THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Coaching Videos & Tips - September 23 2021 No. 723

 

 

 

If your mind is ill-at-ease, your body will experience dis-ease - the former looks after the latter. Today's video looks at the practicality of it all...

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

I don't get annoyed very often and, when I do, it's with good reason. I read an article in The Guardian a couple of days ago (I won't bother providing a link) that conflated anti-vaxxers with the loonies who think that what they're thinking creates disease.

There is a massive body of evidence that confirms that how we think impacts our physical health. Stress - which is a mental construct and nothing more - directly causes cardio-vascular disease. And there is a growing body of evidence that confirms a similar link between stress and cancer. You are what you think.

On a point of clarification, some have genetic or hereditary predispositions towards particular conditions - I am not discounting the old saying that "cancer runs in the family" - or not quite discounting it: these are predispositions - the ultimate decider is how the user treats his or her own body.

Generally speaking, dis-ease is a lifestyle thing: you are what you think, you are what you eat, you are how you exercise, etc. All these activities and lifestyle choices are just that: choices. And, using our minds normally, we're never best placed to make the right choices.

But a healthy, well-tended mind, inexorably leads to a healthy body... or a healthier body even when confronted with disease (remember that was proving ground for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Therapy).

Do you have to worry about how you look after your body? Don't even give it a first, never mind, a second thought! When you look after your mind, your mind will ensure that your body follows.