# [Free 1st Part] When Your Body Thinks It's the Boss

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885/free-1st-part-when-your-body-thinks-it-s-the-boss
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885/free-1st-part-when-your-body-thinks-it-s-the-boss.md
Podcast: [Driving to the Rez - With Inelia Benz and Larry Buzzell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885)
Published: 2026-06-24T17:41:38+00:00
Episode link: https://dttr.substack.com/p/free-1st-part-when-your-body-thinks
Audio file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203279078/b94479396a2bbcb5945521763560f29d.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885/episodes/free-1st-part-when-your-body-thinks-it-s-the-boss
Duration seconds: 1956

## Resource

Recently, through conversations with other awake and aware individuals, our DTTR panelists, I realized that our physical bodies often behave as if they are the boss of our experience, but they are not. Our soul is. The body makes demands, negotiates, complains, threatens, and tries to control outcomes. Often, this happens in a completely unconscious way. Sometimes it happens so subtly that the soul mistakes it for intuition, guidance, or inner knowing. But at other times, especially when the soul has conscious communication with the body, something I have been teaching for more than a decade, we can clearly hear it trying to make the soul comply. Things like, “We had an agreement,” “This is how it’s always been done,” or even, “You’re abusing me.” These are not necessarily communications. Often, they are attempts to regain authority. And often they are fear-based statements. How is it that the body acts like a bully when we are trying to empower ourselves and drop negative limitations, programs, and behaviors? Because the physical body was created within a light-dark paradigm, it naturally operates through power-over-others dynamics. As humanity shifts beyond that paradigm, many of our bodies resist. Change feels dangerous to them. Like a teenager throwing a tantrum, the body may use pain, fear, fatigue, aging, illness, or stored trauma to pull your attention and decisions back under its control. It needs to keep things the same. As far as it is concerned, change is not good. Particularly massive changes such as not aging or extending life far beyond what we currently consider possible. Yes, that is possible. This does not mean the body never provides useful information. Pain can be information. Exhaustion can be information. The key is learning the difference between…

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885/episodes/free-1st-part-when-your-body-thinks-it-s-the-boss/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885/free-1st-part-when-your-body-thinks-it-s-the-boss.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.