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Question: I would like to feel comfortable in my body. What could be done to move towards this?


There exists within you a sense of division. In other words, you are you. You have a body - but you are not your body. Your body is not you. You have adopted an identity of one who is not comfortable with many elements of the physical plane, being in a body. There is a feeling for you of being trapped, having limited choices, having things imposed on you. There is a sense of blame, then, on your body for trapping you within something that creates discomfort for you.

It would be easy to say “Just love your body”. But you don’t see your body as really being part of you. There is a conflict. One pitfall many older souls fall into is a sense of discomfort with the physical plane itself. There is some conscious memory at this level of being in a space that is not limited by a body, and there is a desire to be in that space and to exist without those limitations. Inhabiting a body is by definition confining, and for those lacking a great deal of energy on the action axis it is difficult to feel comfortable with the physicality that is part of you. So this is part of what is happening for you: a knowingness that existence doesn’t have to be like this – doesn’t have to feel limiting – and a resistance to those feelings of limitation.


So what can you do about this? We would like to bring your attention to your body, but at a cellular level.


Let’s take a journey into one of your cells and inhabit it rather than be inhabited by it. So visualize a room that looks a bit odd: it’s dark with odd things floating around. You’re very, very small, and you sense all about you millions of other rooms just like his one, and each of them have a consciousness. Each of them are connected inextricably to all the others and hold at all times an awareness of all the others plus an awareness of the greater being that is the body they inhabit. Each of the cells, then, move ad function with their own consciousness but also with the awareness that they are also part of something much bigger, part of a community. The feeling is much like the feeling in a tree community, where there is no expectation, no judgment, there is simply space to exist. So you find yourself within one of these cells, and you feel the peace that is there. There is no tension. There is no conflict. Everything is perfect, for there is no need to do anything but exist. We invite you then on a regular basis to bring your awareness to that level. Choose a different place in your body each time. Connect with your eyeball one day, with your elbow another day. With your spleen another. See what that feels like, inhabiting yourself, with no expectations placed upon you.


That’s what it means to love your body.

 




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Inhabiting your body
May 08 2008 02:09:11
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I often do not feel comfortable in my body. I used to be thin and now am heavier, yet, to some not really fat. I see the beginning of aging appearing. I would like to not be so vain about my body and just accept it as just a body. I do know I am more than a body. I do know I am omnipotent outside this body and I am aware of the limitations this body has. Gradually I am letting go of body image and focusing more on the inner self. I DO love my body and am grateful every day that at 56 my body is in such great condition.

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Re:Inhabiting your body
May 09 2008 21:17:44
We're taught from childhood to fight our natural tendencies to honor our bodies, and as a result they become something foreign to us. This seems to become especially noticeable as we age and our bodies are no longer what they used to be. Socially we glorify youth and all that seems to go along with it, and forget to honor age and what used to be viewed as the attendant wisdom that comes from age. We resist what happens naturally within us, and that resistance creates pain and fear.

By learning to view our bodies as 1) part of a learning and growth choice in each lifetime, and 2) a real extension of the inner core of ourselves, or our souls, we can learn to better accept the changes that do occur naturally as a part of our overall evolution within each lifetime. Think of your body evolving, then, much as you do on a soul level, and you may be able to accept it more fully.

But frankly, I struggle with this as much as anyone. I think one of the easiest ways to learn to accept the body is simply to treat it with love, however that manifests for you.
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