The Inside Scoop

Week 1

I never gave much thought to what I put into my body, until my body showed visible signs of distress. I mean how much do any of us really think about all the processes going on within us in order for us to just be?

It just seems automatic. Our brain knows we need to breathe so it tells the lungs to inhale. It knows we need blood pumping to every organ, so it tells the heart to beat.

We don’t give any conscious thought to these things until we notice an issue with one of them.

Therein lies the problem.

We live our lives so recklessly that it takes one of the systems in our body starting to shut down, before we realize just how much damage we have caused.

Sure, I knew I was overweight and needed to lay off the fast food, quit smoking, and back when I drank heavily, stop, but I never actually considered that I was running out of time. I figured I had years before all the negative things I was doing would actually do something to my body, but they already had.

When you’re already injured, every new blow just makes it that much harder to get up, so every time I continued to make poor choices, an already injured body finally succumbed to disease.

This is one of the questions Jami wanted me to focus on as I began this journey:

Why did you succumb to your disease?

The only single answer I have come up with so far is that I never cared to know what was happening on the inside.

I didn’t think about gut health, eating foods that encompass all the colors of the rainbow, or that one more cheeseburger was going to cause harm. I simply didn’t care. Or rather, I simply didn’t want to care.

Since the beginning of time, human beings have made mistakes and subsequently had to learn how to overcome because of those mistakes. Eve ate an apple she was told not to, and here we are making the same mistakes all over again.

Now, we could Psych 101 all the reasons I let food become an addiction, but ultimately it boils down to something else we rarely give thought to happening on the inside, and that’s emotions.

The human body and soul are designed to work in tandem and when any facet is off, the entire being begins to suffer. Each beautiful aspect of our being is connected and if you destroy one, you create a ripple effect on all the others. It wasn’t until I read this page out of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (we’ll be talking about this amazing book so much more later) that it finally clicked. Most of what is happening is within us, not on the surface, so why are we ignoring it?

As the first week of my Regeneration protocol came to a close, I couldn’t help but remind myself that most of the work that is going to happen over the next 90 days is happening on the inside.

I’m not going to see most of it!

Sounds a lot like faith huh?

As I continue to chew (a lot), plan meals, and take time to rest, I will also be actively reminding myself that although I cannot see all the results, I can feel them, I can believe in them, and I can take heart knowing that some really great stuff is happening within me.