Being in your Body
Can you possibly know the trueness of being in the present moment and experiencing the beauty of your body, mind, and spirit? The answer is..... Yes it is possible. I find that most folks I meet are not inhabiting their bodies. They are often in a "waiting" period. I have been there too. Examples: We wait to lose x amount of weight before we enjoy being with our partner fully or engaging fun activities in general; never giving ourselves over to the experience of love and joy. We wait until we have more of something and/or less of something such as money, clothes, position in society and the corporate world, etc. and most assuredly we wait till we have TIME.
In the Sacred Spiritual Tradition I was raised in, our bodies were considered base/lowly and presented as traps, especially women's bodies. Our bodies were something to transcend because their needs, wants, and desires, were never to be considered first or even second and always but always our bodies were presented as sinful. Bodies were talked about as "being in the flesh" and fleshly experiences could never be of God or Godly. Our bodies could never, ever be trusted as giving us trustworthy guidance. For surely the mind and spirit had to come first before the body due to all the wickedness the body held, which was just waiting to trap you or waylay you with bodily pain, lust, pleasure, passion, decadence, rapture, spells, indulgence, enchantment, lurid improper movements to captivate the pious, confuse your holy mission on this Earth....just to name a few!
It has taken me a very long, long time to "deprogram"(by experience NOT a dogmatic belief) to find that the body is as important as the mind and the spirit. I have an earth-shattering statement for you to contemplate. The Divine created this body for our present Earth walk. If we were not inhabiting these bodies, we would be entirely Light (spirit/soul) and we would not be able to experience ALL the six senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch and intuition), as we are incarnated to do. To experience this Earth walk is to have all these senses intact, functional, and readily available to us on a daily basis. These senses are all Divinely given, yet very practical and magical.
Being conditioned to think that bodies represent the defiling aspect of the human race is based on a precept of evil. I was told if it feels good don't do it. It is a sin. As a young child feeling good was playing from sunup to sundown as hard as I could in the woods adjacent to our home. I would talk to trees, faeries, my pony, the sky, the Earth, and even my little brother. It was a magical world and this felt so "good" to me. I saw the faeries then and still do. Seeing all the beauty of the Earth, Sky, plants, and animals was a part of my very breath. I felt the sun on my face with the gentle light breeze in the woods and felt as if I could fly. I still do. I would smell the honeysuckles that had to be from heaven carried on the breeze and thought I would just faint with the pleasure of it. I still do. I could hear the canopy of the trees mingled with the birds' songs and know I was being watched over. I still do. I would touch the many mosses, flowers, and grasses on the warm wooded soil and feel connected to everything. I still do. I would hear my own voice have insights on my oneness with all things and the inner knowing of the connection. I still do. This innocence and peace gave me guidance in a world that was scary to me, as I had been introduced to the harsh reality of life at a very young age.
As a woman, I experience all my six senses and feel them fully and am radiating those experiences out into the world and my practice. This is the absolute best Self Care you can imagine! To accept and experience this body fully in this world is magical. Yes, there will be pain, yes you will have times ego really does a one-two punch on your body, yes there will be times you will under do-it and over do-it. However, as long as you do what you will and cause no harm, I say live it, feel it, breathe it, BE IT!
My summary: The time for us to come to terms with what really matters is NOW. One day is here now! If your focus is entirely on experiencing this life through your mind and logic, or entirely through the spirit and higher self, or entirely through the body and the senses, I am afraid you will not encompass the totality of being here for this very beautiful, human-oriented Earth walk.
Only you know what makes your heart beat fast. Only you know your birth intention for this Earth Walk....
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