something I am grateful for today

[johncomic]

a moment of connectedness and wholeness

I had massage this morning [yay], and there was a time when my RMT was working on my back... and I suddenly had a sense that she was working on me.

I have spent much of my life feeling disconnected from my body -- often consciously so. As if my body were a vehicle that Actually Me uses to get around in, or a set of tools to provide sensory input to Actually Me. I suspect this may partly underlie why I have never taken very good care of it for most of my life, and continue to skimp on its maintenance. But for a while today, I felt like my body was just as much me as my mind and my spirit, and the perceived boundaries between them faded away, and I was just me and all me. It was a quietly nice feeling which has given me food for contemplation.

Comments

[blissmorgan]

Oh, what an amazing thing for which to have gratitude! There is so much in the world that bullies us about our bodies, to the point that we dissociate from all or part of them.

[johncomic]

For me also this is not a trivial thing.