Spot-Check Inventory: How Much Do You Know about Your Body, Food & Healing?
How much do we really know about
- what best serves our bodies?
- what food is ours to eat?
- and what healers to consult and when to believe them?
To find out where you are on this, rate each statement below on a scale of one to five according to how true that statement is for you. Five indicates the statement is totally true, and one indicates that it is not at all true. Add up your first five ratings to get your KNOW # and the second set of five ratings to get your NOPE #. Subtract your NOPE # from your KNOW # to get your current self-awareness and self-honesty spot-check.
(So, assign a number to each statement below on how true the statement feels for you, 5 being the most true)
___ I know what foods best serve my wellness and well-being.
___ I know what exercise works best for my body and my life.
___ When I have long-term pain or chronic conditions, I know how best to support myself in healing/living my best possible life.
___ I know which physicians/practitioners to see about what ailment.
___ I know whether what physicians/practitioners suggest is true and valuable advice for me.
↑ For the 5 statements above, calculate your KNOW # _____
___ I just go to the doctor and do what they say. I don’t question it. They know much more than I do about my body and health.
___ I grew up with certain foods that I eat and those are just the foods I continue to eat. I don’t see the point of changing food.
___ I give up on healing quickly. If one doctor’s diagnosis and prescription doesn’t cure my issue, I assume I’m stuck with that problem for life. I just need to learn to live with it.
___ I only know what people suggest about exercise (and maybe not even much about that). I don’t have any idea what my optimal form of exercise or movement is.
___ I medicate the best I can while I judge, resent, and fear the trajectory of my long-term pain and chronic conditions.
↑ For the 5 statements above, calculate your NOPE # _____
Now, subtract your NOPE # from your KNOW # to get your spot-check for this Quality of Knowing
KNOW – NOPE = _______
If your score is 11-20, congratulations, you know your body; you know what food serves you and you know how to determine what healing you need and who to consult. Maybe you need help in another form of knowing (relationships, career, money?) but maybe not. You just might be a Super Knower.
If your score is 1-10, you have some confidence in your ability to know your body, your food, and your healing choices, but maybe you could use some help trusting yourself more.
If your score is a negative number, it could be an indication that you are somewhat alienated from your body and soul’s wisdom about food and healing. If this seems like something you’d like to improve, you may want to read posts I’m writing from my forthcoming book, working title How to Know What You Know: A Handbook for Making Up Your Mind.
Here’s a recent post: https://snicholsblog.com/2024/09/is-thinking-the-same-as-knowing
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