[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery: My body and Me

[Susan McNeil]

Wonderful Wisdom Poem.  Thank you Riantee.
Susan

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 10:11 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>  
>> My body and Me
>>  
>> Not feeling well?
>> Run to the doctor.
>>  
>> First try the healer,
>> the whisperer,
>> the -puncturist
>> the -pressurist
>>  the herbalist,
>> the body worker
>> . . .‘the candlestick maker,’
>> and when everything fails
>> resort to the one who believes
>> that to heal is to separate the pieces
>> and suppress the symptoms.
>>  
>> Let someone else tell you
>> what’s wrong with you,
>> that you need a nudge from the outside
>> to show you how you have been victimized,
>> compromised,
>> fragile-ized.
>>  
>> But I say no:
>> the body knows!
>> When I give up the trust
>> in its amazing capacity to recover
>> I take away its power
>> and it gives up on me,
>> lets me look for the cure elsewhere,
>> outside of it,
>> lets me start the search for a conjurer,
>> a mentor
>> a master
>> someone who knows better,
>> who has much more power than me
>> to create
>> the reality
>> of my true Self.
>>  
>> But I say no:
>> my best  doctor
>> is my body. . .
>> 															    and me!
> 
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