How to Make Yourself the Medicine

Both your inner and outer conversations are creating your reality.

Your body is listening and responding to the words you speak (both out loud and in silence).

Your thoughts are literally giving instruction to your body.

Your body is an animal (your meat suit) and you (your soul) is the caretaker of it.

Your inner animal communicates to you with symptoms.

Symptoms are the language of your body.

The creator built this into the program to tell you something is wrong and you need to give your body a tune up.

Symptoms are warning signals that you need to address something, not ignore it.

- Are you even listening to your body?
- Have you stopped to really considered what your symptoms are saying?
- Are you ignoring them by taking no action, but secretly worried?
- Are you “shooshing” them with with drugs that do not address the cause?
- Are you hating and at war with your body?

Your body is trying to tell you something.

- Are you responding or are you reacting?
- How are you communicating back, punitively or lovingly?
- Are you telling your body that it is wrong or bad for having them?
- Are you telling your body that there is something wrong with it?

Your body is innocent and impressionable and it believes you.

If you believe that there is something wrong with your body, instead recognizing that something is actually wrong in your world, then you’ve completely missed the point.

You are not your body, but you are a spirit inhabiting a body that has both physical and soul needs.

Your job is to care take them both.

If you don’t, this sweet human mammal that you inhabit will act out until it gets it’s needs met (just like any other animal does).

The aim of your relationship to your body should parallel being a loving parent or caretaker.

We’ve all seen what happens to a child or animal who is neglected and abused, yet we are surprised by what happens to our body when we abuse it and neglect our soul’s needs!

When you neglect a child or animal, it ‘acts out’ to get your attention (love), in the same way, so does your animal body.

What would you expect to happen if you told a child that there is something wrong with it and that it is bad, just because it cries or temper tantrums to ask for it’s needs to be met, in the only way it knows how?

Just as a child doesn’t easily know how to intellectually tell you what it needs are, your inner animal (body) doesn’t have words. It has to get your attention in a physical way.

What if you continued to withhold love, care, nourishment, physical affection? The child has to act out even more, maybe hitting or throwing stuff. Your body has to cause some pain or discomfort.

What if you then escalated things to physical abuse or restraint to try to force the child or animal to behave (many people do this with weight loss - they force deprivation and punishing exercise onto their body and the weight only becomes more stubborn).

The child or animal becomes further emotionally hurt and traumatized and has to be even more aggressive in trying to get attention.

This deep pain, hurt, trauma and neglect can escalate into criminal behaviour. The child grows to harm others and then has to be “put away”, or in the case of the abused and aggressive animal, it must be “put down”.

Neglect kills as much as violence does.

It’s just that the harm is just turned inward toward oneself. It is a slow suicide of sorts (if we can’t hurt back, we tend to hurt ourselves).

Many people unknowingly live their lives in chronic ‘fight’ mode against themselves.

They feel stuck in situations with other people and circumstances that are abusive, yet they can’t fight back because it would be socially inappropriate to do so. Think of that abusive partner, boss or co-worker, you can’t get away from.

The cause of your health issues is not a deficiency of a pill or a defective organ.

The cause is both deficiencies and excesses on all levels and realms of your being - mind, body, heart and soul.

Are you nourishing yourself (mind, body, heart and soul)?

Do you have high enough standards in life, and personal boundaries, so that you are not allowing these parts of you to be exposed to toxicity (mind, body, heart and soul).

It’s obvious when external factors, like people, situations and circumstances cross the line, but we often miss when we are neglecting or abusing ourselves.

- Are your thoughts, beliefs, words and actions self loving or self harming?
- Are you neglecting yourself and your body?
- Are you physically abusing it?
- Are you emotionally abusing yourself with words?
- What are you speaking into your reality about yourself and your body?

There is currently a conversation that you have with yourself and with others about your body, yourself and your life.

Here are some of the common ways that people relate to their body that is a chronic stress and weakens their health and healing capacities:

- Are you claiming that your body is defective and has failed you?
- Are you telling your body that there is something wrong with it?
- Are telling your body that it is the problem?
- Are you telling your body that the problem is, that it is telling you that there is a problem (you don't want to hear about it)?

If right now you realize that you’ve been heaping blame and judgment on your body, by your thoughts (inner conversations) and thus creating negative self fulfilling prophecies, its time to stop doing that.

Try not to feel bad about it. You weren’t consciously trying to hurt yourself, so don’t blame or judge yourself either.

You just didn’t understand before that your body has alway been on your side, that it’s always been speaking to you and its intention has always been for you to feel good and to be healthy.

You just didn’t know that your symptoms were there to protect you and help you get back on track with your self care and soul care

You’ve been doing the best that you can with what you had to work with. No need to feel bad, you can’t do better until you know better.

Now you do.

And now you have a lot more you can work with to heal yourself.

Its time now to take 100% self responsibility for your health and well-being.

The degree to which you assume responsibility is equal to how much power that is available to you.

If you give 50% of the responsibility to someone or something else, then you only have access to 50% of your internal power.

To take the full capacity of your power back, you have to stop assuming the source and solution to the problem is outside of you.

You have to stop looking for someone or something to save you, fix everything and make it all stop and go away.

It’s not what you’ve done that matters anymore, it’s what you will do now.

Your responsibility is now to commit to listening to your body, instead of trying to suppress the symptoms.

Decide now to commit to learning the language of your body, explore and pinpoint your unmet need - body and soul - and meet those needs for yourself - or do what it takes to get them met - some things HAVE to be met in relationship.

Look for the root causes of all your issues in life and pull them out.

This is how you become your own medicine.