A Body Meditation

Body Meditation

Scan your body and consider--

What has it done recently?

Dug in the dirt – Planted seeds – pulled weeds

Held another’s hand

Changed a diaper of a child or an elder

Chopped food – cooked a meal – cracked an egg –

Fed yourself or another

Created art – held a pen – colored a picture

Hovered over keyboard and mouse

Scrubbed the bathroom – washed the dishes

Wiped away tears – caressed a loved one

Carried a load – steered a car

Exchanged money -- Turned a page

Played a game, laughed in joy

Clenched, in anxiety or anger or hope

Opened, waiting for gifts, perhaps you’re not even sure what

Bled from a paper cut, or worse

Ached from illness or injury

Healed from illness or injury

Remained your still companion while you slept

…consider how nothing happens, no experience, no learning, no revelation, except in and through our bodies.  Even our dreams and thoughts and ideas come through physical matter, through the physical workings of cells and synapses.

...consider how no relationship, no connection with the earth or with another person or with the Spirit of Life happens except in and through our bodies.

…consider how nothing that happens to you happens to you alone.  In our physical presence we are bound to all of creation.