How to support body's physical healing journey in a way we never think of

I'm all about how our choices affect our lives. So, what has giving support to our physical body to heal got to do with our choices? And I'm not talking about healthy habits like diets, exercise or enough sleep...

Recurring or prolonged pain, diseases and chronic conditions create stress in the body. What we can do is to ease the bodily stress as much as possible, and so help to boost our body's healing abilities. How can we do that?

First and foremost, what you're about to read is never a substitute for professional medical intervention or treatment. I'm talking about additional support for the body's healing journey. Always seek for professional medical assistance when you have any physical health issues.

In addition to professional medical treatment, we can support the body's healing process by identifying what kind of mixed messages we are giving to the body. What kind of patterns of choice and action we are currently engaged in, which are giving mixed messages or conflicting instructions to the body - and so increasing the stress levels in the body.

The thing is, we actually don't think about how the body always does what the brain tells it to do. Brain controls the body by acting as a central command center. No questions asked, no objections... the body will do the absolute best it can to obey - even when we might ask it to perform something that isn't clear or doesn't quite make sense: something that might be impossible from the body's perspective.

Let's imagine that your body is you, and your brain is an outer authority which you have to obey. Now, the outer authority commands you to run errands: wash my car and walk to the grocery - at the same time. Impossible, right? How would you feel? Anxious, stressed, frustrated, annoyed?

Conflicting instructions or mixed messages to the body are basically just conflicting or opposing choices we are making. Kind of two choices that rule each other out. For example, we want to strive for something, but then we also don't, as we are letting something to hold us back - both at the same time. SImply put, often we want but then also don't want at the same time, and we're telling our body to take action on both.

Remember, our body has to do what our brain tells it to do! The body now feels that it's not doing it's job, because the brain gave these conflicting commands for the body to perform. And so, we've unintentionally increased the level of stress in our body. These mixed messages are, of course, always unconsicous, not intentional - and we all sometimes do them without realizing it.

The reasons behind these conflicting instructions to our body are many. They might be a mixture of how we've conditioned or learned to deal with certain situations in life, our survival instincts alerting for our safety, or the different goals we've set for ourselves - not realizing that we've engaged in a kind of a mishmash. Often, there's something we want to do or change, but on the other side something is holding us back. We want to go for it but also keep things unchanged. We need to let go of something and we are scared of how that will look like in our lives. And all this happens unconsciously.

Most of the time these mixed commands to our body concern our finances, work, career, family and relationships.

Resolving these patterns of choice, which are confusing to the body, may reduce the stress levels in your body and so increase the energy and focus for your body to fight the challence it's facing.

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