I M Perfect lady

I am reading a book called “Reinventing the Body, resurrecting the Soul, by Deepak Chopra.

I gulp it down and then go back and read it again, for what he is saying is so very interesting.

He was speaking of the different Ego Agendas, there were many, and I had flavors of a few, here is one.

Criticism and perfectionism constitute another variation on attacking before someone else attacks you.  In this case, the critic fears being seen as imperfect.  There’s an underlying sense of being wrong or defective. The sense of being never good enough is projected outward: “nothing can be right with you if I’m not right.”  When our ego adopts this agenda, it thinks it’s protecting us from anxiety and humiliation. Perfectionists hold up impossible standards so that nothing can ever be good enough, thereby proving that they are right to feel that they can never be good enough.  There’s obviously an element of anger here as well, since the critic and perfectionist are attacking their victims, much as they always protest that “it isn’t personal.” It’s always personal…..to them.

He goes on after listing all the agendas, “To expand in awareness, you must see past these ego agendas and learn to be honest about your motivations.  There’s a sort of negotiation constantly going on between your ego and your body. When you become aware of what your body is trying to tell you, then your ego can’t keep reinforcing its agenda.  You have physical proof that you are blocking the flow of experience, which should be easy, carefree, and spontaneous.  So when you see yourself falling back on fixed ego strategy, see it for what it is, and stop.  You must catch yourself at the very moment you begin to act self-important, dependent, or overbearing.  Your ego will kick into a prearranged behavior automatically; like muscles, behaviors have memory.  Once you trigger them – even slightly- they jump into action.

Simply by being aware, you can check on your body.  There will always be signs of an underlying emotion.  Feel that emotion; be with it.  Contact allows the physical sensation to dissipate naturally; your discomfort lessens as your body lets go of distorted or stuck energies that you have been holding on to.  Only in this way can you melt away your defenses.  Unless you are aware, change is impossible.  But when you bring awareness to your body, you can start becoming undefended.  Reality starts to be more acceptable as it is, not as you try to force it to be.

Congratulate yourself for being willing to change.  Awareness is capable of overcoming the most restricted boundaries; because every boundary is made of nothing but awareness that has decided to contract instead of expand.  Also, appreciate your body for its honesty.  It has been letting your soul shine through when your mind refused to.  You are making a connection to your body, and each connection, however small, brings you closer to your soul as the level of life where you can reside permanently and with total ease.” Deepak

“…appreciate your body for its honesty.  It has been letting your soul shine through when your mind refused to.”

What I love the most about this body is its honesty. 

The body is only a reflection on what we put our awareness on.  The ego’s agenda or the souls, pick one.

I love the ‘pick one’; it makes it so much easier.

I pick soul. 

I love how only the soul gets to speak using the body.

My soul always shined through; first it shown with pain and fear, then with joy, love and peace. 

I know that it is capable of shining the worst darkness and the greatest Light.  How incredibly awesome a soul full body!