The Mind Body Connection

My Mom used to tell me that before sleeping, if you decide to wake up at a certain hour, you most definitely will. Without anyone having to wake you up. Without an alarm ringing on a table close by. I found it eerie because it always worked. There was a minute and second precision. A classic case of mind and body connection. When you feel good eerily enough you also look good. And when there is something bothering you, or eating you up from the inside, it just shows on your face and in your body language. 

Our thoughts have a direct implication on our bodies and what we experience in life. Have you ever noticed that when you're happy, you tend to eat well and sleep well and you are at your productive best. On the contrary when something turns you off and you give it a lot of time and mental attention, it tends to keep growing bigger and bigger until it feels bigger than your life itself. Needless to say one negative thought attracts another and it begins to take a toll on your body. So the way is from the inside out. 

This is not to reduce the importance of things that happen to us. Many of them are more than we can handle at the moment. But like they say, someone or something can hurt you if you allow them or it to. And that directly depends on how much of your mental time and attention you're willing to give to it. The more you nurture it, the bigger it grows. With time you begin to develop health issues which start with loss of appetite and sleep and graduate to bigger problems. You begin to see everything's that wrong with everything and everyone. You turn cynical and sour on life. Which isn't exactly the way to be.

I don't remember whether I read this line somewhere or it just came to me - "Don't go down the memory lane, for there you'll find a lot of pain". This obviously does not apply to the happy memories. Only for the sad ones. A change of thought is all that is required. And that can happen in split seconds. Thoughts ( like Rhonda Byrne says in 'The Secret') have a tendency to attract similar thoughts. You change one bad one and switch to something nice and you're set. And trust you me, it works. More often than not. 

Our bodies do so much for us. We must take some time to take care of them too. We can make a beginning by eating right, sleeping enough and thinking positive thoughts.Meditation is a life saver too. But it needs to be worked upon diligently.The more you try to calm the mind the more chaotic it will seem. But this is a battle between you vs yourself. Persist and it would show you remarkable results. 

If there is a lot of stuff that is wrong with this world, there is a lot of stuff that is right too. The only way to hold on to precious sanity would be to concentrate on the brighter side of life. Don't feel like preaching any more so would end it by saying what I always say- Keep the faith, hold on to happy thoughts and live life and not just stay alive.