Turning Your Body Around

Today's post builds upon what I shared in earlier blogs and may be more meaningful if you read one or more of my previous postings. You can find them by scrolling down or clicking on a Blog Archive title in the column to the right.

Your body is designed with a tremendous margin of tolerance, meaning, there is significant deviation from ideal before you feel symptoms. For a healthy body, the first symptoms are mild. Thus, unless you know to pay attention, you may unintentionally ignore them.

Major problems are usually long preceded by noticeable warnings. Even traumatic injuries usually occur at the “weaker links” of your structure and heal more quickly in people whose bodies are closer to ideal and to the margin of tolerance.

Beyond the margin of tolerance, is the margin of intolerance. Within this range, symptoms increase because you increasingly should not tolerate them. If you do not heed the intolerable tension, discomfort, pain or lowered function and if you accept what is not normal, you move your body into a margin of significant intolerance. 

In the margin of significant intolerance, your body is miserable from being chronically ignored.  You demand it to perform though it writhes in pain. Meanwhile, your mind continues frustrated and your body continues to hurt as you enter into the margin of failure.

In the margin of failure, aspects of your lifestyle and previously important activities come to a halt.  You may struggle to meet your basic physical needs, such as cleaning, cooking, even dressing and sleeping.  You may think it has to do with disinterest, being tired, or laziness, but these often occur because of decreased bodily functions.

Now what? You realize that you are heading away from ideal.  You have to do something. Something needs to change.

Your mind must assist the body, for the body is first dependent upon the mind. The mind is dependent upon the body to carry out its tasks. In return, you must adequately, even amply, give to your one and only, truly amazing, helpful and necessary servant, your body.

People in longstanding pain and dysfunction must soul search if they want to have a renewed life. A renewed life is comprehensive; and, it is a joy that proper changes bring rewards. Renewal of life means that the old, stale, not-working philosophy is replaced with one that sustains a fresh, healthy, genuinely better quality of life.

Discussing Medication, Surgery, Miracle Healing

Sometimes taking pain-pills, having a surgery or receiving a miraculous healing makes the body feel better. When these situations bring relief, the recipient is given a second chance to take initiative for their own health. If the mind doesn't have a healthy care for the body, the better feeling will not last long. As far as I've witnessed, if the recipient doesn't use the better health to further help the body parts to work better, then the pain comes back, often worse and differently with certain surgeries and pain-masking medications.

There are many who are disappointed and still in pain who have tried to be proactive, prayed for miraculous healings, or have endured failed surgeries.  If this is you, you still can meet the needs of your body.  Your quest must continue to properly support joint and muscular function.  Adequate improvements are always needed to truly heal.