Let Your Skinny Out.

As a teenager I was awkward and thin as a rake, compelled to play a guitar, go fishing, ride my bike and fight my mother tooth and nail. As I remember there was no decision in any of it, it was just that way and I had to carry it out: Strange then that this is about obesity. I believe it’s about holding in. But what and why and how can that result in more physical weight? American Indian tradition suggests we are body, mind, spirit and emotions working in seamless tandem as a being. I can look down and think OK that sounds about right. So ‘holding in’, what’s that about? Might there be or have been some instance where this being decided to hold in? A long forgotten barely conscious decision the result of some circumstance of others. A circumstance where one of those four elements moved away from its natural outward flow. Examples. Where your mind, blocked from its outgoing curiosity, was turned to inward passivity: Where your emotions were unwelcome or swamped or channelled inward: Where your spirit, bent on its unruly progress, was snubbed by some rationality: Where you body, ever eager to show its prowess, was governed into servitude. Consider the Olympics. Have you seen body, mind, spirit and emotions writ large in each competitor? And have you pondered that it’s so evident because they’re giving it out hugely like a beacon and not keeping it in. Sure they’ve trained physically but they’ve trained their mind and emotions and also their spirit to carry on and give out. In a sense maybe we’re all involved in our own personal Olympic marathon, training daily to let our energies, enthusiasm and dreams out or snubbing them, holding them in. If we do then our body will do the same and we’ll become obese. Don’t count calories, count opportunities to express your being.