The warning light in my car just went on for “Inspection”.  I know that if I take it in, it will cost me about a thousand bucks to get it inspected.  

Do I really want to do that?  It seems fine.  It’s all working pretty well.  ”I’ve been busy lately….”  ”Money has been kinda tight, you know, with the recession and all….”

The truth is, I could make the time, and well, there’s a lot more I would like to do with my thousand dollars.  That’s the truth.  It’s the truth I hear every single day with people when they are making the same choices about their health.

We get little “signals” from our body.  A headache, heartburn, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, indigestion, back pain, numbness and tingling in our extremities, frequent colds and infections, depression, anxiety, etc.  There’s a million other ways our bodies speak to us to let us know we’re off track with our lives, our diets, our perceptions of the world around us.

The most difficult part for me as a wellness expert to witness is how people assume that by going to the doctor, they will be able to go somewhere to see “what’s wrong” and “get medicine to make it all better”.  I hear this all the time.  It’s tougher when I hear it said to children.  Childproof bottles aren’t childproof forever– and now we know why.

When a person who is connected with themselves and their bodies gets a message like that, then they know exactly what to do.  They know their body is trying to tell them something, and the message is clear:  Change your diet.  Stop eating food that really isn’t food.  Take more walks.  Get out and move your body.  Get your spine check and adjusted.  Take a class that stimulates your mind.  Spend time with people that really matter.  Understand who you are and why you are on this earth.  

This is what these “signals” are trying to tell you.  Unfortunately, doctors that you go and see really want to tell you this, but don’t have the time to counsel you, and know you won’t listen when they say these things.  So they give you what they think you are there for:  The “outside-in” path toward symptom relief.  They know that you don’t really want to hear about the inside-out solution.  (Maybe they do, but aren’t doing it themselves).  We pay a heavy price for the “quick fix”.  One of my patients told me that if she knew she was going to live this long, she would have taken better care of herself throughout her life.  She’s 50 now, and she has almost every chronic lifestyle illness in the book:  High Blood pressure, High Cholesterol, Diabetes.  She’s at the hospital every week for something.  She is taking every medication in the book (all the best sellers for North American lifestyle illnesses) and year after year, she gets sicker.  Its tough when I try to get her into my “What your doctor won’t tell you about your symptoms” seminar and she’s “too busy” to make it in.

I am currently seeing a family of 3 under my care.  It seems they are all getting sick and have been this way for a long time.  Coincidentally there is a lot of stress happening in their lives, with a move, with a toddler, with hectic lifestyles… I asked them about their lifestyle, about exercise.

The mother responded “there was a time when we were walking every day, exercise was a regular outing for all of us.”

I asked her if she noticed the family getting sick during those times.

“Actually, no.  We were all quite healthy then!”

It was a bit of an “aha” moment.  They got it.  They’re on their way back to health and I’m excited to join in their journey.

What if we were all open to the possibility that the reason why we get sick in the first place is because we are NOT DOING those things that we know scientifically the body needs as a requirement for health?  Sounds like common sense, but we’re not marketed to live this way.  When there’s a problem, “talk to your doctor about _______”  (fill in the blanks of the next magic pill on the market).

If you were doing things in the certain way that the healthiest people in the world were doing, you wouldn’t need to be talking to your doctor about anything.

I guess I better take my car in for a checkup.

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