I love that book,thank you to recommend that book to me Bodhi
yoga one of the passage that I really
love from this book is “Radical self-love is not a destination you are trying
to get to it is who you already are.and it is already working tirelessly to
guide your life “ it’s a reflection of
so many people in their early times loving their body their self no matter what
and when what so called beauty standard that build by media and capitalist
system that make us really challenge to even love yourself but just remember to
comeback and say to yourself I love you and you are enough
And also another passage of this book “These
political,economic and Social issues are about our bodies.They intersect with
our race,age,gender,ability,sexual orientation and a multitude of other ways
our bodies exist” I find so many issue just because other people have different
race for example is what happen to my own country Indonesia,Papua they get
racist comment such as you look like a monkey,your skin colour is dark a lot of
papua people protesting about that because they have been discriminated for so
long,colonialized even from their own country their precious land get
stolen,people get killed in the name of economic opportunity and different
races.
One of the question in the book is “can you recall an
occasion when you compared yourself to someone ? how did the comparison impact
your self-esteem and self-confidence ? how did it impact your ideas about the
other person ?” I compare myself to other people a lot of times even almost
everyday,my physical body is quite fit into “beauty standard” because of my
genetics and lifestyle but I always never feel enough and really loved my body
my skin is dark and most of the times around my country the beauty standard is “white
skin colour” I try to make my skin more bright so many times buying a lot of
nonsense and waste product just so I can more fit into beauty standard and
looking back I realize if I already practice radical self love back then I don’t
have to do all of that nonsense doing face mask everyday buying the papaya
soap,try lemon to my skin that at end makes my skin irritate,I have a dark
chocolate skin colour and its totally okay I am still beautiful and I am enough
and worthy enough to feel,be and get loved.
Let's just stop apologize for our body and let's celebrate and love our body.
With Love
Peni
