This information is excerpted from the book, Recapture Your Health, by Walt Stoll, M.D. and Jan DeCourtney, C.M.T. Feel free to use up to 10 tips in an article or story as long as you quote the source and ordering information for the book (at bottom).

Health Tip No. 8: Use the Power of Your Awareness To Enhance Your Health

One of our favorite recommendations for health and healing is to practice self-awareness by listening to your bodymind. The wisdom of the bodymind is one of the most reliable tools we know for finding your own personal pathway to health. When you are following a wellness program and healing is happening, rather than symptoms being suppressed, listening to the messages of the bodymind is a powerful way to choose what works best for the stage of healing you are in at the time.

People with unhealthy bodies are pretty numb and at the beginning, don t always do well with self-awareness. However, by following a Wellness Program, your health will most likely improve enough for you to begin to feel what s happening in your bodymind again. As improvements continue, you become further aware of internal changes. Listening to your bodymind makes it your own personal testing laboratory to determine your own answers for healing, and naturally, you come to find your own next steps for furthering your health.

Walt Stoll, MD, and Jan DeCourtney, CMT, are co-authors of the book, Recapture Your Health: A Complete Step-by-Step Program to Reverse Your Chronic Symptoms and Create Lasting Wellness, (ISBN 0965317129), available at local and online bookstores, and from Sunrise Health Coach Publications, 1-877-357-9355 or www.sunrisehealthcoach.com.