Amidst the magic, I met someone who completed my world in ways unfathomed by me. And a lot of it is about the body and the intertwining of the body and the mind. You would think that after all our insistence on the healing benefits of bodywork, I would have been an expert. But I wasn’t. And funny enough, it was not just that my body suddenly experienced the intense proximity of a loved body, nor was it exclusively the hours spent in being explored by my love and exploring my love, nor the hours spent intertwined in intimate sensations while thinking together. For me the most striking revelation came when my love asked me to stand naked in front of a mirror and to look at myself, to see myself. I am not a young person, but this was the first time that I actually looked, the first time that I actually saw myself, and I realised that this had been a missing piece of the puzzle. I had gained some connection to my body over the decades, but in order to truly bond you have to see.
My love calls it the Thinker’s Mirror, for all those who are in danger of disappearing in their minds, and who occasionally need a reminder that they are also a body, a body which is at its best when nurtured and used.
This wonderful experience both the bond with my love and the further discovery of my body made me want to reunite with the others and to share the news with them.
© Charlie Alice Raya, 2022-25, THE END OF ALL WARS, The roots of war
Tree mirrored in a creek.
DAY 7, connecting to
THE END OF ALL WARS
‘You would think that after all our insistence on the healing benefits of bodywork, I would have been an expert. I wasn’t.’
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