"Some adopt a rigid system that answers all possible questions and so you don't have to think beyond its systems.  The other response is much more seemingly fragile but much more expansive, because it doesn't lay down a rigid framework.  It allows you to move within the mystery of it.  And that seems to be flowering right now.  I think people are more and more interested in embracing that because they've been through everything else.  It is a willingness to embrace mystery, a willingness to embrace not knowing, allowing that intuitive awareness to speak."

Paul John Roach from his book: The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up & Changing the World

Messages from Our Body

Statistics from the medical industry attribute stress as the cause of up to 90 percent of illness and disease.  The good news is that we have a very effective barometer of the amount of stress we are experiencing.  It's our physical body.  That ache or pain is our body's way of letting us know we are under stress or out of balance.

Unfortunately, due of our busy lifestyles, we often ignore the whisperings of our body - our dis-ease presenting as minor aches or pains - because we are just too busy to acknowledge or address it.  However, the result is that our body just talks louder, amplifying our aches and pains or creating discomfort in other areas of our body.  If we continue to ignore our body's messages, it has the potential to eventually turn into a medical 2 by 4 - our discomfort has the potential to turn into serious illness or disease.

Consult Your Inner Physician

I refer to using your intuition to tune in to your body for helpful information as Consulting your Inner Physician.  Learn to pay particular attention to your body and the messages it is sending you.  If you begin to feel any discomfort in your body, try the simple technique below:

Take a few minutes, close your eyes, take a deep breath, focus on an area of your body where you feel discomfort and ask the following questions (and wait for the answer):

1. As you focus on that part of your body, what do you notice?
2. Do you sense a color, temperature or other sensations?
3. What emotions do you notice as you focus on that part of your body?
4. What thoughts do you notice as you focus on that part of your body?
5. Ask that part of your body what it is trying to tell you.
6. Ask that part of your body what it wants to be healthy and balanced.
7. Send love and gratitude to your body and thank it for being the vehicle through which you express your unique purpose and passions in the world.

When it feels complete, thank your body for its messages and acknowledge your intuition for helping you get valuable information to create wellness.  The more you validate your intuition, the quicker and easier it will expand.

By learning to listen to our bodies early on when it is just whispering to us, and acting on the information we receive to reduce stress and create balance, we can often avoid the need for our bodies to talk louder to get our attention.

Remember that is it important to have a competent health team that includes a licensed physician.  The concepts above are to augment your health team, not replace it.

Your Inner Physician is ready and waiting to help you identify and reduce stress, and create wellness.