“What does it mean when your body changes?”
A question I was thinking about this morning, as I sat at my kitchen table, looking at the birds outside of my window.
The more I thought about it, the more I began to see a pattern.
I realized that once my bottom lip split, I am either in the process of having a cold or about to get one.
Ever since I’ve been aware of it, 99% of the time one of the two takes place.
Once my bottom lip splits, it becomes a challenge to laugh or even open my mouth wide.
Eating certain food, such as a burger, becomes difficult because it requires me to open my mouth extremely wide.
Now that I think about it, I suppose it doesn’t have to be that way.
Maybe that’s just the way I’ve been taught.
Next time, I can cut the burger into multiple pieces.
Would that still be considered American? 😂
The other change I’ve realized is whenever I experience stress, a pimple forms on the left side of my face, under my lower lip.
It does not fully form.
Yet, here I am, trying to pop it every time.
Squeezing it to the point where I end up leaving a scar from the finger nails.
One day, I am hoping to learn the lesson and overcome the desire of wanting to squeeze it.
There’s something fascinating about that process.
The more aware I’ve become of my body, the quicker I have been able to take the necessary measures.
Whether it was boosting my immune system to prevent or deal with the cold at hand, or meditating to deal with stress.
As you think about your own experience, “What is your body telling you when it’s going through changes? What are those changes?”
