My body is a wholly neutral thing.

10-21-2024

I am trying to get this lesson to speak to me. Does it contain something to serve me today?

My body does not feel neutral today – lots of aches and pains from a weekend at my desk in seminary classes. I can choose to see it as neutral as the aches were to be expected.

In Chapter 5, ‘What is the Body?’, we are told the body can be used to leave fear and return to sanity by making use of the body in service to Love. I want that, but I am feeling stressed because I don’t know what that looks like. In this way, stress, the body expresses my confusion and worry of the unknown.

A classmate yesterday told me to ‘stretch not stress’.

Body, let’s look at it this way … we are making room for bigger Love. (Body now feels uplifted.)

Thank you, body, for being here with me. A lovely steed that companions me on my journey. I love you.

“And, when the body has done its job, it can lay down like the fallen petals that follow a full bloom, ready to be recycled into more life through the earth. We can express our gratitude, knowing it did all it could for us to be a blessing and a vehicle of love.” ~ Hollie Holden

10-22-2023

I turned to Hollie’s notes for better understanding this morning so I send gratitude to her. Here is what I understood:

The body is a communication device, a tool, so it is neutral. Neutral does not mean passive or not important, or low priority. Being in a neutral body is to be peaceful and in service to this life.

We fulfill our purpose in our body by expressing love.

10-21-2022

I’ve come to recognize that my body has its own intelligence, it knows things about me that I have chosen not to see. Perhaps it is just storing information. But still, I feel it is worthy of appreciation and honoring.

This is like our planet Earth. We realize more and more how important it is to honor Mother Earth instead of just assuming she is there to take from with no consideration of consequences.

In honoring our physical home (Earth and body), there are phrases in this lesson that I find a bit inconsiderate, i.e. “unneeded and cast off.”

The words feel like they try to not be negative as they deliver the message of the body serving a function – that of not being our identity.

Yes, I can see the body as a neutral thing, but I love it. It is a great gift to me, something I created with Mother Earth and God.