For much of my life, I wondered why we are not given a handbook at an early age that covers the basic care and feeding of human beings. I even made a serious attempt to support a physician friend in compiling one. In my mind, this information would give us a basic overview of how the body works and a point by point detailed description of everything we need to know to keep our bodies functioning, mentally and physically, at a desired level for as long as we live. The manual would also include any insights into how life really works on Earth, so that we could begin living our best lives much sooner.
The reason we didn’t receive this desired data when we were young is because our parents didn’t have it, and neither did most people—it simply wasn’t widely available. Today, however the intelligence is accessible and rapidly becoming common knowledge.
By the time many of us started to open to these new concepts, however, and realized how intimately involved we should have been in the process of properly caring for our bodies, we had reached middle-age or become senior citizens. At that point, our bodies – our state of health and lives – were not exactly what we hoped they would be.
Since many of us still don’t know our pancreas from a parsnip, the first order of business is to learn how our bodies work and how incredible and miraculous they really are. From this base of respect and knowledge, we can then take it to the next level by learning to listen to our bodies so that we can partner with them to achieve health and, when necessary, healing. This is diametrically opposed to unwisely ignoring, dishonoring and mistreating our bodies and then being surprised when they malfunction or fail.
I believe one of the sources for this much-needed information is in the book “You – The Owner’s Manual – An Insider’s Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger” by Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz. Their light-hearted touch and humorous illustrations make the information easy to understand and to remember.
The authors, however, don’t cover some of the most current ideas about how life on this planet really works. For instance, they don’t mention the fact that how we think and feel about our bodies is a determining factor in our health and well-being, or that by changing our thoughts we can directly affect our state of health. They do, however, pay passing homage to the fact that many people today, famously including cyclist Lance Armstrong, have by attitude and determination experienced healings that defy all medical odds. The book also doesn’t mention the vital link between the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels of the body – and how they relate to health and healing – but the understanding it does provide about our bodies is a step in the right direction.
Most of us know, thanks in part to the science programs on public television, that we live, move and have our being in an energy that is in everyone and everything in the entire cosmos. This brings us to one of the insights into how life works on this planet: When this life force-energy-intelligence-power-spirit that is in everything combines with our thoughts and the emotions we hold around them, this affects our health, as well as the events and conditions in our lives. Whatever we are manifesting in our lives right now is a direct result of what we have either consciously or unconsciously placed into our subconscious as our order.
If we want to know how well we are using this incredible potential in our own lives – the test is simple. Are we living a life filled with abundance, beauty, health, joy and peace or one of fear, illness, negativity, poverty and unhappiness? If we aren’t living our best lives now, it is time to take this information in and make it part of our lives.
The most effective way to successfully change our thoughts and change our lives is through the use of affirmations. Affirmations are positive statements that we use to create patterns and beliefs to replace those that have not brought us the lives we desire. Eventually, if repeated often enough, the subconscious will accept these new directives as our true desires, and the universal life force-energy-intelligence-power-spirit will get behind them and they will manifest in our lives. This universal law is totally impartial and will deliver to us exactly what we focus on and feed into our subconscious – nothing more and nothing less. It could not be otherwise.
When we are ready and willing to take responsibility for our lives – and to actually put this information to work – there are no limits to what we can accomplish.
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Copyright 2008 by Fern Stewart Welch
The author’s book THE HEART KNOWS THE WAY—How to Follow Your Heart to a Conscious Connection with the Divine Spirit Within is available at Amazon.com and other online booksellers, as well as through major bookstores such as Barnes & Noble and Borders.
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