Do You Know How to Listen to Your Body

Perhaps one of the best ways to remain healthy and avoid sickness is to listen to the ‘voice’ of your body? Do you know how to do that?
Our bodies are really cool machines with several built in mechanisms to keep them going. A lot of times, those mechanisms manifest themselves in the form of desires. Those desires are given to us for the fulfillment of our bodily needs, and we should keep that perspective. Notice that I am not saying that we should therefore give in to all desires. Because of the kind of world we live in, some of our desires are messed up sometimes, and we have to therefore live with self-control to not be controlled by desires.
The voice of the body manifests in the following ways:
Hunger – our bodies need food to stay alive, as food contains many necessary nutrients, as well as energy (calories). Certain cravings might be your body’s way of asking for certain nutrients. And no, our soda cravings probably does not mean you are craving soda nutrients, because there are none. We probably really need something else and do not understand what our body is really saying.
Thirst – our bodies are made up of about 60% water, so it is important that your body tell you when it needs more water. Not drinking enough water is an easy way to eventually get sick.
Pain – yes, that pain you have actually means something. Your body is telling you that something is not quite right. That headache is telling you to deal with some issue you should find out (you might need water), so taking an aspirin to mask the pain does not help. It is technically worse to do that.