What the Body Says

Yesterday even I was too aware of the constant fear and checking with myself to see if this is the whole of it. It’s not but it is too much I think. The proportions are off. There was so much good on vacation and so much good a lot of the time. One of the very good parts and the unexpected—No the American Cancer Society will still not talk of this—the sex is wonderful. I keep reading all these “sex isn’t everything and intimacy is more than sex” articles but really. We live in these “skin bags” as the Buddhists call them, and the mind body connection is real. So sex is not just of the body. Can’t have it both ways. As a dancer and athlete I know the power of what can both be stored in and accessed through the body. We can access our past, memory, emotion and self knowledge through the human body. It is that powerful. And then at the last minute we pull back and say, “Well sex isn’t all that important? Is that prudery? self-consciousness? American reticence or just another kind of fear?

I’m not immune. When I consider this relationship I think, “Too much sex?” and “Too much emphasis on sex?” Is it compensation for something else? But again I come back to the body. “The body does not lie” Jung wrote and Marion Woodman says “when in doubt ask the body.” But sometimes we need a translator for the body’s language.