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G'day Groovers Following on from the first bit yesterday, I thought it might be a good idea to bring you the second bit today; clearly all those writing courses have paid off. If I'm getting too technical for you at any stage, let me know and I'll slow it down a little. Okay, on with point four...
4. My body is not who I am; it's where I live. This principle will resonate for some of you, and be of little or no interest to others. For me, it was a truth I needed to learn and live. For a significant period of my life, I invested way too much time, energy and thought into my body, my training and my diet. And not in a good way. My body was my identity; where I gained my sense of self worth, confidence, power. Pathetic I know. But honest. There was a time (late teens and early twenties) when my appearance (how buffed I was) was pretty much the most important thing to me. I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say it, but it's true. When the fat, socially-invisible kid loses weight and as a result gains acceptance, respect and even popularity, he learns at an early age that appearance is very, very important. He learns that if lean is good, then leaner must be fantastic. He learns obsession. Having a 'body' as your identity is not only stupid, but it's also emotionally exhausting, debilitating and destructive. The ego doesn't give a shit about you (real you); it only wants the attention and approval of others and it will ruin you to get it. As a young dysfunctional bodybuilder, I constantly obsessed about how big (and lean) I was. It would only take a "you look like you've lost weight (muscle) Craig" comment, for me to spiral into the emotional abyss.
One day when I was about twenty three, I had a moment. I was standing in the bathroom shaving. I was wearing a pair of jeans and nothing else. My house mate walked in to tell me something and this is what transpired:
HM: "Hey, have you.... (pauses, looks me up and down)... you're f***ing huge. What the f*** have you been doing? How f***ing big do you wanna get? (sure, he had some swearing issues) CH: "A little bigger" HM: "You're a dickhead, bigger where?" CH: "Arms, shoulders.. I want a little more width" HM: "You're f***ed in the head"
* Blokes can talk to each other like that. Especially mates.
My house mate walked off and left me there looking and thinking. In a rare moment of clarity and sanity, I finally gained some perspective; I was huge. I weighed about one hundred kilos (220 lbs) and I was carrying less than ten percent body-fat. For a moment I saw myself for what I was; a big muscular, irrational, dickhead. "Now what?", I asked myself. "I'm huge.... and?" Whatever I thought I would feel when I got that big, I didn't feel it. All of a sudden I felt stupid. I didn't know it then but I now understand that I was experiencing a shift in consciousness and the beginning of awareness.
The next day I went for my first run in years (something a body builder would never do). Over the following twelve months I lost twenty kilos (44lbs) of excess ego (muscle) and found me.
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