The body as poetry…

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness. ― Thomas Moore

It seems, in fact, that for many people it takes illness and the impetus to get well again to truly find out what it is to be alive in their body. And then illness can be seen as a gift since there are so many people walking around half dead without even knowing it.

Or as Deena Metzger says. Illness can be considered a sacred process also supporting the idea of the body as poetry.

“A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.” — Deena Metzger

I am grateful that I now recognize the poetry of my body — in illness and in wellness. What an incredible and mysterious gift it is to be alive in this temple.

One of the most profound aspects of healing from the medically induced injury from psychotropic drugging, has been the process of coming, by necessity, to deeply know this human body. I can only be grateful for that. Conscious embodiment is a source of grace, even while the walk may continue to be difficult beyond measure.

Learning about this amazing body has taken many different forms as I recover. Here are a few of them:

Yoga

Diet and nutrition

Ecstatic dance

Trauma and the body

Meditation and the body

There are endless ways of moving and/or getting to know the body and healing. As many as there are human beings, really. So anything that you enjoy or find tolerable as you’re healing from painful illness is good. Be kind to yourself.

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