The body I have been given is my vehicle, my cage, my post, my mansion, my temple, my bunker. It is a marvelous, complex machine, but it can only do so much to heal injuries and wounds. If we slice a nerve or a tendon our body will never again work quite as well as before. We have no idea how incredibly complex our body is. Medical science has figured out how to coax cells and systems one way or the other to avert disease, but healers and hospitals are still very much about just giving a body a rest, stopping the intake of poisons, and letting nature do the work of healing it does so well. The doctors just seem to be healers, actually the body knows what to do by itself. Our desires for tasty foods and drugs of various sorts are what weakens and destroys us over time. The best things a person can do to feel good physically and assure longevity are to eat healthy "alive" foods, chew well, eat low on the food chain (legumes, vegetables, grains, fruits) and get plenty of exercise and good nightly rest.
             A wonderful opportunity to practice self-discipline, which will serve us as a pillar of character in many splendid ways, is to follow the Irish proverb: "Stop eating while you're still hungry, stop drinking while you're still thirsty, and rise from your morning bed before you're fully rested." Once in a while to be fully satiated is nice, but modern folks just seem to stuff themselves at every meal and end up too big and slow just because "it tasted good". The beginning of problems with self-esteem start with our looks and the shape of our body, about which we can do practically nothing. Everyone is beautiful in their own way though. One of my favorite pastimes is watching people in a public place. It has been said that you can tell what's inside a person, what they're like, by how they move. I like to admire them all, big, small, short, tall, any color
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