Wednesday, May 13, 2009

PAIN HAS MESSAGE WE SHOULD HEED

Pay attention to your pain, listen to it, and maybe it will provide you with some important guidance. So say Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D. and Christiane Northrup, M.D., authors of Awakening Intuition: Using your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing (Three Rivers Press), who find that their patients' symptoms are actually intuitive guidance systems for learning how to restore balance in life.

They advocate learning about the "body genius," which are memories stored within the body that signal when something is not right. Take some time to listen to pain, and the genius within the pain will speak to you. It has a clue about what you need to avoid or change at the moment. Headache, nausea, joint pain, shoulder ache, sinus pressure, sneezing, or hiccups may be such signals. See if you can learn from them.

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