The End of a Year, or the Beginning of a Life?

“(Your Belly Brain) is your connection to Grandmother Earth. That’s your connection to the physical world. That’s where you go you need to make yourself safe. The place to go when you’re in danger. It’s the place that reads intent, and just general environment, atmosphere in the environment, so that you know what’s going on around you. It’s where we go when we want information. When we want information, really about anything. You can check in there. You can hop into your head later and break it down logically. But if you have you have a question about something or someone, you drop into your belly and ask and it will always tell you the truth. It’s the one place inside of you that has no self doubt.” — Dawn Callan

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I know so many people who lack this connection, who look at words like this and consider it pure fantasy. Who actively avoid specific and focused interaction with their bodies. I know, I know…it is less “boring” to watch television or read a book as we exercise, no question. And if I suspect that it isn’t boredom but avoidance that motivates some folks, that’s my opinion. What might they be avoiding? Well, the Hawaiian spiritual community, the “Huna” folks, say that the body is like a black bag, where we hold all our unprocessed emotions. In other words, if we have fear, guilt, rage, other “negative” emotions…memories of abuse, neglect, failure, and so forth, we can “stuff” them in our bodies and just not deal with them. We become “brains in boxes”, with perhaps nothing but intellect…