I’ve found myself with a pretty heavy cold, mostly a cough. I find it funny how oblivious I was to my body before. Now I can see issues coming a mile away. Your body is constantly speaking with you if you quiet down enough to listen. It tells you everything you need to know. If you get good enough at it you can tell what foods effect you in what ways. If you think that alcohol or caffeine or sugar doesn’t affect you at all, you aren’t paying enough attention. It might be a negligible effect if you are in good health but there is always an effect. It may also be effecting you more than you think but you aren’t sensitive enough to realize it. There are obvioisly other things that effect your body that you can surely guess, like quality of sleep, posture, weather, and stress.
Everyone knows this, but most people don’t realize the implications. Every sensation I can your body comes from somewhere usually a combination influences. Sudden discomfort and even many illnesses are often caused by some kind of stimuli, often times thoughts. You don’t have to believe me, but if you spend a few months paying careful attention to your body, you probably will. The symptoms or discomfort start off small, but the longer you ignore them, the more severe they are likely to become. Pressure builds up in the muscles and tissue. The pressure causes organs to functions at less than optimal levels of performance, blood to flow to be limited and less oxygen to flow to where it needs to flow.
It was no surprise that I ended up getting a cold this week. Aside from the change in my diet (more food in general and more meat when I usually eat very little and sometimes border or vegetarian) and the increased consumption of alcohol may have been enough, but if it wasn’t, the emotional stress I was feeling through last week was certainly enough to.
Some good sleep helps, medicine might alleviate the symptoms, but I noticed the biggest difference today after a day of focusing on the fact that most of my worries had been unwarranted, despite previous experiences which led me to believe otherwise.
I’m going to try to allow myself to space out and enjoy my surroundings a bit more today and tomorrow and let all the pressure out I’m pretty sure I’ll feel better tomorrow.
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