Sunday, October 21, 2012

Some thoughts:

Cultural influence shapes most everything we do and the way we act.  It is things like fads, ideas of beauty, influence from the media, education (and/or lack of education), and influences from family and peers that cause us to become disembodied.  Fads shape our body awareness toward outer and visual appearances.  However, only so much of our bodies can be seen, this causes a gap in our disembodiments.  Cultural ideas of beauty place us under a lot of stress. Much like fads, beauty is usually only concerned with outward appearances, we also force ourselves to do things our bodies shouldn't to stay physically beautiful.  Media influences are possibly the most detrimental to our embodiment.  Commercials attack us psychologically by showing us beautiful women and gym-fit men on the television to make us feel bad about ourselves.  Every commercial we see tells us that there is something wrong with our bodies.  They then show fast food commercials so that we may gorge ourselves unhealthily because "no matter what we do something is always wrong, so we might as well eat cheap, unhealthy food because we'll never look like that anyways."  In lines at the grocery store as we're checking out they have dieting and celebrity magazines depicting "beautiful" people and dieting tips.  The list of media influences goes on causing significant disembodiment.  in scholastic settings we're always typically seated, hunched over, and doing work.  This is occurs as we're physically developing causing developmental problems and a lack of exercise which could be related to the obesity problem America is facing.  Finally there are the family and peer influences. These can be both beneficial and detrimental.  They're beneficial if you are associated with active and creative people who don't sit and play video games and watch TV during all hours of the night. And detrimental by associating with people who do do those things because our behaviors and actions are associated with the people we are around often.  

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