How to stop treating your body like your car.
You wash your car as you do with your body but that’s all you do for them.
“People treat their bodies like they treat their cars: they care for them, pimp them and keep them clean to show them off.
When their car doesn’t work properly, they take it to the mechanic: “Hey, there’s something wrong with this or that. Fix it!”
They approach their body aches and pains the same way, going to the doctor, psychotherapist, or physiatrist: “It hurts here, can you do something?”
Then 99% of health pros prescribe medication or therapies without investigating the underlying causes, just like a mechanic fixes what’s wrong without delving deeper.
This cycle of temporary fixes continues until more drastic remedies and expensive treatments are suggested by professionals or sought after by the patients. Stronger drugs and therapies are the norm.
Because people are taught that there’s always a better solution.”
— Martin Heiland-Sperling
As a trained listener and helper, I’m familiar with that, mostly among teens and young adults.
- “I have this problem, can you fix it?”
- “Could you tell me more about yourself? Would you share your opinion about the underlying causes?”
- “Why so many questions? What have my parents, siblings, relatives have to do with my problems? Why are you asking so many details about my past?
Billions of people don’t know jack about themselves and how their minds and bodies work and what’s connect them. If you tell them their gut has a brain sharing info with the one in their skull they call the police!
They struggle to connect their life experiences to their current conditions.
They know nothing about what truly matters about their entire human journey. So they ask for hands-on straightforward solutions that provide quick and noticeable results.
There’s no “how to” in this territory but the simple, somehow difficult, acknowledgement that you are treating your body, your mind, that’s your whole human form or “you” like a car with a broken part that needs repair.
Today, you can reconnect your mind with your body by first getting to know your body. Understanding how it works inside and out, will open many doors, all leading to a fantastic and endless journey.
The Web stores an infinite quantity of information, and most of them are free.
Start by listening to your body, the language of emotions is the first matter you should master.
Tip: start by searching for “the gut-brain connection” and move on from this field.
More scientific data on the Gut-Brain Connection
Summarized original source: Cleveland Clinic — The Gut-Brain Connection
The gut-brain connection involves several body systems, including the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems.
- The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a neural network within the gastrointestinal tract, with over 500 million neurons, often referred to as the “second brain”.
- The ENS can operate independently from the central nervous system, gathering and processing information about gut conditions locally.
- The vagus nerve plays a crucial role as the main communication link between the ENS and the brain, transmitting sensory information from the gut and motor signals from the brain.
- Vagal reflexes, both intrinsic and extrinsic, regulate gut functions in response to various stimuli.
- The gut microbiome also influences the gut-brain axis by producing neurotransmitters and other chemicals that affect brain function.
- Research suggests the gut microbiome’s involvement in neurological disorders, mental health issues, and functional gastrointestinal disorders like IBS.
- There is a significant association between functional gastrointestinal disorders and mental health disorders, indicating overlapping mechanisms in their pathophysiology.
