Your house is on fire!

It’s hot. It’s uncomfortable, and you can hardly breathe with the heat and lack of oxygen.

You are feeling panicked, helpless and scared. What if you can’t make it out. What’s going to happen to your family, your life?  It makes you uncomfortable to think about these things. In fact, you’d rather not think about these things.

But that annoying fire alarm keeps going off. The noise is just terrible and it’s adding to your fears and anxieties…

So, you run over and you TURN THE ALARM OFF!

There!  That did it. Now you can go back to bed and back to your dream!

Does the story above sound just a bit ridiculous? Who would turn off the fire alarm of a burning house!?

We do actually! All the time.

What if I told you that the above story was a metaphor for what we do in our lives every day.

Imagine that your body is the house in the story above. The fire alarm is all the ways that your body and life try to get your attention that something is off  and perhaps seriously wrong.

These calls for help (alarm sounds) come in many forms:

  • Recurring aches and pains in various parts of your body
  • Feelings of general unwellness, extreme tiredness
  • Infections, recurring colds, coughs and flu
  • Official diagnosis of a particular type of illness
  • Situations and circumstance of conflict or upset that keep recurring in your life
  • Certain “types” of people who constantly push your buttons keep showing up in your life

These are just some of the ways that your body and life are screaming out for your attention.

And, because we have never been taught to pay particular attention to the calls for help or to see these occurrences as calls for help, we keep turning off the fire alarm.

So how exactly do we do that?

  • We ignore the alarm completely by just going on with our lives, pushing our bodies harder and harder to get things done
  • We use food to give us some temporary relief so that we don’t have to feel things like fear, emptiness, anger…in essence we stuff down the alarm sounds with food
  • We keep ourselves constantly occupied and busy with our children, our spouses, work and other commitments  so that there is no space or time to feel anything
  • We smoke, drink, drug ourselves so that we can numb our pain to gain some temporary relief
  • We resist, push back and fight our way through situations and create situations of conflict that keep us distracted from what’s really going on inside of us
  • We create stories, excuses, and even run away by constantly moving on to new projects, new relationships, new jobs, hoping our problems will just go away.

By the time an illness or other symptoms of ill health show up in your physical body, you have already shut off or ignored the more subtle “fire alarm” and calls for help.

Illness is your body’s way of knocking even louder and turning up the volume so that you hear the alarm and the call for help.

Here’s my question to you! How is your body and life calling out for you to pay attention?

Would you be willing to see the calls as an invitation to listen to the specific message that needs your attention and action?

I’d love to hear your responses  in the comments below.

Cheering for you and the amazing insights that are coming your way!

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