This may sound like a silly question at first but if you think about it, you will conclude that all your decisions have been made based on how you answer this very profound yet basic question internally. Once you have an opinion about your relationship to your body, then from that point on all your decisions will be pivoted accordingly.
Also, when you evaluate some of the events of your life, you will notice that many of your actions and reactions have been mainly based on protecting this body or maintaining the image that you may have of it.
So the fundamental question would be; “what is your relationship with your body?” Do you think that you are your body? Or, do you think that you are separated from your body and mainly reside in it for a short time of your physical life experiences?
In some of the studies that were done with measuring people just before and after their death, they had reported that a dead person loses an average, a few ounces right after their death. At the same time that this has been controversial as far as being interpreted to be the weight of our soul, the fact of its existence cannot be denied.
“If your definition of who you are is based on a religious belief that says the earthly things are for a short while and the eternal life is awaiting you in paradise. Your approach in every decision of your life is from that angle. To love and to hate is based on the basic belief that your punishment or reward is awaiting you in another world
What if your definition of who you are is to do whatever it is that makes you feel good and satisfies you physically. The purpose of life is to enjoy your body and your physical experiences to their maximum.
What if your definition of who you are is to spend in solitary to find yourself without any contacts with the outside world.
What if your definition of who you are is to live mindlessly and go through the process of just living, accepting everything as it is without questioning the beginning or the end and the process. This is just the way it has always been, therefore it must be the right way and the only way.” (Upcoming Book by AA -The Voice Within)
Many sects of yogis and monks require that their novices train meditation practices dealing with simulating their physical death so they can remove that fear and avoid being a hostage to it through their growth in search for enlightenment.
“To embrace is to love and to let go is to love more. Knowing that the desire to hold is to poses and to poses is to rule and to rule is to be separated and the separation is to be apart from ourselves, to part from ourselves is to be independent from the divine force that created us and to be alone in an endless universe can only be described by the definition of hell as we know it.” (Upcoming Book by AA -The Voice Within)
So to embrace the body that we temporarily reside in, is to love but to be capable of not being attached to it is to even love more!
Alex Abossein,
InnerFit, Oasis For Perfect Health