The Connection between Body Image & Personal Revelation

Is there really a connection between body image and personal revelation?

Let's look at the physical body for just a minute.... Why is it so important?  

•  From the Family Proclamation, we read “Spirit sons and daughters knew and worshiped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize his or her divine destiny as an heir of eternal life”   This was one of the reasons we wanted to come here, to get a physical body.

• Susan W. Tanner taught  "We understood eternal truths about our bodies. We knew that our bodies would be in the image of God. We knew that our bodies would house our spirits. We also understood that our bodies would be subject to pain, illness, disabilities, and temptation. But we were willing, even eager, to accept these challenges because we knew that only with spirit and element inseparably connected could we progress to become like our Heavenly Father"  

I have been studying about revelation this week and one of the things that I found most interesting was a quote from President Boyd K Packer 

Your body is the instrument of your mind. In your emotions, the spirit and the body come closest to being one. What you learn spiritually depends, to a degree, on how you treat your body. That is why the Word of Wisdom is so important. 

I have considered this a lot - how we treat our bodies increases or decreases our ability to receive personal revelation.  I bet it also depends on the way we think about our bodies-  if we have negative thoughts about our bodies, the very instruments that help us in this life, maybe it is harder to receive revelation.  Maybe this is one reason  Satan tries so hard to get us to abuse or hate our bodies, the way we look etc- because he knows the secret of what these bodies can actually help us do.  They can help us not only receive revelation, but they are the very thing that can help carry out our mission.

.......   Interesting that if I am critical of my body and the way I look, that I could hinder my ability to receive revelation. Not only does Satan hate that we have a body- something that he cannot have, I bet he knows that if we love, and are grateful for the bodies that we have been given and use them in ways of light we would be powerful. We could accomplish all that we were sent here to do. Just a thought.......