What is body intelligence?
Your body carries within it the remembered bits of experience of organisms that have existed on earth. This cumulative experience or collective preconscious, of billions of organisms has been transmitted through the DNA strings that now reside in your cells. Your body adds to this evolutionary body of experience what it collects every moment of every day of your life through its sensory mechanisms. This combined remembered experience is a kind of sensory intelligence. This intelligence is not available to your conscious mind. It can only be accessed through your preconscious mind. Your body’s intelligence comes to life and is revealed only in this preconscious state. In addition, this preconscious mode sets your body free to express what it knows about about you and the world around it. Your conscious mind cannot access this level of intelligence.
Your body carries within it all the joys, sorrows, anger, pleasure, losses, etc. that have been a part of your whole life as it, moment by moment, interacts with all other organisms in its environment. Your muscle and sensory cells carry the memory of what it was like for you to experience light for the first time, of what it was like to swallow your first drop of liquid, of what it was like to feel the touch of human skin for the first time, of what it was like to stand up and fall for the first time and it continues to remember all the way on up to the most complex nanosecond reactions that make up your daily life. All of this adds up to a kind of intelligence that only your body has.
This intelligence also includes your body’s ability to express what it remembers and knows. It does not use language as we know it to express itself. It uses the universal language of movement. Your body has its own movement vocabulary and organizes that vocabulary into phrases, and sentences, and paragraphs which tells the whole story of what it knows about you and the world around you.
Not only does your body create its own vocabulary but it also gives you the technique to perfect that vocabulary with precision and efficiency so that you will speak with clarity and power. Also, as with any form of intelligence, it develops its own sequence of logic which is totally unique to your body.
When your body is speaking, other bodies will sense and recognize what it is saying. This recognition does not happen at a conscious level. It also happens in the preconscious mind of the beholder. This is a body to body communication at a preconscious level. Your body’s story will be heard and internalized by the bodies of those who experience it.