For most of my life, my body has been my enemy. Rather than being thankful for its abilities, I have struggled with body image and a highly vocal inner critic. I have often tried to divorce my body from my mind, spirit, life, and have often been in an unhealthy relationship with it…dismissing it as if it did not have a say and was not an integrated part of my whole self. For years , my drive and busy-ness aided my efforts to ignore, neglect, and deny my body’s attempts to give voice for self-care or to examine my messages and chains pertaining to my body.
Grief and walking brought me to a confrontation with myself in regards to my body. Never before had I realized how fully connected and integrated the body, mind, and spirit are. Between rivers of tears and miles of walking, I found myself present in my body like I had not been for a long time. And the messages and movement of mind, body, and spirit all seemed to influence each other in important ways. I thought I had I known this for years, but grief and walking helped me experience and know it at a deeper level of consciousness.
(written after my first Camino experience in 2019)
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