A Moment of Body Gratitude
Written by Debbie Rosas
Original post:
http://debbierosas.com/post/45688036804/thank-you-body
“Thank you body for dancing
with me, for allowing me to experience the rhythmic journey you know as
rhythm, melody and harmony. The dance of healing you dance with me in
every beat of my heart. I love you body.
Thank you body for the gift and magic of a
brain, and for the specialized parts that help me stay on the beat,
move my arm when I want to move my arm, when I say “arm move up and
down”. I love you body.
Thank you body for always dancing, even
when I am unconscious to the rhythm of my life. You, the one who causes
me to tap my foot, sway my hips, wobble my head, move me without me even
knowing I am dancing. I love you body.
Thank you body for your wisdom that keeps
me connected from the inside to the outside, to the dance of your 75
trillion cells. I love you body.
Thank you for the magical subcortical areas in my brain designed to bypass higher auditory areas that make it possible for me to hear you with more than my ears! I love you body.
Thank you body, for the interpersonal
experience of moving through space, and for the opportunity to express
myself, giving credence and respect to the art and power of
self-expression. I love you body.
Thank you body for making me a sensation
scientist, curious and aching to explore myself and my body as a vast
universe with information to create positive health and well being for
me and the world. I love you body.
Thank you body for keeping me in awe as an artist, using my body and live and movement to create art. I love you body.
Thank you body for a region in you, in
the brain called the posterior parietal cortex, a magical smart part I
know lives toward the back of my brain designed to translate visual
information and turn it into instructive motor commands, signals sent
forward to the motion-planning areas in the pre-motor cortex and
supplementary motor cortex of my brain. I love you body.
Thank you body for creating the neural
impulses that stimulate me and allow me to dance. To the magical signals
of information that travel to my spinal cord and then to my muscles so
they contract and pull on my bones, moving them so I can shimmy, kick,
sink and rise, fold and unfold into movement pleasure. I love you body.
Thank you body for the sensory organs that
rest in my muscles and provide me with feedback, information sent from
my brain telling me the exact orientation of my body in space, and that make it possible for me to know where I am even with my eyes closed. Be here now, and know where you are, this is their Mantra I listen to. I love you body.
Thank you body for the magic of nerves,
string-like threads that receive and transmit information, elegantly
passing through my spinal cord into the cerebral cortex of my brain,
making me Sensory IQ wise and body aware without thinking but by
sensing, from listening to The Voices of the Body-my body. I love you
body.
Thank you body of woman, for the
eight-thousand nerve endings dedicated to pleasure,and for the pulse of
life and creative juice you give me, and for the gift of “knowing” what
is right when I listen to you, commune with you and honor your voice.
Thank you for the opportunity to live in a woman’s body, and as Regena,
Mama Gena says, for reminding me that, “When a woman’s turned on, the
whole world is blessed”. I love you body.
Thank you body for the constant loving
feedback you give me, for helping me to refine and tweak my movement s,o
what I do, I do with greater ease, dynamic ease. Thank you for guiding
me to choose pleasure via the subcortical circuits in my brain’s
cerebellum. I love how I can imagine resting and dancing with you there,
at the back of my brain, in the basal ganglia areas in my brains core,
standing one with you because I know who you are, where you are and what
you do for me. I love you body.
Thank you for reminding me of the
importance of FreeDancing, of moving and navigating my body through
space without thinking, activating my precuneus: The Your Way and Body’s
Way kinesthetic body-centered map, the parietal lobe region close to
where the kinesthetic representation of my legs reside. Knowing you are
there I move more confidently, and with greater ease and relaxation. I
love you body.
Thank you body for sight, what makes it
possible from areas in the premotor cortex of my brain to switch on,
making it possible for me to mentally rehearse before, see, before I do,
what I do. I love you body.
Thank you body for the dance, for the
opportunity to interpret, stylize, imitate, and represent what I see
others doing in My Body’s Way. I love you body.
Thank you body for the universal language
of movement, body language, spoken in a shape, a shimmy, a pump, a push
and pull, a reach, and shake, I love you body.
Thank you body for the silent and
powerful impulse you use to move me, my cells, you, triggered by sound,
music, and by my emotions.
Thank you body for the opportunity to be
in a loving community of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organ
systems, and organisms-me in my body and with other bodies, part of a
nested system and part of the Universe.
Thank you body for the map of The Body’s Way, a woman’s way, and for dancing with me. I love you body.
Thank you body for teaching me, we are
connected, one, whole, moving and functioning best when filled with joy
and love, respect and curiosity. For reminding me that if I continue to
thirst for discovering what it means to live in my body as an empowered
woman, alive with with light and passion, kept alive by taking the path
of pleasure, and by following my heart and the guidance of those eight
thousand nerve endings-all is well in the world."