PUSH: Persevere Until Success Happens Through Prayer (12 page)

Our bodies are the vehicles that will take us into our future and destiny. If we do not treat them as the valuable treasures they are, we will find that we will be increasingly less productive and unsuccessful in accomplishing our dreams and visions. On the other hand, by making some fairly simple adjustments to the way we maintain our bodies, we can radically improve our health and productivity, add longevity, and increase the overall quality of our lives.

The human body is in a constant state of change that maintains a level equilibrium needed for balanced function. In addition, the body completely regenerates itself every year. Our bodies are magnificent dynamic systems, constantly changing, and are held together and informed by a biochemical framework like the mainframe of a computer.

Within the atomic fiber of our being resides a tenacious cellular memory. It is as powerful as the subconscious memories of our mind that cause us to experience the same life patterns over and over, regardless of our intentions to change. Our bodies, much like our minds, seem to default to an automated pilot unless we purposefully take the controls and override the navigational system. The body will continue regenerating itself with the same cellular configurations of disorders and ailments unless we reprogram its configuration.

The most basic functions of the body work on a molecular level. Many molecules make up cells which themselves are grouped to form tissues. Various tissues are arranged in a particular fashion; these units are what comprise organs. The body’s systems are made up of groups of organs that communicate through the bloodstream in order to continually monitor and adjust the body’s mass network of functions. We are dealing with the “issues of the tissues” when we talk about improving health and increasing longevity. The first step to maximizing your body’s capacity to move through life as a powerful vehicle, one that is built like an armored truck but drives like a luxury sports car, is to understand that prevention and correction are dealt with on the most basic molecular level.

There are many ways to reprogram your body, some with more lasting effects than others. You can experience long-term weight loss by increasing your body’s metabolism. All you have to do is increase your daily exercise and eat six small, protein-packed meals every day. Or you can quickly drop water weight in just a matter of days by going on various types of fasts. However, as soon as you stop fasting, you will put all the weight, plus some, back on! For lasting change, you need to work at the cellular level, where you actually burn energy or metabolize calories. Withholding food causes your metabolism to slow down, and that’s why diets and fasts don’t work for long-term weight loss.

You have to get at the root of the issue—into the tissue of the issue. Just as quick-fix diets don’t work, neither do medications that deal only with the symptoms and not the root causes of illness. If you do not adjust your lifestyle, your belief systems, and your emotional state, which are the root causes of eighty percent of sickness and disease, medications will provide only temporary relief and, in most cases, cause problems in other areas. It’s a vicious cycle of side effects and complications requiring more medications that create more imbalances and worse complications than the original issue.

Antibiotics, for example, are given for bacterial illnesses and infections (that, consequently, only take hold when the immune system is compromised due to our own negligence). Most illness can be flushed out of the body within seven to ten days with or without medication. After taking a series of antibiotics, however, you are vulnerable to yeast infections because the antibiotic will have killed all of the good bacteria in your system along with the bad. Yeast infections take weeks, and sometimes even months, to eradicate. And not only can yeast infections lead to bladder infections, but medications prescribed for these types of infections commonly cause rashes and other abnormalities. The cycle just never ends.

Pain or discomfort is actually more of an ally than an enemy. Pain is simply your body’s way of signaling the need for adjustment. Instead of immediately trying to get rid of the pain by masking it, learn to embrace it and explore the root cause. Bodily discomfort can be compared to spiritual or emotional discomfort. When something doesn’t feel right, like when you don’t have a peace about something or sometimes you feel guilty or ashamed, it can be an indicator that something is amiss. Perhaps you need to reevaluate some things, make some adjustments, apologize, forgive, or repent.

Trust your spirit
and
your body. Both were given to you by God—you are created in the image and likeness of Him. Listen to the signals and heed the warning signs. Don’t be too quick to mask what your body is trying to tell you; give it some credit for knowing how to take care of itself and a chance to work on your behalf. The mind of your body has the best interests of your body in mind. Let it think for itself. Don’t be too quick to fall for the world’s interpretations and methods when it comes to your health.

You’ve heard the old saying, “Feed a cold; starve a fever.” That doesn’t make much sense when you look at how the body actually works. When you are sick, your body needs to detoxify on a number of levels. For example, rather than eating when you have a cold, you should be fasting so that the body can locate the exact biochemical elixir from its exquisite pharmacy and produce a better quality healing compound, made in its very own lab, and then administer the correct dose without side effects (and so much cheaper). The body will use the energies you would normally use to digest food to begin the process of healing.

I am not a medical doctor nor am I a psychiatrist. What I am is a psychotherapeutic holistic consultant. I am not attempting to give diagnostic evaluations but physiological observations with suggestions of probable root emotional causes with affirmations and antidotes, which you can use as a tool to reverse sickness and disease. And hopefully by this time next year you will have reprogrammed your body at a cellular level for a totally new and improved you. Maya Angelou said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

Here are some small investments you can make for massive health returns:

Do all of this and I guarantee that you will be a totally new you in no time at all.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
—W
ILLIAM
A
MES

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
—J
IM
R
OHN

Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
—1 C
ORINTHIANS
6:19-29 NLT

So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
—H
EBREWS
4:9-10 NLT

I
f the mind can be likened to the soil of a garden, then thoughts would be the seeds we plant in that soil. Scientists have found that the average person thinks about 50,000 thoughts a day—that’s a lot of seed! How much of what you are sowing is fruit-bearing and how much is more like thistle? The quality of the harvest of your life is determined by the quality and quantity of the seed you sow or by the thoughts you cultivate. A thought, like a seed, is a container of life and potential that must be nurtured—fed, watered, protected, and harvested.

There are thoughts that hold the key to your future and thoughts that can trip you up and choke the life force hidden within the amazing realm of cognition. Refuse to allow one weed to take over your seed of greatness, success, prosperity, wealth, righteousness, holiness, influence, affluence, favor, or peace. Your thoughts determine who you are, what you do, what you acquire, where you live, whom you love, who you will become, and what you will accomplish. You will never have more, go further, or accomplish greater things than what you can comprehend. Your feet will never take you where your mind has never been. Your background, education, or IQ cannot prohibit you from thinking. Never lose the power to think for yourself.

You must create a thinking environment, practice thinking for yourself, and then learn to think outside of the box. Your thoughts are powerful and you have a God-given capacity to think potent thoughts. Grab hold of the concept of “possibility thinking.” If you can’t think it, then it won’t be possible for you. On the other hand, if you can think big, amazing thoughts, you will experience a big, amazing life. In the words of writer William Arthur Ward, “Nothing limits achievement like small thinking.”