The Body Doesn’t Lie: How to Hear the Truth Beneath the Mind

Written By Heather Sheldon

Part One of The Body as Oracle Series

 

There’s a truth inside you that doesn’t need to be explained — only felt.

It lives under the noise of your thoughts.
It pulses through your chest when you’re around someone you love.
It tightens in your gut when you say yes but mean no.
It softens your shoulders when you finally feel safe.

This is the truth of your body — and it never lies.

But most of us learn to override it.

We’re praised for being agreeable, not honest.
For being productive, not present.
For being polite, even when we’re in pain.

The body speaks in clear signals, but the mind is often louder — rationalizing, performing, protecting. Especially for those of us who’ve been taught that survival depends on staying small, staying quiet, or staying likable.

We begin to abandon the body’s truth to belong. And over time, we forget how to hear it altogether.

Relearning the Language of the Body

Reconnecting with the body’s truth isn’t always a dramatic awakening. It’s more often a quiet remembering.
It might sound like:

  • A whisper of “no” before your brain says “maybe”

  • A deep exhale that escapes before your answer does

  • The way your feet feel heavy when you’re out of alignment

  • The sudden clarity that floods in after you move your body or cry

The body isn’t always logical — but it’s always honest.

It knows what the mind doesn’t want to admit.
It’s not here to please anyone.
It’s here to guide you home to yourself.

An Invitation to Listen

Next time you’re faced with a decision — big or small — try asking your body first:

❍ What does my body do when I consider this choice?
❍ Where do I feel tension, expansion, heat, or stillness?
❍ What happens when I imagine saying yes? What about no?

Let your body answer before your mind rushes in to explain.

This is the beginning of somatic truth — of letting your body become your oracle. And as you rebuild trust in its signals, you’ll start to feel something radical: safety, not from control, but from inner knowing.

From Here

This series, The Body as Oracle, is about reclaiming your relationship with the intelligence that lives under your skin. In the next piece, we’ll explore what safety actually feels like — and how your nervous system can be your compass, not your cage.

Until then, I invite you to pause, to listen, and to trust the language that doesn’t need to be translated.

Because your body already knows.

Heather Sheldon