Posted by Diana Bertoldo | Posted in | Posted on 4:12 PM
The news of illness can be caked with fear. And for many people there can be a sense of wanting to flee the body. Yet this is the time to deepen your relationship with your body. It’s the time for you and your body to become an allied force that works together to promote health, well being, and peace. The following are 5 tips to help you create an allied force between you and your body.
Forgive Your Body: It’s easy to feel betrayed by your body when illness enters into the picture. But the wedge of un-forgiveness you create between you and your body will keep you from working together towards peace, health and well-being. When you forgive your body much of the emotional, mental and physical resistance you experience with illness melts away—leaving you a more favorable environment to manage illness.
Forgive Yourself: Whatever it is that you believe you should or shouldn’t have done to keep your illness at bay—let it go! Take responsibility for the here and now and forgive yourself for any part you may believe you played in having this illness. It’s easy to get lost in thoughts like, “Why me?” and “How could I have prevented this?” Some people even believe they must have deserved their illness. This kind of thinking places a wedge of un-forgiveness between you and your body. Whatever it takes, forgive yourself so you can melt away the emotional, mental and physical turmoil that keeps you from creating an internal environment for yourself that promotes health and well being.
Listen to Your body: Now is the time to listen like you’ve never listened before. And this may feel like quite a role reversal at first since you are probably better practiced in telling the body what to do vs. listening to the body as it tells you what it needs, what it wants, and how you can help. Listening to the body involves a willingness to let the body inform and direct you. And if you can get past the initial feeling of being demoted to a position that might entail more listening than telling than you will likely appreciate the direction in which your body takes you. Remember, your body knows a thing or two about what it needs to heal…so listen.
Practice Gratitude: Remember to bring your awareness to all the amazing things your body does for you. Focus on what is working—all the systems, organs, and cells in the body that have been working dedicated 24/7 shifts for as long as you can remember. Appreciate all the ways the body takes care of you. Acknowledge all the wonderful emotional, mental and physical journeys this body takes you through. Remember the ways it has fought illness in the past and won! Be grateful for the ways it alerts you of danger and the ways it fills you with pleasure with so many of the things you do. Express gratitude towards your body as you would a dear friend.
Nurture Your Body Daily: Why wait for your body to ask for what it needs when you can give it what it deserves daily. Make time for daily habits that nurture and nourish your body. Reward your body with quiet time where it can relax, restore and renew. Create the opportunity every day to pamper your body as a way of letting it know you appreciate it’s hard work, you’re glad it’s on your team, and you want to do everything you possibly can to support your body and this alliance between you.
Forgive Your Body: It’s easy to feel betrayed by your body when illness enters into the picture. But the wedge of un-forgiveness you create between you and your body will keep you from working together towards peace, health and well-being. When you forgive your body much of the emotional, mental and physical resistance you experience with illness melts away—leaving you a more favorable environment to manage illness.
Forgive Yourself: Whatever it is that you believe you should or shouldn’t have done to keep your illness at bay—let it go! Take responsibility for the here and now and forgive yourself for any part you may believe you played in having this illness. It’s easy to get lost in thoughts like, “Why me?” and “How could I have prevented this?” Some people even believe they must have deserved their illness. This kind of thinking places a wedge of un-forgiveness between you and your body. Whatever it takes, forgive yourself so you can melt away the emotional, mental and physical turmoil that keeps you from creating an internal environment for yourself that promotes health and well being.
Listen to Your body: Now is the time to listen like you’ve never listened before. And this may feel like quite a role reversal at first since you are probably better practiced in telling the body what to do vs. listening to the body as it tells you what it needs, what it wants, and how you can help. Listening to the body involves a willingness to let the body inform and direct you. And if you can get past the initial feeling of being demoted to a position that might entail more listening than telling than you will likely appreciate the direction in which your body takes you. Remember, your body knows a thing or two about what it needs to heal…so listen.
Practice Gratitude: Remember to bring your awareness to all the amazing things your body does for you. Focus on what is working—all the systems, organs, and cells in the body that have been working dedicated 24/7 shifts for as long as you can remember. Appreciate all the ways the body takes care of you. Acknowledge all the wonderful emotional, mental and physical journeys this body takes you through. Remember the ways it has fought illness in the past and won! Be grateful for the ways it alerts you of danger and the ways it fills you with pleasure with so many of the things you do. Express gratitude towards your body as you would a dear friend.
Nurture Your Body Daily: Why wait for your body to ask for what it needs when you can give it what it deserves daily. Make time for daily habits that nurture and nourish your body. Reward your body with quiet time where it can relax, restore and renew. Create the opportunity every day to pamper your body as a way of letting it know you appreciate it’s hard work, you’re glad it’s on your team, and you want to do everything you possibly can to support your body and this alliance between you.
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