What Would Happen If We Could Hear Our Bodies?

We are constantly overcrowding our senses. We override our body’s actual needs a lot. We ignore the fact that we need to rest, because we are too busy ‘doing.

We often think ‘I shouldn’t’...

Eat this pizza

Have this argument

Stay up this late

I often think, isn’t it amazing that we walk around in our bodies, yet for the most part we have no idea what is going on in them. For example, until we have pain, we are not conscious of whether our muscles are contracting to maintain the correct position or whether our liver is optimally detoxing.

I had the pleasure of meeting Jennifer Ayres (Ayurvedic Practitioner). She made the very valid point that our body is always telling us something if we listen. It is telling us that we would be better to do and not to do certain things.  But we generally don’t pay attention. We don’t take the time to listen, or we don’t hear, because we have deadlines, because we want to momentarily feel better, because we want to prove our point.

Dr. Samuel J Hun (Chi Gong Teacher) has reminded me many times, that most of us don’t stop to consider that we take the qualities of our external environment and we internalize. There is no space left for reflection, and for realizing what damage we are doing to ourselves, to others, and to our planet.

Whatever you are surrounding yourself with, so is your inside; mind and body.

The qualities of our mind are created by what we are taking in through our sense; the foods we are eating, the messages we are hearing and seeing, how we are talking. This is why many of us often feel restless, tired, depressed, anxious, have problems sleeping, put on weight etc etc etc.

If we get out of the way of doing the things that don’t actually serve us,  and make different choices we start to feeling better immediately.