Stop for one moment and think about how miraculous your body truly is. These machines were made to withstand years and years of abuse and neglect. For most of us, we treat our automobiles and cell phones with more respect and care than our physical form – that which we inhabit day in and day out. That which, without it, there would be no need for those cars or phones.
Many of us eat in unhealthy ways – overeating, under eating, binging, purging – and then, to solve the morbid obesity caused (most often, but not always) by an unhealthy relationship with food, we cut ourselves up or we suck ourselves out or we tie ourselves off. If we don’t have some sort of eating disorder and have not yet joined the “organic” rage, then the food we are consuming harbors toxins, synthetic growth hormones, antibiotics and steroids. If we have done the research and are, therefore, eating organically, then we still have to fight airborne toxins.
In addition to the environmental toxins in our food and air, we have pollution of the Electronic Age coursing through our veins. These days, people walk around with a Blue Tooth attached to their ear through which they receive an onslaught of hundreds of thousands of signals 24/7. We have cell phones, blackberries, fax machines, hand-held computers, Ipods, and on and on. Granted, these technologies have advanced our business, our economies and our lives in ways that people thirty years ago could never have imagined, but could we be losing our humanity to technology?
As I watch our race advance technologically, I am more readily convinced by the notion expressed in movies like “AI” and “The Terminator” wherein machines take over the world. It seems an almost fruitless task that some of us are undertaking to turn around the human condition.
Also, if you think about how many thoughts pass through your brain on a continual basis, it is quite astonishing. We are inundated with sounds, advertisements, billboards, movies, news and various other means that are shaping the way we think and see. We must look a certain way. We must do certain things. We must wear certain clothes. We must drink certain drinks. All in the name of being an outstanding citizen of this planet.
If you were to chronicle your thoughts regarding self image – what you like, dislike, love and loathe about yourself – what would you find? Would you find words of praise and encouragement? Or would you find lectures of disgust and deficiency?
“Your life is as you create it,” the masterminds repeatedly say.
For those who may be wallowing in mishaps and misunderstandings and missed opportunities, that statement is one of great contention. The thought that one has actually created the pain, the illness, the agony of a broken heart is unfathomable for most of human kind. Why would one choose into pain? Why would one want to be sick or lose a loved one or have a broken heart? Why?
I have come to realize that it isn’t the actual pain or sickness or breakup that I cause. Those situations are, however, brought on by me. The roots are in me. They are in the food I choose to eat. They are in the liquids I choose to drink.
More importantly and, unfortunately, more insidiously dangerous, the root of all that I am seeing before me – health, wealth, general well-being or the lack thereof – is in my thoughts and emotions. The root is in the words I speak.
I am as I have created me.
It is a powerful concept. One that will change the world, one person at a time.
Will you join me?
©Angie K. Millgate 1/15/07
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