Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 77
Yes, the body of EVERY woman is freakin’
gorgeous and alluring beyond measure, but
physical beauty is only the tip of the iceberg
of what your body is made for.
The rest of the iceberg reveals itself when
you back away from the magazine stand
and shield your eyes from the shiny promise
of Ten Ways to Get Flat Abs in Ten Days.
You gaze down at the massive iceberg
underwater, and start to see your body not
as a misbehaving mess but as a wellspring
of intuitive intelligence — of the magnitude
that funded Einstein. You start to see
that being in your skin can be about fully
embodying your genius.
You start to understand that your pleasure
mediates your confidence; meaning, the
better you feel, the better you will feel about
yourself. (Which is about as far as you can
get from the evangelism of under eating and
over-achieving).
You start to realize that you needn’t sanitize
your body or purify your desires in hopes of
becoming spiritually worthy, but that, baby,
you were born that way. We learn to fear our brightness and dim
down out of duty and deference, like a plug
dangling from the wall. (And I wonder why
we feel powerless and disconnected).
And that built into your bones and into your
hottest longings is your very own factory-
installed, direct line to the Divine. It is as though we are in a pitch-dark room,
groping for the light switch, grasping at each
piece of fad advice to help us see where we
are going.
MISCONCEPTION #3
You can be polite, pleasing, or
perfect, but not powerful.
It’s dripped into our veins via our baby bottles:
don’t be too big, too loud, or too much. Stay
small. Don’t overpower anyone. Don’t take
up space. And if you do, damn it, apologize.
But the truth is, the light switch is located
in precisely the last place you’d ever
think to look, right inside you. You ARE
a light source.
In this wacky world, it takes something
to stay lit up. In fact, because it seems
that modern life and dominant culture is
designed to dull your shine, you need to
joyfully practice cultivating your light.
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