Understanding The Purpose Of The Body For Better Use

This session offers you an opportunity to notice how conflict is created in your relationship with your body when you innocently assign it purposes that are not in its nature to do. It'll offer a few commonly used examples of things we innocently mistakenly think our body is responsible for or has a major role in.

Transcript

Hey there,

I'm Micaela and welcome to this exploration around understanding the body and the purpose of the body.

Here's the thing,

When we use something for its intended purpose,

We can have a much better experience of it than if we try and use it for something that it was never intended for.

For example,

A fork.

If you don't know what the purpose of a fork is,

What the intent behind its usage is,

You might try and use it to cut a steak with and your experience of it will vary when you understand that there's actually another tool for that purpose.

You can switch it out.

Let's look at the body in this way.

What it looks like in how we've been conditioned to see the world and also how we,

It's just how it looks at times that the body is something that needs to look a certain way,

Be a certain size in order for you to be accepted or to feel happy.

Now this could have come out of experiences growing up.

I had experiences as I was growing up hearing the conversation around the kitchen table as a younger person moving about,

Hearing that it was preferable to have a slimmer body,

That the thing to do was to lose weight.

There was a lot of talk about that in the latest diet and exchanging recipes and the cabbage diet and oh,

It's just all of these things that came up all in an effort to have the body look a certain way.

And I guess there could have been a leap in the beginning that that's just how it goes.

That's just what you do.

That's just part of life.

And then as I began to get my own experiences of my body out in the world where comments would be made about it and then others would react to the comments and you just knew that,

Oh,

Oh,

This is,

My body is not acceptable.

If I want to be acceptable,

I have to look a certain way.

If I want to fit in here,

Then it needs to look a certain way.

It needs to be a certain size.

It needs to weigh a certain amount.

It needed to do this so that I could be happy,

So that I could attract the right partner to fit in,

To be faster when I ran.

There is a myriad of things that I hear in my world that the body needs to look like this so that I can get the right job.

I'll fit into the right circles so that I can go out and do things that they really want to do because until their body looks a certain way,

They can't be seen doing those things.

And going back to the three principles,

The understanding of the mind and how in life works that my work is based on,

When you understand that the only thing that you can ever experience is your own thinking about anything,

Including your body,

You will come to know that none of that is true.

The body does not need to look a certain way or be a certain anything to fit in.

Will there be physical things like if your eyesight isn't so great,

Maybe you can't fly a plane?

I don't know.

There could be those things.

But I'm thinking that you get where I'm coming from.

All of the things that we think we have discerned over the years,

That these limitations are in place and that we need to change it so we can actually engage in the life that we really want to live.

And now if we take a moment and look to the facts of the body,

The intent of the body,

The purpose of the body is so much simpler.

The purpose of the body is to be our vehicle for self-expression,

For the energy,

The universal energy that animates it and lives through it,

Expresses through it.

And the body is there with all of its senses to experience what it is that is being expressed.

And this expression will be used in many ways for many different things,

Moment to moment.

So in the morning,

It may be to get ready for the day.

Our hands are there to brush our teeth and keep a clean mouth.

There are some basic things that we know and understand to take care of this vessel.

There are ways that we use it to engage in our life with our families.

We may make them a meal or we'll go off to work and do whatever it is the body allows you to do.

It gets into the vehicle,

It drives you or it takes a bus or a train or it carries you around.

And it's kind of doing your bidding.

It's like you're your wingman.

It's more than that.

It's your whole vehicle.

It's the whole plane.

The spirit,

Who you really are,

Moves it about in the world,

Giving it instructions to support whatever it is that you are wanting to do.

For many years,

I gave it the instructions to just support me,

Sitting in this chair,

Trying to understand the work that I wanted to do,

How to do a business,

How to do all of these things.

And its job was to just sit here and support my structure so that I could do the things that I needed to do at this desk.

I didn't tell it to do a lot of other things.

So my body changed in shape to support the rather sedentary lifestyle that I took on for a few years.

Prior to that,

It supported me in running a marathon and some half marathons and doing a mud girl run and doing all kinds of other things.

Today,

It's supporting me in doing yoga and kayaking and running and walking and hiking,

Floating down the river.

And the shape changed again.

And it still can support me in my role here in my office.

So our body is really our vehicle.

That is its original intent.

It enables us to express who we really are and to experience that expression in a variety of different experiences and activities,

From very quiet ones to more active ones.

And the energy that animates it guides in the maintenance of it.

When you consider the nature of the body and how we have all these joints,

We're able to move it.

We can build up muscle when we want to do things that require more of that.

We are flexible.

We can pick things up.

We can throw things.

We can reach for things.

We have joints.

Our body is made to move and made to move in ways that are satisfying for each of us.

What feels good for you may not feel so good for me.

The foods and things that you put in your body to maintain it may not work so great for my unique system.

So I invite you to just notice what purposes are you putting on your body that were never meant to be put there,

That the body was not meant for that purpose.

You will know because you may feel a little frustrated around that.

Just notice that wherever you're feeling a little bit of frustration,

Just gently,

Gently,

Gently,

Gently,

Just ask yourself,

What am I making the body do for me?

Now that you know the very simple purpose of it,

If it's anything more than that,

We're over assigning and it's just a simple misperception of how it works.

Understanding that we're only ever experiencing our own thinking about something will go a long way in helping you to transform your relationship with your body.

Let's leave that there for today.

And I invite you to leave a comment.

If you have any questions,

Please message me.

I'm happy to answer and I hope to see you again real soon.

Ciao.

Reviews

Thank you for this. I heard the same things around the dinner table growing up and it absolutely affected me. I feel like I use my body to process emotions. Not sure if that’s what it’s intended for and I don’t do it on purpose…curious if you have any thoughts.

Wow, thank you for the detailed response. Very much resonates with my experiences!

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Thank you for this explanation about the body and it’s purpose .

So true, our bodies are so wonderful and purposeful other than the appearance. Mine is a natural healer, thank the universe 🥰💜