What Gravity Can Teach Us About Ourselves

The Sixth Sense That’s Been Guiding You All Along

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Gravity is one of those forces we rarely stop to think about. It is constant, silent, and inescapable. It keeps the oceans in their basins, the planets in orbit, and our feet on the ground. Yet after my conversation with Dr. Brennan Spiegel, I began to see it in an entirely new way.

What if gravity is not simply pulling us down but helping us understand who we are?

Dr. Spiegel is a physician, researcher, and author of Pull: How Gravity Shapes Your Body, Steadies the Mind, and Guides Our Health. His work explores a concept that most of us have never heard of: graviception, the hidden sense that allows the body to feel and respond to gravity. It is the reason we can stand upright, keep our balance, and orient ourselves in space. But what fascinated me most was how this hidden sense connects to our emotional and psychological worlds.

When Life Feels Heavy

We often describe sadness as heaviness. We say we are feeling low or weighed down. Dr. Spiegel explained that these are not only figures of speech. They are reflections of how the brain and body experience gravity. Depression feels like too much pull. Anxiety feels like falling. Joy feels like lightness.

That idea made me stop and think about my own life. There have been seasons when everything felt like a physical effort and others when I felt almost weightless with possibility. Could those shifts be the body’s way of telling us that our internal gravity has changed?

It made me wonder what would happen if we learned to listen.

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