Occupy Your Body
By Gene Nathan MD
They say there is 1% of us that controls and takes everything.
The rest of us bow and scrape and eke and sweat.
Someone said, “Let’s show up in strength!
Then we can begin a new negotiation, a reconciliation.
Occupy Wall Street”.
When we all show up, then our totality can face itself, part by part.
There is a chance for harmony, synchrony, coordination.
The way forward could be more solid, healthier, less likely to continue to pull us apart.
Without a conversation, there is no chance to coordinate. We are in our silos, counting dwindling resources and opportunities and blaming others for our fate.
Each of us is part of a body, perhaps an essential part. We certainly represent some essential function of its being.
You know the joke, the brain, the heart, the kidneys, the skin, etc, got into a debate over who was most important. Perhaps you even know the punch line.
In your own body you are the 1%. You occupy, even preoccupy your body, ride this body, use this body to power your ambitions, your passions, and your evolution. For the most part, I see the 1% preoccupied and hardly present, shoving past others on the road, in the mall, staring into i-phones at the airport. There is hardly any connection at all.
I see the mass of people eating without awareness, putting food into them at odds with the needs of their stomachs, liver and colon. Shoving as much sugar into their bellies in a day as their pancreas could stand in a week. Their body wants water, they give it coffee, cola, beer, and power drinks. I see the mass of people (the 99%) giving short shrift to the natural clock of sleep, rest, even relieving themselves. When there is this much disparity in the body, there will be an epidemic of depression, ADD, autism, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, autoimmune disorders – and there is.
There needn’t be. Not at all.
I say, begin by occupying your body. Notice the world that you live in and the people around you. Notice your effect on your body, and the effect of a healthy body on you. Take pleasure in fulfilling the needs of your body. Take pleasure in connecting with others and with nature. Build on happiness, love and joy.
Occupy Health!
By Gene Nathan MD
They say there is 1% of us that controls and takes everything.
The rest of us bow and scrape and eke and sweat.
Someone said, “Let’s show up in strength!
Then we can begin a new negotiation, a reconciliation.
Occupy Wall Street”.
When we all show up, then our totality can face itself, part by part.
There is a chance for harmony, synchrony, coordination.
The way forward could be more solid, healthier, less likely to continue to pull us apart.
Without a conversation, there is no chance to coordinate. We are in our silos, counting dwindling resources and opportunities and blaming others for our fate.
Each of us is part of a body, perhaps an essential part. We certainly represent some essential function of its being.
You know the joke, the brain, the heart, the kidneys, the skin, etc, got into a debate over who was most important. Perhaps you even know the punch line.
In your own body you are the 1%. You occupy, even preoccupy your body, ride this body, use this body to power your ambitions, your passions, and your evolution. For the most part, I see the 1% preoccupied and hardly present, shoving past others on the road, in the mall, staring into i-phones at the airport. There is hardly any connection at all.
I see the mass of people eating without awareness, putting food into them at odds with the needs of their stomachs, liver and colon. Shoving as much sugar into their bellies in a day as their pancreas could stand in a week. Their body wants water, they give it coffee, cola, beer, and power drinks. I see the mass of people (the 99%) giving short shrift to the natural clock of sleep, rest, even relieving themselves. When there is this much disparity in the body, there will be an epidemic of depression, ADD, autism, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, autoimmune disorders – and there is.
There needn’t be. Not at all.
I say, begin by occupying your body. Notice the world that you live in and the people around you. Notice your effect on your body, and the effect of a healthy body on you. Take pleasure in fulfilling the needs of your body. Take pleasure in connecting with others and with nature. Build on happiness, love and joy.
Occupy Health!