490 thoughts on “What is the relationship between intelligence and health?”

1. Stephen, if I had read this a decade ago, I would have had difficulty understanding what has been presented here, as I had a different relationship with intelligence and health and saw no other way around it. It probably attributed to the fact that there was no one around that ever talked about fire, and prana, the differences and its effects on everything.

   If I had known what I know now and that is through the presentation through Serge Benhayon, I would do so many things differently including the way I studied, worked, exercised, have relationships etc.

   There is an intelligence that many have not tapped into, and the more degrees you have, the more propensity to be the opposite to this intelligence. It is a no wonder that Serge Benhayon is attacked for this.

   Here’s an experiment, walk into a room and you know someone has had an argument, because it hits you when you walk in the door, that is the body’s intelligence to feel the energy. Do you know of any other times when you have felt something isn’t right?

2. It definitely can’t be intelligent to think we are smart, yet have little or no consideration for the health of our bodies. As with everything Serge Benhayon presents this conversation opens us up to seeing and understanding life in new ways

   1. If the current model isn’t working and exhaustion and burnout continues, then maybe we need to look at another way, otherwise continue what we are doing…

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19. It definitely can’t be intelligent to think we are smart, yet have little or no consideration for the health of our bodies. As with everything Serge Benhayon presents this conversation opens us up to seeing and understanding life in new ways, and finding the truth within ourselves.

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26. Give me the knowledge that underpins the body instead of the sense of self anytime. thanks for letting me the know the difference between intelligence and health both combined works

27. Our bodies share every choice we have made and we do not end up with a myriad of lifestyle-related diseases through chance. If we care for our body, many problems will be solved.

28. thank u for sharing wonderful article

29. I really love this post thank you for sharing this wonderful topic on your site, I can’t imagine how to combine those two intelligence and health.

30. You would think that if people are getting more degrees then they must be getting more intelligent, but how intelligent is it if we can’t see the connection between our health and how we live.

31. Very nice article,thanks for sharing with us

32. Nice written and very informative post. Most of the people take medicine to reduce their stress, but it would be better if they take natural food to decrease their mental stress. Thanks for sharing keep continue..

33. There are many different types of intelligence which from Latin means: To understand. If I am working something in my mind, I block out the understanding that my whole body has on the situation. Often the body’s understanding of life is more encompassing, truth-full and settling. If the mind comes up with an understanding it can be swayed or tainted, it’s not as solid.

34. How intelligent is it to spend a whole night on coffee, studying for an exam? It is simple knowledge that coffee puts the body in a fight or flight mode, fight or flight mode occurs because of a need of survival. So in order to pass an exam and be considered intelligent, we put our body in survival mode for extended periods of time – something which impacts the nervous system, the cardiovascular system and perhaps all the other systems of the body simply because it all works as one. Really, how intelligent is that?

35. I love how if we would connect intelligence with health actually everyone can equally be intelligent and has equal access to intelligence because it is about simply listening to our body.

36. I have always considered myself to be a very intelligent person but, when I look back over my life, not when it came to my health and well-being. Many of my decisions, like drinking alcohol and smoking, were in no way intelligent as my body suffered in the process. Coming to a place where I realise that the state of my health is as a result of my choices, has brought me the understanding that it is my body that is the seat of my intelligence and from listening to its wise messages my health and my well-being cannot help but improve.

37. How good is anything that we achieve if we suffer to achieve it?

38. Yes, it is actually strange to think we can be intelligent about something when we are disregarding our body.

39. Who would have thought? What if qualifications and degrees although needed, are also an argument as to why we don’t need to take care of ourselves? I can feel there can be a level of snobbishness in this because we do have a so called great mind that supposedly ‘knows better’

40. Perfect blog ….

41. “let go of a form of intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all but is merely a clever and convoluted form of control, and protection” – oh I know that one well. Not really got us anywhere.

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43. So true that ‘intelligent’ people do not always do intelligent things. And I can feel how as an uneducated person I had invested in my own reaction to this societal set-up run by that kind of unintelligent-intelligence, and how that positioning really is just the other side of the same coin by which ‘intelligence’ is still seen as a property, something that can be owned therefore be competed against.

44. Wow…amazing article…thank you so much !!

45. Super blog . Thank you for sharing

46. Through the presentations of The Ancient Wisdom Teachings by Serge Benhayon, we are supported to bring more awareness to the quality of connection with and movement from the body. In my experience, even the slightest re-adjustment of posture clears the mind significantly and the body feels in more harmony again.
    “The Philosopher Serge Benhayon has presented that our current model of intelligence is flawed, that we don’t think so much as we source thoughts through the movement of our body and that every movement is from one of two pools of energy that either harms (prana), or heals (fire).”

    1. Experiencing the energetic changes in my body when I alter my posture, even in the smallest of ways, has been life-changing for me. It shows me that I can actually change the way I feel by simply moving in a different way, with walking in total connection to myself being the most magical mood changer.

47. Stephen, just your example of writing the quantum physics thesis and stressing yourself out doing it is extremely relevant to so much of what is happening in the world, and a dichotomy that reveals itself again and again is one simply has the right to see.

48. It seems that often we don’t feel the effects of our choices, and so don’t feel that there is a difference between a choice made from our body or our minds, because we’ve numbed ourselves to such an extent that we can’t actually feel what our bodies are constantly registering. The communication has been shut down. But in that shut down state everything is reduced and quieter: the unsettlement and uncomfortable feelings, but also access to deep love, wisdom, joy and connection. When we start to open up and connect more, we realise that it is this connection that most supports us to deal with all the things we felt we couldn’t deal with.

49. When I slouch and work non-stop in front of the computer, my whole body suffers but this is a result of an abuse I have already put my being through by not treasuring my worth.

50. There is so much more to life than our current, limited yet mostly accepted understanding of it. Learning that we are all in one giant pool of energy totally changes our understanding of how we relate to life: we’re not alone, aren’t supposed to do it alone, and our every thought and movement affects the quality of this energy, and so experience of life, for everyone.

51. The currently, and long-held belief is that the mind is the seat of our intelligence, an intelligence which appears to me to have little consideration for the body it is carried in. In fact, this so-called intelligent mind appears to override the body’s needs more often than not resulting in a state of health which is lacking true vitality and well-being. Maybe if we let go of this damaging belief and accepted the body as our true intelligence then our individual health and the health of humanity as a whole would start to improve in so many ways.

52. It is interesting to ponder how many models and theories reduce life and further separate people from living who they truly are.

53. Serge Benhayon has not held back from presenting how the ownership of thoughts can actually separate us from each other, as it creates individuality through identity of this ownership. The way that Serge presents this however, gives each person the opportunity to experience freedom from the constraints of thought ownership for themselves, which is amazing and has been very inspiring for myself and the many many people who have experienced the same.

54. It all depends on our definition of intelligence. Is this a fragmented brain thing or is it a whole body decision? Seems simple enough.

55. With the current levels of anxiety and depression in our communities, our current sense of intelligence can not figure its way out of it. Perhaps indeed we have reduced intelligence to the recalling of knowledge and immediate solutions, which on its own can not address the underlying issues to our ills.

56. Intelligence would have us do all manner of things that are not good for our bodies, so what good is it to have the kind of intelligence that can champion these reckless decisions.

57. According to me, control over our own habits and living style will make us that much more healthy.

58. Totally agree that our current rates of illness and disease are a red flag asking us to question what we are calling intelligent and the model we have set up in education.

59. Yes Stephen, one would have to think that as you say . . “If our current model of intelligence were genuinely intelligent there would be less illness surely, not more!” . . .the general poor health of our societies speaks for itself.

60. As it stands at the moment I would say that unhealthy bodies come in the complete spectrum of intelligence. When we connect to and allow ourselves to be guided by the wisdom of the body then there will be a strong correlation and relationship between intelligence and health.

61. Thanks for the interesting article! It would surprise me if there wasn’t a link between physical exercise and brain health (or if researchers would ever find out that physical exercise is bad for your brain). I’ve also heard that people who work longer actually live longer. That’s maybe because people become too inactive during retirement?

62. We are so caught up in our heads thinking that what the mind offers is truly intelligent, with no regard to the abuse that a so called intelligent mind can do to the body, when we are aware and consider what the body is sharing we can then connect to a whole body intelligence that is innate in everyone of us.

63. What is the difference between intelligence and survival?
    You have a tsunami coming and all the animals (that have no PhD’s, no formal qualifications other than being an animal) begin to head towards the hills and inland as much as they can knowing that this is what is needed without any fore warning. Meanwhile human beings (with a varied range of academic qualifications) head towards the beaches and the water. Guess who survives? Does this not blow our current version of academic intelligence accepted as the superior form of intelligence, out the window?

64. If it is good medicine to reconnect to the universal wisdom inherent in our body, then it follows that it is potentially bad medicine to cut ourselves off from this and rely purely on an outer source of ‘intelligence’.

65. When we deepen our understanding of intelligence and health, when intelligence is seen as the ability to connect to the expansiveness of space and all there is, and when health is known as our ability to live in oneness with the magnificence and the order of the universe, it seems the two start to become as one.

66. It is common sense, a natural intelligence, to take responsibility for the choices we make in the way we live that is reflected in the health of our physical body.

    1. The heath then enjoyed in our physical body confirms we’ve made an intelligent choice.

67. I have often seen that the process of healing expands our intelligence beyond the limitations we have been caught in before, in that sense one could consider health and healing (and therefore illness and disease) as a source of intelligence.

68. When we look back to the pyramids and man made structures that we would struggle to build these days, even with all the technology we have today, we have to admit that something has gone pretty wrong with the way we look at intelligence.

69. Yes, this touted intelligence, apparently contained in our skull, is not so clever when it comes to looking after the body it lives in.

70. To think that intelligence is just contained in a relatively small space between our ears is a strange notion which has not served us well. After all, this kind of intelligence overeats, is disrespectful if not abusive, commits crimes against others or self (as in suicide), doesn’t go to bed when tired, drinks alcohol, etc. etc. What is so intelligent about that?

71. I would say so….”Perhaps we need to start to champion the relationship between intelligence and health,” when we do choose to look at this relationship we explore everything that is not true and know everything that is…this maybe one of the reasons that we avoid the obvious. Our bodies share every choice we have made and we do not end up with a myriad of lifestyle related diseases through chance. Championing the brain and mental intelligence ignores the essential component our bodies, our bodies would not override what is needed, eat what is toxic and not sleep well, but our mind does and so where is the true intelligence….it is in the whole body with the brain being an essential but equal part.

72. True intelligence is listening to what you feel. The way we block out and override our sensitivity says more about our current state than any PhD or doctorate can do.

73. Awesome blog Stephen, for intelligence and health do not necessarily go hand in hand! We know doctors who smoke, we all know certain things yet act against our better knowing, so perhaps there is a certain kind of intelligence that considers itself superior yet in reality does not consider the wellbeing of the body…Much to ponder on here, for why would an intelligent person smoke when they know the damage it does? Why overeat when we know the damage it does etc etc. Examples abound that show that the intelligence that we call intelligence in our world may not be the intelligence that really should be our leading intelligence.

74. Clearly the intelligence we are championing is not serving us well, as our standards of health and well-being are continuing to decline, seeing illness and disease on the rise. Yet there are those among us who are bucking this ill-trend by consistently living in connection to an intelligence that is accessible to one and all, via developing an honouring connection to the body. Being guided by this intelligence allows us to be aware of what quality of energy as such choices and behaviours serve to support our health and well-being and what does not, as the truth of all our movements is reflected through the body.

    1. Give me the intelligence that supports the body rather than the ego any day of the week.

75. Our current state of dis-eased bodies – globally – is not quite the image of intelligence is it… because how can we be intelligent with an un-vital body? Our intelligence from our head can not exist without a body… so perhaps we are missing the fact that there is a body which is full of awareness, particles, connection , feeling, heart, love that is far more intelligent than we give credit to?…

    1. Its easy to think we have can solve everything, have the answers yet everything about our society is saying we don’t and the most ‘un-intelligent’ thing is we deny this and don’t even want to see it. It’s only when someone points it out to us do we consider it, and for most of us even that we avoid.

    2. Just imagine what a healthy body we would live in if we were raised to know how intelligent it is, to treat it with immense care and love, and to always listen to its messages. Not only would be all be living in very healthy bodies we would be living in a very healthy world.

76. The whole body holds our true capacity for intelligence, it’s not in the mind or even measurable by exams, it is an intelligence that is constantly and equally there for every one, it is how aware we are willing to be that determines our level of true intelligence

77. It depends on what we define or consider to be intelligent, in regards to its association with health. It appears to me that emotional intelligence plays a big role in building a body that responds rather than reacts, which consequently filters into the health and wellbeing of a person.

78. If every person in the whole world had a PhD and was a ‘Doctor’, what would humanity have actually gained? More loving relationships, joy and sense of community? Or would we be looking for the next thing that could give us an intelligence ‘boost’ whilst ignoring the greatest intelligence of all which comes from being in relationship.

79. This makes so much sense Stephen… how can we promote the intellect when our bodies, worldwide, are in such a shocking state of ill health?

80. What would be truly intelligent is for us to re-examine the way we see health. Is illness itself something to be dispised and avoided? Or could it offer the opportunity for true healing? We should see.

81. What you are sharing here Stephen is penned with such clarity that it really does cut through the fog we have generated around what intelligence is.

82. If our intelligence was true intelligence then we would not be a society that is crippled by illness and disease, there is so much we can learn from the connection to our own body, and the wisdom that lies within.

    1. Crippling disease leaves us feeling the after math of our body’s responses to the way we have been living. A maker of un-intelligent movements.

83. We have made the ability to regurgitate facts and work out problems more important than being love, and the negative results of that are seen throughout the whole globe. The point is we can still have the knowledge that allows us to create a world with supportive infrastructure and systems, but not at the expense of or ahead of love.

84. There must be quite a pride to the current academically based intelligence because we have been pursuing it for so long and humanity hasn’t been truly evolving, in fact you could say the opposite baed on the illness and disease statistics and societal problems. Yes we need knowledge for how to understand life and perform certain jobs, but what’s the point if we don’t know how to love and care for ourselves and others? What’s the point of academic achievement if the body is abused everyday and eventually becomes unwell from the self abuse?

85. We really can’t call our current form of intelligence ‘intelligent’ when it allows us to make so many decisions that harm our wellbeing. Intelligent people smoke cigarettes despite health warnings, drink alcohol to excess and commit suicide to name a few. There is way more to intelligence than being ‘book smart’.

86. We will eventually all know again that our intelligence is our body and not the mind.

87. The amazing freedom in our body from recognising the true intelligence from our bodies and not from our minds and the recognition this brings feels so beautiful and full of the wisdom we all know inside us with our choice of energy guiding our way and makes all the difference to us all and to no longer be under the beliefs and ideals we are taught.

88. There is a well-documented relationship between health and education. I am not aware of any studies comparing intelligence and health and, especially how particular aspects of intelligence are associated with health. That would be interesting.

89. Many wellness programs and advertising can say all the right words. But the source of energy it comes from determines if what it is selling and promoting is true intelligence. As consumers our discernment is necessary. And it is therefore important for all true forms of healing such as Esoteric healing to be shared, otherwise humanity is challenged to choose, as most of the choices no matter how different they still come from the same pool, the same energy.

90. Our health lies in our everyday choices of all kinds (diet, lifestyle choices etc), but largely is also from our movements and in particular the quality of our movements in terms of the energy that we align to. This is beautiful to connect to as it gives us a completely different perspective on health and healing – we need both the understanding of the science and medicine, as well as the understanding of the science of energy and movement. This is something that will revolutionize medicine one day once we all come to realise the link between health and healing and the quality of movement that we align to.

91. Thank you Stephen for a great blog outlining how it is that movement is key in supporting our whole body intelligence, and that the brain is thus not the source of our innate wisdom, which incidentally lies within the body and is accessed by particular movements that align to fire.

92. The most intelligent people get sick, disabled, commit suicide, when if we were to listen to our bodies, we would feel more what is going on and be able to live in a way that is more in harmony with ourselves and with life.

    1. Yes, the usual explanation is that they do so at a lesser rate but why are they doing it at all?

93. What Serge Benhayon presents about intelligence encompasses the whole body, as in how we are with our whole body impacts the quality of intelligence that we connect with and this makes total sense to me, that our mind isn’t just a product of our brain alone but actually the whole of our body.

94. I was talking to a newly retired teacher recently and she said that the school she had worked at had got rid of both the school councillor and the career’s advice person due to budget. I thought these two jobs would have been high on the list in helping prepare our young for the world and what lies a head, but they had to make way for more pursuits of the mind. More proof that what we perceive as being intelligent needs a serious look at.

    1. We are very disregarding of how people feel. The fact the counsellor was extraneous is reflective of the belief that success in life is based on what we know, even though someone could be a doctor, lawyer, dentist, or other considered to be intelligent person, and commit suicide based on how they feel.

95. Having the same level of knowing takes away the hiding in being less or seeing ourselves as superior to others.

    1. Gorgeous. We all have a body. We are all equal in this. If we tap into the body’s knowing we all have the same awareness. No need to hold ourselves as less or superior.

96. I know that my brain in isolation has little regard for my health and this when considered is deeply unintelligent, since without a thriving, vital body my brain is compromised. I am working more and more on the basis that central office is my heart, the true ‘brain’, and that, working in relationship with my body, my brain is a great asset, but not the master.

    1. Beautifully said Matilda – I like how you have shared that your heart is the central office rather than the brain as we have classically learned to look at it!

97. Operating from mental energy ‘gets things done’ but through it our health is undone. Don’t fall for the false trophy of practical achievement when your beingness has been relagated to the last priority.

98. Serge Benhayon has been telling us for a very long time that intelligence comes from the body and not the mind and our thoughts are never our own, and it is our movements that determine the source of the intelligence and thoughts we will align to. Our schooling and education does not take this into account and champions the mind without considering the body, so it takes a while to undo life times of seeing our mind as the source of our intelligence. Our body reflects our health and so to me if it is also the source of true intelligence, which I know from my own experiences, therefore the relationship between our intelligence and our body is intrinsically linked

99. I have often heard the statement “humans are the most intelligent species” but how is it that we have high disease and ill health – globally? If we were indeed the most intelligent species on this planet, would we not see an active response towards stopping the lifestyle, attitudes and behaviours that affect our human frame?

    1. A testament to the fact that either we are not as intelligent as we think we are or that another intelligence is running us, which makes us override what we know to be true.

100. ‘So if we consider that we can all act with equal intelligence, we all have access to the same level of knowing, and it is only a choice of whether we make that connection to the source of true intelligence, or not.’ We can choose to be unaware of what socket we are plugged into, so to speak, so if we are off track it is the responsibility of our friends and loved ones to nudge us gently back on track and visa versa.

101. Serge Benhayon is one voice, amongst a very few, who make sense of the “downward health trends of our global population”. He has been presenting for 19 years that our current form of lauded intelligence is not the answer to the world’s woes borne out by the fact that we have more highly qualified people in the world than ever before as well as having more highly advanced medical techniques and still people are getting sicker and sicker. But he has also offered a way to reverse these escalating trends and that is to begin to connect to the seat of our true intelligence, our body; the vessel that carries us through life and never lies.

102. Reading your blog makes me think about the choices we makes in life, and one that stands out is how we knowingly consume food or drink that is harmful to our body, an example is alcohol. It is well known there are no safe limits to alcohol, and yet it is consumed, consciously by many… so yes, there is a relationship between intelligence and health, but in this case, it is clearly an inverse one.

103. If our current sense of intelligence is only related to a sense of function or survival in the world we are only living a small aspect of who we truly are.

104. How often do we know something is working for us and we don’t need to prove or give evidence? It is just part of our livingness.

105. If our true intelligence is love, then we are by nature, naturally responsive to ways that would not want to disregard, destroy, abuse our body…indicating that responsibility indeed goes hand in hand with intelligence… the question arises then how responsible to ourselves and to our body are we actually being if we are seeing a global rise in lifestyle diseases?

     1. We are definitely currently living and working counter to our true intelligence… it is a question of when we wake up to this fact and then respond.

106. Our current acceptance of what intelligence is feels like a much reduced and narrower version to what it actually is: a whole body intelligence that when connected to, is pretty limitless and incredible in what it can access. If we placed as much emphasis on caring, nurturing and listening to the body as we do to listening to the mind, I’m pretty sure our illness and disease rates would look very different to how they are now and where they’re currently heading towards.

107. Yes the word intelligence has been totally misinterpreted to be only about study at university and recall. Sometimes animals are seen as dumb etc. and we say we are much smarter because of our brain and the tall buildings we can build, yet how smart or intelligent is it to build tall buildings with people who are underpaid, have to work under dire circumstances and are not encouraged to take 100% care of themselves? It is just these things that show we are not as intelligent when it comes to our body and how we care for it and this is something that we would not see in the animal kingdom.

108. What if whole body intelligence allowed us to access a level of wisdom and understanding that was far greater than anything our minds can come up with on their own? It is not that the mind is bad or needs to be left out but included in the whole picture in its rightful place in harmony with the body.

109. I like how you have brought quality of relationship in to the possibility of what true intelligence actually is.

110. One of the first things you realise when you start to explore your inner essence is that nothing is separate, and everything is connected. The body and mind are not distinct and the one affects the other. I find my greatest ‘intelligence’ comes from my body and is available when I feel open, vital and at ease. The way I think is always affected by the way I feel.

111. “Are we sicker than our eyes would have us believe?” Great question because on the surface we could say technology has made so many advances that we can cure most illnesses, but what constitutes being sick. We have over the years moved the markers so that being sick or ill is seen as anyone with cancer or a serious illness but what if the reality is we are unwell if we are not living in the fullness of who we are and any movement away from that is the beginning of illness and disease…..maybe then we would see that we are sicker than our eyes would have us believe.

112. The teachings that Serge Benhayon shares with us about whole body intelligence and this being true intelligence are absolute gold and continue to inspire many people to break out of the limited, health diminishing ‘brain only intelligence’ that is currently so focussed on and lauded.

113. Well written, I totally agree here is a great relationship in these two things. Without health, there is no intelligent intelligence.

     1. Agreed so true, how can there be intelligence if there is no health?

     2. To live in a way that is against our bodies is definitely unintelligent.

114. A mind without the wisdom of the heart is a completely lost one. This is something I have come to humbly realise recently as I came to realise just how arrogant I have been to think my mind is smarter than my body.

115. If intelligence is actually intelligent, it would mean that smart people would make choices that lead to great health. Yet doctors who understand how to live in a healthy way and should be the pinnacle of health, can still smoke, drink alcohol to excess and have above normal rates of suicide. This suggests to me that brain smarts is not enough to be body smart. I am always amazed by how intelligent and tuned in my body is compared to my conscious mind.

116. I’ve just got in touch with some very strong feelings that I had buried by not dealing with a situation. These feelings have been sitting unacknowledged inside my body stewing and seething underneath the surface. While I have been unaware of them and out of touch with them they have been having an effect on my body and also the way that I relate to people. Having allowed them to surface I can feel that if I had left them un-felt and the issues unresolved for a number of years this would have led to health problems later down the track. It is wise to allow our body to show us the way by allowing ourselves our feelings.

117. Great to read about the difference in what we call intelligence and the true much wider expansion of intelligence. The latter will always serve the love on earth.

118. Agreed in order to truly evolve we definitely need to throw out ‘intelligence’ as we have believed it to be .. which as you so rightly say is not intelligent at all!

     1. It is actually fun and refreshing to break through widely held beliefs that make no sense when put through some common sense questioning; academic prowess is not intelligence.

119. The current form of intelligence has little relationship with a sense of health or wellbeing. It is all to do with the mind and function. Little to no attention is paid to how our bodies feel, yet they are our greatest guides as to how to truly be in our world today.

120. Through Universal Medicine, I have come to see and understand how our body is in fact light years ahead more intelligent than if we solely relied on just our mental capacity. The body and mind working together delivers the intelligence of Love in both stillness and a movement of expression, be it language or mathematical.

121. How much I learned from my body since Serge Benhayon made me aware with his teachings abput the importance to re-connect again within our body. We hold there so much we do not want to feel but when we do so, we also start to feel the source of love through us again. Which is marvellous.

     1. Yes Sylvia there is an endless well of love in us, along with properly amazing whole body intelligence… both these qualities, innate in us all, set a standard for our lives that, when embraced and lived, will change the world.

     2. I have learned so much too since my involvement with Universal Medicine. Before, I lived with a constant tension that I was in denial of. However, since then and in connection to my body, I have learned the source of it and have let go of so much. This has left a lot more room for me to feel the love that I am supporting with a whole new foundation and perspective on life.

122. We have so totally reduced our intelligence to the space between our ears and yet it limits us to recalled knowledge and our previous experiences and perception, leaving behind the innate wisdom of the inner heart and body.

     1. Jenny so well put, that’s all the intelligence I thought I had and it meant I was acting very un-intelligent most of the time and yet all along I had far more intelligence waiting for me to connect to and live.

123. If we are truly intelligent we will take care of our body. It’s that simple.

124. If we behave unintelligently – we will get an illness to let us know. Unfortunately the intelligence we’ve called intelligence has let us think that just because there’s a slight delay between our actions and the consequence that somehow it’s alright. We all know the truth and deviating from it, always comes at a cost.

125. This is a brilliant post! Thanks for sharing. I think what we need is wisdom more than intelligence. In this time of information overload, we have to distill what are the things that really matter in the long run 🙂

126. It would certainly turn things upside down if society started to consider those who are healthy and respectful of their body as intelligent. Valuing recall as intelligence leaves the amazing intelligence of the body out of the picture. I keep being surprised and delighted by how much smarter my body is than my mind. Planning and controlling have nothing on the detailed timing and biomechanics that my body knows and responds to.

127. What a question Stephen: is our idea of intelligence deeply flawed and far wide of the truth? To begin to receive that question we must first see how intelligence can be a form of control and protection and turn to the body to lead us to the truth about intelligence.

128. Very reflective ” true intelligence is about our ability to feel and sense and respond to our feelings, a whole body intelligence,” a real understanding of listening to our bodies all we feel and all it shows us in connection to the intelligence of the whole universe and the beauty magic and wisdom of this.

129. We think a lot, but our bodies do not lie…thinking can only get us so far and then the body has to start correcting the sticky situation that the mind has got us in to…

     1. Always appreciate this process and the reminder of deep love.

130. I was and still can be at times the classic example of someone whose mind can be in total disregard to the rest of my body, it used to be in the form of drinking and other poisons I put into my body but now it can be in the form of overworking my body, going into drive to get a job done. If we all took absolute notice of what our bodies are telling us, our collective state of health and wellbeing would change over night.

131. Good health is a marker of having good intelligence. What use is being able to differentiate quadratic equations or solve chemical imbalances if the body is crying out to be nurtured and listened to.

132. Simply just starting with saying that we can’t be intelligent when we abuse our body whilst doing something with our mind is a great first step. And it makes sense because we do have a body and what is intelligent about ignoring it’s needs?

     1. True intelligence = wisdom and the wise do not abuse themselves or anyone else. Wise words Lieke

133. It is an important question to consider as human beings what being is running our bodies into overwhelm and dysfunction? And what intelligence have we invested denying the natural wisdom and intelligence of the body and inner heart?

134. Why do doctors smoke? Why do health professionals drink when they know the effect on the body? Why do we do things ourselves that we would never advise others to do? It makes no sense. However, taking true care of our bodies and learning to live in a much less damaging and much more nurturing way DOES make sense.

135. We need to stop calling our current way of thinking ‘intelligence’ when it has lead us to a point of having great technological advances but yet greater and increasing levels of disease, illness, constant wars, shootings, slavery, sex trafficking, rapes, murder, domestic violence, cyber bullying, corruption etc. and levels of separation through religion, national borders and culture which mean that we are constantly in conflict surrounding the self-interests of individuals, groups or nations.

136. Serge presents great truths about the science of life in a very relatable, practical and tangible way. What he is able to share so simply and clearly is the biggest blessing humanity has ever known.

137. Awesome blog Stephen nothing else makes sense at the moment without knowing that all our thoughts are coming from the energy that we align to. Why else would the politicians of the world at the moment be making decisions that seem hell bent on destroying what little true brotherhood we do have and make rules on education that make no sense at all and in their minds they probably think they are doing the best they can for everyone.

138. You make two great points here and when they are read together it beggars the question – why if “we are seemingly more educated and intelligent than ever before” is “our approach to health and intelligence all messed up?”. It’s a real dichotomy, that with the perceived intelligence of many in the world an answer to the escalating ill-health of humanity cannot be found. Maybe it is simply because we have got our understanding of intelligence back to front and it is not the mind that is the intelligent part of us but it is our body that is the holder of the vast and true intelligence we are seeking?

139. “True intelligence makes intelligence a level playing field where we all have equal access to the movements that bring greater knowing, married to and woven up in greater health and wellbeing.” . . . yes, spot on Stephen and yet those who do not ever want to take responsibility for their own health refuse to acknowledge this and over-ride the intelligence of their own body and they suffer their physical complaints as victims of circumstance.

140. If our body was given the power to be the intelligence we think the mind is, it would make very different choices about our health and well-being.

141. The following is an excerpt from a May 10, 2016 article from Fox News on government funded spending for wasteful ‘scientific’ research:

     “What makes goldfish feel sexy? How many shakes does it take for a wet dog to dry off? And really — how much does a bee sting on a penis hurt?

     Government-funded studies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to answer bizarre questions like these, according to a new survey of questionable spending released Tuesday by Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.

     “Twenty Questions: Government studies that will leave you scratching your head” highlights a selection of “wasteful” taxpayer-funded studies that cost a total of $35 million.”

     The article went on to describe experiments that tested if yawning was contagious with Chimpanzees, whether cheerleaders appeared more attractive when they are seen in the groups rather than individually, and whether humans could have out-run dinosaurs (using chickens and alligators as the nearest animals to compare speed to humans).

     So in conclusion, yes, we as a humanity are not currently displaying the type of intelligence that will help heal our current way of living in disconnection to what is needed for us all to evolve.

     1. Wow they are crazy studies that serve no purpose. It is pretty eye opening to consider that this is where our government funds are being spent. And yes – it highlights how far away from the truth we are choosing to be – not considering the powerful relationship between health and intelligence that could offer us such riches.

     2. Thank you Michael for showing the ridiculousness that the academic world is indulging in…surely there must be one intelligent person there who has enough awareness to see what is going on and can begin to turn this craziness around?

142. I had always held up intelligence as something completely unrelated to the body. I believed that all that ‘intelligence;’ came from the mind and we were the masters of that. As I become more aware of the subtleties that my body shares with me the more still and present I become, I know that the intelligence available to me is way beyond anything my mind can know. My body takes into account the whole, it knows how to be intelligent in a way that benefits myself and everything. It connects me to my divine nature, so my decisions and intelligence has a greater depth than what my mind could ever receive.

143. Try living a day adhering to exactly what your body wants not what your mind thinks, and you’ll see just where true intelligence sits within you and me.

144. Being truly intelligent is learning how to say no to the little voice in our head that gives us direction to abuse ourselves in whatever shape that is. If we tune into the body does it really want or need what the little voice is saying? Or is it communicating something totally different? Listening to the voice in our head over our own body is going against the amazing beautiful super important vehicle that the body is. Saying no to that voice and honouring the body is the truly intelligent choice.

145. “If we stop encouraging a form of intelligence that has no connection to health and wellbeing, we then allow ourselves to make the move into greater awareness and gentleness, a move towards true health interwoven within the multi-dimensional intelligent being who is made of and emanates pure love.” If this is true intelligence, then it begs the question, ‘what is feeding the intelligence that we associate with our brains that we so readily accept as being true and that we give so much power too?’

146. True Intelligence and health comes hand in hand and makes all the difference to how we live and to listening to our bodies and choosing love as our energetic way of being. Now this is true intelligence allowing our quality of living vitality and health to simply be our way.

     1. Yes, I agree, health and true intelligence do come hand in hand… the choices we make in life certainly have an impact on our health and wellness.

147. “Perhaps we need to start to champion the relationship between intelligence and health, and let go of a form of intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all but is merely a clever and convoluted form of control, and protection.” This is a wonderful suggestion Stephen and one that if taken up would serve humanity well.

148. As I was reading your blog again Stephen, I recognised that we have more educated and so called intelligence people now than ever before but our illness levels are higher than ever before as well. There is a relationship here we cannot ignore and what is this telling us? Perhaps we are being run by an intelligence that is in fact not so intelligent and this could be causing the huge mess we are in as a race.

149. Both intelligence and health are a representation of quality. Intelligence being the level of multidemensionality one taps into and health being the level of care and love one walks and breathes with.

150. Something weird about our current educational model is how we ‘learn’ in an intense period then apparently are set for life. Yet very few people that I know actually seem to be resourced by what they studied. It appears to me that our education system is seriously flawed and should be marked an F-. For we should be encouraged to delve into the relationship between our body, life and truth every day that we are alive – studying every second would be wise.

151. Living from the true intelligence of the body is the optimum health plan.

     1. Exactly Jenny… It’s the ultimate personal coach, diet plan, health plan, everything rolled into one.

152. From the experiment with my body I have discovered such an extraordinary relationship between my movements and the quality of my thoughts. I could never turn my back on this – it is simply an experiment that needs to continue to ensure I embrace all that is on offer, not just for me but for all those who are affected by the way I move, express and think.

153. After an early life invested in the recognition I got for being smart, more and more I am realising that my true intelligence comes from body and to marvel at what it knows requires no recognition from outside of myself. Just on a very basic level I am finding that on days when I eat fresh healthy foods, I am more purposeful and much clearer and decisive in my thoughts. Whereas, when I eat heavy foods I feel dull and my intelligence seems to drop.

154. It definitely is a process we will all go through to become more aware of our health with the messages the body gives us, and learn what behaviour supports our health and what sabotages it. We may try to do this through reading research articles etc, but the truth is simply there within the body when we feel it.

155. Within True Intelligence is the pathway that restores us all to our true selves, and sets us on the path home.

     1. The fact that you have used the words ‘True Intelligence’ indicates that there is a false version of intelligence. I am now beginning to recognise this is what is happening and it is the false intelligence that is currently running the show on earth.

     2. Indeed cjames2012 its the bodies true intelligence that really makes a difference.

156. Great Stephen, so much of the wisdom you have shared is lived and felt from your body and this level of intelligence if this is what we want to call it has developed because you are now choosing a Soul-full fiery energy that is a deep healing for all those who connect to this article.

157. Brilliant blog Stephen. The intelligence we think we own doesn’t come from us, this can be like a moment of brain freeze when we understand what this really means. It also throws out the concept of seeking recognition, how can we claim to own an invention or creative idea when it doesn’t originate from us? This can be exposing but I love understanding the fact that we are all vehicles of expression, we are either allowing prana or fire to flow through our body at any one time.

158. When I was in my teenage years, my Mom use to take me to this Doctor who was very over weight and smoked. I remember thinking, even though I was young, do I really want this Doctor giving me advice? LOL

159. It is very beautiful and rewarding to work with the body instead of using it for just the things I want to do or have to do, in fact the more I honour the natural rhythms of my body, the less there is a have to or a want to but a deep contentment and enjoyment of just being and doing.

160. The way we currently live is self-evidently not intelligent. The intelligent thing to do would be to stop and review everything thing we’ve ever done and see the common truth in it. The fact that we push on is testament to the fact that energy rules life, not just our head. So what is the truly wise energy to listen to? Separation or universality?

     1. Well said Joseph, if we are truly intelligent, why are we not stopping and re-assessing based on a different energy, not the energy that got us to where we are today?

     2. Brilliant Jospeh! Definitely universality, it is the only way that will support us to get out of the mess we have created on earth. Separation hasn’t gotten us very far in our evolution, it has created the mass destruction that will take us centuries to clear up. But we are going to reach a point for humanity where we will understand that there is going to be no other option except to STOP, re-evaluate our choices thus far and start taking responsibility for the lack of intelligence we have accepted and been living in is not working, and start accessing our multi-dimensional intelligence to restore harmony on earth.

161. This is so true….”True intelligence makes intelligence a level playing field where we all have equal access to the movements that bring greater knowing, married to and woven up in greater health and wellbeing.” No person with more or less wisdom available, but all equally able to connect with it, if we choose. If we were truly intelligent we would not be so sick to the level we are in society, true wisdom supports the whole body not the ‘fun and games’ of the head.

162. Every day it is an experiment to feel how my body is. I listen, and gather facts. I don’t listen and I also gather facts. Accumulating data tells me how I feel in the end and if that was wise.

163. I loved what you have shared here Stephen, it is so simple ” until we all understand that we don’t actually think but just align to energy from the only two sources available, prana (harming) or fire (healing).” I am realising more and more that whatever i am doing is run by either one of the two sources available.

164. The term “the end justifies the means” has always irked me due to the lack of accountability or responsibility it often proudly boasts. We have become a society driven by goals and targets set by our minds and everything along the way is kind of collateral damage. Our own body is also treated in this manner and then when we are sick and unwell we are outraged and want to be rescued. Truly, we are not acting that intelligent.

165. There is so much more that we can understand about ourselves and our place in the world when we source the intelligence of our inner hearts.

166. My feeling is that when we “pigeon-hole” we are in judgement over another and it is plainly obvious that this is not working. When we listen to our body from our essence then we are understanding that we are all the same and also how could we ever judge another if we are all energetically connected thus being the same in essence.

167. We are much more than just physical beings but to live in a way that is in disregard of our physical body is not so intelligent, which does make me question what kind or quality of intelligence would lead us to not look after and pay attention to the whole of us…

     1. Well said Fiona, it does make you question when we look around and we can see a lot of intelligent people making not so intelligent choices when it comes to looking after our body. Now, this doesn’t add up and to understand why is easy, we are being run by an energy that is not so intelligent and that is pranic energy.

168. “Serge Benhayon, a man dedicated to patiently teaching that our thoughts are not our own, repeatedly… until we all understand that we don’t actually think but just align to energy from the only two sources available, prana (harming) or fire (healing).” Thanks to Serge Benhayon this teaching on ‘thinking’ exposes everything, it is a timely and needed teaching following on from the work of Einstein that shows Everything is Energy, then Serge Benhayon’s expansion “Everything is energy and therefore everything is because of Energy”, without which we could not have even been able to contemplate the truth about thought.

169. Totally accepting the fact that we don’t think but our thoughts are coming from the energy we are aligned to may be hard for many of us to swallow and may also take a while before we are able to fully grasp, but it is one of the many very important facts we have to understand for us to move forward as a species out of the mess we are in.

170. When a person who is highly decorated and celebrated for completing a ’10 thousand word’ thesis yet suffering heightened anxiety, body run down etc we have to question what true intelligence is and the energy that drives it. ‘If we stop encouraging a form of intelligence that has no connection to health and wellbeing, we then allow ourselves to make the move into greater awareness and gentleness, a move towards true health interwoven within the multi-dimensional intelligent being who is made of and emanates pure love’. This has been so expanding and confirming to read.

171. There may come a time soon when health will be revered and put before the so called intelligence that seems to run the show at the moment, giving way to a full bodied intelligence that runs hand in hand with health.

172. If there was a relationship between health and intelligence, how is it the world in its so called most technologically advanced age is also at an age of illness epidemics like obesity and diabetes? Clearly there is more to health than being intelligent.

173. It never ceases to amaze me the intelligence of my body, always guiding me towards healthier living. Just recently it has again shown me without fail and this time is was another layer of how I am trying to control life to avoid getting hurt, yet this is not me now but came from an old hurt which has now been released and I feel the lightness of it no longer being with me, a healthier feeling for sure.

174. “More degrees, more PhDs, more Masters, more Doctors – we are seemingly more educated and intelligent than ever before” – Tertiary education and PhD’s are our current marker of so called ‘intelligence’, but in truth we will only become more wise when we start to observe and listen to life’s teaching, and learn how to play our part in something much greater than this world.

175. Very well said, Stephen. I really get a sense of how our lack of responsibility is feeding industries hence creating jobs which would keep us in irresponsibility therefore we need more ‘intelligent’ people to come up with solutions so the already defunct education system keeps intensifying itself. There is nothing intelligent about this continuum. At all.

176. We can make up, justify and favor any logic or intelligence we want but in the end our body reflects how true this intelligence really is; we cannot escape the intelligence of the body.

     1. And it is through the intelligence of our body that we can access the intelligence of the universe because our particles originate from there.

177. Our body is the greatest and most knowledgable expert when it comes to our health and wellbeing.

178. Our mind-full intelligence has not delivered us health, vitality or joy.

179. I like the reflection this article offers, in which it’s revised what is called intelligence. It would be a good exercise for us to review and discern in our own bodies what kind of intelligence/energy takes us to illness or to a healthy life. Maybe this simple choice of being more aware would take us to the healthy one..

180. I like the reflection this article offers in which it’s revised what is called intelligence. It would be a good exercise for us to review and discern in our own bodies what kind of intelligence/energy takes us to illness or to a healthy life. Maybe this simple choice of being more aware would take us to the healthy one..

181. The fact that this is not taught and is a common knowing that there are two sources of energy and that we are constantly choosing one or the other is a dead give away that there is a force that doesn’t want to be exposed. To be bringing this into my daily awareness and feeling and recognising how this is changing the quality of my life and my health and well-being I am deeply thankful for Serge Benhayon to be presenting the truth.

182. It appears to me that Intelligence that comes from our whole body – our heart and mind – offers an awareness that supersedes the intelligence that is only sourced from our temporal capacity. And it is through this awareness that choices to regard, take care, value and love our body become a natural way to live

183. Whilst I am still learning the relationship between my thoughts and my movements, this is a massive, most important subject that Stephen has discussed eloquently, but which also needs to be “out there” with the general public.

184. You’ve importantly brought up the huge gap between academia and self care, responsibility and true wellbeing… There shouldn’t be such an enormous difference between the attention given to “writing a highly academically acclaimed 10,000 word thesis on quantum physics”, and looking after our own particles!

185. Your questionStephen, opens wide a debate that needs to take place amongst humanity. We have been avoiding whole body intelligence to our detriment for far too long and are subsequently living far less than our true potential.

186. There is a really straightforward question offered here, that would be a great topic for every household, workplace, social gathering to explore… the mismatch of the increase in what we currently value as intelligence (‘more degrees, more PhDs…’) alongside our declining health.

187. You could say it’s a no-brainer, that when we let go of using our brains trying to control everything, and surrender to the amazing wisdom of our bodies, then life becomes so much simpler. Yes there is tension but it comes with a feeling of greater ease and joy.

188. Very well written Stephen, there is a relationship between intelligence and health. When our body and being are truly healthy our capacity for intelligence grows, as does our connection to soul.

189. That is such a separation giving intelligence and health differing categories, immediately we are split and cannot live the whole of all who we are, which is sure to lead to ill health, and actually a lack of true intelligence.

190. “The Philosopher Serge Benhayon has presented that our current model of intelligence is flawed, that we don’t think so much as we source thoughts through the movement of our body and that every movement is from one of two pools of energy that either harms (prana), or heals (fire).” This teaching has helped me understand my thoughts and behaviours to a level that exposes what is going on – when it is this simple, there can be no surprises around what’s going on.

191. A great exposure of the complication and chaos we create when we try and work things out in our heads. All decisions, particularly those around what support our health and well-being, are wiser when we live in respectful relationship with our bodies.

192. I love it… how can we call something intelligent when it abuses the vehicle that it lives in? Our minds alone are not intelligent, as part of our whole body intelligence they are integral.

193. Exposing the ‘imposter’ intelligence that we have championed for so long… I love what this article is offering.

194. There is a great question Stephen – what if we blended the two disciplines of health and intelligence? One way would be to bring our minds into thinking what it should look like, dissecting it without feeling and the lived experience. This is the current paradigm and it is not working as there is no livingness to back up the relationship with our bodies. The other looks to a whole body intelligence, where it is the body that is informing us of our choices, what feels beneficial and what does not support – and this leads to the next choice and the next.

195. When we let the mind to be informed by the body we will know the full range of intelligence available to us, an intelligence that is incorporating mind, body and every aspect of life and thus will be a very healthy choice maker.

     1. Beautiful description of true intelligence Alex “an intelligence that is incorporating mind, body and every aspect of life”, one that exposes by contrast the extremely narrow and false idea of what intelligence is currently accepted to be.

196. It is interesting isn’t it that the traditional model of intellectual intelligence separates people into the intelligent and not intelligent camps and it is assumed that you are either born intelligent or not and if you are not well too bad, you lose. However if we consider that all of humanity has access to the same level of whole body intelligence if they choose it, well this levels the playing field and brings equality and this may explain why the current intelligentsia and academia fight anyone who exposes that their intelligence is not all it is trumped up to be.

     1. Anything that levels the playing field and allows for there to be a true equality has to be a good thing. God would not create a system except for one of true equality, and while on the outside it might look like we have different lives, the key is we are offered the learning we need in this life – and that learning is found in our relationship with the world, and not in a book.

197. No academic has been able to explain why someone who knows about the harms of abuse such as drinking alcohol will intentionally still abuse and harm themselves. We tend to write this off sometimes as a society thinking it is just this person or that person and how they choose to behave is up to them. But before casting judgement, the understanding that it is just energy that is coming through them allows for a deeper understanding as to what is truly going on as you can see a person is more than just their behaviour

198. Reblogged this on Balancing A Life.

199. ‘we source thoughts through the movement of our body’ This is such a simple approach to life. But intelligence- the ‘imposter’ you rightly called it- rolls up its sleaves and wants to put up a fight to this simple truth.

200. I certainly understand in full how my movements determine my intelligence and where I will stand – in Prana or Fire. It has not been overnight process for me to “Ok, I’ve got it” like the somewhat lower intelligence is widely known now – we memorise and regurgitate knowledge. It is an alignment to intelligence through a movement; a consistent movement. Even when I clearly felt it in my body there was a lack of acceptance that I could live this and make it my reality and truth. The responsibility scared me and I predetermined that I will be alone if I am this. It’s a setup though because I actually felt alone anyway with no connection to my body. “What if it isn’t found in our ability with academia, but something inextricably linked to our health, the level of wellbeing we live in our bodies, the quality of energy we emanate in our daily life – the relationships and connections we form?”

201. There is the saying ‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’ – under the light of the connection between intelligence and health this saying gathers much more depth in meaning as it highlights the relationship and interaction of body and mind for both to be truly healthy.

202. This is a great point to make, how it is possible to achieve great academic results but have a body that is in a state of great stress. And I suppose the key here is not to reject the academia and how it supports our societies in so many ways, but rather to consider our own contribution to the institutions, the crafts, the fields of work and study. Because with a body that is leading the way with its true and whole intelligence, surely our contributions will be that much greater, rounded and inclusive?

203. There is intelligence beyond the academic regurgitation we applaud and recognise as being superior.

204. We have chosen an intelligence that is very abusive to our bodies and worse still in my opinion we champion this intelligence as the pinnacle of our existence.

     1. A sure sign of ignorance, no?!

205. We dont like to consider the fact that each and every one of us has access to a whole body intelligence as that would mean we could not make ourselves better than another by what we can recall in the way of knowledge.

     1. So true. To know everyone has access to the same knowledge is the epitome of equalness. Something we each can acknowledge and hold in our awareness. To just do this each day would bring huge change to our world.

206. “As a further example, what effect does slouching in front of a screen have on our thoughts and subsequent actions? Anyone can try this and see how they feel.” It is the simple and obvious things in life that can bring us the answers if we are willing to observe and conclude and act upon them.

207. We need to start using true wisdom to reconnect to true intelligence.

208. Reading this article supports what I have experienced. Whilst studying, if I remain tender in my movements, responsive to how my body wants to sit and hold a definite solid posture, then I don’t feel tired from the activity. In fact, I feel energized by it.

     1. One of many examples that bust myths about life… in this case, the stress of study. Living in and with care and respect for our bodies we can do many things for sustained lengths of time without harm or detriment.

209. My body is way too intelligent for my ‘intelligence’. How humbling is that? 😉

     1. Very, if one considers exactly what is being said. We always know more than that which the mind delivers. Such is the reality that we can feel disappointed and disillusioned with ourselves, when we knew to do or say something differently, knew from a feeling in our body, but let the mind over ride this innate intelligence.

210. ‘If we stop encouraging a form of intelligence that has no connection to health and wellbeing, we then allow ourselves to make the move into greater awareness and gentleness, a move towards true health interwoven within the multi-dimensional intelligent being who is made of and emanates pure love’. This is music to my ears Stephen. I can feel the deep shift that can happen as we turn our focus to Heaven an begin to live this way – still observing all around us without judgment.

211. If we stop encouraging a form of intelligence that has no connection to health and wellbeing then the whole world truly benefits.

     1. Good point… If we encourage an intelligence that Has connection with our heart and Soul, then there would be wisdom well beyond the scope of intelligence that we currently experience, and harmony that would render the human body in true health and wellbeing.

212. Between intelligence of the mind and health? A weak relationship.

213. I have taken the experiment of slouching in my spine into a body experiment and found there is a distinct difference in my thoughts and my thought processes. When I collapse my spine when standing or when I slouch when seated my thoughts are muddied, petulant and irritated, yet when I allow the extension of my spine it allows space for not only blood flow, but also clearer thoughts. The mere process of clocking the compression and then movement to un-compress brings a commitment to be more aware and therefore more present in my body.

     1. Yes, a great way to change our thoughts is to simply move our body. With a bit of practise we can also change the direction of our thoughts.

     2. I have experienced this too Lucy and the same can be true in the way I am breathing when I undertake any task in front of me.

        1. This observation of body posture, breathing and the ensuing thoughts and consequent behaviour that derive from them is an example of the readily available true living intelligence we have in our body, and how the awareness of these observations takes the human into true health and well-being…

        2. Yes, how true! Our breath can change almost imperceptibly if we are not choosing to pay attention to it but is a great early warning sign of a slouching or a tension in the body.

214. There is no question, we have to consider another way because the way we have taken as normal thus far shows the health outcomes to be a very devastating global trend.

215. Consider getting to the point where we realise our so called current intelligence, that we think is intelligent is in fact the thing that is making us ill! This definitely would raise the question, what then is true intelligence and how do we apply and live it?

216. True intelligence comes from our body and our very movements and love, and everything else is what we are taught to believe, whereas true intelligence we know inside us resonates with us lovingly and expansively and makes absolute sense with a simplicity and knowingness and brings our health and wellness alive with responsibility and vitality for us all.

217. I still find it a little challenging at times knowing that we don’t conjure up our own thoughts but are fed them from what ever energy we are aligned to, but I only have to ponder a little on some of the thoughts that pop into my head at times to know that they didn’t come from me, as I know I would never entertain such outrageous ideas or dream of putting them into action, but still they come when I am aligned to prana.

218. It is great to unpack and debase what ‘intelligence’ currently is to us and that true health and intelligence at the moment stand as two separate things; something that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been presenting for years. This shows us just how far we have strayed, the fact that we ‘think’ about health yet in reality do not live this truth and on the whole are currently disconnected to the truth and wisdom of our body and what lies innately within.
     It is important that you have spoken about the ‘two pools of energy that either harms (prana), or heals (fire)’ as in order to truly change and heal the vast separation we have created with regards to intelligence and health and life generally, we need to truly understand this, again something that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present and have presented for years, who so far as I am aware of are the only people to present such a clear and simple truth.

219. Have you ever had a thought pop into your head and then wonder where on earth that came from? Quite often though our thoughts are so instantaneous that we don’t observe the gap in the download. ‘Written with full recognition of the all-knowing intelligence that is Serge Benhayon, a man dedicated to patiently teaching that our thoughts are not our own, repeatedly… until we all understand that we don’t actually think but just align to energy from the only two sources available, prana (harming) or fire (healing).’ To have this download explained has made total sense to me and the more I observe my thoughts and the more I observe how the quality of my movements contribute to those thoughts the more I understand that true intelligence can only, and will only ever, come from the whole body.

220. When you consider the natural brilliance of us all then you realise just how dumb we’re all pretending to be.

221. Even with the common cold which offers the most obvious reflection that we are responsible for our health we seem to have chosen to ignore the message. The link to disregard of self, through exposing self to situations that compromise the immune system is well known, but rarely spoken about when sympathising with the person, the term caused by stress is thrown about as if stress is an entity unrelated to ourselves and our own choices. And then we champion various medications that make the symptoms go away.
     Seriously, our current way of thinking is not very intelligent at all.

222. Awareness is intelligence, and awareness also brings one into discipline and obedience to their body – how and what the body needs, to be looked after and taken care of, so in effect, taking care of the body is intelligent, which actually inspires greater health of the body. This here-in presents how there is a constant and perpetual movement at play, like a cog in a wheel within many bigger and grander cogs and wheels, that turn constantly. A never-ending and perpetual cycle of self-care, self-love, awareness, intelligence, health, vitality and relationship with our Soul that is forever expanding and infinite. So, yes, there is definitely a relationship between intelligence and health.

223. When I was growing up the words “use your common sense” were often used if we did anything stupid. They mean what they say, a sense that is common to us all, an innate available body intelligence which shows us the true way to express, not a learned knowledge or a theoretic thought.

224. I remember professors in my college days who would be twisted up with tension, grey in colour, and utterly miserable. The knowledge that they held and that they were teaching was thought of as intelligent, but looking at the state of their bodies and their level of vitality this was not a good advert for intelligence. As students we look up to our professors who are there to be our role models. No wonder we get taken off track.

225. Our relationship between our health and intelligence is everything. Why spend gazillions of dollars on a Space Station when we have not really addressed why we get Cancer, Heart Disease or Diabetes, which are all preventable illnesses. Surely it makes sense to address the quality of our health first before venturing out into space, otherwise we just take it all with us.

226. Our current accepted form of intelligence is not about the best way of living for our health but rather trying to find ways of not being responsible for it and simply ridding it of illness and disease without really being open to identifying the cause – makes no sense that so much supposed intelligence we have not got closer to knowing that we cause most of our own disease and illness with our choices and way of being after so many years. Especially when this knowing has always and is always accessible to us all.

227. “What is the relationship between intelligence and health?’ The moment we separate intelligence and health we’re living in ignorance and yet this is the brand of intelligence sold en masse, readily accepted and elitist. Whole body intelligence is universal, we all have equal access to it and all inclusive with body and health very much at its heart.

228. And yet when I observe myself, I still revert and make mental rather than whole body choices that are not in my best interest and harm my body.

229. How often are we presented with someone waving their right hand in our face and them telling us not to look at their left hand, because they have letters after their name? Is this just the petulant little child that never grew up, but is highly educated and thinks they know what is good for us? When we feel what is true, this is the real intelligence, which we all possess but sometimes forget.

230. “If our current model of intelligence were genuinely intelligent there would be less illness surely, not more!” Surely this statement should make us all stop in our tracks and deeply question our current educational policies. Does being able to do complex equations outweigh learning how to not get Cancer or Diabetes? In my book teaching kids how to genuinely value them selves, look after their bodies and build healthy relationships sits higher on the agenda than learning to read and write by the age of 4.

     1. It seems we are speaking a different language to the majority. I heard recently of a campaign against government plans to introduce SATS (Standard Assessment Tests) for four year olds.

        1. So true Kehinde. It begs the question what are we testing them for? At four years old we are just making sense of the world and understanding who we are. How do we test that and why do we want to? It seems to me to be a marker of huge disconnection from our truth, to learn how to truly nourish and nurture our selves and one another.

231. In general we consider ourselves being ‘too intelligent’ to listen to the body as if it would mean to degrade oneself, such is the ignorance of an intelligence that doesn´t even know or bother how to take care of the very vehicle, the body, that allows it to experience life.

     1. Yes Alex, we’ve relegated the body below mental intelligence and consider it not worth listening to or taking precious care of and pay the price for this ignorance.

     2. Put like these two comments, I can really feel the madness of our blind pursuit of our current model of intelligence.

232. I love the question that is posed here about the relationship between intelligence and health. I know so many so called very intelligent people who neglect their body and their health. True intelligence has to start with the body as the body itself is a hugely intelligent vehicle that has much to teach us.

233. Mankind has for a long time been ignoring the energetic factor behind what we witness in physical life. To top this we have also been arrogantly insisting that only what we see and can measure counts. We have maintained this whilst our bodies are constantly telling us otherwise, and nothing shouts it louder than the escalating rate of our illness and disease.

     Yet we choose to keep on the same blinkered track. This in itself tells me loads about our current recognised intelligence. Just how intelligent is an intelligence that deliberately and stubbornly chooses to maintain self-imposed blindspots?

234. ‘True intelligence makes intelligence a level playing field where we all have equal access to the movements that bring greater knowing, married to and woven up in greater health and wellbeing.’ a world away from the elitist system which currently revolves around intelligence and academia.

235. Where do the stupid things we do come from? Could it be the same place that fills our head with remembered knowledge? Both do not have our body high on the priority list. The energy that drives us down this road, can never be healing!

236. If we allow the mind to run the body without the impulses from the inner heart, we will create a dis-ease that will eventually manifest as ill health. This gives us a clue as to why our rates of illness are skyrocketing even though we pride ourselves on getting ‘smarter’ in the technological age we now live within.

237. We do have to look at what sort of intelligence doesn’t put our health and well-being first and foremost, how we can be studying to be a doctor but still smoke and drink alcohol when we know how damaging they are.

238. I used to consider myself an intelligent person but when I look back at the way I treated my body and some of the decisions I made, there seems to be very little of what I now know to be a true intelligence behind my choices. Through the teachings of Serge Benhayon I have come to understand that the lauded intelligence of the mind is not our true intelligence. In fact if I rely on my mind I am regularly lead astray, but when I connect to the intelligence of my body, I am always presented with the truth. Then of course it is up to me as to whether I act on it, or not.

     1. This is brilliantly exposing the madness of our narrow focus on academia… and the cost is evidenced in the state of our bodies.

239. Being healthy is not just the absence of disease, but living in a way that the disease is not developed in the body.

240. We have made the pursuit of a form of intelligence the answer to worsening health because we can sustain existence with more and more advances in medical science and yet we are still getting more and more ill. It’s like rubbing on a cream which alleviates the symptoms for a time but then they come back worse than before, so we try more cream or a more concentrated form, so the symptoms subside again but when they come back again, which they do it is again worse than the previous time. Let’s stop trying to rub cream on it and look at where the symptoms are truly coming from.

241. An advancement that leaves a part of the whole behind or worse, damages a part, is not a true advancement at all.

     1. A beautiful droplet of wisdom Golnaz, little understood or rejected outright. We only truly advance when we bring everyone with us, no one rejected, ignored or left behind.

242. True intelligence is determined by the way that we move, which is why true intelligence is available to us all and not given to a select few at birth. And those who’s physical movements are impaired are not penalised, because ‘movement’ encompasses any physical movement at all, as well as our speech and our thoughts. True intelligence comes through any body whose owner is being consciously present and thereby preventing an unseen energy from coming in and polluting it with false intelligence or any other of the myriad of false representations of who we believe ourselves to be.

243. In essence the relationship between intelligence and health is a very close marriage. If we fall sick evidently we have not been having a very smart relationship with our bodies, being as they are innately intelligent, finely tuned self healing organisms.

244. If we were living from a state of true intelligence we would not wreck our health. It’s that simple.

245. And our body is a great marker of what energy we are choosing, either healing or harming. As the end results of the energy chosen will be felt in our body. Is it cold, hard, supple, warm, tender, open, contracted, obese, disregarded, loved etc.

246. So if I am accepting that I can have access to this intelligence that we all have access to, (1) that makes us all equal and nobody is more intelligent than anyone else (2) it makes a mockery of the school class grading system (3) if our access depends on our body’s ability to allow connection, we need to learn how to eat and live in a way that enables that process – that’s what our education should be about

247. This redefinition of what intelligence actually is shifts the focus right away from the mind and into the body. True intelligence: The ability to feel and sense and respond to our feelings, as in “whole body intelligence”.

248. True intelligence leads to true health and true health leads to true intelligence.

     1. Well said Alexis – this would provide a simple way of knowing when we are off track.

249. We are all choosing to move in a way that reduces our unlimited brilliance down to a level of basic dysfunctionality.

250. I wonder when it will be that we realise en mass that the intelligence that we pursue and seem to make the be all and end all of our existence is flawed and the state of our health is suffering because of this. We all need to swallow our pride and admit and accept where it is going wrong and look to those for guidance who are getting it right.

     1. Yes, we seem to question so many things in life but we have never stopped and checked whether the thinking we use to solve things is the right source to do it or whether the source we are using is the culprit in the first place so to speak.

251. How often is our health sacrificed in our pursuit of intelligence? Is it not ironic that in trying to be, say a medical professional to help others get well we self-sacrifice our health?

252. That is really a very interesting way to look at our illness and disease rate Steffen. “More degrees, more PhDs, more Masters, more Doctors – we are seemingly more educated and intelligent than ever before.” And not to forget our hospitals are more well equipped than ever before. So your raised question about our education system and which movements and thoughts and therefore energy are educated there made so much sense to me. I am wondering why this question was not raised before.

253. When we live in awareness with our connection to our body, our health and wellbeing substantially improve due to the honesty we bring into our lives. It doesn’t stop here, but keeps on revealing more. This is living intelligence…

254. ‘The Philosopher Serge Benhayon has presented that our current model of intelligence is flawed, that we don’t think so much as we source thoughts through the movement of our body and that every movement is from one of two pools of energy that either harms (prana), or heals (fire). These energies by energetic law affect everyone, everywhere. To make sense of this requires a willingness to accept and understand that we live in a vast pool of energy and that how we move in every detail – our posture, our gentleness, our awareness, our intentions – influences our thoughts, which in turn create our choices – and that these choices then affect our health outcomes – every movement, every choice, every time.’
     Being introduced to this wisdom and science of energy through Serge Benhayon has utterly turned my life around into something to celebrate. Knowing that there are two sources of energy available to use on earth, that one is of truth and the other not of truth, is the crucial and key knowing one must have to be able to heal life from its struggle, misery, competition, doubt, anxiousness, destructiveness etc. – all of which ultimately causes disease in the body. Health and true Intelligence go hand in hand.

     1. Lyndy you have managed to sum up an absolutely colossal subject beautifully and made it very clear for me to see that true intelligence is made available to us all equally, through the way that we move.

255. What is the relationship between intelligence and health – that depends on the intelligence used and even high levels of intelligence need not be enough. One example would be the high burnout rate among doctors who are intelligent but also willing and yet many of them suffer from burnout.

256. It’s spot on how you describe what is usually considered as intelligence and championed without regard to how we are treating ourselves. To ‘let go of a form of intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all but is merely a clever and convoluted form of control, and protection,’ is the way to go. It doesn’t get exposed as being limiting and restrictive like this everyday but this conversation needs to happen.

257. We could say that we have more knowledge about medicine and nutrition than ever before and yet as a society we seem to be getting sicker in many ways, so there must be more to true intelligence and health than just knowledge…

     1. A simple observation a young child is able to make yet as a society we have not connected these dots.

258. Very true, our thoughts can justify anything and allow us to go into harmful patterns and find a reason as to why we need to do this or can find ways to dismiss a greater knowing, whereas the body doesn’t lie- it will speak up and show what is not working, we can try to suppress this but eventually it will always come out.

259. It is very powerful to put love and intelligence together in this way, because you are not talking about an emotional love, but something that is very real and basic, something that is clear and uncomplicated, simple and wholly divine and which comes from how we move our bodies.

     1. So true Shami and also telling that we have separated them in our understanding when in fact with true intelligence this is not possible as we are love then true intelligence must aligned to this also.

260. “The Philosopher Serge Benhayon has presented that our current model of intelligence is flawed, that we don’t think so much as we source thoughts through the movement of our body and that every movement is from one of two pools of energy that either harms (prana), or heals (fire).” This teaching changes everything. That we source thoughts through the movement of our body means that to be present and aware of our movement is more than key, it is completely vital to every element and experience of life.

261. When I feel the effects of some of my not so great lifestyle choices in my body I know for sure that intelligence is not what is stated on my graduation scroll or any educational certificates. We become very wise when we take the body as the teacher.

262. As the body is the marker of all truth it is often our health that exposes the lies of the intelligence that has caused the ill by ignoring the body. Eventually intelligence cannot avoid meeting truth via the body.

263. “If you could, for example, write a highly academically acclaimed 10,000 word thesis on quantum physics, but at the same time choose to put your body in a state of stress and physical decline through lifestyle choices, then are you an intelligent being? Or to put it another way: are you a ‘being’ acting with your true capacity for intelligence? ”
     When you put it like this Stephen it doesn’t seem very intelligent at all and yet this seems to be the way most people study when they are at universities and it is encouraged.

264. Great question Stephen. Health and intelligence are very directly related, although in this upside world we have created the opposite appears true – someone whose body is in an extremely degenerated state can often be thought very intelligent. But how intelligent is it to harm and disregard the very vehicle one inhabits?

265. What we currently champion as intelligence has taken us to a place where technology is so advanced that what it can achieve now has well passed what we had ever thought would be possible, yet this is a classic case of handing a sharp object to a madman – our health and moral standard continue a downwards spiral and we are retarding ourselves as a species just as fast, and we simply do not know what to do with what we have created.

266. If we are not healthy, then surely the wisest and most intelligent thing to do is address our ill health first and foremost. Only then, when we have established a strong level of vitality and constitution through right living should we even consider venturing into our intellectual pursuits. If all that we accomplish is not built upon a solid foundation of health, what is its worth to humanity?

267. Could it be, the self-abuse we do to our bodies to obtain a degree or a PhD is the same as a loveless relationship we endure for years?

     1. I figure it worse Steve, as we live every moment through the loveless body, day in day out.

        1. It would be the same whichever way you go. Abuse is abuse and if it is there in a relationship then it is across the board, in your body, in your life.

        2. True Lyndy, abuse is abuse.

268. Today intelligence seems to be a dead end street. No matter how much we know, research or test it doesn’t seem that we actually understand health. ‘Random’ cancers that appear out of the blue, shock doctors too. But rather than give up I love your angle Stephen – what if the intelligence we’ve been using is not the full deal – and perhaps if we accessed what is true, it would be a huge key to our health?

269. On reflection I realise if the intelligence we are using was true, we would not have to be trained in ‘being streetwise’, ‘political correctness’, ‘wheeling and dealing’, ‘how to get the better of your opponent’ and a whole host of justifications for ideals and beliefs that inherently don’t make sense (which ironically young children’s innocent questions point out), because these rarely if ever honour the love, integrity and one ness that we know deep down in our heart.

270. We can never own true intelligence. It is an energy that flows through us, through the particles that make up our bodies and the world around us. We are simply on the receiving end of a great deal of Universal wisdom, all that is required on our part is to learn how to become obedient to it.

271. Whenever we take something for granted or given, like the form of intelligence we are used to or have settled for, we risk missing the crucial point. Putting 2 + 2 together like here intelligence + health exposes what we have settled for and opens up the so much more there is.

272. Correct. Intelligence is not based on what department or area it sits under or whether it is ‘academic’ or not but whether it is sourced from the highest level of universal intelligence we can access at that point.

273. We have mistaken health for function and as long as we are functioning we say that we are healthy. What is the intelligence behind the mind accepting function as health… compared to the intelligence of the body that is true and offers vitality and harmony when we live in accordance to its impulses?

274. I have observed working with academics who do not take care of their bodies. So academic intelligence can almost be a mask for not wanting to consider that our bodies are also intelligent.

275. “Or to put it another way: are you a ‘being’ acting with your true capacity for intelligence? ” – absolutely Stephen, we are but only reduced in capacity when we reduce the brilliance of the body in allowing it to be the guide and leader of true intelligence i.e. divinity.

276. We do really have to ask where our so called intelligence is coming from, is it coming from a source that deeply cares about us or one that doesn’t give a hoot?

277. Understanding, acknowledging and accepting that we are not the originator of our own thoughts and instead a vehicle of expression through which we are channel for one of two energies is a paradigm shift of such proportions that it turns our understanding of the world on its head.

     1. Interesting and rather exposing then that currently our existing and championed ‘intelligence’ neither offers this thought nor usually allows it credence.

        1. Which just goes to show and confirm that we are a channel of an energy that does not wish us to know we are not the originator of our thoughts.

278. You only have to see how students at school and University study to get their grades at the expense of themselves ( I know I’ve done it myself) and to see how the body gets pushed aside when it is communicating loudly that the way we are going will cause a stop moment or even an illness.

279. It is a very equalising thing to understand true intelligence, when we do, our way of life starts to buck the norms and trends. This is a phenomenal encapsulation of how the intelligence of the body, true intelligence, leads the way to a harmonious and healthy world for everyone equally. “The Philosopher Serge Benhayon has presented that our current model of intelligence is flawed, that we don’t think so much as we source thoughts through the movement of our body and that every movement is from one of two pools of energy that either harms (prana), or heals (fire). These energies by energetic law affect everyone, everywhere. To make sense of this requires a willingness to accept and understand that we live in a vast pool of energy and that how we move in every detail – our posture, our gentleness, our awareness, our intentions – influences our thoughts, which in turn create our choices – and that these choices then affect our health outcomes – every movement, every choice, every time.”

280. Restoring our connection to a universal intelligence via our movements does more than level the playing field. It enables us to see that no one can own intelligence, it is something that we align to via our bodies, a freely available source of immense wisdom literally at our fingertips. All we need to do is make the effort to tune in and feel it.

281. When I get ‘stuck into’ mental energy there is an immediate sense of everything beginning to tighten up – jaw, arms, neck and even toes can curl up and grip the inside of shoes – this is definitely not an intelligent way of behaviour and the wisdom of the body reflects this.

     1. I have felt this too Stephanie – clearly using mental energy like this negates the wisdom in the body. True intelligence uses what is known by the body first and then this instructs the mind. Not the other way around.

282. There is an obvious link between scientific research and intelligence and yet we are becoming more and more unwell. Surely it’s obvious the eggs are in the wrong basket.

283. It is quite an endeavour and some fun too challenging one´s intelligence or form of intelligence now and then and be surprised of the arrogance and unknowingness exposed that one second earlier considered itself to be as wise as King Solomon.

284. Great post!

285. The myth of academia exploded. I, and millions like me pursued the academic route like a holy grail. We used brain intelligence to acquire qualifications, a foundation we were told to gain respectable ‘professional’ roles. An elitist model that gave greater value to those with qualifications. What they didn’t tell you was that this route takes you to a cul-de-sac, no wiser about life, loveless, disconnected from our true self and ultimately a desolate place to be. We are graced to now know different and have returned to the exquisiteness of whole body intelligence.

286. This feels very true…”True intelligence makes intelligence a level playing field where we all have equal access to the movements that bring greater knowing, married to and woven up in greater health and wellbeing.” and how we could be supporting our children to flourish and blossom instead of instilling that it is all about what we can remember…

     1. So true Samantha, the most supportive thing that we can offer our children, after all they have that wisdom naturally so why make them feel stupid when they are already masters of the universe.

287. “…our posture, our gentleness, our awareness, our intentions – influences our thoughts, which in turn create our choices – and that these choices then affect our health outcomes – every movement, every choice, every time.” This is the kind of awareness that I sometimes do not want to deal with. Knowing this changes everything, and gives us a responsibility in life that is greater than what we have been used to. It is in fact an awesome responsibility, but one that can be quite challenging if we are used to living in a certain way that allows the kind of behaviour, movement and thoughts that can harm.

288. Whole body intelligence and living from this stance is a whole different perspective on living life from the ‘mindful’ intelligence that we perceive to be the norm. The two are as vastly different as the ocean and the land. It’s like asking a whale to live life on a mountain, when really its natural and truthful way is to be in the ocean. Could it be that whole body intelligence is natural, but we live with mindful intelligence which is a far cry from our truthful and natural way?

289. I wonder how bad our overall health is going to get before we discover what true intelligence really is. I sometimes wonder if the people making the rules on education and many laws are deliberately leading us en masse up the garden path. This is where we all really do have to start living from the intelligence of our bodies so we can’t be fooled about what we have been told.

290. “If you could, for example, write a highly academically acclaimed 10,000 word thesis on quantum physics, but at the same time choose to put your body in a state of stress and physical decline through lifestyle choices, then are you an intelligent being?” A great question Stephen. The mind is placed as a priority above the body in all educational institutions, yet it is our body that tells us the truth as to how we feel and are living. Accessing wisdom through our body is the future. Humanity hasn’t done a great job so far by just using our mind.

291. Could it be the recently deceased Stephen Hawking is an example of what the mind can do without having all the other things to do in the body, like movement? What would happen to us, if all we did was ponder without movement? We have a name for that; it is couch potatoes.

292. We are brought up to believe the brain is everything, that intelligence is from the mind. We are deliberately told a lie because the unlimited wisdom we can access through our bodies would change the world. And it is changing as more and more people uncover the lie and feel the truth of who we are.

     1. Yes Carmel and the lie continues and is expanding. The whole globe has be sold this same lie and this is why humanity suffers so much. True intelligence does not lie outside of us, but lives within our bodies and as you say to live this would change the world.

293. Most certainly Stephen – the education system is nailing us before we even have a chance to get what is happening. And this system will prevail for some time yet to come. Eventually we as a society will call for a new way but until that time education on the wisdom of movement will be one largely accomplished through reflection.

     1. Reflection is a superb teacher Lyndy.

        1. It is the best Rosanna. I would love to share what a student I tutor in Final year English Literature said as I was leaving yesterday ‘I’ve learnt more this afternoon than I have in the whole year of school. We had been talking about life and he had been asking me if I ‘believed’ in freewill. What an opening for a great conversation. But the reflection has to be there otherwise the word is empty and void.

        2. An absolutely golden example Lyndy of what can be communicated in more than words.

294. Without Serge and his presentations on the fact we don’t think, I would still be thinking I think all the time. now its only when I’m not feeling full in myself that I forget to think that I don’t think and somehow think the thoughts are mine!

295. To me we seem to have put the cart before the horse as the saying goes as we have put intelligence way ahead of our own health and wellbeing and that makes no sense to me at all.

     1. Yes, as a society, we have tended to focus on the pursuit of intelligence, but the fact is, right under our own nose is a body full of intelligence and wisdom if we only choose to re-connect and listen

296. At first glance such pulling apart of the delusion in the intelligence we have been championing seems to be dismissing our grandness. Yet the more you consider what is exposed here, the more it becomes evident that we are actually part of a far greater magnificence than we have been settling for.

     1. Yes, the forsaking of individualism seems such a loss and a lessening of ourselves yet the more we come to surrender to our true nature, an unique spark of the Universe, so we come to appreciate we are far more than we can ever imagine than the individual we believe we are.

     2. Golnaz exactly I love this, its like by settling for what we think is intelligence we miss out of the multidimensional magnificence.

     3. Imparting the truth that whole body intelligence is where it is at to someone who is in invested mind intelligence isn’t really going to cut it unless we are living that reflection ourselves. Whenever I meet someone who lives from their body, not their head I am inspired by their grace and wisdom and there is a sense of that grandness then that is more tangible and real.

        1. Well said, Michelle, it is truly inspiring when we meet someone who is living from their body intelligence rather than from their mind. As well as the qualities you mention I am inspired by their transparency and non-judgmental approach to life.

297. Thank you Stephen for such a clear exposé of the falseness of the presently accepted understanding of what intelligence is. When one looks at such obvious examples as doctors drinking when they know the harm of alcohol, the increase of numbers of doctors, professors etc. and the amazing advances in medicine yet the rate of illness and disease has not decreased, in fact the opposite, it is clear that there is something not right. An inappropriate understanding of intelligence makes common sense.

298. The more we listen to our bodies innate intelligence and wisdom the healthier we will become.

     1. Andrew spot on, I’ve certainly felt the wisdom and natural intelligence from my body is guiding me to be far healthier than ever before.

     2. Yes, the more we clear that which isn’t truly intelligent and wise and in many cases our health will improve.

299. ” What if it isn’t found in our ability with academia, but something inextricably linked to our health, the level of wellbeing we live in our bodies, the quality of energy we emanate in our daily life – the relationships and connections we form? ”
     Wow what an understanding as to what intelligence is.

     1. The more I see through the holes that academic achievement leave in its wake, I wonder at how I could have been so hooked into championing the intelligence of the mind! This is such a confirmation that everything is energy and that we are what we are aligned to. It is not possible to see through this illusion if we are coming at it from a mind based approach. We can’t use the mind to beat the mind, we can only come out of the fixed paradigm if we are shown another way.

300. Great exposing of the corruption of the word intelligence and how academic intelligence has been championed by those who want to exert control. True intelligence is equally accessible to all and it is our choices that determine our connection to this and thus the level of our health and wellbeing.

     1. Yes, intelligence defined as it is, is a means by which a few can control and have power over the many.

        1. I totally agree Jonathan, for there was the period in time where only the elite had access to education and it was this controlling elite that didn’t want the common man to be able to read and write etc and actually went around destroying true forms of intelligence at the time which came from a more full bodied intelligence.

        2. And it is still occurring, though maybe not so overtly, for example the way in which some media outlets in America, particularly the Sinclair Group, limit their journalists in reporting the news truthfully.

301. To me this has highlighted how we can often reduce or separate and compartmentalise life when in truth everything is connected – as in how can we call a way of thinking intelligent if it doesn’t truly consider the body that we live in, thereby negating the whole of who we are and the whole that life is to focus on merely a reduced aspect of it…

     1. It isn’t very intelligent, is it, to override the body at the expense of its health in the drive for the pursuit of ideals and beliefs, yet this is something I have subscribed to and it took someone who lived beyond this consciousness to show me otherwise! What is being talked about is so blatantly obvious and yet we can not see it when we are owned by the consciousness that says mind intelligence is all, until we have a reflection that shows us differently that is. I can hardly credit that that was once what I thought was true, but even in the obvious nature of this very simple and profound revelation, I am still caught out by mind intelligence at the expense of my body.

     2. Great point Fiona. We have become very good at only focusing on the aspects of things we choose to be relevant at that time rather than in respect of the whole and everything else. There is a unifying truth which applies in respect of everything equally all the time. This is the point to start from…

302. Stephen, you raise a great point here; ‘Perhaps we need to start to champion the relationship between intelligence and health, and let go of a form of intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all.’ Disregarding our bodies is not intelligent and yet it seems to be the norm, when we study for higher education achievements such as degrees and PHDs, that the body suffers in the attainment of such academic achievements. This could be in the form of staying up late to study, eating quick foods with little nourishment and allowing our bodies to be in a state of anxiety and stress – all of which are harmful for our bodies.

303. We pride our selves on our material and scientific prowess and yet ignorantly treat our bodies with disrespect and then wonder why we get ill. Somewhere we are refusing to join up the dots and that in itself exposes the quality of our so called intelligence. We invest all this time, money and effort into our Space programmes while the rates of cancer, heart disease and diabetes (to name but a few) continue to climb at an alarming rate. Is this not a clear indication that our current attitudes and way of life are, to put it politely, a bit dumb?

304. The cost to fill our heads full of information is an expensive game. The school of life is free and useless information, we file in wisdom, for knowing what doesn’t work. The intelligence that we live is what allows us to evolve, not a framed piece of paper.

305. Great article Stephen, with much exposed and lots to energetically explore for those who choice. Maybe we have been set up to believe the reinterpretations as truth, just like the world is flat proponents?

306. When I look at the education that my daughter is getting at the moment which is all based around results in maths, science and literature it is plain to see that those making the rules are not coming from true intelligence as we need art and creativity to develop also and there are many, many careers in these fields that will be lacking people to fill these rolls in the future if they don’t change the rules.

307. ‘The Philosopher Serge Benhayon has presented that our current model of intelligence is flawed, that we don’t think so much as we source thoughts through the movement of our body and that every movement is from one of two pools of energy that either harms (prana), or heals (fire).’ This is the crux of it all Stephen, and is the one bit of truth which certain forces don’t want the human being to know about – inside each one of us there is a part consenting to be ignorant of this crucial truth – and that part wants to cling onto this creation we call life. But the cracks are certainly appearing and at some level the world is thirsting for this truth. thank you Stephen for this beautiful article, spreading this intelligence for all.

308. “As a further example, what effect does slouching in front of a screen have on our thoughts and subsequent actions? Anyone can try this and see how they feel.”

     I just did as i was noticing thoughts that were not very pleasant and I was slouching at my computer, so supported my body to sit straighter by sitting up and everything shifted, and I was much more with me and steadier.

309. No amount of academic intelligence can ever be more important than the quality of our health, which when lived in accordance to our body’s intelligence offers us a vital and vivacious quality of life.

310. Wouldn’t it be interesting if university prospectuses came with a health warning like a packet of cigarettes…

     1. Yes indeed Michael!

     2. Ha! that’s an interesting thought…if we really stopped to feel how things affect us I reckon there would be many things we currently accept in daily life as normal that should come with a health warning.

311. Knowing and accepting that there is a source from which our thoughts originate, and that this source is not us, will uncover the truth about the fact that we do not think and that all our educational system does is aligning its students to a source that will make sure it itself is never revealed. Whereas the source of true intelligence will easily reveal the truth about us, our world and the universe.

312. When I was studying for my Anatomy and Physiology exam I put so much pressure on myself, my whole body tensed up. Then a wise young man shared with me: everything is equally important, this exam is not more important than buying groceries and connecting to the lady at the check-out or having diner with my kids. It made me realize how much importance I had put on the exam and on passing and how other people could feel that and the consequences of that.

313. I love your question: ‘If instead, true intelligence is about our ability to feel and sense and respond to our feelings, a whole body intelligence, then it turns on its head what intelligence actually is, and leaves wide open the question of what the imposter posing as intelligence is doing to our health, our relationships, our humanity.’
     This imposter posing as intelligence is literally killing us by letting us move without connection to and consideration of our body.

314. And she may even do better academically …

315. Good health is a sign of applied intelligence. The opposite need not be true but the former feels very true.

316. “…..let go of a form of intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all but is merely a clever and convoluted form of control, and protection.” Ouch. This highlights the emptiness of the intelligence we have assumed in academia. A harsh form of control and arrogance. If we were to let go of this what state would we find ourselves in? If we have not lived with love we would find empty unhealthy bodies which are nowhere near their full potential of awareness and true intelligence.

317. How many people lead the most unhealthy period of their lives whilst studying, focused more on the study than sleep and nourishment and all the while drinking or smoking to take the edge of the pressure experienced by the study. How many medical students get absolutely hammered to deal with the stress and work load involved in becoming a doctor?

318. When we surrender our bodies to someone else because they have letters behind their name to fix us, that is giving away our responsibility and in complete disregard to ourselves that caused the need to be fixed!

319. This is a great example of the relationship between intelligence and health. Take care of the body and wisdom is on tap, whereas force intelligence and the body displays stress.

320. What an extraordinary healing for your friend Susan. Academic success is a big big carrot for someone to let go of. But once detached from such success as a personal goal, and aligned to surrender to the whole, the magnificence of the intelligence offered makes the ‘sacrifice’ so way worth it!.

321. “If our current model of intelligence were genuinely intelligent there would be less illness surely, not more!” This is such a pertinent question you raise Stephen in light of the rapidly escalating rates of illness and disease globally. We consider ourselves to be more intelligent but we are getting sicker – something definitely isn’t right with that scenario. But there is one man who is finally making sense of this dichotomy by presenting that the societally accepted belief that the mind is the seat of our intelligence is flawed and it is the body that holds the greater intelligence. To me, that makes absolute sense.

322. The level of intelligence that made our bodies can only be accessed when we choose to connect and respond to our bodies. When we do surrender to their impulse, the quality of intelligence accessed puts our current academic based version into proper perspective. We have yet to fully understand and embrace the wisdom that resides within us that our heady and disembodied intellect does its utmost to deny at great cost to our health.

323. We have made what we call intelligent so complex, so mental, that we have forgotten that true intelligence, the whole body intelligence, is enormous in it’s simplicity.

324. Yes true intelligence is not just being smart and being able to recall or figure out very complicated things, it is about also living the wisdom and this starts with honouring our body and taking deep care of it. For if we don’t do that what intelligence are we living with that is breaking down its own vehicle that makes the existence of it possible?

325. How freeing is it really to realise that true intelligence is equally available to all and independent of education, status or wealth? It reveals we all have the exact same opportunities as it is not dependant on anything outside of ourselves.

326. The willingness to consistently be open to learning helps immensely to handle the pride of our intelligence in the sense of getting it out of the way and be humbled when the arrogance and ignorance of the loveless intelligence are exposed.

327. “…intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all but is merely a clever and convoluted form of control, and protection” – A great exposé on our currently accepted and praised type of intelligence, well said Stephen.

328. With this is mind surely it is true intelligence that provides the movements to be a healthy human being?

329. Without connection with our body we are at the mercy of a mind that ‘thinks’ it is superior to anything else. Considering we ‘think’ we are so intelligent, it makes no sense as to why the vast increase in numbers in a multitude of diseases and mental illness that are prevalent worldwide.

330. “…a move towards true health interwoven within the multi-dimensional intelligent being who is made of and emanates pure love.” Wow, how beautiful. Why would we not want to move towards this…

331. Great blog Stephen – it is so clear when we observe what is happening in this way and yet the great intelligence that drives most ‘scientific’ research doesn’t see it or even go close to it which just shows how much it does not want to expose itself as the problem. Our body feels so much more and holds truly universal wisdom.

332. We are so brought up to believe that intelligence is in our brains and are absolutely mis-guided to ignore the wisdom that is in our body

333. Stephen, this is a great article. You raise some really important points; ‘Perhaps we need to start to champion the relationship between intelligence and health, and let go of a form of intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all but is merely a clever and convoluted form of control, and protection.’ Reading your article makes me realise how crazy it is that we leave health out of what we currently call intelligence. That someone can be called intelligent when they disregard their body does not feel truly intelligent at all.

334. An amazing sharing of the truth of real intelligence and our bodies with a simplicity and knowing of true health and the way we can live and move in connection with the all.

335. It is true Stephen about the bodily movement producing the types of thoughts and you can easily test this out by slouching at a desk and observing your thoughts, attitude, and then straightening your spine to see how those thoughts and attitude, attention, focus change. A single and the slightest movement affects everything.

336. When we understand that the body is far more intelligent than the mind then we will begin to understand so much more about health and what true well being means.

337. Recently I was on a CPD day at school and the head of the 6th form was giving a presentation about the routes into higher education for this cohort. There was a lot of pride in the results of the students generally at this school and it was all about getting them there and how we could support in that. However, no mention was made as to the quality of this or how to support students with the undoubted stresses of applying or indeed how to handle the tensions of life at university – no support in terms of how to do it in a quality that doesn’t result in mental illness, stress, relationship breakdown, denial of feelings or depression. During their A-levels, I know that many students take anti-depressants to cope with the stress of it all and then once at university live in such a way that is counterproductive to their overall health and well-being. They may end up getting their grades, but at what cost to themselves and at what cost to society, especially the long-term ones where adults have learned to make it look good but at the expense of their bodies?

338. ‘If we stop encouraging a form of intelligence that has no connection to health and wellbeing’. Agreed, only recently on a course I am currently on I got to really see that instead of listening to my body and responding what was true to me I had to put myself in a box of what ‘academically was needed’ and express from here so I could then tick the box! This doesn’t make sense at all!
     I feel when more and more of us truly start to feel this from our body – that the form of intelligence we currently think is intelligent has little connection to our true health and wellbeing … and start being truly intelligent (Whole Body intelligence), then this will start to change. I welcome this day for it is very much needed in the world.

     1. I can relate to what you have written Vicky as I also have just finished a course which required 98 essays, and while I was researching and writing I could feel the hardness come into my body and the mental energy I accessed made it difficult to sleep. Being in that mental energy to learn something does not nurture the body and felt more like a punishment, and it is easy to see how university students get burnt out.

339. It’s great to consider the relationship between our health and intelligence, could we be more intelligent when we are feeling healthy and vital? I know there is definitely a correlation for me, the stronger I feel in my body the more aware and alert I feel, and also the more capable I feel. Could the quality of our health and our bodies be governing the level of intelligence we have access to?

340. To present that our thoughts are not our own puts into question the very model of intelligence and education.
     What is presented here is a gift and helps us to consider why there is a decline in health if we are all supposed to be smarter. A great blog that asks us to consider what the truth of the world is.

     1. Exactly that very concept changes everything in life, it’s something that for most of us we have not even thought about, yet when presented in its simplicity it’s like it has been staring us in the face all along.

341. It is devastating that so many of us live with critical and sometimes completely vile thoughts without the awareness that these thoughts are not our own, that we pull the thoughts in and it is up to us to choose which source we align to. It explains why we see so much violence, abuse and atrocities in the world when we are open to understanding that these crimes are not coming from us but through us.

342. History and facts show an over reliance on mental intelligence is a deadly driver resulting in ill-health, self harm and war.

     1. Not to mention the incessant drive for numbing and distracting ourselves with entertainment, missions and dramas. Have you noticed how frequently when something people have started to rely on is taken away, eg a role, a focused activity, access to the internet, many seem to have a melt down and fall apart? Without the constant crutch these things offer, we would have to feel the devastation that this type of intelligence leaves us in.

        1. I agree Golnaz. The ordinariness of these distractions catches people ‘unawares’ and creates dependencies and addictions. And behind this is deliberate design on a grand scale that manipulates the masses to become willing puppets.

343. ‘Perhaps we need to start to champion the relationship between intelligence and health, and let go of a form of intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all but is merely a clever and convoluted form of control, and protection’. Great to expose this Stephen. An indictment of the world we live in when mental prowess and ‘cleverness’ wins out over inner qualities of love, tenderness and caring.

344. I have the highest admiration for teachers and what they bring to our children. There is an old saying that those that can’t do teach. There are then the more senior professors who their only vocation is education. I was told once by one of these learned fellows in my quest of one of those pieces of paper, not to get over-educated because it would make it harder to get a job! He also said explained the degree abbreviations; AS is assorted stuff, BS is self-explanatory, MS is more of the same and PHD is just piled higher & deeper. A farmer has a lived intelligence.

     1. Interesting what was said to you in that if you are over-educated it would make it harder to get a job! It seems we have made it a lose lose situation not a win win one in that the less educated you are it is also still hard to get a job as … there are less and less jobs. When I was a teenager it would be quite easy to get a part-time or Saturday job now this is a super hard thing for a teenager to be able to have.

345. With the rapid rise of illness and disease over the past decade or so when are we going to stop and realise that the so called intelligence we are coming from is leading us up the garden path and isn’t true intelligence at all. What you have written here Stephen is how the future needs to play out if we are to get out of the predicament that we are entrenched in.

346. The current dominant form of intelligence has disconnected the head from the true heart, the inner-heart, and in doing so has connected itself up to a false source of energy which drives the body to be the slave of commands detrimental to its own well-being. This is clearly demonstrated by the health conditions and statistics you have raised Stephen – health and true intelligence are not disparate things, they are integrally related, though the ‘cut-off’ head has forgotten this and is instead implementing its own ravaging desires.

347. Yes we consider ourselves as more intelligent than ever before. Yet not only is humanity more sick than ever, there is widespread disharmony between people, the abusive behaviour is going through the roof and more and more people are killing themselves! Seriously, the fact that we have not questioned what we call intelligence before Serge Benhayon started to pose the question, this itself shows the extent of our illusion.

348. With an incredibly high percentage of illness and disease being ‘lifestyle’ related, this is seemingly evidence enough that the current considered form of intelligence is not that at all. We are living too much from our heads at the expense of our bodies.

349. Beautifully laid out Stephen for us all to fully understand that we have a responsibility to move in a way that does access true intelligence and true well-being and in the bargain also supports humanity at large.

     1. Kathleen, I agree, when we bring exercise, health, and true movement we allow ourselves the intelligence we’ve always wanted in a way that actually supports humanity.

350. What we call intelligence is ripe for some honest investigation when we see that very learned people are not capable of basic self-love and care. We are more educated then ever but seem to have lost common sense and an ancient wisdom that has guided us through the ages. What will we come to rely on for our future?

     1. I agree, how can the most intelligent people in the world not consider the basic principles of self care, and how can doctors drink when they medically know what happens? It seems to me there’s a difference between educated “intelligence” and the intelligence that comes from within us and our bodies.

        1. absolutely Meg, and this will eventually completely transform our educational system from teaching to developing what is already there.

351. Reality check: The limitations of ‘my’ intelligence are exposed every time it comes to eating! It seems my gums follow their own intelligence 😉

     1. Ouch yes I know that one :-), my body has a lot to say about the ‘intelligent’ choices my head is making.

352. It is so obvious the insanity of judging intelligence of the mind as the only form of intelligence worth measuring and in isolation to the whole body.

353. I love what you write here, Stephen, about true intelligence being a whole body intelligence and taking everyone’s health into account. How can you call someone that is misusing his body/their vehicle of expression intelligent? Every child can pick us up on that.

354. You ask some really pertinent questions Stephen and the one that struck me today was ‘What is the influence of our education system?’ As you rightly point out we are producing more people with PhDs etc but our nations are getting sicker rather than more healthy. It is only when we feel the true purpose of education and work together to make it happen that this will be resolved.

355. There is an intelligence, a wisdom that naturally comes alive when we become aware of our whole body, love and Soul and not think that intelligence only comes from our academic achievements. This is where our health and vitality of our body has much to do about our whole body intelligence.

356. I’ve met many people who have gone through university working in supermarkets or restaurants, and current students who have no idea why they chose to go to uni in the first place. Coming out with no joy and a lot of debt. I dropped out of the first year as I couldn’t take the stress and also had debt. That peice of paper isn’t all it’s made out to be and I’d say it can create more problems than it solves.

357. This is one of these simple truths that we would way more clearly see when we would stop and look at our whole life and if it actually makes sense. For instance indeed the fact we only get more illnesses when we have got more academics than ever does not really makes sense.

358. “True intelligence makes intelligence a level playing field where we all have equal access to the movements that bring greater knowing, married to and woven up in greater health and wellbeing…” The wisdom of this blog is worthy of a presentation to parents, teachers, educators steeped in old traditions that bolster divide and rule. Imagine how children would respond to this presentation, once shown they’re of equal intelligence to every other human being.

359. Wow, beautifully said Richard – “It is like accessing a font of wisdom, rather than trying to fill up a container with knowledge.” – if we have knowledge without wisdom then what true use can we make of it…? Knowledge in itself is needed in many ways but we also need to know what to do with it for the true benefit of us all.

360. Great questioning of what we call intelligence and what is really intelligent and where does ‘intelligence’ come from… For us all to truly evolve these are crucial topics for us to consider in my opinion and Serge Benhayon offers great clarity and understanding on this.

361. Stephen, it was a joy to read your blog as it really does ask us to look at intelligence in another way, how can we ignore health with intelligence. Or put another way how about we start with health and then see what ‘intelligence’ has already considered this.

362. A recent radio programme explored the health of GPs and concluded that if GPs and trainee doctors if not schooled to be aware of their own bodies and how to eat and live healthily they’re not in the position to advise and support patients on healthier lifestyle choices. We learned that the curriculum of trainee doctors is so crammed it has no space for ‘health’ studies. A worrying example of how lack of true intelligence plays out in our world and among medical professionals.

363. The current intelligence is quite neglectful of the body and at times deeply self harmful, and we could add to this that it’s also very competitive and individualistic, which is harmful to the cohesiveness of communities and detrimental to relationships.

364. The very fact that so called highly educated and intelligent people can struggle to cope with life eg the high rates of suicide amongst doctors tell us that our current version of intelligence is falling short of the mark.

365. “True intelligence makes intelligence a level playing field where we all have equal access to the movements that bring greater knowing, married to and woven up in greater health and wellbeing.” I can feel the healing just this one sentence (let alone the whole blog) offers humanity. So many hurts and so much division has come from the reinterpretation of intelligence. With this understanding we realise we need not hold onto them any more.

366. I love what Serge presents on Whole Body intelligence because it is the absolute truth and finally someone is making sense and presenting something that I know to be true and felt years ago as a child.

367. Very well written and explained, ~ our bodies are more intelligent than we can imagine, and more intelligent than we let it be. Your beautiful blog ignites a new spark, though, to always let the body lead the way – first. That’s being intelligent.

368. ‘If you could, for example, write a highly academically acclaimed 10,000 word thesis on quantum physics, but at the same time choose to put your body in a state of stress and physical decline through lifestyle choices, then are you an intelligent being?’ I totally love this question as it really busts through a lack of intelligence in championing the head over and above the whole body.

369. Great article Stephen, posing some very important questions. What does the ability to recite information or recall knowledge actually give back or contribute to society, particularly when the people who do have many letters after their name can feel shattered and exhausted from their academic studies. Could there be a greater form of wisdom we are ignoring?

370. Intelligence measured by regurgitation is no intelligence at all.

371. So true Stephen. We place huge emphasis on one aspect of our intelligence while ignoring the fact that despite a rise in the standards of our education it is clearly not filtering through to our relationship with our health, the two are distinctly out of balance. Our bodies are immensely intelligent and when we move in accordance with them, they reveal great wisdoms about how we should live and hence are our greatest educators of all.

372. “If we stop encouraging a form of intelligence that has no connection to health and wellbeing, we then allow ourselves to make the move into greater awareness and gentleness, a move towards true health interwoven within the multi-dimensional intelligent being who is made of and emanates pure love” and herein begins our way home back to the multidimensional love that we are all from.

373. “If we stop encouraging a form of intelligence that has no connection to health and wellbeing…” In this statement what is key is the word ‘connection…. Intelligence that comes from a body that does not live in connection to their heart, with their Soul, with love for humanity and brotherhood, may ‘sound’ intelligent, but can be felt and registered as a far lesser quality of intelligence.

374. A great post Stephen. “Perhaps we need to start to champion the relationship between intelligence and health, and let go of a form of intelligence that isn’t actually intelligent at all but is merely a clever and convoluted form of control, and protection.” As so many ‘intelligent’ people can wreck their bodies and their health we really do need to redefine the word intelligence

375. A great article Stephen and a very important one. It really isn’t that intelligent to disregard our body for the sake of an intellectual thesis which is in truth just a regurgitation of information. Being aware of our own body, honouring it and moving in a way that helps us stay connected, brings a totally different kind of intelligence. One that is aware of much more than information that we can own. Our senses can feel on a much grander scale than our minds, and we need a healthy and loved body in order to enable this.

376. In the past few years, there has been a glut of highly knowledgeable college graduates that could not find jobs. Because your talent is that you can remember stuff doesn’t mean you can perform. A piece of paper saying you know everything about brain surgery doesn’t give you the ability to wield a scalpel. Knowledge, with without experience is just words. We all live in the most fantastic school that knows everything we need to know, our body.

377. I know and have always known what true intelligence is, through the simplicity of taking taking care of my body and wellbeing, yet many a time in my life I have reacted to those that have championed and perceived intelligence as being highly knowledgeable, well spoken and having letters after their name. I have certainly compared myself to the ‘intelligent ones’ not feeling enough especially when I have struggled with the boredom of school often thinking there was something wrong with me and although those years in school I found difficult and challenging I am so relieved the choice that I made to not fall into the drive to be academically successful. All I need to do is keep confirming what I know is true in my relationship to self, listening to the wisdom of the body in my every day living and respond with love to it and to all that which is around me no matter the lies and bastardised interpretation of what we think is so called intelligent today.

     1. Caroline, not following the ‘intelligent’ crowd and what was expected, allowed you to stay true to yourself, constantly confirming who you are and your deep inner wisdom. This is true intelligence and beautiful that your choices are now vindicated.

        1. So true Kehinde2012, if I had followed the need to be intelligent and hence successful, what I was seeing as being championed around me, I don’t know where I would be today. I just knew that what I was seeing as ‘intelligent’ was not it and I was not prepared to allow myself to join in the game of getting recognition, attention and everything else that comes with it through being so called ‘intelligent’.

        2. To have a deep sense of who you are is a blessing. I was a follower. Led by my head, I often lived life ignoring that deep inner knowing, ever present, but overridden. I became a shadow of myself, took the circuitous route, acquired qualifications and found they took me nowhere. Once acquired they leave you with that same feeling of emptiness. It’s a false trail, an illusion. Connected to true body intelligence we get to know our true essence, we see the world and ourselves clearly and no longer seek recognition and acceptance from others.

378. The simplicity of true intelligence; aligning to fiery energy of the Universe.

379. I love the idea of true intelligence being a level playing field because we are all from the same intelligence and equally can feel everything around us. I believed hook line and sinker that I was dumb at school, especially more so in math, and following this line of thinking about intelligence stopped me from seeing how intelligent my body was and how feeling and reading situations was indeed intelligent. It wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon that I realised I played un-intelligent in the temporal educational way so not to stand out and to prevent jealousy.

     1. Great point Aimee, much competition and comparison surrounds mental and academic performance.
        With children categorised as ”bright’ or ‘dumb’, fast or slow streamers and awarded a value accorded to where they sit. We’re all equal in the eyes of God and to set one person against another in this way harms them both.

380. “So if we consider that we can all act with equal intelligence, we all have access to the same level of knowing, and it is only a choice of whether we make that connection to the source of true intelligence, or not.” – This sentence alone has the potential to completely dismantle the current educational institution’s belief system that classifies and thus separates people in a way that says that some people have greater intelligence than others (the so-called ‘gifted ones’). Although I was one of those students that always got good grades in school rather easily (and loved all the attention and recognition I got for it at the time), how truly intelligent was I to then go out and drink beer at parties in high school until I vomited multiple times, woke up with a hangover every time, and then repeated the same behaviour literally hundreds of times into college and beyond? Obviously the ability to recall information well has nothing to do with true intelligence, but listening to what our bodies are telling us certainly does, and the first taste of beer provided to me by a relative when I was about 14 told me the stuff was disgustingly bitter and my body despised it.

381. What a beautiful and stunning article Stephen. This is a truly intelligent article delivered through someone who has connected to whole body intelligence. Everything is so clearly and lovingly explained here. I certainly agree that this is the way to go – The Way of the Livingness of being connected through the body to true intelligence and knowing. This is the way forth.

382. A great blog to read Stephen, thank you… “True intelligence makes intelligence a level playing field where we all have equal access to the movements that bring greater knowing, married to and woven up in greater health and wellbeing…” Yes, this true intelligence, a wisdom, does not discriminate, but is there for all by virtue of the way we live with harmony, awareness of our body being a vehicle of expression and love, and it has been Serge Benhayon who has and continues to show us this fact.

383. One of the greatest things Serge Benhayon has presented is that of our intelligence or our ‘so called’ intelligence. I now understand that we have narrowed intelligence down so much that we think it is about recall and thinking. I recall starting my nursing career and meeting a nurse who told me how much she struggled through university, just passing. Interestingly she was one of the best nurses that I worked with. She was amazing with patients and families, she did know her area of work very well and she was amazing to work with and yet she thought herself less because of that struggle through university. This in itself exposes the current model of what we think intelligence is. There are many examples of this and if we were willing to discuss this further, we would completely expose the model for what it is and it would also expose what we have been hiding about the truth of intelligence. Which is that we are all vastly more intelligent than we could ever think we are and everyone has access to this very same intelligence. No one more or less than another. Now that would throw a cat amongst the pigeons.

384. So true Stephen there are so many of us who have prized academia and mental acuity but walk around with a body that’s wrecked. Like a kid who doesn’t know how to spell trying to complete a thesis, this just doesn’t make sense. If you have true intelligence surely this would be self evident and beneficial to your body?

385. It’s energy first and then our choices, and this is a hard pill for many to swallow as we’ve invested in our ‘intelligence’, but as exposed here really that’s control and manipulation and it impacts our bodies, for how can a true intelligence harm our bodies, and so the ‘intelligence’ we champion is not intelligent at all. Time for a reset.

386. There is great intelligence in letting our body lead. To do so will mean less tension, drive and control. Could this then become a reality of less disease?

387. “True intelligence makes intelligence a level playing field” – which may be the exact explanation as to why the ‘intelligent’ are not prepared to embrace the notion of ‘true body intelligence’ and instead prefer to try to maintain their superiority through the battles and posturing of mind-intellect.

388. Hear hear to all you have presented Stephen. The thing is, once we have aligned to the ‘imposter intelligence’, it will not let us know that we have aligned to it. In this case, everything you have written can easily be dismissed as nonsensical until there comes a time that we become so eroded by ill health and disease we will feel the need to pause and ask ourselves ‘what the heck is going on?’ Only then can the reckoning commence, if the resistance to such truth has been strong. Of course we are also free to bypass this step and instead allow ourselves to feel the grace of what you share and consider that maybe, just maybe there is more going on behind the scenes of life then what our human eye can currently perceive.

389. “this leaves wide open the question of what the imposter posing as intelligence is doing to our health, our relationships, our humanity.”

     Brilliant article Stephen. It widens the conversation about our current form of intelligence and asks us to consider what it is doing to us, our health, our relationships, and our impact on the world.

390. How we move influences the kinds of thoughts we have, and the impact of those thoughts on our choices, and on the body.. everything is interlinked and connected, and we can’t pretend that how we live doesn’t affect our health and wellbeing. Although we might like to think we can get away with certain choices we know aren’t great for us, sooner or later the body shows us the truth of these choices, and with that, comes a deeper and louder call to live more in line with our natural rhythms, rather than the ones we impose upon it.

     1. It is very intelligent and wise to pay attention to our bodies and what they are communicating to us.

391. It is obvious that it is very intelligent to refer to intelligence and health as very close siblings and how they keep each other on track in the one cause – the overall well-being and flourishing of everyone equally.

392. I am becoming much more aware of alignment to energy whether fire or prana and how I and others respond to it, in fact, we align either to fire or prana in every moment. It knocks out taking anything personally and so can observe much more easily what is going on within and around me knowing it is simply an alignment to an energy of a person, situation or group of people.

393. I like your dedication at the end it encapsulates me precisely aka I have been very hesitant, resistant to really understanding what this teaching means to little ol me!

394. Well said, Stephen. We only need to look at sport to see how true intelligence doesn’t get look in. What is intelligent about getting in a boxing ring and hitting each other, often causing long term brain defects or playing an aggressive rugby game where many sustain long term physical problems. The messages from the body are being constantly overridden -there is no connection to health and wellbeing and yet many sports people are revered, rewarded and promoted as role models for children.

395. And might I add, no one is being labelled as wrong for ignoring their bodies. There is no judgement in your blog Stephen. It is just an invitation to explore that we are far far grander than we currently accept or believe.

396. It seems that if we are to act intelligently, as intelligence is measured nowadays, then we are oftentimes in disregard and dismissive of our bodies. This really doesn’t make sense. A review is seriously needed here.

     1. No, it doesn’t make sense and yet there are many who feel they have a monopoly on intelligence and are very invested in the recognition they get from such a claim. To understand that this investment comes at a cost to the body is incredibly significant as is the catalyst that will begin this review!

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