What if Nothing's Wrong With You?
When you’re in the health space even a little bit, you’ve probably found yourself there through some idea that something was wrong with you.
Something was happening that you didn’t agree with, or that someone told you you should be concerned about.
The idea that something is Wrong With You can be a great source of inspiration. It sets a goal in mind, one that can perhaps never be reached! In so doing, it provides endless pursuit and a carrot on the end of a stick that keeps you moving.
Alan Watts nails it in his sweet, sweet way.
I gave a client the assignment to spend the next two or three days visiting that idea frequently. Those of you that follow Peter Crone’s work will recognize how often he does that sort of thing.
There’s nothing wrong with me.
How do you react to that idea? Does it do something in your body if you sit with it for a moment?
A more direct version of this I’d love for you to examine is the idea that nothing is wrong with the things your body is doing.
Seriously - can you think of a cough as your body getting rid of things it doesn’t need any more? Of diarrhea? Of acne? Of every single thing as an attempt to restore itself to health that makes sense?
That goes against the entire indoctrination of most people today. We know better. Our bodies are malfunctioning machines that are dumb, poor things. They need our help to be better. Well, someone’s help. Not yours.
Of course, that’s true, in the respect that bodies need support to be able to do the things they’re trying to do. I mentioned the importance of protein from animal sources that are more readily bioavailable in the last Normal Wednesday post when you’re healing something.
But the attitude that what it’s doing is wrong and should be stopped, maybe we can reconsider. What if what it’s doing makes sense?
Here are several truths that are related:
Your body wants to heal.
Water wants to be structured.
Your emotions want to be regulated.
In fact, emotions ARE the act of regulating. If you let them be fully felt through, the result is you’ll feel regulated.
Put an emotionally regulated person into a chaotic environment and they will help to regulate the environment through their presence.
Put structured water near tap water for a while and the crystallization pattern of the tap water will become more organized.
Put an older bull elephant in an area with rowdy teenage boy elephants and the boys hormones change so they become better citizens. (You can look all of these up)
One regulated adult around children changes the children’s lives.
A little bit of something good influences the world.
Have some faith in yourself. Play with the idea that nothing is wrong with you, and ask yourself what that would mean and what would have to be true for it to be so.
If you operate with that as the underlying assumption, how would that change your life?
I love ya.
Sam