The Virus

She looked in the mirror and smiled,
The lines that held all her smiles and laughter, frowns and tears,
The thin lips that spoke of love and life, 
The crooked nose that was born from the DNA of her ancestors, 
The greying and thinning hairs that colour left because she had painted her life with them,
The deflated chest that had fed her babies and her heart,
The rounding stomach that was full with the power of her womb,
The marks on her skin showed a life well-lived,
the softness of her body that captivated the feminine tenderness and love she pours onto all things that cross her path.
She smiled, she had not caught the virus that worked into the mind to steal energy and thoughts. It had not been able to make her spend money time inflaming her insecurities. It had not taken the part of her that felt free and alive from the way she was supposed to look, instead of the way The Creator had made her. While others got sick from the virus that made them feel they weren’t already enough; she focused on what was really important, a life well lived and loved.

It hadn’t altered her mind in believing anything that permanently altered her appearance would help her self-esteem. Instead, she took the antidote; she worked on herself and loved herself, and freed herself from the environment where the virus tried to infect her.

The Antidote – SELF LOVE:
• Practice Self Love 
• Try ways to accept all parts of you, especially those you don’t
• Stop spending time on negative self -talk 
• Spend your money on creating the life you want, rather than on altering procedures
• Do inner work on yourself – rooting out where these beliefs come from ( making the unconscious conscious)
• Speak to someone about how you feel
• Be around those who have a love of the natural body and have a healthy love of themselves as they are naturally 
• Foster the belief that aging is natural 
• Do not try to run away from aging and death 
• Runs towards life
• Know that the focus on ‘anti-aging’ is anti-human, anti-natural law, anti you focus.
• Concentrate on more important things 
• Cancel the negative voices in the head 
• Celebrate all differences in appearance
• Practice self-care
• Engage in confidence-building exercises 
• Try not to care what others think, and if you do care question why
• Switch off your TV and start living your own ‘best life’
• Do not buy magazines that perpetuate the idea of perfection, instead by ones focused on creativity, nature, special interests. 
• Do not fall for or be in environments where others fall for the mass agenda of self-loathing, attempt to stay young or fall for the latest, diet, or procedure. 
• Be aware that your hatred/dissatisfaction creates billionaires who indoctrinate a certain look to make you feel bad, distract you from what’s important, and line their pockets with gold.

I will be posting a meditation to go with this in the free community space...
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