Just like planting a garden and growing seed, if you don't make a fertile place for things to grow, you will never harvest what you plant. It will be as if you're going through the motions but doing things that truly will not help.
Cultivating your mind and body is how you go in and prepare your day for a day that can be productive and helpful in your growth. It involves identifying the weeds and other harmful things to your life, where you can work to remove them. It involves feeding and watering your mind body so that you give yourself optimal conditions to grow.
We fail to see the whole picture...
Too often, we give the soil of our thoughts the opportunity to grow, but we fail to fertilize and water our thoughts by connecting to the body. We fail to see the whole picture of what we are doing, rather than just the plant that may be emerging from the ground.
Our mind body balance is critical to our overall health and outlook on life. It can either help us find wholeness and wellness or it can be a source of deep pain. Our mind body is where it all happens, but if we only focus on the mind and ignore the body, we're only halfway to the place we need to be.
The mind body connection means going into the cells and allowing us to feel and sense what is there. It is not about creating a story from those moments, but just observing and being one with our mind body to notice what is in that moment. The more we notice, the more aware we become. The more aware we become, the more conscious we are.
It must come from deep within...
Awareness and consciousness that stand the test of time do not only come from the mind like many think they do. Yes, you might have awareness or a conscious thought, but if you truly want it to be grounded to stand the test of time, it must come from deep within the body connected to the mind.
The body is such an important part of the mind body connection and it often gets missed. We stay numb and disconnected because often times, there is far too much pain that we attempt to hide. By hiding this pain, we are numbing our entire mind body connection and robbing ourselves of peace, joy, and true growth.
Once you realize that cultivating both the mind and the body is essential for wellness, you will see much more power in healing your own life. You will experience a deeper world around you apart from the fears that are overblown each and every day.
If you want to know more, here are some good resources to check out because these people truly understand much more about the mind body connection and how it impacts every part of your life. Do yourself a favor and learn to cultivate not only your mind, but your body. The rewards it pays out will far surpass the fears that try to hold you back.
Resources
- Breaking The Habit Of Being Yourself
- Waking The Tiger
- The Body Bears The Burden
- Unified Therapy - Dr. Paul Canali
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