Your Body’s Early Warning Systems
July 21, 2024 by Doctor Vernon Coleman
The following essay is taken from my book `Bodypower’ which was, in 1983, my first Sunday Times bestselling book. It’s still accurate and timely.
Your Body’s Early Warning Systems
Your body has a whole range of special early warning systems. These are designed to give you advance notice of any problems which seem likely to arise and to ensure that potential damage is kept to a minimum.
For example, if your heart is under too much strain and the small vessels which supply it with blood are not able to pump in fluid at a fast enough rate, you will start to suffer chest pains. These pains, usually known as angina, are not in themselves life-threatening. Nor do they suggest that there is any desperately serious life-threatening disorder present. You are being told that your heart has reached its limits and that if you want to avoid any further damage you must make some adjustments to your way of life. You must either change your eating and exercise habits so that your heart can enjoy a better blood supply or you must reduce its workload.
Angina is probably one of the best-known early warning signs of physical distress, but there are many others. Indigestion, for example, is nothing more than an indication that your stomach is finding it difficult to cope with the quality and quantity of food that you’re putting into it. Muscle cramps that come on during exercise are an early sign intended to show you that your muscles are using up oxygen and food faster than fresh supplies are being provided.
Although many of the most obvious early warning signs relate to specific physical illnesses, there are also those which are intended to tell you when your body is run down and when you are in genuine need of a rest. When the problem is a general one, the signs will usually appear as a whole series of apparently trivial ailments. You may suddenly find that you are getting lots of coughs and colds, or that you are suffering from spots and boils.
Just as the body can get tired and may show early signs of physical distress, so the mind can become world weary and may need a break from the daily pressures. For example, you may feel lethargic, off-colour or generally out-of-sorts – all these vague symptoms may suggest that you have been pushing yourself too hard. If you are unusually irritable or impulsive, if your memory begins to fail you, if you can’t get to sleep, if you become intolerant of noise, if your ability to concentrate seems to have gone or if your willpower seems to have disappeared, if you find yourself crying, overreacting and unable to deal with trivial tasks, the chances are high that you have been doing too much. Your mind needs a rest.
Many people do recognise that these are all signs of overwork and excess pressure, but find themselves unable to do anything constructive to help themselves because they feel guilty if they stop working. Those of us who refuse to listen to these simple warning signs and to take notice of our bodies when they tell us to take things easy for a while, should perhaps remember that some of the greatest men and women the world has ever known happily cut themselves off from all outside contacts whenever they felt themselves to be under too much pressure. Charles Darwin used to pretend to be physically ill in order to give himself a chance to rest in bed whenever he felt himself to be under too much strain. So did Florence Nightingale, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud and many others.
Carried to excess, this type of behaviour may well be described as malingering. Employed with care and thought, it is more accurately described as common sense.
Learn to know your weak points
Most of us have a weak point. When we are under too much stress or too much pressure we develop symptoms of a particular type. Learn to know your weak point – as the symptoms begin to develop, you’ll know that you are pushing yourself too hard.
Here are some of the commonest ‘weak point’ signs:
* Headache
* Skin rash
* Indigestion
* Wheezing
* Diarrhoea
* Chest pains
* Palpitations
* Insomnia
* Irritability
All of them show that you are beginning to suffer actual physical damage as a result of the stress to which you have exposed yourself. Your stress threshold has been reached.
Spot your own weak point and act on the warning it provides.
NOTE
The above essay is taken from ‘Bodypower’ by Vernon Coleman. You can buy a copy of the book from the bookshop on www.vernoncoleman.com
Jack King’s New Book: `Net Zero Will Destroy You and Everything You Care About’
Jack King
(The following short essay is taken, with his permission, from Jack King’s brand new book called `Net Zero Will Destroy You and Everything You Care About’. Dr King’s book is a thorough investigation of the Net Zero fraud and a vital read for anyone who cares about the way our world is being deliberately and systematically destroyed. As the title says: Net Zero will destroy you and everything you care about.)
The relatively small group of individuals behind the drive to Net Zero conspiracy were originally inspired by an erroneous belief that the global population had grown too large and needed to be reduced and controlled. In order to terrify the population they invented the concept of ‘global warming’ (later changed to the more easily defended ‘climate change’) as an excuse for a wide range of controlling mechanisms designed to encourage those whom they succeeded in brain washing to help them promote a series of destructive proposals which would, without the fake threat of ‘climate change’ be dismissed as dangerous nonsense but which would, when offered as the only solution to the fake threat, be accepted as essential and unavoidable.
It is absurd and dangerous that it should be suggested that we abandon fossil fuels and to suggest that we go ‘cold turkey’ is nothing short of insane. To do so would mean being prepared to alter every aspect of our lives. Without fossil fuels we will have very little food, no schools, no hospitals, very little transport (except what is provided by horses and bicycles), no computers, no television, no magazines or newspapers, no air conditioning, no mobile phones, little or no lighting, little or no heating and little or no cooking. Like it or not we will be dragged back to the 19th century. Solar panels and windmills will not stop this happening. I wonder how many of those who support the idea of Net Zero know what will happen. The world we know is about to come to an end but ninety nine people in a hundred have no idea just how bad things are going to become; partly because no one has ever told them and partly they have been warned not to listen to anyone trying to tell them the truth.
Taken from the book `Net Zero Will Destroy You and Everything You Care About’ by Jack King – now available on Amazon as a paperback, an eBook and a hardcover book.
A few days ago, I decided to move a picnic table. In doing so, I pulled a muscle in my back.
I called a friend of mine who is a traditional Samoan herbalist. She told me that I didn't hurt my back by moving the table. She said that muscular injury occurs when we carry tension in our bodies and that I needed to be more aware of my body's reaction to my emotions.
I followed her advice. I spent the last three days stretching, doing breathing exercises and consciously relaxing my neck, shoulders and back. This morning, I am much better.
Anyway, your article discusses different ailments and early warning signs, but, to me, it seems related. It seems that many serious medical conditions, and even injuries, can be avoided when we "listen to our bodies"