soakingspirit: ari.yoga_ I used to be ashamed of my body. The cruel locker room talk about my pre-pu
soakingspirit: ari.yoga_ I used to be ashamed of my body. The cruel locker room talk about my pre-pubescent boy breasts shattered my confidence and warped my body image for most of my life. Shopping for clothes was the worst because nothing fit, and eating was the only thing that made me feel better...Eventually I lost the weight (and the breasts), yet I still despised who I saw looking back at me. Over the years I added a few tattoos, peircings, and battlescars to display the dark and hardened little boy lingering underneath. I worked hard to like what I saw in the mirror, but still, I found myself disappointing. ..Last summer I began experimenting with being nude in nature. For a month it became my morning practice to bathe in the icy mountain stream near my campsite. Breathing in deeply the rawness of life and experiencing myself as I had never before was so indescribably freeing that I literally felt the shape of my heart change. ..You are beautiful. No matter what you think you see in the mirror or what you hear in the streets or in the locker room - you are beautiful. Your shape, your smell, your voice, your color, your parts, your orientations and aspirations don’t change this fact. Because beauty lies not in the beholding, but in the being; and in our natural state of being we are loving, compassionate, and Joyful, and that is the kind of beauty that needs no eyes to behold. <3 Ari.......#bodypositive #loveyourself #selflove#inspiration #naturist #natural #nude #l4l#followforfollow #getoutside #skinnydip#tattooed #beyourself -- source link