Discover how honouring your body's warning signs—rather than fighting against them can lead you back to wholeness, health, and your authentic path.

"Self-scapegoating is our body's pain avoidance; facing reality is personal growth." —Lisa Precious.

Your Intelligent Vehicle

Your mind and body is an intelligent organism. Without your conscious effort, your heart beats to its rhythm, a baby knits together in the womb, your food digests and your brain computes these words into meaning - smart, right?

Think of yourself as the driver of your mind and body. Take great care of this valuable vehicle, pay attention to the road signs, and you'll reach your final destination fulfilled in your purpose.

Yet, we often miss important warning signals along our path, distracted by worldly noise which pulls us from our truest health and authentic path.

"Your body is your vehicle for life. As long as you are here, live in it. Love, honour, respect and cherish it, treat it well, and it will serve you in kind." —Suzy Prudden

Warning Lights on Your Dashboard

Driving along life's roads, you may notice an engine warning light illuminated. Perhaps you don't feel as good as you know you could. With natural curiosity, if you were driving your car, you'd pull over to investigate the problem recognising it's time for some potential repairs and restoration.

Do you keep driving your car when a warning light comes on? Or do you investigate the problem and find out the root cause of the symptom illuminated on the dashboard?

Maybe your body needs better fuel and clean water, perhaps you need to rest from driving too fast and consuming convenient food choices for too long. Or you've been parked up and not moved, and now you won't start and it feels as though your engine and battery are flat. You're like a car, and you have to take great responsibility and care for it, when you do you'll run more smoothly.

When uncomfortable symptoms arise do you take medication and believe you are fine for a while to keep going? It's not how it works. The body is intelligent and self-healing. All you need to do is manage it properly, and it functions.

Quick fixes for your symptoms aren't always a long-term solution. If you keep up with old habits that caused the issues in the first place, you'll end up with more warning signs, a breakdown, and ready for the scrapyard.

Fighting Against Ourselves

Yet humans often react to uncomfortable symptoms very differently. When they arise—depression, illness, excess weight—we don't investigate the warning but instead try to eliminate the warning light itself. We might take medication to suppress the symptoms and then continue with the very behaviours that caused the initial problem.

"When we silence our warning lights instead of understanding their message with natural curiosity, we make ourselves strangers in our bodies." Lisa Precious

We enter the world and soon become conditioned to see ourselves as separate beings, creating an "us against them" mentality that begins with our bodies. We fight against our very cells, viewing our painful symptoms as enemies rather than messengers pointing us back toward restoration and peaceful balance.

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." —Thomas Edison

The Self-Scapegoating Pattern

Usually, our physical symptoms are the warning lights illuminating a wider problem, indicating we've drifted far from our true nature - we scapegoat ourselves instead of listening to what our intelligence system is trying to communicate.

"Pain is a messenger, not a punishment." —Barbara Brown Taylor

A Return to Wholeness

Take care of your precious vehicle and it will care for you. Fill it with trash and you'll feel like trash. You can't run forever from your warning lights without eventually mentally and physically breaking down entirely.

Tip 1: Create a Body-Mind Check-In Routine

Take a minute each morning to scan your body and mind for warning lights. Ask yourself: "What signals am I receiving today?" Notice any physical discomfort, emotional resistance, or mental fog. Noticing these signals is your first step toward addressing them.

Tip 2: Practice Symptom Curiosity, Not Symptom Anxiety

When a warning light appears (headache, fatigue, irritability), approach it with curiosity rather than fear. Ask: "What might my body be trying to tell me?" Consider any recent lifestyle changes, stressors, or habits that might be contributing. Approaching with curiosity transforms symptoms from enemies you want to eliminate to helpful messengers from your intelligent organism.

Tip 3: Upgrade Your Fuel Sources

Journal what you're consuming physically, mentally, and emotionally. Create yourself a "premium fuel plan" to include nutrient-dense foods, positive media consumption, and relationships that energise rather than drain you. Make one small upgrade each week and soon you'll be running smooth.

Tip 4: Schedule Regular Maintenance

Don't wait for a breakdown to perform your essential maintenance. Establish preventative practices like adequate sleep, hydration, movement, and quiet time. Place these non-negotiable maintenance sessions with the same importance as your work meetings or social events.

It only takes a teaspoon of discipline to start changing your habits.

Feeling Drained, Depleted & Disconnected From Yourself?

Do you find yourself people pleasing, diminishing yourself to bolster others? Are you unable to assert boundaries and left feeling like a garden that has been trampled all over, disrespected and hurt?

Imagine waking up each day confident in who you are, knowing you are loved and cherished.

Are you exhausted from:

  • Saying "yes" when you desperately want to say "no"
  • Making yourself smaller to make others comfortable
  • Apologising for taking up space or having your own needs
  • Feeling invisible despite giving everything to everyone
  • Watching others take without giving in return
  • Feeling drained, depleted, and disconnected from yourself
  • Unable to move on or let go from toxic relationships
  • Desperately wanting toxic people to see, hear, change and validate you
  • Feeling hurt by the false labels others have projected onto you

Would you like to understand what these patterns are mirroring back to you? To discover why your soul has chosen these experiences and the higher path that awaits beyond this suffering?

As a mystic who can read your energy, I can help you see the deeper purpose. Together, we'll identify the root causes of your boundary struggles and illuminate the path to reclaiming your sacred self.

It's time to transform from a trampled garden into a blossoming one where you flourish on your own terms.

Let's have a no strings attached call. Reach out to me today. Your journey from doormat to divine self begins now. Queries - contact@smileyblue.org - We are happy to answer any questions.