Healing The Stories Our Bodies Tell - Affirmations

Your body speaks before you do,

Speaks truths about who you are to the world and is the only place that time exists.

Every body expresses a profound truth about who God is and if you can connect to the physical body deeply,

Fully,

Then you will connect to what makes you both impermanent as well as eternal.

The limitations of your body holds the freedom of your spirit.

What an incredible container to be able to hold and express such energy.

And perhaps because of the body's restrictions,

You are given something to ascend from.

After all,

What more effective way is there to discover grace,

Like a body that is emotionally or physically wounded?

Sometimes that you are fully aware of your body happens to be in those moments you least or most enjoy,

But rarely do any of us walk through this life embodied,

Whole or unfractured by the influence and separation of the mind and we cannot heal if our body,

Mind and spirit are pitted against one another.

Our bodies have become vessels that bounce between the two shores of pleasure and pain,

Escaping one for the promise or avoidance of another.

Either feeling too much or not enough,

We therefore live in half-way houses never realizing that we are in fact inhabiting the very homes we are in search of.

Trauma is a story unexpressed in the body.

Instead of being processed,

That pain became consumed and found itself among the flesh.

Now the story protects you at all cost.

The body has become a soldier against its most destructive response pattern,

Indirect but perpetual threat.

The body is therefore almost always in a state of survival and when you are on the battlefield,

There is no time nor freedom for healing.

But every story can be healed.

Just need to learn how to become the authors of our own bodies by adopting another language and letting this new narrative be absorbed by ourselves.

Slowly,

Intentionally and with time so that these bodies will too wear our victories.

How you speak to yourself is as important as anything else you consume in your day.

Body is blind,

It feels the past as if it were the present.

It is essentially a sensory being held captive in darkness,

Relying on you to tell it what is happening from the outside in.

There is therefore great power in affirmation,

In speaking of goodness to oneself.

For the body will receive your broadcast and reply with health and wholeness and joy in return.

Body is your consort and yet who you really are is what is left when the body is folded back into the earth and no longer contains the consciousness,

Breath and heartbeat that birthed you into this world.

You are what is free of the body and yet you will never truly touch the divine without it.

That is the beautiful paradox of being human,

Limited and yet limitless.

We begin healing the stories our bodies tell by remembering the only place we have the power over our body.

In the present moment we become a blank page.

The body attentively listens as we speak our futures into it and to be able to speak to the body we must first learn the most important skill we may ever need in life,

Which is to listen.

To understand the story of our bodies,

To truly look at our bodies as a testament of our history,

To be able to open up the conversation,

To create an abundant future well-being we must first listen to what is speaking out of tune within our bodies in the here and now.

Take a moment to listen now.

Close your eyes.

For the eyes are very biased in their view and feel your way into listening.

How does your body connect with the floor,

The mat or chair?

With surrender or with resistance?

Does your body inhabit the space around it or is it afraid to occupy more than its share?

Are there unfolded shoulders from the weight of life's responsibilities?

Tight jaws from holding back your voice?

Unfulfilled longings hiding like sea monsters in your belly?

Does the body receive the breath or does it offer it to the room?

Every inhale and exhale is a conversation between you and this room,

Between you and this body.

Ask your body how it feels today and listen.

Practice listening first and you will be invited into a conversation with your most sacred companion in this life.

You may open your eyes again.

Before we allow the body to soak up the following affirmations,

Please take a moment to disarm yourself from survival mode.

Use your hips,

Upper body and head to look all the way around you,

Scanning the room with your eyes open to the left,

To the right,

Above and below you.

This body is safe in this room,

Does not need to protect itself right now and is open to receiving a new and nourishing narrative.

You may now close your eyes.

I am safe in this body.

I am becoming still.

I am meeting my body more and more with every conscious breath.

I am slowing down so that I can tune into the frequency of my receptive body.

I am letting go of the external noise that keeps me from hearing the voice of my body.

I am listening,

Eyes closed,

Heart open,

Blank page,

Awaiting its heroine.

I am giving myself permission to let go of the stories that aren't mine to hold.

I am moving my way through these wounds.

I am not my habit.

I am not this body,

But I honor its companionship.

I am creating what spirit wishes to express through this body.

I am validated by what I deem worthy of praise and not of what others benchmark on my behalf.

I am readying this body for the future it is about to inhabit.

Confident,

Resilient,

Kind version of me that is able to both give and receive without shame.

I am learning to bring my emotions into consciousness so that I can respond from that space of awareness and not react from ignorance.

I am pausing more often because I know that embodiment requires a quiet remembering.

I am stepping away from what distracts me so that I can step into what fills me up from the inside out.

I am honoring those who've passed but who've left their generational wounds within me,

And I am also choosing to let their ripples of hurt end here,

In this body,

So that they do not get passed on for the next life to heal.

I am taking responsibility for my own healing.

I am rewilding this body by letting it grow over into places that feed it,

Bless it,

And awaken it.

I am re-mothering myself,

Slowly,

Surely,

And with much patience.

I am accepting the limitations of this body and treating each barrier as an initiation to get to know myself better.

I am grateful for the rings within me that count my years and mark my victories,

For they leave more scars than the times I never stood up for myself.

I am connecting with others in a deeply meaningful way as a remedy to my addictions and extremities.

I am choosing love every time and for always.

I am moving in ways that feel good because I know it is the medicine my body seeks.

I am forgiving my past with every intention I make for the future.

I am holding space for myself and allowing others to hold it for me too.

I am being rewritten by every kind word I choose to say to myself instead.

I am the color that light chooses to reflect,

Not the shade determined by a culture.

I am the shape determined by my bloodline and not to be carved by any other hand.

I am worthy of taking up space.

I am worthy of my voice.

I am worthy of being seen and heard.

I am seeing my own reflection in the wonder and beauty of nature and reminding myself that she is the only mirror I need to see myself in.

I am stardust.

A condensed universe exists within every one of my cells and I honor that connection that aches for my return to greatness.

I am in commune with my own body.

I am surrendering the ego in favor of the heart for I have traveled very little under the command of mind and wish to go beyond this horizon.

I am not afraid of what the world sees in me because what I see in myself is worth much,

Much more.

I am magic,

Both made of it and able to create it in every moment through attention.

I am evolving through the changes that I invite into my life.

I am not afraid.

I am no longer in survival mode.

I am open,

Willing and eager to learn the language of this most wise body.

I am able to move this body into any future I want because it wants the same goodness for me that I do.

I am simultaneously both a masterpiece and a work in progress,

Healing in one direction and coming undone in the other.

This is what it means to be both human and spirit.

I am restoring this body,

One word,

One feeling at a time.

I am whole,

I am deeply loved,

I am cherished and I belong.

I would like you now to locate your heartbeat by either placing a hand over your heart or on your pulse.

Let these following words permeate your skin as if they were spoken by you.

This body is not static,

Unchanging in its story.

It is a dynamic organism,

A conversation always waiting to be had.

This body is my wayfinder,

A brave wanderer,

Journeying through this life unknown.

This body is a single use vessel,

The only one that has ever lived of its kind,

That my spirit has chosen to be contained by.

We are in sacred partnership and even in the times I feel disconnected from my source,

Or the times that I feel that overwhelming ache bury me into its void,

I know that this body is teaching me how to live deeper.

It is my bridge,

My consort,

My companion,

One I will honor and hold most sacred.

Although I know I am not the body,

I know I cannot be a witness to this universe without it.

Therefore,

The universe exists within me and I must treasure such an incomprehensible gift to the best of my ability.

May these words become spells that cast a healing upon the body.

And may you journey onwards,

Embodied in the place where time and the universe meet.