Women's Intuition: Unlocking the Wisdom of the Body

Dr. Reeves maintains a private practice, as well as leads workshops in psychology and relationships between the mind and the immune system. She has developed a technique called "Spontaneous Contemplative Movement" (SCM), which allows women to hear the messages their bodies have for them. SCM, done in a controlled environment, involves letting what is deep in the mind tell the body how to move, and then interpreting those movements.

She says that intuition is based in our bodies and adds that "body wisdom contains the essential truths about what matters most to a woman and ultimately to the human race as a whole. " Our bodies are constantly sending us signals, but we've forgotten how to read them.

Dr. Reeves describes how our bodies speak to us, what those messages mean in general, and how to interpret what they mean to us as individuals. She provides specific instructions for SCM. Essentially, it's a very simple process which involves paying attention to your breathing, allowing your body to move, and then contemplating the movements. She also includes chapters on soul talk, learning to love our bodies, and trusting our intuition. She finishes with a discussion of the role of intuition in healing.

Dr. Reeves also provides 13 exercises for developing and using your intuition.

She says that "it is my deep desire that through [her book], you will learn to trust your body's signals and learn to read them before they become symptoms of illness or distress." Readers will find that Women's Intuition contains the information they need to learn to recognize, trust, and interpret the messages their bodies are sending them.

Bridging Body and Soul
Paula Reeves' book is a map, a language, and encouragement that trusting body wisdom is a golden prize. I am a recovering daughter of the patriarchy who accepted my body as an inconvenient, fallible vehicle to get me to the library. I assiduously treated the symptoms of tension headaches for 30 years, feeling sabotaged and inept. Now I see that these headaches were like nightmares: wake-up calls to pay attention to my intuition and live congruently.Learning to listen rather than to override my "gut feelings" seems now an act of self-respect, not a cop-out. My own intuitive life force, through my body, wants to express itself to survive, create and connect on an honest level. Paula's lectures, workshops and book have rewarded me by being grounded in scholarship while noting the relationship between personal wisdom and one's body. This book unites what I'd thought paradoxical: body and soul. Reeves weaves "silvery webbed bridges of spiritual steel across the divide between consciousness and instinct..." (p. 110) Her writing is fine and rich with intelligence, practicality and wisdom. So here we are: embodied, ensouled, incarnated, intuitive.Thank you, Paula.

Embodied Exploration
I have long been interested in the study of the connections of body, mind, intuition and consciousness and have found most books on the subject to be fairly abstract and intellectual. This book by Paula Reeves gives very practical keys for personal exploration of the inner realms where physicality and consciousness meet and co-create our experience. She gives us many ways to explore "bodymind", not just appreciate the concept.

This guidance is of equal value for men and women.

The book is beautifully and sensitivly written, and was a great pleasure to read.

Refreshing perspective on body wisdom
An outstanding combination of the psychological and physiological basis for enhancing the body's natural healing tendencies while learning to appreciate the unique language of movement and symptoms that describe the deeper wisdom of the voice within. An imperative read for those who want to reintroduce or discover their intuition regardless of their gender, previous experiences or ease with the subject of soul.