{"id":592,"date":"2004-09-19T08:57:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/19\/accepting-ones-physicality\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:01","slug":"accepting-ones-physicality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/19\/accepting-ones-physicality\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting One&#8217;s Physicality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Nomen est Numen\" href=\"http:\/\/siona.blogspot.com\/\">Siona<\/a> has such a way with words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m inordinately affected by the weather. It took me a long time to admit this; for years I refused to acknowledge that my moods might be linked to something as improbable and distant as the sky. I was a rational person, I thought; my emotions were linked to that which <em>mattered<\/em>, and not some butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon. Now I&#8217;m less embarrassed by my sensitivity. I&#8217;m an animal. I reside in a body that resides in the world that itself reclines under a pulsing membrane of pressure and weather and rain. How can my own cells ignore the atmosphere around me? How can my bones disregard the heaviness of the air? How can I not fail to respond to the sun on a clear day? It&#8217;s more embarrassing to me now to think that I once believed I <em>should<\/em> be capable of ignoring all this. I&#8217;m attuned to the world. We all are. And I no longer mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siona has such a way with words: I&#8217;m inordinately affected by the weather. It took me a long time to admit this; for years I refused to acknowledge that my moods might be linked to something as improbable and distant as the sky. I was a rational person, I thought; my emotions were linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,30,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature","category-quotes","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12819,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/12819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}