In a recent email, I mentioned that a great shift has already occurred as we entered 2012, and we don’t seem to have the new ‘operating manual’ for how to function in this dramatically accelerated times.
This morning, I realized that is not completely true…
In the midst of tidying the kitchen, I suddenly became aware that the ‘manual’ is encoded, in stunning completeness, within our bodies. We have just forgotten how to ‘read’ this wisdom, how to interpret the messages our body is giving us through every pulse and breath.
It was such a simple insight, yet the implications are profound. How to learn this forgotten language, or rather, how to remember it?
I accepted the invitation — for it seemed personal to me as much as to the larger world, and went into the livingroom to dance.
Thus began a new meeting with my body. My brief time was a quiet courting of ecstasy. My movements, sounds and silence full of imagery and flowing energy, a body-meditation that is part of a much longer conversation.
My desire is to turn up for these meetings often. To listen, to turn the ear of my heart towards the living wisdom of my body, just as I 
learned to do with beautiful flowers. What a long, slow pathway it has been for me to enter the closest space, the inner sanctuary of my body, with as much love as I feel for my outer garden.
I heard echoes of Mary Oliver’s poem, “You do not have to be good… you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
That is the sacred conversation that, for me, is opening my operating manual for these times.
Dear Andrea… Brilliant. Simple. Elegant. I feel an ecstatic doorway opening. Off to dance my own sacred conversation.
Dearest Andrea – you have expressed this beautifully. What a generous gift! Thank you for your calm, composed, presence within the sacred circle we are all sharing with you through your writings. The generousity and openness you offer in what comes through you is a blessing. Thank you once again.
You are such an inspiration! Blessings
Thank you for sharing Andrea; I’ve been fumbling about myself…wondering what had changed so much that I wasn’t hearing/feeling/knowing the way I did only months ago. The quote is going on my vision board.
I believe.
Jennifer
what a profound insight and how true. it is what Continuum Movement is about. our bodies are one resonate whole with the cosmos. our day to day linear mode is like taking a hand and putting around the tuning fork of our body. when we slow down, tune and listen we release the hand and can begin to access the knowlegde you are speaking of. thank you, love Kim
Wow… I just got back from the city, sporting a lovely new haircut, and am greeted with this beautiful flurry of responses to this morning’s blog! Clearly, we are all feeling a similar pulse or wave… and I thank all of you for sharing your resonance and your expertise.