Communication with our body and mind

Our bodies are amazingingly complicated machines. These machines are autonomous for the most part. We don't pump blood into our hearts, we don't regulate our sugar level, and we certainly don't fight opportunistic bacteria, and viruses that might invade our bodies. All this is done for us without our conscious intervention.
We are the operators of an infinitely intricate machine. Operators don't need to know about the utility of each cog and screw in the machine they are in charge of, they just need to operate it safely, so that it does its job as it is supposed to.
The good handling of the machine contributes to its longevity.
We are the custodians of the body we live in, we move, and experience life through it.
Our five senses are the main communication channels that we use to get information about our surroundings.
This information first goes through the filters of our creed, beliefs, and experiences. We then get presented with a mangled piece of information, that often, has nothing to do with the initial stimulus.
We come into this world without a manual, and we rely heavily on the training we get from our well-meaning parents. As we grow older, we somehow lose some of our natural abilitiies to interpret the feedback we get from our bodies in order to make adjustments to our life.
The directions we get from our bodies are very simple ones. They come in the form of pain, discomfort, pleasure, or from what we commonly call a "gut feeling".
These lost or “out of tune” abilities could be re-trained and improved to accurately decipher the messages we get from both our body and mind. We have to be constantly aware of how we feel. It is a skill that we are born with, but it atrophies through neglect and disuse as we get older.
In normal circumstances, we know which food is good for us, so we crave it, and we get turned off by food that is damaging to us.
While exercising for example, our body, through pain, tells us when we can push harder, and when we need to slow down.
Our mind operates in the same fashion. It uses stress to give as indicators we could use to decide when to release the gas pedal.
When we ignore these messages, and push through a "weak day", our body or our brain forces us to rest by making us sick for however long it needs to heal and restore itself back to a healthy state.
These messages can vary in form and intensity. We could feel a sting, a discomfort, dizziness, a constricted chest, a headache, or a searing pain.
As our skills improve, we start deciphering these messages more precisely, making them the deciding factors of most of our actions.