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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Short Essay: The Importance of My Body

I think that my body is indispensable to live in this world, and it’s like a wonderful container. If this container doesn’t work well, my mind, spirit, and soul also don’t function appropriately. Therefore, training my body is really important. To tell you the truth, I sometimes use my “mind” too much, neglecting my body. In other words, I sometimes try to know the world by using only my mind. However, I have faced several difficulties when I tried to understand this real world by means of only my mind. That is to say, I couldn’t perceive the world fully through my mind alone. Then, I noticed that I needed to use my body in order to understand me, others, and the world more comprehensively. I believe that our body knows a lot and often may understand ourselves more deeply than our mind does. In that sense, it is important for me to use and energize my body.

Furthermore, I feel that my body is being embodied in this world when I concentrate on a deep realm in my body. In other words, when I deepen a dialogue with my body, I become connected with my body strongly and feel that I’m embodied in the world. So as to feel this, I need to listen to a lot of voices in my body (sometimes I need to listen carefully to a voice because it could be very silent.) and activate my body enough.