sometimes....

[goddessfarmer]

Sometimes there are things that I don't feel comfortable posting even to my tightest filter here. Not because they would necessarily offend anyone, but sometimes because it contains information that I'm not at liberty to disclose or sometimes simple just because I feel like I am tooting my own horn, kind of like the reverse of whining. Life is good. I am doing things. Some of them are new. Some of the new things are things for which I've been very quietly preparing (sometimes so quietly I didn't know I was doing it.) Some are things I've been actively planning for some time.

Something I've noted more and more is that not only do I not use negative phrasing very much in my own speech and writing, but I am getting urges to comment on my friend's journals when they use negative phrasing. For example, someone started a post recently with "I hate my body". I find that statement not only unproductive, but actually a hindrance to changing the situation. For whatever a negative situation may be, the surest route to positive change is to embrace the problem at it's root, and find the right fertilizer to bring balance into the system. I know this is a simplistic statement, but personally, I've never changed anything by hating it. Find something positive to replace the "I hate" statement. Especially in the case of one's body, we only get one, so we'd better love and nurture it. Sometimes we have to exercise "tough love" and not eat all the ice cream ever, but without appropriate self-care, there is no way we can carry that to others. Happiness starts at home, in ours selves.

Comments

[ialdaboth.livejournal.com]

I think that body and soul are basically different names for the same thing, so that "I hate my body" is just the same as "I hate myself"--as Eliot says, soul is to body as cutting is to an axe.

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

My personal take is that body and soul are different parts of our organism, along with a third part, spirit. I think without healthy relationship of all three of these parts our body will wither/become ill. That's not to say that there aren't factors outside of soul and spirit that can cause harm to the body, but all three must be healthily nurtured for each to be free from dis-ease. "Body" is the part I can touch and feel: blood and bone. "Soul" is that indescribable "thing that is uniquely me" and yet also can connect so easily at the level of collective unconscious with that which is uniquely you. "Spirit" is that part of my being that brings the soul and the body together, it is my inspiration, my get-up-and-go, the spark that light the fire that illuminates my soul. When the 3 are united and working harmoniously together it is fairly easy to live in this human state that we like to call "happy". On a higher level, when the three become one, we may achieve nirvana.