Alexis Read
Right Sleep
Biofield Tuning
— we’ll call her Jane. Jane was a distance runner, someone anyone would identify as fit and “lean.” Anyone, that is, except Jane. As she saw it, she had a good 10 pounds she needed to lose.
One day she came in and said, “You know, I was looking at photos from my 20s and realized that I looked great back then. I really should have enjoyed myself more!”
Indeed, I nodded. My mind flashed forward 20 years, to Jane-in-her-60s having the same thoughts about Jane today. Ouch.
At a certain point I realized there were two options.
“But the most meaningful work was a year of personal practice: looking in mirrors at my naked body and finding something I liked. It’s tender to remember that at first I could only say ‘my left pinky,’ but it was a beginning: ‘Left pinky, you are smooth and unbitten. You look delicate, and your nail is beautiful.’
My standard was that I couldn’t repeat a body part. Eventually I got to the stretch marks, scars, and dimples of cellulite. Eventually I got to a place of seeing myself whole, in motion, decompartmentalized. Eventually I realized it was a sacred and beautiful body.”