Some years ago I came across two positive quotations which gradually have become a type of “doors” for my mental and physical health. If I remember correctly, I heard them from motivational author and speaker Louise Hays.

“My body knows how to be well and is always trying to move toward wellness.”

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“I listen with love to my body’s messages.”

Both exude such a rightness to me.

I have come to believe that our bodies are more than what we usually think they are. They have a “knowingness” and a “protectiveness” built into their very nature.

They tell us, for example, when we have been eating unhealthfully, and in the very telling, try to persuade us otherwise.

Or our bodies might alert us with shortness of breath or a sudden feeling of “something’s not right” when we are in the shadow of un-safety.

So yes, our bodies want us to be well AND to do a better job of listening to them.

They may seem small, but what wonderfully encouraging “doors” they are.