Living from our own personal authority grounds us with ourselves and in our ability to trust ourselves to ourself. It makes us responsible for knowing what we know and living out of our sense of what is good for us and what is not, what is right for us and what is not. Who knows what that is better than we do? And if we aren’t sure, there is no better way of finding out than dropping into the silence and listening to, sensing, knowing what our body knows and is saying about our present situation. Just sit down, empty ourselves of all noise and attend to our body’s signals. “Focusing,” by Gene Gendlin and “The Power of Focusing” by Gendlin’s student, Ann Weiser Cornell are manuals on reading our body’s messaging system and there are probably internet videos on the theme as well. Living from our physical foundation in our body’s wisdom is the source of our authority in being who we are, doing what is ours to do.
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