The Mind's Seductive Trap: Turning to Trusting the Body's Wisdom
We live in a world that worships knowing. We're taught that understanding equals control, that if we just think hard enough, analyze long enough, we'll finally grasp the meaning of the messages we receive, whether from intuition, spirit, or the subtle energies that move through and around us.
But here's the truth that will set you free: You will never truly "know" if you stay in your mind.
The Mind's Seductive Trap
The mind is brilliant at what it does. It categorizes, labels, and creates stories. But when it comes to energetic and spiritual wisdom, the mind becomes our greatest obstacle. It demands immediate answers. It wants to control the uncontrollable. It insists on linear explanations for experiences that exist far beyond the realm of logic.
When we receive an intuitive hit, a dream symbol, or an energetic message, our first instinct is often to intellectualize it. What does this mean? Why am I feeling this? What am I supposed to do with this information?
And in that very moment, that desperate grasping for meaning, we disconnect from the wisdom itself.
The Body Knows What the Mind Cannot
True knowing lives in the body, not the brain.
Your body doesn't lie. It doesn't overthink. It doesn't question whether it's "doing it right." When something resonates as truth, you feel it in your gut, in your heart, in the subtle tingles along your spine, in the way your breath deepens or catches.
This is why so many spiritual traditions teach us to:
Be intuitive by practice, not theory
Engage all the senses, not just thought
Step away from mental chatter
The wisdom you seek isn't hiding in more analysis. It's waiting in the stillness beneath your thoughts, in the sensations moving through your body, in the quiet knowing that emerges when you stop demanding answers.
Energy Speaks in Metaphor, Not Instructions
Here's what the mind struggles with: Energetic messages are often metaphorical. They can mean more than what we think. They can hold layers of meaning that reveal themselves over time, not all at once.
When we stay trapped in mental interpretation, we flatten these multi-dimensional messages into single meanings. We force them to make sense right now, according to our current understanding.
But energy is vast. It's beyond us. It moves in ways we cannot control and speaks in a language that transcends words.
If we receive an image of water during meditation, the mind immediately asks: "Does this mean I need to drink more water? Visit the ocean? Deal with my emotions?"
But the body simply feels: fluidity, flow, surrender, cleansing, without needing to pin it down.
The Purpose Reveals Itself When You Release
The message's purpose will be revealed when we release the need to know.
Not when we figure it out.
Not when we've thought about it enough.
Not when we've consulted every book and teacher.
When we let go.
When we allow the energy to move freely through us without trying to trap it in understanding, something miraculous happens: clarity arrives on its own timeline. The meaning becomes obvious. The path forward illuminates itself.
This is what people mean when they say "surrender." Not giving up, but releasing the ego's demand to control the uncontrollable.
Ego vs. True Knowing (And Why I've Stopped Teaching This Way)
When we try to control spiritual messages or force understanding, we're operating from the ego, from the part of us that's afraid, that wants guarantees, that needs to feel in charge.
If we're tuning in with ego, the message will never be clear.
I used to teach people who were just beginning to ask themselves: "Is this my ego or true knowing?" What does this mean? Why am I seeing/hearing/feeling this? It's a helpful distinction when you're first learning to discern between mental chatter and genuine intuition. It gives beginners a framework, a way to practice noticing the difference.
But here's what I've learned: there's a time to evolve and move on beyond this point. And that time comes rather quickly.
Why? Because constantly asking "Is this ego?" keeps you stuck in ... you guessed it.... the mind. You're still analyzing, still questioning, still trying to mentally verify what should be felt.
The question itself becomes another form of overthinking.
This is why I've shifted how I teach. I no longer emphasize the ego vs. knowing distinction.
Instead, I emphasize the flow.
When you're in flow, there's no question. You're not in your head asking if it's ego, you're in your body, feeling the current, moving with the energy. You're not analyzing the river; you're swimming in it.
Ego asks: "What does this mean for me? How can I use this? What should I do? Is this really real or just my ego talking?"
Flow simply moves: "Here. Receive. Trust. Allow. Follow."
The difference is profound and it's felt, not thought.
The Practice: Setting Yourself Aside
So how do we actually do this? How do we release the mind's grip and access the body's deeper knowing?
We set aside our needs and wants. We allow. And only then will it make sense.
This means:
Sitting with discomfort instead of rushing to resolve it
Trusting sensations over thoughts
Being willing to not understand sometimes for days, months, or even years
Recognizing that your body's "yes" or "no" is enough, even without explanation
Practicing stillness without an agenda
As the wisdom teaches: You need to be open and receptive. It's in the subtleties that we get the message. Not loud, not how we want to hear it. It is quiet, it is subtle we need to be able to go into our awareness to hear it.
Water Flows, Fire Pushes, Wind Feels
Consider the elements:
Water moves and flows together, yielding, adapting
Fire pushes against resistance, transforming through friction
Wind cannot be seen, only felt, invisible but undeniably present
We think too much. We need to feel.
Bring the energy down from your head into your body. Feel deeply. Trust what you sense in your organs, in your stomach, in your bones. This is where truth lives, not in the endless loop of mental analysis.
The Paradox of Not Knowing
Here's the beautiful paradox: when you finally release the need to know, you discover you've known all along.
Not in your mind. But in your body. In your soul. In the quiet place that was never confused.
Clear the noise. Listen to your body. Trust what you receive.
The overthinking isn't protecting you, it's blocking you from the wisdom that's already yours.
The journey from mind to body, from control to trust, from overthinking to deep knowing, this is the path of true intuition. And it begins the moment you stop trying to figure it out and simply allow yourself to feel.