What's more important to you, how you look or how you live?
It seems like a constant struggle, but my answer is definitely, "how you live".
I find it challenging to be gentle with myself 100% of the time. It is so easy to fall into a pattern of self examination that includes comparison of myself to others, or myself from another time. I find my compassion for others to be much greater than that I have for my own beautiful vessel, which has served me so well. I should hold nothing but gratitude for all the adventures it has permitted me to experience and all the sensations I have been able to feel. I am so lucky! I have been forced to look at my vessel from other people's viewpoints and defend it vehemently, for it is the witness to my struggle. It bears the marks of my journey, which I would never trade.
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| My gibbous moon. Is it waxing or waning? I'm not sure. Does it matter? |
I believe that our bodies have the ability to wax and wane, lighten and fade, show smooth spots and pockmarks, much like the moon. Any moment you take a good look at your body, it is just a phase; a day, out of a month, in a year, traveling through the galaxy, and never really in the same place twice. We should gratefully notice this physical partner to our journey in this lifetime.
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| My sweet 16 year-old crescent. I thought I was fat because of the strength and mass of my thighs. This is the only picture I have of me in a bathing suit without a towel wrapped around my waist. |
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| My full moon, shining brightly, in all her glory, with all the light of the sun on her body. Living! |
1 comment:
As an athlete, personal trainer and somewhat health conscious person I think about bodies all day. I don’t think about how bodies look though, I think about the many things that a body can do.
That thought process is what drives me to ask new clients what there are going to do once the reach their goal weight or goal size and if they say, ‘Nothing, I just want to be skinny”
I say, “go find another trainer.”
Good writing my friend.
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