Ballerina from Microsoft Clipart
Each of us is unique - in our height, weight, colouring, and in what we enjoy doing. We do the things that speak to us, as the ballerina in the picture does. Not many of us can be dancers because we do not have the body or the desire to to dance in the fashion of ballet. However, sometimes our bodies cry out just to dance for joy, or to sing because we are happy and love life! How often do you suppress these joys? How often do you dishonour your body? It is a living organism that will survive without our working mind, as science has proven.
As I move further into the journey of spirituality and the path of the Shaman, I find it easier and easier to listen and really hear my body. I was looking for a way to explain this to my clients when I came across this quote from OSHO. I believe this is more eloquent than any phrasing I may use.
"Your body has its own wisdom — it carries the wisdom of the centuries in its cells.
Your body is feeling hungry and you are on a fast, because your religion says that this day you have to fast — and your body is feeling hungry. You don’t trust your organism, you trust a dead scripture, because in some book somebody has written that this day you have to go on a fast, so you go on a fast.
Listen to your body. Yes, there are days when the body says, “Go on a fast!” — then go. But there is no need to listen to the scriptures. The man who wrote that scripture has not written it with you in his mind, not at all. He could not have conceived of you. You were not present to him, he was not writing about you. It is as if you fall ill and you go to a dead doctor’s house and look into his prescriptions, and find a prescription and start following the prescription. That prescription was made for somebody else, for some other disease, in some other situation.
Remember to trust your own organism. When you feel that the body is saying don’t eat, stop immediately. When the body is saying eat, then don’t bother whether the scriptures say to fast or not. If your body says eat three times a day, perfectly good. If it says eat one time a day, perfectly good." ~~Osho~~
What Osho says is that our body, with all the past knowledge it carries, is both our Ancestor and our self in one. We need to listen to the wisdom or our Ancestors.
In loving kindness,
Judy
