Affirmation to Self-Help I am blessed to be given my body hence I will treat it with utmost care, love and respect.

I am blessed to be given my body hence I will treat it with utmost care, love and respect.


This body arrived without an invoice. It has been running since before you had opinions about it, and will keep going largely without supervision, which makes you closer to a custodian than an owner.

Care and punishment get mixed up early, so that looking after a body can quietly turn into treating it as a fault to be corrected. The two are distinguishable by tone. Care sounds like water, sleep, a walk because the day was long, and stopping when something hurts.

Respect here is mostly consistency at the boring end — attention paid well before anything has gone wrong.