When you think of your body begin to perceive it as a creation. Think of a flower. Think of a river. Think of an element in nature that reflects its environment.
Questions: Hello Alana. The quality of my life is exceptional.
I feel like most of my dreams have come true. Only one thing is missing, and that is having a body that I feel excited about.
It’s not that I am way overweight, or need to lose weight fast so I can love myself. I just look in the mirror and don’t feel I am that attractive.
What am I missing?
Answer: Thank you dear one for your delightful question. Alana senses within your question a desire to help others as well understand what your body responds to and the nature of how your body responds to love.
It feels as though many of your thoughts and energy you hold within extend outward in a very global and a bit more abstract nature than what many people sense as they contemplate their self-image.
Noticing Our Bodies as Creative Expressions
Realize that your body is a physical manifestation of creativity.
Maybe your identification with your body is a bit more difficult because of the vast ways you mentally process and channel your energy? As you consciously think about your body image, your ideal weight, and channel these thoughts it may feel limiting to your perceptions.
Perhaps, the following suggestions will help you view your body image a little differently. This way you can begin to develop a more expansive understanding of and relationship with your body.
Take some time to meditate on this first concept:
When you think of your body begin to perceive it as a creation. Think of a flower. Think of a river. Think of an element in nature that reflects its environment.
As you play with this suggestion you will receive a reflection back and gain a greater awareness of your body’s connection to you and you to your environment, and surroundings.
This will help you build an internal relationship that will help you in understanding ways to fuel your body with healthy nutrition and good food–things that will allow you to fully nourish your wellbeing.
This contemplation will help you find ways to bring your body into harmony with your full awareness and the elements that please you, like color and comfort.
As you become more conscious of your body and its connection to the world, its nature will seem less important in how you might think it looks to others or even your eyes, and then you’ll begin to connect more with how your body is a temple of love and your it’s consciousness will appreciate feeling honored and loved.
Since the body is a temple and houses all creativity that channels through it why not fill it with that which it feels honored by. When we detach from our body it can become a reservoir that holds toxic elements. When you reflect on mother earth, yes it too like many bodies are full of discarded matter from those who do not honor it as they deposit their discards onto its surface and within water and soil.
Viewing Your Body as a Temple
The same thing happens with your body temple. It also has discarded matter within it. As you put things in your body, ask how much of what you eat can be used for building health and wellbeing and how much will be discarded or deposited within its cells that also contribute to toxicity.
By reflecting and taking positive steps that are more creative and nurturing you will find it easier to pay attention to what you put into your body.
Also notice that your body is a lot like a sculpture or a painting and it has its own unique presence that is unlike any other. Your body holds uniqueness and you can fall in love with it once you truly begin to see that it is a unique image of your nature expressing.
You may find that your body begins to shape around this beautiful expressive image as you adore it.
These are a few ways you can begin to ponder that will help you shift your body awareness from being self-critical to self-aware expressiveness.
Alana feels that many individuals are in a quandary of how to have a delightful relationship with their body no matter what body weight, skin color, or physical issues.
Our individual snowflake pattern is an expression of creativity and that in itself is a miracle.
Thank you dear one.
–Alana
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