Loving Your Body Doesn’t Mean What You Think
“…My mind has a nearly inexhaustible list of reasons why I can’t — and shouldn’t — love my body. Your mind can undoubtedly come up with a similar list, full of even more predictions of doom and annihilation.
Maybe the mind is a little, shall we say, prone to exaggeration? When my mind goes off on this topic, it tends to sound like the guy standing on his corner soapbox, trying to convince the world of conspiracy theories so fear-laden and complex they defy comprehension. Not a reliable narrator.
The mind is afraid that if you love the body as it is, you will no longer listen to it — you’ll no longer listen to reason. But the not so secret truth that the mind likes to conveniently forget is that it’s not separate from the body. And the body is intensely reasonable, when given the chance, though its point of view is necessarily different than the mind’s — more grounded in experience, feeling, substance and in the present moment.
It’s like having two well-informed advisers instead of one, both with your best interests at heart. Why not invite them both to the table, and at times ask mind to defer to the body’s expertise when it’s clear the body has inside information?”
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Originally posted on Huffington Post Feb 4, 2015
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