Vehicle for Experience - Think Piece

My body is, before anything else, my vehicle for conscious experience. My body’s only essential function is to serve and facilitate this sensory escapade. The sexualization of the female body has been intentionally propogated by the patriarchy in order to confine women and feminine presenting people to limiting beliefs of who they have the space to be. These limiting beliefs have only become so ingrained in society to inhibit women from accessing and believing in their full power and potential. The limiting beliefs we have been raised in subscription to, have no basis in truth. Feminine confines have been created with intention. They have been created in order to strip women of their self-belief. They have been created by a society that knows without them, collective feminine power would override the oppression of all people within this patriarchal system. The sexualization of the female form holds nothing of substance, it has simply served as an effective way to keep women from realizing that they can exist freely outside the boundaries of the male gaze. 

Judgements of physical forms in general hold no objective truth. It will never be possible to fully grasp the perception of another person. No matter how well they can attempt to describe it to you. A person’s distinctive genetic make-up, their past experiences and their projections contribute to an entirely unique way of perceiving the world. What one person desires, rejects or views indifferently can never be identical to the opinions of another. Thus, the entire notion of a societal standard of beauty can not have its roots in truth. There is no world in which a societal standard of beauty can be based on anything other than propoganda. We are collectively manipulated into believing that such standards contain something of objective importance. We are made to revere these illusory paradigms and to believe there is some version of ourself that is more deserving of acceptance than who we are currently. This culture thrives off the perpetuation of our feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness, and not only in a monetary sense. The more insecure we feel, the more likely we are to project our insecurities on to others. We end up involuntarily spreading these narratives of inhibition, the very ideologies that sustain our disempowerment. Without conscious awareness, we contribute to and uphold the illusions that keep us from accessing our inherent worth. We are collectively manipulated into propagating the messages of the system, so that the system needn’t work as hard to do so.

Our entrapment in a fabricated frame of reference, in a lifetime of needless comparison, serves to lead us away from the uniquiness of our experience. The abstract and intangible lens of other people’s proposed perceptions is designed to remove us from our own beliefs. To seperate us from our presence. To disconnect us from the power that comes from being firmly rooted in the truths of our own inherent worth. These stories are so deeply ingrained, they have been fed to us since before conception, they have been promulgated for generations before us. However, patience, energy and effort will allow us to unpick more and more threads that hold together the fabric of illusion. With intention, awareness and compassion we will slowly eradicate each layer of conditioning and each limiting belief. The mental models that prioritize falsehoods over our own wellbeing and self-acceptance will slowly fall away. 

The eradication of your own conditioning will make room for the knowledge that your body is, first and foremost, your vehicle for experience. In its ability to sense, to hear, to touch, to taste. To the extent that there is something that it’s like to be you, your body has succeeded in its own unrepeatable undertaking. Right now, your body is succeeding in exactly that which it was made to do. Your inherent worth is embedded in your capacity to experience this moment. It is embedded in its ability to be receptive to sensory input, in the precise way that only your body can.