Nudity Isn't For Everyone

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Nudity is not for everyone. I wonder what you think about that as you're listening and thinking about that statement, Nudity is not for everyone. Because I'm about to tell you what I think about that. I happen to think that nudity is not for everyone is complete. And it's complete to me because. Our. Naked bodies, your naked body, my naked body, is a part of this human experience. It's nakedness in its own right, by its truest definition, is experienced by every conscious being in this planet.

The trees, the animals, they are existing as they are as. They are birthed into this world as. And maybe you're thinking like, yeah, yeah, well, my cat has fur. Well, that's a part of the cat's experience. And the pine trees have needles and bark and it's a part of its experience. And you have hair and eyebrows and skin and fingernails. And this is all a part of your experience as you are. This is a birthright existing in your human body that comes into the world completely bare.

So the sentiment that it's not for. For everyone, to me, makes it sound like nudity is a modality. It's a lifestyle, it's a thing, it's a option, it's a put some sort of label on it when really it is just purely as we are stripping away all everything in this time space, in reality, all your stuff, your home, your clothes, your shoes, your phone, you're just left in your bare existence. So really, as I see it, nudity is for everyone. Now, does everybody like being naked? No, they do not.

And I actually believe it's not because, like, well, I just prefer clothing. It's like there's there about that. There's just something there about why you want to put clothes on. There's some trauma, some moment in time, some something. Something that has. You prefer. Want to have your clothes on. And I will say with a caveat that there's a real environmental aspect of wanting to have your clothes on. When it's cold as out. Yeah. When it's hot as fuck out and.

You'Ve been in the sun, you've been naked. Yeah, you might want to put something on after a while. I know when I'm in my garden and I'm outside and it's sunny all day, I want to put a T shirt on, I want to have a hat on. But it's. It's because I'm just being mindful about how much exposure to elements I'm experiencing. And like, yeah, I feel like I still want to be outside, but I don't want to have more of the sun on my skin. I can kind of feel I'm reaching some point or it's cold.

As cold as, you know, it's negative 10 degrees Fahrenheit in some warm, comfy clothes would be wonderful.

Which is completely different from, I am terrified of being naked, of being seen naked, of seeing others naked. And there's all sorts of reasons why that might be. It might be. I don't feel safe. I feel shame about some part of myself that's being expressed through me, feeling. Shame about how tall I am or. How big or little my arms are. Whatever the story is, I just do not believe that who we innately are is not preferred.

It's just all the other stuff that's been stacked and piled on top of each of us that has us not want to do something like get naked. And to be seen completely naked as we are, it is vulnerable as fuck. I mean, you're exposing yourself literally physically, and that's probably how it occurs. Because on the other hand of the experience, it's not exposing. There's different layers of being in one's own journey as it relates to their body, as it relates to being naked. It's okay. It's okay.

If you have trepidation, you have resistance, you have contrast, you have fear, you have concerns. You have a worry about being naked, being naked with yourself, being naked with your lover, being naked with your friends, being naked in a group of women, being naked at a beach with other people of all sorts of genders there. Like, it's okay. This conversation is not about saying it's right or it's wrong or what you feel or what you're experiencing is wrong or bad or even right.

It's about bringing to light that your naked body is your humanness and if it wasn't for you, you wouldn't be in it. I kind of have it that like you, we all made this choice that nudity was all for us when we chose to enter planet Earth through the womb of life into whatever body that you're in. And we said, yeah, sign me up for that.

There are many of us that want to put labels on everything and want to quantify and something that is different or different in the way that it is not mainstreamly accepted, that has us be like, well, that's some, that's a lifestyle. And maybe the truest definition of a lifestyle does fit that.

I actually don't know because I haven't looked up the definition of lifestyle. However, calling the just the human beingness a lifestyle doesn't translate for me. It doesn't add up. It doesn't align born naked into this body, having this experience as you are naked, vulnerable, authentic, wild, primal, true, raw, nasty, beautiful, angry, soft, all of it. It's just like being naked, taking your clothes off and just being as you are is for you.

It doesn't mean you have to post naked photos of yourself on the Internet like I do. It doesn't mean that it has to look and be any certain way. And if we lived in a world where you wouldn't be punished, raped, murdered, appendages cut off, thrown in jail by being naked, then, well, I guess this podcast wouldn't exist then.

Maybe your perspective, your relationship, well, it would be different if we were all really at choice to be as we are in our bodies naturally then we would all be having a different experience. But that's just not what's, what's happening currently. And think about that for yourself. Like if you could be in that space that this is for you because it's who you are, it's how you were birthed into the world, it's your birthright, it's who you innately are.

So I guess maybe there could be some stories about why nudity isn't for you or for someone and nudity wouldn't be for you if you didn't want to touch, you didn't want to touch these, this place with, within yourself. If. You didn't want to dive deeper into ah, this wild mystery, this personality, this body, this human experience. But still it's for you, it's here, it's available, it is for you, and I would love, love to know about your sentiments and whether it's for you or not.

Until next. Thank you for tuning your consciousness to this episode of the Naked Human. However you find yourself, whether it's relieved, enlightened, triggered, or as if the past minutes were a complete waste of your time, it's perfect. Be present to it and and allow it to be the medicine you need. I welcome your feedback and heartfelt reflections of how this episode impacted you.

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