Fall in Love with Yourself

The essence of love is mutual faith, respect and communication. That is what is lacking when it comes to our own self. With the changing socio-economic fabric of our society in recent times, the ability within us to love ourselves is deteriorating. We do not listen to our body, we abuse it regularly, and instead of trusting the natural signals we tend to regulate it to suit our convenience. All these actions ultimately manifest as deranged health parameters, poor bodily functions and sluggish metabolism.

So much so that simple feedback loops of the human body — feeling hungry or thirsty, feeling tired or sleepy — tend to take a backseat in front of work pressure and a perceived busy lifestyle. We do not eat when we are hungry, and we do not sleep when the body is tired and wanting to rest.

We have outsourced our body to apps

Things get complicated when we further disturb the communication pathways by using algorithm-based apps and alarms to regulate our life — horribly so, even for a basic need like drinking water. Thank God we still do not use an app to cry and rely on natural ways for the tear gland to shed tears. But more or less almost every facet of our lifestyle has been affected due to poor communication loops within.

Lifestyle disease is the price of not listening

Falling prey to lifestyle diseases is the result of this callous attitude — not listening to our body, negating the symptoms and taking things for granted. The human body, like other creations of God, relies on alternate means to douse the fire within. But once things go too far over a prolonged period of neglect, abuse and inability to read yourself, the resistance levels break and it suddenly surfaces in our health report card — high glucose or triglycerides, high BP, high TSH, fatty liver, high uric acid, cysts in ovaries.

Taking pills and medicines along with food becomes a daily habit, and we get into the vicious loop of "managing" and living with our lifestyle disease.

Animals know what we have forgotten

Sadly, other creations of God — animals and birds in the wild, fishes and other creatures in the sea, even the pets at our home — they all communicate much better with their body, respect the early warning symptoms that the body shows up, and have faith in the body's ability to deal and heal.

Take a step back. Breathe easy. Listen.

We too need to take a step back, breathe easy, say all is well, and unleash the potential of this human body. We need to communicate better with ourselves. Our body is trying to tell us something twenty-four-seven; it is only we who seem to be too busy in our lives to listen to our inner call.

The moment this communication loop improves, things will start falling in place. Listening to your body, understanding the signals and responding to this inner natural call is the first step towards your journey of reversing lifestyle ailments.