Your Personal Slave
Let us suppose that you own a slave. You would be responsible for his/her food, exercise, education, everything. If you were not allowed to give him freedom, how would you treat him?
I really hope you said something like, “I would give him the best life possible.” You would try not to work him into the ground. You would let him have his own way whenever you could. Adequate sleep, good nutritious food. (If you said anything worse than that, go sit in the corner and rethink your ethics. )
Well, guess what? You do own a slave. A hopelessly devoted, flawlessly obedient slave. It is your own body.
Do you take good care of your slave?
Do you make it drink until it’s sick, even though it begs you to let it stop? Do you make it stay up late, doing your homework because you didn’t get it done earlier? Have you ever worked your poor slave until it fell asleep, despite its best efforts? Do you feed your slave good food, or is it forced to survive off of gummy bears and Cheetos?
Your body tells you when it needs something, but it’s always a gentle nudge. You get the final word every time. It is fully bound to your insane demands.
Ask it to run. Like a faithful horse, it will run until you say otherwise or it collapses. Ask it to stay up so you can watch one more episode, and it’ll put its own needs off to please you.
It timidly requests water, so quiet you might not hear if you aren’t paying attention. Do you give it enough?
It pulls lightly on the corner of your mind and whispers, I’m happy to keep working but can we please take a bathroom break. Do you force it to work until the need is on the verge of disaster?
It’s been doing your reading for four hours straight and its eyes are fatigued. Do you tell it to squeeze its eyes shut for two seconds then keep on?
So many people seem to be waging war with their bodies. They are disconnected from themselves. Hannah and I always joke about magazine covers: “Wear a new body for summer!” “Find your bikini body!” “Get abs!” They seem to think a body is a fashion accessory which can be shaped and molded like clay, or maybe they think we’re made of interchangeable Lego pieces. It’s a weird way of looking at your own body. People talk about building it up, breaking it down, burning it, whipping it into shape.
Poor body. It never rebelled. It just gets tired sometimes. You were the one who got it addicted to television and donuts. It would love to break those habits but it can’t do it alone.
Make sure and give your body plenty of outside play time, fresh water, nutritious food, quality sleep. Keep it clean and listen to its spare, unselfish requests. Check that it has clear skin, bright eyes, and strong nails. If you’re treating it well, it will be happy to greet you in the morning and excited to start a new day with you.
Now you have a new weird way of looking at your body.
Interesting post, very intuitive. People say, your body is your temple, but right now, I’m treating my body like a tent!!!
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Haha! Tents are not long-term living solutions, be careful 😀
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I even forgot to waterproof it before I started living in it. I really gotta start thinking things through!
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Ha! Oh no! It’s gonna grow mold!
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I’m way ahead of ya there girl!
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lol
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I’ve been living in a tent for the past year. If you treat even a tent like a home it can become one…
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That’s true. So I guess when bottomlesscoffee says he’s treating his body like a tent, it’s still open for discussion whether or not he’s very healthy, could go either way. All it does is raise the additional question of how he treats his tent! 😂
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Pretty much where I ended up with it, ya 😆
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A wonderful post
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Thank you!
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Well what a different way of looking at ourselves! Mine definitely needs more water. Thanks for this x
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yes, be sure to water it frequently! 🙂
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Excellent post. It is our “temple”, our “vessel”. And, it does talk to us. ❤
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It certainly tries!
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My body has taken over my soul. I am a mere tenant.
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In the Middle Ages, they used to think that the soul resided throughout the entire body. If you lost a hand, you lost a part of your soul. You WERE your body. This seems, to me, a little bit healthier than the disconnect we have now… and perhaps healthier than the reverse possession you seem to be suffering from, haha 😉
If you want to screw with your sense of self even more, try to imagine your thoughts emanating from your heart, which is another thing they used to believe.
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According to recent scientific findings, the heart actually does both synthesize and emanate WAY more thought than the brain 😊
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It makes a lot of sense, when you’re upset or happy you can actually feel it in your heart
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Oh, yeah, and the heart’s magnetic field is,like, fifty times stronger than the brain’s, or something. Actually, Deepak tells us they’ve pretty much found all our organs contain thinking kinds of cells too. If they keep going, they’ll find out every one of our eight trillion cells are thinking entities. THAT’ll blow their, um, minds… 😂
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It’ll blow their spleen!
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😃😄😅😆😂
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Oh, I know the ‘reverse possession’ that I am suffering from is far from healthy! 😉
But sometimes the body takes over and you stand watching willy nilly and you are right I do feel, there are times my heart does all the thinking!
I guess my thinking is completely screwed!! 😁
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This is beyond me. You’ll have to call an incorcist.
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Maybe…
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I love it! Hahaha, it is so weird how they portray the body in magazines/tv. They probably really do think we can just be molded like clay or lego pieces. “Hang up your gross winter body and put on your new summer bod!!”. Imagine all the weird, different torsos that would be hanging in all our closets.
I always feel happy when I feed my slave body good food and vitamins. I think “aah, those omega-3’s will make my skin organ happy”. It really is just under our control and wanting good things for it – gentle reminders. it’s nice to listen to our own bodies. Make it happy and it’ll keep you happy! 😀
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This is great. What creative person has not been guilty of these misdemeanors? Reblogging to sister site “Timeless Wisdoms”
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Thank you! 😊
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U bet!
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Thank you for the reblog! ^_^
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Very insightful. But.. if enough people took good, common sense, care of their bodies I would probably be out of a job! (I’m a pharmacist). But that’s ok. I would LOVE to see people take good, common sense, care of their bodies!
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Ah, so you’re the evil doctor that wants everyone to be sick! All the paranoids have been telling me about you… 😉
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