Giving your body a chance to communicate is such a loaded thing to do for many people, it doesn't surprise me that people lose the ability.
Sometimes it's trained out of you as well, especially if you're raised in a religious tradition that is big on the mind ruling the flesh. Hell, just being female is enough to get a dose of professionally authorised mind/body disconnect. Plenty of women get told by doctors that common menstrual ailments are all in their head. My sister went through a number of doctors basically telling her she was fat and lazy until her PCOS was diagnosed for example. Part of her believed it too, fortunately other part of her kept looking for a solution and eventually found it - tho' it took years.
I don't have any grand solutions to this, but if I had been told "listen to your body" as a 23 year old I would have nodded wisely and internally dismissed it. Partly because of my values, but also partly because I just didn't understand what it meant. It was martial arts training and bottoming that finally cracked open a few clues. Now of course, my problem is getting it to shut up ;-)
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listening to your body
Date: 2006-05-03 10:02 am (UTC)Sometimes it's trained out of you as well, especially if you're raised in a religious tradition that is big on the mind ruling the flesh. Hell, just being female is enough to get a dose of professionally authorised mind/body disconnect. Plenty of women get told by doctors that common menstrual ailments are all in their head. My sister went through a number of doctors basically telling her she was fat and lazy until her PCOS was diagnosed for example. Part of her believed it too, fortunately other part of her kept looking for a solution and eventually found it - tho' it took years.
I don't have any grand solutions to this, but if I had been told "listen to your body" as a 23 year old I would have nodded wisely and internally dismissed it. Partly because of my values, but also partly because I just didn't understand what it meant. It was martial arts training and bottoming that finally cracked open a few clues. Now of course, my problem is getting it to shut up ;-)