We are our body and our body is us. Every experience is noted down in our body’s records. If we keep this in mind, we would most likely live according to different criteria. Our body stores every emotion, every thought, every trauma, every joy in its records. The more careful we are to how we live our life and maintain the body’s balance as far as possible by being true to our genuine selves, the easier it will be to release our body from energy blocks, muscular tension and obstacles to blood circulation.

We are our cells and our cells are us. Do we keep them oxygenated enough? This depends on how anxious we are, how comfortable we feel with our life, how willing we are to show emotions and feelings… I could go on and on. Nothing in our physical system is unaffected by the quality of how we actually are. Every word, every thought, every behavior can either be a remarkable vital thrust or an energy block that squeezes and crushes our body. A worried mind produces cortisol, muscle strain, bowel obstruction and jaw locks, and it narrows the blood and lymph system, causing at least discomfort.

Maintaining the flexibility and elasticity of our body through physical exercise produces prolonged flexibility and pliancy in both the physical and interior systems. Furthermore, the consumption of an adequate amount of quality food at the proper time will ensure the health of our organs and their cells. It will also benefit our self by maintaining its vitality and flexibility. It is an energy balance that we either do or do not produce, depending on how we choose to live our life.

Do we choose after discerning or are we carried away by our surroundings? Do we reject our personal responsibility of choosing, and thus deviate from our lifestyle? Our body talks to us and provides answers all the time with flawless precision. If we listen to it carefully, live consciously and make a choice, this creates a sort of complicity and wellbeing between us and our body. Our body whispers so, if we fill up our life with noise, we risk not hearing it. In that case, our body will turn up its communication tone. Each disorder we experience is related to prolonged inner unease, as the great Rudolf Steiner teaches. If we listen to our body, we can change our food, behavioral, and mental habits, and fine tune contact with ourselves.

Our body contains everything about us. As the body at its best is flexible and malleable, if we harden our body, our inner flexibility is hardened, too. Our body is our own precious library, personal and dedicated to us, where our entire story is stored.

Both physical and inner bad habits, whether it is some bad food-related behavior or our core values that we persistently crush just to please somebody, can bring discomfort to our body, mostly if they are prolonged in time.

We can change our lifestyle based on signals issued by our body. We can improve relations by listening to it, and we can change according to what we feel is important.

Our body is our most truthful immediate sensor. We cannot silence it when it is issuing signals. Refusing to listen means boycotting ourselves and choosing to be increasingly uncomfortable throughout our life.