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Body Acceptance
body acceptance - nounism
adverb (‘bä-dE ik-'sep-t&n(t)s) To remove the
artificial coverings so others may see the exterior that
will lead to an understanding of what we are inside.
OK, so it’s not Webster. If you
tried to go to the dictionary for a true definition of
this term, you won’t find it. Many of us find it it
a challenge to find it within ourselves. Do you feel good
enough about yourself to go without clothes, or are they
just there to catch all your sweat in the middle of July.
June Lange, a founding member of Elysium, pursued a
career in the field of psychology and studied the field
of body acceptance. "It became clear to me very
early on that hardly any female thought she looked good
enough," she says. "As a journalist I was
always curious, asking people what their thoughts and
feelings were, and the first thing I learned about
nudists was that even the beautiful women, the women with
the most beautiful figures, never thought their own
figures were good enough. That aroused my interest in
both nudism and psychotherapy. Their own body image was
so much at variance with what others thought of
them."
Nudism is definitely a means by which we can accept
ourselves as we are. Can you remember the time when it
was ok for you to run through the sprinkler without any
clothes? The soft spray of the water, the way it cooled
all of our skin, without having a cold clammy piece of
fabric clinging to our skin. Can you remember how
difficult it was to peel it off? And there was no
judgement as to how you looked. Unless you fell in a mud
puddle.
All of us are born pure, loving and innocent. As soon as
we can get back in touch with that, the sooner we get in
touch with experiencing the gift of life. There is no
reason for us to hide behind any form of mask or costume
that portrays an image that is different from what we are
inside. Sometimes our own physical appearance can be as
hard to accept as our emotional state is. Advertising has
sent us on a journey to ‘cross your heart, white
teeth and fresh breath and to lift & separate’.
What are we? Egg yolks?
To accept nudism may be the end or the beginning of a
quest for self realization. Either way, it is beneficial
to the self esteem of the participant. We have grown up
in a society that has viewed the human body as something
to be covered - even ashamed of. Our United States has
many lessons to learn from their European counterparts as
Naturism takes the opposite view. It sees the human body
as good, normal, varied - and something that only needs
covering if the owner wants to cover it. To know of ones
self, is to know no shame. Are you ready?
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