The world as the body
Have you ever kept a diary? A place where you note down the different things that happen in your day and how you felt about it?
I’ve enjoyed keeping a variety of diaries over the years and one I’m particularly enjoying at the moment is my outside world nature diary, or nature log.
In my nature log I keep a note of the changing scenery around me as the seasons go by. Daffodils in spring, roses in summer, apples in autumn and robins in winter….
I really recommend it!
It encourages me to pause and reflect, but also to broaden my gaze beyond the every day hustle and bustle of life.
But what do you write in an outside world diary? My guess is that many of us think of the outside world as being made up of anything we encounter with our senses. For example nature, people, the tv, houses, pets, culture, food.
Anything happening ‘out there’.
But where does your body fit into the enquiry?
For sure, your body is something you can watch and observe a change in. In the same way you might observe the hedgerows changing with the seasons or fashions change in the shop fronts.
Every day your body brings you some new revelation (some better than others, lol) And each year your body proposes a new way of taking care of it. What worked a few years ago, may not bring the same result today.
But is the body to be considered as inside, as we would think of our emotions or heartbeat as being inside, or is it considered to be outside, as we would think of the trees, the economy, and the rain?
Usually, what we think of as inner or outer is correlated with what we consider to be me or other. And the way we draw this line has a big influence on the attitude we take toward our environment, social life, personal relationships and work.
What do you think, is the body inside or outside? Leave a comment and let me know. I always love hearing what you have to say.
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