Yes, to brilliant bodies.  That would be each of ours. A brilliant body is not something you have to work to acquire. It is already here. Now. It is high time to love your uniquely personal physical nature, to listen to its signals and consider the meaning of those messages your body brings you.  As a culture we are slowly and seriously learning to wake up and honor the various qualities of energy within and around us. This is surely good news. If we each keep nudging our Medical Doctors along, someday even Western Medicine will get curious about consciousness itself and begin to integrate what I like to call the energy paradigm into the substantial quantity of technical knowledge called science. I'm ready for science that's considerably more alive and personal - -science with spirit and soul.

      With or without input from doctors or healers of any kind, we receive continual help and guidance from our very own unique bodies. These bodies are screaming truth at us.  Truth about our history and truth about our present needs. If you have not yet done so, start thinking of the organs of your body as some of your very best and wisest friends. Pay your body a retainer in the form of awe, love and respect. Inside your skin you possess an internal community, a dedicated support system made up of organs, various physical systems and  electrical circuits. These are your ever-loving friends who work day and night to heal and restore you, to keep you going....and coming.  Even if you have an organ or system that is ailing, listen to it for it has a story to tell you -- recent or past history to reveal.  Healthy or otherwise, your body wants your attention.

      You may have been confused by a cacophony of concepts and phrases in the past few decades such as: "You are not your body; you HAVE a body -- like you have a car-- but you are not your body."   Another phrase, "You are what you eat."  Another: "Listen to your body; the body doesn't lie."  A favorite of mine: "Your biography becomes your biology". (Candice Pert, PhD. coined that phrase).   Or the phrase I enjoyed coining myself: "Your body is your own personal, portable plot of Mother Earth." 

      Nearly all of what we've heard about our bodies has some degree of truth to it.  It depends on what angle or perspective one has, or of  which dimension one speaks.

      What's  important to remember is this: RELEASE and RECEIVE.  Continually have the intention to release tightness, tension, contracted energies, memories stuck in the cells of your body. Make more room to receive spaciousness, more aliveness. Call in consciousness.  We would be wise to take up residence in our bodies to a far greater extent than ever before. Invite Spirit to DESCEND into that precious plant called your body. RECEIVE the energy flowing your way from Heaven above and Earth below. Absorb.  Love in so many forms has got you covered!  Be a love sponge. As we consider living in partnership with Mother Earth, as indigenous people have forever known we should, we need to bring our spirit and the energy of our soul into partnership which each cell of our body.  The more we welcome those vital energies into our own plot of earthiness the healthier we become. The more we incarnate spirit and soul, those dimensions of our higher and deeper nature, the more whole we become.  And wholeness is something to dance about!

Nancy Ging, LCSW