---A simple truth about stress, healing, and why your body can’t always keep up with your mind ---

We’re often taught that healing begins in the mind, with thinking, analyzing, problem-solving, or pushing ourselves to “figure it out.”

But the truth is more intuitive than that. More honest than that.

Your body feels everything long before your mind can explain it.

Your body is always the first responder: sensing, reacting, protecting, and holding far more than we realize.

Stress doesn’t start as a thought. It begins with tight shoulders. A shallow breath. A clenched jaw. A stomach that can’t fully relax.

Yet there’s something we rarely talk about:

The Gap Between Your Mind and Your Body

Your body can only live here and now. It only exists in this breath, in this moment, in this exact place.

But your mind? Your mind can travel anywhere. 

Across space. Across time. Into memories, into fears, into possibilities, into fantasies.

We often follow our mind without even noticing it. 

Drifting into the past, replaying old stories, jumping into the future, rehearsing what might go wrong…

And unintentionally, we ask our body to follow.  We expect our body to be where our mind is.

But can the body actually do that?

A Simple Experiment:

If I ask you, “Can you go to the sun?” , can you do it?
Your body immediately says no, because physically, it’s impossible.

But before you answer, notice what your mind already did.

As you read this, you can probably picture the sun: its warmth, its glow, its color. You might even close your eyes and feel its heat on your skin.

You traveled to the sun instantly, without effort, without moving.

This is the power of the mind. It can do anything. It can go anywhere.  It travels through time, space, gravity, or reality.

But your body ? It cannot follow the mind to the sun.

It stays here, grounded in sensation, in the present, in what is in the Now.

The Source of Stress: Expecting the Body to Do the Mind’s Job

And yet, this is the part that quietly creates stress. We try to force the body to follow our mind. To do what the body cannot do.

We expect the body to move at the speed of thought. To produce as fast as we imagine. To get better as quickly as we hope.

To keep up with every mental timeline, expectation, fantasy, or fear.

When the mind races ahead… and the body cannot follow… the distance between them becomes stress.

This is why you feel overwhelmed even when nothing specific happened.

This is why you feel “behind” even when you’re doing your best.

This is why your body aches even when life looks fine on the outside.

It’s not that you’re failing. It’s simply that your mind is miles away, and your body is still here.

Your Mind Is Like Electricity

Electricity is powerful.

It lights your home. It runs your devices. It makes modern life possible.

But what happens if you leave the lights on all the time?

Over time, the bulbs burn out. Your energy bill skyrockets. The system overheats.

The electricity itself isn’t bad. It’s essential.

However, constant output without rest has its costs.

Your mind works the same way.

Thinking requires energy. Planning requires energy. Worrying requires a lot of energy.

If your mind is constantly running, analyzing, predicting, and replaying. It drains your system.

And someone has to pay for that energy.

That someone is you.

Becoming the Switch Controller

So what do you do? You become the switch controller.

Learn when to turn on the mind, and when to let it rest.

When to use thinking, and when to return to sensing.

The problem is, many of us were never taught how to do this.

We live as if the light controls itself. As if the mind runs the system, and not us.

Over time, the body pays the price: fatigue, tension, anxiety, burnout, emotional numbness, depression,...
These symptoms appear because the body is in a state of low energy, much like a shampoo bottle without any shampoo left.

Not because the mind is wrong, but because it was never meant to lead alone.

Healing Begins When They Meet Again

Healing doesn’t mean shutting the mind off forever.

It means learning how to bring it back into the body.

When you slow your thoughts enough for your body to catch up… when you come back into sensation…when you let the body lead instead of letting the mind drag you everywhere…

When you let yourself feel. Instead of always thinking.
Because more thinking does not help solve the problem of thinking.
Feeling does.

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