Its time to realise our wonderful bodies

My body is wonderful

And so is yours

Have you ever noticed?

Said those words, to yourself?

Thought of your body as wonderful? Just as it is?

Its no more wonderful larger, smaller, fitter, leaner, younger or older

Because it is wonderful, just as it is.

Have you ever noticed? Or stopped to?

Then do so

Why not try now?

As you read this, with your mind open, wriggle your toes

Feel your bones move, each one

Your ankle and foot

What is happening in your body as you wriggle your toes?

Can you feel the movement? Can you tell?

Your body is so wonderful it doesn’t tell you what it has to do every time you wriggle your toes

or walk

Every bone, cartridge, joint, muscle, tendon, all the fluids and skin

As you read, your eyes watching, feelings deep within.

That you can hear the noise of traffic outside as you do so

your mind wondering

did you forget your toes? Wriggle them again

wriggle them fast, slow, and feel.

Seems ridiculous doesnt it

but thats the point

To feel our bodies.

Why is ridiculous? We all have them, bodies. (unless you’re a robot reading this, and you’ve been made by a body)

What else about your body is wonderful….

all of it

Trying to escape from them, keeps the pain in them

Tormenting the body, to feel pain

Shame, blame, pain locked deep within, a carcass we thought nothing of.

Our bodies are wonderful

For what they are

Sense it, enjoy it, feel it

Its easy to forget, our body

As just a tool to house our ever thinking mind

As just a tool to pummel in the gym or working the land

A tool to create life

Reducing our body to a machine.

As men, our gaze is often outwards to see the beauty in the female form

But what about ourselves?

Or the physical specimens of the sportsters and athletes, and we feel we cannot compare.

So lets not.

Lets give our bodies more healthy attention.

Yes yours, and mine.

A body so beautiful and complex, we will never understand, but we don’t need to

Bodies housing all that shame, expectation, fear, guilt and pain, its no wonder we think so little of them.

Undervalued by religion, the object of advertisers desires.

Your body is wonderful, and so is mine.

What it does and how it is held together, and how it thinks, feels, sense and communicates.

Its never to late to start to love yourself for who you are, not just what you do, accomplish or create, but who you are, body included.

Awaken the love of your body, listen to it breathe, feel it as it moves.

Breathe life into it, feed it time, not just food.

Treasure it, love it.

Do the ridiculous thing, and think of yourself as having a wonderful body

Try it…

Stop reading…

Wriggle your toes…and smile.

And realise, just wonderful your body is.

Though if you wanted to read more on this, try The Body keeps the Score by Van Der Kolk, or The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.