You can't fight feelings with logic

A couple weekends ago and throughout my professional life so far this is something I have learned to embrace. Sometimes logic tells us to do one thing, but our feelings (our gut) tells us another. Recently, I have given this advice to a number of different people, all experiencing different problems. It seems to make sense and ease the decision making. 

As a kinesiologist, I see people everyday that are ignoring feelings, and quite possibly ignoring all logic as well. As we begin to ignore feelings we start to lose touch with ourselves, our body, our mind, our spirituality. Once we start ignoring this innate sense of feeling, our body becomes detached from our soul. Is this one of the reasons for disease? Are we as a society detached from feeling?

The answer is a daunting YES. We as Americans, are very detached from feeling. Look at the progression of TV throughout the last couple decades. We have lost the ability to feel and now think it is pleasurable to not feel. One major way we have stopped feeling is our lifestyle. We live for pleasure, but don't find it pleasurable to live. We treat our bodies in ways that would make our Hunter-Gatherer counterparts cringe, and probably make fun of us, if not destroy us for being inferior. We take drugs without questioning the consequence, eat processed foods genetically engineered to be addictive, we pollute the Earth without question, give birth control to young teens knowing it increases their risk of cancer later on in life. What is the logic behind this? 

Is it logical to FEEL like crap? Is it logical to live in pain and not try to correct the problem? Is is logical to take pain blocking medication and not change the reasons for pain? It is time to change this epidemic of unfeeling. It is time to use logic to feel properly. Time to logically feel. Treat your body like a temple. As Dr. Bob Rakowski to eloquently states, and I personally think embraces the concept of using logic to feel:

EAT RIGHT

DRINK RIGHT

THINK RIGHT

MOVE RIGHT

SLEEP RIGHT 

POOP RIGHT 

TALK RIGHT

And probably the most important one of all is LOVE RIGHT.

Love is a feeling. Love doesn't know logic. 

-Dr. Kurt