I found this quote which I felt gave good advice. 

                        “If you want to know yourself, slow down. Stop what you are doing. But if you want to grow,  if you want to form yourself, you must actively express yourself.”  (Keleman 1975)

This article  was supposed to be about healing our body through  healing our soul. The article was  also to include  how the body can help us in our journey to enlightenment,  if we learn to understand how it is always trying to communicate with us.   Then I realized I should really tell you why I believe so completely that the body can be healed through healing our soul. 

So, here it is . . .   I’ll post the “other” article on the body and its’ wisdom  in a day or two.   

Some years ago I was in constant physical discomfort and pain.  Now I’m not.  It’s been a miracle; I now have a new life.

To  be truthful, I didn’t emerge from a pain-filled life by listening to my doctors.  While they were sympathetic and supportive, their attitude towards my condition ( I had a spine operation from which I never fully recovered and later developed osteo-arthritis and a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis) was one of resignation. The problem was,  I just couldn’t see myself as some kind of disabled person, and I wanted to live a full and enjoyable life. I knew I  had to do something. Read the rest of this entry »