EDS people bodywonks?

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Others said:

" In my experience I do have the ability to read my bodies remarkably

well. And

other EDSers do too.

H

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wrote:

I really feel that EDser's are extremely intuitive, and have a much

more highly

developed sense of there being (bodies) than all those other so-

called 'normal'

people.....lol "

My experience is the same, and different. When I was younger and

wanted only to avoid feeling the pain in my body, I had probably

little body awareness, I avoided listening to music because that

reminded me of having a body, stopped meditating, and talked quickly -

something that in my experience correlates with those who ignore body

and intuition. Then I slowly turned around and decided that feeling

my pain was the only way of coping with it. Since then I talk much

more slowly, listen to my internal intuition more often, and pay much

more attention to the body - as Buddhists say a good monk must! It

made for quite a personality change though, over time. I suspect EDS

means that you either have much more OR much less body awareness than

most people - there's no middle ground for us.

PS - I've written a bit about the emotional connections to various

kinds of body awareness, and think that emotional depth (the opposite

of sentimentality, let's say) requires being very much aware of very

subtle body feelings. EDS has eventually forced me to be very aware

of the nuances of my body feelings, but there was a long period when

I was younger when the reverse was true - I didn't want any awareness

of body sensations at all, thank you very much.