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If we take our bodies for granted and half-heartedly or tentatively inhabit them, treating them as meat sacks, we live a less than satisfactory life experience.
How our bodies feel and how we hold them are messages to us about how we’re living: the thoughts we continually think, and our defenses against life and living. Not being present, awake, mindful, and alive is a coping mechanism - a defense against the trials and challenges of life.
We must be aware and respectful inhabitants of our bodies.
How much thought, care, and attention have you given to your feet? Are they just dangling beneath your body, carrying you somehow from point a to point b? What if I were to suggest that your relationship with your feet is a direct correlation with your entire relationship with life: with how fully alive, present, aware, mindful, and happy (or unhappy) you are to be here - alive and walking planet earth?
Taking control of your feet and legs and choosing to be mindful of them says "right now I’m choosing to be present. I’m choosing to know that I’m alive inhabiting this body made of earth and water, and I’m going to use my body effectively and inhabit it respectfully and mindfully. I'm choosing to live, and I'm choosing to take deliberate care of and responsibility for my own life and time on planet earth."
When you focus mindfully on your feet and legs and you open them up and press through them strongly and evenly, allowing energy to flow through them, you open up your body to life. You allow the energy of life to flow up through you to all your other life centers.
While you’re practicing with your legs and feet, you must mindfully and consciously make affirming statements about life. You must deliberately make the choice that you’re willing to fully be here. Your feet and legs are very literally how present you are. How present you are is literally how alive you are. If your feet touch the ground like lifeless stumps, you have resistance to being here - to life, to being alive.
Practice mindful walking all throughout your day, taking each step mindfully and deliberately with strong, open, active, and engaged feet.
Sit deliberately so that your feet and legs are still active and part of your awareness while you're sitting.
Some ways to open up your relationship with your feet are standing on an acupressure mat, and giving yourself foot massages - stopping to explore tender areas more deeply - paying attention to what other parts of your body are effected when you press there.