What does your body say about you?

[Darryl]

Which part(s) of your body express who you are? What does that part tell us about you?

[BrentW]

My brain. Renaissance Man.

[Graham49]

Not quite sure what you are after here Darryl, however here goes.

There are the obvious signs that the body has a physical injury to the back, neck, leg, eat to much etc. and I guess these probably say something about occupation or leisure activities, but the body can express our character and whether we are stressed. Anyway that's the way I'm going to answer your question because I'm interested in that stuff.

According to the theories of body psychotherapy, residual tensions (body armour) in the body are caused by repressed emotions. Modern ideas on this developed from Willhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen etc. In the 1950s onwards, but similar ideas have been around for a very long time, e.g. practice of meditation, yoga, tai chi were found not only to produce flexible relaxed bodies but relaxed minds as well.

In my own case, I grew up a very tense young man stressed out with work and bringing up a family on a limited income, who in my thirties also had a bad back. I was a bad tempered husband and father who only just avoided divorce. My first revelation was the Alexander Technique, where many lessons enabled me to be more relaxed. In my 40s I had many Rolfing sessions, a systematic deep massage technique that released more deep tensions and helped me to cope with a stressful job. Now I have retired I mainly rely on yoga, tai chi and Feldenkrais lessons to keep a relaxed body and mind, which helps me cope with illness.

None of these practices stopped me from getting kidney failure and prostate cancer in my 60s. However I think I would have been dead long ago without them.

[j-o-h-n]

Mine says "die you son of a bitch, die"

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 12/28/2019 11:59 AM EST

[Kaliber in reply to j-o-h-n]

Rotflmao

[Kaliber]

My whole body says I’m a 73 year old fat clammy sweaty adt freak ..... one with big boobs, shriveled genitals , half hairless body barely able to climb out of my own car. ( sometimes people run over to help me ).

Inside my brain , tho, I’m 39 years old, still a lady killer somewhat reminiscent of Arnold Schwarzenegger in his mister universe days ..... dang I’m good.

What does that part say about me ? Well the words decrepit and delusional ( pathetic? ) come to mind first ...dunno yayahahahaya yayahahahaya.

I’m lucky and happy to be alive brother .... that says a lot.

Peace Darryl ✌️✌️✌️