The individual is a unique expression of that source.
It is through the body's senses that we perceive our own unique universe.
When our spirit actively unites with our body consciousness, then great changes can occur.
The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung or even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.
To confine the beauty and value of the body to anything less than magnificence is to to force the body to live without its rightful spirit, its rightful form, its right to exultation.
When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms and contours that conform to a single idea of beauty and behaviour, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.
When you first begin questioning your core beliefs, you don't try to fix or change or improve them. You take a breath, then you take another. You notice sensations in your body, if there is tingling or pulsing or warmth or coolness. You notice what you feel, and even if you have always called this feeling "sadness", you are curious about it as if there is no word associated with it, no label describing it, as if it is the first time you have ever encountered it. Is it a lump of blue burned ashes in your chest? Does it feel like a hole in your heart? When you notice it, does it open or change?
This kind of questioning provides a bridge between who you take yourself to be and who you actually are. Between what you tell yourself based on stories from your past and what you sense based on your direct experience now. It allows you to distinguish between outdated familiar patterns and the current, living, truth.
Deep work requires lots of rest.
"Our trouble is, we believe what we think."
- Liz again, in conversation.
