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JANUARY 3

MOVEMENT

MENTAL BALANCE

“It has been shown that when the minds of people in pain were distracted by something that required intense concentration, their brain’s pain centers demonstrated decreased activity.”

A Day without Pain

I can’t sit around and say I’ll do something once I’m feeling better, because sitting around waiting to feel better is self-defeating. Actually doing something is what helps me feel better…it’s a case of “bring the body and the mind follows.”

When my mind and body are in activity, in movement, in the solution, I’m able to bring my spirit into balance with them. Through movement, my mind is better able to focus on that which is the real solution to most of my problems: a loving, caring, connected relationship with my higher self and higher power. Through this connection, I help my mind slow down, and the mind slowing helps my body slow down, thus decreasing my pain. The cycle is continuous, always affecting the next thing, a flow, so to speak, or a spiral that is either going up into the light or down into the darkness. I move along this spiral; I dance along the balance of mind-body-spirit, affecting one, affecting all.

When I’m feeling stuck, I unstick myself by moving—first, by moving my body, which moves my mind, and thereby moves my spirit. My spirit in balance can then better hold my body in love rather than my body holding my spirit in pain.