Love For Your Body is the First Step

Many of us heard a couple of messages about our bodies early, and they were repeated all our lives until they felt like truth.

The first came from religion. Your body is to be covered, tamed, shamed, disavowed: the source of sin. I was told as a girl that my own body could cause other people to sin, and their sin would be my fault.

The second came from society and culture. Your body is never enough. Never thin enough, smooth enough, fit enough, pretty enough to be appreciated and loved as it is.

So we learned to treat our own bodies as objects, or worse, adversaries. We fought so hard to shape our precious bodies into some ideal: thinner, stronger, prettier.

The truth is, your body is you, and at the same time is your best friend and your greatest ally. It holds the wisdom of the ages in every cell. Being in harmony and communication with your body is a spiritual path to crafting a well-loved life.

This journey is a step toward that relationship. Listening to Your Body helps you tune in and create two-way communication with every part of you, listening for the messages and the mutual love your body has for you. Loving Appreciation for Your Body follows the same path in appreciation, an outpouring of respect and kindness we can learn to live in always, not only during a meditation session. The third piece is channeled and helps unravel the difference between performing confidence and actually feeling it.