Our bodies tell the stories of what we have been through and who we come from. Our bodies invite us to remember that we have ancestors and that we share a common humanity with other people. If you have a mirror or a photo of yourself, look at your features or your body as a whole, and answer the following questions:
Who do you look like (either specific people or groups of people)?
Who has hair like yours, a face shape like yours, eyes like yours?
Even if the specifics of your feelings and experiences are unique to you, in the history of the world, other people have felt those things and experienced those things too. Imagine them next to you. Notice how it feels to sense your body as the portal to connection.
From Practices for Embodied Living, pg. 24
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