The Body Remembers Something the Mind Has Forgotten

Reflections on Cerebrospinal Fluid, Consciousness, and the Wisdom of the Womb

I feel compelled to share this blog as it just keeps coming to me over and over. It isn't coming from the mind or the intellect; it feels as though it is arising from the heart and the body itself. Every time my attention returns here, something inside me feels alive. The heart sings.

As always, this is simply my viewpoint, my feeling sense, and another lens through which to explore reality.

As a CranioSacral Therapist, I love to delve deep into the body, its inherent wisdom, and the invisible field that exists beyond what the naked eye can see, but not the subtle senses.

My whole life has been about spirituality and driving my family crazy with my woo-woo stuff, but over the past eight years, much of my life has been devoted to becoming a better CranioSacral Therapist, learning to master my own mind and awakening.

For me, this journey has been about refining my touch by becoming more sensitive than I thought I was. It has involved opening myself to deeper levels of awareness, exploring who I am beneath my thoughts, and discovering wholeness at the core.

This path has led me down many rabbit holes and allowed me to witness different levels of awakening, insight, and human experience.

The one thing I have come to realise is that what I know is actually very little. Everything is energy, vibration and frequency. Everything appears to be in motion. Everything appears to be an illusion until we become fully present with ourselves and our inner world.

The deeper I go into this, the more mysterious life becomes.

The one thing I keep coming back to is the pure water that resides deep within the body. The cerebral spinal fluid (CFS) that runs deep within the spinal cord and the sacred spaces within the cranium.

There is something about this fluid that continually captures my attention.

I believe that all the ebbs and flows, the rhythms, movements, and experiences we encounter within the womb play a much greater role in shaping our current reality than we understand.

Scientifically, we know that during the earliest stages of embryonic development, the primitive nervous system forms a hollow structure called the neural tube.

As this tube folds and closes, a small amount of the surrounding amniotic fluid becomes enclosed within it. This fluid becomes the primitive foundation for what is known as embryonic cerebrospinal fluid (eCSF).

What fascinates me most is that before we had thoughts, beliefs, identities, or stories, we were fluid energy.

Before we knew ourselves as separate beings, we were immersed in an ocean of movement, rhythm, vibration, and sensation.

We were not thinking about life.

We were simply experiencing it.

Perhaps this is why fluid continues to capture my attention. It was our first home. Our first environment. The first medium through which we experienced existence itself.

If the earliest environment we ever experienced was fluid, movement, vibration, and sensation, how much of that original experience remains within us?

How much of it continues to shape our perception of life?

Through the power of CHOICE, we consciously decide what we wish to experience.

Yet beneath conscious choice lies the subconscious mind.

Personally, I believe parts of the subconscious begin forming in the womb itself, and we play out some of these encounters, felt, and experienced in the womb. We hold this not only within the CSF, but also within the enfoldments of the blood, fascia, the fuzzy layers (the spider-web-like connective tissue that develops between layers of muscle, fascia, and other structures in the body), the muscles, organs, and beyond.

Everything appears separate, yet everything is whole.

Everything is individual, yet everything is interconnected.

Everything is whole and separate all at once.

For me, the CSF remains one of the vital keys.

Perhaps even the root.

I often wonder whether this fluid carries information, memory, vibration, and frequencies that science has not yet fully discovered or understood.

Could it be that through this fluid we continue to play out patterns and experiences first encountered in the womb until awareness begins to illuminate them?

Until consciousness itself begins to reshape them?

We know that a healthy nervous system allows us to navigate life with greater ease, resilience, and well-being.

But what does the autonomic nervous system truly need in order to thrive?

I find myself continually returning to the cerebrospinal fluid.

The cerebrospinal fluid surrounds and nourishes the central nervous system, so how could it not influence the vibration and function of the autonomic nervous system as well?

If everything is whole and separate at the same time, and if consciousness itself influences our experience, then perhaps we are all simply energy expressing a particular frequency until awareness begins to arise.

And as awareness grows, consciousness itself begins to influence that frequency.

Perhaps this is why so many healing practices focus on softening the body and regulating the autonomic nervous system through bodywork, meditation, chanting, music, plant medicine, breathwork, nature, and presence and why so many people can become enlightened through this work.

As consciousness changes, so too does our experience of reality.

I could continue travelling deeper down this rabbit hole, exploring chakras, organ resonance, planetary influences, vibration, and consciousness.

But I have probably blown your mind and consciousness already too much...Or not.

The truth is, I don't know if any of this is correct.

These are simply the questions that continue to find me.

Perhaps the answers are not found in knowing more, but in becoming still enough to listen.

Maybe the body remembers something the mind has forgotten.

I do believe beneath all the layers of thought, conditioning, identity, and experience, there is an intelligence quietly moving through us, just as it did before we took our first breath.

A fluid intelligence.

A wisdom that existed before language, before concepts, before the mind tried to understand itself.