BEFRIENDING OUR BODIES
A process designed for women to spend intimate time healing the relationship to their body
"Where there is a wound on the psyches and bodies of women, there is a corresponding wound at the same time in the culture itself, and finally on Nature herself. In a true holistic psychology all worlds are understood as interdependent, not as seperate entities. It is not amazing that in our culture there is an issue about carving up a woman's natural body, that there is a corresponding issue about carving up the landscape, and yet another about carving up the culture into fashionable parts as well. Although a woman may not be able to stop the dissection of culture and lands overnight, she can stop doing so to her own body." Clarissa Pinkola Estes
ow about treating this body we have as a temple? Let's put down those fierce negative judgements, self-abuse, and carelessness. Let’s care for it, honor it and nurture it for as long as we have it. Have you noticed how astonishing and beautiful the process is of the body self-mending and healing itself when it gets injured? It is such a beautiful and intelegent design that we often take for granted, misuse and sometimes even abuse – either with physical or psychological abuse. Have we not been a bit too mean or neglegent of our bodies and what does this say about our relationship to ourselves and our lives? Identifying with this body is not the aim, but neither is it effective to deny the body, it’s feelings and needs. Our body is full of natural wisdom, information and stored memory – it is time we learn to listen and understand the languages it speaks in as it has so much to show us and say to us. My invitation is this: let’s pay more time and attention to our bodies, let's peel those old painful paradigms and beliefs away. Let’s take off our shoes and come into the temple of our body.
A process designed for women to spend intimate time healing the relationship to their body
"Where there is a wound on the psyches and bodies of women, there is a corresponding wound at the same time in the culture itself, and finally on Nature herself. In a true holistic psychology all worlds are understood as interdependent, not as seperate entities. It is not amazing that in our culture there is an issue about carving up a woman's natural body, that there is a corresponding issue about carving up the landscape, and yet another about carving up the culture into fashionable parts as well. Although a woman may not be able to stop the dissection of culture and lands overnight, she can stop doing so to her own body." Clarissa Pinkola Estes
ow about treating this body we have as a temple? Let's put down those fierce negative judgements, self-abuse, and carelessness. Let’s care for it, honor it and nurture it for as long as we have it. Have you noticed how astonishing and beautiful the process is of the body self-mending and healing itself when it gets injured? It is such a beautiful and intelegent design that we often take for granted, misuse and sometimes even abuse – either with physical or psychological abuse. Have we not been a bit too mean or neglegent of our bodies and what does this say about our relationship to ourselves and our lives? Identifying with this body is not the aim, but neither is it effective to deny the body, it’s feelings and needs. Our body is full of natural wisdom, information and stored memory – it is time we learn to listen and understand the languages it speaks in as it has so much to show us and say to us. My invitation is this: let’s pay more time and attention to our bodies, let's peel those old painful paradigms and beliefs away. Let’s take off our shoes and come into the temple of our body.
