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My heart genuinely goes out to each and every person finding it difficult to live with themselves. Finding it difficult to live IN themselves. I can't imagine the level of cognitive misunderstanding there must be to cause a person to completely reject the way they were fashioned in the womb. It shouldn't be ignored, and the people of society that deal with this distress daily is the truth of our reality. Some people dislike themselves entirely, and some only dislike certain parts of themselves. Note, acknowledging areas of improvement in your lifestyle or behavior is not disliking yourself. It simply means that you have a view of yourself that you believe is achievable and will result in a better you. Self development. A desire for self development will never result in harm to self. Unless... You have a distorted view of what self love is and that idea of "self- development" is characterized by a willingness to butcher the body. In which case it is not self love, but can be falsely labeled as such if done with intention to minimize mental distress. Body dysMorphia vs body dysPhoria Dysmorphic persons obsess over perceived flaws in their appearance, many of which are unnoticeable to people around them. Dysmorphia concerns a person's constant preoccupation with their disappointments about the way a particular part of their body is morphed or formed. Dysphoric persons do not wish to exist in their body as it is due to a perceived misnomer. This means they do not feel comfortable living in the body suit they naturally formed from the womb because the mental construct they have of themselves does not match how their body is manifesting in this realm. Both persons are obsessed with the way their body appears to the eye. Both persons fail to realize that who they really are is separate from the body yet experiencing reality through it. They have yet to understand that they are much more than a "meat suit" or a collection of cells, organs, bones and skin. We are not our body. We live IN our body, and it helps us interact in this realm. If we were to disrobe of our body suits we would all look the same: like the essence of an atom: light. So the obsession over body parts is completely futile. The perfect example of a dysmorphic individual is the young female adult who looks in the mirror everyday and thinks "my butt is too small, my boobs are too small". She wishes she could wear certain clothes and present that particular part of her body as an accent to her existence in this dimension. She will use it to validate her beauty. She will use it to boost her confidence and she will use it to align her physical body more closely with the body she imagines herself having. There is nothing wrong with desiring to be fit, but when a person anchors multiple aspects of their identity into having a large bottom, it is dysmorphic: simply because you do not need a large bum to have confidence or validate your beauty. It is crucial when a woman is so preoccupied with her dissatisfaction of her back side that she will go to great lengths to "resolve" the way this particular part of herself is morphed. She will go under the knife, or exercise unnecessarily to re-morph this part of her body not realizing that extreme measures will result in her body truly being deformed. She is dysmorphic. On the other hand, an example of a dysphoric individual would be a 3 year old boy who constantly asserts "I was born in the wrong body". That is how he feels while living inside of the body he was issued at birth. It is not always the case that these individuals hate the body they live in, many times they simply feel the body they currently have is not the one they should have been born with. This feeling can overwhelm one early in life, and so they too will go to great lengths to resolve this dissonance, such as dressing as something that will relieve the distress of feeling out of place in their body or having a full body surgery versus one only one part of the body as it is with dysmorphic persons. The effort is great to like themselves the way they naturally manifest in this realm. They are dysphoric. Both individuals will go under the knife or needle to so called "fix what is wrong with them". I am asserting that extreme forms of cosmetic surgery that carry great risks to health and life are a magnified version of "cutting" or blood letting which is used as an avenue to relieve mental distress. The gap between the mental constructs of themselves and the way they manifest is so great and distressing they would rather experience physical pain to escape the mental torment of the unhappiness they feel. So they cut and surgically fillet their physical bodies because this pain is lesser than the pain in the brain. But why is the gap so great between how they wish to manifest and how they actually manifest? It is because the mental construct of themselves comes from another mind. Yes, humans can experience the thoughts of other people as well as other intelligent life forms that exist alongside us but are invisible to us. Although we cannot see everything that exists in this realm with us, we can experience and interact with the invisible in various ways, and telepathically is one of them. We can receive and emit frequency exchanges with other energetic beings visible and invisible. This ability to interact energetically allows us to be influenced by thoughts we may think are our own, but when these thoughts cause us to hate our being and aspects of ourselves, it could not possibly be ourselves thinking such thoughts and causing ourselves the distress we so wish to escape. It is an attack of oppression from an energetic life form that wishes to act out its impulsive desires in this realm of existence through your body. Since it is invisible in this realm it needs your body to manifest its desires. It seems both dysmorphia and dysphoria could be interchangeable and have great similarities. It also appears that one individual can suffer from both either separately or simultaneously. Both mental dilemmas can only exist when a person does not realize that they are not their body. It's true. You are not just a collection of cells and organs, but you are consciousness within an earthen vessel. Grasping this concept will liberate one from the concerns of the body immediately. One will begin to wonder "if I am not my body, and if I am not my name: then WHO AM I: WHAT AM I? Honestly, these are more productive questions to ask because realizing who and what we really are will open new bounds for mankind to explore individually and collectively. Consciousness knows no boundaries, and when humans learn to access the world within through understanding of the absolute truth of God and supernatural laws governing our reality, we will transcend the shallow, mundane perspectives of wanting a new butt or new genitals. In a gist, we have bigger fish to fry. because, WHO ARE YOU & WHY ARE YOU HERE?