Humans Have Bodies

Glennon Doyle describes powerfully, in her book, "Untamed", how we can spend our lives keeping the snow globe shaking and filled with moving glitter. Only when the glitter settles, does the dragon in the middle reveal itself. I used to keep myself busy and distracted, ensuring my day was filled with important things that must be done right now, or reaching for my phone any time there was a lull, or an unexpected solitary moment. For it was in that moment that the real me in the middle of it all might reveal my Self, to myself.

Humans Have Bodies.

It seems like such a ridiculous statement, but it popped out at me while I was listening to Yuval Noah Harari's new book, "21 Lessons for the 21st Century". The rapid development of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and robots have seemingly closed the gap on humans and other vessels of intelligence.

Humans have bodies. Humans can feel, have emotions, get distracted, make wrong decisions, are messy.

I try to wake up every day, and take a moment to notice my body. I stretch up (how often do we do that as adults - stretch and look UP), I express gratitude for my body's working parts. I pay attention to anything that isn't working well and am grateful for the exercise, or medication, or specialist who may be able to help. I show gratitude for being a human being.

Now, I am fostering gratitude for Me, for my body, for my soul, for everything that makes me uniquely totally and utterly Anna Dyson, today.

The picture of me, above, was taken by my daughter Gavi and filtered with a Snapchat filter ...!