I’ve been experiencing less than optimal health for a few weeks now. Nothing serious – a cold that seems to ebb and flow but never quite leave, some digestive problems, and a lack of energy.

According to Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, in their book Conscious Loving, the complaint of the victim is, “...this is not the experience I should be having”. If, they say, we take responsibility for our lives, then every experience we have is exactly the experience we should be having. So, on some level, I’m choosing to feel like crap!

What’s tricky about feeling sub-par is that it makes it more difficult to focus one’s thoughts on how we do want to feel, or what we do want to create in our lives. If you believe, as I do, that “what you focus on expands”, then focusing on one’s health challenges is simply going to create more of the same. But, when the body is dragging around, the mind tends to be dragged down with it, and so a negative spiral happens.

Then the’s the whole pain thing. The other day, I was sitting at my desk in the late afternoon, finishing up the tasks I had set for myself that day, when suddenly a massive pain arrived in my left side, leaving me literally doubled over in agony. My wife Kate drove me to the emergency room (although there was some doubt as to whether I could even make it to the car) and we discovered that my body was doing its best to get rid of a kidney stone. I guess the pain was getting my attention – letting me know that something was going on. I can understand this if the pain is a signal to us to change something, so that we can heal. But, in this case, the stone was going to do its thing and leave in its own time. So, I don’t really know what the pain was for. Still a bit puzzled by this part of the divine design.

I’d love to hear from you about this subject.