 | We expect our bodies to take us through life. To move us from A to B. To walk us in all the arrangements and donations we have with humanity and living life on this planet. We expect our bodies to stand tall, be strong, healthy and feel beautiful and yet be pummelled, pushed, abused and burgeoned with ideals and beliefs around what it is to age, to live one life, and to be only human. |
We have entire industries (beauty, fitness, and surgical) based on moving, contorting and contouring the body to look a particular way, to feel and behave a particular way, to keep us eternally youthful. The disconnected part of us, therefore, feeling the tension of not living life in the fullness and majesty of who we truly are.
We expect to live in the lowest vibration, drink, smoke, argue, be bad or be ‘good’ and disregard the body but then regret not having our youthful good looks. The body we live in represents our every movement. Yet do we move to honour the body or to lose weight and stay slim? What is our intention?
Every single wrinkle, sag and pain is there because we lived that way. The body is the living, breathing, sum total snapshot of our lived life.
All the way from birth to death we have a ‘life expectancy’ but we don't actually live the true quality of life, in our daily livingness. Instead, we hammer our internal beauty and sacredness and push our bodies. Then do we fear death? Well, yes of course. Life was not as we expected it to be and now it's all over. One dimensional humanness is so flatlining, isn't it?
What if we don't ‘expect’ to live one more moment, but instead align to the depth of what we are and move throughout the day in complete appreciation for the body we have been residing in.
What if we don't expect the body to be used in a way that pushes against our natural flow and instead expect to be moved by our true essence within? Would we then open up to the simplicity of moving with love?
What if we don’t assume we have a long life ahead of us, but instead honour what we have right now, then moment to moment respond to what is needed, answering the call? The magnificence and agelessness of the ‘being in the body’ is always asking us to stay in the present moment.
What if we don't expect the body to drag us through life but instead honour our body from birth to re-birth?
Kathryn F., Australia
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We expect to live in the lowest vibration, drink, smoke, argue, be bad or be ‘good’ and disregard the body but then regret not having our youthful good looks. The body we live in represents our every movement. Yet do we move to honour the body or to lose weight and stay slim? What is our intention?
Every single wrinkle, sag and pain is there because we lived that way. The body is the living, breathing, sum total snapshot of our lived life.
All the way from birth to death we have a ‘life expectancy’ but we don't actually live the true quality of life, in our daily livingness. Instead, we hammer our internal beauty and sacredness and push our bodies. Then do we fear death? Well, yes of course. Life was not as we expected it to be and now it's all over. One dimensional humanness is so flatlining, isn't it?
What if we don't ‘expect’ to live one more moment, but instead align to the depth of what we are and move throughout the day in complete appreciation for the body we have been residing in.
What if we don't expect the body to be used in a way that pushes against our natural flow and instead expect to be moved by our true essence within? Would we then open up to the simplicity of moving with love?
What if we don’t assume we have a long life ahead of us, but instead honour what we have right now, then moment to moment respond to what is needed, answering the call? The magnificence and agelessness of the ‘being in the body’ is always asking us to stay in the present moment.
What if we don't expect the body to drag us through life but instead honour our body from birth to re-birth?
Kathryn F., Australia
If you enjoyed this article, you may also like to read:
Returning to our Body – the wonder, beauty and science of our body