Good In, Bad Out

Good In, Bad Out

Scott Carlson, LMHP, CTS

Good In + Bad Out = HEALTH.  This is a scientific formula for the health of our body, mind, and souls.  The higher percentages of “good things” we put in to us will produce a higher health score. And the higher percentages of “bad things” we put in to us will produce a lower health score.  

When something enters our bodies through the eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth, or our skin, things immediately happen.  Foods or drinks that we put in us are instantaneously diagnosed as good or bad and processed accordingly by the amazing systems in our body.  We are highlighting the liver this month.  The liver’s job is to take what we put in and process the good to be used by the rest of the body and get rid of the bad.  It is a complex and beautiful sorting station for us, working harder for us than we know. Even when we put a lot of “feel good only” stuff in us, it works overtime to bail us out.  Sometimes it cannot keep up with the workload we put on it, and then our health score drops and we begin to experience symptoms that cause us pain and even suffering.  Sadly, pain and suffering are the body’s attempt to get our attention to notice and change.  But…we gotta listen!  

I would like to challenge us all to listen more to our body.  It is speaking to us.  One of the top 10 things healthy people do is to listen to their body and not ignore it or deny it.  We can call this listening anything we want - awareness, consciousness, enlightened, awakened, etc.  But whatever we call it, it will lead to increased health.  Healthy people get more and more acutely aware of what their body is saying to them and act on it.  It takes courage and humility to listen and make necessary changes to restore us to health.  More often than not, we may end up hearing things that we do not want to hear, because it probably leads to a change.  We fear hearing painful truths.  We fear giving up things.  We fear making changes.  All fears are oppositional to love - a spiritual law.  To face and get past our fears is then a loving act.  A great read on this is:  Dr. Lisa Rankin - The Fear Cure:  Cultivating Courage as Medicine for The Body, Mind, and Soul.  

Commit yourself today to not live in fear; decide to love with a plan to begin listening intently to your body.  Commit to courageously searching and asking yourself questions about your symptoms and your behaviors.  Commit yourself to the long, daily walk of health - not the short, quick fixes that typically do not work long-term.  Believe that you do not have to live life by merely “coping” and do not settle!  The act of listening takes good information in to get the bad out of us = guarantee of improved health.  It’s not too late! Who you will become begins today; let’s seize it!

And if we can help you with your plan, we would love to join you in your journey to become a healthy “liver”.