You may spend too much time worrying about how your body looks. On a deeper level, creating a healthy life leads us to live a life free of disease.
Your health is about your whole being; body, mind and spirit. Can you take responsibility for your health today? Through conscious living, you can refuse to violate your body with excessive and harmful foods. Through conscious living you can give yourself time for your feelings.Through conscious living you can, with help, understand your depression and learn from it. Through conscious living you can cultivate a spiritual life that is comfortable for you.
Watch over yourself, mother yourself and protect yourself.
It is your health that makes you capable of making this world a healthy place for all of us.
Kiss Your Life... 365 Reasons to Love Who You Are
By: Ann Mody Lewis, Ph.D.
Reason: 67 Page: 85
Commentary:
What is health?
Is it the absence of illness? Is health feeling mighty or the cultural correctness of your life? Is health the absence of problems…like divorce, troubled kids, and a house that isn’t paid for? Is it avoiding weight gain, building muscles and looking ageless? Does it mean living on vegetables and brown rice?
We all want to be healthy and you might be surprised to know that YOU are the most powerful agent in creating your own health. Health is the fusion of body, mind and spirit that you orchestrate. David Sadker, a leading research scientist explains the human ingredients of health: “Hope, self-esteem, and education are the most important factors in creating health daily; no matter what your background or state of health in the past.” In other words, health is more about your state of mind than brown rice and vegetables.
Doctor Candace Pert says the “…the body is the outward manifestation of the mind.” Today we know that our whole self is linked by the immune, endocrine, and central nervous systems. The ancient healers always knew about this fusion of body and mind.
As a mental health professional, I meet people every day that resist the fundamental idea that they are ONE! Rather than heal their spirit, they want a pill to take their pain away, which makes the pharmaceutical industry very happy; but rarely solve their problems. Our reliance on pharmaceuticals is a fundamental shift away from what is fundamentally true. Sometimes drugs are necessary for healing; however, belief in recovery always is.
Health, then, is your creation…really…literally! Fate has less to do with it than your determination to see all of yourself as the sacred domain of your body.
“All distress, all healing of distress and all creation of health are simultaneously physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual.” (Christine Northrup M.D.)
You may call this topic a resistance to Western Thought! As the month of March proceeds you will understand why. Topics will include: What is health? What cultural messages for men interfere in their health? What cultural messages for women interfere in their health? How can we help one another be healthier? How do the body, mind and spirit work together?
Let’s talk!
Ann
