“The Mind-Body Connection Broken”
It is astonishing how the dynamics of civilized society have made people lose touch with the very essence of their being, their bodies. Although most members of civilization would prefer not to admit it, they spend so much time trying to ignore their physicality that they eventually succeed. This is a very obtuse statement to make, but allow me to explain. Our lifestyles are full of the consumption and utilization of stimulants. These stimulants make up the very fabric of the world that we live in, they hide secretly from most unaware people in the most secretive places; medications, beauty products, clothing, and especially “food.” Our modern diets have become increasingly more processed and genetically modified which has slowly changed them from natural life sustaining fuels that are recognized by the human body into to foreign poisons that are not recognizable and therefore not able to be processed by the body. Most of these foods are full of chemicals and ingredients that overtake the body and mask its natural responses or alter them immensely. In essence what I am describing are drugs. The foods we eat today are like drugs, they changed the way we feel and they addict us to their seductive stimulation. A perfect example of this is the typical cup of morning coffee. Most Americans need at least one or two cups of coffee in order to function in the morning, without it they get headaches and feel sick. This is only one stimulation, imagine what would happen if Americans went without caffeine, refined sugar, medication, cigarettes, meat, dairy, and bread, it is very probable that they would not be able to function very well.
The natural world has been leaving the human race very alarming cues in order to try and tell us that our way of life is “life degenerating” and not life generating. Degenerative diseases run rampantly through our bodies, psychological disorders are so common that we consider them normal; our world is full of violence and unhappiness. But despite all of these tell tale warnings we keep slipping down the same morbid path. Recently I have been made aware of perhaps the most startling symptom of the way we ignore our bodies.
There is a new phenomenon sweeping the nation that has most Americans wrapped in confusion; it is becoming increasingly common for women to not realize that they are pregnant up until the day they birth their children. Unaware pregnancies are becoming so common that they created an entire TV show about it on TLC. No, I’m not kidding you. Most of these women don’t realize they are pregnant until they are in labor. Doctors are currently scrambling to come up with reasons to explain why these women are unaware of their pregnancies until their delivery date. The most typical reasons that doctors have come up with are that women are in denial that they are pregnant, they do not pay attention to irregularities in their menstrual cycle since their cycles were irregular to begin with, and that sometimes pregnancy’s don’t show because the placenta is under developed or because the baby is lodged behind the ribcage. But the most common of all explanations is that the women who don’t know that they are pregnant are obese and, therefore; do not notice weight gain or a change in their physique.
This phenomenon ties directly into the fact that Americans are unaware of what is going on inside of them, that they do not pay attention to their symptoms because they mask them with all of the stimulating foods/substances in our culture today. The fact that most of these women are obese is indicative that ignorant pregnancies are due to overstimulation since obese people are the ones who are the most stimulated of all. Obese people who over indulge are constantly taking in the drugs that they call food and are therefore being over stimulated so often that they do not give their bodies a chance to feel its natural self. Also, let’s face it these women are not getting obese off of whole grains, fruits and vegetables, they are most likely eating heavily processed dead foods such as chocolate, cheese, animal protein and many other foods without fiber. Since these foods lack any nutritional value, fiber, or life (due to their heavily processed nature) they do not move within the digestive system towards the exit. These foods take on the consistency of cement once they enter the body and they become stagnant in the GI. Once someone consumes a large amount of stagnant dead food they can shut down their digestion almost entirely because their organs become impacted with dead waste. This turns the body into more of a solid/dense structure than a malleable less dense structure that breathes. The more solid and clogged the body is the less adaptable it will be to change and the less likely it will be able to detect changes in its chemistry… since nothing is moving. Once the system becomes so incredibly solid a person gets used to this feeling of stagnation and doesn’t pay attention to it further which numbs them to change. Pregnancy is a very versatile miracle that goes through many multifaceted stages that cause many different types of movement in the body that manifest as the symptoms of pregnancy such as, morning sickness, edema, and the motion of the baby. In a solid body where the fetus has little room to move due to the pressure being excreted on a woman’s uterus from her over full colon the baby will not move very much and the woman will be less likely to notice a moving child inside of her. Also since these woman have an everlasting feeling of fullness and a swelling sensation in their stomachs they may not pay attention to the particularly intense fullness and swelling that comes with pregnancy. Back to the stimulation idea, women are taking so many chemical substances that they don’t feel their systems because of the way the drugs mask them. This is just like the way an Advil will cover the pain associated with a sprained ankle; even though the ankle is still sprained the person won’t feel its intensity while under the influence of the Advil’s stimulation. These women consume stimulation so much that they just don’t give their bodies enough time to detox one chemical out of their system before adding another so they are constantly, “high.”
If nothing else tells us that what we are eating in this world is not natural and robs us of our senses than I don’t know what else will. I believe that it is safe to say that anyone who does not realize that they have a human being inside of them, is simply not paying attention to their bodies and is masking all of its natural responses with the drugs of modern civilization. For anyone who wants to see this for themselves here is a short youtube.com clip advertizing the show on TLC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvyqdClNHwA