God Heals the Body
At 25, I went through an illness after which my digestive system became very sensitive, and almost everything caused various problems. The diets I adopted were very restrictive.
It took me 3 years to get out of the critical state and return to eating fruits and flour (not wheat). The diets helped me avoid unpleasant symptoms, but they didn't heal me.
The Turning Point
What definitively healed me was letting go of the idea that I had candida. First, I read, got tested, and consulted (I even called a gastroenterology professor at home without permission), which confirmed my suspicion that the problem wasn't candida but an imbalance of bacteria.
But that wasn't the main thing—the main thing happened when I visited a friend and talked about "because of candida this… and because of candida that…" and she finally said to me, "How do you know? All you know is how your body reacts, maybe you should let go of this candida idea and just listen to your body?"
It was incredible—that same day, I let go of the idea that I had candida, and within that week, I felt how my body behaved differently. Sensitivities and symptoms I'd had for years disappeared, just because I released the idea that I had a problem and decided to simply listen to my body.
My Journey Since Then
The healing journey led me to the conclusion that the body knows. Today I'm 41, and for a decade now, I've been eating "what I want," meaning, without going wild, with attentiveness, but there's nothing I really deny myself.
Another ability that developed as a result is receiving feedback from my body before I eat. In the past, I had to experiment to see how my body would react; today, it's enough for me to look at food or even think about it, and my body signals whether it's a yes or no. As long as I dedicate a few seconds of listening before I eat something, I'm "set."
This post was inspired by Tinka Naama Atzitz's latest post.nToday I ate curry with vegetables, tofu, and tempeh, which I didn't photograph, but I did take a picture of Naomi with her fruits.
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Read more about the importance of listening to your body.
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