YBNL Concepts and Teaching Phrases
Your Body Never Lies training uses certain phrases and concepts in specific ways. These short explanations provide an introduction to the language of the training and show how its ideas relate to one another.
Some concepts already have full public pages. Others are introduced here and will be expanded as additional pages are created.
Foundations
Your Body Never Lies
The phrase points to several kinds of truth revealed through the body: what our visible body language communicates to others, what our internal sensations communicate to us, and what tension may reveal about unresolved history.
Internal Body Language
Internal body language is the information we perceive through sensations, breathing, emotions, contraction, expansion, intuition and other changes within the body. Learning to notice and understand this information is central to YBNL training.
The Collard Method
Much of YBNL grew from Brian Snyder's training with Patrick Collard. The two paths are closely related, but YBNL is not The Collard Method. It presents Collard-style material in a more grounded and accessible form.
Teaching Phrases
“Do the Math”
Examine the available evidence and draw your own conclusion rather than relying only on someone else's interpretation. In YBNL, the evidence includes body sensations as well as visible events, thoughts and circumstances.
“Feel Your Body”
Notice what you are sensing right now. The information may appear as expansion, contraction, vibration, warmth, pleasure, discomfort, emotion or another subtle change.
“Take a Breath”
Stop holding your breath, complete the current inhale or exhale, and continue breathing without pausing. The reminder is often used when unfamiliar information activates thought, resistance or the Border Guard (see below).
Change, Trust and Growth
Affirmations
An affirmation is a pronouncement or declaration of a future truth that we are choosing. Its creative value depends not only on the words, but also on what we fundamentally trust.
The Border Guard
The Border Guard is the protective response that appears at the boundary between what is familiar and what is new. It may distract us, raise doubts or question whether we are ready. With experience and training, it can become more like a security guard that recognizes genuine risk without blocking growth.
Responsibility
Responsibility means responding with the abilities we have. It is not about credit, blame, or searching for something to fix. It means noticing a non-optimum situation and responding as well as we can. That response may be practical, such as returning a lost wallet, picking up discarded trash, or changing our behavior in traffic. It may also be energetic, such as lightening and dispersing dense energy. Responsibility is simply noticing the obvious and doing what we are able to do.
Manifestation / Wishful Thinking
Wishful thinking is an attempt to overcome what we trust: hoping for something we fundamentally believe is impossible. In YBNL, desire alone does not override trust. The practical solution is to shift what we trust through specific body-centered exercises. Magical thinking becomes less distracting when trust, affirmation, visualization, and desire come into alignment. At that point, it is no longer merely wishful thinking; it becomes creative manifestation.
Breathing, Energy and Intuition
From Fear to Love
Breathing rhythm affects emotional experience. A continuous, connected rhythm can help the body move away from a fear pattern and toward a smoother experience associated with love. Releasing judgment is also part of allowing that change to become integrated.
Manifestation and Intuition
Manifestation and intuition may be two sides of the same exchange. In Low Potential we receive information; in High Potential we send information. When we are fully present, the line between receiving what is coming and participating in its creation can become difficult to separate.
Healing and Present Time
Healing
YBNL does not begin by viewing a person as incomplete or broken. What is often called healing may be better understood as redirecting attention from a past event to the present moment. Emotional or physical changes may follow, but the primary result is understanding, presence and the end of involuntary suffering for events that are no longer occurring.