A Spiritual Take on Body Image

There once was a time when the body was considered holy.

What once was something to be revered has become something we now attempt to control and manipulate so that it looks, behaves, and functions the way our egos see fit.

This is (one example) of what happens when we remove the Sacred from the Collective Consciousness.

What should be holy becomes ordinary, mundane, a machine.

It’s interesting to see that what has happened to the human body as happened to the Earth as well.

The more that humans have seen the Earth as something to control, destroy, and take advantage of, the more we’ve felt comfortable doing it to our bodies as well.

When a society has no appreciation for what is holy, when it focuses on appearance rather than essence and measurement over embodiment, people start to hurt.

Our focus and obsession on aesthetics has turned us into a dry, depleted, shallow society that is thirsting for depth.

It’s turned us against our true nature and forced us into behaving like machines that need discipline rather than devotion.

We have forgotten what it means to be truly nourished. Mind, Body, and Soul nourished.

That is where our true vibrancy comes from. That’s when we feel most alive.

And most importantly, that’s when we have the deepest, most profound connection to our Souls.

A focus on aesthetics over nourishment is one that turns humans into machines and rips us from our true nature.

But a focus on integration, on wholeness, and on re-membering body, mind, and spirit brings us home to ourselves.

If you could only see the preciousness of your Soul, you would never again take your body’s holy status for granted.