Treating Your Body's Signals with Kindness

The body is an animal. I have to remember that our body is an animal. It hurts because something is wrong and me being hurt is just the animal lashing out to get its needs met. I would not lash back out at a dog biting from fear or pain or even aggression because it doesn't have the capacity to understand the things I do. The body hurting is an alarm bell telling me it needs something and yes, sometimes there is nothing to be done about it. Can't exactly fix a lot of the things. But I can be grateful that it is trying to let me know something is wrong. Just as I have grown grateful for my anger. It's just another signal being given to me that something is wrong and needs fixing. So I will treat it with kindness the same way I would a toddler screaming and throwing a tantrum, because I know it is just communicating an unmet need the only way it knows how. I will resist the urge to lash out right back, and I am sure I will fail sometimes, and instead try to work with it and let the animal that is my body need what it needs without resentment.

The user reflects on their body as an 'animal' that signals distress through pain, anger, or other negative states, akin to an animal lashing out due to unmet needs. They advocate for treating these signals with kindness and understanding, much like one would care for a frightened or hurt animal, resisting the urge to retaliate and instead working to identify and meet those underlying needs without resentment.

I get your analogy;, considering the body like it’s an animal. I think it’s all part of our evolving into becoming whole and balanced. I enjoy falling in love with my body personally, but it was a process to get here with a lot of self loathing to wade through lol! Enjoy your journey. Life is a gift.

I get your analogy;, considering the body like it’s an animal. I think it’s all part of our evolving into becoming whole and balanced. I enjoy falling in love with my body personally, but it was a process to get here with a lot of self loathing to Wade through lol! Enjoy your journey. Life is a gift.

@purevibe798 my body causes me many problems and with those problems come a lot of resentment. i am not very connected to it and I don't really think of it as "me" so to speak. It's my ship carrying me from harbor to harbor though. It's a lame horse trying its best to keep me on its back despite my lack of a good seat. I find myself often angry that it cannot do things that I feel it should be able to do or things that would make me happy. Oftentimes it feels like it punishes me for trying to live my life with pain and nausea and injuries despite me doing very little that would cause things in others. But I am trying my best to appreciate it for what it is. To appreciate all that it does for me and that it cannot choose to punish me, it is just a different animal than others have it seems. I can't expect my 25 year old quarter horse to be able to pull a cart that someone with a 7 year old percheron pulls easily. I am trying to love it, but for now I am choosing compassion in the meantime

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