How are you? How are you feeling today?
The standard, almost non-disclosing, answer(s) are: Great. Fine. Good, you?
Although many won’t examine from the top of their heads to the tips of their toes, something in between the top and tips is working, as best it can, something probably feels good, and, possibly, something doesn’t.
In any regard, you, and only you, are in there working. Your body, regardless of your concept of your body image, is in there doing the best it can. Are your considerations allowing for the best to get better?
If someone asks, how are you? Rarely would we answer, “it’s complicated.” Complications aside, most of us are trying to compete with our best moments, our best feelings. It’s the highlight reel our thoughts present for our minds. Otherwise, we could be ruminating on foibles and failures and presenting these as if they are in syndication, a syndication that never ends. The other states we might be in from harried to hungry, from excited to exhausted, whatever, from A to Z.
Here’s a graph from GlutenDude.com to give you some ideas on checking your feelings or your symptoms of feeling. Symptoms of feeling — that just sounds wrong. But, and this may also sound wrong, if you are overly concerned with your symptoms, or even letting your symptoms go completely unchecked, your feelings may not be authentic. These inauthentic feelings may push you into a zombie-like state. Your behavior will show you have not been eating human brain — you’ve been eating gluten.
And, though your response to gluten may screw you up so badly, you might think or act like the world is a horror flick or it has come to an end. It isn’t. It hasn’t. Your body, fighting with things that mimic gluten and are gluten, is still trying to do the best a body can. But some parts are not working like they should and these parts are wreaking havoc other parts of the body that are trying to do their work.
We celiacs may need a gluten guru like we need a yogi or spiritual guru. We need someone to say, “When you meditate, where are you? Are you your breath? Are you your heartbeat? Are you your hunger? Are you your discomfort? Are you your thoughts?” And we’re off to determine if we are this or that or the other thing. We are, of course, all of these things.
The amount of information and misinformation one can receive from the medical community, the holistic community, and friends and family is simply overwhelming. What’s worth the understanding of what you are accomplishing comes via a continual process?
I’d like these thoughts, these typed up communications to you, to make us feel well faster, to make us healthier and happier faster.
My symptoms, my sickness(es), were occurring from the top of my head to the tips of my toes, and, looking at these parts of my body and the signs showing in these areas I couldn’t figure it out, the medical community wasn’t helping, the holistic community was on the same bus. A friend led me to question what another friend had asked me to question, and, eventually, I got it. I don’t have open sores on my head anymore. I don’t have toenail fungus anymore. Throughout my mind and body, I’m still healing.
If you’re questioning symptoms, sickness, sores, or a slew of these things, you can feel better — your body does want to heal.
We can help one another.
As these posts work towards and away from my thoughts, I know I can gather some clarity, continually, by being strong enough to show up, er, type them up . . . to better know my feelings, my behaviors, and my history.
There’s a long way to go, and, today, I’m okay with the journey; this journey with its uphills and downhills and its foreign territories.
How are you? How are you feeling today?