the centre of my body is where? - blatherings

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the centre of my body is where?

I was chatting with Jim about the yoga class S and I have started taking and he made some derisive snorts about reek of patchouli and mocked the way people talk about centring themselves. I pointed out that he does the same thing before lifting heavy weights – you clear your mind, focus in on what you’re about to do and then get it done – he agreed but said what bothered him was the connecting that to something spiritual. I replied off the cuff, but it’s stayed on my mind since then – I said that many women are discouraged from thinking positively about their bodies or at least thinking about their bodies in a positive light – it’s always dirty and smelly and means you can’t stay out as late as your brother – and that one way to work around that is to attach the positive thoughts to something spiritual, something outside of yourself that is still connected. Essentially, that we need positive ways to connect to our bodies. I think it is one of the things that’s easier for guys – everything is out there, dangling away where for us, not only our parts of us hidden away, but we’re taught to change the smell, the look and that we will always be too hairy and only good with airbrushing

23.9.05 06:08

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K'vitsh / Website (23.9.05 13:08)
Very well put.
It's too bad Jim was so dismissive. Yoga is incredibly difficult, as is centering the mind. Ugh, that didn't come off as deep as I'd hoped.

(23.9.05 20:33)
Let me be clear - he was dismissing the same pseydo-spiritual mumbo jumbo that you and I mock - it isn’t the centering per se it was the making it something bigger than it is. It is the trendyness of things like yoga and how that attarcks a certain kind of person who wants to attain enlightenment while wearing a cute top - and beleives that the shirt and the jargon are more key to enlightenment than the work that needs to be done.