In America, our culture has noticeably woken up in awareness of this mind-body connection reality.
Your mental health is a reflection of your overall health, showing up in your physical body, through the internal mind-body connection.
If you were born before the internet, this could be a newer idea to you as you didn’t grow up with yoga or meditation practice.
In 2008, I attended yoga studios and classes weekly, but you had to do some research to find a general type of yoga class like Hatha or Vinyasa yoga. Over a decade later, you can find studios everywhere, for beginner and advanced yoga, and every class flavor in between.
This growing popularity of yoga in the western world bridged eastern philosophies that the mind directly affects the body. There’s a fine line between fact and woo, and distinction to spiritual thinking.
The mind-body connection is factually based, and you can find enough supportive evidence without too much effort on just about any credible mental health site. Personally, I’ve been living this out since my Perfect Health mind-body transformative experience.
Why the mind-body connection matters
Living in America, the bottom line to why mind-body connection matters to us are that we want to live our Best Self, so that:
1) we can have a great career, work-life, or business (or all three).
2) we can attract and keep a good relationship, have a happy family and friendships too.
3) we can stay healthy and look good and have the energy to pursue our passions, contribute, and give back.
Our Collective Bodies Today in America
In America, as a whole society, our bodies can get brushed aside unless we prioritize taking care of ourselves. This has stayed steady through the generations and hasn’t changed much from past decades.
It still takes work to maintain our bodies, and how much we do this can depend on our limitations, body, genes, lifestyle, attitudes, and thoughts.
We take care of our bodies, first so we can look good and appear healthy, and we’ll spend the money to invest in ourselves.
No matter what our motivations are, by taking care of our bodies with healthy foods, exercise, and good habits, our bodies are naturally resilient and strong, and we can get back to our normal health with relative ease if we’re healthy.
Like so many, when I was in my twenties I felt healthy enough, so having life longevity goals just wasn’t a top priority (like in other countries around the world).
In some other countries, patients are told they’re physically well so that they think themselves to better health. A healthy mind does good for the body.
In America, health prevention and pacing ourselves is not the way our society is set up. We don’t usually take the time to find out what’s going on behind the scenes in our bodies unless something goes wrong.
If we’re on the toilet too often or not enough, that becomes a mild concern as it’s telling us something about our current health story.
We hope and rely on modern medicine to cure and correct any building-up health problems.
If you go to the doctor’s office, they will prescribe some form of medication even if it’s just a mild pain killer. They won’t usually just send you home with happy thoughts and a list of foods to eat.
Expecting to hear something wrong and how to fix the problem can cause pre-conditioned responses. In thinking that we need medicine to heal or use as a “feel-better” crutch, addictions can take control (over minds and lives) if we’re not careful.
That can lead to hypochondriac thoughts and obsession over the smallest physical symptom that gets worse because of the excessive energy and worry thoughts put towards inflammation or ailment.
These are not good places for our minds to be. We want our thoughts to be happy, positive, and loving so we have healthy bodies (in the mind-body connection).
The thoughts that you agree with will drive your results. Stress eating and unknown caused inflammation that often gets brushed under the rug as minor, are potential signs that a place in your mind isn’t happy.
Practical Mindful Tips for Mind-Body Connection Health
Here, I want to give you some practical mind tips to positively affect your mental health, so you can improve your physical health. These can be wise gems you apply for longevity, overall good health, and a rockin’ body!
Begin with an open mind for what you want to achieve, whether that’s a great physical body or a healthy body, and your intention will help get you there in the mind-body connection.
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