My First Blog

byparvine

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8 years ago

I would like to share a Quote I came across posted by Simon Parke

The Medicine of Awareness .

We're being kind to our bodies today.

By Listening to our lives.

Our body is a marvelous truth keeper...marvelous as in accurate.

My body holds my life in its entirety, the truth of my being, memory exactly stored in its sinews.

Nothing forgotten, no denial here.

So we notice when our body breaks down, in whatever ways, for it may be a kindly call -the body's response to some break down of its vital functions

And one of the most vital functions is to listen to the story of our lives: to take note of the relationship between flesh and psyche.

If there's a breakdown here, the body will suffer alone and cry out desperately in a language of its own.

Perhaps the microphone used will be our back, gut or head

Perhaps somewhere else will take the strain.

And the body, though untutored, will speak more truthfully than our thinking.

Our thinking - the product of learned expectations from others - says

'This is what you ought to feel.'

The body, without such education, says 'This is what you truly feel'

The body can't manipulate our feeling in the way our thinking can.

In any such conflict, we can always trust the body. It just tells it as it is.

The body never lies . 'It doesn't.

so we notice our truth-telling bodies today.

And as daily we listen to our lives and touch our felt experience, our psyche blesses our flesh, we ease the poison from our bodies.

A kindness we owe ourselves.