The body is a filter of consciousness. You are not the body. You are awareness experiencing LIFE through the body’s filters. Imagine how LIFE changes when seen through the myriad of thoughts and emotions flowing through you. Now throw in chemical signals from ever-changing hormones. How do you ever perceive without these lenses? Get to know your true essence of simply being that It is. Then, when you know how it feels to simply be the changeless core, the changes stand out in stark contrast. Learn to observe these changes rather than getting caught up in them and you will be much more of a tourist in the body than a prisoner. You are so very loved.
…”tourist in a body”, is a really good description of a way to look at this. It automatically defines the boundary of materially collected cells from spiritually connected energies. Though obviously they are all joined, the visual of being a “tourist”, allows a simpler view. It’s kinda like looking at food as medicine instead of just a gut-filler with pleasures attached.. …nature and its purposes etc.
Learning to view your body this way is beneficial on multiple levels that you will quickly perceive to aid in diagnosis of “cause and effects” in both a body and in a spirit.
What are you doing with yours? …your body? ….your spirit?