Your Body, Your Animal

Have you ever thought of your body as your animal?

Probably not, I know.

But think about it: Your body loves care and affection, just like an animal.
Your body has basic needs for water, food and sleep, just like an animal.
Your body loves to be active, and is smart, just like an animal.
Most especially, your body can communicate, just like an animal!

Your female body, your unique female animal, speaks her own language.
Much how the dreams you have at night have their own symbolic language,
your female body communicates in her own way, too.

Now, your animal doesn’t speak in Old English, in big intellectual ideas, or even in logical ways – but she’s still got plenty to say, and her messages are absolutely brilliant! (Especially about what you need to bring your weight loss journey to its successful completion.)
So how does one listen to, and understand, their animal’s messages?

Your Amazing Animal’s Messages 

Your body, your female animal, is constantly sending you messages through the language of feelings. With physical sensations, she tells you what she wants to eat and drink… as well as when, and when she’d prefer some of kind of nourishment instead. She tells you when she needs to use the bathroom, take a rest or move around.

She’ll “speak” through sensations that are subtle… and these sensations will definitely get louder if you ignore them and don’t respond!

Your body loves to communicate, and work together, with your mind.
But in this culture, we are taught that the mind is more important, more intelligent and more trustworthy than the body.

Aaagh! It’s simply not true! I’m here to tell passionately you, your body is also deeply smart, wise and trustworthy.

Have you ever considered what your body does, without your conscious mind instructing it?

For starters, your body breathes. Constantly! You never think about orchestrating that whole carbon dioxide to oxygen shenanigan, not even once. (Thank goodness or I know I’d grt distracted and forget!)
It automatically digests the food you put in it, guzzles up vitamins and minerals and fuels every little blessed inch of you.

It gets rid of waste, and gosh, if you are pregnant, it knows exactly how to grow and nourish a baby, and how to give birth to it!

Most importantly for you, dear member of the pleasurable weight loss movement, your body gives you messages, or “pay attention” alerts, by asking you to binge, crave and/or overeat.

Oh snap!

Were you thinking that your body’s urges for excess ice cream were a sign that she was broken or defective? Did you think her persuasive whisperings asking you to reach for sugar or chips or caffeine signified that she was untrustworthy?

It’s okay if you’ve thought this, I spent a decade thinking that before I discovered these teachings I’m passing along to you. I now invite you to think differently about these bodily messages and requests – consider that these messages are signals for you to pay attention inwards, to your emotional life, your spiritual life. Your inner world.

What might be happening in your life, that your brilliant body feels the need to metaphorically jump up and down, asking you to eat in ways that put on additional weight, a.k.a. “layers” of protection?

If your body is asking for more pleasurable foods containing sugar and fat, might pleasure is lacking in some part of your life?

Be gentle with your answers… and with your animal!

You Are the Guardian 

You are the guardian of your body, your animal.

She is not yours to own or dominate, or force feed or restrict;
she is yours to nurture, take care of, and listen to.

Also, she is yours to trust, and to enjoy!

I invite you to bring her immense pleasure by dancing, singing, jumping while yelling on a trampoline, or whatever other uninhibited activity makes your wild animal heart come alive.

The more you listen to your body, and do what feels pleasurable, the healthier you will feel.
And feeling healthy… generates the state of body chemistry that invites your body to shed excess pounds, and produce your natural weight and shape.

So 2 questions for you.

1. So tell me, what natural, healthy foods make your body sing?
2. What pleasurable activity lights up your body, your animal?

Meow!! Let me know in the comments below.

With Deep Animal Wisdom,
xo Jena

P.S. Now is the purrrrfect time to pack your summer clothes, tasty lip gloss and favorite shampoo, so that when July 1 – 5 arrives, you and your animal’s accessories will be ready to join me at Pleasure Camp Omega!

There, with my full support, you’ll start to become deeply connected to your body, your animal. You’ll learn to use food as a source of medicine and nourishment, have a ball with pleasure-centered exercise, and become a sexy weight loss scientist that understands how pleasure is the main ingredient for permanent, feminine weight loss.

Yes! I know you can do it, because I did it too. I went from fighting with food, and my body, to celebrating both, and living in gratitude for them. You can register for Pleasure Camp Omega here, with ease and grace.