Saturday, September 6, 2008

Tiffany in Eve Ensler’s The Good Body

Monica Kennedy

Tiffany in "The Good Body" and I are about as shallow as a sheet cake pan, but here are a few of the things that I know. There is a voice in our head that tries to possess our thoughts and minds. But it is not who we are. Many around us are phony and are completely identified with the false sense of self that is ego. Years of male domination and Madison Avenue have enabled the ego to gain supreme dominion. But we are not our thoughts. Thinking is a small aspect of the totality of our consciousness, the totality of who we are. The more thoughts we have of the physical body, the more identified we are with the ego. We are easily trapped there and alienated from our true selves, as well as others and the world around us. When creativity, love and compassion are evident in our lives, the peace, joy and aliveness that comes with it, will bring us all back again and again. The shift on earth towards consciousness is quickly taking away the hold the ego has on the human mind. Some say the ego is losing its hold on women more quickly than on men because it was never as deeply rooted in us. The quicker we individually and collectively say "yes" to the thoughts that connect us to our true selves and allow us to follow our hearts, the quicker we will all live in an authentic world where sheet cake never tasted so good.

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