The Signs Are Everywhere- The Pain Theory

As I drove to work yesterday morning, I realized that our world is inundated with queues that guide, direct, and warn us.  North, South, Merge, Icy, School Zone, Red, Green, Yellow Line, White Solid Line, Caution, Stop.  Even here you will find them.  A comma tells you to pause. A period tells you to stop.  Since infancy we are trained to react to these visual queues and signs.  Not doing so, is usually to our detriment.  Fortunately, the world we live in has been carefully crafted and designed to prevent as much tragedy and to avoid as much pain as possible.  And it seems for the most part it works.  We usually heed the warnings, and if the signs themselves don't influence us, certainly the powers that be will.  I hear tickets for running a red light here in San Diego run around $450.00.  

So I began to wonder.  What kind of warning signs does our body use to tell us something is out of whack?  Pain.  It seems that unless we are feeling tired, achey, sore, nauseous, hungry, grumpy, or feverish, we are not queued into what our body is telling us.  Maybe in fact we were designed differently, and maybe the warning signs actually come before the pain.  But we just aren't trained to see them, hear them, feel them.    We are influenced more by the outside signs-- "No One Can Eat Just One", "I'm Lovin It", "Have it your way", "Do What Tastes Right", that we don't know how to read the signs inside... Or maybe the only sign we listen to when it comes to changing ourselves, is pain..therefore it was all in the master design.  More on pain in the future....