If our bodies were a company we would be in all sorts of trouble!
Imagine a company that was trying to poison its staff. Imagine the global response if the company tried to tell the world that what they are giving staff is a treat for all the hard work they’ve put in, or that they are only poisoning people a little bit.
Yet as owners of our bodies we eat foods every day that our bodies respond to like they are a poison, such as alcohol, caffeine, and sugar. But we say to ourselves that we are only drinking or eating a little bit, or that we are giving ourselves a treat or reward.
There is often outcry over the way some companies ignore the concerns and wishes of the people who work for them and the place they operate. Unsafe work practice or working people until they get sick is seen as abusive behaviour and something not to be tolerated. How would the world respond if the company tried to explain to the world that the staff just needed to push through to meet their deadline and production needs, again and again?
Yet as owners of our bodies, how often do we ignore the messages our bodies are giving us? How often do we keep pushing our body to the point of ill health? How often do we put a deadline ahead of our own wellbeing?
How long would the world accept a company’s apology and affirmation that they “will do better,” if they returned to the same old behaviours once people stopped looking? Yet as owners of our own bodies, once the ‘symptoms’ have gone how often do we return to the same behaviours that caused the issues in the first place?
It would seem that we as humans have body issues beyond how we look. We seem to abuse, push, and or suppress the wealth of information that our body provides day in day out. We seem to accept that our body is something to be driven, often responding with resentment when it ‘fails’ us, not taking note of what we have put it through.
The truth is our body, when we listen to it, has a level of productivity and rhythm of living that can outdo any corporate CEO’s output.
If we take the time to listen, observe and respond to what our sleep, our cravings, our energy levels, and our emotional stability is showing us, we will begin to discover a whole new body corporate.
Inspired by the Universal Medicine audio “The Way of the Livingness 19”
by Joel Levin
Further reading:
The Body is the Marker of All Truth
The Body Knows
I Found Observing My Body Is A Great Support
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
“Yet as owners of our bodies, how often do we ignore the messages our bodies are giving us? How often do we keep pushing our body to the point of ill health? How often do we put a deadline ahead of our own wellbeing?”
I ignored all the messages my body gave me growing up and did the complete opposite to the what was being offered. The arrogance of being able to do what I liked when I liked was huge. I thought I was in control we are never in control but are ourselves controlled by an outside force that plays the tune that we dance to.
Joel, how true that “we ignore the messages our bodies are giving us?” We continually ignore it until it gives you that mental or physical stop moment.
I am yet to come across a company who treat their staff well. The abuse is rife in many facets than just one. Yet there are policies in place to protect the workers. Which are great in one respect, but I sometimes wonder whether they are really truly supportive.
With everything going around the world, the only way is to actually take care of one’s body in every possible way. That is our commitment to ourselves and the people we work around will benefit in the long run.
“How often do we ignore the messages our bodies are giving us? – Constantly and worse until someone reflects to you that there is a different way to live.
We are a tuned to ignore the messages from a very young age, so those messages go unheard, until we are offered a stop moment. When we eventually take heed and listen, we have to undo those things that we have done to ourselves. And when we learn to develop a true relationship with our bodies, it is beautiful, and frankly and maybe subjectively, we don’t want to go back to the old ways of living.
When we listen, we can feel what is required or your body will pull you towards it, that’s the muscle that needs developing and it is a matter of time, space and everything will it become stronger.
From a young age, we are asked to toughen up somewhere along the way. Why? Will it be too much for the adults to cope with a child that needs to grow up in tenderness?…
It is too much in most cases for an adult to cope with a child that is naturally tender and delicate when it is born. For most of us we are hugely jealous that they have this inbuilt delicateness and tenderness which adults also had when they were young. It was thoroughly squashed as they grew up and we perpetrate the same hardship on any baby/child that shows any sign of delicateness or tenderness it is not allowed in the plane of life we have set up for ourselves.
It’s so entrenched and normal to abuse our bodies that what is considered a fun night out is to trash ourselves with junk food, alcohol, and lack of sleep. The description here of the workplace analogy with the body really highlights how making something normal runs counter to our common sense, and to our values of decency and integrity. If we wouldn’t do those things to employees, how have we made it ok for our own bodies?
It is crazy that we treat our bodies in this way, when clearly if it was a company we would not treat employees like this, ‘as owners of our bodies, how often do we ignore the messages our bodies are giving us? How often do we keep pushing our body to the point of ill health? How often do we put a deadline ahead of our own wellbeing?’
I can recall doing the abusive things to my body, exercising, drinking, late nights and it was considered the norm and accepted behaviours. When we change the way we live, we are then looked upon as the not norm, and people find it awkward when we don’t entertain those activities.
We function so much better when we are clean and clear of those pollutions.
Shushila it is interesting to observe that we are considered abnormal if we don’t stay out late at night drinking and partying. I know my colleagues now understand at the sales meetings, that I will not go into the city to party. The next day most of the team are wasted and wish they hadn’t drunk so much, but when the drinks are free they find it impossible to say no. It’s a bit like children given free reign in a sweet shop; the temptation is too great not to over indulge. That’s when they look at me all bright eyed and bushy tailed and wished they had made sensible choices and they vow not to do it again. But if it is not us in control of our bodies but our spirit we have no say and this is plainly seen as the following nights after work they all pile into the minibus to do the same again. They think they are making this decision but they are not, the spirit making the decision and they are just the puppets whose strings are being pulled. Until we have self mastery of our bodies we will be ruled by the spirit that also resides in us.
I have been one of those people guilty of this: “We seem to accept that our body is something to be driven, often responding with resentment when it ‘fails’ us, not taking note of what we have put it through.” – I used to find my body a nuisance and thought is was a bother to have to look after it. But now I understand what I get back from loving my body up and I am much more caring and loving of myself, though I still have to be watchful that I do not slip into old patterns.
I often use a similar analogy with my clients when talking about health and well-being. I actually promote them to the position of CEO of a company: ‘your body’ and this really helps put things into perspective for them on what is or is not the best way to treat the body. I ask them to interview the organs and see how they are feeling and what support they might be needing….
Joel I love the quirky way that you have considered this crazy but real situation that we are finding ourselves in. Our body is like a company – with our organs the employees. So it is a wise question to ask!
I have never seen or experienced a work ethic and routine quite like what listening to my body can provide. No amount of mental power can produce such quality and quantity of work.
Our body is wise beyond words, we just have to listen to and honour its wisdom, ‘If we take the time to listen, observe and respond to what our sleep, our cravings, our energy levels, and our emotional stability is showing us, we will begin to discover a whole new body corporate.’
lorraine it is fascinating that when we start to listen to our bodies the wealth of information it can share. I felt a tension come up in my body recently and I have become aware that my instant reaction would be to go for some form of sugar to race my body so that I wouldn’t feel the tension. This time being aware of this old habit, I stayed with the tension and sat with it until whatever it was, was released from my body. When the agitation had passed so had my craving for something sweet. This clearly showed me that if we hang on to ‘stuff’ by trying to control life then it doesn’t give our bodies any opportunity to release what shouldn’t be in our bodies in the first place, as living with tension, our bodies are in dis-ease, which can lead to illness and disease.
Describing it this way exposes how ludicrous our relationship to our body is. We sign petitions about abuse in the world and live in abuse of our own body. We also need to see the relationship between self abuse and abuses placed on others in the world, as there cannot be abuse of others without self abuse.
Yes, listening to and honouring our body starts with self, same with abuse, ‘We seem to abuse, push, and or suppress the wealth of information that our body provides day in day out. We seem to accept that our body is something to be driven’.
We definitely seem to be at loggerheads with our bodies and can go into blaming the body for not performing what we are pushing it to do. No wonder it has to take on release an illness to get us to stop and to expel the excess disregard.
The shareholders in the body-corporate are the organs then we would be wise to be aware of how they vote.
Ha ha that’s right Mary – may the organs have a say, may the organs pave the way! I can see them going on a strike for better working conditions and this really does translate to gall stones or pancreatic stones etc etc. any condition that will finally put a stop to abuse…
‘A little in moderation’ is probably one of the most widespread comments made however how can a small amount of food be ‘good’ or support the body when in truth it is a poison and harms the body? I find it amazing when statements or comments are made and made convincingly because they suit the individual saying them!
I have been caught in that trap Caroline Francis justifying why I’m eating something sweet because I deserve a treat. When really I’m eating something sugary because I do not want to feel or read what is in front of me.
‘Imagine the global response if the company tried to tell the world that what they are giving staff is a treat for all the hard work they’ve put in, or that they are only poisoning people a little bit.’ When it is put into context like this we can really see the absurdity of what we are choosing.
A body run by love and a body run by everything that is not love are two very starkly contrasting bodies. Indeed we can function but what is the quality of its output?
There’s loads of science that tracks how different foods affect how the body runs but energetic fuel is a whole different ballgame. At the same time very related as it’s the energy that determines the physical fuel we choose.
A brilliant sharing Joel, having worked shift work for many years I became exhausted and would frequently get sick, I started to listen to my body and introduce simple self-care techniques and I now cope better with shift work and am far more productive and energetic at work now.
Listening to, and honouring our body makes so much sense, just like caring for ourselves, ‘The truth is our body, when we listen to it, has a level of productivity and rhythm of living that can outdo any corporate CEO’s output.’
“Listening to Your Body – A New Body Corporate” – when we listen to our body we can listen to the corporation we work for or that maybe we lead. Because the insight of ourselves we gain from listening to our own body allows useful insight into life which includes work.
Sofia it also includes life which is multidimensional this awareness is something we have lost. The awareness of the universe and that we are a part of it. We have fallen for the trick that we have one life and that there is nothing beyond this one life.
The simplicity of life is a joy when I listen to my body and follow its’ natural impulses
Imagine having the body corporate here described supported, confirmed and the foundation of the structure of society?
We know as a species that we are different from other animals. This has been put down to us having a consciousness, yet we use that to abuse ourselves in all sorts of ways that no animal would ever do. We really need to look at our higher intelligence and start to use it discerningly and with humbleness rather than arrogantly misusing it.
Very wise words Fiona! We pride ourselves on our intelligence, the very intelligence we flaunt arrogantly so whilst we continue to be our own demise.
If our bodies were a company, abuse, bullying, poisoning, disregard would be rife. There is no way that company would survive or be able to produce anything of any value to society.
It really explains why we lack vitality and purpose.
Is anyone truly asking about the diet of treats and rewards and the real impact that these are having on health – in so many ways and on so many levels.
What struck me is ; ‘How often do we keep pushing our body to the point of ill health? How often do we put a deadline ahead of our own wellbeing?’
This is our more honest and true way of looking at our life and our current state of health. So we can start to truly change.
Do we live in reaction or in response to what’s communicated to us by our body? As in, when we feel something, be it tired, moody, needy, craving something and so forth, do we look at the why and seek to heal whatever it is that needs to be healed, or do we react and fight the reflection on offer?
Every part of our body relies on every other part to do its job. A body corporate could learn a lot from seeing the harmony and the beauty of true ‘group work’ that the body offers!
It is not our bodies that are trying to poison us but the spirit when it takes control of us. Our bodies are there to support us despite all the abuse they receive. Unimedpedia Spirit: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-spirit.html exposes some of the tricks of this wayward spirit we let run amok!
Nicola I agree with you until we master ourselves once again we are mere puppets as our spirit runs the show, we do what our spirit tells us to do, it also gives us the thoughts that it is us making the choices. Until we regain self mastery with the support of the soul nothing will change we will continue to abuse ourselves and our bodies will continue to cop the results of the abuse by becoming diseased.
We have a body co-operate not corporate but we don’t co-operate with our wise and wonderful bodies.
Great methaphor. If we were to take care of our bodies the way you describe, our bodies would blossom including all the places we go and encounters we have. In the end the bodies become the CEOs!
“If we take the time to listen, observe and respond to what our sleep, our cravings, our energy levels, and our emotional stability is showing us, we will begin to discover a whole new body corporate” – we begin to discover who we truly are too in the process …perhaps that is why we spend so much time in distraction and dishonouring our bodies to pause or delay the inevitable [truth].
The body is our best company no matter how we treat it. Yet, how we treat it makes a difference regarding how it treats us back.
I love the analogies you use Joel. They really do put into context the absurdity of our choices and how we treat our bodies. Things we do to ourselves we would never accept from another to do if it was forced.
I agree with what you have said here ‘If our bodies were a company we would be in all sorts of trouble!’ and it is quite frightening to feel this. I guess it makes sense though as to why we are currently in such a mess in the world if everything we do comes through or from our bodies and we are not looking after our bodies but predominately overriding or ignoring them and not truly connected to the innate truth, wisdom and love within our body as to how we could be, it makes sense this lack of self-love and self-care will then have a ripple affect in all that we do in the world.
If we were about to pass-over would we eat differently to allow our body to be at ease with itself because as you have shared Joel, “as owners of our bodies we eat foods every day that our bodies respond to like they are a poison, such as alcohol, caffeine, and sugar..?”
And may I add Joel, would we want a pizza, fish and chips, greasy pork chops, or any food that we could easily digest when we were much younger, do we live in the past or do we listen to our bodies especially in the dying process and eat lighter foods that the body can handle?
What would we want as our last meal or would we chooose the foods which take away our awareness of what we can reflect on in our life and thus make a considered choice to never have these dulling foods so we are deepening our awareness for our next life, thus our next incarnation would look a lot different?
Do we actually want to be that responsible even on our death-bed?
For more on passing-over joy-fully, until our last breath see the video at;
https://universalmedicinefacts.com/the-blessing-of-judith-mcintyres-life-and-death/
It is such a great analogy as so often we treat our bodies which such disregard and distain that essentially we our polluting our vehicle that we have to live with 24/7 whether we like it or not which makes no logical sense. And so if we truly were intelligent then it would not even cross our minds to bludgeon our bodies so there has to be more at play. And for me this is where the world of energy enters, what if there is more going on than purely meets the eye, something that we all see and know it as a child.
“Listening to Your Body – A New Body Corporate” – if we listened to our bodies, then we would listen to our companies too to know that how we are with our own body is how we are with, and how we set the body and culture of the company we work in.
If common sense prevailed we would not pollute our bodies in any way. So what is prevailing? And what must one be avoiding to feel through such behaviours? Why are we more obese than ever before? Why is our entire food industry (and the demand for it) not based on nourishment?
Abby the only conclusion I can draw from your question is that we think, we think, when actually we do not think at all. We either align to our soul or the Astral plane. Depending on our alignment depends on how we treat our bodies. The soul asks that we treat our bodies as temples to align our temple to the stars. The Astral Plane lets us do what we want literally anything as long as we do not align to the stars. So we pollute our bodies, we can experience anything we want we can dive into creation and get lost in all the distractions on offer and this is what we have chosen to do. Until such time that we finally come to our senses by realising that all the temptations we have indulged in are not ‘it’ and so we turn to our soul who has been walking by our side while we have indulged in everything creation has offered us, when we align back to our soul we are given all the true riches of the stars which is what we have always craved. To me this is the true fairy tale of internal poverty we have all created, back to the real riches of the stars.
There are many CEOs today which run this position separated with the wisdom of their body when our body is the CEO of our life.
Absolutely yes.
Mistrust between the management and the staff is no good. Can we come together for the same, one purpose?
Beautifully said Fumiyo especially when that purpose is love!
This is such a great analogy. It is the fragmentation of the whole that leads to the abuse of its parts when we do not appreciate the value each part contributes to the whole it is a part of. That is, we do not appreciate that every part of our body is working to achieve harmony with all other parts (organs, systems etc.) and going even broader than this – that every body here on Earth is also synced in to a greater body that is the body of God/the Universe we all live within. With no appreciation of this we are left to wander as a ‘lonely fragment’ totally at odds to the stupendous beauty we all belong to.
A company is always changing and willing adjust to the changes to make sure that it stays productive and healthy, but we rarely if at all take the same care when it comes to our body until we get a reminder from our body in the form of an accident or illness
I love how you compare how we treat our body to how we treat our body, you are right there would be an outcry and it would be in the media if a company was poisoning all its staff, but we willingly do this every day to our bodies.
Like any active and productive company, the body never stops speaking, and like any company it is up to us to listen and adjust our way of living and working.
Ignoring the call often leaves the workers feeling ill or not at ease no different to the ways our body reminds us of die- ease.
I have been to a few events recently that have included competitions and raffles. The prizes for these have been mostly alcohol or sweets and chocolate, in huge amounts. What does it say about us if we assume that everyone wants these substances as a reward – substances that are actually poisoning us ?
Its a great analogy Joel, and feeds both ways. As we learn to listen to our bodies and have more self respect then equally that ripples out into our lives, our work place. It puts a different quality back into a body corporate and starts to effect a change there as well.
There is a whole another level of awareness that we have access to living in connection to, an intelligence that can only reflect the truth in any moment, of the quality of our every move. Our bodies, that we are all born with into this world is our truest guide to living the potential of everything that we are here to live, as Souls in this plane of life. As such it is wise to develop a loving and honouring with this vessel that is everywhere we are, every breath we take.
Love the analogy here Joel, it opens up the way we look and are with our bodies as often if we can see something through someone else eyes, we are more open to seeing it.
Change the management from the mind to the body and you “discover a whole new body corporate” – one that works harmoniously.
In corporate it is almost a ‘dirty’ word to talk about your body or have true care for your body. The body just has to do what is needed for the work and what the mind dictates it to do. Whereas the body actually is an amazing teacher, with a perfect symbolism, for any director, company owner, manager or team member to learn from.
The only way any company can be run is by or with the body. Then it is about people and not just outcome.
Even if a friend did this to us we would quickly pull them up, yet we so often treat ourselves then much less than what we deserve.
Replacing the word ‘treat’ with ‘poison’ exposes what we are actually doing to ourselves when we choose NOT to discern what we eat. It’s an interesting science, that we actively consume foods that do toxify our bodies, and disguise these behaviours as harmless ‘treats’ or something that is okay as long as it’s not in excess. Would we say the same if we were presented with ‘real’ poison?
And would we, do we, say the same when another offers us what they believe is ‘treat’ and we feel it is a ‘poison’?
I still give myself a reward or treat at the end of the day through food or a sleep in the next morning. I love food and I can cook a great feed too. I eat very healthy. I love sleeping too especially a little longer than I need to and also can sleep during the day – I thoroughly enjoy this more than to go out and visit friends. It catches me out though if I eat too much I get sleepy later on or if I sleep in its puts pressure on my body to complete what I am responsible to live the way I know that actually returns vitality and clarity to wellbeing anyway. Looking after your body corporate returns a great profit.