What does self-care for the body have to do with your soul?
EVERYTHING!
In the words of the poet Rumi, “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
Your soul wants to fly. Yet, while on this earth journey, it travels in a body which is by nature dense.
Many spiritual practices suggest you transcend the body to know the Divine. However, the body is a vehicle that contains a dashboard of messages to help you navigate the soul’s journey of learning, loving and evolving.
The body is what allows you to deliver the fruits of your soul’s purpose in this physical world.
The body also contains the heart, which is the portal through which you can truly know your connection with Divine Oneness.
The body is not to be ignored on the spiritual quest. To fulfill the soul’s purpose in this life, you need to allow its wing to soar while you are present in your body. In order for your soul to take flight, you want to keep your body light and clean.
Here are 3 tips to incorporate self-care practices that allow your soul to soar.
1. Keep your body clean from the inside out.
- Diet. Eat a diet of fresh, clean, whole foods. Choose simple foods from nature that are provided from the earth, designed to work in harmony with your natural rhythms. Choose foods that are easily digested. Eat in quantities that keep you feeling light, not too full. Eat real foods with a natural life force that will lift your vibration.
- Hydration. If you are eating a diet of fresh whole foods, you are taking in water from the foods you eat. In addition to eating high-water-content foods, reduce or eliminate diuretics, such as caffeine drinks and alcohol. When you drink water, hydrate your body with pure, clean water. You are 75-80% water. Clean water supports all of your functions and helps maintain a clean body from the inside out.
- Fasting periods. Digestion is a 24-hour process. Your body needs time to adequately digest your foods and clean up internal waste. Digestion includes 3 phases: ingestion, assimilation and elimination. Keep your ingestion phase – the taking in of foods – to an 8-hour period, and leave the remaining 16 hours of the day for the assimilation and elimination cycles. Try giving your digestive system a complete rest at least once a week, either through eating minimally, juicing or taking in only water for the day.
- Meditation and prayer. I realize this is not eating, but it is so important to the digestive functions, I couldn’t leave it out. In addition to maintaining clear connection in your spiritual life, meditation and prayer support your nervous system. Your body cannot digest foods while it is stressed out. You must release yourself from the grips of stress in order for your systems to function properly. If the concepts of meditation and prayer are not comfortable for you, try gratitude. Gratitude is a simple and profound form of prayer.
2. Release densities from the body.
There are physical densities and energetic densities that can burden the body.
In order to release the physical densities that remain after the nutrition is delivered, you need to keep your elimination channels clean. These are the channels through which wastes and toxins are excreted from the body. They include the bowels and urinary systems, the lungs and the skin. They must have freedom to move and flow in a pure environment as much as possible.
For the energetic densities, meditation and prayer can help to release them. Energetic and spiritual healing practices can help as well. This is my specialty, and a bigger topic than we can fit here. If you want more information, please contact me.
3. Raise your body’s vibration.
Tips 1 and 2 will help to keep your body’s vibration high. In addition, you raise your vibration when you align your intention and conscious awareness to your actions.
Be clear on your intentions in your daily actions, and bring your conscious awareness to be present with your eating practices and food choices, as well as your presence in your body.
Aligning your intentions with your deep heart – your connection to your divine truths – will lift your vibration and give flight to the wings of your soul.
This is a high-level touch on just a few self-care practices that can help you feel uplifted and fulfilled in your daily life. There are many more.
Stay tuned for an invitation to a webinar in the next week where we’ll have an opportunity to delve into more tips and practices that can help you live the food-body-spirit connection.
Meanwhile, if you have questions, you are welcome to email me or schedule a time to chat at http://ScheduleWithDebra.com.
Until next week,
Have a Joyful Day!
Debra
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