Sensual,Nutrition,Body,Freedom DIY Sensual Nutrition - Body Freedom

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Your body is a remarkable gift from the Creator, a vehicle throughwhich the spiritual can experience the material; that is what a body isfor. As spirit in physical form, you can celebrate and explore thesensory joys of this gift. Come to your senses—all of them. Absorbright here, right now what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.Direct sensory stimulation is nourishment for your body, sensualnutrition, another kind of food without which it cannot thrive and befree. The freedom of the senses is the freedom to experience pleasureand feel desire, to know you are truly alive. Body Freedomenables you to behold and be warmed by the brightest light of all, theconsuming light of love shining from your sweetheart’s eyes. It allowsyou to revel in the husky whispers and throaty moans that are music toa lover’s ears. To freely devour succulent kisses from pouty lipstasting of fruit and honey. To sniff hungrily and absorb thedistinctive scent that is uniquely your beloved’s. To touch and touchand touch with fingers, palms, lips, and tongues, then to lie at easein each other’s arms, safe, secure, sympathetic, blessed…. Sadly, you might not perceive your body as a biological marvel, asensory gateway, the temple of your soul. Like many, you might haveforgotten your Body Freedom, been indoctrinated to view your body asugly and sinful, a prison that will never be beautiful enough or strongenough, will never measure up no matter what you do, that constantlybetrays you with its shameful desires and ultimately keeps you separateand lonely. All bodies are naturally beautiful because they are theearthly home of your eternal soul, but this is not likely the messageyou most often hear. Your body perception is under attack on multiplefronts. For instance, many religious teachings perpetuate negative bodyimages, either decrying the body as unclean and shameful or dismissingit as a distraction from higher purposes. If you want spiritual purity,you are exhorted to ignore your body’s wants and wishes. Froma commercial perspective no body is ever quite beautiful enough. Youare bulldozed into seeing your physical self as an ongoing renovationproject. From skin tone to hair color, from breast and penis size tolength of leg and girth of waist, from laugh-lines to crow’s feet,there’s always room for improvement. Under continued social pressureyou might come to see your body through tainted eyes, developing anemotionally and physically damaging dissatisfaction with your naturalform. You might give yourself and others self-sabotaging messages thatcontinue to erode your Body Freedom. Desire for the“perfect” body might lead you into life-threatening eating disorders asit has about seven million women and one million men in the UnitedStates. Or it might entice you into the cosmetic surgeon’s office forprocedures ranging from botox injections to chemical peels, fromliposuction to breast augmentation, from hair transplants to facelifts.Cosmetic procedures are multiplying by leaps and bounds. In 2004 alone,American cosmetic surgeons performed more than 11.9 million procedures,up 44 percent from 2003 and a whopping 465 percent increase from 1997.Perhaps you might even be tempted to join the ranks of the thousands inboth the United States and Britain who apply to be a contestant onreality shows such as “The Extreme Makeover” or “The Swan.” These verypopular television series (almost 11 million people watched the 2004season finale of “The Swan”) feature the ultimate in body redesign,employing teams of specialists—plastic surgeons, eye surgeons, cosmeticdentists, hair and makeup artists, stylists, and personal trainers—toradically alter the participants’ appearance. The premise, as outlinedon ABC’s website, is to give participants “a truly Cinderella-likeexperience by changing your looks completely in an effort to transformyou life and destiny, and to make your dreams come true.” People try to make their bodies beautiful so that others will lovethem, admire them, reward them, and accept them. It would be better tolearn simply to love your body and so to become free and loveable init. However, it’s often easier to blame your equipment and try to makeit conform to someone else’s ideal than to learn about it, to listen toit, and to honor it for yourself. Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007