The Place That Knows Before You Do

Reflections

There is a part of us that recognises truth before the mind can name it.

A place beneath identity, beneath thought, beneath the subtle performance we learn to carry through the world. This poem is a reminder that coherence doesn’t come from understanding it comes from returning to the inner field that already knows. We forget this when life becomes loud, when roles tighten, when frameworks harden around us. But the self beneath all of this has never moved. When you slow down enough to feel it, everything else begins to rearrange itself around that deeper rhythm.

(Spirit Movement Poem)

There is a place within you

that knows before you do,

that steadies before you shake,

that vibrates in the silence,

before the mind begins its search for meaning.

You can feel it in the moments

when life stops demanding an answer,

when a breath finds you first,

and you realise you have been held

by something quieter than thought.

This place has no concept of identity.

It does not measure where you are going

against where you have been.

It does not catalogue your failures,

or magnify your fears,

or weigh your worth against the shape

of anyone else’s life.

It is simply there unmoving,

unchanged by the shifting frameworks

you learned to navigate,

untouched by the stories you carry

as evidence of who you think you are.

When the world becomes loud

and the gravity of expectation

pulls you out of yourself,

you will feel the distance grow,

the subtle widening between the self you perform

and the self that simply exists.

This widening is not failure.

It is invitation.

An opening back into the rhythm

that has never judged you,

never hurried you,

never asked you to become anything

other than aligned with your own coherence.

Return to that place.

Not to escape the world,

but to remember the part of you

that has always known the way

long before your mind went searching for it.

Written by Nick Savastano, Transformational Coach