What is your body image and are you happy with it?
by on May.25, 2009, under General
I am not happy with mine. I am twenty pounds heavier than I actually am and see myself the way that I was four years ago. It is not how I am now, and it causes me to be overly critical of myself. How do you see yourself, and are you happy with it?
May 25th, 2009 on 6:08 pm
Well I have a skin disorder called vitiligo. My cause is very minor and it is nearly inactive, but I have had it my whole life and it is visible on parts of my body that people can see. But I fully accept this, I have no choice but to. It makes me unique and it has given me a perspective of life that is so out of the norm, it has helped me in my spiritual quest and I would not be who I am now if I did not have it.
I can't say I am happy with myself, but I try to detect every part of myself so that I can embrace it. If I do not embrace, even the parts of myself that do not seem to be the best, I can never move forward — I can never be in the moment where life is. Either that or I can be a slave to the past. So the choice is simple, I choose to know thy self, and in order to do this takes self works, so thus I must embrace every part of myself, for if I do not, then how can I ever achieve such happiness, which is a fulfillment of harmonious wholeness.
You must learn (develop yourself — unify yourself) to love yourself — everyone should strive to love themselves. Not one part, or the other parts of ourselves will work opposite to what we desire. We only suffer by that which our fragments of mind cling to. We must triangulate the moment with consciousness — don't be a slave to the past, for it is done. Move your mind forward.