Simple Steps to Improve Your Life – Day 2
Skills to How to Improve Your Life Day 2
By Cristina Smith
Remember You Have a Body
Many of us spend much of our days with our attention on thinking and communicating, no matter what we are doing with our bodies. Even if we are doing physical labor or enduring dis-ease or pain in our bodies, we sometimes are not investing much of our awareness on our amazing vehicle in life, our bodies.
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
~Henry David Thoreau
“My body is the temple in which I practice the ritual of life. It is the vessel through which I manifest the form and force of the Universe and the vehicle through which my soul enacts this chapter in its evolution. My body is my constant companion; I carry it with me wherever I go.
We have a mutualistic relationship~ when I serve it well, it serves me well. It’s the only place I have to live right now, so I like to listen to it, nourish it and consciously interact with it.” This is an excerpt from my article and you can read more about My Body, My Temple in my 2011 Om Times arti…
