A Healthy Life

We as humans do not come with an operators manual. There are many voices and opinions by all sorts of experts about what we should do or not do, or eat or not eat. Everyday there is a study or a report that contradicts the previous days' information. We are all different and unique, not all advice we hear or see will work for us. Some advice may do more harm than good.

My journey to better health started a few years ago. I decided to take responsibility for my self and my body. There is a truth I learned that our bodies never lie to us. What does this mean? If you eat something bad, your body will expel it in one way or another. I began to listen to my 'gut' feeling and intuition about the choices I was making on my path to good health.

Healthy eating and drinking go hand in hand with a healthy life. We have a second "brain" in our tummies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system. Next time you have a "gut feeling" listen to it and learn to trust it. We are so distracted by everything now days that we tend not to hear, or we tune out those "gut feelings".

I have been practicing listening to what my body subtly tells me. This is something you can learn. It's an inverse ratio; the less you are distracted with the outside world the more you can hear and pay attention to your internal world = your self. Once you can hear what your body is communicating you will be healthier and more aware of your own being.

An example of this is when you get a "gut feeling" that you shouldn't eat something, but eat it anyway. The consequences being getting sick from the food you ate. Only then do we realize that we should have listened to our own second "brain" warning us.

Listening to our own body intuition takes practice, and an internal quietness that can be achieved by tuning out the external noises that constantly surround us will take time to learn.