What Size is Your Soul?

What size is your soul? And does your body match its outline? When your body doesn’t match your magnificent soul, there will be problems. Namely, we become dissatisfied with our bodies. This incongruence between our spiritual dimension and physical dimension creates weight issues, beauty issues, and eating disorders. It can also contribute to extreme fashion statements such as: gothic clothing, tattoos, piercings, and other tendencies.

While coaching a client this week I recognized the desperation associated with this disparity between her true profile and the one she wears on the outside. She felt uncomfortable in her own skin. Like a suit that doesn’t fit well; puckering in the wrong places and getting in the way. Over the course of the previous week she had sabotaged her weight loss with binges and escapes. When pressed for a reason, she confessed it was motivated by fear of success. She was panicked at the thought of losing weight and going into uncharted territory as a “thin” person. She didn’t know who she would be if she lost weight. I reminded her she was actually resuming her “original” size. Her true self, or soul, was the perfect size for her. With better balance and health the unneeded weight would be stripped away revealing her good ole self underneath. With peace and relief she understood that rather that embracing the unknown she was, in fact, becoming whole—going home.

Replace fear with faith in your body—warts and all. We were designed to be in balance, which means to function as well as possible given limitations outside of our control. Some things we cannot prevent, but we can feel gratitude for the working parts and manage well the things under our control. Even when working through diabetes, grief, allergies, and other wild cards we can revel in the perfect design of a body that wants to be honored with healthy connections.

Never be afraid of healthy changes to your body. Rather, celebrate your brilliant soul as you assume the size, shape, power, and profile you always were.

Tres Hatch is the author of: Miracle Pill 10 Truths to Healthy, Thin, & Sexy