Choosing Spirit Over Body

One Saturday morning I woke up with my body not feeling right. I had been doing an intensive chiropractic program and a nutrition program to improve my overall body condition and the weather had been very hot all week (nearly 100 degrees every day, plus humidity), so my body was having a lot to deal with.

When I put my body in a standing position, getting up out of bed, it immediately became dizzy and as I tried to get it to walk, I had a hard time standing my body up straight. As I tried to get my body to walk, it kept listing to the left and running into the wall. I actually had to have my body hold on to the wall to walk into the next room without it falling. My body was also dizzy and feeling a bit nauseous. The chiropractic adjustments in my neck had created a temporary pain in my left big toe, making it difficult to walk, so on top of everything else, my body was limping as well.

I had an appointment with my chiropractor, so I went, even though I could hardly walk. My husband Larry drove me.

I had my chiropractic adjustment, but my body wasn’t feeling much better when I left. From a body viewpoint, all it wanted to do was just go home and lie down.

The previous day, we had already made a plan to go to a farmer’s market, which was about a forty-five-minute drive from the chiropractor’s office. I was excited about going to the farmer’s market because here in Florida, all the farmer’s markets close over the summer because of the heat, and this one had found a shady location where they could continue the market as usual. I love farmer’s markets and really wanted to go. I also wanted to write an article about it.

“My body doesn’t feel good, but as a spirit, I don’t want to miss going to the market,” I said to Larry. Of course, the market was every Saturday, but this was the only Saturday I had time available to go. I was working on a project that required Saturday meetings because it was the only time others were available, but that Saturday they had switched the meeting to Sunday.

We both agreed that the best thing to do was to do what I wanted to do as a spirit, and just get my body into a condition where it could walk and be comfortable. We decided to go to the market, and my body would be fine.

I gave Larry the address of the market and told him it’s approximate physical location. As he began to drive the car in that direction, I closed my eyes and my body promptly fell asleep.

Just as we were nearing the market, I woke my body up. We found the market and parked the car. I got my body out of the car and stood it up straight. It felt fine. No dizziness, no nausea, my big toe didn’t even hurt.

Larry and I happily walked around the market for over and hour and I had no attention on my body at all. We had some lunch and spent the rest of the day with a lot of physical activity–doing errands, walking in the pool, and working in the garden until 9:00 in the evening. 

We were both very happy that I followed what I wanted to do as a spirit instead of allowing myself to be limited by my body.