In the Eating Peace Program we’re entering the module called BODY.
We’ve looked at Feelings and Mind and how they relate to our relationship to eating.
But this body is such a powerhouse of life, a force of nature on its own, even if you aren’t feeling very vital or energetic or beautiful.
And it seems like this body contains feelings, as well as the mind which is housed up in the head, right?
Everything all working and buzzing and running interactively.
And it turns out, this whole package requires food to exist, and water of course. We eat, it enters our whole body, and stuff happens. Food is digested, energy used, a shape is formed.
Isn’t it just so dang weird that we can “gain” and “lose” weight at all? And that we can hurt ourselves with food and the amount eaten, whether too much or too little?
Today I love considering who I would be without the belief system (my friend Martha calls this B.S.) we’ve learned about the body?
Who would you be without the belief you should look different than you do?
It doesn’t mean you wouldn’t lose weight, gain weight, become free from this difficult trouble with eating.
But what if you were really fine, as you are in this moment?
Separate from weight, shape, features, imperfections, looks?
What if you quit the Change Body Now Project?
What if NOW, in this moment, you can stop all that analyzing, wishing you were in a different body, trying to force change, longing for another human skin suit to live in, that was better?
It seems very simple, but the most simple exercises are sometimes the most profound.
This is an act, in the beginning, of imagination. Just like the thought that your body is “wrong” is also an act of imagination.
“Despite your argument with your physicality, the fact is that you are here and the 151,000 people who have died today are not…..Your body is the piece of the universe you’ve been given; as long as you have a pulse, it presents you with an ongoing shower of immediate sensate experiences. Red, salt, loneliness, heat. When a friend says something painful to you, your chest aches. When you fall in love, that same chest feels like fireworks and waterfalls and explosions of ecstasy. When you are lonely your body feels empty. When you are sad, it feels as if there is a Mack truck sitting on your lungs. Grief feels like tidal waves knocking you down, joy like champagne bubbles welling up in your arms, your legs, your belly.” ~ Geneen Roth
If you turned the BS (belief system) around that your body is bad, wrong, imperfect, ugly, too whatever….
….and you said out loud right now “this body is amazing, beautiful and wonderful as it is” what would that be like?
Can you find examples of how it’s true?
Much Love,
Grace