Recognizing your physical form as sacred and non-negotiable, using embodied awareness to detect and enforce relational violations.
Mirabai's body was terrain of struggle: her family sought to control it through marriage and duty; ascetics sought to transcend it; the wider world sought to erase it. Yet her poetry celebrates the body as the site of divine experience. Your body is your first boundary. It registers discomfort before your mind has language for it. Tightness in your chest, a clenching stomach, the impulse to disappear—these are your body's nos before you have consciously decided to refuse. Healthy boundaries in love begin with somatic awareness. Do you feel safe with this person? Does your nervous system relax or contract? Can you be physically present, or do you dissociate? Mirabai refused to mortify her body or deny its desires in the name of devotion. She honored both flesh and spirit. Your boundaries include the right to physical safety, to consent, to the inviolability of your own skin. Listen to your body's wisdom.
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