Cure the mind ...

[Guest guest]

I love Steve's conclusion to his last post: " Cure the mind and the ass

will follow! "

Although I've never struggled with weight problems, I've had my share

of physical complaints over the years, many of them stemming from a

lengthy struggle with depression.

I dinked around with all sorts of things to pull myself out of the

fog. What finally worked for me was a phone call to a Christian

Science practitioner. It was a call I'd known I needed to make for a

long time, but anyone who has suffered from depression knows that when

you most desperately need help, you are least able to reach out and

ask for it; the thought of picking up the phone and calling someone is

just too overwhelming, and you lie around making excuses instead of

doing what you need to do for yourself.

I endured way more than I had to, for way longer than I had to,

because I simply didn't bother to ask for help as soon as I sensed

something was amiss.

As Steve suggests, we need to pounce on problems immediately, before

they become too big to handle. Regardless of whether you choose a

doctor, a psychologist, a practitioner, or some other kind of healer,

the key is to address problems head-on as soon as they arise; things

have a way of responding to treatment (any kind of treatment) much

faster when you catch them early, before they get out of hand.

Anyway, I wanted to mention this, because I thought Steve's comment at

the end of his post dovetailed nicely with my own experience.

An unpleasant physical symptom -- be it weight gain, illness, injury,

or something else -- is really just a symptom of an underlying mental

or spiritual problem. It's the red flag that says, " Hey, there's

something going on here, and you'd better take care of it. "

When we get out of whack spiritually, we don't always see it or

realize there's a problem. We let our thoughts become diseased with

negativity, we neglect our spiritual health, and we don't even realize

there's a problem until our bodies start screaming at us to do

something about it.

My practitioner is good about helping me diagnose and treat the

disease in my thoughts. We cure the mind and the arse does, indeed,

follow.

Bravo to Steve for figuring it out. He's already won the battle; now

we're just waiting to see the " signs following. "