I believe the body is the greatest gift we are given for this journey of life. I wonder if you agree.
How many times have you thought that if your body were different you would be happier? Yet many of us can think back to a time when our bodies were much better than they are today, and were we happy with them? I certainly wasn’t!
How much pain have each of us been through, to make our body look its best? I have worn laced up clothing, high heels which were agony to walk in, lain down to do my jeans up and been almost cut in half by too tight jeans. Women used to put poison on their faces to bleach their skin whiter and we would frown on that, if we weren’t so busy putting poison in our faces (botox) to stop the frown lines appearing.
Think of someone whose facial lines just make them all the more lovable, perhaps someone who has passed away and who you would love to bring back, wrinkles and all, just for one day of joy.
To me an “imperfect body” is far more interesting than the image we all have of the perfect body. If my partner has scars, for instance, I want to trace them with my fingertips, learning everything about them.
When something about the body stops working or messes up, and it takes a while to get it fixed, this helps us to appreciate the human body for what it really is, the most effective piece of apparatus in existence. It is those of us who have really been to the brink of bodily crisis, who most appreciate the ability to move, and to dance in the skin we’re in, to quote a famous dancer.
Will it take a drastic health risk for you to relax to the rhythm of life and let the movement come through you? More to the point, if you did have a drastic health concern, for how long after recovery, would you really appreciate your body?
If you are constantly focusing on the size of your thighs or your small boobs, what is your subconscious mind “protecting you” from focusing on?
Anyone, silhouette, no matter how big or small, can be dressed to impress. Isn’t life about making the best of what you’ve got?
Some of us want to be challenge or change the laws of nature, but I couldn’t have made a better Universe, or a better body, than I already have. Could you? And WOULD you?