An Owner’s Guide to Living In Your Body Naturally

Life is many times a difficult experience, resulting in strong feelings of stress, anxiety, and emotions. Stress isn’t just a state of mind, it effects your body as well. Your body reacts to your thoughts and feelings and tries to tell you with nonverbal communicaiton that something isn’t right. As your body attempts its communication process you may experience a plethora of immediate physical symptoms.

Physical Symptoms of Distress

Stomach Upset
Indigestion
Constipation or diarrhea
Irritable bowel syndrome
Body tension
Quick, shallow breathing
Stiff shoulders and neck
Headaches
Back Pain
Dry mouth
Sweating
High blood pressure
Extreme tiredness
Racing heart
Restlessness

Left unattended or unresolved, these accute physical symptoms can progress into severe and chronic physical pain. No matter what level of body discomort you may be feeling, any type of type of physical imbalance has a tendency to make us feel afraid, worried, and uptight. Emotionally we may respond to physical distress with crying, edginess, or feeling powerless to change things. Instead of tuning in to our body, we tune out with one or more escape actions. For instance, we may choose to become overly busy, get lost in the television or internet, or we may turn to food, drugs, or alcohol in an effort to feel better.

While it is important to cultivate a relationship with your body when your life is going well, it is equally important to nurture this relationship when you body is out of balance. Your body has the ability to bring itself back into balance, but first it needs you to be aware of it’s nonverbal communicaiton. In addition, your body requires that you – your spiritual being – provide compassion, a choice about the direction you wish to head toward, and permission for the body to heal itself.

Partnership Dialog with Your Body

When your body is out of balance, copious amounts of gratitude, generosity, appreciation, and compassion are the antidotes for alleviating physically stressful experiences or emotionally painful wounds. The consistent practice of heart-felt compassion and appreciation generates a healthier and happier body.

Below is an example of a conversation how to reconnect with your body – especially when you are feeling lost, scared, or uncomfortable.

“Hello body. Create for me a safe home, a home that is an oasis, that is calm, that is flowing with life energy, and that is reflective of my beauty. Allow me to breathe my peaceful spirit deep into every fiber, every cell, and every strand of DNA. Release from your tissues all that is not me, all that is not love. Release the aches and pains and frozen areas that keep me – my spirit – and life energy from flowing freely within you. I give you complete permission to do what you do best, which is of course to be a self-healing body always in a state of perpetual rejuvenation.”

Embrace Your Body as a Supporter of Your Life

As you develop a new inter-related connection with your body, you become aware that your body has an inborn intelligence. It has both the ability to provide physical symptoms that tell you that there is a problem, and the ability to heal itself. Rather than running away from symptoms view symptoms as communication designed to capture your attention so that you can take positive action to move back into balance.

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