"It makes a wonderful difference if you find in the body an ally or an adversary."
Goethe

Goethe knew. He had a profound metaphysical knowledge of Nature. He had studied it in great depth through his feeling sense. He used the age old method of living communication with plants, animals and his own body to learn, as opposed to the dry, fragmented, linear, dead, Cartesian and Newtonian approach to the "other".

Our bodies are a wonder. All life is miraculous. A single cell is a million times more complex than a star. In every cell, there are thousands of chemical and electromagnetic processes per millisecond that keep it in homeostasis, on the blade edge between chaos and paralysis. Each of our billions of cells is in constant communication with each other. We host billions and billions of microbes, fungi and viruses, all living symbiotically with the whole we call "me". Our bodies are in constant exchange with our environment, are taking in sunlight, star dust, galactic energy, food, water and air, getting rid of waste products, processing (mostly subconsciously) information through our five senses and also through our sixth sense: feeling (as opposed to touch). We are gifted with emotions, thoughts, insights, dreams... We also have etheric bodies. These bodies, physical and etheric, are the home of our soul here on earth, our vehicles of spiritual development. They are holy.

And we take all this all for granted most of our lives, most of the time, except when our body has got out of balance, when it is ill or in pain. When it is crying out loud: "take care of me!" True, it has been degraded by OC, but how much degrading or upgrading do we do ourselves? Do we love our body, cherish it, feed it well, give it enough rest and exercise? Do we listen to our body, really listen to what it is telling us and pay attention to it? Do we honour this temple of Life that we call our body?

How many of us feel our body not good enough, find it ugly, how many of us hate it even? This is one of the evil spells I talked of in an earlier sharing: the constant bombarding through the mass media with a synthetic, unnatural picture and concept of the body. This is constant hypnosis, going deep into the unconscious and leading to the desired effect of making people discontented and unhappy with their supposedly imperfect body. But it is perfect! It is the unique body we have created, which is absolutely perfect for us!

The Aleuts' greeting is: "Thank you for being healthy!" How much wisdom there is in this! We are one small but important part of a holistic whole. I like to think of myself as being a cell of Gaia's body, and it makes a difference if I am a healthy, vibrant cell, radiating harmony and light, or a dull, ill cell, out of balance and emitting toxins. And to be a healthy cell or person or organism, love and acceptance are needed. Gratitude, too!

With much love,
Helen