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A Conversation with Ellen Meredith, author of THE LANGUAGE YOUR BODY SPEAKS

Your book is called The Language Your Body Speaks. Please tell us a little bit about what this language consists of and how we can learn to speak it.

In a word, the language your body speaks is Energy. Subtle Energies form your body, fuel the operations of your body, and organize the functioning of your body. Subtle energies are not neutral. They are extremely intelligent! They carry and express meaning.

Our equipment for learning to perceive this language is not some special psychic ability – it is our senses: whatever we use to bring in information and process it. This includes not only sight, sound, feel, smell, and taste, but also our direct knowing, instinct, radar, and recognition of pattern. And when we speak “energy”, we can use all of these to communicate with the body.

Your book’s subtitle is “Self-healing with Energy Medicine.” Can you say a few words about what Energy Medicine is?

Your body communicates using chemical messaging and energetic messaging. Energy Medicine uses energetic messaging to assess and influence your well-being. You may be familiar with practices such as yoga, acupuncture, MRIs, Eden Energy Medicine, or Qi Gong. These all use energy to assess what is happening and to promote well-being.

A good story, an evocative image, a dance, a spiritual ritual, a nutritious meal, and other experiences that influence your body can act as energy medicine. They can fuel and influence the subtle energies that run your body, helping them to work better.

Can anyone work with energy or do you need to be extremely intuitive or psychic to do so?

The ability to “speak energy” is built into us, just as is the ability to learn English or French or Chinese. You do not have to be intuitive or psychic – we each have some or several forms of perception that work well for us – our senses, our thinking brains, our physical ability to express ourselves. Learning to work with energy starts with recognizing and building on what you already know that enables you to understand and communicate meaning.

You talk in the book about shifting the conversation from, “What’s wrong?” to “What is needed to bring well-being to my body, mind, and spirit?” Please tell us more about that.

Usually, when something has gone wrong, it also means that what might be “right” is not happening adequately. But when we are focused too intensely on the problems, the body tries to fulfill your expectation, showing you more and more about what is wrong.

When we shift the focus to cultivate what is needed, our energies move to support that. This, in turn, activates the body’s in-built healing capacity, while focusing on what’s wrong will not.

I have friends and family who have been to doctors and either been told nothing is medically wrong with them, or that there is no treatment for what they have. What does your book offer to people who want help with these complaints?

In some ways, being liberated from the medical model is a blessing! Our bodies don’t tend to go out of balance because they crave medical intervention. They mostly want us to show up and listen and respond appropriately. They want us to really address the issues, not just “treat” them. And my book helps you learn better ways to do that.

If someone wants to use energy medicine to heal something, how do they start?

Start Simple. Rub your hands together, then ask each hand, in turn, where it wants to land on your body. Hold there, until one or the other feels called to move. I call this exercise “Healing Hands”. There is so much intelligence in our hands that we can learn from following their inclination for a time.

In the book I offer lots of exercises and explorations that can serve as entry points into using energy medicine to heal.

What is the main message you hope that readers will take away from The Language Your Body Speaks?

Energy is our first language. We already have some ability to speak it, but the more fluent we become the more we can participate in our own healing and our own miraculous creation of self.

Ellen Meredith, DA, EEMAP, is the author of The Language Your Body Speaks. An intuitive and energy medicine practitioner with over 35 years of experience, she has served on the faculty of energy medicine pioneer Donna Eden since 2010 and teaches energy healing techniques all over the world. Ellen lives in Marin County in California. Visit her online at www.ellenmeredith.com.

Excerpted from the book The Language Your Body Speaks. Copyright ©2020 by Ellen Meredith. Printed with permission from New World Library.

It is believed that what you don't like in others is a mirror of yourself, and that what goes around, comes around. If this is true, then why is it that some people can be nasty, spiteful and blatantly lie about me when I am not like that to others? I have had several experiences over the past eight years when I have found out that I have apparently said something I never really said, and it usually comes from people I have barely spoken two words to. I have analyzed this to death, and I can't work out why this keeps occurring. Why are some people mean to people who are kind-hearted? How do nice people manifest such experiences?

Thanks
Virgo

Dreamchaser:

Lisa, I am glad you asked this question. Why on earth do you think that just because you are kind and honest, people will be the same way towards you? Where did you get that idea? If that were the case, no child would ever be murdered by a psychotic lunatic, and no sweet little old woman would ever be beaten for her social security check. There would be no wars. There would be no famines. There would be no suffering of any kind.

Often, the nicer you are to someone, the meaner they are to you. I think that sometimes people are threatened by Light or kindness, love, peace, joy, etc. I think that some people find it necessary to combat kindness with anger or hatred. I also know that some people have issues with intimacy and kindness, as their own childhoods were bereft of either. If one was not shown how to love unconditionally, how to be kind, generous, respectful, etc., then how will one grow up knowing how to do those things? In some cases, no matter what you do or how nice you are, you will continue to get what you consider the raw deal. That is how life goes.

It is very Virgo of you to expect everyone to be upfront, open, honest, and decent to you if you treat them that way. It is also a hard day when we start to realize that the world is NOT fair. You keep expecting fair treatment in business, friendships, love and life in general. So far, you have not received it in ANY area. I think you are starting to figure out that people will just treat you badly at times, regardless of how you treat them.

On the other hand, there are people who will also be exceedingly kind and generous to you. When you come across those types of people, it makes your journey easier for a while. I think there are more positive people on the planet than negative ones, despite what it looks like when we turn on the evening news.

Do not stop being the kind person you are just because the majority of people around you do not return your kindness. You are planting seeds of decency. Hopefully, one day those seeds will take root and those people will start to grow some manners themselves. Also, please notice that if you take a deep breath or two and clear out the energy, you can readjust a situation's energy sometimes. For example, if you smile at someone and they just scowl at you, instead of scowling back and muttering something mean, take that breath and feel the energy lift. It WILL change some situations around you.

I wish you PEACE.

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Astrea:

You can't control what other people say and feel about you, and being hurt is a CHOICE you make. You say that over the past eight years, you've been lied about by people you barely know. If you barely know these people, it shouldn't matter to you what they say, Kiddo. There is always going to be some jealous person who wants to hurt you in some way or another. Those people have to live with what they're doing, not you! The only Karma that is being damaged is THEIRS!

When someone goes out of their way to hurt your feelings, it's very difficult to ignore it. If you examine their motives, however, you can rise above it. Why give that acquaintance power over you by choosing to have hurt feelings about a lie? Why give the mean person REPEATING the lie that power? I find with lots of my Virgo friends that mean people like to bait them because the angry, dramatic performance that is sometimes the result is so much FUN for them to observe! Most of the things that these people tell you "others" say are exaggerations anyway, and don't deserve your time and attention.

"What goes around, comes around" is a SLOGAN, like "the show must go on" or "there is ONE soul mate for every person." "What goes around, comes around" might be a comforting notion at times, but it isn't necessarily true. Often, mean people don't ever get the meanness they put into the Universe back, or at least, not in this Incarnation. Expecting that bad things will happen to the people who say bad things about you is unrealistic, and not something to look forward to, anyway! That just keeps you STEEPED in the DRAMA of the situation, and puts more negativity into your life. Dwelling on people getting what they deserve is perpetuating the bad feelings, and will keep drawing those kinds of people into your Harmony to disrupt your life.

As much as I would like to believe that when we meet people in kindness and love, that's what we'll always get in return, I have lived too long to be that idealistic. There are some VERY MEAN PEOPLE in the World, and they get their kicks from other people's unhappiness. As a Virgo, you're going to be challenged in ALL of your personal and work relationships.

Virgos like to be IN CONTROL of their lives at all times. That's the nature of your Sign. What can you do about it? Try to keep YOURSELF in a positive mindset, no matter what others do. The only person's mouth and feelings you can control are your OWN. Remember what you learned as a child about sticks and stones!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.