Memoirs: On the Beauty Within

On The Beauty Within . . .

Have you ever looked at a shooting star and thought, “Eeew, gross!” just because it fell from the sky where it belongs? Have you ever seen a growing tree or flying bird and thought “Disgusting”? No.

But that's how humans see their blood and guts? Every time they think of their blood and guts and insides...they’re strewn on the pavement from some horrible accident, injury or movie scene. But these things are their Life Force--their very existence.. If only they could revere them as they do God or nature.

A tree is no different from a nerve ending in my body. A river no different from my veins, and streams from capillaries. My lungs are like the air bubbles on the water. My bones like stones millions of years old. What keeps humans from appreciating their internal nature?

Stones must erode from wind, rain and the elements. Our bones grow and change from our very life force! Not because the rivers of our blood shape them into curves and bends but because the food we eat nurtures them and gives them Life Force. Native Americans on this planet, before the "white man" came, revered every thing. Each little bug, leaf, and human had a purpose. They did not know the inner workings of the human body, but they held it sacred. A woman’s period was her “moon time.” She was led to a sacred place and pampered during her cycle. Now humans are taught to hate the monthly ritual flow of blood from our bodies. We are filled with images of PMS and cramps. Midol and Pamprin, Advil and Anaprox, back pain, headaches and hot flashes. There is pain written in every space filled with women’s periods. No one ever speaks of cramps or pain back in ancient times or in cultures where this bodily function was celebrated.

Where is this praise of the sacred? When did humans change? Can they ever go back to believing their bodies are sacred in all their guts and glory? Even fat was once considered beautiful. Now it's apparently the most hated trait by women--at least from what I've read in the US magazines.

How will I ever be able to exalt my human physical body in a world of pain and marketing? How could a human woman?

I would surely give up these all-encompassing relentless illusions to find the way.

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