Yes, I have new respect after recently being in close relationship with the stomach flu. I discovered the sensation of eating for nourishment, a concept that has been lost on this emotional eater. Healing whatever it was that created havoc required paying close attention to what my body needed not what my mind wanted. In the early stages, I went to my mind and quickly discovered that the healing answer wasn't there. Then, as Nia teaches so eloquently, I went to my body and asked, waited, and received. Sensation led the team of my body's "specialists" working tirelessly to repair, replenish, and renew. Food carried no emotional weight. Its only purpose was to take its rightful place on my healing team. New information received through sensation.
My relationship with healing flourished in the contrast of dis-ease. I sense a new relationship with food will flourish as well and for that I bow to my recent sensei, stomach flu.
