Mens Sana Corpore Sano
A healthy Mind in a Healthy body
As a teenager I suffered from body image
and struggled with self-acceptance because of the pressure involved in growing up, and other personal factors.
As a young woman, my main concern was to
"look good," but I had a hate love relationship with food (I still do!)
Later in life, my main inclination was
to feel good and be healthy, to be physically strong and to always have a resilient body.
Now, my first and foremost priority, is
to face and deal with the smaller little issues that come with aging, overcome them and keep
going Adelante, moving forward and never giving up.
Every time I go through a new trial, I
learn of new ways to get the best out of it and be grateful of how noble and loyal my temple has been to me. It has
never given up despite the constant temporary setbacks. Every single time
there's a catch-22, my body has rolled with the punches like a true and unscathed warrior!
As an adult, I learned to truly love
everything that comes with it at every stage because this is the engine I was given, and
there's a reason for it.
My body, mind, heart, soul and spirit
are all linked together. Each one is an element to a chain that cannot function on its own. Each link
needs the support from the other to remain resilient at all moments. That
is why I always pray for overall health to avoid being corrupted and to truly have full
peace of mind.
“You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
Ask for a stout heart that has no fear of death,
and deems length of days the least of Nature's gifts
that can endure any kind of toil,
that knows neither wrath nor desire and thinks
the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than
the loves and banquets and downy cushions of Sardanapalus.
What I commend to you, you can give to yourself;
For assuredly, the only road to a life of peace is virtue.”
“Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem,
qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat
naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores,
nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores
Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores
et venere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.
monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe
tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.”
–Roman poet Juvenal (10.356-64)
“Se debe orar a los dioses que nos concedan una mente sana en un
cuerpo sano.
Pedir un alma fuerte que carezca de miedo a la muerte,
que considere el espacio de vida restante entre los regalos de
la naturaleza
que pueda soportar cualquier clase de esfuerzos,
que no sepa de ira, y esté libre de deseos
y crea que las adversidades y los trabajos terribles de Hércules
son mejores que las satisfacciones, la fastuosa cena y la cama placentera de
plumas de Sardanápalo.
Te muestro lo que tú mismo puedes darte, con certeza de que la
virtud es la única senda para una vida tranquila."
