17 min
What makes a perfect body? Is it your Health, your looks? Lets consider perfect imperfection known as Wabi Sabi? Easy Like Sunday Morning Holistic Living
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What is physical Perfection? Is it health or elusive looks or simply wabi sabi?
What makes a perfect body? What is that exactly? Is it just looks or health? Is it simply an elusive goal?
In this podcast episode I consider and muse over what is perfection? Who gets to decide what the perfect body is? I was inspired to talk about this subject after hearing a panel discussion. ‘Perfectibility of the body’ was the name given to the cultural arts discussion panel at The Festival of Science and Arts, in London UK. The panel included Alison Lapper, who is the well known outspoken disabilities artist advocate and the writer and poet Michael Horovitz.
Alison Lapper said, “in my eyes I’m in the perfect body”. What a powerful statement of body confidence.
Plato and Aristotle, the philosophers from ancient Greece, stated this about perfection. They believed there could not be a perfect anything. This perfection relates to a colour or a book or a breast. What a relief that is then! Aristotle wrote “that is perfect that has achieved it”.
I wonder if in our culture we are being overly perfectionist in how we do things. Considering what makes a perfect body. Whether wabi sabi would be a more gentler approach to how we view the body and almost everything.
In the episode I provide a list of the practical ways we can help ourselves to becoming or maintaining healthy and happy in our body and mind. It’s not rocket science and it’s not perfect body!
Pause moment senses based mindfulness
For the Pause Moment in this episode I guide you into taking a quiet moment for yourself. I use the power of positive words and visuals to relax the body and mind. To include the letting go of being perfect. We can become our own cheerleader towards living a life we feel comfortable with.
I enjoy hearing about how you dealt with a situation that initially required perfection on your part. How you stepped aside from the stress of perfection and created your own wabi sabi of the situation. You can subscribe to my email list to hear about my new episodes, articles and other subscriber only events.
What is physical Perfection? Is it health or elusive looks or simply wabi sabi?
What makes a perfect body? What is that exactly? Is it just looks or health? Is it simply an elusive goal?
In this podcast episode I consider and muse over what is perfection? Who gets to decide what the perfect body is? I was inspired to talk about this subject after hearing a panel discussion. ‘Perfectibility of the body’ was the name given to the cultural arts discussion panel at The Festival of Science and Arts, in London UK. The panel included Alison Lapper, who is the well known outspoken disabilities artist advocate and the writer and poet Michael Horovitz.
Alison Lapper said, “in my eyes I’m in the perfect body”. What a powerful statement of body confidence.
Plato and Aristotle, the philosophers from ancient Greece, stated this about perfection. They believed there could not be a perfect anything. This perfection relates to a colour or a book or a breast. What a relief that is then! Aristotle wrote “that is perfect that has achieved it”.
I wonder if in our culture we are being overly perfectionist in how we do things. Considering what makes a perfect body. Whether wabi sabi would be a more gentler approach to how we view the body and almost everything.
In the episode I provide a list of the practical ways we can help ourselves to becoming or maintaining healthy and happy in our body and mind. It’s not rocket science and it’s not perfect body!
Pause moment senses based mindfulness
For the Pause Moment in this episode I guide you into taking a quiet moment for yourself. I use the power of positive words and visuals to relax the body and mind. To include the letting go of being perfect. We can become our own cheerleader towards living a life we feel comfortable with.
I enjoy hearing about how you dealt with a situation that initially required perfection on your part. How you stepped aside from the stress of perfection and created your own wabi sabi of the situation. You can subscribe to my email list to hear about my new episodes, articles and other subscriber only events.
17 min