year’s resolutions come from a picture in our mind? and how realistically achievable is such a picture? Considering how so many drop their resolutions hints at the fact that our pictures of life often don’t match our movements. Or as I’ve experienced them they match them perfectly in that we hold onto pictures in order for them to fail! because then we can continue to hold onto other pictures of not being good enough.

88. Listening to our body and applying the details that it communicates is all we need.

89. Leigh, I love this blog, you really help me to appreciate the listening that has taken place where I have openly said yes to change, and also to where there still needs more listening to happen. You bring life back to its basic principle, that we are all on a path of learning and each stage of that learning is valid, no matter where on that path you may be,

90. “In life, we are always presented with opportunities to test ourselves and to learn from the results of these experiments. The quality of the experiments will vary, depending on how willing we are to be aware of what we are feeling.” These opportunities to test ourselves, set ourselves targets are opportunities to grow and build, but when we are living in function, disconnected from our bodies, our will is disengaged and there is not the appreciation to spring from.

91. I love how you trace it all back to movement Leigh. Changing our movements to ones which are more gentle is such a great first step towards changing our lives.

92. “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.” This is definitely worth doing. We are not victims of life but its author and we can change the script whenever we want to.

    1. And once we experience that we can have two scripts to choose from in life that is super empowering rather than believing we have one script and we have to follow that for the rest of our days. Each time I rewrite a script in my life the other remains available for me but if I allow myself to feel the quality of the outcome it allows me to come out of the more unloving ways. Like pushing myself to complete a task VS saying no, pausing and then doing as much as I can in that moment and not pushing to complete the task right now.

       1. There also comes a time when we don’t need a negative feedback or to wait until there is an end result we don’t like, but already adjust our movements to what is coming so we keep expanding and evolving – that is fun 🙂

       2. Yeah, it’s like we can small the result ahead of time and adjust before the outcome occurs. Seeing life as cycles and everything coming back around has been gold in this regard.

93. The word responsibility rings loud and clear when we take on another level that is far greater then the choice of foods that go into our mouth. Our movements are our living and breathing interactions with the world and everyone in it. Everything is affected and how we move is so powerful in giving us reminders of what has been walked with love and respect and what hasn’t. It truly is simple yet we often override this factor to not deal with the responsibility that goes with it. A powerful blog with a truly huge message for us all!

94. It is so true – we are much, much more affected by our movements that we take the trouble to be aware of. Also when it comes to food the quality of how we shop, prepare and cook can have as much effect as the ingredients themselves. There is so much more going on in life than the superficial that we look at. It is very empowering and transforming once we start to become aware of how we are affected by energy and movement, as this liberates us to make different choices if our existing ones are not healthy, harmonious and joyful.

95. If we have the awareness and understanding that certain movements affect our energetic quality and state of being, then surely it is wise to know, ‘Which movements increase our awareness and love and which movements lead to illness and disease?’

96. Leigh I love your detailed account of what leads us to choose certain things. We can go through life innocently believing that we just choose what we choose and that there is nothing more to it, but as you say there is an energy before the choice that determines the choice. This is what we need to take notice of.

97. Taking a test is one thing, and a good thing, but having the responsibility to enact what the results tell us is the true life skill. I am good at the tests. Good at reading the results. What I need to master is making the changes that the results are calling me to make.

98. Because “everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy” (Serge Benhayon) we are subject to energy from outside of us. Only until we understand that there are only two initial energies to choose from we will be able to truly change our lives, as it all comes to that initial choice in which we choose the energy that will make us move, and from there will give us the thoughts and from there the behaviours that manifest themselves in our bodies and into the world.

99. “But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?” This statement Leigh, made me think of the allergy treatments that are available these days which can stop a person having severe reactions to dairy and gluten and enable them to eat those foods again. One wonders how this can be and what this treatment really is doing – is it in fact just ‘masking the reaction’? It makes sense that if our body is allergic to a particular food it is telling us that this is not something that is beneficial.

100. Knowing that everything is because of energy is one of the most important things to understand. I often have thoughts that I know are simply not right and in the past would wonder why on earth I would think such a thing without looking at the way I had been living prior, to allow such a thought to come in.

101. It is true Leigh, we want someone to tell us what to eat and not eat, hence why we have such a plethora of diets out there to choose from. Taking responsibility for listening to our own bodies and following that requires a whole new level of attention to ourselves. The pay-off however is enormous, I can highly recommend it.

102. Movement is the most beautiful medicine.. and we have it at hand, all of the time.

103. You offer the reader much here. We try and do / stop on will power (mind over matter etc…) alone and it fails us so often. I know it has for me. I have exercised will power and yes things have stopped for a while but I found that they always sneak back in somewhere. But the more I changed my movements and how I was with myself and my body, the more solid and cared for I felt, then there was less wanting of the things that were harming for me. And that is a loving work in progress.

104. It’s incredible how something as simple as sitting up right, adjusting your posture can alter how you feel, it is instantaneous.

     1. Yesterday I was struggling to find a solution to a problem. I was working on it for about an hour. Getting nowhere. I got up to go out to the gym and before I’d even got to my front door, the solution had arrived.

105. Leigh, what you are describing here could explain how our nutrition has been divorced from our eating habits and there is a growing divide between what is good for us and what we actually consume. But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction? Our bodies suffer the consequences of our disconnection and it shows.

106. Movement is a fascinating thing… as you say harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts, and likewise it exposes if our thoughts are unclear then this will naturally flow into our words and deeds (movements).

107. Love how you talk about ‘quality Leigh, for what we do has no worth if it is not done with the quality that reflects who we truly are – and that is divine.

108. “The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality, a quality we can choose by how we move in alignment with the energy that leads to one result or the other.” Imagine if this was lived by all. Imagine entering nursing school or medical school or law school etc and being told on day 1 that over and above everything is the energetic quality that we bring to our work that matter. This would and does change everything.

109. The test of life really is whether to ‘react’ or ‘respond’… And that makes all the difference…

110. Reading your contribution reminded me that I dropped an egg on the floor this morning – shortly after having a less than loving thought about a friend of mine; perfect example that nothing happens in isolation and that thought and movement are intimately intertwined.

111. Asking ourselves why we feel the way we do is a great understanding towards our ingrained patterns and momentums. Being honest about them allows us to make a stop and move a different way, if we choose to.

112. The quality I bring to my movements is an enquiry I am currently undertaking, so it has been super supportive to read this insightful blog today … it feels like I’m having a deep conversation with a dear friend … thank you Leigh for sharing your lived wisdom.

113. Something not deeply considered yet by the world at large is how the quality of our movements actually affect the quality of our thoughts and moods. On the surface of things, this seems a ludicrous hypothesis. And yet, this hypothesis can be supported by a simple experiment. Cross your arms, pull your face into a frown, and see where your thoughts take you. The, open your arms and shoulders, relax your face muscles, start to make your next movement gentle, and see where it takes you. Equally, try doing this whilst walking and see where your mood ends up by the end of your walk. You will be surprised by how much of a difference such movements make.

     1. I have found this a very worthwhile exercise Adam, the difference is profound I don’t have to know why but if I am feeling down I find my posture is not good so I straighten up and my thoughts are much more positive.

114. There is not a pass or fail in this test of life, it continues through many lifetimes. There are so many opportunities that present themselves for us to learn, and it is an on going process. We are never going to be perfect but we can master some of the issues that can get in the way to slow our journeys down. I am learning to choose a more loving way to be with myself, and listening more to my body, and it feels these are good choices to make.

115. Clocking reactions in ourselves, in our bodies, in others – if we can do this, we will become masters of life.

116. This is real science – clear and precise and based and truthful observation of oneself and the preceding and/or accompanying movements and thoughts.

117. “Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies.” – If we were to learn honouring the body we wouldn´t learn to ignore its messages; there is a culture of dismissing the body and with that to not trust and honour what we feel. Learning to honour the body later in life is not just developing a new skill, it is offsetting a whole culture.

118. By rereading this, it came into my mind that it is sometimes not so easy, simple to discover what food (energy) did cause my body-reactions, because I have eaten so much different and so often that day… it becomes hard to decipher what of the many things I have eaten (or what I have done/lived) is the cause for the reactions I get reflected? And so I see how I make it complicated for me to learn. Interesting. To ponder on.

119. I have been inspired as of late to really commit to journal my everyday. As everything is a movement that then affects another part of my life, it would seem wise to see the cycle I am in and the behaviours and actions that are attached.

120. Reminds me on some experiences I made in the shop I am working in. It is a shop for natural cosmetics and many people come in and ask for a cream against their pimples or acne. I advise them and offer some creams and so on but also say that it can be worth to give it a try to put dairy out of their diet, as dairy is often the cause for skin reactions. Most of them, if not all do not like to hear this. They want a cream, a pill, a herb or so to take to make it go away, but to change their way of living and food choices is taken as a burden. So in my opinion the body shares something with us when we get a reaction and it is on us to listen. Our body means it well with us. And when my body says: this food (action, thought,..) does fill me with an energy that hurts to get rid of again (results, illnesses, skin reactions,…) – we are just facing our choices and the consequences. But we do not like consequences, do we? Anyway – that will not make them go away. We can see in nearly every elder celebrity how it looks when we do not embrace the consequences of living. This is it how it looks when we think we can take over and create on our own, separated from God and the Plan. We end up looking and feeling horrible, suffering. In fact there are no solutions, as we did create the problem at first hand. Problems and solutions just alternate but are results of the same separated energy. The only way out here is to stop creating on our own, separated and unconnected, and embrace the reflections we’ve get and learn from them. Change our choices and way of living.

121. Leigh I love how you’ve made life a constant evolution and growth opportunity, by using the body as the marker of how you feel about everything. Using that to get a sense of how to live your life is a inspiration for all.

122. By viewing the body as our best feedback mechanism ever and treating it with the respect it deserves we need no longer feel the victim of the symptoms that arise.

123. You’re really onto something here Leigh, our realities are all different, all dependent on how we see the world. And of course we come to the view of the world based on our experiences, which come from our choice of thoughts. Our perception is determined by where we source that choice, either positive or negative, aligned to truly loving to the body choices, or not.

     1. Agree Stephen and if our perception is positive or negative, then what basis do we have to make a choice. Until we address the question of our perception, trying to figure out right or wrong is futile.

124. This blows out of the water the notion of mind over matter. I know I have found that I can’t talk myself into or out of anything.

125. Hi Leigh, I love how you have begun with the example of a simple food intolerance and showed that there is so much more going on in the way we are living that continues to become more erratic when we choose to override the initial messages from the body. You have also shown that through the simplicity of loving ourselves, by deepening that love though movement of all types, including a gentle nurturing diet, the illness and disease need not manifest in our lives and if it does, then we can reflect on what has led up to that moment. This blog definitely holds a few ‘Ah Hah’ moments.

126. What is so amazing about life, is how these opportunities just continue to come around again and again. We are, it would seem, always and forever given more chances to put in to practice what we have learnt – from the testing and experimenting that takes place every day. This is I suppose how we become masters of life, by continually working with the cycles that present themselves to us.

127. “taking regular moments to stop” has been one of the most important additions to my daily living. In the past I would simply rush through my day and when putting myself to bed wondered why I couldn’t sleep even though I was exhausted. It took me a long time, but finally when I began to have regular stop moments in my day I realised that I was able to go to sleep much more easily. These days if I am finding it hard to go to sleep I look back through my day and sure enough I can always see that I had not taken the time to stop and be with me, even for a few moments.

128. ‘the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.’ Leigh, this is so, so simple yet I know for myself it is true. Change our movements, change our thoughts. Wonderful!

     1. I fully agree – I know I have spent ages in my head trying to change my thoughts but that only makes them worse! Yet when I change my movements they are no longer there – it is like magic and far too simple for the mind to ever fully comprehend!

129. It is our choice to see life as a burden or something to learn from. What you present here is o so simple to do but so important to get to grips with. We are here to learn, that becomes clearer for me every day.

     1. Getting to grips with simplicity and accepting it is something I am experimenting with at the moment, life can be really simple but it feels like in me there’s a part that wants to complicate things. I’d say complicating things should come with a health warning!

130. The truth here presented is very simple and practical. The correlation of the quality of movement we chose leads to the quality of life we experience as an end result – the 101 of life so to speak. Everyone can start right now and make their own experience of this equation, no need to believe it but for sure worth giving it a go.

131. As long as we see incidents and situations as unfortunate, regrettable and downright avoidable, we will never see life’s true beauty. Becuase in each one lives an opportunity, perfectly designed to help us grow and learn. When we understand this and stop running from life, we can start to marvel equally at when things work and when they fail with an impartial and curious eye. For we are as you show Leigh expert scientists with the ability to prove beyond doubt what is true.

     1. When I see situations as barriers it’s not that the situation is preventing me from moving on but it’s me who is saying “No, I want to stay as I am”. We are given so much to grow and learn from.

132. “The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality, a quality we can choose by how we move in alignment with the energy that leads to one result or the other. ” and the more we build this relationship with our quality within and learn to move it, the easier it is to surrender in our bodies and not fight or control life, creating a flow to what is.

133. I appreciate you sharing Leigh. I can see that I often don’t stop to check in with my body and see how something is affecting it, and therefore miss opportunities to change some of the outcomes my body is sharing with me.

134. We could say that our body is our greatest teacher, and our intelligence is based on our willingness to listen and learn from all that our body shares.

     1. And what’s beautiful about this teacher is that it never judges or critiques. Only repeating lessons until we learn or are stopped to pay attention. I love how my body simply presents over and over again. Once the fight in the mind dies out the true learning can take place.

135. Stopping and feeling our quality is not something I initially would have supported. The idea of stopping when our whole life is driven to complete, compete and achieve is a strong force. So when the idea of stopping was introduced to me, the picture I held and can still hold at times is that I am to stand still and physically do nothing while the world continues to carry on and the washing needs doing and I need to get to work. The stop that has really supported me is not in not moving (although if emotionally charged stopping what I am doing IS necessary then) It’s about stopping HOW I am currently moving. So if in reaction I have found letting go of my clenched toes or walking on my tippy toes to help. I am still a part of life and moving but not to the beat of the reaction drum.

136. Yes our body is a constantly offering reflections for us to observe and then feel, we are here to evolve and learn and our body is the marker of our truth, so it can be quite different from the next person and very much our path.

137. Something i just pondered on is are we being tested as a punishment or are we being given opportunities to learn, evolve and deepen the love within ourselves? I know for me the moment I see something ahead of me as an opportunity to deepen my love the way I perceive it completely changes and no longer do I react to it like I would have otherwise. And boy oh boy we are sure are given endless opportunities to deepen our love!

     1. It’s how we choose to relate to the moment (opportunity or punishment) that makes it what it is.

        1. And the more we see each moment as an opportunity to learn more about ourselves, others and the world the less we react and/or punish ourselves. I find the more I do this the more I open up to the possibilities that are before me rather than narrowing my focus to the past.

138. ‘What do I avoid feeling by choosing to do this instead?” This is a good question to ask, I use food as a way to avoid feeling things, it may be what I feel at work, at home or a sadness with myself that I don’t want to feel. But really as I am learning, it doesn’t get me anywhere, it keeps coming back round again offering me the opportunity to choose love.

139. In the same way we choose our food, we choose our energy – a great point Leigh.

140. Understanding ourselves and our choices through our body, rather than through outer concepts, brings an authority on matters that is absolute.

     1. No matter what someone says or does you feel so solid in yourself and a settlement because you don’t have to constantly justify or convince others (and yourself)

141. The change in our movements can be as simple as changing our posture as we sit and work or drive. The slightest adjustment in my posture can change my thoughts and how I feel significantly.

     1. Sandra how amazing is that, it’s simple, something everyone can do in terms of how we sit or move, yet the change in thoughts can be black or white. I had an experience as well yesterday and a simple shift in the way I was holding the steering wheel changed everything about some concerns that were running in my head!

     2. Absolutely Sandra, this is so profoundly true. I have never felt anything make such a difference so quickly. I recommend anyone to notice your thoughts and posture and then bring quality to your posture and see for yourself how it changes your thoughts.

     3. This understanding has also massively changed my life. If in a spin of thoughts stopping what I am doing in that moment stops the thoughts. And in a busy lunch service working in a restaurant stopping isn’t really an option. But changing how I type on the till or changing my posture and/or my walk my mood and view on life changes. Anything we feel stuck in can be shifted when we shift our movements.

     4. Anyone who needs proof of this, sit up with a tall spine whilst stuck in traffic! I was creeping towards road rage today but getting to the gas station, lengthening my spine and walking taller (then driving back into the traffic for another hour) really did help shake off the frustration.

142. Nowhere is there anyone saying to humanity to experiment and feel what your body does and does not want, and that yes it is ok to do that. Far too often we will take advice from a diet book or a self help guru but rarely do we question the methods even when our bodies are yelling very loudly to stop or to do something different. Experimenting and asking those all important questions will go a long way towards building a healthier relationship with our bodies.

     1. There is this belief that a medical professional knows more about our bodies than we do living inside it. And yet we would question the advice of a builder on how our home life operates because we know how we live within it regardless if he knows how to build every single room. But that brings the question-how much do we claim the quality of how we live in our own bodies if we are willing to let another outside of us ‘know more’?

143. Reading this has bought up a lot for me – how little I question the movements I am in, or have come from or are indeed going to? The necessary stops are often inadequate and not supportive which does not truly allow for a deeper questioning of how did I get here? Fantastic read and one that supports me to go deeper still with the understanding that I am a fish in the sea and I don’t want to get wet!

144. “Which movements increase our awareness and love and which movements lead to illness and disease?” Its a great question, we usually just go hollus bollus into life, in a drive, to get things done, not ever being aware of our movements and how they all contribute to everything we do and everything we become, including illness and disease.

145. These ideas are easily tested. I know that when I move with more care, I have more space in my life. This means I am not rushing and not impatient. This also means I feel that I have time to eat well so this increases my wellbeing.

146. Leigh I love the idea of approaching life with a constant science experiment, leading, testing and evolving as we listen to what our body is telling us. Certainly with this approach there could not be a dull moment!

147. It is very true Leigh and something I have observed is that when I am with my body, focused and moving in a loving connection with it, it has an impact on what is going on in my mind. My thoughts are with my body in what I am doing and there is a clarity. Everything; how we are with ourselves and in what we do has a knock-on-effect within our bodies and around us in one way or another.

     1. And what I have found in this process is that if I understand the causes for my movements, what is behind the harsh words or stomping around or lack of connecting to others it becomes more noticeable when others do it. Which helps to build understanding of others as I understand myself. We are not as individual as we believe we are.

        1. Yes I too have an understanding of others because the harsh, imposing movements another makes, was how I used to be and still can be, so being aware of this, it is impossible to judge another.

148. Thank you again for sharing this Leigh. I love doing the little self experiments and they so enhance my life. It means that I don’t just swallow everything I am fed, I examine things for myself and see whether they work for me or not.

149. “The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality, ”
     Even if I let myself distract in some moments, when I clock the quality of my movements I come back to my body and what needs to be done.

150. When we make the ill choices such as foods that dull or make us racy, it is worthwhile to consider what we are trying not feel or avoid dealing with. As you suggest Leigh we have a choice to feel and address things once we have built the awareness of what our choices bring.

151. Cool, love this blog, I can testify to the harsh movement, harsh thoughts, it’a known go to for me to deliberately harden my body to not feel how delicate and sensitive I am, just like a little child. The key, or in truth something I am committing to do daily this week, is bringing it back to the simplicity of focussing on my hands, choosing to be gentle with them and my fingertips in every movement, typing, opening house doors, car doors, picking up things, and having an awareness of them, so for example when I switch a light switch off, I am looking at them, and not thinking about the next thing.

152. True choices first come from the body, they are natural, never forced and never done so in drive or wanting a particular outcome. I would rather be honest and allow my body to feel all its choices, to understand why these choices are made. I would rather accept all my mistakes but in acceptance truly give myself understanding rather than criticism. In short, I would rather build all my choices and movements from a foundation of love, as that would be the ground I tread on and move from thereon.

153. The art of perception and the art of self-awareness. Good post. 🙂

154. I had an experience of this following an Esoteric Yoga session this week. I felt super tender and spacious in my body, and there was no way I could move harshly, speak harshly or even think harsh thoughts. For me this was a ground-breaking experience so I now can fully appreciate what you are saying Leigh.

155. I concur with all you have written here Leigh, as it is my experience as well. It is incredible how taking notice and then moving with presence makes such a difference. My natural way is to feel still vital and together, if I feel pushed for time I go into nervous energy, my choices no longer come from stillness, they come from nervousness, and in my rush I make bad choices and drop things. Here I say to myself hang on a minute, I’ve lost myself, and nothing is worth that- I re focus on my breath and my movements, this clears the nervousness instantly and completely, I don’t know of anything that works so effectively.

156. Leigh, I love the simplicity that you have presented here of how the body is the marker of our truth and that whatever we experience in life has a paper trial to our movements be it physical, mental or spoken word. It is a simple choice of developing and deepening our quality within and we have access to the wonders of the universe.

157. “I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts.” – Me too, I’ve really noticed how much of a difference it makes – if I’ve been being hard or harsh in the way that I’m moving it impacts on the way that I think and vice versa too!

158. This is a siesmic shift in todays awareness Leigh where we are delivered from an existence that is led by the head and offered a whole new and richly confirming perspective that comes from the true sensitivity of the body.

159. “So then what if we could apply this method of experimenting with ourselves to other areas of life?” I’ve experimented this week… no surprise really, with how poisonous to the body reaction is. Reaction can be in the most subtle of ways, a raise of the shoulders when we hear something to the more extreme yelling or venting, stomping around and slamming things down or just going silent and ignoring everyone. Because of my reactions this week I am now sick, sore throat, aching body and cough. Now it is more obvious when reaction kicks in… like someone twisting their ankle, they then walk very gently on it afterwards, that’s where I’m at. Observing and giving myself a moment to read situations is like my medicine or ankle bandage!

160. “In life, we are always presented with opportunities to test ourselves and to learn from the results of these experiments.” This first sentence is maybe quickly skipped, so i like to draw attention to it here. Life present us opportunities to grow, to unfold more of our divine being. These opportunities we often call ‘problems’, ‘confrontations’, ‘illnesses’ or ‘errors’. We tend to want them to go away, but what if we would take them as what they are: offers to grow. So it could be a way to look into the offers without getting lost in them, without indulging, but with interest and from an observation point of view. Why is this offered to me? What can I learn out of it? Because if I do not learn out of it, ‘it’ has to come again and/or increase its impress to be heard.

161. Great blog Leigh, and great title. I am learning we can never have enough stop moments, we are in fact being presented with them throughout our day, it is what we do with the stop moments that makes the difference. Am I willing to really stop and assess each moment and really look below the surface to what I am being asked to look at.This has helped me with my back pain, it used to be constant, so instead of continually going to the chiropractor or osteopath, I would look at what was happening at that moment. Sometimes it was something I said or something someone else said, or a disregard for how I was looking after myself, but each stop offered me a deeper understanding and opportunity to stop the patterns that caused the back pain. We have the power to change so much in our lives by stopping and listening to all the messages we receive, how ever small they may be.

162. Leigh, these are great points. Once we know what our body appreciates and what it doesn’t, it then becomes a case of dealing with whatever psychological dependence makes us do things that are not good for the body. The big benefit is that throughout this process the signals from the body remain constant.

163. ‘ The quality of my movements is important. ‘ And so important! The quality of my movements say everything about me, and define what quality my next step will be.

164. We are indeed the results of our movements and choices… Change them and life changes according to the quality in the movement.

165. I love how you questioned how you felt not only after a certain food but also a thought or a movement. This gives a much broader picture of how the way we live impacts on us.

166. Reading your blog Leigh I am just feeling how deeply caring it is when we choose to carry out similar experiments as you have shared, really listen to our bodies and respond to what is offered.

167. Life is certainly a test, an opportunity to learn, all of the time. Be it with food, with our relationships around us, with the challenges that we undertake or that are thrown at us, so to speak. Through this learning we then can make choices differently, and hence our growth and evolution. But this growth and evolution comes from respecting and listening to the body and its multiple messages…

168. ‘Which movements increase our awareness and love and which movements lead to illness and disease?’ – I love this question and looking deeper into how I am in each moment and what this means for my body. In every movement – do we harm or do we heal. If we break it down to this simplicity we can see that we are in charge of our own health.

169. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move. ”
     This is a deep wisdom which turns our belief patterns around. We cannot stop unloving patterns through analysing them and thinking them through, but by moving differently, more consciously and as such the relationship to our body changes. If we are aware of this it can be simple to bring more love into our life. Thank you for the reminder.

170. Some time ago I thought that the signals of my body were not that easily felt and hardly noticeable, but I found that it is not that, as it is the way I am with my body that defines how responsive I am to this communication. It is very clear and sound when I am with my body and I am amazed about the wisdom it is connected to. By living in sync with my body, and that is to choose the energy that it belongs to, I am making sustainable changes in my life I have never been able to make before, as then I made them from my mind thus in disconnection with the intelligence that my body lives.

171. It is unbelievably powerful and simple to listen to and respect the messages of our body. The result at times feel like pure magic as our bodies are so lovingly and joyfully responsive. The more I learn to listen to my body the more astounded I am at my previous choices to not listen!

172. What you have so clearly highlighted here, Leigh, is the responsibility we have in every moment to choose either the love we know intrinsically inside or everything that is not that. It is simply a matter of these two choices.

173. When we do detective work on the minute details of our lives, we get to understand that everything matters, especially those tiny details. So doing experiments with ourselves and seeing how great we are in some areas and what areas of our lives trip us up, we find there is a pattern to how we react to certain things or behave with certain situations. It’s so good to find this out, because until we know what is supportive and what is not, we don’t know which parts need to be looked at in more detail.

174. Who is really testing who when we go against what is the natural flow and rhythm of life and what our bodies wisdom is constantly communicating to us.

175. “Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own…” I concur with this evolutionary way of living, but would add that in my experience, often there is a period where the resistance comes up in my body to choosing a new way to move and this is where I need to be extra caring and nurturing of myself. For it is in this period that I can actively surrender to the deeper love available and this is how the hurts that are buried that keep me from naturally choosing to evolve in the first place can be cleared.

176. Great questions to be asking oneself, I know for me that is something I do not always do, but get carried away with the thought or reaction, without stopping and taking stock as you have suggested. So to bring the space, bring the observation, less being in the middle of stuff all the time. Great blog, thanks.

177. It is true we do live in a world where we are taught to ignore the reactions of the body, and nowhere is it encouraged to stop and even consider that the body is trying to tell us something. We’ve tried for many years ignoring the body and we know that doesn’t work, so maybe it’s time to stop and listen and give it a louder voice, before we get so sick that we have to listen.

178. We are are living, walking, talking science experiments in every moment. Our bodies are teaching us all of the time. But are we listening?

179. Leigh, thank you, this is such a great sharing. “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.” – a simple and practical approach to changing our lives. If we don’t like the results we are getting in life, then move differently and in a different quality.

180. Being playful with testing things out has let me learn so much about myself and the impact of my choices, both directly on me and my body and then on how I respond to and interact with others. What I love is that life is never fixed, so what worked yesterday may need to be refined today. Embracing this prevents me becoming dogmatic and attached to a rule book…

181. So many of us work hard and efficiently and get lots done but this blog asks us to consider the ‘quality’ we bring to what we do. If we just go through the motions without much care or presence it can be felt in the result: you might get indigestion from a meal cooked in a rush, you might not sleep well if your room is in a mess, or you may react to someone without understanding what’s going on for them. On the other hand, a meal cooked with love feeds you love and you feel truly nourished so long as you give yourself time to eat it with the same quality it was prepared in. If we fold our pyjamas lovingly then we will feel that quality when we put them on the next night. If you pause to connect with someone they will feel seen and understood and any potential reaction is defused. Thus, it’s not what we do that matters – it’s how we do it.

182. Leigh, you show how we can conduct our own scientific experiments by observing our own body and the movements we make and the energy that impulses us to make those movements. By being prepared to observe ourselves we may see many things that we do not like about our behaviour which is why a lot of people do not want to be too aware of what they are doing. Strange how we continue to be blind to the effects of certain foods, habits or reactions even though we do know that they are not good for the body.

     1. What I have found is that that avoidance is because there is a part of me deep down that knows how precious and capable my body is and to have made choices against such a beautiful body hurts greatly. Because no matter what choices I make in separation from the body in the belief that they will bring some form of success or recognition my body tells me how ‘successful’ that choice truly is. It’s a wound to the part of me that is proud in it’s illusion that it has achieved something.

     2. In addition, we also see what works and we can see what increases our harmony and our joy. Simply through observing.

183. “By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.”
     The self responsibility that is bought about by this understanding is phenomenal – as you have shared here Leigh you are your own scientist and the steps you are taking are game changing, for you are attending to the power of our ‘beingness’ that carries us through our days.

184. It is amazing to consider how it is the most basic common sense that seems to elude us the most — self-care, checking in with how we feel after we’ve eaten something — these are all common sense sings that most of us ignore.

185. Becoming more and more sensitive to the body’s feelings and reactions is an incredible learning. And they are not always so obvious or physical – like feeling sick or a rash outbreak. . The subtler changes in our feeling of wellbeing are also signs from the body that something is not working for us.

186. Some great wisdoms shared Leigh, by stopping and feeling our quality, a quality we have chosen by our movements, we then have the power to change this quality if it is not to our liking, by how we move, ‘If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.’

187. Questioning life and what we feel and what we observe around us is such an important part of living a healthy life. There are things we experience everyday and just ignore, or don’t question deeply enough, that could dramatically effect our bodies in the future, but we don’t listen until the message is loud enough, like cancer, or heart disease or something that threatens or impairs our life. Perhaps the loud message wouldn’t have been necessary if we’d answered all the little questions – like why do my feet hurt more today?

     1. The more I ask the little questions the more I take notice of more subtle messages to the point where what I call a concern no one else seems to think it’s a big deal. But honouring my feelings that there is something to address brings me greater solidarity in myself than brushing it aside because no one else thinks it’s a concern.

188. Thank you again for sharing this Leigh. I love doing the little self experiments and they so enhance my life. It means that I don’t just swallow everything I am fed, I examine things for myself and see whether they work for me or not.

     1. I agree and I am reminded to appreciate how these experiments and observations are far more supportive thsn not doing something or doing something from pictures, rules and expectations.

189. It revolutionizes medicine, as we know it today to consider how we move as a contributing factor to our well-being and over all health.

     To stop and take a moment to feel how I am, to backtrack and notice what just happened to effect my mood is a huge leap into self accountability and a skill so valuable I will never go without it again.

     I used to use a very hard grip, I was forceful with my hands and body. I was always efforting to bring in all the groceries at once or to carry the largest load of fire wood… but by consciously working on moving and doing things gently I have introduced into my life a very obvious shift in my mood and agitation levels for the better. This is huge.

     Taking responsibility for my well being is not only simple and doable but extremely empowering.

190. So many of us do change our choices after such news but we are reliant on the quality of information and advice we are given. “So ok, I can be responsible, and listen to what the research tells us and choose to not drink alcohol, but does this mean I change any other behaviours in my life?”. We cant afford to be led to believe that we can just keep the focus in one area and hope the rest takes care of itself.

191. Rereading the blog reveals and confirms how crucial it is to take stop moments to feel and consider the reactions, symptoms and voice of the body.

192. I thought I was fine with dairy, until I stopped eating it for six months. When I had some after this time I experienced the true effect in my body which was not at all pleasant. Being open to explore different food choices has made a huge difference and looking back, I appreciate how open I was to trying new things and honest about the heaviness I was experiencing living in a fixed and closed minded way.

193. One day we will look back on this current food pyramid and laugh, it will be like when doctors would recommend smoking a few cigarettes a day way back when, it will seem ludicrous that anyone recommend things in the amount or types that the pyramid does.
     At the moment we might refer to those that suffer obvious intolerance to certain foods over sensitive, but in truth eating sugar, wheat and dairy is not that great for anyone, regardless if they are classified as intolerant or not. It will take time but when the world begins to break down, which has already begun, through a massive rise in illness and disease we will have to go back to a very simple way of eating in order to stay well and feel vital.

194. This is such a beautiful presentation on responsibility, Leigh, of how eternally fascinating and playful it can be.

195. How we move is super important – our movements will be in the grace of who we are and lead to loving expression or in a rhythm that dislocates us from our true flow.

196. Great awarenesses and understandings in this blog Leigh, how key is it that, ‘By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.’

197. Feeling “the reactions or responses in the body” and looking behind them puts us in the driving seat of life.

198. For years I had digestive issues that I put down to stress but like you Leigh when I removed a couple of foods (the usual culprits gluten dairy sugar and soy) from my diet with support and supervision it made a huge difference on every level for me.

199. It’s interesting that we so often push beyond what we have already known to be a conclusive answer. For example: I know that I feel bloated after eating …xyz… and yet I either eat it regardless, OR, I try it time and time again just to be sure I really need to let it go.
     We are very clever at trying to find ways to outsmart the ultimate intelligence of our body; and yet not clever at all in even attempting to do so in ignorance of the wisdom within.

200. That is the critical factor – how willing are we to feel what is really going on? I think the answer is hardly at all, which is why we all have such a wide variety of mechanisms that keep us anaesthetised to what is really going on – be that TV, drink, drugs, sport… whatever opiate for the masses that keeps us comfortably numb.

201. How much do our movements affect our quality of life and the thoughts that we then experience. Anyone can change how they feel by altering their posture, of course that might only be a small difference for some but in my experiences when I am feeling lethargy or having a sticky day altering my pattern or movement with a walk or some exercise makes a big difference. But I have also seen how just a small change in how I sit also affects my thoughts, so the science here is for sure fascinating, and there is much to experiment with here I feel.

202. I have come back to this blog at a time when I have started to focus on my movements and observing end results or particular ways of moving as Leigh has done. This particular line has helped enormously, ‘We can’t heal the symptoms of gluten intolerance if our movements are to go for the cakes and sandwiches’. We can’t heal if our movements continue in the same way as the ones that lead to disharmony in the body and mind. Simply as!

203. This article offers awareness of the cause behind our inability to stop behaviors and ways of being with our selves. Presenting that an energy we have chosen is the mover of our body and choice of behaviors. This then offers the profound need to explore how we feel ever more in our lives, to ask the questions as you have done Leigh, and to honestly discern what is really behind the choices we make.

204. Packaging and advertising go a long way to assisting us to override the messages our bodies are telling us, for example when I was young white bread was the best thing ever, but homemade was considered healthier. Then came some diets which told us brown bread is healthier, so we switched to brown bread, and then came along brown bread but with seeds and different types of grains or diet bread which was like fresh air because it had fewer calories. Now there are so many different types of bread made from all kinds of flour which proclaim to be healthier, and the cycle continues and nothing changes. So what you have presented here Leigh makes perfect sense, why not give the body a louder voice in telling us by the way of experimenting with our food choices, what it does and does not want.

205. Beautiful Leigh, movements maketh the man. It is this simple; move in a harsh manner and you welcome harsh thoughts, move in a loving way and unloving thoughts and actions simply fade away. Makes perfect sense.

206. You express here eloquently and simply how we can practically reclaim responsibility for our own healthcare.

207. Choosing not to eat gluten, dairy and sugar has made a huge difference to my health too and I am also aware of how the quality of my movements impact on my overall well being. I also notice that when I bump into things I have already lost a certain quality and flow and that that in itself makes me wake up to the fact so that I have the chance to re-centre and deepen that quality again.

208. Choosing not to eat gluten, dairy and sugar has made a huge difference to my health too and I am also aware of how the quality of my movements impact on my overall well being. I also notice that when I bump into things I have already lost a certain quality and flow and that that in itself makes me wake up to the fact so that I have the chance to re-centre and deepen that quality again.

209. Leigh, this is super interesting, ‘By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.’ This is an aha moment for me, this makes complete sense as I notice that if Ii am moving in a hard, rushing way then this usually goes hand in hand with negative, unloving thoughts, now I understand why. Thanks for explaining this so clearly.

210. ‘Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies’ – it is pretty sad to see we have set the world up in this way – to override and ignore just so we can feel satisfied in our minds but with the expense of not listening to our bodies. And the messages won’t stop – our bodies, no matter what we drag them through, will keep on telling us how it feels. And in every moment we have the choice to listen or ignore it – but I have to ask what good ignoring has done it in the past.

211. If we approached life from this playful inquisitiveness, instead of disconnecting from ourselves, and therefore ‘trying’ to live correctly by following the recommended choices in terms of the food pyramid etc. We would customise a way of living that is precisely what our body is asking for and therefore reduce the many diseases that are preventable – through simply living in connection with ourselves and making the necessary adjustments as required.

212. The power of observation is immense. It is the key to go through life without issues or ill symptoms.

213. Yes and love this, “I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts. The quality of my movements is important.” I agree and more and more we are seeing how movements either support us or go against us. It’s not that this is obvious at the time as we usually focus blame on something else, almost like an avoidance of the fact that what we have done or how we have moved has lead us to where we are. If we grow more and more conscious of our movements, detailed movements then this could support everything else. What sounds too simple? Maybe you should try, maybe we all should try it and maybe I’ll try it. I have and loved it and enjoyed what returns to me from my movements. We are so often criticised for many things or judge each other but everything is a movement, it’s not just about walking. Movements are breathing, listening, talking, standing etc. We are in a constant movement, you even move while sleeping and so never are we stopped completely. So from all this movement should be our absolute focus or the care or quality of our movement should be the billboard heading for all of us. Some may so too much responsibility where some would say thank you. Either way it is here for all of us movement is the key, the key for everything.

214. “What do I avoid feeling by choosing to do this instead?”
     This question can offer big revelations in order to get a deeper understanding for ourselves and our behaviours. In allowing myself to observe, I detect those moments when I am avoiding feeling something or taking responsibility for what I feel. This understanding supports me to see my situation more clearly and get a feeling for how joyful and light it can be to take responsibility.

215. A great blog here! breaking down an issue, step by step, working back and back again until you come to the original impulse – energy – of a thought that is responsible for setting off a chain of events.. Looking back in detail this way is the ultimate of taking responsibility of our choices.

216. I love your awareness that the quality of our body can change the quality of our thoughts. I’m sure this would be a revelation to many.

217. It’s an interesting point you raise Leigh about over-riding the intolerance and growing out of it. I had a number of people questioning me about not giving my son gluten or dairy because I could feel the effects it had on him. I would hear from them consistently – ‘If you just keep giving it to him he will grow out of it – become immune to it’. It is exactly as you say, simply masking what your body is already showing you and a way to avoid being responsible.

     1. So true, it’s like in that ‘immune building’ it’s just bludgeoning our bodies sensitivities, yes we may no longer react to those foods but at what cost to the rest of our health? Which it shows in people that cut gluten and/or dairy out of their diets their energy levels very often change considerably.

218. “Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies. ” and because we live like this, the world is filling with products to tell us about our bodies which is crazy because our bodies can naturally tell us what we need, without having to outsource it to someone or something else.

219. Our movements do carry a quality as do our thoughts also. When we decide which energy we are going to align to, it will either be harmonious and connect or it will be harsh and disconnected. Experimenting and bringing awareness to this is definitely a way we can expand and evolve within ourselves and our planet.

220. Everyday can be full of all kinds of amazing experiments – it is the way we learn to live in a more harmonious way.

221. it is massive to consider that the way we move our body are either loving or harming to our bodies and our wellbeing and is something that needs to be studied upon as it can lead our societies to a higher level of wellness and remove the burden our medical health systems are suffering from.

     1. And this level of science is so practical that everyone has a PHD just by virtue of having a body! For example the moment I turn my shoulders in my thoughts become miserable and well-being goes down, turn my shoulders up and out, hello rising well-being.

222. Thanks Leigh for this great blog. I can feel it is easy to look at what we think is the issue eg food we are eating that is harmful to our body or overeating. We think we need will power to stop choosing this way of being with food, yet as you have shared with us, the food is only the end result of a series of movements that got us there. This is revelatory and when understood, we realise listening and responding to the wisdom of our own bodies is all we need. Goodbye diet and weight loss books forever!

223. This is such a simple and practical example of how we can be more aware of the choices we are making and discerning which ones have which consequences. Being more aware of my thoughts as I walk has been life changing in many other areas of my life.

224. I know that I need to be more consistent in taking on board what my body is offering me in the way of truth, concerning food and putting pressure on myself to “do more” than just play lip service to the sharing offered.

225. ‘Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies. So even though we may have a bodily reaction, we have been taught how to override these messages, so we can eat ‘normally’ and appear to be normal.’ Unfortunately what is considered normal these days is not well, or vital for the most part… and so striving to be normal doesn’t do us any favours whatsoever.

226. I love the practicality of seeing life as an experiment and testing how our choices affect us and therefore allowing constant learning from the daily choices we make and the different situations which are presented to us.

227. What a wonderous science – I am sure we will see more thinking (and feeling) along these lines as digestive and mental disorders continue to sky rocket. Our current science only seeks to treat or alleviate the end result but what you have presented here expands on what we already know and allows us to focus on what we already feel – but conveniently ignore.

228. The body feels every choice immediately, the question could then be do we allow ourselves to register what is being felt? And if not, what are we doing to not feel?

229. We test so many things in life and in particular override the natural limits and harmony of our bodies. In doing so we dismiss the wisdom that our bodies inherently hold and continually communicate.

230. People often see Gluten intolerance as a hindrance, when in truth it could be seen as a blessing, in the sense that the body is forcing you to remove a food type that was most probably affecting you in ways you were not previously registering, whilst ever its effects were more subtle.

231. Life is one long lesson, and our bodies have a huge part to play in teaching us what we need to know.

232. Our body holds such a wisdom and power and when we can be obedient to this It will serve us with a dignity and grace that we human being deserve to live once again. The choice is to us, can we be obedient to that grander order our body is part of, or do we choose for that other energy, the energy of creation and involution instead.

     1. Another factor that I am relating to all of this is – how does it feel to accept my place, my being in it’s rightful position and constellation within this universal order that my bodies particles have surrendered to being a part of?

        1. Indeed Leigh, this needs a surrendering, a surrendering to that grander order and the constellations we are all part of. In that we have to let go the protection and the control that not only keeps us unaware and disconnected from this grandness we are part of, but too, in this protection and control we bring harm to not only ourselves but to the universe as a whole. We have to understand that we are part of a grander whole we naturally are obedient to and in ignoring this fact we have to introduce a force that is against the expansion the universe is moving in and disturb the power of the constellations we are in.

233. I love the simplicity of feeling a physical manifestation of what energy I have been choosing – stiff arms for example and asking myself so, how have I been using my arms to carry so much tension? What emotions have I been running? and allow my arms to move in a way that releases the energy so I am free to move and feel what is true for me. And then this truth – which is the truth of us all being equal and tender beings- is communicated to all I meet through my movements.

     1. That’s beautiful Karin.

234. How true Leigh…we cannot change or heal our behaviours by willing it to happen. I am realising that we may think there is ‘mind over matter’ and that everything comes from our mind, but really it’s about reading our body and learning and understanding how and why it communicates as it does.

235. It is interesting to ponder that maybe we are not becoming more intolerant to certain foods rather our bodies are speaking more loudly or that we are listening to more subtle communications from the body.

     1. Makes me wonder when seeing figures of the gluten and dairy free industries, foods and requests in restaurants rising. There is something that our bodies en mass are calling louder for and to.

236. I love this blog! the wisdom that you have shared is the answer to every dilemma, every issue and indeed every diet known to man. The way you have explained the quality of energy prior to the quality of choices we make and the movements we have chosen is a profound revelation for humanity to come to understand, and with such understanding a reawakening of the known power of our every move of expression from and in our bodies. As we live and move around in cycles it is easy to see ourselves and others repeat the same or familiar behaviours but without always knowing how to change them, truly, and without mind-power; but what is presented here and via the presentations of Serge Benhayon is that our movements come first and determine the quality of our whole lives.

     1. Having this understanding pointed out that we live in cycles and not straight lines has the ability to completely change how we live. And thats only one of the teachings that Serge Benhayon has shared.

237. This is a great blog as it highlights the level of responsibility we have in every single moment and what energy we are aligning to in the first place, as you have shared Leigh, every single experience in life has a paper trail that can be followed to a choice we have made and learning to connect to our bodies allows us to make more supportive choices to bring harmony back into our lives.

238. It makes sense that everything is the result of our movements.Being aware of my movements, not checking out, staying present with my body, observing all, is a daily focus that I am working with all the time.

239. “…even though we may have a bodily reaction, we have been taught how to override these messages, so we can eat ‘normally’ and appear to be normal.”
     To read this I get aware how much we are misdirected as humanity and how much we let ourselves get misdirected. It is in the way we learn to go against us and our nature of true love inside. This is crazy as we undermine our health and wellbeing, we foster aggression even if it is subtle or we get anxious, nervous, exhausted because we literally fight against the truth which lays deep within us and as such we are fighting ourselves.

240. Lee it really is our choice in what quality we choose to move, in each movement we can go deeper in our healing or go the opposite way. Bringing it back to the simplicity of things is best way to understand our movements and how they impact our body.

241. ‘If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently”. If someone had presented this to me a few years ago I would probably have been slightly incredulous at such a simple solution, but today I know this to be absolutely true from experiencing it myself many times. When we are in any sort of discomfort, whether it be physical, mental or emotional, we begin to adopt a posture and/or a movement that mirrors that discomfort, and if we don’t correct it, it creates a configuration in our body that ensures we continue to move in this unnatural way, which further serves to hold on to the issue. I have found that to make the choice to move in a different way has the amazing consequence of releasing the issue that had seemingly become stuck in my body; a simple choice, with a profound and very healing outcome.

242. To read our bodies, to feel what is needed in the way you present here Leigh, is super supportive for all areas of our lives – the repercussions of a loving choice in one area filters throughout our whole life.

243. Our bodies are very wise… we do not need any scientific proof to know what is true for our own body – it lives with the consequences of our every choice and knows exactly what is loving or unloving.

244. Whatever our focus is then that is how we live… “…the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.” It is amazing how the lovelessness drops away effortlessly when no energy is given to it.

245. Learning to back-track in this way Leigh is an important skill to develop in life… and particularly when it comes to our food choices. Attempting to use willpower to control what we do and don’t eat never works for long, if at all these days, we have to understand what is underneath the choice to eat certain things, otherwise we will be at the mercy of a choice already made long before it became about food.

246. “But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?” – Leigh, this is such a common case scenario. So often we do learn to not listen to the body, or worse yet, listen and then still override what the body is asking of us to do or not to do. And so it is all about developing a relationship with ourselves and working very hard at listening and then following through with what we have felt as part of the communication. This is also a learning process, for sometimes we will make mistakes and that is ok, so long as we are open to the learning.

247. Building a true and honest relationship with food is the way to good vitality and wellbeing, it is amazing that when we are honest we can see how we have been using food as a distraction and a delay of our own evolution.

248. Coming back to this blog it feels like these tests can never be exhausted. And I reckon that’s amazing, because the amount I have learnt by testing life through how it feels to my body is constantly expanding my understanding of myself and how I then can choose to be with others, because as I am learning, if a movement feels horrible for my body, chances are it is horrible for another body. So in this when I do stop those unwanted behaviours towards myself I am no longer imposing the same on another. This is far from perfect but coming back to this blog really refreshed the fact that there is never not something we can challenge as to what quality we are choosing in life.

249. It is interesting because are we here to be tested or are we here to learn to return back to living the love that we are? For me there is quite a big difference. It means when things come up I can then see them as a reminder to be more loving and/or look at the way I have been living. Whereas if I see life as a test it means everything becomes a hard arduous struggle!

250. Here we have simple instructions to make tests of how our choices affect our bodies and movements, how our movements affect our quality of thoughts and how our thoughts affect our choices. With this honest approach we can deal with any issue. Thanks to Serge Benhayon for presenting this wisdom and to Leigh Matson for making it personal and beautifully summarising it.

251. The more we open to ‘testing’ our body’s responses to the food we eat, the way in which we move, the quality of our conversation, our interactions with people and not take for granted that things are just how they are, we begin to realise that we are the master of what is next to come in our lives through the choices that we are making each moment. Our body becomes a barometer of whether the choices we are making are self-loving or not.

252. This blog supports me to be more aware of my movements, my choices and how they relate to how I feel or the thoughts I have. It is an awesome reminder to reflect and check what I have chosen in terms of my movements and express, to be more aware of how I am feeling and where these feelings and thoughts stem from.

253. I am learning that everything has an impact on everything. So how we eat affects our sleep which affects how we eat the next day, and so it goes… and so if we take into account our interactions with people, our reactions, emotions, dramas, frustrations, procrastinations, holding back, and how this affects everything and everyone, then we start to realise the level of responsiblity we can hold in how we are with ourselves and with others equally.

254. Sometimes the experiment has to last a few weeks or more to test something out. I refined my diet to exclude all sugars and found that consistently, over time, it had a really beneficial effect on the small joints in my hands and feet. Making observations is a great way to gain insight.

255. What a supportive suggestion it is to observe our bodies and allow ourselves to be honest about what is revealed: “So in the everyday situations it can look like this: taking stops and pauses during or after situations to feel the reactions or responses in the body.” We can consider ourselves a scientist, we have a wealth of experience concerning our lives, our experience of it and how our bodies feel, so much data to ponder and research,Thank you for sharing.

256. One of the most beautiful things about life is that we constantly get feedback and we have to go out of our way in numbing and misdirection in order not to notice this feedback. The feedback is always there, all we need to do is to stop avoiding the feedback.

257. On the test of food, the more I listen to my digestive system the more it shows me the details of what supports it to work in true harmony with the rest of my body. I could never learn this from a textbook.

     1. I agree Vicky, I too have discovered this. It is incredible to trust what our body tells us, when I listen to my body it communicates everything to me and when I honour these messages it is truly empowering.

258. Observing of what is going on is the greatest way to learn in life, I can see how every feeling or thought has a source, somewhere there is a trigger. And in observing we found out where these triggers are, being able to let go and feel the true way in which we could deal with the situation, and i feel it always comes back to feeling the connection with the all, in every moment.

259. After a life time of honing the ability to ignore my body’s constant communication with me it makes sense my default is to override what I feel until there comes a point whereby I have consistently returned to hearing the wisdom inherent within every cell of my body through daily, regular check ins. I’m learning my body knows how to move to be heard and express its delicate, wise ways. It has nothing to do with my thinking about it, just surrendering to feeling it and allowing its movements. I am realising I don’t have to think my way through life to survive, just feel, observe and respond.

260. “Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies. So even though we may have a bodily reaction, we have been taught how to override these messages, so we can eat ‘normally’ and appear to be normal.” This is a very sad fact, and the reason behind many of our choices that actually harm the body. We can force feed ourselves food that does not agree with us simply because we believe that we ‘should’ be able to eat it, when actually it is simply the body telling us that it doesn’t want or need it. It’s crazy when you think about it.

261. Great blog Leigh, and I love how you track it back from the end action to ask what was the thought and what was the energy preceding that thought? And how that can expose our patterns, and right now it’s very helpful to read this as I feel many of my own patterns coming up. So step back a little and observe.

262. To live with this awareness that everything is energy and everything is because of energy (SB) brings such a clarity and simplicity to life and also the responsibility to trace back from the end result what choices have led us to this situation. There is no way anymore we can blame anything but have to look honestly to our own choices and the way we move with them to let go of and heal the ingrained patterns we have accustomed ourselves with in life.

263. I was a master at overriding my body. It allowed me do all the things that I thought were right to live in our world. After 50 years of the this my body finally collapsed with exustion.

     With support from Simple-Living Global and Universal Medicine I am rebuilding my body and it is starting to trust me again, as I am listening to what it has consistently been telling me all along. It has been a long process but with commitment and patience I am starting to feel the real me again.

264. We remain a student of life forever, with our bodies as our laboratories and our best allies in learning through life. Thank you for sharing your insights and observations.

     1. And we watch, listen and learn – slowly and reluctantly or quickly and quite easily.

265. It seems bizarre after reading blogs like this that the end goal of working hard and commitment to life could be comfort, security and putting up with acceptable ill health, rather than making life about a deeper exploration into what supports our bodies to live joyfully.

266. React or respond? The 2 are so different – we can react to life, or we can respond to life. I know when I react it feels pretty awful but responding to life feels much more in line with the universe but when I react, it feels like I am pushing up against it.

267. The thing that occurred to me this morning in reading this blog Leigh, is that while I love doing these little experiments on my life and refining the way I live, sometimes I do not like the results of these experiments. So I repeat them, again and again, getting the same result, until I finally accept that the the thing being tested, food, activity, way of doing something, is not supportive for me. Talk about the scientific method with reproducible results!!

268. Letting go of these 3 groups in my diet has utterly changed my life….”Since I have eliminated gluten (and also dairy and sugar) from my diet, I have found that my energy levels, general health and wellbeing have increased.” I was so exhausted and lethargic, TV called me almost every night. I have not been exhausted for years, sometime I get tired, but this is rare, I generally feel amazing!

269. “I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts.” What a powerful insight. I had not rally thought about this before but it is so true. It just shows how important the quality with which we move impacts in so many ways. Change the way we move and we change our world.

     1. Very true, a great example I can share here is my choice to not drink coffee at work. This changes my whole workplace as now there is someone in the workplace not moving to the beat and drum of the coffee grinder. People ask me if I want one and some can’t even fathom a life without coffee but the point is there is now a reflection in their life that someone can do the same job and not require coffee.

270. Our bodies and life are constantly teaching us things through observation and experience if we are aware of it.

271. Leigh I too have been observing my behaviours and when i feel out of sorts retracing my steps and feeling into what has led me to this point – what i really appreciate about this is the lack of judgment or blame that i bring to this – but instead seeing it as a great opportunity to heal repeatedly unloving movements/behaviours that I have allowed to settled into my way of life.

272. You ask: “But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?” My experience also is that we just get better at masking the reaction and pretending there isn’t anything wrong. Our bodies are quite amazing in the way they support us, even when we don’t support ourselves. Up to a point, that is. And then we act surprised and might ask “Why me?” Is it possible that the way we treat our body doesn’t make sense? How come we ignore its messages time and time again?

     1. Something I asked myself while reading that part once again today – what if we don’t ever grow up to become numb to our feelings? What if we are as supersensitive and aware of the unseen but always felt activity in life as we were when we were small children? What if we still have within us that wellness to be open and sensitive to all that we feel? How then would or could we approach or test life from this stance?

273. It makes so much sense! If we are moving without love then are we not going to experience in life and in our bodies anything and everything that is not love also? Life is not compartmentalised into parts so how we feel in one aspect of life is what we bring to all other aspects.

274. I love the constant refining and reviewing of my life and activities through little self-experiments. The beauty of these little self-experiments are that the results are always applicable to me, as I am the test subject.

     1. In the past I would have considered the term ‘test subject’ to be demeaning – but that has totally changed when a curiosity is brought into life and into how I am with my body. It’s now like having a huge radar system that can pick up and detect so much about life and the more I work with this ‘sensory machine’ (my body) the more wondrous life is becoming and I learn so much more than following the words of others.

275. Leigh I love this article and how you have highlighted how our movements affect the quality of our thoughts, ‘we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.’

276. We get so used to being told what to do that we unlearn this natural curiosity and ability to feel for ourselves what is needed at any given moment. I love your sharing Leigh, how you are re-activating this ability in you, showing us how simple it really is.

277. Regular stops to feel and respond to the quality of our presence in everything we do is certainly the key to learning the lessons that life presents to us by our choices.
     Thank you for the timely reminder Leigh.

278. This would be a good experiment to see what changes, ‘If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.’

279. Great to revisit this and the comments that have been shared so far as I start my day…. with a reminder that if I commit to my movements including my thoughts to be tender, I will feel this tenderness throughout my day.

280. Hello Leigh and great blog or great movement. If we want a way out of our thoughts we appear to be in then here it is, the movement of it, “Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.”

281. I love this:’the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.’ This goes to show that it’s not about stamping out the harsh thoughts or anything like that.. it’s simply about connecting, embracing and accepting deeply the love we feel from within, deeply cherishing our essence so that we embody our love in our day to day movements. Then as you say Leigh, the harsh thoughts cannot enter — for the doors and the openings have been sealed.
     Thank you for the reminder Leigh 🙂

282. It is quite interesting Leigh to set ourselves these tests regularly on ourselves. There’s no pass or fail agenda, it comes without any self criticism or self bashing; just simple observations of what we are doing to and with our bodies.

     1. Coming back and reading this blog again I am finding that asking these questions and tests of myself never runs out of study material! There is always something in life I can question the quality of.

283. It is great to take a moment to stop and evaluate how we are after certain thoughts, conversations or interactions, what affect did they have on my body, ‘taking stops and pauses during or after situations to feel the reactions or responses in the body. How do I feel after having that thought?’

284. I love the simplicity this brings to life – A letting go of complications that living from the mind brings to a return to the simple truth that awareness of the quality of energy in our movements in our body change everything in our expression and the joy of a natural living way.
     “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives”.

     1. The mind very easily can and does complicate situations that the body very simply feels and communicates to us the truth of what’s going on. The resistance can be in not wanting to let go of or admit our investment into the mind’s false lead and surrender once more to the body, it’s a case of wounded pride more than anything else.

285. ‘In life, we are always presented with opportunities to test ourselves and to learn from the results of these experiments.’ I am always inspired by those who are open and willing to look at life in this way – to honestly ‘test’ what works for them and what doesn’t, rather than to simply blindly follow received knowledge about something. In this way we are listening more carefully to our own bodies to discern the truth rather than believing in what has been told.

     1. It makes life so much more freeing as well to being open to being our own life experiment. I remember a few years ago in a session I was freaking out about having bought something and not wanting to try it because of all these perceptions around what might happen or these mental images I had constructed of people saying ‘Don’t do that’. My Esoteric Practitioner very casually said ‘Well I’d just try them and see how they feel to my body’ – such an ease in her relationship with being her own scientist and willing to go through the trial and error process, it was deeply inspiring.

        1. Gorgeous Leigh. Really when we take the “should” out of things and just “let’s see the effect” there is no self bashing but an honest to goodness objective reflection, and one we are open to learning from!

286. Since getting an understanding around energy and that everything is because of energy, and actually feeling that truth in my body constantly through my choices, it makes sense that our movements would influence how we move, talk and think, in a way that either supports us or stops us from being all we can be.

287. “In life, we are always presented with opportunities to test ourselves and to learn from the results of these experiments. The quality of the experiments will vary, depending on how willing we are to be aware of what we are feeling.” This is a significant statement. How unwise and unintelligent is it then when we so proudly keep overriding our feelings or distracting and numbing ourself from them altogether.

288. I really loved how you expanded from reactions being about food, to “After a long day my feet sometimes hurt more than normal – so how was I walking today?” this isn’t how people normally ask questions of themselves. We normally just dismiss it, not asking oneself to go deeper, what was the quality I was walking in? So much further to ponder.

289. It’s very interesting how these experiments with ourselves are an on going process. I have found it can change so much what I feel my body wants to eat depending on many internal and external factors. For instance the temperature changes outside or the type of exercise I’m doing, or where I am on my cycle inside me can all influence what I feel to eat.

290. “Harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts” – this one line is a game changer, Leigh, if we really stop to consider what it means. We do not need to be dominated by our minds but can truly live from our bodies and bring the balance of power back to what we feel inside, and how our bodies feel to move.

291. Thank you Leigh for a great sharing. As you mention it is about the quality we move in that also creates the quality that we live in and the decisions we make.

292. This blog further exposes the ridiculousness in seeking perfection in what we do when we are offered so many opportunities to make choices and learn from each and every one.

293. I used to have a belief that I did not have the authority to experiment with my own body. It came from the belief that only a doctor or a health care professional could advise and knew more about my own body than I did and that it was dangerous to go off track and take matters into your own hands – except with things like becoming a vegetarian, which looking back I became sicker, and many may say I wasn’t doing it right but after 6 years I was fatter and had no energy. Now I have more confidence that I will know what is best for my body and when I feel to I will seek advice from a medical doctor or an Esoteric Practitioner, or both.

294. Leigh, love how your post is simply about reflecting, and reflection – on everything that happens to us to then become aware. As i’ve been learning, the art is to do so without self-flagellation but with gentle understanding over any analysing or over thinking (!!)

295. I love what you share about how you tried to grow out of being gluten intolerant, as if that would be possible, for sure I have done the same. But more, don’t we all end up growing out of being who we are, well most of us, to fit in to the world and how we think others want us to be. So many men would be gentle, sweet and caring yet that will not easily be accepted in social circles, so on goes the protection of acting hard and dismissive. I love what you share Leigh about the simple steps back to what is true for us through movement. Such a simple process anyone can undertake.

296. When illness forced me to give up caffeine in my twenties, I seriously thought my life had come to an end. How was I supposed to socialise without coffee? How could I possibly be expected to work shift work without coffee? And yet my body said no to caffeine, and thank God it did. Since then it has said no to many other so called normal foods, like bread, pasta and pizza, and again thank God it did for now at 55 years of age I am healthy, disease free, and a model of vitality.

297. I love this testing of life and the opportunities we all have to really see what is going on and take responsibility for ourselves, our bodies and with everything. So empowering and not being at the mercy of life but with the flow and harmony of the universe and all the guiding it offers us.

298. Truly empowering Leigh, the quality of how we move can change our unloving behaviours, we do have the ability to read and heal ourselves – to be doctors of ourselves – when we bring understanding and acceptance to our lovelessness our aches and pains we can walk towards them and embrace them for the learning & evolution they offer.

299. Everything we do and say has a consequence that either heals or harms; it is that simple. Thankyou for the reminder.

300. “But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?” This is an interesting point that I wanted to pick up on Leigh. I have a number of food intolerances and initially when these came to light I was looking for substitutes and trying to see how much of the food I could eat before the reaction became too much. In recent years I have accepted that I am intolerant to some foods and that it is actually very supportive for me to not eat these foods at all. Accepting that I don’t want to feel less for the sake of a taste in my mouth has been profound for me and I feel much more vital as result.

301. I love your exploration of the effects of how we move and the impact this has on the body in the long term.
     “Which movements increase our awareness and love and which movements lead to illness and disease?”

302. So true Jane it’s not just food but any area of life can have the same test applied to it.

303. This is really interesting and something I have known but have probably not checked in with my body often enough. I would really like to develop this relationship and see what comes because how we get to the place where we have something in our mouths that we know does not agree with our bodies is really a game change for future health outcomes.

304. I love how you have introduced the idea that our body is our best guide as to whether something is good for us or not. The body simply does not lie.

305. I love your practical approach to life Leigh, for me this is science in action and applied science. There is so much to learn by simply observing.

306. “This is the path that takes us back around to the quality of that initial choice, in the form of an end result (the bloating) which actually is just the start (the energy) presenting itself again in a much denser form.”
     Wow – what a revelation. Very applicable in daily life. Once I find myself with an energy I feel is not harmonious within my body, I can look for the same energy in a less dense form in my past days to clock when and why I chose to start the movement that eventually confirmed the non-harmonious energy in my body.

     1. I have found this as well, the more I get a feel for something in its end result, it’s like I can sniff it out sooner in its not so obvious forms.

307. I find it fascinating that there is little or perhaps even no research on how people feel when they don’t eat gluten, dairy and added sugar and reduce salt. Either there are too few such people in the past to study or perhaps diet choice alone is not enough to feel well and there may be other requirements to feel well.

308. One of the things I get from reading your blog, is that there is so much on offer for us to consider and reflect upon than what currently meets the eye. That we can look at what quality we are doing things in and we can create stops throughout our day to see what is going on for us. I like that we can become scientists of our own lives.

309. It is interesting to do these experiments on ourselves, we are our own case studies. Raising our awareness with the energy we are living and working in is a huge learning for us all.

310. “Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.” This is great Leigh, if you are no longer feeding them, they cannot be sustained.

311. I love what you’ve shared about movements Leigh. The way we move is so significant and impacts everything, so I agree that it’s important to pay great attention to the quality of our actions and not just what we ‘do’.

     1. Yes, remembering the quality of our action can lead to taking stock and we can then experience stillness.

312. It’s an awesome process, to reflect upon the source of our choices and movements – to ‘go back’ to what actually was going on for me that I have behaved in a particular way, or have held long-term behaviours that do not reflect all that I truly am… Yet there is a delicate balance here, isn’t there – that our ability to feel remains in the picture, and we do not become too linear in the exploration.

313. And what then, if the key to the quality we connect to – that which determines our movements – rests in our ability to know, appreciate to the bone (and more), and cherish the sheer amazingness of our being?
     The more I know myself, the more natural it is to move in a way that honours all that I am. The more I move in this way, the easier it is to go deeper in knowing myself… And so we go ’round 🙂

314. Thank you again for sharing this blog Leigh. I was thinking about it yesterday when a situation arose about life and the little tests that I do and had to laugh. Sometimes, even when I know the answer to the test and have taken the test many times, e.g. with a certain food or behaviour that has a reliably reproducible negative outcome for me, I want to test and retest because I didn’t like the result. I feel that it is this behaviour that we can use to convince ourselves that it is actually OK, by ignoring the results of our own tests, to continue to do things that are harmful for us. As I said, I had to laugh at my own ridiculousness with this.

315. What I am finding now is that the more I introduce loving movements to my body, the more the unloving movements stand out. We are taught from young that when we don’t like certain feelings to numb, distract and shun the body. But this doesn’t work nor make the unpleasant feeling go away. Nor does labeling it as bad do anything but keep it hanging around. Only feeling my feelings and moving lovingly regardless of the end results of my unloving choices has anything ever truly shifted and healed. As everything is a cycle, when the unloving feeling comes to its end result I can react – that restarts the cycle – or respond in a loving way that doesn’t set off the same cycle once again.

316. So many of us are waiting for someone else to confirm or not if we are intolerant or allergic to something… without first listening to our own bodies. I was just having a conversation with someone this week, who shared that they feel sick and bloated when they eat a particular food, but that they are fine with it because they got tested. When we don’t listen to our bodies it’s like turning our back on a child who is saying their tummy hurts… we just wouldn’t do it but yet we do it to ourselves all of the time. Listening to my body has been such a loving choice and there are foods and substances that change for me constantly.

317. Very powerful to share “The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality, a quality we can choose by how we move in alignment with the energy that leads to one result or the other.” I work with movements within myself and in work, through massage. In myself even the way I place my hand down, or hold my shoulders has an impact on how I feel and express, what energy am I choosing when I slump. I have also seen this with clients, chronic pain often comes from perpetrated movements that become a habit, that do not serve and support true movement and true expression. Great question what energy are we aligning with?

318. I can not count the amount of times I have laid on a sofa, with a full belly, with other friends or family members doing the same….too stuffed and sleepy to move and said it is normal…”Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies. ” I do not judge myself or anyone else, however I have a new normal. It involves, feeling my body and honouring it, more than I did, it is process, but already I feel remarkably different, lighter, more confident and sure in who I am, and more loving because I am making more choices to truly care for and nurture myself, listening to the body not the head.

319. Bringing detail to, and listening to the messages our body sends us, loud and clear, is so simple and so enormously powerful.

320. I am so much with you Leigh. Our movements expose where we are with ourselves, in our head or our hearts.

321. The more responsible we are for dealing with our emotions as they arise the less likely we are to feel a need to numb ourselves with foods

322. I sometimes find that I can imagine that any number of things are affecting me to feel a certain way but in truth I always know the choice I am making which is the cause – it’s great to have begun to experiment a little to develop my own relationship with my understanding of the communication in my body.

323. It is very empowering to realise how simple it can be to change patterns of behaviour when we are willing to be open to ‘moving’ in a rhythm aligned to the truth our body knows.

324. Great example Leigh of food and how when in tune with our bodies we learn very quickly what supports us and what does not. We have taken out this simplicity of awareness with complication of what to eat and what not from all sorts of points of view other than our bodies – the very vehicle that has to digest and assimilate and deal with the waste products of the food.

325. It can be very interesting for me when I feel the negative effect of something – perhaps watching a movie that makes me feel more tired or more wired, or going on social media late at night which makes me more exhausted the next day – we feel these things, but do we want to really acknowledge their effect and takes the steps to not do them any more, or do we at times put the behaviour as more important than the way we feel.

     1. That’s a good point you make Rebecca about putting behaviours ahead of how the behaviour truly feels to our bodies. Are these behaviours running our body to the rhythm of who we truly are or moving to the beat of another or something in the past we have said yes to following?

326. Leigh you have so simply and articulately described what life is all about, how we move affects our thoughts and what happens in our bodies. Plus how much we want to override what we do feel. The questions you presented are really great to begin that enquiry with oneself to begin the process of relearning how to listen to our bodies.

327. The best diet I have ever found is dealing with my emotions, so I rarely have a need to numb myself – for which emotions are excellent – and then simply to listen to my body. If I am not numb and I eat or do something that does not agree with my body, I can feel that and soon I remember the repercussions in my body even before I eat or do that and then, over time, it becomes easier and easier to stop eating or doing what is hurting me. It is not perfect, sometimes it is a very slow process as the attachment is deep, but overall it works spectacularly well.

     1. I totally agree and have experienced the same Christoph, stopping to feel what the food does, not just in covering up the emotion for a moment but what happens in the body, builds up this communication from my body whenever such emotions rise. If feeling angry and I think about grabbing walnuts for example my jaw tightens, or going for apples I know my throat closes up, bacon = hardening of my arms. I am learning to deal with the emotions rather than suffer the consequences of the food intake AND the remaining, undealt with emotion! Emotional eating doesn’t work, facing my feelings does and doesn’t leave me feeling poorly after.

328. Leigh I love this approach of testing and confirming all the little things in my life that make up the totality of what my life is. This is a great way to not just accept what is presented to me or given to me as fact, but to see if it is actually true for me.

329. The science of movement as you have described has so much more to unfold for us to understand the impact that every movement has on ‘everything’. Your blog is a significant contribution to this unfolding.

330. How simple is it to change our state of mind just by moving gently

     1. It really is that simple it makes all the study and research into stress relief look almost silly. If I am in a busy lunch service (working in a restaurant) I can easily snap myself back into calm from how I walk and how I touch the computer screen gently.

331. Listening to and trusting our own bodies is the way forward with heath care. Yes we need physicians and doctors, but ultimately we know what we need, and we know how to avoid illness. Our bodies have the ability to let us know everything we need to know. And we have the ability to feel and listen.

332. I like the taking stops and pauses to reflect on, learn and grow.

333. Is life really a test? Or, is it not a journey to be enjoyed.

334. Leigh there is a wealth of information here, a blog the whole world would benefit from reading, what you are saying is simple and makes so much sense. What really stood out for me in this is your line “we can’t heal a harsh mind if we are moving in a harsh manner with our bodies,” A lot to ponder on in just this one line.

335. “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently”. On a first read this sounds too simple, but you Leigh, I, and many others have actually discovered that this is so very true. If we begin to become aware that when we stay stuck in the same movements day in day out, year in year out, we stay stuck in the same old patterns that are making our life very challenging. The understanding that when I choose to change my movements, and put that understanding into practice, has definitely changed my life in so many wonderful ways.

336. I love how you are highlighting that it is the way we move and the chocies in our day to day lives that adds up to the end result in our life. If we don’t like the way it looks we need to stop and ask ourselves, what is our contribution to it.

337. Experimenting with what affects me or not is been the most supportive learning for me.

     1. Especially when we have fun with it. Sometimes that is difficult but when it works, it works really well.

338. i love how you explain the relationship between movements and the choices we make. I love how we find ourselves making certain choices and its no accident we choose what we do, when we retrace our steps back. I also really appreciate what has been shared here about the link between thoughts and movements- they are linked, and when we realise this one day, we will have a very much greater understanding of how our choices come to be, and how to sustain choices we want to be making consistently.

339. I find that one of the most important aspects to life is to understand it to its core, to ultimately get a flavour for each and every aspect of it – that is to know the absolute way that abuse feels, and the absolute way that love feels. Because for me, it is in knowing without doubt the essential quality of each of these that I am able to discern when one is happening or the other and not to be tricked or fooled in to thinking anything else.

340. Clocking and then getting to know our patterns intimately leads to greater awareness. It is then with this awareness that we have the opportunity to observe what these patterns are actually doing to us – are they healing or harming. We then have the test results needed to back us making different choices.

341. Bringing our awareness to the outcomes of our behaviour, the impact not just on ourselves, but those around us, supports us to make more loving choices.

342. I find this blog very encouraging Leigh, as I have found it quite easy to let go of most of the foods that were not serving me but getting the poor thinking, self doubt and criticism which sends me into emotional reactions and fear very very challenging…

     I am now recognizing a change in mood, tracking it back to the thought and then to how I was moving or holding my body… and I do experience an instant relief when I re-focus on my body and then move in a consciously chosen way… so I know that I too am gradually taking these thoughts and the movements that create them “out of circulation” as you say. This is huge… so huge.

343. These are great questions that you ask Leigh, the kind of questions that we all could be asking ourselves to bring it back to our bodies where everything is known so simply and truly.

344. This is great and so reflective and powerful Leigh and brings the purpose of life and our learning to reality in our everyday lives and our choice to embrace this with honesty or not .Thank you very empowering.

345. I love living my life as an experiment, constantly exploring and refining what feels true and supportive for me and all those around me.

346. “But before the buying there was the thought, led by a movement, led by an energy. What is the energy we are choosing that leads to the movements?” This is a great question Leigh, but one that many of us would not even consider asking before we do anything in our lives, let alone be aware that we are choosing an energy that is actually controlling us. What an eye opener this is. To understand that this is what is behind everything that we do, is to understand life in a very different way – and how different life would be if we embraced this is full.

347. This blog also made me reflect on all the times I have ‘tested’ my body by doing or eating something that I know does not suit me. Upon review there is a part of me that seeks experiences at the complete disregard of my body, which has its own innate harmonious balance and order.

348. ‘…there was the thought, led by a movement, led by an energy. What is the energy we are choosing that leads to the movements?’ This is what has been missing in our understanding of the current state of humanity for so long, despite that it has always been available for us. What are the energies from which all our thoughts, movements and consequences come from and how do they differ in quality. Understanding this is the key to changing the quality of our lives and the effect we have on everyone and thing else with energetic responsibility.

349. Being the subject of our own science experiment is the biggest learning we walk around with all day. The key though is to pay attention to the results. This is the part I don’t always like.

350. I find that it is not just what we eat it but when we eat it and how we eat it. I have found that I can react badly to perfectly good food when I eat too much of it or at the wrong time or when I am very absentminded. I am quite surprised at how much these items matter.

351. The human body is the greatest research lab we have on Earth, and it would serve us well to start paying more attention to the very loud and clear ‘results’ it is constantly presenting to us.

352. To help us override what the body tells us, think about all the pharmaceuticals designed to “fix” our bodies messages, all those antacids to overcome heartburn… Even things you take before you eat to stop the flatulence that what you are about to eat will cause. Its kind of crazy.

353. The care that you take to be aware of every little choice that you make in your life and the effect that each one has on your body is super inspiring. Thank you Leigh.

354. This is a question worth asking – “What do I avoid feeling by choosing to do this instead? – I know I have been choosing deliberately to eat foods recently that make me racy, thus to avoiding stillness, evolution, responsibility and reading energy – I have been avoiding feeling jealousy.

     1. What you’ve shared here Gyl has got me wondering. I had this mental image that when I am in connection with myself and I feel beautiful I feel impervious to any jealousy or ill emotions or feelings towards me. And yet I still live in a way that is hiding, to avoid feeling that I don’t live in that connection all the time and that their are dips. I avoid taking responsibility for living in my fullness fully as a full-time job and not just part-time. It also gets me wondering, if I was in my fullness full-time, what would I then be aware of from within and around me?

355. If I get a true understanding, which is a life changing revelation and accept that was the choice I used to live by but now clearly see that there was not an ounce of truth but I was living a lie, then true healing can start. Our body can move in a whole new energy when we have an understanding of how energy works! I am now moving nominating and choosing to stay connected so I can ‘read the energetic quality’ I am in, so that my connection can deepen!

356. “By taking regular moments to stop we can find patterns and if there is a pattern of end results, then there is a pattern of steps leading to that end result”.
     Wise words indeed Leigh; it then follows that it is our responsibility to end patterns that harm us (and others) and choose patterns that support, heal and nurture us (and others).

357. It is surprising me over and over again how something as simple as changing my movements can re-organise my body and how the quality of the activity in that moment feels different. But also how being there, in observation, is in and of itself complicit in the choice to move in a certain way. The choice of awareness is the most amazing gift of life.

358. I guess one of the questions that comes up for me Leigh is, how do I know my quality, and yet when I ask myself this question I actually know, as we all do, that I am master of my body, and in the very simplest way, to make my movements less harsh starts with something as simple as breathing in and out of my nose ever so gently.

359. Bringing that level of awareness to our thoughts and our bodies can only be positive thing. I know for myself I have been focused on the outside of myself and what is going on around me – in this distraction I have avoided such a relationship with myself. Thanks to Serge Benhayon I have been supported to realise that this kind of relationship with myself is hugely beneficial and deep healing can take place as well.

360. The simplicity of what you present Leigh belies the enormous power of this amazing support we have – we can be our own Masters, through reconnecting to the wisdom of our body and what lies within. What greater support than our own wisdom and awareness to discern what is true science and what may have been tainted by the pitfalls of power, greed, ambition, recognition, and loaded agendas.

361. Today I realise just how much we do already know about the effect our choices have over our lives as I have learnt to know exactly what to do when I want to not be myself in full.

362. Life is a science experiment… and we are but humble observers and responders to the flow of life. So in fact it is unwise to be a control freak.

363. We are our own science experiment Leigh, it is very true… and there is no more accurate trial than with your own body and observations. Each of us in unique in the influences that determine our response to every aspect of life, and hence we need to be listening to our own bodies when making choices, and not to a blanket rule or determination based on a selected ‘group’.

364. I woke early the other morning and wanted to go back to sleep but my thoughts were persistent. I realised then that all I needed to do was to move and to move gently and see what effect that would have on my thoughts. Eh voila, things changed straight away. I love and enjoy being my own science experiment!.

365. How we move determines how we think and that then determines how we behave and it goes around in circles doesn’t it and yet at any point we can change how we move and therefore everything after that.

366. I can eat the exact same food but at different times for different reasons and it will have a different affect – it’s quite amazing and really does show me that it is the energy I’m eating in, more so than the food itself that is affecting me.

367. A simple experiment that proves it is energy is to decide not do something purely from just a thought, or through will power. It isn’t long before you find yourself doing it despite saying you wouldn’t. And from there comes the self critique for being ‘weak willed’. It’s the change in movements that leads to change in behaviour and understanding what movements lead to the behaviour in the first place.

368. Testing is the true scientist’s way. Condemning is the way of the blind.

369. With this test of life you describe Leigh, there is no wrong or right. Just a constant series of experiments providing us with feedback. Imagine if we all willingly embraced this with an open heart. With our white lab coat on in life, I feel we would be judgement free because everything we would discover is a support, and helping us to understand the patterns and the truth.

370. Reaction or Response is such a great subject to talk about. These two choices in how we are going to be in each situation and how choosing a life where we have an awareness of the movements that we are making. How this will determine the quality of our response or reaction. This is one to consider and bring into practice just to see what difference it makes

371. This information should be taught in schools, its so simple and restorative. I wish I had of grown up being educated in this, and shown it by true role models, it would have helped me far more than the sheer pursuit of mental energy alone.

372. Its so true- if we don’t like the end results we are getting in life we must consider our movements,
     its such a revolution that the movements can support us so much, to change what is going on for us.
     i once survived a very difficult work meeting without reacting, because i simply kept my movements in tenderness the entire time. It does make a difference, very powerfully so.

373. What I continue to find amazing is how I and the majority of people still ignore the messages from the body blatantly telling us that something does not agree with us. Even on a more subtle level, I recently realised that I was bloating after eating a certain food, but it was a long time before I was willing to see it. Our attachment and need for certain foods certainly dulls our awareness.

     1. So true Janet, we are both the scientist and the subject, and the two do not always agree on the timing of the experiment!

374. I have also found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts. Also, if I am in my head I notice that there is a tendency to want to be more hardened in my body. My experiment of late is to clock those moments when my body wants goes into a push and ask myself the question, Why is this? Then deliberately choose to change my quality of movements and see how that feels. The results so far from this test are that 100% of the time, I feel much more connected and lovely when I choose a different quality to move in.

375. “. . .the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.” I like the way you express this Leigh, for when we say Yes to one thing we are saying No to the other and we do not magnify that energy with our movements which would keep them “in circulation”. It sets up a cycle where the energy precipitates the movement and the movement consolidates the energy and magnifies it in our body so that it is harder to break an unloving pattern. On the other hand when we choose the loving way we can establish a rhythm that supports us and the movement of a loving thought sets in motion more harmonious movements and once this becomes consistent any movement of thought or action that does not have that quality stands out clearly.

376. Leigh your blog is a good demonstration of how our choice of energy affects or ‘fuels’ the way we move and how moving in that energy magnifies the resulting pattern of behavior. This explains why someone will still tend to eat chocolate for example, even though they know it contributes to their being overweight. Until they stop choosing the energy that causes the movements toward the chocolate it would be hard for them to fully give it up even though they may impose a stop on themselves. But this often backfires in a binge as a reaction to the deprivation until such time as they realize that they are being run by an energy that is dictating their movements. Once this is felt and we choose to stay aware then the chocolate addiction can just drop away without us imposing any restricions on ourselves. As you say Leigh, “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.”

377. “But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?” This is a question worth pondering Leigh. As we get older we focus more out into the world and get distracted away from our body so it is easier to override the messages it gives us and our condition can then become normal to us so that we don’t then even feel what is going on.

378. By bringing it back to the movement that allowed the thought you track things back to something so simple, so easy to monitor and change. The choice of how we are living in any moment starts with a movement….

379. I just love the way that Leigh asks so many questions of herself and of the life she has before her. There is a true philosopher here, and a scientist, a teacher and a dedicated student. Leigh Matson really brings in to reality how there is never a moment to stop exploring. What a gift.

380. In life we are always able to deepen our awareness and to see and feel the consequences of our behaviour. The more awareness we have, the more cause and effect relationships we discover in our life.

381. “… so we can eat ‘normally’ and appear to be normal.” This is a strange oddity when we truly stop to examine it. If we look at what ‘normal’ means in the animal kingdom, eating normally essentially means eating a very simple diet, mainly consisting of raw vegetation and if you’re that way inclined, raw meat too. While we have become a bit more sophisticated and found out how to cook food, the simplicity still applies. Therefore eating ‘normally’ to me now means enjoying a simple range of fresh food, with plenty of fish and lamb, whereas all the things I used to consume that seem an accepted part of every day life feel absolutely abnormal to me now.

382. There are many things in this world that we have currently just accepted as normal, even though it is really obvious that they are not good for our bodies or good for our society.

383. In the corporate world I have seen people pay great level of attention to what works and what doesn’t work in marketing and selling products and services. People don’t wait for mega research with loads of data to start reading and analysing signs and fine-tuning their steps. So we all CAN do this, all it takes is for us to realise that it is worth it and to choose to make a start. What Leigh has shared and the comments sure give a lot of evidence that it pays to have a go.

384. When I first came across the teachings from Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, I didn’t just take for granted what was shared, but decided to put to the test the various concepts for a way of living that was presented. Almost immediately I started to feel the changes in my energy levels and emotionally that I kept going with making different choices. Over the past 6 years I have continued to put to the test what Universal Medicine presents and my life has changed significantly to one that is now full of joy, love, purpose and harmony. This is one big test that I am glad that I decided to sit.

385. There was a time when I labeled myself as being pathetic because so often I would feel so dreadfully ill after consuming foods and drinks I now know my body has a huge allergic reaction to. Now I fully appreciate just how finely tuned and sensitive my body is and I wonder how I could have over ridden this sensitivity so much. The quality of health I have established now proves to me that many of the substances we commonly accept in our diet are pure poison. In my opinion we seem to have wandered way off track if we regard alcohol, caffeine and sugar as safe substances to consume, they should in reality all come with the same warning signs on their packets as tobacco does i.e. this product can seriously damage your health.

386. I love this scientific approach to life Leigh. While some could argue that these simple experiments lack the ‘rigor’ of large scientific studies with hundreds or thousands of participants, what this approach does bring is applicability. When I conduct these little experiments on myself I know the results will absolutely apply to me. This is huge.

387. I have always found it fascinating that many intolerances are approached with the aim of getting someone to return to “normal”. For example, if you have a dairy allergy, finding a way that you can work it back in, or finding certain types of dairy that may not cause such an adverse reaction. The body is communicating and we often do our best to use our minds to override what it is saying. We seem to place more importance on the mind than the body.

388. Do we live life reacting to it or do we live life responding to it? What are in fact the differences? The latter comes from feeling life and responding to it from those feelings in each and every situation. There are no do’s and dont’s, just a connection with our body and heart. Which tells us the incredible importance of building a very loving relationship with our body and heart. That is in fact the answer to the first question. We will continuously grow and live life more and more from response, rather than reacting, if we choose to develop a dear relationship with body and heart over time.

389. It seems that a fresh approach may be needed towards our diet, with the many food intolerances and allergies and the conflicting information being provided to and by the medical profession – we have the living scientific experimental evidence right under our noses – our own body can let us know pretty quickly if not instantaneously if a food or drink does not agree with it – we just have to give it a chance to communicate this.
     Giving our body free rein to inform us of what truly benefits and nourishes it, and what does not – would be a great start towards reclaiming our naturally alive, vibrant and vital selves back.

390. If people were inspired to bring this level of responsibility to their lives, I have found that bringing health back into our own hands is hugely empowering and the benefits to our wellbeing can only inspire greater commitment and hence much of the current burdens placed on a health system would vanish. The snowballing student body inspired by the work of Serge Benhayon are sound evidence that the way we live is our greatest medicine.

391. Leigh what strikes me is that these stops and pauses that you are committing to in order to read your reactions and the quality of your being shows a level of lived responsibility that once upon a time was second nature.

392. “Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies.” True Leigh we live in a world that teaches that intelligence comes from our heads, and as children at school we discard the clairsentience that is so natural for us and instead turn to our heads for the answers and because this is not our natural expression we then get lost in comparison for our ability to recall information.

393. I would say the best scientific evidence we can have is our own lived experience.

     1. I’d agree, because what may work for some people’s bodies may not work for ours. And allowing ourselves to honour the fact that each body requires different levels of care at different times is super supportive of not just ourselves but others. As human beings we aren’t a ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to the everyday practicals but on a level of quality we can all be equal.

394. I observe myself being agitated in various situations. Sometimes the pressure or imposing of the outside seem to be so strong that my body goes into reaction. Often there are ideals and beliefs which try to control the situation, but sometimes I feel so much sadness and grief coming up because the situation is so unloving to my body and I get reminded of all the loveless behaviour I have allowed in my life. Then I support myself in accepting the momentary agitation and reconnect to my body in feeling it again and the tenderness within me.

395. Leigh I applied the scientific approach you present at work the other day. I have a new work chair that supports my lumbar so I can sit back supported and work. However, I found myself on the edge of my chair again at one point. I stopped and realised that I had unconsciously decided to speed up so that I could complete all my tasks, and automatically my whole body had tensed and moved forward in the chair so my face was closer to the screen. By taking this moment I readjusted not only my posture but also my thoughts, and the assumption that by driving myself a better outcome could be achieved. No doubt this ‘moment’ saved my body from needless aches that night, and the work was completed too.

396. “Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.” How we move is everything and I never really gave it much thought until Universal Medicine came along and now I am glad that I look at these things because they effect so much.

397. There is so much to be explored and studied. Our bodies are a living science where so much can be observed and embodied. To move more gently, hold ourselves less critically, is a wonder in itself, allowing the body to free itself of a hardening and controlling configuration.

398. “Since I have eliminated gluten (and also dairy and sugar) from my diet, I have found that my energy levels, general health and wellbeing have increased.” Me too Leigh, to my huge surprise and makes me realize just how draining these foods substances are and how ill they made me feel. Taking these things out of my diet (along with caffeine and alcohol) has been without doubt one of the healthiest choices I have ever made in my life.

399. Thank you Leigh – I decided to act on one of your suggestions and take a stop moment and allow myself to feel after I put down the phone. I can see that most of the time I go from one thing to the next without stopping. A salutary moment – and something I will change.

400. With support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I am understanding that everything happens for a reason. We can ignore what is being presented or ask ,”Why did that happen?”
     If we ask and are open to an answer, we will receive one.

     We our constantly being guided to evolve, it is our choice to listen to the message or not.

401. This has been a huge revelation, that trying to overcome food cravings by discipline and will-power is not so easy, but if we simply learn how to change our movements and the quality we move in, we change what thoughts can enter and influence us. This brings a whole new dimension and awareness to how we are and can be in life.

402. One of the difficulties with testing food is that a food that may be affecting us quite strongly may be doing so without us noticing in full. Once we stop eating it in some cases, we may be detoxing from that food for a while and may feel even worse when we stop eating it in the beginning and then draw the wrong conclusion…

403. Leigh what you shared appears so simple…..if you get a reaction to a certain food then you know that the food does not agree with you……..but certainly for me there was something that got in the way and that was my dogged beliefs. I held such fervent beliefs that the foods that I was eating were good for me that these beliefs completely blind sided me to the truth. The same thing happened with the damage that I was doing to myself with strenuous exercise, I was unable to see the truth because my belief blocked my vision. It took my body’s reactions to get pretty intense before I was able to realise what was happening.

404. One trick is to also not get indulgent in the experiment in life, yes it is needed as part of a development however revisiting an event we know not to be supportive to just ‘try our luck again’ isn’t supportive either.

405. Leigh what I like about your post is you bring life to life, it’s no longer about what we are given in life but the choices we make, it’s about having relationships with ourselves and everything in life with the willingness to be open to what is shown to us i.e. a certain food may not agree and a certain activity may make us feel not great, whereas another may allow us greater connection to our bodies. Everyday is an unfolding day in this scenario.

406. ‘So in the everyday situations it can look like this: taking stops and pauses during or after situations to feel the reactions or responses in the body.’ Continuing to drive through life without these stop moments means we are unaware of changes in our body, that call for our attention and if overlooked can lead to accidents, illness or drop in performance. Using the My Cycle Apps supports us to check in with ourselves daily and make adjustments where needed.

407. We are so trained to rely on our minds and made to believe that our intelligence lies with it. But what if our true intelligence lies with the body and its ability to feel as you are suggesting here Leigh? This changes a lot and when applied turns everything around and brings a lot more sense and purpose into life.

     1. Yes, that is very humbling and in my experience, true.

408. The quality of how we move really can have a profound affect on everything – relationships, our choices, work, what we eat, moods and so forth, and your sandwich example really sums it up… Before moving to buy the sandwich we had the thought, and could it be that the thought was brought to us based on how we had moved to that point?

     1. And what movements did we make, have we made or been trained to perform or adopted along the way that sandwich = lower tension? Because how many of us (if not all) get taught to follow our thoughts about food without looking at the emotions or reactions or feelings behind it all?

409. The greatest and most worthwhile experiments that we can undertake for ourselves and others are those undertaken upon ourselves that lead to our evolution, as you eloquently express Leigh, as by doing so not only do we expand but also through our example others can be inspired to do likewise.

410. ‘…we can’t heal a harsh mind if we are moving in a harsh manner with our bodies, be that grabbing things tightly, stomping around, overburdening ourselves with all the shopping at once, going out in the cold unprepared, thus our bodies want to contract to stay warm etc.’
     This is another great point. I found myself stuck in a cycle of constant abuse to myself. It would not have been obvious to anyone else around me, but I was in such a state anxiousness that my every movement was a reaction to the overwhelm I was feeling. So when I wasn’t being gentle…everything was magnified because of the non stop thoughts of struggle I was having. One thing always leads to another.

411. ‘But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?’ This is such an exposing suggestion Leigh. This to me feels like it’s exactly what we do in life, but in every area, not just food. We are so afraid of feeling and reading what is really going on because we are blinded by all the rubbish we are taught about what it means to have a ‘good life’. So we stay in relationships long past their used by date, because we learn to tolerate all that doesn’t feel right. We’d rather do that than be ‘single’. We’d rather eat/drink anything we want rather than stand out and be that person who can’t eat this and that. We’ll stay in our jobs and tolerate the bullying, abuse etc, because we don’t want to appear weak if we give it up. It’s fascinating just how wrong we’ve got it.

     1. Even then we continue to war with each other because what would be the alternative? peace? harmony? addressing the smaller, family wars, friendship wars, personal wars inside our own heads and with our bodies? What do we expose by saying no to the abuse our bodies can’t but feel and communicate to us? be it in an upset tummy, pain, illness or relationship dynamics, emotional and behavioural dis-orders or a general feeling of dis-harmony and tension when for example anger is expressed around or towards us.

412. Life is awesome at showing us things to learn from. The question is how obvious and extreme do the things we are being shown have to become before we stop and take notice of them?

413. ‘If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives’. This is the level of responsibility we need to live with, it is so simple but takes a commitment to being present and aware of our every movement.

414. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.” I love the simplicity and common sense approach that you bring to this Leigh. Of course, when you put it like that, it makes complete sense!

415. “Which movements increase our awareness and love and which movements lead to illness and disease?”.

     A question that deserves to be read a few times and to be felt deeply. As in this question lies the answer to all aspects of life. Life is movement and there are 2 sources we can choose our movements from. One is increasing our awareness and love and the other to control, hardness, contraction which are the foundation of later illnesses and diseases. So here it is, a crucial question to ponder on deeply. Thank you Leigh!

416. This teaching from Universal Medicine that moving in a certain quality that comes from a deep connection and honouring of our body affects not only our body but also the type of thoughts that we have. If everyone applied this simple teaching to their own lives it would change the world – it would end human trafficking, it would end wars it would end all conflicts because all of those actions come from choices to move in a way that promotes individualism over brotherhood.

417. “I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts. The quality of my movements is important.” I have found this to be true too Leigh and it has been a marvelous thing to come to understand. The more I come back to quality of my movement the more I get to feel what does and does not support me to develop an even finer quality. This is a daily exploration.

418. “The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality, a quality we can choose by how we move in alignment with the energy that leads to one result or the other. ” love it leigh. and love the example you gave about being at work and the quality of your thoughts started to make your body more hard..and how that comes from movement. life doesn’t have to be a push forward where we are swept up by our patterns, If we give ourself the space our choices can be evolving, and this happens by naturally letting go of what we are not.

419. Leigh such a comprehensive and easily understood explanation of a topic yet to be understood by the mainstream. Once the fact that our thoughts are given to us by the way that we choose to move is common knowledge then we will have an invaluable tool to support ourselves out of every situation.

420. ‘Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies’ – I have found this to be so true and that it cuts deeply through our trust in the communication from our body. Through developing the practice of feeling regularly into where my body is at, I am now re-claiming the truth in what I am finding and wonder how I ever allowed pressure from outside of me to attempt to make me believe that it knew me better than I know myself. There are many layers to offload but the absolute appreciation of who I am and the wisdom of the body that is innately there, is growing everyday. Thanks Leigh for sharing.

421. Leigh you are a true scientist in action – open enquiry, meticulous experimentation, astute observation, and openness to exploring deeper what is truly going on underneath. The world is experiencing ever more complicated, multi-layered chronic illnesses, and so much money and time spent on powerful drugs and treatments (with equally powerful undesirable side-effects) to manage the symptoms and keep people functioning and existing but barely living. So as you have shown, there is merit in exploring what lies beneath our patterns that fuel poor lifestyle choices that result in the illness and disease – and far better to address this and possibly prevent the ill-conditions arising in the first place.

422. This is an awesome blog Leigh clearly explaining the importance of the quality in which we move, that movement is a choice and has a direct impact on the type of thoughts that we have. I love how you have explored here the clocking of certain behaviours and patterns and then tracing them back to the root cause of why we go into those behaviours, looking at the movements that lead to those patterns. This way we expose what it is that is leading us down that path and then we have the opportunity to make a different choice.

423. “The quality of the experiments will vary, depending on how willing we are to be aware of what we are feeling.” This is so true Leigh. I know that I have felt things that I have then chosen to ignore because I didn’t want to have to change them. Behaviours and choices that no longer felt supportive I would ignore for a period of time until they spoke too loudly to ignore. And then sometimes I would do an experiment with these for a week or two just to delay a little longer as I knew what the result would be, and then finally I would change and feel much better for it. Realising that the change was not that difficult after all and the result was truly supportive.

424. Once we have done quite a few tests and have learned to listen to our bodies I noticed that the body is actually providing continuous feedback.

     1. I agree Christoph. The body speaks very loudly, should we wish to listen.

425. Wow! “If we were to eliminate the foods we react to for a period of time, we could then see and feel the results by feeling the effects in our bodies.” – isn’t this showing how we are in fact our own scientist? How amazing is it when we would accept that through listening to our body’s communication that we’re able to learn about both ourselves and life. To me, this would make a lot of sense. And I actually am confirmed by what is shared so beautifully here by Leigh. Thank you.

     1. We had to systematically ignore the body to get so far from home and now we have to religiously listen to the body in order to return.

426. ‘So in the everyday situations it can look like this: taking stops and pauses during or after situations to feel the reactions or responses in the body.’ We can often register a change in our state after something has happened but we will often not go any further than this – making these stops and moments to truly reflect on our choices and the results from them can reveal so much. For me currently it can feel like I am starting all over again as what feels like it is truly supportive can change frequently.

     1. The OurCycles App I have found is great for supporting these stop moments because each time I stop, even if I don’t look at the cycle charts, brings me a sense of ‘I’ve been here before’. When we start to see that we are living in cycle nothing can trip us up because we are just going over the same thing over and over in the same way we did before or with a different relationship to it.

427. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.”- Yes, as everything is determined by the quality of energy we choose, by how we move, which will determine our thoughts and words that come out of our mouth. Therefore, it is about energetic responsibility.

428. ‘By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.’
     Absolutely Leigh – from my experience I totally agree. Now, instead of beating myself up for having harsh thoughts I can look at my movements and see how I am moving that has allowed that quality of thoughts to enter.

429. A wonderful and very clear explanation of the importance of our movements and that so much more is going on when we ‘just want that piece of cake’ or ‘really feel like a coffee’. There are so many ‘normal’ acts that the majority of people do not question. And I agree, that we have become very clever at masking the side effects of certain foods and make our bodies put up with the consequences of our choices. There is always stuff at the chemist to help with this, from heart burn tablets to anti fungal and anti anxiety. We are happy to counter the effects of our choices rather then deal with the choice itself.

430. I love the title, “The Test of Life” – what you describe requires us to take a moment and be honest about what we are really feeling and where it started; and that is especially so if what we are experiencing is not to our liking. Change is only possible if we take responsibility and look deeper into cause and effect; after all, no-one can save us from ourselves and our patterns.

431. “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.” What a cracker! So simple and so true: if I do not like what happen in my life I should see this as an end result of movements and so – to change my movements and so bring a change to the results make totally sense to me.

432. As I did study sociology I was very surprised to get presented that we do not act on our thoughts or inner attitude. What means: people have an attitude, like ‘environment protection is very important’ and ‘to put plastic containers around vegetables is a not necessary pollution’ – but they do not act accordingly – They buy vegetables in plastic. So what we think and believe does not mean we act like that. Our movements are the key. How we live does show how we live – not what we say or think.

433. “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.” What a cracker! So simple an so true: if I do not like what happen in my life I can see it as an end result of movements and so – to change my movements and so bring a change to the results make totally sense.

434. ” Everything is energy and everything is because of energy”
     To observe life from this angle can be joyful and playful and when I observe life like this I realize there is a support in taking choices which are aligned to my observations.

435. I love the sense here, Leigh, of constant experimentation. We are always learning and growing, and the communication with our bodies can always deepen and become more refined, so that we become masters of reading what we feel within ourselves and life in general.

436. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.” This quality affects everything and it is so easy to stop for a moment, feel and change our movements to more lovingly and gently and I find this is a continuous evolving cycle in the quality and love in my movements and really does make a difference to how I feel.

437. The simple choice available to us in every moment that simply encapsulates the empowering nature of taking responsibility.

438. You have shared, very practically so, the power and amazing impact of taking responsibility for ourselves, thank you, Leigh.

439. I agree, Leigh. I learnt an enormous amount from looking at my reactions.

440. I found this connection with my body so profound when I started to question it when I felt out of sorts and in unloving behaviour and or movements. The response is quick and clear and very simple. I found that my body simply knows and is the most intelligent part of me compared to my mind.

441. What I have discovered is that we know exactly what we are doing to sabotage ourselves and then spend lots of time pretending we don’t and trying to figure it all out. Once we choose to stop playing this game and come back to our true selves we enter a completely different dimension!

442. Move in one way and get one thing, move in another and see what you might find? Do we choose the same movements for a safety or protection? Is it our way of doing what we know, ironically, we end up in the same place, what is being suggested here is to move in a new way, a way that is ‘unknown’, or so we think…. once you begin to move in this way, you are reminded of how familiar it is, how it is the true way, a known, its just been long forgotten and as you start you begin to remember.

443. I’m testing in the moment to truly be and feel me inside my own body. I often feel amazing inside, but it’s like I try to not ‘show it off’ to the world by disconnecting from it. Yet, as I’m in this ‘scientific experiment’ with myself, I notice how much I’ve missed out on my own joy and love. It so lovely and delicate to be, work and live while feeling my own love.

444. This is a great awareness you share – simple and very effective. The results of our own test will be clear if we take a few moments to be aware of how we are moving and if our gentler movements are reflected in our thoughts and how we feel.

445. I never liked milk but was told from young that it was needed for calcium – so I ate cheese, ice cream and yoghurt without ever checking in with my body that perhaps dairy was something it didnt want. It wasnt until my 40’s that I gave up dairy and gluten. Through Universal Medicine I have become more aware of my body and its needs, and so when a naturopath suggested a fructose free diet (because of symptoms I was having) I decided to give it a go for one month and see how it felt. After two weeks my body felt so light and unencumbered that I made the choice to stay fructose free. Our bodies are very sensitive and know what they require in every moment – they clearly tell us if we choose to listen.

446. I too have found that the quality of my movement determines the quality of my thoughts

447. Sometimes we don’t want to change our behaviours, especially our diet if symptoms or ailments are showing. I recently read a note from someone who, although they had an intolerance to a certain food that they felt ill from, instead of eliminating the food carried on eating it and took a tablet to stop the side effects!!! So yes it definitely comes down to our choices and what we choose but also how much do we truly understand. For example does the person that is doing this know that eventually the body will react in such a way that no tablet can ‘fix’ it. Being honest, not overriding our body (something I am very much still learning) and being willing and open to truly heal plays a very big part in this.

448. There is a big lesson in appreciation of ourselves here Leigh, that we accept the challenge of looking at any test in life to learn how our choices make such a huge difference with how we feel, we move and we grow throughout the journey.

449. Beautiful Leigh you bring such a great understanding to our choices in life and how we can look at this in every area more and more with an honesty that is refreshing and very true.

450. ‘If we were to eliminate the foods we react to for a period of time, we could then see and feel the results by feeling the effects in our bodies.’ I have found that this can become a playful experiment as you eliminate one food at a time if we are unsure what we may be reacting to in a particular meal.

451. The world we live in has become all about motion and what it can do for us. As you have said Leigh, until we stop and feel, is still the best test of life.

452. We do have a choice to observe ourselves and become aware again of the fact that we are the creators of our lives.

453. I can say that whilst I ‘grew out of’ my food intolerances and ate dairy and gluten for a period of time in my life, I never actually was free of the effects on my body – the initial effects were just overridden and therefore came in a different form that I was not wanting to see as associated with my food choices.

454. Tests on ourselves can be very interesting – eating a particular food one day can be really unpleasant but eating it on another day it could be fine. It could be the amount we eat, the way the food is prepared, at what time of the day we eat, what else we eat during the day, what we are doing during the day – all of this and more can have an influence. The key is to connect and feel.

455. This awareness that you share Leigh is one that we can struggle to connect with, or we do so when it is convenient and then check out and let life roll past. What I have found is when we can keep that consistent checking in on how we are feeling, the quality we are choosing to live in, observing everyone around us and what life is presenting to us, it starts to become easier to feel what is going on. The consistency that we bring in our own lives is the foundation of the consistency we can have when seeing and feeling what is going on in life and all around us.

456. Leigh when you present the sequence of events that lead to the next outcome, I ask myself …. Why would I not choose to live in a chosen quality in my body, why would I allow another energy through movements that I don’t choose, to dictate the way I live, and breathe. I would never wear two left shoes that would be incredibly uncomfortable, so why would I choose to move in anger, as that is equally uncomfortable.

     1. That’s a very good point Merrilee “I would never wear two left shoes that would be incredibly uncomfortable, so why would I choose to move in anger, as that is equally uncomfortable.” It makes me question then – have we made what is truly uncomfortable comfortable and accepted without being aware of such? Because I have gotten pretty good at honouring when certain clothes don’t feel right and not wearing them anymore but emotions that are disturbing still come in. Loving ourselves isn’t just about the physical aspects of life but also everything we feel that doesn’t have an object we can focus on but is equally a part of life.

457. “If we were to eliminate the foods we react to for a period of time, we could then see and feel the results by feeling the effects in our bodies.” – isn’t this showing how we are in fact our own scientist? How amazing is it when we would accept that through listening to our body’s communication that we’re able to learn about both ourselves and life. To me, this would make a lot of sense. And I actually am confirmed by what is shared so beautifully here by Leigh. Thank you.

458. Today is a great day to be very aware of how my feet move, my foot fall as I take each step and how they feel as they support me through the day. I’ll check in at the close of the day and feel how they are, cause I will be aware if they have a familiar tired, achy feel or perhaps they may feel lighter which means I will also feel lighter, less tired and achy.

459. When we say ‘Test’ it brings up connotations of something you can fail, or a place where you desperately seek the correct or ‘right answer’. Yet if we replace this with ‘experiment’ it seems to change everything. In an experiment, there is no bad data, no mistake or stupid answer. Everything is informing and relating back to the bigger picture we are looking to uncover. It’s also playful and out of our control, who knows what will come back? So I love this sense of fun we can have with the experiment that is life. Thanks Leigh you inspire me to see that we all have our own lab coats and test tubes in our everyday life.

460. This is so true Leigh. Since making different choices in my own way of eating, the quality in my energy can be easily felt dropping into heaviness, dullness or super tired if I eat something like sugar now.
     “We can choose the food, and our movements will have a certain quality thereafter (like going to sleep!)”.

461. “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.” Who would have thought in an era where we have made everything in life so very complicated, there is such a simple and certain way of bringing about change in our life.

462. Exams and tests have always terrified me and left me feeling exhausted and drained and worried. Tests with my body are fun and fascinating and the more that I engage with this process the more I enjoy them. And the best bit?….If you are open to listening, then you can’t fail!

     1. That is something I have also experienced when listening to the body, there is no right or wrong. Just a straight forward – that feels true and awesome, that doesn’t. There is a lot of fun when life is simple.

        1. Yes, yes, yes Leigh. I giggle at simplicity.

463. Leigh, this is an amazing list of how to become more aware.

464. If we crave certain foods at the end of the day but not in the morning, it gives us a signal that something is happening during the day that takes us away from our inner connection, so we can explore with questions such as: Have we worked in a way that makes us unnecessarily tired? What makes us so tired? Are we giving our power away to colleagues? Are we trying to please customers? How much have we stayed connected with our bodies throughout the day? Did we focus more on doing and less on being? What quality did we take to work and did we sustain that same quality?

465. This simple question leaves no room for us to avoid responsibility for everything we do, say or think in our day – “Which movements increase our awareness and love and which movements lead to illness and disease?” If we are honest with ourselves, we do know when we are being loving with our bodies and when we are not, and this blog offers a fool-proof method to help us discern what is true and supportive.

466. ’If we eat a certain food – we may get a reaction. If we don’t eat that certain food – there is no reaction. It simply requires us to stop for a moment to clock our body’s communication in response or reaction to this food.’ – It can’t be said more simple than this Leigh, but instead of being encouraged to honour what our body is communicating we learn at an early age to override what we feel so we can eat what ’everybody else’ eats.

467. ‘So in the everyday situations it can look like this: taking stops and pauses during or after situations to feel the reactions or responses in the body.’ I realise just how much I am currently in the pattern of not stopping during my working day, of having a brief break at lunch time to eat but not allowing the time space and presence to check in with how I’m feeling. This blog is inspiring me to do so for all that is offered when we do make the space to feel what is offered from our bodies.

468. It is sometimes interesting to observe what I eat to numb myself and as such do not feel anymore the consequences of my eating immediately. Later on there are more heavy reactions of my body, in extreme cases there can be an illness, when I was not willing to stop the numbing on a earlier stage. This is a set up that I can do how I like and not have to llisten to my body, which I have numbed down.

469. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.” This is a very powerful truth – definitely well-worth putting it to the test – just give it a try and see for yourself.

     1. It is super powerful! the amount of times I have started to go into an emotional spin only to have it cut dead instantly simply by changing how I walk or move proves it beyond doubt for me. What is difficult at the start (and I get caught by it at times and possibly to greater depths still do) is following the mind that says we have to be a certain way or lock the body up. Even the smallest movements can start to break down the rigidity and repetition of unloving behaviours and perceptions of life.

470. So in the everyday situations it can look like this: taking stops and pauses during or after situations to feel the reactions or responses in the body. How do I feel after having that thought? This is one that I use constantly Leigh, as my past history is to be very much in my head. Asking myself this question, detaches me from personalising it and going into emotion or a story, leaving me to be much more honest and direct with where I was, or seeing how I was moving before that thought. Knowing that everything is energy, totally changes how I am with myself and brings in a responsibility that is much more all encompassing and purposeful.

471. I have overridden what my body has told me pretty much my entire life until recent years.You could say in computer speak that I had been running a lifelong program of disregarding myself. This great blog has made me realize, in that context, that we are in fact a living breathing data bank that is constantly sensing and assessing itself and making adjustments in every moment. We are also the programmer of this data bank so we also have the power to change the program rather than be subject to it. Perhaps stopping, sensing, feeling, remembering we are human, and simplifying the way we live makes the space for more refined, less voluminous data accumulation, the results of which are more easily seen and acted upon.

472. Thank you for sharing this Leigh. I was just reflecting on the power of listening to my body and how attuned I am to my body these days. Sometimes I get a little frustrated feeling that I go from one minor ache, pain or ailment to another every couple of weeks. What I have realised however, is that I am much more connected and sensitive to my body these days and addressing things that I feel in my body before they actually become issues. These days I feel like I am living life proactively rather than reactively and I am taking amazing care of myself through constant experimentation.

473. Thank you Leigh I love the way you describe the cycle of our choices.

474. You clarified for me the way energy affects us in our daily lives Leigh! Movement is really a big one as is assessing how our bodies feel before and after food, and not overriding these feelings. By not listening to our bodies we then have to suffer the consequences of this behaviour which I know isn’t pleasant!

475. It’s so great to know that even though we may not like the consequences of our choices and our movements that we always have the power to choose and move differently. Our body is our guide.

476. “How do I feel after having that thought?” That is not a very commonly asked question and yet when we do, it empowers us to see that every single thought we have has an impact on our bodies. The myriad of thoughts that stream through our heads every single day all affect our physiology and physical energy. Just noting how we might clench our hands, stiffen our backs or tighten up our jaws in response to what we are thinking is strong evidence that our bodies are continually at the mercy of our thought process and as a consequence, we expend so much energy in our day thinking about things that are not actually happening in the moment. Learning to stay present and connect with our bodies in each moment of life is quite challenging but has an enormously beneficial outcome for our health and energy levels. Living in a body-full way is a superb way to detox poisonous thoughts and restore a healthy, loving and open thought process.

477. “But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?”
     We are masters of masking reactions be it physical or emotional, most of us have forsaken the magic of our sixth sense and instead settled for the function of fitting in.

478. There is no better measure of how we are living our lives than through the window that is a truly exacting and responsive body.

479. “The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality, a quality we can choose by how we move in alignment with the energy that leads to one result or the other”
     What you have presented here Leigh is so very important in that it highlights the quality of our lives is about the choices we make.

480. “Which movements increase our awareness and love and which movements lead to illness and disease?” A core question to ask Leigh and one that in time will transform our entire understanding of illness and disease and empower us to realise how we make ourselves ill and how to fully heal and to live in a way where diseases begin to decline rather than mutate and multiply.

481. To understand that our movements lead to the quality of our thoughts is a paradigm shift of huge proportions Leigh. It has certainly changed everything for me in terms of wrestling with the nature of certain thought patterns, particularly negative ones, but also day-dreaming. I now go to a movement if I want to shift something I feel stuck on or in, and it changes instantly!

482. Hello Leigh and I was a person that could just eat anything and have no reactions, or was I? When I look back, using gluten as an example I would eat it all the time without a thought. What is significant though is the amount of times I can remember wanting to go to sleep after eating it. It was almost like a tradition in our family, eat a big lunch of pasta, breads, biscuits etc and go and lie down. I honestly thought it was a great sign to do this, I know my family certainly supported the action back then. I am just looking at how things change and how my body has changed. I stopped eating certain things for the simple reason of how they made me feel afterwards. Some things I thought I could never live without, I have found that I am so much lighter without. It is a miracle for a man like me who never really believed in the ‘feeling’ part to see how sensitive (in a strong way) I am. As I just said sensitivity is a strength and something to cherish in a man and not knock out.

483. If it wasn’t for Serge Benhayon I would never have felt how the movements I make have enormous affect on how I feel and the thoughts that I have. Once I got to feel this and the deeper layers of letting go and allowing this, I now move completely differently and yet I feel I am only really connecting to the way my soul truly wants to move and express with my body.

484. I really love the way you share the process of the observation – it shows how simple it is and how ultimately it is about responsibility for doing just that, being aware.

485. You have re-written the science behind food allergies and intolerances right here Leigh.

486. Sometimes I observe that a lot of people don’t use the knowledge that they hold with certainty, no testing required. Many of us are exhausted and we know exactly what to do in order not to be exhausted and many of the exhausted ones do have the opportunity to come out of this condition, yet they choose not to or even exult in their level of exhaustion.

487. Leigh, I love how you have been experimenting with things you are doing and the way you are doing them. It is then amazing quite how much we can learn from what we do if we choose to listen to our bodies. As you say life is constantly showing us/ teaching us about the way we do things.

488. Often we can give our power away to others about what is good for us, what to eat and not to eat, ways of exercising or not exercising, but in the end it is our body that will show us what will truly support it when we observe, listen and experiment. It may not be what ‘experts’ say it is.

489. How do I feel after having this thought or that picture in mind, or this vision or dream. I feel separated and off the ground when I am too much in my head, daydreaming or thinking about problems or the future and sometimes the past. It is frightening how often thoughts slip in and try to take over when I am not present enough and bring this to a stop. When I am totally in my body and present the world feels lovely around me and I feel gorgeous.

490. Brilliant insight ‘We can’t heal the symptoms of gluten intolerance if our movements are to go for the cakes and sandwiches; likewise we can’t heal a harsh mind if we are moving in a harsh manner with our bodies, be that grabbing things tightly, stomping around’ – I had never thought of such an analogy, but it makes it very concrete, practical and real – we can’t know the joy and delicateness and aliveness in our body when we spend our whole time moving harshly, clumsily, knocking ourselves against objects, and eating junk food.

491. I really never used to think that what I ate made that much difference to how I felt. It make so much sense to me now because I have done some experimenting and I definitely feel very so much more vibrant when eliminating some foods, as you describe Leigh. Our body is in constant communication in response or reaction to whatever we are doing or thinking, so we can choose to listen to it and learn from it, to develop and grow. When we dismiss the messages from the body, it is suicidal, we can’t live without it.

492. I am testing myself with food right now and feel how alive my body feels and how clear my thoughts are when I eliminate certain foods from my diet. The opposite is true when I step back and include these foods in my diet. I am being shown the precision of the human body, affected by every choice I make, each one builds on the next. Truly loving ourselves is founded on making all our choices loving ones: there is no mid-way. All love, or no love.

493. What a revelation Leigh, noticing that harsh movements can lead to harsh thoughts. There is a far amount of discussion around how we can hold and treat ourselves more compassionately and gently these days, so starting to work with the quality that we move in feels very supportive.

494. I love the openness you have introduced of observing behaviors and seeing the finer details, the patterns that led to it. In this already is an openness to choosing a different quality if the results are not feeling loving. I notice this on my walks, I can get lost in my thoughts and my head which then leads me to feeling tired and hard in my arms especially, or I can open my heart and feel all that is around me knowing each step is a loving imprint for us all.

495. I have found this testing and refining such an important aspect in my life these days. It allows me to examine all aspects of my life to see what supports and what does not.

496. Something as seemingly obvious as having a food allergy actually requires us to stop for a moment and listen to our body in order to register it. It’s surprising how many people live with allergies but don’t realise because there are a lack of these stop-and-listen moments in their lives.

497. I like your final paragraph how the thoughts are not in your circulation, that is a great way of describing the movement.

498. • How do I feel after having that thought?
     • Why do I feel so agitated right now? What energy is allowing me to feel this way?
     What occurred, what did I do ?what was I doing before I noticed this agitation?
     • After a long day my feet sometimes hurt more than normal – so how was I walking today?
     • After that conversation I feel a sense of emptiness, need for more, or stimulated – why is that?
     These are such great questions to be asking ourselves Leigh, bringing a choice to be much more responsible with the choices we are making for ourselves that can then impact on others. Being truly honest about what thought we choose to run us, can only come about if we are choosing to be more present with our bodies and honest about what they are truly feeling. The more I do this, the more I am enjoying my life, simply because I’m moving in a way that confirms that we are way more than those thoughts we choose to have.

499. There is so much to discover about life by living it. And I feel the most important thing is observing and not judging the end result for being good or bad. As then we never will be truly honest about the cause.

500. It is quite amazing to appreciate how much our bodies respond to these ‘stop moments’, however small they may be. By honouring how we feel and allowing a moment or two to check in with what our body is asking, we create a spaciousness that deepens the connection we have to ourselves, and consequently the divine has free access to flow through us and into all that we do.

501. ‘By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.’ I have found this to be extremely powerful Leigh. Being super aware of the way I move brings a whole new perspective and has enabled a greater clarity to develop – I can feel the energy my movements are creating and how my body expands or contracts accordingly.

502. It’s so easy to override the body’s signals and messages in the form of reactions or responses. We push on regardless of the consequences. By taking an interest and actively choosing to listen and act accordingly, we can completely change the way we feel and the way we live.

503. Learning to understand that our body operates as one unique amazing network of impulses helps to make sense that the quality of our thoughts can be changed by the quality of our movements.

504. Energetic quality, energetic integrity is the foundation of all we are going to experience or have experienced. As you say Leigh, the true test of life.

505. A great blog showing us that we have and live with a super fine-tuned, sensitive and aware body which deserves our full and loving attention to detail

506. How true is this… “In life, we are always presented with opportunities to test ourselves and to learn from the results of these…” these ‘tests’ or interactions in life are forever presented as lessons in life to learn from to be able to claim more and deepen our expression of love.

507. Understanding the movements behind our ill behaviour is the key to breaking those patterns.

508. Leigh, reading your blog reminded me of my dairy intolerance as a child and how having dairy had an affect on my hearing. After spending a year or so dairy free, I over rode what my body was showing me and went back to having dairy. The movements behind wanting to have dairy was to seek comfort, to feel safe. With milk, yoghurt, cheese and ice cream I had found a friend. In hindsight I can now see I was just a very lonely little girl who felt like she wasn’t met and therefore used foods to numb herself from feeling what was really going on for her.

     1. I wonder if it is more than loneliness when we deliberately choose something that we know well is harming us – sugar may have had almost the same effect, for example, without the harm that dairy did to you?

509. I love the practicality and simplicity of your blog addressing how to ascertain whether we have an intolerance to a particular food or why we react and take on certain emotions of behaviours- all stemming from the source of energy we choose to align to. Therefore, it is always a matter of choice, and free will.

510. Tests only work if we are open to the results. Which most of us are not. Because in truth every second is a test and our bodies are constantly delivering the results of those tests to us; results that are (if the state of humanity’s health and well-being is to be accepted in fullness) almost invariably not good news. Which shows we are not listening.

511. Two days ago I took a test. I had a long drive late in the evening. Past my normal bed time. So I thought – maybe I should have a snack on hand to “give me energy”. But actually food doesn’t give me energy, it actually deadens me so would in fact make me more tired. So I decided to test it. I set off without. Drove with a deep presence, kept myself as clear as possible….the results of the test? I loved the drive. I was wide awake for all of it. I drove very well. And I woke up the next day not feeling tired. The details of all of this are irrelevant. The important part is that if I had not embarked on the test, been open to trying it out and brought some fun, lightness and “let’s see what happens” to it, then I would never have confirmed this truth in me. I can’t say for sure, but I’m pretty sure that I won’t be tempted again to use food late at night to keep me awake.

512. I love what you have shared here Leigh about negative thoughts going ‘out of circulation’ once we bring a more gentle and loving quality to our movements. Connecting to the body first and foremost not only takes the power away from the fickle mind, but provides us with a clear reflection and source of truth that is all-knowing and ever present.

513. To be able to look back at the way we are living and to realise that is not just something that happens but a choice that we chose and a movement we are making is a great step to honesty. Here we can start to reveal the truth of what energy we are aligning to and the impact that this has on our lives.

514. I loved your question, ‘How do people having various thoughts or emotions move’? I was just thinking today I would love to film the movements of people in these various states. It is not just water crystals that respond and change shape in response to certain words and feelings (as shown by previous studies). We are mostly made up of water and therefore we are a macro representation of the millions of micro changes that are happening within our bodies at the molecular level.

515. In the past I have played a game at cafes with my friends/family using a numbered rating scale on how we feel. We would rate 0-10 how we feel before the meal and after. It was quite striking having this before marker (which really only took a few seconds to assess) and then feel the after. It would instantly show up if the food was too stimulating, heavy or just right. Without this rating and check-in, I would have been fairly unaware of the after feeling and dishonest with myself about what the food does to my body and the way I feel. I also found this was a fun way to introduce kids to the idea of checking in and getting to know what certain foods do.

     1. I’ve been playing the same game with myself Fiona, and felt the difference between different foods I eat and their effects on the body. Sometimes we know well the difference, but still choose not to align with an energy that brings light, love and clarity.

516. It is a really freeing way to look at ourselves and our bodies as an ongoing experiment. It provides detachment, attention to detail and a certain curiosity rather than overriding, ignoring or self-judgment. This in itself provides more space to see what’s really going on.

517. Being acutely aware of the response or reaction of my body in every moment is something I love about Esoteric Yoga. In stillness, without all the clutter of thoughts and outer distractions, I can feel instantly the effects of my choices on my body. A tiny change in posture can make an immense difference to the way my body feels. Similarly a seemingly random thought or feeling can change the way I feel. My body is like the most highly tuned barometer to what is love and what is not.

     1. ‘My body is like the most highly tuned barometer to what is love and what is not’ Mine is too Fiona, regrettably, I find myself not always listening to it and it’s the why this is so, that confronts me.

518. The test of life is in truth so simple as our bodies know exactly how to be and move in a way that will brings true health and well being, we have only walked away from this simplicity and created another way of living instead. Returning to that natural state of being, that we all still have a connection with through our inner heart, can be realised through making the conscious choice in every moment of the day and night to live in accordance with the energy of love, the source of life we belong to.

     1. Yes, we can get there quickly or slowly but we definitely can get to that natural state of being.

519. Hi Leigh – what you have alerted us to is the ‘finer details’ of the choices we make which result in an outcome in our body. These choices work for or against our level of awareness, which goes on to inform the next choice. We can get caught in a cycle that increases dulling of our awareness, or we can put in place a cycle that supports a clear and accurate knowing of what is there to know within us and around us. Even knowing and experiencing the greater awareness, we can still get drawn to avoiding these choices and indulging. Your blog has brought much clarity.

     1. ‘We can get caught in a cycle that increases dulling of our awareness, or we can put in place a cycle that supports a clear and accurate knowing of what is there to know within us and around us’ Christine, you have expressed this well and your comment has brought additional clarity. .

520. “It simply requires us to stop for a moment to clock our body’s communication in response or reaction to this food.” There really is no need for all these fancy diets – our bodies know to the exact detail what they require in every moment – sometimes it might even be rest, or a walk, rather than food! If we listen to what our bodies are constantly communicating to us we know what foods to eat, when to eat and how much to eat. Our bodies have an innate wisdom, that when connected to, lovingly guides us through life.

521. When I look back at my life before going gluten and dairy free, I am amazed at how much I forced my body to consume things that I didn’t actually like and often made me feel quite un-well. Learning to observe ’cause and effect’ within my own body has been nothing short of miraculous and the health benefits un-foreseen and immeasurable. Start Observing, it is guaranteed to change your life.

522. I love the simple truth that you are presenting here –“If we eat a certain food – we may get a reaction. If we don’t eat that certain food – there is no reaction. It simply requires us to stop for a moment to clock our body’s communication in response or reaction to this food”. Given this is the case why then do we do everything in our power to make it more complicated than that? What part of us wants to deny the simplicity of life? Could it be showing us that we are so identified with life itself that we make everything more complicated than it actually is?

523. I love that question Leigh! “Why did I choose to experience that situation? ” It really does show us that we are responsible for everything that happens in or life, as you say, “Everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy” (Serge Benhayon), the choice is ours.

524. Testing things does need to come with an openness, and also a willingness to learn from the testing. Otherwise there is not much point to testing. Leigh, I love how you have given some simple examples of diet and food and reactions we may have – this shows that we are all essentially scientists and can all be walking and talking experiments that we can learn from all of the time. How cool is this?

525. ‘By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.’ These very simple words are revelatory – and make total sense, especially when put into practice. Thank you Leigh, and the teachings of Serge Benhayon.

526. I love the simplicity of what seems complicated in knowing what foods we react to, or simply do not tolerate for true harmony and flow in our body you offer here Leigh, as well as the understanding of movements from the energy we choose which affects our thoughts and the play out of all this seen in the end result so brilliantly shared. I know that simply listening to my body and all it is telling me is changing my life and my movements and I am learning so much about both myself and everyone and everything else from this way of living, which brings a harmony and wisdom to life also.

527. The observation process you offer, to let the results of our actions be seen and felt, provides a pathway to a generously caring and loving way of living. A way that is beyond what society tells us, and a way that is the path chosen by our own observations.

528. “Eat to live, rather than live to eat” as Socrates wisely shared with us a long time ago. Because he tested why he ate food and how much. So he listened to his body with honour and from this deep appreciation naturally the quote as above could be expressed. As this simply came from his body: our (only) instrument that we have to be able to express our love and Wisdom. Only when we eat to live, Divinity can flow through us, and so does, as our Soul loves so much that it does everything it can to support both ourselves and others to expand our love.

529. We take many tests at school to pass exams, and gain certificates. There’s a much better prize given when we take on this challenge of listening to our bodies as you describe Leigh, we can learn to track back to where we were when our connection went down, just like the computer sometimes loses connection with a low signal. Stopping and listening to the body to feel our quality is hugely supportive.

530. It’s great to backtrack on what led up to our making certain choices, it helps us to understand and change, rather than simply beat ourselves up for making wrong choices.

531. It’s a beautiful answer to the struggle so many have with food, but more broadly and deeply with self loathing and disregard of our bodies. The more we move with love for ourselves the less room there is for unloving choices that harm our bodies to manoeuvre themselves into play. I love how you lay this out Leigh.

532. How does a person who believes the world is an unsafe place move? This one line makes so much sense and whilst out driving I often observe people as they walk down the street and wonder how differently their walks would be if they knew that their thoughts were contributing to the quality of their movements.

533. Reading blogs like this one really does bring home to me how amazing my body is, constantly communicating with me what is true and what is not. Most of my life I learnt to override it but I am realising I can learn so much about myself from feeling and listening to it that no book could ever offer.

534. The energy impulses the movement which impulses the thought and so to the action and behaviour. We get to feel the end result of this, as a bloated stomach. But we also get to feel the whole causal outplay. It is just a matter of awareness and a matter of choice.

535. ‘I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts’ – This is revelatory in itself Leigh, that when we have crazy, harsh, abusive, frustrated or harmful thoughts that they may actually be caused by our movements.

536. There is an honesty that comes from the body, which, if we choose to listen and not override it, can be life changing for physical and mental health and well-being. “Which movements increase our awareness and love and which movements lead to illness and disease?” it is not simply in the choice of what we put in our mouths, it is in the movements and the thoughts before the movements. The more I listen to my body, the more honesty I am open to…the more I have to choose not to react to the way I have chosen to be my normal which might be in opposition to the message I am being given from my own body.

537. I agree Ariana, why avoid such beauty? Really it doesn’t make any sense to abandon our magnificence and as a result we feel terrible, extremely miserable in fact. It sounds absolutely crazy yet I have done this myself. Your example of the hotel room is great, checking in and out of our body like a hotel room is actually very exhausting. But we always have a choice to rebuild our connection with our body, by caring, loving and nurturing it to the best of our ability. Learning to trust and allow our body guide us through life.

538. Wow Leigh, I love the questions you’ve raised and this blog is like a science project of life, to observe our movements and record the results of our thoughts and actions. I feel what you’ve shared can support people to heal addictions, unloving behaviours and patterns. It is so simple, paying attention to our movements is key, choosing to move in the quality of our innate gentleness, delicateness and tenderness, and the results will be remarkable.

539. Time and time again, I prove to myself, that if I move distracted and in my mind, my body is definitely hardened and there is no tenderness. Whereas if I move consciously aware of how I am moving, the difference is huge and it is a joy to do whatever I am doing because I’m enjoying being with me while I do it.

540. This blog isn’t the typical ‘food for thought’, but instead, true food for movement. There’s much to gain from experimenting with the body in the way we move, to experience the shift this can bring to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.

541. It’s great to read this blog as it confirms what I experience at work. If I don’t choose movements with me, I feel like I’m leaving my body more and more, creating a lot of tension in my legs. As if I slowly leave my body. A great sign or marker to take notice of and start different movements (usually I go for a little walk through the office). It feels so different if I’m with my legs and move from there.

542. Love this blog, becoming responsible for the whole of us. Moving away from isolating ourselves in the penthouse of the mind to developing awareness of all the floors below, right to the foundations, and what is going on in the whole building. Taking responsibility for our choices, actions, movements.

543. Leigh thank you for expressing this in such an amazing way and so simple.

544. I love that our lives can be an experiment – that we can continue to keep ‘testing the waters’ so to speak and seeing what supports us and what does not. Universal Medicine has shown me that life is so simple – and that my responsibility is the choices I make – are they loving or not – keep experimenting, keep choosing love, keep evolving.

545. Our bodies are amazing how they will do their utmost to keep everything in balance regardless of what we do or put into them. In fact, the body and it’s workings are nothing short of a miracle. So it is worth considering that if we were to really listen to the messages that they continually send us, and responded accordingly, supporting them to do what they were divinely designed to do, what other miracles would be possible? It is definitely worth pondering on.

546. To give ourselves the permission to be our own experiment is awesome and lets face it if we eat something and it makes us feel a little nauseous or drained, wouldn’t it be sensible to throw the food item away and never eat it again. How awesome would it be to get to the point where we listen so much to our bodies that we are guided what to eat and when, and how much – wouldn’t this solve the obesity crisis we are currently experiencing in many parts of the so called developed world.

547. The simplicity of your comment about ill-thoughts fading away simply because they are no longer being kept in circulation is pure gold. Inspiring. Thank you, Leigh.

548. A beautiful description of how we can heal through taking self-responsible steps.

549. Superb blog Leigh presenting a clearer picture of the effects our movements can have on our wellbeing. I have been noticing recently thoughts entering my mind which I knew at the time did not support me but left me wondering ‘how and why did they get there.’ To make stops and reflect on the quality of my movements leading to the thoughts entering my mind takes it a step further in supporting me to get to the root cause as to why it is I can go into disregard of myself.

550. “If we eat a certain food – we may get a reaction. If we don’t eat that certain food – there is no reaction.” Such a simple experiment to conduct and one that these days I am paying much more attention to. If I feel well in one moment and then headachy, dull or tired in the next, rather than reaching for the pain killers as the first response, stopping to consider what I have just eaten, drunk or done in the last half an hour to make me feel like this is much more powerful. It is a sure fire way for us to begin to appreciate the consequences of our choices, so that tomorrow and the day after, we can have a go at loving ourselves by making a different choice, one that supports us and our well being rather than one that brings us down.

551. To know that the quality of our movements and our thoughts can be altered by certain foods, takes science to a whole new level. I know for myself I have a tendency when feeling great to find foods that dull me. I did this yesterday eating some cherries which to many would not be that bad but because I have eliminated sugar (except for apples) from my diet I could feel how quickly this changed how I felt in my body.. It was great to feel how quickly I had managed to dull myself and so I know I will not be eating cherries again. I know this dulling can lead to being slightly more dismissive than usual and this can be in my thoughts and in my movements. Prior to eating them everything felt so easy there was a natural flow to the day and my body felt so light. The taste of the cherries is never worth what proceeded in my body after eating them.

552. Leigh, this is a very inspiring article. Your quality bringing detail in every step supports us to understand what is truly going on. So I observed my behaviour concerning eating and I have to admit when I am truly with myself and walking/moving with grace, I feel a lot. Sometimes I do not want to feel all that I feel and I go back to more closed down movements and as such the desire to eat things which help me to not feel so much anymore. After this the thoughts are often self-destructing. I understand more and more what I choose in this moment, often unconciously. To feel the truth brings a certain responsibility and I observe that I say no in these moments to taking the responsibility and contract/create movements which do not support to feel deeply what is going on.

553. When we started to numb ourselves it was a slow process that evolved over time. Most people who have smoked will remember the time we inhaled and the reaction our body presented to us for what we were putting in our lungs! We either stopped there or persisted and overrode our body’s messages. When we choose to re-connect to our body is also a thing we have to re-evolve back too. Choosing to re-connect back to myself has never been a bad choice and one I love to live by.

554. Bringing it back to energy and asking what energy did I choose and in what way did that make me move to now feel this way is for me making it possible to get out of negative feelings I feel trapped in at times. Working it out from my mind never works but changing the energy and thus my movement and not making it personal, always work.

555. Loved reading this, thank you Leigh. We cannot escape what our bodies already know. The answer will always be in the quality that we choose and in the energy that precedes it. Pure and simple.

556. Leigh, this is wonderful what you have shared here – movement is so key to how we feel, how we think, how we perceive things and so much more…
     ” we can’t heal a harsh mind if we are moving in a harsh manner with our bodies, be that grabbing things tightly, stomping around, overburdening ourselves with all the shopping at once, going out in the cold unprepared, thus our bodies want to contract to stay warm etc.” – This is a wonderful reminder to keep coming back to a natural and delicate way of being – thank you!

557. the idea that life is a science and we can live it, is truly extraordinary. It takes away mystery in life, and empowers us.

558. I have also found that we will do just about anything to override what the body is clearly telling us is not right for us to eat, inhale or drink – the repetitive movement of ingesting the substance then becomes our normal and the body adjusts to the best of its ability and creates homeostasis yet again; but then, at some point, the chickens come home to roost. And are we then willing to take responsibility for our behaviour or do we blame our genes, climate, etc etc?

559. Reading the energetic quality of everything brings a whole new dimension to the experimentation that we can have with life. How I feel after certain foods, activities and events has become an important marker for me in what I feel is supportive and what is not in my life.

560. This is amazing to read and so beautifully simple it makes total sense. I can attest to the fact that ‘…we can’t heal a harsh mind if we are moving in a harsh manner with our bodies.’

     I’d been brought up, like most, to believe my thoughts were who I was and if I didn’t like them then I had to change them. Controlling my thoughts through will power meant I could change movements/habits I didn’t like. I’d put in a lot of effort to get better, get over habits that didn’t serve me but it was a daily battle I often lost. But I wasn’t prepared to let go of all that effort so I resisted the presentation that if I changed my movements, my thoughts would change too. I didn’t like the idea that my thoughts are not who I am when I’d spent so much effort trying to be clever and get recognition for it as that would all be pointless and I’d be left with, or so I thought, not knowing who I was and feeling bereft.

     But when I lay in bed one night riddled by negative self-criticism, I decided hanging onto wanting to be the one controlling my thoughts wasn’t working or worth this self-bashing; so my next move was as gentle and loving as I could make it. A simple lifting up of my head and placing it back on the pillow lovingly. It was amazing, all the negative thoughts vanished and my connection with me was restored. So simple. Something, as I write this, I can practice every time I notice my thoughts become harsh.

561. The gift of the moment to stop and ponder on what is here before us or within us is something that only we can give ourselves. It does not come from anyone or anything else.

562. If only we could open up as a society that the way we think, the way we feel inside our body, the way we make choices, creates a solid foundation that we call normal, yet is miles and miles (and miles!!) away from the natural flow we could live should we choose to open up to the possibility of a light(er), bright(er) and super loving ‘normal’. And that everything that is not from that space, doesn’t in fact belong to us, but runs through us as a result of accepting a lesser version of who we truly are.

563. I can feel the huge importance of making time to stop and feel in moments during the day so we can actually feel what we are choosing the impact it has on our body.

564. When I was young I recall noticing the difference between how the adults responded to a baby crying. Most shoved a dummy in the baby’s mouth, some even had sugary drinks that they would feed the baby, whilst there was one woman that made my heart sing, because she would stop for a bit and then would say something like “there is something wrong have you checked the baby’s nappy?” or “can’t you tell the she’s hungry”, or “he’s just had milk and needs to burp”. It was not the fact that she was invariably correct which impressed me but the fact that there was such delicateness, attention and honouring of the baby. There is great wisdom provided by our inherent connection with life around us if we but choose to stop and pay attention.

565. We can wait for scientists to test and possibly come up with a result that is not in the best interests of humanity but motivated by profit OR we can feel for ourselves what our body already knows.

566. It’s very interesting to consider a thought as a movement – this throws a whole different light on the importance of our movements and an understanding of the depths to which we can look at how we live our lives, if we are willing to go there.

     1. Thought as movement, or more precisely as the outflow of a chosen movement. It is a profound shift in how we might perceive life

567. I love the simplicity of your blog Leigh and the reminder of ability we all have to change the ‘quality of my thoughts’ simply by ‘addressing the quality of my movements.’

568. “If we were to eliminate the foods we react to for a period of time, we could then see and feel the results by feeling the effects in our bodies.” This process of discovery is such basic common sense that we do not do this, highlights the degree to which we are taught and coerced to override and ignore what our bodies are communicating.

569. Discerning the quality of our lives can become clearer once we start to realise the difference we can feel when we make some very small changes. EVERYTHING makes a difference and can affect our thoughts and feelings in an instant, from the way we breathe at rest to the way we move. I have found an openness of understanding of this makes a big difference to my thoughts and you have clarified this too Leigh.

570. ‘The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality…’ what a difference there is between this and the tests we have set for ourselves throughout society – passing school exams, driving tests, having a job, being in a relationship, having a family etc. we have created so many measures of us in life and totally negated to feel the quality in which we live.

571. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.” This is a powerful realisation Leigh, learning to re-progamme the quality of our movements definitely supports us to de-configure our unloving thoughts. Every thing we think is magnified in our bodies by the way we move. When we are not aware and paying attention, our movement becomes the end result of the thought. If we begin with observing and addressing our movements, we actually reverse the loop. Being tender, gentle, delicate in our movements starts to sow the seeds of tender, loving thinking. Although a challenge at first because of the momentum that is created, it does become easier to expose those moments when our thinking and movement goes hard and critical and so delivers us the incredible opportunity to observe why and then regain our true composure by re-imprinting the quality of our movements, re-affirming in our bodies and in our minds that we do love and cherish ourselves.

572. How true that we don’t just suddenly arrive at a certain result… there were steps and choices along the way that took us there. Needless to say, there are further choices and steps ever-available to us.

573. Thank-you Leigh for this great article. I love how you have explained the steps we can choose to reflect on as to how we came to the final choice that have lead to the feelings of disturbance within our body in some form, and that the quality of our movements affect everything we do and it all comes from the energy we choose to move in in the first place. “The basis of the test of life is to feel our quality, a quality we can choose by how we move in alignment with the energy that leads to one result or the other”.

574. Hi Leigh, I love the way you have offered and clarified the definition of Movement which historically has been a physical move by our body when it is in fact any shift of energy of our own making via physicality, thought, emotion, feeling etc. Allowing a ‘Stop’ to increase the truth-full detail of what is happening is the first step in changing those choices in our life that no longer serve us.

575. I am finding it so interesting to observe my own reactions/responses to chosen foods and the relationship this has with my movements, or rather the quality and awareness of my movements. One classic example that I have clocked over the past few years is that at the end of the day, if I was to plop or slouch in a comfortable chair and watch the television, before very long the urge to eat, before I can even think about the choice to do so, is there. One has to wonder where does this ‘urge’ come from – and why is it there only an hour after a meal – surely it cannot be true, one cannot be ‘hungry’ an hour after a meal. So one has to ponder where does this come from – it cannot be from the body, so what energy is entering the body to cause the decision to blindly look for a snack. As Serge Benhayon has presented, I am learning about the truth behind our every movement , the awareness of the quality of that movement, the resultant choice that follows and the feeling in the body. The body speaks so very clearly I have found..

576. To become your own scientist of you and your body is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. I know it but I often fight it because often I don’t want to ask myself (or theorise) on why this reaction happened or why I chose to do XYZ. But to think more like a scientist who is interested in why, without the emotional baggage/resistance, is a good way to look it.

577. Another test Leigh, I have just experienced a noticeable change in my attitude, having just eaten out at a cafe last night. Although Gf DF SF I can feel the experience energetically did not support me, and I am aware of a very critical narrative toward myself this morning. It’s subtle but I am aware of a change of quality and I shall move accordingly to support myself.

578. Studying the quality of our movement is not something we are encouraged to stop and consider very much, yet when we do it can bring about an enormous shift in the quality of our daily lives. I know that the best way to conserve my energy is to bring my awareness home to my every movement, to ensure I move with gentleness and, as much as I can possibly manage, to stay with my body and not let my mind dash off somewhere else to have a quick think about something that is not currently happening! There are still a lof of “Work in Progress” signs littered around the place, but I am noticing and appreciating the difference in my day, learning to stay present and drop those eternally draining agendas to be somewhere else, doing something different.

579. Leigh, it’s really helpful to read this, ‘Thus we are energy and can read the energetic quality in anything’, this helps me make sense of why we can read energy if we are actually made of energy, how can we not read it and so it is in fact very natural for us to read energy and to know which type of energy we are choosing.

580. To me this line holds a lot of Wisdom “But what if we don’t ‘grow out’ of being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction.”. This is not only with food, but is for many, many things in life. Living in a messy environment doesn’t support us, yet I’ve got the experience that I chose to live in such an environment for a long time. Communicating in a degrading way doesn’t support us, yet most of us override the fact that we’re actually poisoning our bodies every day with loads of words or silence that doesn’t support our body. And these are only 2 examples. Yet, there are many. As a society, a race we’ve become so good in overriding what we feel that we’re actually constantly masking the reactions, rather than being honest about the intolerances we hold. Discussing this would already be beneficial as we would learn and experience that we all do the same, instead of ignorantly thinking that we’re the only one with intolerances. Funnily said, we’re actually playing a competition – who’s the best in masking all the intolerances. Silly, yet very true and real. With an alarming rate of illness and disease as a clear indicator that something’s not so funny about this game.

581. This is a really important blog because it shares with us that we can be valuable contributors to medicine in our own lives. “By taking regular moments to stop we can find patterns and if there is a pattern of end results, then there is a pattern of steps leading to that end result.” This speaks to me of our choice and responsibility. It takes a commitment to choosing to take those regular ‘moments’ which once again comes back to what an important part of our own healing we are.

582. I’ve always been very sensitive to people’s way of being with me or within my direct environment. I’ve chosen to harden, protect and often fight before I could be hurt (again). Now I’m allowing myself to make a different choice. Allowing the sensitive man I am. That I am so often touched, that I do miss people, that I do care, that I do love and how emotional reactions can upset me. I’m using the tests of life to learn that I do have a choice and the final say in how I respond and if I allow myself to be touched. Choosing fragility and vulnerability as strengths and not something to react to. How amazing is life that it is able to teach me to be me in the most gracious way it does. Amazing, touching while I’m writing this.

583. I’ve got a great example of what you’ve shared here Bryony. This morning I was in a reaction, mentally trying to find some logical reason for my feelings spiral while having breakfast. So I stopped and changed my knife and fork into the opposite hands – spiral was gone. It was like experiencing the situation from a whole new angle that wasn’t my automatic judgemental inner commentary. I had to place more focus on the moment than in beating myself up. Simple but powerful!

584. “By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.” This is very true. When we slump in a chair, for example, the way that we start to think about life and ourselves is hugely different from the thoughts that come if we are sitting with our spine straight. We really ought to pay more attention to the importance of movement.

585. This reminds me that life is really an experiment – a constant way to work with our bodies, what they are saying to us, how we are feeling, and continue to honour what supports our bodies and each other. To live in this way is to continue to evolve all the time as we are simply responding to what is needed – no attachment to what we like or what seems good – it is simply about being open to constantly change what is needed. So a great example you share here is about feeling you cannot tolerate gluten, and then honouring it by choosing to no longer eat this. Very simple 🙂

586. Stopping to connect with and allow our body to inform us of what it’s needs are such a foreign concept to most people – me especially until a few years ago, thanks to Serge Benhayon. Whilst I am far from perfect, i know when my body is speaking and I can stop and respectfully listen to it or I can defiantly ignore it. Working with my body is far more honest than cheating on it.

587. When we make our decisions based energy first, our movements follow suit. How profoundly simple! Living this truth is our way back to the future!

588. I did not realize I was gluten intolerant until I gave it up and suddenly all sorts of symptoms that I thought were normal disappeared. I no longer was bloated, I didn’t feel heavy or drowsy after a meal and the fog in my brain lifted.

589. “ . . . the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.” I like how you express this Leigh. It’s true that we keep things in circulation by our movements just as if we were stirring water, and the momentum keeps the behaviour going and makes it harder for us to not do that same movement. Once we are aware of the energy we are in when we make a movement, be it a thought, a physical gesture, a conversation, we see we have a choice to make it harmonious or not.

590. But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?” This is a good question well worth pondering. If we are indeed masking the reaction it is going to show up at some stage in some form or other and perhaps in form that is more severe than the symptoms we are already ignoring. For example, if we ignore the first signs of a cold it can move to the chest and even develop into pneumonia.

591. Movements and choices, deeply profound but lovely simplicity in your blog Leigh.

592. Quite often it is the realisation that the body is feeling rushed or hard that the quality of the thoughts are highlighted – never will you find a super gentle or tender body being the result of hard and hurtful thoughts either to ourselves or towards others.

593. This is a great inspiration and brings a lightness to my body reading this and knowing that simply exploring ones movements and choices offers us the choice to see so much more and bring an understanding instead of repression to our lives. From here we can act and make our choices loving and harmonious.

594. ‘The quality of the experiments will vary, depending on how willing we are to be aware of what we are feeling.’ This is very true in my case Leigh. If we wish to experiment with our experiences and choices it is true that depending on the amount of openness and awareness we are willing to have will make an inordinate difference to the result. I have observed that I cap myself with self-observation as I put a barrier up to seeing the truth. Yet, I can fool myself into thinking I am doing well because I let myself observe the top layer rather than the 50 that are waiting to be discovered below. (This realisation itself is a great observation to appreciate myself more, as I self-experiment!)

595. I am finding, by taking pauses to listen to what messages there are from my body, I am discerning the messages more clearly. It’s so easy to eat when in truth we are thirsty, or to put the first thing our eyes see in the fridge into our mouths because we are hungry, without first feeling whether that is correct for the body’s needs. The little pauses give us a tiny stop to feel more clearly what supports us. I love how you bring the understanding about everything being energy first into movement and daily activity Leigh.

596. Well said Leigh, because we are essentially vessels for energy our thoughts are governed by the quality of our movements. So whilst we can try to change our thoughts or behaviours – without actually changing our movements nothing really changes and we end up repeating the same behaviour or a similar one. So rather than trying to stop an ill behaviour by changing our movements the behaviour is simply not there.

597. Deepening our connection to ourselves, through self awareness and daily reflections is a blessing, especially when practised without judgement, simply ahah, when we catch something we haven’t seen before. I sense a gentle unfoldment taking place within: layers of protection peeled back allowing me to see more of myself. I’m gratefully participating in the process, and see more clearly which long held patterns no longer serve me and must be discarded, like old skin.

598. I am going to work today and I am going to make a real effort to check the quality of my movements as much as I possibly can and check how they affect my thoughts.

599. This morning, I received an insight which simply said, ‘Feel before you move’. What I’ve observed in myself is that when I move without awareness and sensitivity, my movements are harsh, abrupt and reactive.

600. Understanding the effect on our movements on all that follows is profound in itself but fundamental to us understanding the choices that we make in every moment, the thoughts which come to us and the feeling we experience.

601. “A simple example at work is that having certain thoughts in my head leads to greater tension in the body, but this actually stems from how I move. I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts. The quality of my movements is important.” Wow, how true is this. I love what you are sharing here around thoughts we have in our heads, that this leads to a tension in the body, but we can move differently, this can change those thoughts, the quality of those movements being important.

602. What a beautiful chain of divine logic you have stepped out for us here Leigh, explaining so clearly the relationship between our bodies health and well-being and our movements, patterns and energy… and where we end up when we decide not to read what’s truly going on.

603. You’ve raised a key point Leigh – if you really observe humanity then it’s obvious who is moving in a way that causes their body to be contracted, racy, in hiding, hard, clumsy/messy and so forth, and if we read this then we can support other people to look at the way they walk and move. Also by moving in a way ourselves that’s different and opens us up and supports, rather than shuts us down, then this can provide a reflection for people to see how they’re truly choosing to move.

604. I loved the way you have introduced energy and movement in its simplicity, thank you Leigh!

605. ‘The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality, a quality we can choose by how we move in alignment with the energy that leads to one result or the other.’ As we build this relationship it becomes very distinct the qualities of movement we can choose. Right down to loving movements that open up a whole different way of living to reacting to life, which takes it to another direction that can lead to us being sick. In my experience my movements fluctuate through the day, but more and more the movements becoming more loving and thus my thoughts and life, there is a confidence and more at ease with myself and how i live. All from choosing the quality of energy.

606. Since i have been introduced to bringing awareness to movements as presented by Serge Benhayon, it has opened up a deeper world, where my choices are greater than i ever realised in my quality of being in life.
     Movement moves energy, what is the type of energy we are moving, as in every move it becomes magnified and affects not only our body, but our thoughts and emotions. As stated ‘creating the movements that magnifies the energy that allows those types of thoughts in the first place’.

     So if i walk in anger, every step will magnify that, and even lead to yelling at someone for the relief of the build up of tension. It is all energy. The anger is energy. Movement is energy.

607. “It simply requires us to stop for a moment to clock our body’s communication in response or reaction to this food.”. Could it be that our body communicates in this way if the choice of food we’ve taken is loving or not? Could it be this simple? Could it be that our body is actually our friend that supports us in a way that we’ve not been taught and told in life? What if this is true? What if we would re-turn to the natural relationship we could have with our body and allowing the support to navigate us in our evolutionary proces? What if…

608. I love the factual simplicity and it is this simple ‘It simply requires us to stop for a moment to clock our body’s communication in response or reaction to this food’. But since i have learnt to override what my body feels and on top of that not even trust my knowing, I have complicated it, doubting or questioning what i feel or even worse convincing myself i simply don’t know, so i don’t have to take responsibility. This is how i have lived. As i listen to my body’s communication more and allow it to be felt, i am developing a confidence in the health care of my body. Therefore feeling more vital and healthier than ever and not just physically, but mentally and emotionally, as feeling takes me deeper within.

609. Thank you Leigh for sharing and expressing your understanding and learning with how simple it is to make experiments, true experiments that anybody can do, and that are actually giving us very clear results. And yes, the question is, do we really want to know the results? Are we ready to make self-loving choices and to look at what patterns and ways of moving might not be supporting our health and vitality?

610. Food intolerances are quite simple – we eat, we get a reaction, we don’t, we don’t get that reaction. What makes it harder is that we miss that food – the comfort, the taste etc. Once we let the food go for a a while our body adjusts and we stop missing it and then we only notice the reaction and may then wonder why ever we ate that food?

611. I love this approach to life Leigh. Testing and refining, assessing the quality of how I feel in my body. Giving myself permission and accepting what I feel and then claiming this and living my life from this knowing. In doing this I know that I am living in accordance with that which truly supports me, and that which supports me will be different from that which supports others. I can’t write a best selling book about how to do it because there is no one size fits all – it will be different for each of us, and the experimenting allows me to discover what it is that is supportive for me.

612. This is gold and should be discussed with every child. Many patterns are subconsciously developed to hold us away from being in our power, but that fact is we choose it and we are the ones who can choose to move different!

613. ‘Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move. ‘ Such an important point Leigh. The way we move makes our thoughts – such food for thought.

614. Great question to ask whether it be in reaching for a certain food, coming home and automatically putting on the tv, using drugs or alcohol or going on social media ‘What do I avoid feeling by choosing to do this instead?’ What are we avoiding and not wanting to feel?

615. Your proposal to experiment with life and evaluate the results by the feelings in your body makes so much sense Leigh. Especially in a world that offers up such an endless string of conflicting advice on all matters to do with our health and wellbeing that you have no other way to know the truth but to closely observe yourself.

616. As a child I was often told that I wasn’t feeling what I told people that I was feeling; in other words others doubted what I was saying how I felt in my body. This is so often the case for children and the more they get told this, the more they doubt themselves about what they actually feel and hence we grow up in a world where very few people know what they truly feel anymore. The simplicity of this blog brings a new possibility for us all, that it is possible to learn how to feel again, and reconnect with what has always been there in our bodies – an inner knowing of what is true and what is not.

617. This is quite an amazing self study to do, where changing our movement and posture changes the configuration of energy we are in, which leads to a change of thought… It certainly shows us how ‘everything is energy and everything is because of energy’.

618. You make it all very simple, bring it back to the simplicity it is – we move in a certain way and that way has an effect which is then followed by another of the same ilk unless – we change the movement; and all because everything is because of energy (Serge Benhayon).

619. This is revolutionary Leigh, that our movements play a part in or determine our emotions, choices and even illnesses. It’s a fascinating experiment to conduct on yourself, and speaking from experience when focus is brought to movement it’s very exposing to see how flippant we can be with our bodies and what impact this can have under the surface.

620. There are patterns of thought I notice I go into that leads me to really examine why I allow them or perhaps what causes them. It is important to consider all the factors – not just what I was thinking but how I am holding myself, what I am feeding myself, what music I am listening to and what are my movements. So often we have isolated each influence, but we don’t do anything in isolation so it is really worthwhile to consider everything. So many of us seem to think that nothing we do or eat affects our thoughts, but more and more behaviour is improved by diet. We often think that diet is only implied in extreme cases of bad behaviour but I have found that there are things I can eat where I am irritated just slightly which in turn makes me slightly intolerant of small things affecting my relationships. Why would I have this irritation when I could be having a gorgeous day enjoying everything and everyone? It makes total sense to live in a way that brings us maximum joy.

621. You have revealed so much here Leigh. When we have more connection and deeper understanding that there is so much more that happens energetically BEFORE we eat or do something, we don’t have to do the roller coaster afterwards of beating ourselves up for ‘going off the rails’ or losing self control. When we can feel the energy of what has happened, we can change the future way of behaving through feeling it, not analysing it.

622. I spent much of my life ignoring symptoms, reactions and negative feelings in my body, especially as a result of eating certain foods like dairy, sugar and gluten, so it was not surprising that my health and my well-being suffered greatly. These days, after finally learning to listen to my body and its wise messages, I now ask the “What, Why, How” questions regularly, and if I am willing to listen, more often than not, the answer is there immediately; why would I want to ignore the wisdom of my body when my quality of life improves every time that I listen and act on that message?

623. ‘How do I feel after having that thought?’ Sometimes I feel racy, sometimes I feel anxious, it is amazing how just our thoughts affect our physiology. And then there’s how we move: yesterday my feet hurt and looking back, I can ask myself: How was I walking? You have listed some very simple questions that we can explore every day in order to develop a more tender way of being.

624. “But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?” Although never officially diagnosed I know that I have been extremely intolerant to dairy, gluten, sugar and more and it was something that I worked very hard at suppressing. I am often reminded of the children’s nursery rhyme, “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly” because that is how I lived, consuming substances that severely affected my energy levels and then seeking out the next antidote to pick me up, which in fact also had dire effects on my vitality. And so I would seesaw through my day experiencing a wide range of effects from immense drowsiness and lethargy in one moment to intense raciness in the next, as the gluten, caffeine, sugar, alcohol, dairy and chocolate all played out their varying chemical roles in my extremely sensitive, finely tuned divine piece of God’s creation, my body. Oh thank Heaven for going gluten and dairy free and from there allowing myself to observe the effects of all the things I consume and continue to refine. Feeling, observing, responding to what our bodies are telling us automatically leads to benefit from the well of innate vitality and health that simply flourishes when we begin to truly honour our bodies.

625. “Thus we are energy and can read the energetic quality in anything. So if we get bloated after eating gluten, we can say that we are experiencing the end result of a choice of the energy we chose to use as our fuel for our movements.” This is one of the most fundamental parts of life that we have been missing out on, that if every thing is energy and everything is because of energy and we are energy then we have the ability to read energy. One of the most powerful things I am learning is that how we move has an energetic quality and is the predecessor to everything that then happens in our lives. The more I bring an awareness to this, then the more I become aware of the energy I am choosing. This is a huge and vast subject and I love the way you have made it very practical and real Leigh.

626. Leigh, its great to come back to your article, this stands out for me, ‘I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts. The quality of my movements is important.’ Reading this previously has allowed me to experiment with this, before I sit down to eat I noticed that I often rushed to the table and sat down in the chair with a bump and that I would consequently then rush my food and be in my head thinking ‘Im hungry’ and eat as quickly as possibly not enjoying the food and so I have been stopping, standing up again and then tenderly sitting down with presence and then gently beginning to eat, I have noticed that I do not then rush and am present and enjoy my meal.

627. It’s a golden path to stop and become more aware of what’s truly going on during the day. Each not so harmonious moment that presents itself is such a stop sign where we have missed something and life gets pretty golden if we do stop and “read” the situation. It’s really simple once you give it a try.

628. Have we not become accustomed to avoiding those situation which could reveal to us the very choices that we make which have the effects that we find unwanted; most of the time we don’t want to be exposed for being the cause of all our own ills? Making small changes according what truly feels right for us and that is not looking to change us but simply confirm a connection we can feel inside us develops an openness and willingness to explore more of the what is not that we have chosen so as to experiment with possible changes to return to the what is.

629. Our every movement will determine the thoughts we have, if we want to change our thoughts we need to change the quality of our movements first. So simple yet so profound.

630. When I first started becoming more aware of what you have shared here it was very obvious – stop eating that thing that was clearly making me racy, dull, bloated, giving me cravings or whatever. Once I had eliminated whatever it was, understood what was making me want it and got over the addiction, the improvement in my health and well-being was so lovely that it soon became something I simply did not eat anymore and the next thing on the list was revealed. The same started to happen in other areas of my life such as emotional reactions, choice of what I wear, energy I ate in, how I opened and closed cupboard doors, the way I walked – EVERYTHING. This may sound overwhelming but actually it became quite fun living as my own personal scientist and the rewards are phenomenal. It is a beautiful way of living science, religion and philosophy in one as presented by Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness.

     1. The big difference for me in how I was able to make these changes and continue to live in this way was that I started doing it out of self-love and appreciation of the benefits and myself for making those choices. In the past when I dieted or tried to change a behaviour it was more from a should. These days I continue to bring this awareness to every area of my life. These days it is from love in addition to self-love as I have become aware of what a difference it makes to my interactions with everyone else when I am clear – so now it is about me and all others. There is so much that can be written on this subject, I could easily write a book not just a comment!

631. What an absolutely FANTASTIC blog – so jam packed full of practical and super valuable insights and tools. I have been bringing the awareness you describe to my way of living for many years now and the changes in my life have been phenomenal. There is no end point, it is an ever evolving 24/7 way of living and actually a lot of fun!

632. Our bodies are indeed a living science to observe and learn from. We can either cherish and behold them or override its innate wisdom for the arrogance of individualism.

633. I wonder about the quality or energy that we hold within our bodies that makes us seek out heavy foods such as gluten. What are we not trying to feel and expose?

634. It is so true Leigh that we have learned to over ride the bodies messages, to push through for the sake of achievements or getting things done or being polite even. For example, extreme sports such as deep diving have emerged where people train to override the bodies reflex to breath for the sake of?

635. What you describe Leigh is a totally different approach to eating and life, that is feeling into the energetic quality of our choices and movements rather than trying to wrangle life from our thought, ideals and beliefs.

636. Leigh you talk about the body’s communication, but we generally see the body as something purely functional and not intelligent – yet if it’s communicating to us it’s highly intelligent! I’ve gone through a huge learning curve since attending Universal Medicine presentations about this, starting out by having some care and attentiveness to how my body feels, to now really opening up to listen in many new ways to what my body is showing me. I tended to listen to it around diet but the truth is in every moment my body communicates something about every choice, thought and behaviour. The body is very supportive when it’s listened to, as it’s leading me back to true harmony, health and vitality.

637. By noticing how one’s body responds to the foods we eat is the best and most successful diet regime one can ever have.

638. “The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality …” And in this action alone lies a hundred thousand answers to our questions, issues and problems. All we need to do then is just to take a look back and ask oneself, “so what did I just do that has resulted in feeling like this?” We are the world’s biggest walking experiment, learning to observe our selves and feel the consequences of everything we do is the best scientific study we can ever undertake. Forget about getting to Mars, learning to feel the energy behind everything and how it affects our bodies is far more empowering; real science that produces very solid, repeatable, astounding results.

639. I love the practicality element of what you have shared, for if movement has the ability to change the state we are in, it is deeply empowering to know that our life and the quality we live in is therefore under our control…. if there is something we don’t like… we just move in a quality we would like to live and then watch it unfold in accordance to that. Very cool.

640. What you are suggesting here Leigh is to live a life in connection and exploration of who we are. I love to live my life like this, to see how different things and situations affect me, discovering what is supportive and what is not. The key for me is to trust what I know and feel, and not override this with what I would like to be true.

641. Your recounting of your early experiences with gluten Leigh and how they impacted you physically and behaviourally would seem to explain some of the difficulties other young (and older) people seem to experience. It seems though conventional medicine has been slow to embrace the fact that certain foods can have wider-reaching impacts on people – perhaps on all of us to varying degrees. This would be a piece of research worth embracing, a study on the potentially wide-ranging effects of gluten on people, and what happens to human health when it is eliminated.

642. Why do we choose to over-ride what occurs for us in terms of ill-bodily reactions? Your answer here Leigh is spot on: so we can appear to be doing life ‘normally’. And who knows, maybe we want to appear tough or not soft or ‘over-sensitive’ or whatever it is we think we need to be. Maybe we even become addicted to the very thing that causes us the ill-reaction. What a crazy situation this is. Isn’t it time we stopped and admitted that these things are doing us harm?

643. ‘…we are energy and can read the energetic quality in anything.’ Yes – and thus to choose to not read what’s going on is pure irresponsibility and denial of the simplicity and magic of a gift we have been given.

644. What a beautiful chain of divine logic you have stepped out for us here Leigh, explaining so clearly the relationship between our body’s health and well-being and our movements, patterns and energy… and where we end up when we decide not to read what’s truly going on.

645. In the over-riding of the innate information we have i.e. reacting to gluten, surely we need to move in a way to deny what is there to be revealed. So where does this source of energy come from to over ride the truth? It’s not possible it comes from the same source.

646. So what you’re saying Leigh is rather than work on the behaviours we don’t like, work on the way we move so those behaviours change… Sounds like something work experimenting with!

647. I love the fact that we are our own living experiment and that we actually are allowed to choose for ourselves what is truly good for our bodies and what is not – I say actually allowed because for far too long I had given my power away to doctors or health care professionals, believing that they would know my body better than me.

648. What you are proposing here Leigh makes a lot of sense and I have experienced very similar effects with my thoughts being controlled by different types of movements and choices throughout the day. This then brings up the question of ‘If the quality of our thoughts change with the quality of our movements, then where do our thoughts really come from?’ To me, it’s as if we are literally ‘tuning’ our body like it is a radio tuning into a specific frequency (or thought) by controlling the movements of our body and their quality (say, gentleness vs. harshness), and thus the thoughts do not originate from our brain, but our brain is the processor of the incoming energy (or frequency).

649. I absolutely love the simplicity that you’re sharing here with us Leigh. If we dare to ask ourselves the right questions and listen to our bodies (!!), life will teach us exactly what supports us and doesn’t. That’s no rocket science, yet holds a depth of Wisdom that can only be known, once chosen to live.

650. So very clear and simply expressed Leigh, and making such good sense. So many of us have overridden the messages from our bodies as soon as we begin to be influenced by those around us and wanting to fit in. Being out of touch with the body means being unaware of the way we move, so even that skill is buried. But it is all there waiting to be rediscovered and only needs us to pause and breathe and feel. Beginning with the movement of the breath is a wonderful way in, for every part of the body moves with that rhythmic pulse.

651. ‘By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.’ I often have critical thoughts of myself and others which I know from experience I can stop by saying ‘no – not listening’ when they come up, but to only use my mind to make a different choice (although works in that moment and is an important part of making changes) is to miss out on the vast support that changes in my movements has. Focusing on movements as well as lovingly stopping critical thoughts feels to me to be the way to bring true lasting change to the quality of our thoughts. Thank you Leigh for your brilliantly clear and practical presentation of this in action.

652. I’ve just read this blog again – with deeper consideration and attention to my movements as I did so than when I read it the first time – and the difference is profound. The first time I got a little lost in the words, trying to understand it, whereas the 2nd time (a different day), I made a conscious choice to feel what I was reading and so have been blessed with the wisdom that lies within the words. That we are the key-holders of our own destiny is of absolutely no doubt. If we want to change the outcome, we simply need to pay attention and change our movements as Leigh has so brilliantly expressed.

     1. Beautiful sharing Lucy, how you just made that experiment, and I can feel the truth of what you are sharing. Thank you.

653. Serge Benhayon has presented for many years that ‘Our bodies are the marker of all truth’. Every choice we make by energetic law has to come in and through us – stopping and feeling what quality of energy we are choosing makes a lot of sense since it lives with us continually as every nano second we are making choices as to which energy we are choosing and the quality our body is going to be in.

654. “So in the everyday situations it can look like this: taking stops and pauses during or after situations to feel the reactions or responses in the body.” Psychology must be accompanied with the body as a lived experience by either the practitioner and/or the client and not used as mind ‘case studied’ technique that runs for a solution. We can be our own practitioner in life and work most things out ourselves or we can fall for the bombardment of the many who have not chosen it and continue to not choose it and then accept the bombardment as our own.

655. Your example, Leigh of food is a tangible one to introduce the concept of action and movement having a direct impact on the body. There are many, many examples and choices we make daily that impact the body and our health in some way. We can be our own experiment in every area of life.

     1. So true Rachel it can be applied to pretty much all of life. Other areas I have experienced are the tone of my voice or the way I walk especially. One can be rushed and fast and my mind matches, I can walk in overwhelm and tears OR I can walk tall and open, I can walk with a freeness in my hips and this leads to feeling content and confident in myself.

656. The fact that we can use our life to learn from and evolve is a blessing in itself. What we learn from it is determined by our willingness to take part in this never ending experiment.

657. This test of life you share Leigh makes so much sense, but in order to test ourselves in the way you share takes an openness and commitment to seeing what is there and what we are holding on to. I love how you share how natural it is for you to do this. This is super inspiring.

658. Brilliant article Leigh. You make it sound so simple and it is. It takes dedication and devotion, but not to any outside organisation, religion or teacher but to ourselves. Dedication to deepening our awareness and responding to what we become aware of with a loving choice. Being aware of the quality of our movements means feeling how we are with ourselves and treat ourselves , our bodies and how we literally make our movements, abruptly and harshly or harmoniously.

     1. I agree Elaine, this blog really brings home the responsibility of true self-awareness and self-examination we have; self-examination of what moves and motivates us every moment of the day. Leigh’s dedication and commitment to this is very inspiring indeed.

659. “By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts”.
     I am so much more aware of the quality of my movements and the link back to my thoughts -it is such a great tool for understanding life and how it can get complicated.

660. ‘What is the energy we are choosing that leads to the movements?’ such an important question to keep asking ourselves as we can make this choice in every single moment and from one movement leading to the choice leading to the next it all starts from an energetic choice.

661. You say you grew out of being gluten intolerant. And it works the other way. The tastes that we grow in to. What child likes the taste of coffee, alcohol or cigarettes?

     1. I’ve seen a video on YouTube where a bunch of kids were given coffee, almost all of them hated it or refused the drink. And yet as adults it’s second to oil in global trade. What happens to us then, whereby we reach a point that the innocence and sensitivity that we are born with says coffee or other ill substances are disgusting, but a part of us is willing to put up with, accept and champion as normal in order to keep going the way it is?

        1. That said Leigh, I am seeing more and more kids drinking coffee. Truly! It’s amazing. Kids under the age of ten drinking huge coffees or expresso’s or whatever. Amazing to me because like you say, as a kid the taste of it was so repellent to me. So what is going on? Is it possible that our children are now living with similar levels of exhaustion as the adults, thus they too need a daily injection of this drug to get through the day?? Where are we heading??

662. Such profoundly simple yet powerful and pin-point accurate “tests” make one question the zillions of dollars spent on medical research. Is it possible that we are looking in the wrong direction?

     1. Great point Otto; so much money is spent on double blinded etc research, and what’s the outcome? Cancer is still increasing at an alarming rate….. If we as a humanity were ready to take responsibility and find the truth, the real cause for our cancers, I’m sure it would be found. But for now. for a long time, most of us are happy with finding solutions and fixes. That’s what we are good at, but is it serving us? Is our quality of life truly improving, or are we just getting by… Leigh’s blog is ground breaking, bringing back a reality and simplicity; listening to our body. This is a true way of finding out for ourselves if the choices we make are for getting by or for living a truly full life.

        1. Solutions prevent us from having to take responsibility. I am so guilty of this. I used to be so darn quick and good at finding solutions. Now, I am much, much better at pausing and looking at what has really happened before leaping all over various ways to fix it.

663. We are the greatest experiment ever. With all testing, a bell curve of results from the findings can be produced. Usually, the ends are discarded as not important. But what if, rare as it may be, a small group of us at one of the ends of that bell curve, that feels and listens to our bodies is what the whole graph should be. It is a work in progress!

664. Looking at history it seems for a long time humanity has chosen to invest the power of religious authority to a selected few, was satisfied to hear whatever was preached without discerning whether it made sense or was in fact true and this provided an excuse to not be responsible for its own understanding and deepening relationship with divinity.
     Also it seems for a long time humanity has chosen to invest the power of scientific authority to a selected few, has been satisfied to hear whatever is fed to us without discerning whether it makes sense or is in fact true and this is used as an excuse to not be responsible for our own understanding and deepening relationship with our body and the wisdom it provides.

665. Associating how we feel with what we’ve just eaten, seems simple enough but ignored by many. It has become a norm to eat until we are full, then feel sleepy, and feel the need to sleep off the over-eating. In the world of training and group work, the first session after lunch is known as the ‘grave yard slot’ when people feel sleepy, have low energy and attention lapses. And yet another choice is to have a lighter lunch and one that re-energises, not saps energy.

666. Leigh your blog is really needed as you offered such a wonderful explanation why we should be more aware with our bodies: “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.”

667. Thank you Leigh for clearly defining how every choice we make comes from a movement from the energy we have chosen. Today I got quite upset and frustrated about something and at the time could not see a way out of feeling like this… until I stopped and came back to my movements instead of the issue that kept running in my head. I focused on moving in a way that was gentle and watched my thoughts change. And because of this, I was then able to look on at the issue with fresh eyes and without the emotions and see in fact it wasn’t an issue at all!

668. A great thought provoking blog Leigh. It is true we look first outside ourselves for the answer first quite often. But it always comes back to our way of living and self nurture or lack of.

669. The relationship of the way we move, and what makes us move in that way is an enormous paradigm shift in the consideration of what causes illness and disease. This will turn Medicine upside down at some stage Leigh as it is the only way we will eventually begin to address the overwhelming rates of illness and disease everywhere.

670. What you’ve introduced here is very key too… the fact that we need to study our movements and what it is we have chosen prior that is impulsing these movements.

671. What you’ve offered here Leigh is the only way we can truly discern if something is right for us or not. For so many years I have stopped prescribing diets for people in my work, even though many ask me to do so. It simply doesn’t work to try applying something that has been constructed from a theory or for the masses. We have to discern for ourselves and it has to be based on how our bodies respond, and on our ability to know whether something truly supports us or not.

672. When you are driving and have cars tailgate you or cut infront of you abruptly it feels very threatening and dishonouring. You can’t but help reacting or feeling annoyed, angry and stressed. This shows no respect for each other or humanity. However, when we obey the speed limit and drive calmly we are able to feel the spaciousness in our whole body and the flow of the traffic is more harmonious and considerate of others on the road.

673. It is so easy to blame our work, the people we work with, our shoes, for our feet being tired from working when in fact it always comes back to us and the quality we are choosing to live – not only at work but in our whole life.

674. Reading your blog has been very timely as my feet have also been aching at the end of a days work… so what quality have I been walking in that day, and most importantly why!

675. Great questions Leigh in pausing to stop and look at our reactions or responses… and the fact that we always have a choice – we can choose to react or respond in the next moment.

676. “even though we may have a bodily reaction, we have been taught how to override these messages, so we can eat ‘normally’ and appear to be normal.” crazy but true, that we put the need to not stand out above our own health and wellbeing. I know I’ve certainly done this – in fact it wasn’t so long ago in the grander scheme of things that I chose to not know I could listen to and respond to what my body was telling me.

677. Great blog Leigh breaking down the cause and affect of our movements and choices. It brings simplicity and responsibility to before, during and after the movement. As you say, the more you make loving movements for yourself the more the other harmful ones fade away and completley drop out of circulation.

678. This is a profound blog Leigh. If we look and address our lives, relationships, issues, behaviours and choices through movements then the game well and truly changes – instead of simply band-aiding a problem or trying to make an area of our life look ‘better’, we can work to change the movements that initially caused the chain-reaction process that caused the end result of that situation/relationship. This makes life a science rather than something to ‘cope’ with.

679. Developing a relationship with evolving and change was so foreign to me there were so many beliefs I had that were about being better and right and wrong that I had tied myself up into a place a misery, I have learnt that I am so much more, working with my body rather than against it opens up endless possibilities.

680. We are imposed upon so early in life but the wisdom of the body and it’s communications that offer the fact that there is another choice. There is always free will so it is up to us to look deeper to unearth the truth that is there.

681. Yes I agree Leigh our movements determine our thoughts and actions. Knowing this brings greater responsibility to the way we move; whether it be typing this comment or walking down the street we are choosing how to be either with our self or against our self and this choice in turn affects everything and everyone.

682. “Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.” l love the clarity and instruction in your blog Leigh. You spell it out so clearly and simply. This feels true to me. This is possible and l know will improve my quality of life.

683. Living at the expense of our bodies wisdom leads to a crippling and a false current to run us with each and every choice. Before we know it we are a long way from the beauty and natural harmony we would otherwise live our bodies with.

684. Simple science as you lovingly share – there is no greater evidence than our own bodies and knowing and evidence based medicine need one day accept the living authority of man to know one’s own body.

685. “Since I have eliminated gluten (and also dairy and sugar) from my diet, I have found that my energy levels, general health and wellbeing have increased.” l agree Leigh, l too have experienced this to a degree with gluten and dairy,. Sugar is next to go. l find doing the elimination gradually has enabled it to be more lasting for me.

686. “Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies. So even though we may have a bodily reaction, we have been taught how to override these messages, so we can eat ‘normally’ and appear to be normal.”The override and ignore button is all too prevalent in our lives.

687. ‘Harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts” – gentle movements and presence lead to the possibility of a change in our thinking and our behaviour, all very simple and eminently doable. Is it too simple for us, do we prefer the complications and formulas, the so-called expert solutions when our body is the expert and says it all?

688. I love how you have described our food choices affect our quality, and if we choose cakes and foods that are heavy, then our body is going to feel heavy and dull. It is us who have to make the choices of movement to support the body to feel light.

689. Great blog Leigh. Our bodies are always guiding us and showing us our choices and movements, supporting us with our awareness. Serge Benhayon’s presentations give me an ever deepening understanding and awareness of my body, what it has been telling me for years, and the choices I make. So now I listen and learn from it making choices that are loving and tender which as you say involve a different way of movement, such wisdom comes from our bodies. Thank you .

690. The way our bodies show what is the consequence of our choices is truly divine, when we truly accept it for the support that it is we can see that all we want to change comes from how we move. Living true to our body ensures an harmonious way of living.

691. It is curious that we put so much value in learning about the furthest places in the Universe, attempting space travel, trying to photograph other planets, looking for intelligence outside of our own universe – yet – we have made it an art to ignore and override the wisdom provided by our own body and our own life to an extent that despite medical advances illness and disease is escalating at an alarming rate. What are we doing looking out for intelligence when we are not being that intelligent ourself?

     1. Golnaz so true. I would add this, deepening our understanding of the intricacies and wisdom of our amazing bodies en-riches our lives beyond imagination.

692. Our bodies are an amazing science in themselves, a science that is worth getting to know.

693. “I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts.” – great insight Leigh. It makes a lot of sense that to move in a way that is gentle and not jarring to the body is going to result in more of the same by way of other movements, thoughts and behaviours.

694. I love the practical examples you have shared.

695. If I go into drive to complete my list of tasks before leaving my workplace I then feel tired and cannot wait to get home and choose my comfort foods and turn on the television. However, if I move at a natural pace until there is a sense that the day’s work is complete, I feel alive and vital and there is no push or need to get home and collapse.

696. This is a wonderful reminder of the true purpose of life.

697. Life and how we are in it as a result of our choices, our movements, everything is really one big experiment that is continuously helping us to learn and evolve.

698. ‘If we were to eliminate the foods we react to for a period of time, we could then see and feel the results by feeling the effects in our bodies.
     Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies. So even though we may have a bodily reaction, we have been taught how to override these messages, so we can eat ‘normally’ and appear to be normal.’ – It is crazy how we learn to work against our own body at a very early age – I have seen parents who are forcing their kids to drink milk for example or punishing them if they refuse, all because they want to do good. We have no idea how this may affect the child later in life, both physically and mentally/emotionally.

699. It is true – when we choose to move in a more gentle and conscious way, the actions that follow are naturally more loving and the negative thoughts become less and less because they are not re-circulated, all due to the change of energy.

700. “Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies.” Umm so true Leigh, we still prefer to live in the ignorance of not listening to our body, if we did it would expose how we are really living and accepting things that are not really true in our lives.

701. I love what you have presented here Leigh. A very practical understanding of how our movements affect how we are, both mentally and physically. It is so easy to move in ways that we have always moved without giving it any attention, and then our movements gradually change as our bodies take on certain physical disorders, however minor, in order to compensate. A great reminder and one that I shall be taking more even consciously into my day, thank you.

702. Leigh you bring another dimension to life, one that is not about beating another but about evolving first ourselves and then showing that possibility to all others. There is a real sense of personal responsibility as just because we can buy a product or its advertised as being good for us does not mean it is, it is our choice to listen to how our body feels and then take that forward with us or not. The same goes for every aspect of life. I also love how you stress the importance of the movements we make being what is key, as it is that quality that affects everything about the next moment.

703. Whenever I get confused about the next step then I know that moving gently or taking some very gentle breaths and feeling my whole body is a very practical way to change the movements I am in. This is a great tool to have at our disposal and I love the way you have explained it all here Leigh, the cause and effect of our choice of movements and where this can lead us with regards to our lifestyles.

704. Since meeting Universal Medicine, I have been introduced to a whole new body of scientific study that I was previously un-aware of and had no interest in either. The body is my body and the scientific study is observing how my body reacts or responds to the way I live, the quality of my choices and my movements. It has been and will continue to be the most empowering vehicle of change I have ever encountered as the more I clean up my act, the more I can feel just how sensitive and powerful my body truly is. Thank you Leigh for making it so clear that the quality and choice of our movements underpins our health and by taking responsibility for our movements we are able to resume responsibility for our well being.

705. In my experience, taking the time to pause and reflect on our feelings and experiences is key to learning from and evolving in life. If we don’t do so, are we just condemning ourselves to repeating patterns of life that are creating exhaustion, disharmony, disease et al?

706. This is a lovely blog Leigh Matson thank you. I love the pure simplicity of understanding the relationship between our choices and our experiences, how we move and how we think. I was once taught something called the thought / feeling / actions pyramid but question that now. Where does it all begin in truth? With thoughts, with movements, with choices??? Worth some personal exploration to discover this one I feel.

707. When we strip away the conditioning we have taken on and come at this subject afresh, the image of us overriding the messages of our bodies is bizarre. Like tasting something for the first time and clearly not liking it but persisting until we acquire a taste for it – see http://everydaylivingness.com/acquired-taste/. Why would we do that? We have learned to ignore the wisdom of our bodies and ‘reap the rewards’ of so doing – such as bloating, nausea, reduced energy levels – if not more serious conditions. I feel that our bodies are wonderful things, innately harmonious and therefore full of wisdom and that when we work with this wisdom rather than override it – we reap different ‘rewards’ that support a more self-loving way of being.

708. I know I overrode the effects of alcohol on my body for years simply to fit in and do something that was socially acceptable and encouraged and that everyone else was doing. I remember my first test of beer and wine and my first impression was that it tasted disgusting and very strong and poisonous! I gradually learnt to over-ride this and eventually I used to say that I enjoyed drinking. It would be more honest to say that I needed it to get through life. I thought there was something wrong with me so it was so refreshing an a relief when I first heard Serge Benhayon present on the energetic effect of alcohol as it confirmed what I had been feeling all along but had doubted.

709. A beautiful sharing Leigh bringing understanding to our energy, thoughts and movements and how this effects our whole body , health and well being. The simplicity of choosing what we eat and feeling its effects on our body and the honouring of the results of this is amazing and truly transformational.

710. It is revolutionary to understand that all illness and disease comes from a choice of energy first and then is magnified through the quality of how we move. There is so much being thrown at changing people’s choices and behaviours from a mental perspective but this is missing the first step in my opinion and experience, the choice of energy that we are allowing in our bodies which feeds the thoughts and then the behaviours.

711. When we live with ourselves, as you describe Leigh, we are living in harmony not only with ourselves but in fact with the Universe. How gorgeous is that?

712. “Unfortunately, we live in a world where we are taught to override and ignore these reactions, or messages from our bodies.” As you so beautifully share, Leigh, what a difference our life is when we do not override our body’s communications and so what a different world there will be when we are no longer to override this communication but instead taught to honour it.

713. I also feel how beautiful it becomes when we bring lightness and playfulness to our life experiments.

714. My body as a living laboratory and constantly reveals to me, through my movements, the energy I’m choosing. Am I moving towards love and Godliness or away from it? And if it is away from love, what lies behind my choice to move in this way? These are questions to ask myself and ponder on. What I am feeling right now is humility as I truly feel what I am being shown about myself. With humility deepens awareness and brings a new sense of purpose.

715. Making ourselves our own living experiment took some getting used to at first, but now it makes perfect sense because we become more and more familiar with what our bodies can and can not handle, especially where food is concerned. Then regardless of what allergy tests do or do not tell us we know from our own authority what is true for us.

716. The more I choose to live in a loving way the more my subsequent movements support me to continue making loving choices.

717. ‘Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.’ Thank you for this super supportive blog Leigh and the idea of approaching life and any changes we might wish to make in an experimental way. What you reveal about how we need to track it back and observe the movements leading up to our choice to override our bodies is massive and would revolutionise the way doctors approach diagnosing and treating illnesses and also provides the key to unlocking the dilemma of our current obesity crisis.

718. ‘The basis of the test of life is to stop and feel our quality, a quality we can choose by how we move in alignment with the energy that leads to one result or the other.’ This is very true, first reconnect and know our true quality and then discern on how it is affected by our choices and movement from there.

719. Connection with ourselves is crucial in order to feel the truth our body shares with us and stop overriding it.

720. The terrific and simple way of how our movement affects every choice we make.

721. Our body and our mind when partnered together as you have so brilliantly described Leigh, know harmony and truth.

722. I can fee what you say Leigh, we always have to look several steps back to find how we have come to the end result we are in. It is not simply from that thought of eating a type of food but it is our whole way of being up to that point where we make the daily choices in life and end up with.

723. There is much to consider in this piece of writing Leigh. Thank you.

724. Stopping unloving behaviours and patterns is a powerful message in your blog Leigh, thank you for sharing your experiences knowledge and wisdom;
     “So in the everyday situations it can look like this: taking stops and pauses during or after situations to feel the reactions or responses in the body’. The responsibility is ours to put this into practise.

725. great blog! When we move in a certain way we emanate a quality of energy which gives us certain thoughts, and then moving in a different way gives us different thoughts, if we ever have unloving thoughts or reactions, it is wise to track how we have been moving lately.

726. Life is a constant experiment or for better words a constant unfoldment.

727. We all have the power to experiment, in a real living way, the benefits of this inquisitive nature can be incredible. We think that we can handle things but if you clear the bodies slate, it will give you a message loud and clear. If you stop eating sugar for a couple of weeks, your body will flip out when its reintroduced.

728. It is great how you share the sequence of events that cause the thoughts, then the movements and choices… The consequence of energy that we choose consciously or unconsciously…

729. Testing is very difficult when we don’t want to know the answer!

730. It’s scary how easily we are able to override what our bodies are telling us. I’ve been a master at it all my life. The more I become aware of it, the more I learn just how delicate and gentle it is. The pushing it to do more, forcing it to stay awake, over stuffing it with food and comparing it to others is just absolute torture for the vehicle we live in every single day.

731. So much to consider once we realise that our movements are dictating our choices. The responsibility we each have for how we deal with our reactions to daily life is quite huge and is the foundation for how we are with each other.

732. Our movements magnify the energy we have chosen, so it makes a lot of sense that when we choose to move in a more loving way then our thoughts will become more loving too.

     1. ‘Our movements magnify the energy we have chosen’ Powerfully expressed Paula, thank you.

733. Thank you for the reminder to be aware of our movements and how the energy we move in will bring the thoughts we then act on. So often we think of how we move as how we get from A to B – walking or running, but what you share here brings so much more awareness to the details of our every movement and what is driving that movement i.e. the energy we have chosen before we even move.

734. What you share here Leigh brings so much more awareness to every detail of our lives. As a society we have become masters at overriding what we feel, and what you present is a very loving way of bringing awareness to everything – our thoughts, our movements, the energy we choose in every moment.

735. Thank you Leigh for a great blog setting out how our thoughts energy and movement effect our lives, time to stop and just feel in our bodies the quality of the movement we have been moving in.

736. “The quality of the experiments will vary, depending on how willing we are to be aware of what we are feeling.” So true Leigh… our willingness to be aware is key. If we truly want to be aware of all the details of our life then we need to be willing to feel the results of our every choice.

737. On many levels we seem to adapt and accept less vitality as a normal. So many people live in state a perpetual exhaustion, and use food and caffeine to get through the day in this state.

738. When we bring awareness to the quality of our movements we then are empowered to know the truth to what we are choosing, through which we can in the very next moment choose to continue or change the energy that we are surrendering to.

739. I love what you are sharing here Leigh, how choosing to be aware of the quality of our movements leads us to be aware of the choices we make through what energy we are choosing to surrender to. As whatever it is that we choose, we then move and magnify through our bodies. And hence why our relationship with our bodies is what offers us the opportunity to know the truth of the energy that we have chosen in any moment.

740. What is being shared is evolutionary and simple in its awareness: the quality of our movements preempts what is our next choice which will be reflected in our well being and health.

741. It is so true Leigh that we as a society learn to cope, manage and put up with conditions that present in our body so we can continue with our lifestyles to eat, drink and behave like everyone else, and this is considered normal. These ’conditions’ that we learn to exist with are in fact truth from our bodies that we have overridden and ignored, messages reflecting how we are choosing to live and if our choices have us moving in a way that supports our well-being and vitality, which is our natural state of being, or not.

742. For many years I had noticed how I had bloated and dulled from consuming certain foods and drinks. However I continued to consume them even though I knew that made me feel unwell. It wasn’t until I felt so uncomfortable in my body that I decided to make changes to what I was eating and pay closer attention to how my body reacted or responded to foods. When I chose to omit certain foods from my diet that made me feel unwell, within weeks I would feel a huge change in my body with less heaviness, more vitality and clarity. Yet I was not able to hold this honoring that I had come to and soon slipped back into same old patterns of eating. It wasn’t until I began attending Universal Medicine presentations that I was inspired to commit to explore and deepen a loving relationship with my body, which through understanding that my choices are an end result of an energy that I have surrendered to, I now pay full attention to how my body feels which supports me to live and move in a way that brings far more consistent vitality, clarity and well-being to my every day.

743. Leigh you have written such an inspirational blog and one that is very needed as we look at how illness and disease are on the rise. We have to look at the root cause and this starts with energy and how this plays out in our body. By reading your blog today l have even more focus on all my movements and the quality I choose.

744. ‘Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move.’ I agree. We tend to believe we can think our way out of behaviours, by repeating mantras to brainwash ourselves with new thought patterns and therefore change behaviours. What a wonderful way to experiment with the way we move.

745. It’s fascinating Leigh that you have observed certain movements lead to you having certain thoughts. This has inspired me to pay more attention to my thoughts and the movements that come before them. How amazing that by changing my movement, I can change my thoughts. Very powerful.

746. Leigh your blog is so very practical and makes a lot of sense.

747. ‘If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.’ – I can certainly relate to this, just the slightest little change in the way I move can make a huge difference in how I feel.

     1. Yes, initially it requires courage but I soon learnt that the benefits far outweigh any initial discomfort.

748. Brilliant Leigh – the energy we choose determines our quality of being.

749. I love how you have explored movement Leigh. I don’t know how often I just think of movement as how I walk, but it’s so much more than this. Everything is movement and everything is moving constantly. I have been working on patterns of my eating and exploring if I do feel hungry. This also has its origins in how I move.

750. Leigh you have inspired me to really monitor my movements more closely today and to clock what thoughts enter as a result and how this makes me feel! Thank you!

751. i love your super honesty and directness Leigh. Yes it is surprising how much we over ride our bodies’ signals. I remember in my late 20s/early 30s finding a chicken topped pizza from the supermarket that I liked to eat occasionally because of the flavour. It was easy because I wouldn’t have to cook when I was tired – just put it in the oven, but my stomach would always feel uncomfortable and bloated after eating it. I dismissed this and didn’t pay much attention to it – but there were some very clear signals being communicated. As far as the energy I was choosing and the way I was moving my body was concerned, clearly there was an element of given up-ness and exhaustion!

752. The energy that we move in guarentees that we will have certain thoughts, these thoughts in turn guarentee that we will move in a certain way and so around it goes.

753. Leigh what you have presented will, over time, transform all forms of therapy. Rather than lying on the couch in a therapists room we will be walking around the building with them, becoming conscious of how we move and understanding that it is the way that we move that governs the quality of our thoughts. What this highlights, is why people get stuck in therapy for years, never really feeling that they are getting anywhere.

     1. I agree Alexis, this is the medicine of the future but available to all of us here and now.

754. Leigh a great article explaining the link between how we move and the quality of life that then ensues. Currently these facts are the known experience of only a few but will, in time, become common knowledge and will transform every facet of our society.

755. Beautiful blog that inspires me to be more aware of my movements. Thank you!

756. “Stopping our unloving behaviours cannot happen from thought-power alone, it has to come from the body and how we move. ” It keeps coming back to the body doesn’t it, and listening intently to the messages it gives us and moving in such a way that it feels heard. An ongoing unfolding and very rewarding process when engaged in, in a loving and gentle manner.

757. A very sobering point here Leigh, that our movements either lead us to health and true well-being, or towards illness and disease – The Science of Movement is clearly worth exploring and fundamental to the quality of the world we live in, thank you Serge Benhayon for presenting it.

758. Moving in a gentle, loving way with myself feels totally different in my body than moving harshly or abruptly, therefore I always have a marker that tells me what energy I am choosing – the quality of our movements give us the life we experience.

759. Leigh you have brought a much needed practical clarity to the cycle of choices we have in each moment – living life like this takes great openness & commitment for we have become pretty mastered at masking the bodies true reaction. We become our own laboratory, a grand opportunity to observe these tests of life and return to a truer, richer way to be.

760. “So even though we may have a bodily reaction, we have been taught how to override these messages, so we can eat ‘normally’ and appear to be normal.” As a society we really need to wake up to how insipid this normal is and how devastating its impact is, for as soon as we begin to look outside for a measure of our normal we have turned our back on the greatest barometer we have, connection with our innermost.

761. ‘By addressing the quality of my movements, I’m addressing the quality of my thoughts’ – It is the simplicity of what you present that makes it so accessible, if I change how I move in a way that is more gentle and honouring of the delicateness of me as a woman then my thoughts reflect the quality I am in. It makes so much sense, the two are intrinsically linked.

762. This seriously is not rocket science, so it really defies belief that the whole of mankind hasn’t been practicing these simple steps from the beginning of time, it just goes to show there is more at play than simple logic.

763. The big issue for me is not to override these signals from my body! Having made many positive changes in my life there are still a few that need to be looked at honestly and lovingly, changes I can only choose to make and be responsible for.

764. So much clarity in what you have written Leigh, I’m learning to love stop moments as they are becoming part of a foundation that keeps on bringing me back to me.

765. What I am finding since writing this and with the support of others is that while we get trained from young to react to our feelings – thus see them as something to reject, ignore, or create the opposite of – we can un-train ourselves to react to our awareness of what our bodies are communicating. Asking myself ‘What if’ questions in relation to my end experiences or asking ‘How does my body feel to respond?’ to situations has been a huge support. Most recently in regards to when I react, the body becomes tense or heightened into a state of anxiousness or a situation doesn’t go the way I wanted it to saying to myself ‘That’s interesting’ puts the breaks on the unloving movements and allows me to stop and reassess and look at the situation before me in another way.

766. Love this Leigh “By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.” Some while back now I was having harsh thoughts and from experience I knew that I would just spiral deeper and deeper, but then I stopped and started to move very gently bending my knees from side to side and instantly my thoughts changed – it was like night and day, that simple.

767. Beautifully explained Leigh, I really loved reading this and can see how clearly the link is there between moving without consideration of myself and how this will impact on the thoughts that then come into my head. To take it further as you did and relate it to illness and disease is a great step as it allows us all to look more deeply at how movement affects our health on the bigger scale in the longer term.

768. I love this last line, Leigh – “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives.” It is wonderful to feel how self responsibility can be so simple, and how bringing focus to the body and the quality of our movements can be life changing.

769. How I move continues to develop, someone observed I was extremely graceful recently. I learnt two things in this situation,1. that I had not been appreciating the depth to which I had been choosing to use my body differently and 2. how much this has been supporting me to make different choices when it comes to moods, food, reactions to situations. Then I reflected that I was aware that I was so much more graceful, gentle and aware of my movements than I used to be. I literally used throw myself down a sofa or chair, bang myself regularly into things and have bruises. These choices are different and I am much more caring with myself, this has enabled me to be more caring with myself and others generally, and so our movements, in what ever way make a huge difference to the choices we make.

770. I over rode my feelings when it came to food I ate, and I some time still do. I spent years with bloating, aches, pains, digestive issues, that I told myself where normal, and know I am not alone, because after a heavy meal, if someone was sharing it with me, they would feel the same way and we would all have a rest on the sofa to try and recover…I still some times over eat or eat food that is not supportive, but it is to lesser degree and you are unlikely to find me in a comatose state on the sofa. My health has significantly improved since I began to pay attention to what I truly felt, rather than what I told myself was just normal. These pains, acts, skin rashes, wind etc may be inconvenient for some, but they are a blessing in truth, they are telling us something needs to change.

771. Leigh this is great, I love how you share the test of life with us. Whilst I’ve also had many similar experiences I can really see how we make life about masking, coping and covering up rather than about the quality of movements we have. In many ways what you share is quite revelatory in that we don’t widely discuss the importance of movement, yet we also know how to move to make sure we are not aware of anything we don’t want to be aware of. Much to reflect on.

772. Life is a constant reflection of our relationship with ourselves. There is no escape. When we find ourselves choosing to return to a movement, we know is harmful, what does that tell us? As you say Leigh, the choice made is the end result of a movement that began way back. When this happens, there is no need to beat ourselves up. We are called to go deeper and explore the energy, the feeling, the hurt that fuels a movement destined to take us away from unwavering self love.

773. Being more aware of the quality of my own movements is a constant study for me right now. What I love about what you share Leigh is your own living experiment and exploration of what creates true quality in movement.

774. A great reminder. Thank you Leigh.

775. I felt very strongly recently, that thoughts are also movements and the quality that we bring to inner movements affects the outer.

776. A great practical blog – thankyou Leigh. “So then what if we could apply this method of experimenting with ourselves to other areas of life?” From simple observations of everyday life you have experimented with what works for you and your body. Makes absolute sense.

777. I move in a way I learned and chose to move. This is how I move through my life. Now, if I want to bring a difference to my life – I have to change my movements. This makes totally sense to me. I will not get a more loving life by staying with lovelessness movements. It all comes back to the quality we choose.

778. As children we are naturally more sensitive but in order to fit in we over ride some of the most basic and obvious signs such as you had when eating gluten Leigh. We force ourselves to over ride what our body is telling us to the detriment of our health and wellbeing. This is already a movement against what our body is telling us. Listening to our body is a fundamental part of life but we are very rarely taught this either at home or at school.

779. How often did I try to think myself out of a problem (I did create in the first place) – but it does not really work? Only when I bring a true change, like a different view (movement) something really changes.

780. Thank you Leigh Matson, I love your down to earth approach here that restores to us the ability and power we have over the quality of our lives. There is such a simplicity here and a beautiful explanation of the ‘chicken and egg’ connundrum. If we move in a particular quality, then the energy we are choosing to align to returns to us in a much denser form, (eating cakes and then bloating) and hence we are stimulated to repeat the choice and the process. The energy feeds us and we feed it back. It was this understanding that has enabled me like so many other people, to begin to observe and experiment with the foods I was eating and to witness the impact of my daily choices and movements. Gluten and dairy made my stomach, eyeballs and sinuses hurt, sugar made my legs hurt and made me feel anxious and racy and so on. Caffiene, alcohol, chocolate have all gone, because I realised that the return of condensed energy hurt my body immensely. Changing the quality of my movements has been and continues to be the most powerful way to address my issues and supports me to continually make a new energetic choice, that in its condensed form, supports me to further refine both the quality of my movements, the quality of my health and on-going choices with resounding results.

781. Important point : “what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?”. This is alarming! Step by step we withdraw from our true awareness and feelings, mask them with all the possibilities we have and our way back to truly feel and know what is going on in our body and life becomes more and more difficult to read. We create the nebula in which we lose our orientation and lose …our way. So we do not just lose our power, we give it away.

782. It is true what you say about the unloving choices just fading away the more lovingly that you live. For example – giving up alcohol. Alcohol no longer registers anywhere in my life, thought or consciousness – not because I have managed to beat any habits, addictions or urges, but because I live in such a way that I neither need or would ever want to put a poison like alcohol in my body.

783. I feel a significant question here is when did we stop listening to our bodies and need somebody else to tell us what is happening with it by way of a medical professional or ‘expert’.

784. Such life-changing choices can only be expressed so simply when they have been lived and felt.

785. Yes! If we do not like the end results we are getting in life we can have a look at our movements which brought us there. This is so empowering. Beautiful.

786. ‘ If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives’ It is that simple…..

787. It is such a powerful revelation to know that how we move affects our choices in life. Like you Leigh my understanding of this is deepening almost on a daily basis, the more awareness I bring to my body the more aware I am of how I move, and whether this is affecting me in any way. It is an amazing science that has been shared by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, there is no need for outside proof because when we listen to our body this offers all the proof we need, we are in effect our own scientists.

788. Every single person can be a great scientist as our bodies are the greatest experiment kit possible.

789. There is such life changing wisdom in these words Leigh: “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently”. Until recently I would have struggled to understand what you have presented, but now by choosing to be my own science experiment I too have had such amazing results when I changed the movements that I realised I had become stuck in for so long. I had accepted them as normal but know now that even what I consider normal can be changed, simply by the choice to move in a different way.

790. The more I choose to surrender deeper to the body and trust that it knows how to move in a way that is naturally harmonious to itself, the quality of my movement changes and feels fluid and more graceful with every step.

791. There is much to ponder upon in this blog Leigh. Our bodies are naturally designed to be working in a harmonious rhythm with all the inner organs supporting each other in this natural flow. This gets disrupted when we let the mind rule and govern our movements.

792. Thank you Leigh. I found myself sitting up straighter in my chair as I was reading this. I have always enjoyed detective stories and working out the sequence of events that results in a particular event or occurrence, and we have in our own body the perfect training tool to trace back our thoughts or actions to the way we move.

793. As strange as it sounds, it is still a relatively recent phenomena for me to stop and just feel what is going on in my body… to allow myself to feel that certain tension and then consider what is going on, taking a moment to ponder why? In the past it has been so much easier to keep going, hoping it will go away, or bury it with food, busyness, exercise or distraction.

794. Great blog Leigh! In the world, we all live now there are so many people that have un-tuned themselves from their bodies and the world. The new crazes of looking for animated creatures on their phones have had people; walk in traffic, fall off cliffs, drop into holes, trespass and leave their small children home alone! These are just the ones we hear about. One could suppose, feeling their body and what they are doing to it is not even a distant echo.

795. “I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts. ”
     A great observation Leigh and one that makes total sense to me, but something I could apply even more to my life. So thank you for the reminder!

796. Taking time to re-evaluate what is truly going on in our body allows us to take more responsibility for how we live life and the impact this has on others. We have been living life in a way that does not want to see the whole picture – and then tries to avoid the consequences. As we learn to listen to our body more, it’s like any other relationship that we develop with love and consistency, in time it will blossom and bloom and life will feel amazing.

797. Hi Leigh, I love how detailed your observations are and the simplicity you bring to them. It is an extraordinary approach as I know it is not always easy to stay on track and have the honesty to see what is really going on and then have the dedication to change your behaviors and patterns. But it is very much worth it, as the outcome is a different quality of life.

798. Great article… It is the stopping and feeling that the world has a particular problem with at the moment, isn’t it! … Let’s face it… If the world stopped and truly felt, the sense of appalling shock would echo through the silence with such a resonance that would rip through the complacency and old paradigms that have been weighing humanity down for aeons.

799. It was a fresh breeze of air to read the article and loved the way of presentation.
     The sentence “So if we get bloated after eating gluten, we can say that we are experiencing the end result of a choice of the energy we chose to use as our fuel for our movements. ” explains everything in a nutshell. Thanks for sharing

800. We can learn to override being true to ourselves, but thank goodness for our body which is always honest. No matter how lost we may be, our body will remind us to return to truth, which is that we are love, and that it is not natural for it to accept anything which is not of love. The physical body is not invincible, and therefore, the longer this delay, the more harm we inflict upon ourselves and others.

801. Movement is a continuation and a building up process, realistically we cannot jump from point A to point B without all the steps in between. Therefore every choice in how we move determines where we will be eventually. All the steps in between are gold, no matter how they look like, because life is a continuation. By virtue of this fact, movement offers us the learning to be free of how life should look like, and to live how life could be in truth, it is very awesome.

802. Movement is amazing, it determines everything in life. Our movement this moment is a reflection of how we have moved in the past up till now, and being aware of the impact of this in our bodies, we can choose to move in a different way.

803. Leigh I can very much relate to how this testing method can be applied to all areas in our lives. Therefore in any situation where we would like more clarity we can test it as such and observe the impact this has on our bodies, the quality in our movement and thoughts. We come to our conclusions and confirmations in life through our bodies.

804. What you present here, Leigh, is a simple science. When you say “If we do not like the end results we are getting in life, we can choose to move differently, to move with a quality that is gentle, tender and loving, and observe the changes this brings to the quality of our thoughts and our lives” – it’s so simple and makes total sense and we would all go ‘of course!’ yet I know I have often ignored what the body keeps expressing. While introducing a consciously chosen gentle movement is definitely the best disarming technique I have found, I know there is this weird attraction I get pulled into in living in disregard.

805. Our bodies hold so much living wisdom, we are foolish to override what we feel.

806. Brilliant Leigh. There is another part to these science experiments – a disclaimer if you like. It’s not that you feel awesome always straight away. Very often when we perform these tests, the initial results can be we feel ‘worse’. But what sees us through is this willingness to be committed to the inquiry for a reasonable period of time. This dedication brings integrity to our life, whatever the results are that we find.

807. I have also noticed that Leigh.
     My emotional state is also physical, If I move gently with presence my thoughts match that and my body becomes more harmonious, from there I can tell some foods support the harmony in the body and some take me out of it. The more sensitive I become, I make wiser food choices, and as a result I make wiser life choices.

808. “I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts” – so true. I remember how I used to stomp in anger. I was using my entire body until I became the anger I was feeling.

809. I loved the examples used in this blog around food, thoughts and emotions that you used Leigh to get us to begin to understand why we make certain choices, and that the choice is an end result of the quality of movement we have been in. This really does place the responsibility for what is happening within our bodies squarely at our own feet.

810. Our bodies indeed are a living science to be studied and nurtured! We have indulged in the fancies of the mind too long looking for experiences and states to fill the emptiness we feel.

811. Quality of movement is the key to having true quality of life. And not per se retiring early, being able to afford fancy holidays, or working a 3day week over 5days – examples I used to think brought a ‘quality of life’, when in fact as you say Leigh, unless the energy from movement changes, all that’s being done is more a covering up the internal disquiet felt, using distractions to make us think a better quality of life is then being achieved. It’s our body that generates the quality [life], not the leisure pursuit, hobby, amount of cash etc. Lifestyle management ought then to be quality management?!

812. I appreciate Leigh how you drill down to the energetic cause and roots of our maladies; it is not enough just to treat the symptoms and get temporary relief.

813. To bring presence to the quality of my movements means that I don’t tend to override the constant communication from my body and am less likely to fall back into old patterns of disregard.

814. It is interesting that we don’t worry about certain foods or movements that cause a reaction and yet we can be so pedantic about other things we do in life and how they must be a certain way. It makes much more sense to listen to the wisdom of the body than be run by all the pictures and ideals I have about life.

815. “I have found that harsh movements lead to harsh thoughts”. And “likewise we can’t heal a harsh mind if we are moving in a harsh manner with our bodies” – this is very true Leigh, I have found that when I get odd thoughts, note I’m having them, and then change the movement of my body, the odd thought goes. Change the body/its movement to change the thoughts really does work.

816. “Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.”

     Could the answer to humanity’s ill health really be this simple? Yes! That we make it more complicated is a sign of our unwillingness to arrest the love-less momentum we are caught up in. It is NOT that the ‘answer’ is a riddle that needs to be solved, it is simply a truth that needs to be accepted. But, in order to hear truth we need to first be willing to live it. Herein lies the evil.

817. Leigh your thorough explanation of your experiments is informative and lit a few light bulbs in my understanding. I certainly suffered the effects of both gluten and dairy for many years, and despite the advice of Naturopaths I could not choose to remove them from my diet. In retrospect I see now that was because I was getting a pay-off from feeling really dulled down by the gluten and lulled by the comfort of cheese – life was too painful to be felt in the raw. However as a result of attending some workshops with Universal Medicine I see in hindsight that my movements changed and gradually so have my choices. This has become a self-perpetuating cycle. Bringing a scientific analysis to the situation will help me refine my choices with greater awareness.

818. Taking the time to feel all that is going on is not only loving but is a necessary part of life. Typically it is a part of life that is undervalued, if not ignored.

819. We are love and as such our bodies are designed to respond to all that is love and to react to all that is not. This is simple and divine design whereby we have an in-built ‘cause and effect’ feedback system that alerts us as to what food, behaviours and thoughts support our body and those that do not. The problem arises when we make a habit of overriding such signals and thus ‘blur’ the messages our bodies are communicating. Our bodies still talk, but we are not listening. Leigh presents a great, if not alarming example when she poses the question: “But what if we don’t ‘grow out of’ being intolerant, we just get better at masking the reaction?” This gives us a clue as to why we walk around in bodies that cannot hear and feel the simple truth we all hold deep within. Such wisdom cannot be removed and put in a petri dish to be studied under a microscope, it needs to be lived and felt for the true intelligence that it is. As Leigh so simply and wisely presents, the key is in movement, therefore it cannot be found in experiments that take the part that moves and tries to study it void of the whole from which it was taken. This is true science – simple and accessible to all, as the only instrument required is our body, something we all have. Thankyou Leigh.

     1. That is so beautiful Liane, of course our bodies respond to love and react to what is not love. If we can live knowing this simple fact we can master our lives.

820. Often we can get caught in treating the reaction, rather than looking deeper into the original choice or root cause of a situation. To truly heal an issue, whether that be an allergy to a certain food, or a behaviour we find difficult to shake, we need to respond to the underlying choice or ‘movement’ that lead to it. The body naturally loves to bring us back to harmony.

821. Leigh Matson empowers us all by introducing the fact that we can bring change to the quality of our thoughts and our lives with a willingness to observe and learn from what takes place everyday. This deep observation leads to contemplation and eventually the source of all matters in life – that is the energy we have chosen to live and move by. There is no greater science than this because ultimately it leads everyone back to love.

822. Leigh, this is superb, the science of how you present it is so clear, and it all comes back to those movements. And those check in points during our days are vital for we can’t end up with harsh thoughts or eating foods which don’t suit us if we don’t move to that, and I’ve been learning that both these examples are the end points of a sequence of how I’ve move, so it’s back t the body – what is the quality of how I am moving? And what might I be avoiding feeling by choosing those movements (knowing they will open me to those thoughts and the actions which follow). I can feel how much we do know and understand in absolutely everything we choose.

823. I love the questions you pose here, that when we choose to be aware and allow ourselves to feel, our body never fails to deliver. If we all experimented in this way, being open to explore we can learn much about ourselves and where our movements are truly leading us.

824. Once we have the awareness of what a certain food does in our body, e.g. causes bloating, then we get the opportunity to go to another level of awareness. Once the food, say gluten, has been eliminated, for me the next step was ‘why am I eating certain foods, and in what circumstances?’. For a long time nuts were my go-to ‘snack’ and I started to see a pattern of when and why I was going to them and I got to see and feel how they took the edge off what I was feeling. So if I was anticipating my day ahead at work, a few nuts were like a drug to dull any anxiousness. Or, if I was feeling so light and gorgeous, I’d sometimes dull this too. So I was using nuts in a way that wasn’t nourishing for my body, which can be done with any food, drink or activity, and it’s understanding the what and why and dealing with this that changes things.

825. Great article Leigh, the quality in our movements = a quality in our expression. The body is a very wise teacher.

826. Spot on Leigh, our movements are the key. Gluten is a really good example. I used to experience falling asleep after eating gluten during the day. I’d literally want to go to sleep at my desk after lunch. And I did change my movements and stopped having gluten. But I find now that if I eat too much or eat something my body doesn’t need at lunchtime, I experience the same sleepiness and so, I’ve changed my movements to eat so that I feel awake and clear all day by choosing something that feels right for my body on the day.

827. It’s the same for me too and the results have been life-changing “Since I have eliminated gluten (and also dairy and sugar) from my diet, I have found that my energy levels, general health and wellbeing have increased.” These basic changes could change the state of health and well-being of our world. Of course making these changes comes with a responsibility to feel the energy we have been in driving us to eat these foods, and also how strong it is to walk us back into the same movements that caused us to eat this way to begin with (you can feel how these movements stemmed from our childhood). What has supported me and continued to do so is to change the quality of my movements as Leigh as explained “By addressing the quality of my movements, I am also addressing the quality of my thoughts.” It does work and is an answer to all our self-created woes.

828. I’ve experienced this very much myself as well – the quality that I build in my physical body impacts the kind of thoughts that I have and choices that I make. Developing awareness of my body and what it’s communicating with me is something that I’m continually learning and it really does make a difference.

829. Wow Leigh. I’m deeply touched by what you share with us. It’s not about changing our behaviours, punishing ourselves or try to better ourselves. We’re just to ask some ‘simple’ questions, be honest and move differently. That is in a different quality. Which means that our quality of life can only be more (self)loving or (self)caring if we change the way in which we move. That’s blowing away a lot of current scientific approaches and treatments!

830. Thank you Leigh. I love this blog and feel that this is truly groundbreaking stuff.

     I recently received medical advice to stop eating fruit and sugar and I felt this would be a challenge as I felt quite addicted to these things. Understanding that the way I move actually creates food cravings in the first place has been profound. Recently I had a food craving at the grocery store and it when I checked in with my body I found that I was walking in a rushed and harsh way. I began to change my movements and walk with grace and within moments I was truly enjoying myself and the food cravings had vanished. The science of movement is incredible and I am conducting experiments every day.

831. What you describe here Leigh is a scientific method of living life through experimentation, n of 1 trials. By taking it a little deeper and looking at the movements and energy that lead to our choices, and therefore the outcomes, you offer a way to live life in true connection to our bodies and constant refinement and evolution.

832. “Thus we are energy and can read the energetic quality in anything.” It’s true. This was the turning point for me. Once I put this into practice it gave me a knowing I could live with and my confidence grew. Let me point out here too I was not a very confident man. Thanks to Universal Medicine for introducing to my sixth sense or my clairsentience way of being to feel life with the law of correspondence to truth or not.

833. Wow Leigh, this article is great, I love how you have written it in such a simple, easy to understand way. I will ponder on what you have shared, thank you.

834. Recently I have started to notice that shortly after I get to work I want to eat or after some interactions with others I feel hungry and I have reflected on what was going on in my body/head at that time. Just by choosing this the craving shifts and the need to fulfill it vanishes. What you are sharing is truly a science and holds many answers to the way we choose dis-ease over well-being. Thanks Leigh.

835. Leigh Matson,
     This is a powerful article. It has given me a moment to pause and consider what my movements are that lead to a particular reality that I can feel is not in true support of my body. It invites me to surrender a little more to allowing my essence of love to be the guide in how I move. This is what is so powerful in what you present. That we do indeed have a choice as to the quality we choose, before we move.

836. Life can become quite simple when we make it about movement. All we have to do is be aware of how we move and all else follows on from that. We can make it complicated if we choose to, but it doesn’t need to be.

837. Hello Leigh and great blog on how things link up or back really. I have found this as well, instead of willpower change the way you move. I am going through something similar at the moment where there is a feeling to ‘let go’ of something and the resistance is coming from the way I move. It’s like, you see a new way for things to be but then you need to also physically make that choice to change. You can talk about it and say yes as many times as you like but if you don’t change the way you move, the quality then truly nothing will change. You may make it look better on the outside but inside the house will look the same. Thank you Leigh.

838. Yes it is such a great revelation that how we move does affect how we feel – it seems almost too simple but choosing to move delicately, with care and not bumping into things makes a huge difference. It can change my mood and how I feel in myself in an instance.

839. Absolutely brilliant blog Leigh. I was only recently aware of how my movements can influence my thoughts and therefore how I feel and react. I have noticed when I have been feeling emotional or have been caught up in dramas and issues I feel hungrier. I tend to want to eat more than usual and often want to eat the less nurturing kind of foods. I have also felt the opposite, as in when I have been more open, loving and connected to myself and others I feel full and then, I tend to choose more nutritious and supportive foods. Everything is connected, how we move affects how we feel, think, react and connect to ourselves and others, and this impacts on all our choices. So, what I am understanding is that the key to life is to pay attention and detail to the energetic quality of our movements as well as the energetic quality of all our choices. Everything affects everything but choosing to start with being more aware of how we move can set in new movements in our cycle/rhythm to support an energetic change that is more loving and nurturing for us all.

840. To fully grasp the meaning of “Everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy” is an unfoldment, a step by step realization due to the strong hold the five senses and temporal mind over our perception of reality. The more we make energy a tangible experience the more we know and understand the all-encompassing significance for every aspect of life.

841. The science of movement as the way to govern how we are thinking is an affront to the mind that thinks it chooses its thoughts, in that sense we will learn that the body is governing the mind and not the other way round as we have thought and since base the ideal of our seeming higher intelligence on.

842. There is a consistent flow or impulses of energy that feed how we feel, think, make decisions, move. Learning to make conscious choices of a quality of energy that supports us to be who we are, feel as who we are and act the way we truly want to act in full acceptance of and responsibility for all the consequences thereafter is a science; a science we learn by doing what Leigh describes here, by making experiments and experiences. That´s the most natural and wisest way to learn living life in a way that we want it to be for our own and the wellbeing of everyone else equally.

843. I agree with you Leigh – changing my way of eating and dropping gluten, dairy and sugar from my diet has made a huge difference in my own health and wellbeing too. Nowadays, Sugar makes me feel very racy and tends to bring a rash up on my skin, gluten makes we feel very heavy and bloated and dairy makes my sinuses feel clogged up.
     “Since I have eliminated gluten (and also dairy and sugar) from my diet, I have found that my energy levels, general health and wellbeing have increased”.

844. Thank you Leigh – A great reminder of the choice in the quality in which we choose to move affects our body and mind.

845. We are in an era where there is an abundance of books, courses, websites, and web links related to every aspect of life. Including a lot of conflicting information. Yet we live in the most intricate living laboratory that is reflecting life changing revelations to us all the time. It is criminal that we train ourselves from young to dismiss the inner wisdom that is available to us if we pay attention to and honour this gift of life we are each born with, and it is a blessing that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been such an inspiring advocate of the return to this most natural and honouring way of living – paying attention to the signs provided by our bodies and by life, reflecting on the lessons these provide and thus constantly deepening the understanding, wisdom and responsibility with which we live our lives.

846. This is great , Leigh, and is highlighting the self responsibility we have in everything we do. We have been so conditioned to focus on the end result of something we are choosing but not actually feeling or understanding the path that took us to that result or outcome and this is where changes can be truly made in our lives.

847. Presented with the simplicity and irrefutable logic that comes from lived experience ie. from the body, the only true intelligence we can rely on.

848. Oh how amazing it is to read this blog! Putting science in everyday life and hence bringing back basic responsibility and basic common sense to how we live. As you so truthfully say, if we are moving in sadness for example how can we change the sadness when sadness cannot heal sadness?!

849. Fantastically laid out, Leigh. The start with the fact that our life is an ongoing experiment is something that I have been reminding myself of often. It allows me to observe what is going on and to make new choices, as opposed to getting caught up in the emotions of what it all means to me, which ends with me feeling like I’ve been caught in a web of my own creation. Tracking where I find myself on any given day or in any given situation back to not just the thoughts I have had or decisions I have made, but to the way I have been moving, and choosing to change THAT is so very powerful. It completely turns everything that we have been taught right on its head.

850. This is a brilliantly practical presentation of the relationship between our movements and the results of them. Basically our movements determine the quality of our life and given that, it’s surely worth paying attention to them.

851. “Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.” A very simple and practical approach that makes absolute sense.

     1. It is true without trying or force, my own habits that did not support have lessened through paying attention to how I move my body and how I feel in it and making a choice to honour and nurture myself.

852. I love your description of how ‘energy transforms to matter’, it makes it very tangible and understandable what it means that everything is energy.

853. I love how you allow yourself to observe and experiment what influence life has on you by taking your body as your marker (test object). A very simple and reliable way to find things out for oneself.

854. It can be quite challenging to stop the momentum of moving in a way that is unloving for the body but with commitment and dedication it’s wonderful to feel just how much the body actually appreciates being moved in a more gentle and loving way until eventually that becomes the norm.

     1. That spiral of living in the unloving actions and reacting to them I have found either eventually implodes on itself (we get so sick of those movements that we have to stop) or asking myself ‘what if?’ because it opens up the possibility that that cycle need not keep circling and that there may be another way of addressing what’s before me. `Or questioning if the action is from Spirit or Soul helps put the breaks on that momentum.

855. “Over the past 5 years, the more I have chosen to move in a loving way, the more the unloving movements and thoughts have just faded on their own, as they are no longer being kept in circulation.” This has been my experience as well Leigh since coming across the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. It’s so simple when we understand that it’s the quality of the way we choose to move that determines the quality of our thoughts.

     1. Deborah, that has been my experience too, which is a totally different way of working with our issues. Rather than targetting specific issues, we simply need to begin to make our movements more conscious and gentle and this in itself is enough to address everything. Incredible isn’t it!

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