The Direction of Intention

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Did you know that in only six minutes a day you could get rock hard abs? Or, in less than 30 minutes a week you could get the thighs you had as a teenager? Or, if you drink this potion you will have the body you always dreamed of having? A shot of botox, a bit of surgery and you will be more desirable. It must be true. It’s on TV.

The first and most obvious question that comes to mind is, “What’s wrong with your body?” Seriously. Take a step outside of the story, the image of what you think you are supposed to look like, the image you are told you should attain, and ask the question: what is wrong with your body?

The best term I know for this level of thinking comes from another decade but is just as appropriate today as it was when I first heard it: McThought. Do we really expect to place our order with the clown and pull forward to window and have a new body? Yes. We do.

Not only do we expect it, we actually find the notion desirable.

There is nothing wrong with our bodies. There is a considerable problem with our fast food thinking. The desire to fit an image like you’d fit a pair of shoes is problematic but to expect to be a different person with no effort is a sign of dis-ease.

Our bodies are not meant to be outcomes. Our lives are meaningless when our expectations are so vapid.

There is another term that I appreciate that comes from some Native American traditions: the long body. Through the course of your life you process through many shapes and sizes (many forms of body), each appropriate to the age you are living. You could see your life and body as sacred in its evolution if you so chose. You are a process; your body is moving, fluid, and ever changing (that is to say, you are moving, fluid, ever changing). To treat it as a static object, a suit that needs alterations, new buttons, is to believe that you are a static object that only requires new buttons for fulfillment.

If you desire better health, why not practice healthy living? If you search for deeper meaning, why not start within yourself? Why not embody the shape your body takes when healthy instead of trying to fit an image that was concocted to sell you stuff?

If you are at war with your body you are at war with your self; you will experience this war in your thinking. If you are invested in fast food thinking you are probably wondering why your life has no meaning, looking for sustenance in things that have little or soul-nutritional value.

You are not broken and nothing needs to be fixed. You are not a car to be assembled, an image to fit, life is not something that you will achieve someday. You are alive now. You are perfect now. Life is what is happening now. What matters has little to do with the image you think you can buy.

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