Changing The Body
The Physical Form As A Map Of Your Subconscious
All of us, at least at some point in our lives, have spent a great deal of time and energy fine-tuning our personal style or aesthetic.
Everything that goes into our various presentations becomes a vehicle for self-expression. I’m not going to wear polo shirts and khakis to school — that’ll make me seem like a stiff nerd; I’m going to wear band tees and ripped jeans instead, so everyone knows I’m artistic and a little edgy. I’m going to get a crew cut and wear a leather jacket so people know I’m tough. I’m going to start wearing a three-piece suit and drinking negronis so everyone in the bar knows I’m slick and erudite. Etc., etc.
Because we focus so much of our conscious attention on external expressions of personality, though, we forget that there are other ways by which we self-express. And, it never occurs to us that self-expression isn’t only limited to how we’d like to be seen (meaning, how we’d consciously like to express our personalities) but that our subconscious thoughts, feelings, and beliefs end up getting expressed too.
How, then, do our subconscious minds find expression if not through external things like clothes, haircuts, style of speech, style of possessions, etc.?
Our subconscious minds find their expression via our bodies.
Lester Levenson, who I quote constantly, once said, “Your body is your idea of a body; my body is my idea of a body.”
Everyone’s body is their idea of a body.
Or, perhaps more precisely, everyone has an idea of a perfect body, which gets spun together with their thoughts and feelings about themselves as a personality, and the end result is that person’s actual body.
It’s important to note here that there is no literal perfect body. We aren’t discussing societal beauty standards or what people might argue is or isn’t the “right” body. What we are dealing with is an individual person’s “perfect body” — the body that feels right and natural for them. The body that they feel is a true and clear expression of their personality.
Because these “natural bodies” come in all different shapes and sizes. The body that looks right on me won’t look right on you, and vice versa. And, for all the talk there is about “societal beauty standards,” if you take a look at many of the people “society” considers to be world-class beauties, you’ll find that they don’t actually look anything like the “standard” of their time period. We find these people beautiful not because they look any certain way but because they look the way they are supposed to look; their bodies and general appearance are perfect expressions of their natural, unhindered personalities.
If there is something (or many things) you don’t like about your body or your appearance, it is always the case that some subconscious self-assessment is expressing itself physically via your body. And, once you know this, you can elicit real and marked changes to your physical appearance simply by dealing with the subconscious thoughts/feelings/beliefs that have been holding you back. So, if you are interested in changing your body/appearance via manifestation, let’s get into it.