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Ode To My Bod

January 20, 2012 in Inspiration, Uncategorized by jensincero | 1 comment

Today is the last day of my 30 Day Detox.  Tank Da Lawd!

I’m looking very forward to not having olive oil and garlic shakes for breakfast anymore or drinking stuff that looks like grandma’s ashes 5 times a day.

 

I think I just saw a tooth go by

 

I’m fairly amazed I don’t feel very different.  I don’t have tons more energy, haven’t had a spiritual awakening and didn’t poop out any old truck tires or rusty license plates (real disappointed about that, actually).

BUT I do have a mighty sense of accomplishment, rock solid discipline and, most importantly, a heightened awareness that I’m walking around in this utter miracle known as my body.  I mean, the fact that we have beating hearts and growing toenails and spleens and sight and it all still works even after we abuse, neglect and eat fried food!  We should be clawing at ourselves, gripping the furniture and screaming in tongues because our tiny minds can not handle such stupendous impossibility happening right before our very eyes.

So, thanks to my cleanse, I’ve been reminded that food is meant to nourish my body, not just stop it from being hungry or keep my tongue happy.

That exercise, and for me, yoga, should be as non-negotiable as getting out of bed in the morning.

And water!  It is made up of water!  Why am I not drinking tons of water all the time every day?

In closing, on this high, holy, last day of my cleanse, I would like to send a shout out to my awesome bod and:

1.) Thank it for hanging out with me.

2.) Beg its forgiveness for the years spanning age 16 – 30 and all the substance abuse, sleep deprivation and humiliating outfits it had to endure.

3.) Tell it I love it.  Sniff.

 

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Little Badass of the Week – All Hail the Uterus!

March 10, 2010 in Badass of the Week by jensincero | 6 comments

The fact that you are sitting here reading this, that out of all the sperm and all the eggs and all the bazillions of little coincidences that led to two people meeting and mating at the exact time that they went on to spawn the exact people who went on to spawn the exact people who went on to spawn the exact people who then went on to spawn the you that is you is a miracle of mind boggling proportions.

There are so many things like that floating around in our worlds that we could easily spend every single second of our lives stumbling around in a stupor, clawing at the sky, sobbing tears of disbelief – look at this orange!  It’s perfect!  It has skin and seeds and juice – it’s beautiful.  It’s FOOD!  It can feed me and make my body work!  Holy crap, my BODY!  I have a body that knows how to breathe and walk and grow toenails and sleep.  Sleep!  WHAT THE HELL!  And on and on and on and on…

Which is probably why we were given the ability to worry that our asses are too fat.  Much easier to digest.  Get more work done that way.

This Little Badass of the Week submission was sent in by Nancy Irvine who does a superb job of reminding us of yet another miracle we rarely sit and ponder:

“Here’s one of me being a badass.  Not in drag – nothing out of the ordinary, but extraordinary just the same.  I created human beings.  Twice.  I created eyeballs, lungs, hearts, veins, livers to destroy in later life with copious amounts of alcohol, mouths and two freaking brains.   I did this in my uterus (seriously mind boggling) then pushed the little weasels out and am hopefully bringing them up to be cool and contributing members of the planet.  I think that is pretty fucking badass.  And by the way – I did this at 41 & 43 years of age.  WTF was i thinking???”

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