Listening To Your Body ~ Addiction Help

Listening To Your Body ~ Addiction Help
Listening To Your Body
This weeks Idea Engineer from my coaching mentor Dr. Randin Brons served as a good reminder.
One of the things that have dramatically improved in my life through the process of life recovery is listening skills. Yes, I listen to others better with my ears, but every bit as importantly, I listen to me, including my body, far better and this is a key to keeping life in balance. Randin’s Idea Engineer:What is your body saying?"Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz -- something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding." -- Chungliang Al Huang
"As we explore the extraordinary interplay of energies between the many aspects of our personality -- our needs, unconscious reactions, repressed emotions, aspirations and fears -- with the functioning of our physical system and its capacity to maintain itself, we soon realize how very wise the body is. With its intricately detailed systems and operations it portrays infinite intelligence and compassion, constantly giving us the means to understand ourselves further, to confront issues we are not looking at, and to go beyond that which is holding us back." -- Deb Shapiro, Your Body Speaks Your Mind
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Scan your body with your awareness. Are you experiencing any aches and pains? Any stiffness?
What might your body be trying to tell you about how you are living your life?
"Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible." -- Gabrielle Roth
"What is always speaking silently is the body." -- Norman Brown
Interesting way to look at things, and how very true. There was a time I treated my body as something rented from Hertz, and failed to hear the messages that were there. I paid a price and in some ways, still am. Today I try to treat flesh and spirit as one. I have only one body and in it is stored my history, and if I look in the right places, the keys to the life I want. The body speaks silently (as does that voice inside), it is my job to listen quietly to the message and act appropriately.Most of us are trying to recover a better way of living. Listening to your body is a learned skill. Are you paying attention?Keith Bray BA,CALC