Sometimes it’s a whisper – you strain a muscle slightly, and sometimes it’s a shout – a fierce headache after a stressful week. The body continually sends you signals on its state – optimal or suboptimal and once in a while OPTIMAL. How engaged are you in meeting your body’s needs? How much do you know on how to meet your body’s needs? Jim and I were inspired by Dan Goleman’s frameworks for emotional intelligence and social intelligence and proposed that body intelligence, or BQ, address three elements: Awareness Lestat was lacking body intelligence, what Jim Gavin and I wrote about in our IDEA Fitness Journal article. He finds attending to his body exhausting and endless. There is always something that needs attending to – eating, sleeping, staying warm and dry, social connection, etc. Much of the book describes Lestat’s struggle to take care of the basic needs of a human body, something he had not learned as a vampire. Some years ago, I read Anne Rice’s book in her vampire series titled “ The Tale of the Body Thief.” The vampire Lestat gets lonely and tired of being a vampire and switches bodies with a human character.
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