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Our bodies are beyond magical. That’s the nature of being human and particularly of being a woman. It feels so heartbreaking to me that our conditioning distances us from this knowledge to such a degree that we can be reduced to judging the value of these incredible miracles that we live in based on a number on a scale or a tape measure.
If you’re feeling this way there is nothing wrong with you, you are ok. You are magical and magnificent, loved and lovable exactly as you are, you’ve just absorbed some cultural conditioning, exactly like every single one of us does because we live inside of it.
Once you notice the conditioning, you get to choose. You can say ‘oh well’ and carry on as before and that is completely fine, your body your choice. If that doesn’t feel like the answer to you, you can begin to unpick your beliefs around weight and the value of your body.
When we’re in culture it can feel like the solution is to lose weight, eat differently, move more. While eating well and moving our bodies can be amazing things, I wonder if we sometimes come at them from a wonky angle.
I wonder if in fact, instead of seeing our bodies as a problem to be corrected, the solution could be love. Not being loved by another person who doesn’t care what size clothes you wear and appreciates your body just as it is (though that is a fabulous situation to be in!) but being loved by yourself.
When we really and truly love our bodies we start to listen to them more and more. To begin with this can be tricky - is this inner voice my magical body telling me what she needs or is it the voice of a frightened part of me that was hurt long ago and learned to cope in ways that might not be serving me now?
However, the more we listen, by getting quiet and still and tuning in, the better we get at hearing the voice of our truth, and the more that voice gets heard and acknowledged the louder and more confident it gets. As we get better and better at connecting with this voice, trusting it completely, we might start to notice that what it actually wants is to eat well and move more, that by doing these things we are connecting with our deepest joy.
We might also find that it wants to sit on the sofa and eat cake and that’s when we might struggle to trust that our inner voice knows what’s best. But what if by continuing to trust it in those moments, by letting it sit on the sofa and eat cake, we notice that over time, when not chastised, we slowly begin to gravitate towards the healthy stuff, the stuff that serves our whole being? Wouldn’t that be interesting!? And what if it doesn’t? Well maybe that’s fine too. Can you still love it even when what it wants is cake on the sofa?
Of course if your habits are affecting your health - creating illness, limiting what you’re able to do - some deeper work might be needed, if this feels like you why not book a free chat to explore how to heal your habits in a loving and gentle way?
This week our tapping videos are all about bringing a healthy dose of unconditional love to our potentially expanding menopausal waist lines. There’s no weight loss stuff to be found here, just acceptance, love and a bit more love. Let me know what the tapping shifts for you!
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