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I stumbled upon a
magazine called” infinithoughts” The
cover page was attractive, so I just started flipping through the pages, I found an article on being grateful
to our bodies, which was very interesting and inspiring too. The author explains, so
often we take our bodies for granted. At
the end of the Para, the author encourages everyone to try writing a letter to
their bodies. So this is an attempt I am making in writing a gratitude note to
my body.
Dear Body,
I am a little nervous today to write this note
to you, as this is my first letter to you in my life time. Being a grateful
person I want to acknowledge your contribution to my life, since inception. You
have been a great source of strength to me, highly friendly and extremely
accommodative. Despite the fact that I
have been very careless, insensitive, and complacent to your signals.
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You have always been
very authentic and honest with me, telling me frankly what you liked and what
you don’t like, you have done your best to keep me going, even if I was not
listening to you. I filled and stuffed you with unnecessary things, which you found
it difficult to digest, and stored it where ever you found place to store the
trash.
I neglected you so
much, by not exercising, eating junk food because I found it attractive and tasty. I used to clear up
the plate of my kids, because I did not want to waste food. I took comfort in
filling up my stomach whenever I was upset, disturbed and bored, instead of
dealing with the issues that caused problem to my mind. Thus increased my waist size, causing you
discomfort, putting pressure on my heart, and turned you into a fat and obese
body.
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Still you remained my
best and close friend, helping me with
all that I wanted to do in my life – I could do all my work independently,
taking care of the needs of my family, also could take up a career, and be involved
in work that brought in meaning to my life.
So often I failed in my
commitments to you: I have promised so many times to eat healthy food, and to
continue my walks, to meditate daily and to drink plenty of water only to fall
back again to binge eating, lethargy and procrastination.
Despite all this you
have always been my great friend and very consistent in giving me the joy of
being healthy and alive. I travelled
quite a distance in my life, making lot of mistakes, in understanding you and
loving you. Today I take a public pledge
to honor you, love you, accept you and do everything for you till the end of my
life.
Thanks for being my
body, and thank you for responding to me even now. I am beginning to feel the
difference today, as I continue with my yoga class’s everyday (this 25th
November, 2013 – it will be 3 months since I am regularly practicing yoga).
I have changed my diet
and have started counting calories, with the help of my yoga classmates, and
committed myself for preparing and eating healthy food to keep you happy and
sound. I am also meditating and reciting
affirmations to appreciate your presence in my life, and have started taking a
lot of water (I was told that we need to take water according to our weight
–for every 25kgs 1 litre water is required, so accordingly we need to calculate
and take that much).
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Apart from all the
above, I have learnt to keep my mind positive, and to look for the best in the
worst situations in life, and live a life of Gratitude 24/7!!
My special thanks to Google for the lovely images, which was so very relevant for my post.
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