sadeewhip

One of the biggest things that bothers me is the current assumption that the body and the mind are separate. This assumption not only makes things unnecessarily difficult, but it is intensely energy depleting.

It also makes us very bobble-headed. You know bobble-heads? The little figures with gargantuan craniums and comparatively tiny bodies? Those perfectly symbolize our society. No wonder they’re so popular.

By assuming the body and mind are separate we put a lot of effort into thinking the “right way.” As in: If I think about this right I wont feel bad/be depressed/have anxiety/be tired/struggle so much. But thinking is powered by…you guessed it, the brain. And the brain is…you guessed it, physical.

Every emotion you feel has a chemical, i.e. physical, reality. Nothing you feel is independent of your body. If you are tired, lacking proper nutrition, unable to absorb and assimilate the foods you eat, have a weakened immune system, have a hormonal imbalance, are B-vitamin deficient, or any number of other phsycially based things, you will either be depressed, fatigued, or have anxiety.

And if you are depressed or have anxiety you will be able to make progress out of it much easier and with much less effort if you simply tend to the physical reality of the requirements of what a body needs to be healthy.

Your body knows how to be healthy. And by healthy, I don’t mean “absence of disease.” Absence of disease is no indicator of health. It simply means you don’t have what is definable as a disease. Before disease sets in you have been, in all likelihood, unhealthy for quite some time.

Health, as the body is wired for, is a state of thriving, playful, relaxed, alert, flowing, magnetic, limber, sexually alive, juiciness.

I had a client come to me who wanted an alternative to the drugs her doctor wanted to put her on for anxiety. She was having nearly debilitating panic attakcs that were affecting every aspect of her life. She wanted BodyMind information to have a more complete picture of what was going on.

During our initial session she told me why she was there and as I looked at her forms I saw she drank coffee. I asked if the psychiatrist she saw suggested she stopped drinking coffee. She said no.

So I said “Before we get into a whole big thing here, let’s start with the easiest thing. I want you to stop drinking coffee.” I suggested she add some Magnesium as well. She said “That’s it?” And I said “For now, yes. We can’t really know how deep these panic attacks go until we eliminate the most obvious causes.”

I could tell she simply could not believe it could be that easy. I suggested she come back in a week.

A week later she came in and said her panic attacks were completely gone and she felt almost no anxiety at all. She stopped being mean to her husband and started to laugh more. All of these things were the goals she had from our work togehter. It appened in a week by tending to the body.

I said “Well, that’s done. Now what do you want to do?”

The thing is, she wasn’t thriving. She wasn’t thriving becasue she was not IN her body, not embodied in a way that allowed her to put 2 and 2 together: coffee makes me anxious.

But who of us sees the connection between what we ingest and the larger picture of our lives?  Well, we should because it would save a TON of money and energy and stress and be far less of a drain on businesses and the economy and communities and families.

I don’t mean to sound preachy. It just upsets me to see so many incredible people living so far beneath thriving because of something as simple to address as the body.

We are designed to thrive. Everything that is alive is designed to live, to thrive. All you have to do is give your body what it needs, how it needs it and you will develop the energy you need for the life you want.

It wont happen over night. But for most people the right changes will make a difference in as little as a week. By 60-90 days you will experience a HUGE impact.

I’ll write a bit about what’s needed in the next blog.