again, allowing the training to expand her experience of life and teaching.
Like most of us in energy medicine, Ellen’s fascination with energy never ends. So connecting up with others on the same wavelength was a fruitful continuation of her journey to understand energy.
I have read a lot of books on energy over the years — but Ellen’s is different. It is a breath of fresh air, and I believe it is necessary. Ellen respects and supports each person’s own inner guidance to finding solutions, and so this is not merely a book of techniques. Ellen clearly and beautifully shares how to talk energy and figure out what to do to heal.
She liberates students from identifying too much with their own suffering. She instead encourages curiosity about our wondrous bodies and fun in discovering what a physical ailment might mean. Because she understands that we are each unique beings and can be very creative in the poignancy and drama of our own wounds, she teaches the reader how to be a storyteller of their wounds to themselves. She offers techniques that help us enter into our own psyches and energies for healing. As Ellen says, “The goal of this work is not to fix your energies but to encounter them and have a heartfelt, loving, supportive dialogue.” The Language Your Body Speaks teaches you to trust your body and know it as your partner.
Weaving insights from ancient cultures, her teachers, and her own council, Ellen invites you to commune with the vast intelligence at work inside you and become emotionally congruent and deeply satisfied.
I stand in awe of Ellen’s gift for putting ideas into words.
She is a visionary who is committed to sharing her wisdom with everyone. This book opens, expands, and enhances a person’s existence into a much better lifetime than they were having. It is masterful.
I think one of the best things about this book is the realization that consciousness is a whole-body phenomenon. When something goes wrong with your body, it is a welcome relief to know you can converse with it and find out why your body did this, what it might mean, and what you can do to heal yourself. It is empowering. It is freeing. And it can change your life forever.
Enjoy,
Donna Eden,
author of Energy Medicine
Energy is the language your body speaks.
— Donna Eden
True confession: I am a language geek. When I was twelve, I used to sit for hours listening to foreign radio programs. The rhythms and cadences and sounds would thrill me. The sense that there was a conversation I could almost understand pulled me in. The music of it spoke to me. It filled and satisfied me in ways that the programs in English, talking about boring everyday things, did not.
My mother thought I was crazy. She’d say, “Why are you wasting your time with that? You don’t know what they are saying.” I’d say, “But on some level I do know. I can understand them.” She would shake her head and go back to her housework. And I would dive back into the thrill of the barely understood rivers of sound.
Some years later I studied many of those languages and found I still had that liminal sense of understanding, even when I didn’t know for sure, with my logical brain, what the words all meant. Learning foreign languages felt like I was remembering something I’d known in another life. I wondered if there was some kind of source code underlying the specifics of each tongue that I could understand even if I didn’t know the vocabulary or grammar rules.
It is no wonder that fifty-plus years later I have written a book titled The Language Your Body Speaks. This book is about using the language of energy to take care of yourself, to participate in the conversations between your body, spirit, and mind, and to heal yourself. In the many years since my foreign radio adventures, I’ve had opportunities to track down some of that source code I was feeling, our first language of energy expressing itself, and become more fluent. I’ve spent the last thirty-five years working as a professional energy medicine practitioner and intuitive, helping clients learn to participate more fruitfully in their own body, mind, and spirit conversations.
ENERGY AS A LANGUAGE
Most of us talk about energy in practical terms. We say, “She’s got great energy,” meaning we sense from subtle cues that someone is animated or perhaps particularly comfortable to be around. We say, “I don’t have the energy to argue right now,” meaning that activity is somehow not being funded, emotionally, physically, or even spiritually. We say, “My energy has crashed,” meaning we have run out of fuel. On an intuitive level, learning about the subtle energies that we are composed of and how to positively influence their behaviors makes a lot of sense.
Your body is made up of energies. What appears to be solidly physical — the cells, the bones, the tissue, the organs — is in fact a swirling, moving set of energetic exchanges. Even the chemical processes of your body are energetic at their root: Chemistry is the story of energetic exchanges at the molecular level.
And just under the surface of your awareness, your body, mind, and spirit are using a language of energetic signaling to communicate constantly with one another.
Using a vocabulary of light, sound, vibration, imagery, sensation, and other messaging, your body, mind, and spirit are talking with one another, adjusting your physical self to match your thoughts, influencing your thoughts to recognize the needs of your body, and embodying the urgings of your spirit. There is a grammar to this language: patterns of movement and energetic exchange. Like all languages, the subtle energies that you are made of encode meaning and shape your experience.
Is learning the language of energy really necessary? It is crucial if you want to be able to participate in your own evolving experience and create the life you crave. Imbalance in the body, mind, or spirit communicates through symptoms, feelings, sensations, thoughts, and events. If we miss those communiqués, the body and mind shout louder and discomfort snowballs into illness.
I learned this truth the hard way. My path to becoming a healer included a years-long slide into chronic illness that finally forced me to wake up and listen to what my body, mind, and spirit were trying to teach me.
Chronic health problems showed up early in my life. At first, they took the form of minor ailments, frequent ankle sprains, and stomach upsets. Then my weight ballooned when I skipped third grade and turned to sugar for consolation, after losing my friends. That led to blood sugars careening wildly, leaving me alternately too animated or too crashed out.
Where did all this tumult come from? In part, I was a sensitive kid living in a family rife with unnamed, unacknowledged conflict. My parents were camouflaging difficulties in a marriage that didn’t work. They were just too different. My mother’s core value was “never do anything in excess.” If I got hurt, her response was, “Oh, I’m sure you are fine.” My father, on the other hand, was grandiose and brilliant, though emotionally clueless. His response to my complaints was to brag that he had never had a day of illness in his life. Clearly, he believed that anything true for him should be true for his offspring. Conflicts in style, worldview, and values are common in families. These often give rise to the internal, sometimes invisible existential stress of a soul that feels unrecognized, setting the stage for chronic illness. If Mom was a violin, Dad was a tuba. So how was
