The Body vs the Mind




"My body hurts, and so does my mind, it's a vicious cycle I can not get out of" 

"Health is a relationship between you and your body" says Terri Guillemets. 
It is so fascinating, how connected our body and mind really are, and I don't think we always realize that. There are so many worldly things that can cause pain and sickness in our bodies, and as much as those things are real and do affect us, people are finding more and more these days that a lot of the problems we have to deal with in our bodies actually comes from our mind and the state it is in.

When our minds deal with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, and stress, it can drag our bodies along with it. It is wild how connected they are, two different things that are one, so connected with each other, and so when one is hurting, the other hurts as well. It's amazing the stories I have heard about how people's bodies have healed by healing their mental health first, and taking those steps to recover their mind back to a healthy state. 

I see as my mental health has gone down hill, the worse my autoimmune diseases and over all health has gotten. I am no expert at how to heal the mind and I'm still trying to figure it out, but I think the best place to start is by getting help, both professionally and from God. There are so many distractions with social media and situations around us that can pull us in to the vicious cycle of our mind. Once you get pulled into it, it can be really hard to break that cycle, the cycle of one day feeling okay, and the next day being crushed by our depression and/or anxiety. Everyone has something different that triggers these cycles, whether its comparing ourselves, past trauma or PTSD, etc, and its figuring out how to not allow those things to pull us into the cycle that is very hard to do. 

Your mental health is a part of you but is not who you are, and does not have to define you. We shouldn't give it the power to control our lives and keep us from living the best life we can. God did not create our body and mind to work against each other, and He does not want us to live stuck in a constant battle in our mind. It is exhausting always fighting our thoughts day in and day out, it drains the life out of you and I believe that's why there are so many suicides. People are stuck in this battle cycle and do not have any hope of getting out of it, but there is hope in Jesus, and knowing that this is not the only way to live, and that there are people out there who care and want to help, we can stop giving Satan control over our minds and get help to heal it, and restore it back the way God intended it be! 

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