LET’S LOVE
LOVE YOUR BODY, MIND, AND SOUL.
LOVE THE WORLD.
After the 60's time of total revolution-- serious hippie, political, sexual, spiritual revolution, working hard to push boundaries and the status quo and create SERIOUS CHANGE. After this heavy time of war and more war fighting against having the wars, the 70's emerged-- the time to boogie! We often dismiss this time period and I know the younger generations look at it with disdain, we don't honor or respect that time at all! We all know the classic tunes, the typical dance moves from Saturday night fever with John Travolta, and we all loved rocking those bell bottoms. But it's usually regarded as a silly, ridiculous period that no one wants to ever talk about again. Why do we pass over this incredible time and message of wild expression and fun?
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You can think you are enlightened, super successful, perfectly polished, a wonderfully embodied god/dess and just rocking everything in life, but when mama shows up, all of it vanishes, and you are just mama's little child. All accomplishments, titles, and ideas you have about yourself melt into the warmth of that cozy, warm, snuggly, familiar place in your mom's heart. This place that held you from the very beginning is one of the most comforting beds you'll ever lie in. Nothing else compares, and any other desire to be someone or do something vanishes at the slight beckoning to nestle under that mama blankie of love, protection, and acceptance.
What if sex and sexual energy was never deemed anything different or separate from any other regular part of your body and your life? What if it was never thought of as bad, shameful, ugly, disturbing, inappropriate, wrong, dirty, seedy, slutty, degrading, disrespectful, angry, violent or shady? What if it was so normalized to just feel every part of our body equally? What if it was acceptable, dare I say it, to even love our entire body? What if we were all on board with feeling pleasure and excitement? What if the pleasure of enjoying our own bodies was considered to be beautiful, normal and it was encouraged, instead of being some dark devilish 'mistake' that needs to be expelled from our lives? What if the religious could see the fallacy in believing in an all-knowing and all-powerful God that would create bodies providing immense sexual pleasure, only to supposedly condemn, deny and shame it? What if we honored ourselves and the gift of feeling good in our own bodies?
We are living in a great time for vegans- There is a lot of awareness now around wanting to be kinder and healthier with our diets, and now there are so many foods catering towards vegetarians and vegans. It's fantastic progress we've made from the days where the word vegan was completely foreign and vegetarian meant, 'Um, should I bring you some iceberg lettuce with our Caesar dressing?'
Let's be honest though, in our attempts to be more aware of what we eat, are we really eating healthier with these new vegan options? Now vegans can have vegan burgers with fake meats and fake cheeses, vegan donuts with 'egg substitutes' processed flour and a whole bunch of refined sugar, even regular pizza restaurants will offer a vegan Deep dish pizza! Whoa! It's great because we're being kinder to the animals, but are we being kind to our own bodies? And are we being kinder to each other? Sometimes being vegan turns into still not being conscious of our own health. And sometimes being vegan turns into a political stance that leads to more divide and anger between vegans and everyone else. For me, food was a major source of addictive behavior. You don't crave the food itself, but the pleasure you get from disconnecting from your life experience at the moment. Same goes with any addiction. It's never the thing itself, but how you relate to it, your dependency on it. Food was my comfort and escape. When there are feelings I don’t want to feel and things I want to avoid doing. Food was my go-to distraction to avoid the things I'm afraid of. I think mannnny of us can relate to this one. But food used to be so sweet and innocent..how did it become our enemy??
In the midst of a period where I felt I lost myself--leaving behind mediation, leaving behind my values and belief systems, things that I knew to be true about who I really am--I forgot that I also abandoned my connection to my sexual energy and my body. When I started to reconnect to my body and my sexual energy, things started to make sense again.
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MICHAELA CLARA I'm here to share what I've learned through my journey of self exploration-traveling around the outer world and within the inner world-learning about how to live a healthy life, in alignment with the body, heart and soul. Every day I'm discovering how to live more in health, connection and truth. Through joy, passion & self love, creating the life I want, and sharing this love with others. Join me for the ride! Read More |