Slowing Down .... Listen

Listen. Stop. Pause. Wait. Hear. Notice. Feel. Breathe. Notice again. Listen.  These are all things that we know we should do with our bodies, but we don't ever take time to do.  How hard it is it notice how you feel when you eat something? How hard is it to even notice when you are taking a breath, or notice when you feel an emotion?  Seems easy right? Then why don't more people take the time to do it.  Time again, funny thing time is.  It's because we are taught not to take the time.  We need to be the fastest, best, whatever else we need to be.  In our society, it's better to be over stimulated then to be quiet. It's better to be around a lot of things, people, checking email, phone, youtube, news on, music playing, and running around doing a million things.  When do we slow down? What does slowing down look like?  I'm working on that myself. I get sucked into the madness more often than I would like.  I eat what I think I want, not paying attention to what it's doing to me.  I drink what I think I want, and I notice, but then I ignore what my body tells me.  No more. I am not going to ignore the signs and I'm not going to ignore what food does to my body.  Your body is very smart.  If you don't take care of it consciously, it will find a way to tell you it' s not OK. It may shut down, get sick, make your stomach hurt so much you are keeled over in pain, or it will just stop working one day.  You are in control, and you can choose what to eat and when to eat it. You can choose to stretch and take care of yourself. No one makes you eat food that doesn't feel good, no one makes you drink things that add toxicity to your body, no one makes you do anything.  You have a choice, and you can choose to live feeling great, or not.  I am done with the not, and I choose to feel great.  Am I perfect? Not even close, but I just realized that coffee hurt my stomach, caffeine really, and that is a bummer, but  what I do with that information can make all the difference in my health.