Stillness during Illness

I see the symptoms of sickness as a call from the body. The body is telling you: You pressurized me a lot recently. You neglected my needs. You got so busy with your daily schedules. Pay attention. Check on what is happening inside.

The sickness is not necessarily bad. It could probably be a wake up call for you to get still in the moment, to get grounded, to come back to your senses and to increase your time of reflections and contemplation.

I also see it as the body doing filtering from the toxic side affects caused by the environment and people around us. You may not know or not aware what is happening around you. But your body does. Pay attention to it and have that inner dialogue with it. It could surprise you and tell you things you never knew about yourself and/or life.

If you wanna learn more about the body and mind conntection, I refer you to the works of Dr. Gabor Mate. He has done interesting work in this area and he personally suffered with this dilemma too.