You speak of the body, and of health here, but it mirrors what I saw in my corporate life, which I have now been free of for almost five months! My body is now ringing far less alarm bells, and I am pretty sure I have less cortisol than what I once had. I'm grateful for that.
But I ignored those alarm bells for so long. I wonder how many more the corporate entity is ringing without me.
My alarm bells are not loud (I have a high pain tolerance, I think) - but when they start to toll again (as the financial ones will soon do) - I will take action.
The metaphor of bells is now stuck in my head, so I thank you for that - it will probably become a story. :)
Congrats on being free of that world - I'm meeting a lot of people ridding themselves of the toxicity of the high-pace soul-drain corporate world, which I've never been part of, and from everyone's words, hope never to be. It doesn't seem a happy place when everyone speaks with such utter relief of leaving it.
Here's to honoring bells (and your own creative drive) :)