ON SKIN
Skin serves as our boundary between self and other.
Our skin is our armour and shield against the world.
As it is porous to what can infiltrate and absorb.
Movement and touch are like the Yin & Yang of our skin.
Movement touches the skin from the inside out.
Touch moves the skin from the outside in.
From the universe within, to the macrocosm without.
Beneath and beyond.
Skin is both the Unifier and the Segregator.
Who do we welcome, and who do we reject?
The skin does not lie.
Are we braced tightly upright bound by its borders?
Frozen ropes wrapped around our organs.
Or loosely in a puddle, a sludgy strife against our pain.
Can our skin yield without hesitation?
To the support of gravity.
To be held in the spaciousness of life.
To be welcome in the container in which no one comes before you.
To belong in … our skin.
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DO YOU KNOW?
Our skin and our brain arises from the same germ layer in embryology.
Skin is our brain turned inside out.
Skin is the conduit between our nervous system and the outside world.
Skin is the barometer that reflects our relationship with our self, and the environment we are in.
Our lymphatic system also follows the veins along the skin of our periphery, and culminates in the mid section of the body – forming an integral part of our immune system.
Most rashes, hives, eczema, and skin conditions follow these lymph / nerve tracks.
Taking care of our skin, and paying attention to the different qualities of our skin in different areas of the body can help to improve our immune function, regulate our nervous system, and retain suppleness of our skin.
