Living Between Worlds

We live in between two worlds: the visible and the invisible.

The visible is literal: what is said, what is done, what we can taste.The invisible is interpretation: what we feel, what we notice.

And yes, even if we live in both worlds, often the invisible escapes from us. It goes through our senses, whispers through our bodies and then… disappears from our awareness before we can catch it in our minds. But when we learn to notice the invisible, it becomes one of the most important tools we can have for knowing and understanding life, people and ourselves.

The invisible world gives you the sensation you get before you can give it a name, like the sense that something is off before we have proof, the warmth we feel from someone’s attention even if their actions are subtle. We can call it intuition, sixth sense, gut instinct… even magic. But is not magic (ok, we can say it is ✨), it’s something that happens in our body and that everybody can develop.

It may be the awkward silence in a conversation, when something feels strange, the unease in a business deal where everything looks fine on the paper but one senses something is not. The distance in a hug, the energy of others, the sadness behind a happy smile from someone who says they “are fine”, the heaviness in the air after entering a room where a heavy argument has happened.

It can be the feeling of a partner who senses they are being cheated on even if they don’t have material proof of it, but then when they find out they know “they knew”, the child who senses tension between their parents even if no arguments are happening in from of them, or the feeling just before you are about to win a price, sensing that you are being watched, suddenly knows that someone is about to reach out, the spark of connection with someone new, unspoken but undeniable.

The invisible world often appears first through our body. Our gut gets tight when something is wrong, or our chest feels the warmth, a sudden unexplainable rush of adrenaline or sensing danger before the mind catches up.

This is perception. Some will call it sensing energy, or intuition. But is not something mystical, it’s very clear and can be explained. The feeling might not be the proof, but it’s s signal of our body. We notice what we notice in our bodies, so the more body awareness that we have, the more we get to know about the other people around us and our natural world, without thinking that we are making things up, because in most cases we will need confirmation or clarification, so perception may come as a question we may want to do, not always a path to follow.

Some people are naturally very sharp in these perceptions, being deeply connected to their bodies and the subtle unconscious things that the brain and body pick up. We are constantly being bombarded with information, and our brain has to filter it, but developing the skill of being more attuned to these insights is giving us the intuition we need to navigate a lot of things in life. It can make you better at business and negotiating, at relationships and in almost every area of life.Not being this a mysterious gift, it can be developed and expanded, and something that is part of my practice and a path that I am into.

The invisible world speaks to you through the body, before your thoughts can be formed. It can be felt like a knot in the stomach, a sudden ease or lightness, a feeling in the throat (pressure, or relief), a pull from the exterior to our solar plexus etc. The body processes micro signals, the nonverbal, emotional subtleties…

All we have to do is listen, and listen more to all the information we receive unconsciously. It may feel like magic, and it’s your inner wisdom to be able to differentiate and interpret that information.However, one thing is true intuition and the other is emotional noise. One of the challenges of developing this awareness is distinguishing between real intuition and signals driven by fear, projection or anxiety, because you also notice body sensations.

To me a clear way is that the intuitive, connection with the subconscious mind feels relaxed and grounded, centred in the body. Fear would tend to come with racing thoughts and a lot of “what ifs”. Also, intuition is focused on the present, on what you feel here and now, and fear is mostly about something that could happen in the future, so intuition felt in the body that is relaxed and present is more likely to be something I can accept as my intuition.

There is something very beautiful about living in both the visible and invisible world.

The visible is what we say. The invisible is what we mean.The visible is what we do. The invisible is why we do it.

I feel myself fully when I embrace both, see the object and feel what is beneath the surface. It’s about learning to trust the signals of my body, and then using my mind to learn more.

When I live this way, awakened to the visible and the invisible, I not just see people, but also their hearts. Not just hear their voices, but feel their truth.

Not only life but the soul within it.