This is one of those topics where I don’t quite know
how to respond, except tearfully and from the heart. My heart goes out, literally. All I can do is send love.
For decades, I have rarely had medical insurance or
medical care of any kind. I definitely
don’t recommend this…I suppose it’s a miracle on this level, as well as others,
that I am still physically on this planet, although I once had a natural healer
say that in fact I may be healthier because of having avoided modern
intervention. Who knows? One never knows what would have happened on
that other path.
But there is no question that our bodies take the brunt
of whatever our journeys have been. Absolutely
every being on my mind right now has been living life to the fullest; working
hard, learning hard, teaching hard, loving hard. We’re all, even children and pets, on the
cutting edge of what it is to be spiritual beings in a physical body, and all
of us respond differently on this pilgrimage.
The many billions of us on this planet are processing “life” in our own
unique ways, and no matter where we are on the health-disease spectrum, it’s
all still a miracle. We haven’t done
anything wrong or right, we don’t have to change our habits (unless it thrills
us to do it!) and we don’t have to hate ourselves for imperfection.
The way I’ve gotten through all these years is, at all
times, to love my body, and to try not to fear her. Just love her. Yes, she’s “overweight” and yes, she’s
imperfect and probably in some respects unhealthy. But I just love her power, her ability to
adjust to wildly changing circumstances, her deep insight (way down to the
cellular level) and her audacity. She
and I have just stepped out and done it, no matter what, on a journey like no
other. And that’s what I celebrate with
my friends and their friends and
family – all of us have been out there, doing it. Being human, learning life lessons, and
moving forward at probably the most complex and complicated moment in human
history. If our bodies are scrambling to
keep up, or even shutting down and saying, “hey, give me a break,” it’s kind of
understandable, isn’t it?
May all of us, when these circumstances arise, find the
wisdom to know how to proceed, find the help we want, find the courage to keep breathing, and…heck…may this
just be a better week for all!
