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My children have often taught me valuable lessons.<\/b><\/p>\n
Years ago, two of my daughters arrived home late one evening after a full day of early morning piano lessons, school, track practice, and first performance of their high school play.<\/p>\n
They were tired and hungry.<\/p>\n
My one daughter who normally eats a bowl of cereal before bed if she\u2019s hungry, chose instead to heat up the leftover Brussels sprouts from dinner.<\/p>\n
Who does that?!<\/p>\n
She devoured them and said, \u201cI must need these, because these Brussels sprouts taste sooo good!\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not kidding! That is what she said!<\/p>\n
Have you ever heard anyone, much less a sugar-loving teenager, say she loved Brussels sprouts?! *(Recipe below).<\/p>\n
I still smile when I think of her relishing those tiny cruciferous vegetables.<\/p>\n
What pleased me so much was that she was listening to her body, and responding.<\/b><\/p>\n
Are You Listening?<\/i><\/p>\n
Do you hear what your body is telling you?<\/b><\/p>\n
Over the years I have been trying to learn the skills of listening and acting on what my body is telling me.<\/p>\n
As I\u2019ve increased my ability, I\u2019ve noticed an improvement not just physically, but spiritually.<\/p>\n
Learning to listen to my body has expanded my capacity to hear spiritual promptings.<\/p>\n
The body and spirit are so closely connected that as you increase your ability in one are, you also improve your ability in the other.<\/p>\n
The more you respond to your body\u2019s messages of what it needs, the more you become capable of hearing and responding to the messages from your spirit.<\/b><\/p>\n
And, as you trustingly respond to your spirit, the more in tune you become to the messages of your body.<\/p>\n