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Choose to Radiate this Summer Regardless of Your Size

By Pat Matson

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Summertime is for easy living. No snow to shovel. No howling winds to brace against. No fields to harvest. It's when Mother Nature takes a break for living easily herself and I think we should, too.

This article is written for the large woman (or the woman who sees herself as too large) with practical tips for self-love and self-acceptance. I'd like to pack a picnic lunch of tasty ideas about the "I" of you - that inner self who knows nothing about bodily size but instead focuses on character traits.

A lot of showing off of our bodies happens in the summertime, doesn't it? Young girls strip down to bikinis and strut themselves on the beach. Shorts and halters and sundresses become the norm. Lucky boys and men get to parade only in trunks. How do you feel inside of clothing that exposes more of your body?

In order to permit yourself not to go through the summer uncomfortably trying to cover up what you don't like about your appearance, I'd like to take some ideas out of that picnic basket for you to consider about your deservedness:

* Do you deserve to be as comfortable as everyone else?

* Do you deserve to wear a bathing suit publically on the beach?

* Do you deserve to hear no nasty comments about your appearance when you do?

* Do you deserve to dress as you please?

* Should there be different rules for slender women and for fat women?

* Do you deserve equality? Seriously, DO you?

Since we are all created equal, then yes, every single one of us deserves to dress comfortably; wear a bathing suit in public; have no nasty comments flung our way; dress as we please; all follow the same rules and live harmoniously under the same equality we see slender women receiving.

The magnificence of the individuality called by your name is true of every individual with a name and it has nothing to do with your size. It has only to do with your Be-ing. In order to understand this magnificence, I'd like to encourage you to teach yourself to stop judging by appearances (your own included) and begin to judge by the Divine Stuff from which each one of us is endowed at birth.

Inside you, there is a complete set of faculties, abilities and virtues. I personally think it'd be hilarious if God said "Give the fat girl a few less abilities seeing how evil fat is." Doesn't it sound ridiculous said like that? Well, 'all born equal' is true, so let's look at what 'born equal' means.

Every one of us can hear, can see, can touch, can taste, can smell, can reason and can understand. If any one thinks he cannot enjoy one of these, he has made a mistake and mistakes can be corrected. With each of these faculties I just listed, comes along an ability. With the faculty of hearing, you have the ability to hear. With the faculty of touch you have the ability to feel, and so on for the rest of them.

Each of us has a complete set of virtues. Now those virtues are wrapped up as tightly as young fiddlehead ferns and have to be unfolded by you through learning to use them. Think back to your childhood and consider your virtue of courage. Has it unfolded more clearly to you since you were in preschool? I would hope so. And it will continue to unfold more of itself as you use it and strengthen it through that use.

At some point, you will know yourself mainly through the degree you have unfolded for each of your virtues and it will no longer be about "What does this large woman look like in a sun dress?" My wish for you is that you become completely comfortable with the inner you and all the wonders of her virtues. Perhaps living through this summer will help you to unfold this sense of comfort.

I was once sun bathing at the beach when three, young surfers came out of the water, walked past me and one of them said "Oh look, it's a beached whale." I was a lot younger then and a lot smaller than I am now. I'd like to thank those surfers because they created an opportunity to learn how to reason, to dig for the truth about myself, and to exercise forgiveness for their inappropriate stupidity. I wouldn't wish any of you this experience but it did end up tasting like lemonade, a perfect accompaniment for a summertime picnic. Self love and self acceptance is worth all the work it took to get here.

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