Most of us are so focused on how we look that we forget to pay attention to how we feel. If we do notice a feeling in our body, it’s usually because it’s gotten so loud that we can’t ignore it. We tell ourselves things like: everyone has aches and pains; it’s all downhill after 40; I’ll just take more painkillers. In fact, our body knows a lot and as we learn to listen to it, we can work with it to heal our thoughts, emotions and physical disease, pain and conditions. Clarissa Pinkola Estes wisely said: “The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger rememb
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