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CTL-VII-0064

“I came through a health scare and I'm flooded with gratitude for a body I took for granted.”

CTL · Pillar III — Control CTL-VII · Own Only What Is Yours.

The scare passed and left you with a sharpened eye for what you'd been ignoring — that this body carried you all along, unthanked. The will and the gratitude are yours to keep; the fear was a visitor. Owning what is yours means tending the one body you've got with the care it earned.

Your Practice

  1. Name one thing your body did for you today that you usually ignore.
  2. Do one concrete act of care for it, starting now.
  3. Let the gratitude outlast the scare that woke it.
  4. Treat the wake-up as a gift, not a thing to forget.

The Architects

“Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.”

— Epictetus, Enchiridion, ch. IX (George Long translation)

More under CTL-VII

CTL-VII-0001“I'm obsessing over something I can't control.”CTL-VII-0002“My anxiety is through the roof and I can't shut my brain off.”CTL-VII-0003“I stopped worrying about what people think and I feel lighter.”CTL-VII-0004“I let go of something I couldn't control and found peace.”CTL-VII-0005“I finally accepted that not everything is my responsibility.”CTL-VII-0006“Someone I trusted let me down badly.”
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