A Doorway to Love

You spend 10 days in complete silence. You meditate for 12 hours a day. You train your mind to focus on the sensations of the body — the ones that roar and the ones that whisper. The screaming pain that disperses into fiery throbbing before dissolving into a thousand little ripples, the deep ache that melts into a shimmer, the millions of tiny, tender vibrations flowing through your whole being like a river after rainfall, letting you know that every cell is alive.
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There are no full length mirrors and you begin to forget what you look like.
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You discover what it is like to live in your body without judgement or attachment, free from the menagerie or inner voices that tell you how you are too much or not enough.
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And then you get home and see your reflection.
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And, unmasked and unafraid, you meet your body for the first time — not as an enemy or a battleground or some kind of sculpture to carve into the ‘perfect’ shape.
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But as a friend. A home. A pathway to peace. A doorway to deep love.
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