DECEMBER 11 "MY BODY SPEAKS TO ME"


The Body Speaks: What Your Symptoms Might Be Saying
While symptoms can herald diseases, and should be taken seriously, they can also be our body’s way of trying to communicate important information about what’s going on in our inner world – what’s working and what’s not serving us well.
Take for example, a woman who has horrible eczema but only under her wedding ring.
It started when she began to suspect her husband was having an affair. Turned out he was. Or another who has terrible arthritis and when I asked her what triggers it she said, “My husband is a constant source of inflammation in my life. I want a divorce but just can’t go there.” Or another who works in a toxic social environment, really wants to quit her job and only gets headaches on weekdays. Or my patient who experienced Takotsubo syndrome, an actual change in her heart mimicking a heart attack, over the grief of her husband’s sudden and unexpected death. Our bodies don’t lie!
 In fact, our bodies speak to us all of the time, providing nearly instantaneous feedback on our safety, our environment, our sense of balance and place in the world around us. We receive many subtle physical messages throughout the day, and may have a sense that something is off before the tsunami symptom that lands us in the doctor’s office or emergency room strikes. The messages might be an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of our stomach, a heavy feeling in the chest, tightness in the throat – something that gets our attention and makes us wonder if we’re doing the “right thing” or are safe at that moment. Some of us have specific “body barometers” – symptoms that are triggered when we are under stress or “something is not right” in our world, for example, a certain tooth that aches or a pinching stress headache. Too often we don’t hear these messages or have learned to tune them out in our busy lives – until they get too loud to ignore.
Conversely, when something is right for us or when we are in harmony in our lives we experience a sense of inner ease, wellness, or “rightness” that lets us know that all is copacetic.
God has made provision, a way, for our Body to speak to us, when something is out of sorts, and He has also made provision, a way, for the Holy Spirit to speak to us when something is out of sorts with us spiritually, when something is not right. 
The life that abides in Christ has this sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. "Something is not right, something is amiss here".
Many Christians these days are walking off cliffs or having spiritual heart attacks (so to speak), but as the body speaks to us, to warn us of impending crisis, so does the Spirit of God speak to us, of impending spiritual disasters. 
Do we hear the body? Do we hear the Spirit?


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