We live in a time where our heads speak too loudly. The mind, stimulated by an endless sequence of notifications and demands, attempts to organize the world using spreadsheets and predictions. But there is something in us – silent, rhythmic, ancestral – that continues to insist on speaking another language: the bodily intuition.
In this text you will find:
- How the body perceives before reason
- Why We Were Taught to Distrust Physical Sensations
- What is somatic wisdom and how is it expressed
- Like symptoms, exhaustion, sleep, hunger and desire are also forms of language.
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What is bodily intuition?
Intuition is not an ethereal idea, but a organic intelligence. It’s in our bones, in our breathing rhythm, in the micro-reactions that pass through us.
We are beings incarnated in living antennas, capable of capturing what is not said, what vibrates. And the body is the first listening instrument. To make it clear, I’m calling here bodily intuition.
In the book How do I know what I knowthat I launched for Éditions Planète (Seal of the Academy), I explain that
the body knows before reason understands. It anticipates what consciousness has not yet realized.
The moment we walk into a room and feel the air get heavier; when a conversation makes our stomach tense or when, on the contrary, our chest opens in expansion — it is intuition that manifests itself through the flesh.
Why do we learn to silence our body’s intuition?
For centuries, we have been taught to distrust the body. Thinking that what we feel is freshness.
Western culture has placed the mind at the top of the hierarchy, while the body has come to be seen as unstable, deceptive, even sinful.
But when we move away from its language, we lose the compass that guides us towards the essential. We take wrong paths that the body had already indicated to us by a simple shiver.
This is where the importance of somatic wisdom.
What is somatic wisdom?
Somatic wisdom is the most practical and forgotten form of intuitive intelligence — is the way in which the body’s intuition is organized into language.
The body speaks in temperature, rhythm, pressure. It contracts when something is not true. He relaxes when something is consistent.
This perception is not magic, it is physiological. It is the nervous system that decodes danger or harmonization, threat or welcome, tension or presence.
It is through what we can call intuition that we arrive a little late for a meeting and, upon opening the door, we sense that things are not going well: we have seen or heard practically nothing, but we can capture and perceive a large part of what is happening.
This happens because as soon as I arrive late and sense that something is wrong, my “antenna” system picks up information about what is happening in that room, even though I cannot explain how it happens.
In my book How do I know what I knowneuroscientist Inês Cozzo explains this situation to me: suppose something was said and it angered the participants, because it was very unfair.
Afterwards, people started to be afraid of the consequences of this speech, the risk of being kicked off the team or something like that. With feelings of anger and fear, the entire body becomes alarmed.
The pituitary gland signals the pituitary gland to begin producing pre-adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones travel through our veins, blood, and throughout our body until they reach our large muscles and extremities, triggering our fight-and-flight behavior.
“We live in a society where the way fight and flight This no longer happens like it did in the savannahs during the cave era. No one is going to punch the director in the face or run out of the meeting,” she tells me.
People will stay in the meeting, but they will have nothing to do or how to release this intense stress process within them. Hormone production occurs, but it stagnates in people’s bodies.
This is just one example, but it happens all the time. That’s why we need to hear this again natural intuition of the body.
How does your body speak to you on a daily basis?
Learning to read the body means relearning how to listen to the invisible. It’s about observing where the energy flows and where it stops. It’s understanding that exhaustion is not a weakness, but a sign of misalignment.
That persistent pain can be an unspoken truth. That sleep, hunger, desire and silence are forms of language.
Nowadays, if overloaded with information, the body becomes the only reliable compass. He does not negotiate with his ego, he does not allow himself to be seduced by masks. It simply shows – and it’s up to us to see.
Intuition then ceases to be a mysterious gift and reveals itself as a daily practice of attention.
Listening to the body is an act of reconciliation
Listening to the body means allowing knowledge to vibrate again to the rhythm of breathing. It is recognizing that the most luminous thought can be born from a small gesture, from a muscle that relaxes, from a step that slows down.
The body reminds us of real time, that in which life takes place: the present.
And when the body becomes a compass again, the path ceases to be a map to be deciphered and becomes a dance – between the visible and the sensitive, between what we know and what we feel.
In this space of integration, intuition finds its true home: inside the skin, where science and mystery meet again.
Go deeper into the subject
In the book How do I know what I know – intuition as a path to our ancestral intelligenceI deepen the idea that intuition is a path to reconnect with an ancestral intelligence, which lives in the body and in the way it reacts to the world.
The book is on sale at Amazon and in all major bookstores, with prices between R$52 and R$62.
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Petria Chaves (petriachaves@gmail.com)
– Journalist, writer and presenter for Rádio CBN. Author of the books Listen to Your Silence and How I Know What I Know, she studies the power of listening and intuition as pathways to ancestral intelligence.
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