50 - One Body, My Body
Before a human child learns that it has clumsy fingers and feet that stink, and
a dirty bottom, and untidy hair and an ugly face, they have only one body and
that is ME.
The consciousness is then trained to dissect the body and to evaluate the bits,
to compare them and to judge them.
And so, over time, the consciousness re-builds a creation of its own making,
from dead parts, and it creates a monster like Dr Frankenstein in his unnatural
laboratory.
For some this becomes so bad that they cannot perceive their own body behind all
the horror posters of their own making any longer.
So now we must retrain our conscious minds to think differently and to make
different images, to make a whole new map of our own bodies, and this time, we
have to make a map which isn’t created out of lies and deceit, harsh judgements
and rejection, illusion and make belief, but of the naked truth so that we might
find out at last what our bodies are really like and what we can do to help them
out.
Look at your own hands for a moment.
We can start right here with an exercise in truth. Take off all rings, all
bracelets and your wristwatch, roll up your sleeve and let’s take a closer look
at this one living part of our body.
Now we can stroke carefully and attentively from a nail to the back of the hand
and think to ourselves, “This is actually not a separate nail, finger, back of
hand but ONE BODY.”
“My body.”
We can continue on across the back of our hand, across the imaginary divide
between hands and arms and think again, “One body, MY body.”
That is a tiny re-unification, a tiny completion, and as small as that is, it
feels good to do that, and it feels so right.
The body is not a lump of meat which can be hacked about in any way we choose.
It is a flowing, living organism where everything is shared, everything flows,
everything constantly communicates with everything else in order for it to work
as it is designed to work.
The demarcation lines and boundaries we have consciously created block this flow
of data and energy, of communication even in the physical body but far more so
in the energy body which is so highly sensitive to the interventions of
conscious thought.
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