Your Mind--A Secret Weapon For Vibrant Health

Would you like to have bounce in your step and wellness shining from your eyes? Our body gets back into order when we give it all of the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that it needs for optimum performance.

Most people look on disease and sickness as inevitable. Large numbers of people break nearly every known natural law of health, and are surprised that they become ill. Yet the wonder is that they are as well as they are.

We are not machines. We are far more complicated and dynamic than any machine that will ever be. And you must honor the dynamic and fluid system when it comes to how you eat and how you exercise.

Most of us take our bodies for granted. We expect them always to do what we ask of them, effortlessly and efficiently; we assume that they will always be there for us. So we go through our daily lives thinking about anything and everything except how we use these reliable vehicles, these loyal servants that unquestioningly carry out all our orders.

We were endowed at birth with bodies that are perfectly designed to serve us with ease and enjoyment through a long, active and pain-free lifetime. So what goes wrong?

It is not an inescapable toll of some vague aging process. Blessed with the phenomenal powers of regeneration, our bodies can withstand years, even decades, of systematic misuse and still continue to serve us faithfully, with only the occasional twinge or ache.

We can try to blame “something” that runs in my family, our age or an old injury. But this is simply adding insult to injury. It is the piling up of years of abuse—of driving the car with the brake on and without changing the oil, so to speak.

Always recognize the true miracle of our bodies. Without any prompting from us, food is digested and changed into fuel, air is breathed, nutrients are circulated to every cell and hands and feet follow our desires for any action we want to take.

But the body goes beyond that. If we fail to supply the kidneys with enough water to rid the body of waste, the liver steps in and helps to strain out the impurities. If we break a leg, other muscles help us move around while the leg heals. Man-made machines do not work until the broken part is replaced.

We may not observe all the rules, but we willingly accept the idea that food, exercise and sleep are essential for optimum health. However, the link that gets ignored too often is the mind.

When we look to the mind we find a prolific cause of sickness. Man thinks himself into ill health and disease. People who are forever thinking about disease, illness, operations and other morbid subjects, become a prey to these things. Those who believe that sickness is inevitable, manifest it in their life.

Yes, it is hard to forget the aching finger, toe or whatever. Constant thinking of how much it hurts just puts you in a worried and depressed mood—and you know what worry does to blood pressure.

No one can say it is easy, but change your focus onto another subject. Remember the times as a child when you forgot about an injury because you were too busy doing something that you enjoyed.

Once we become aware of what we are doing to ourselves and begin to use our bodies the way they were designed to be used, the damage can be halted and healed. Health is harmony—a delicate balance and adjustment between spirit, soul, mind and body.