08/21/2026
Our body is living through every moment with us.
It reacts to what happens whether we notice it or not. Much of what happens inside us is outside of our awareness.
And over time, all those experiences become part of what our system has learned about the world.
So we often think we are reacting to what is happening now, while our body may still be responding to something it learned a long time ago.
We can learn to accept things with our mind that our body never became comfortable with.
We can tell ourselves, this is fine.
This is normal.
This is what I should want.
There is nothing wrong here.
And yet we keep feeling anxious, tense, afraid, shut down — sometimes even in situations we consciously believe are safe or good for us.
That doesn’t automatically mean the situation is wrong or dangerous.
But it does mean the reaction is information.
Instead of immediately talking ourselves out of what we feel, maybe we can become curious about it.
What is my body responding to that my mind has learned to ignore?
