Listening to Your Body: Understanding the Messages from Your Soul

I was digging through some previous content to find a little writing inspiration this morning and stumbled on an episode of the Inner Freedom Podcast I did back in March of 2025 with a really neat dude, Mike Kavanagh.

Right at about 25 minutes in this podcast we talk about how Mike started having heart palpitations and shooting pains in his chest when he was only 23 years old. He went through a whole cardiac workup, days of testing, and at the end of the day his heart was just fine. He realized that his heart palpitations were a result of stress. He explains how he didn't even recognize he was under stress until a colleague casually mentioned all the things that might contribute to his stress. The subtle yet profound stress of living a life out of alignment, feeling malnourished in his academic pursuits, his relationship at the time, and using alcohol to numb it all.

ARE HEART PALPITATIONS SOUL'S WAY OF KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR FOR A LITTLE CHAT?

I've been studying the mind body connection for a long time from a physical and emotional perspective and have made many connections for people in Soul Readings about physical disharmony being a consequence of some sort of misalignment in their life.

In the audiobook, Spiritual Wayfinders, also by Mike Kavanagh, I tell the story of learning I had a grapefruit-sized tumor on the outside of my uterus. The experience of having this tumor catapulted me into deep study of my life and finding all the ways I was creating a life that was out of alignment with what I really wanted to be doing. I share how my tumor taught me that I was stuck in grief from the loss of my father, keeping a business that was very draining on me just to prove something to myself, and maintaining real estate investment properties that sucked the life out of me everyday.

ARE TUMORS SOUL'S WAY OF SAYING YOU'RE CREATING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION or YOU'RE GROWING SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T BELONG?

The language of the Soul is unspoken. It comes to us in creative ways, like in our dreams, inspirations while in a guided meditation or a breathwork session, random nudges and signs from our external world, and when all of these more subtle Soul communications fail, the physical body gives us a wake-up call if we choose to listen.

In my experience doing Soul Readings for over 30 years, I see that we press the snooze button more often than not on Soul's wake up calls. The effort required to make a course correction in our lives is often too high of a mountain to climb so we ignore, avoid, lash out, and numb out to drown out Soul's call.

What is your body telling you right now? What physical disharmony is at your door? Where in your life are you feeling zapped, drained, misaligned?

Here is an example of how to listen to your body for Soul's wisdom.

1. Write down where you are feeling some disharmony in our body right now. Maybe it's something like a recent diagnosis or maybe it's just an on-going stiffness in your joints that you can't seem to find relief from.

2. Let's use stiffness as an example. All over stiffness.

3. Now start a dialog with this physical disharmony. You may even give it a name, like "Stiffy McStifferson". "Oh, hello Stiffy McStifferson. You are really feeling pretty constricted today. It's like you can't even move, huh? I see you. Gosh, that is really painful for you."

4. Continue the dialog and bare witness on the Part of you that is really stiff, constricted and in pain.

5. Ask that constricted Part what it needs? In this example, maybe it needs to move around a little, stretch, and drink some water. Maybe it needs to talk about something that's been bothering it, contricting it, something that is painful because it holds it in. Maybe that holding in is really holding on and that's the constriction, the holding on tight.

6. Take some deep breaths and really hold that Parts hand while you remain very present to listen to that story. There is probably a lot to the story but just inquire a little at a time to keep it simple.

7. Continue to bare witness to Stiffy McStifferson and know that this Part of you is simply an aspect of your human experience speaking on behalf of your Soul - translating the message from Soul that you have some tending to do in your life. Accept the knock, open the door, invite the story to unfold and listen to the messages delivered by the Part of you carrying the burden of pain, constriction and holding on too tight.

8. The integration of this story from Stiffy McStifferson is the key here.

   
   

   IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH A PHYSICAL DISHARMONY FROM A HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE AND LOOKING AT IT FROM SOUL'S PERSPECTIVE, PLEASE EMAIL ME TO REQUEST A SESSION.