I know you want to be free of illness and disease. I know you want to have a healthy body. I know you want to have a happy life experience. Who in their right mind does not want these things?
Then why is it when we don’t want something it still remains with us? It is because through our attention to what we don’t want we give it life to remain. We have spoken of this before, haven’t we?
Change is constant.
You are not the changing experience you are what witness’s the change without attachment or meaning.
Autumn is upon us and everywhere there are signs of the changing season. Here in Southern Oregon, it happened overnight. One day I was speaking to a client, as we looked out over the trees which were still green and the next day several trees right in front of the studio turned yellow and red. It was as if they needed to be reminded of the season change and their part to play.
You are getting in your own way. Have you ever felt like that? You keep putting up walls around you and you feel more and more isolated.
What are these walls? They are nothing but thoughts of lack and resistance. They may have more of a story to them, such as I can’t find someone to love me, or I try but I always fail. It does not matter what the story is, it always come back to the original source of not feeling whole or complete, or in another word Loved.
I want to share a true story that happened to me this morning. The reason I bring this up is to show how everything in this life experience is a pointing back to realizing you are the True Nature, and not the thought of being a person / ego-identity.
The health of the body and the wellbeing of the mind are in direct proportion to realizing you are not the mind or the body. I have a feeling that is a bit confusing to most.
We say the body is a servant to the mind. By this it is understood that whatever thoughts the mind chronically holds on to, or if there is a acute experience that creates a deep emotional belief, the body will begin to express the underlying thought. No matter what the catalyst is the core emotion or belief is one of insecurity, or lack of wholeness. This could be understood as; I am not good enough, healthy enough, wealthy enough, smart enough, etc.
Let’s go deep; I am speaking about deep into the recesses of the ego that hold the ignorance of who we believe ourselves to be.
Why do this, when it is the one place where none of us want to go? Because it is the birthplace of our pain and suffering. It is the place in which we create thoughts that hold us back from the joy and love, health and wellbeing and abundance we are always saying we want and deserve. It is only through this hero’s journey as phrased by Joseph Campbell, that we will emerge victorious as our True Nature.
I wonder how many of you are really getting the meaning of giving your body what it needs to heal and be healthy?
It seems like such a simple realization, yet have you stepped into it? If not that is okay, however, I then want to ask what is missing in your understanding?
Most all of us have the gift of six senses to experience the world of phenomena. Even those who may not have the function of sight or hearing have developed an elevated ability in some of the other senses.
Our senses alone do not have the ability to do anything other than what their function is. That is sight can only take in images, hearing can only take in sound, etc. The senses do not have the ability to label, judge, or create an attachment to or an identity with their functions. This means the eyes as an organ of sight cannot decided whether something is pleasing or scary, joyful or upsetting. This is true for all the senses.
You are asleep. Did you realize this? That seems like a completely false statement doesn’t it? As if I am completely out of my mind.
Each one of these thoughts we can speak to, so you can wake up from the delusion of the mind.
If you take a close look at how you feel about things including everything from thoughts to daily occurrences, you will realize that it is the ego that labels and judges. Through this labeling and judgment meaning is given as a way to support and protect the existence of the ego. Things will be labeled and judged as good, bad, or indifferent based on the beliefs that make up the ego.