Love Thyself

Remember the late sixties, early seventies? Well, maybe some can, while others were still not even born!

The sixties and seventies were epitomized by a new breed of human. Post world war two society sought to express in a different way – and thus new freedom was born. The light-ness of being after the horror of the holocaust, nuclear warfare and the like gave birth to a new creative expression. Elvis Presley was gyrating with Blue Suede Shoes, the peace sign reigned supreme, and the Beatles became a household name. Flower people, or hippies, soon became a cult that expressed personal and sexual freedom.

The fashion industry followed suit, the mini skirt was born, and gone was short-cropped hairstyles for men. Along with this, a new representation of the acceptable human form was born. Big and butch was out, thin and waif-like was in. Men identified less with the masculine form, and woman identified less with the fuller figure.

Enter icons like Twiggy and the Rolling Stones.

The advertising industry and fashion houses embarked onto a relentless drive to feed the masses with this new standard of dictated acceptance. Thin was in. Very thin. In its wake, diseases like bulimia and anorexia became rampant, fed by the new “diet industry”, which produced eating regimes focusing on malnutrition. We were not acceptable anymore if we were not thin, bony and looked like something from a world-war two concentration camp.

This type of mass social-enculturization has left an indelible mark on global society. The emotional evils that emerged from this generation, are still lurking around, in the form of the mindset, or gestalt that it has formed. This mind-set also gave rise to a new breed of plastic surgeons, who specialized in making people look good. Facelifts, body lifts, and heavens knows what else, was now de rigueur.

Simply put, if we did not conform to these new societal rules and norms, we were not acceptable. Young children of the day were continually bombarded with this mind-altering doctrine. Teenage girls were always on diet, fed by insecurities bred by mothers who feared rejection if they did not conform. Same with other sub-cultures, where you would not find a partner if you did not represent the acceptable standard of appearance.

In retrospect, we surrendered to mass emotional genocide. We have successfully allowed Big Brother to dictate our own being ness, without even noticing it. The psychological fall-out is fear, anxiety, hate and a miss-alignment of energy. Self sabotage has led us into a social environment where we are being dictated to, instead of us determining our own destiny or social acceptance.

It is time for us to accept ourselves for whom and what we are. In the final analysis, we are human beings, with differing cultural backgrounds and morphological shapes. Morphic resonance determines our appearance, which is determined by evolution based on the needs as dictated by our environmental circumstances, and the ethnic groups that we belong to.

Do we find in cultures, like the Amazonian Indians, that they have been subjected to this enculturization? No. As a result of their isolated environment, they could not give a continental about what they look like. That is just who and what they are. And they love themselves, the earth, and all that they re-present. They are happy.

It is time for us to accept that we are who we are. We do not need to change our authentic-ness in order to appease others. We are beautiful beings who have been created to express love, trust, nurturance and hope. Yet we forget all these human attributes. Our woman bears children, which changes the physiological shape of the body, and so what? Do we really have to go on mega-diets in order to ensure that we will still be loved and cared for? Do we really have to conform to what the You magazine tells is acceptable, and the Men’s Health magazine tell the men-folk what they must look like?

Off course, we must exercise and be healthy. Eat sensibly, in order to sustain and nurture our bodies, which harbor the Soul in this physical expression.

We are breeding a new world. And this world must represent our human-ness. Beings of Light and Love that must nurture one-another, love one-another, respect one-another, and play the game fairly and beautifully.

We cannot continue to ignore the evils of social enculturization. For once, let us stand in our own greatness.

Much Love