Something came to me this morning that I thought worthy to share. It is based upon my own observations and life experience.
I was focusing on the topic of leaving mitzrayim, the world of human created limits and suffering, and moving into the desert on my way to The Promised Land. I was able to see my own path and simplify it into 3 basic steps. I then focused on these steps and saw how we, as humans, struggle with them. I then saw the solution, through my own life experience, of how we can transcend the struggling, let go of our enslavement, and move into Freedom!
The first 2 steps happen simultaneously and support each other, they are:
1. Positive Body Consciousness
2. Reprogramming Our Thoughtware
The one thing that trips us up the most is not feeling good about, or in, our bodies. Every time we have any negative thought about our bodies, we are disconnected from our Source (God). This means each and every part of our bodies we must love and appreciate completely. How many people do you know who can do that? This doesn't mean we have to mold our bodies to our idea of physical perfection. We just have to think and feel good about our bodies. When most people look in the mirror, they easily find fault with themselves. Since we drag our physical bodies around with us wherever we go, we are always faced with the opportunity to denigrate and feel negative about our physical bodies. We must move beyond this to a state of Love and Appreciation of our powerful & sacred body temple.
The Solution - We need to engage in a high energy program of eating and exercise.
Eating: I recommend eating delicious vegan (90%) raw food. This does wonders in shedding weight, lowering body fat percentage, boosting the immune system, increasing energy levels, and feeling great about ourselves. There are some excellent raw food books out there, it's much easier than you might think.
Exercise: Exercise is a must. Whether it's biking, running, walking, swimming, or yoga doesn't matter. What does matter is the feeling of being in our bodies and connected to its life force. Transformation is an inside job. An easy way in is connecting to our physical form through exercise. This exercise should be a minimum of 45 minutes/day, 4-5 days/wk.
Reprogramming The Thoughtware
While we are engaging in our exercise, it is important that we listen to something that will begin to reprogram our minds (from a state of reacting to things to a state of inspired response). I listen to a combination of spiritual teachings (Abraham-Hicks and Rev. Michael Beckwith) and sacred music (mostly by Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, Shimshai, Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, and Deva Premal).
Shuffle - The Guru
We are our own Guru's. When we take responsibility for our thoughts and actions we come to the understanding that each one of us have all that we need to get to where we want to go. No one can know ourselves like we do. Our feelings, our desires, our vulnerabilities. It is our job to examine and become aware of our Belief System (BS), and our judgments, so we can transform them.
The beauty of
Shuffle, on our ipods and iphones, is the ability to deliver to us exactly what we need to hear in exactly the moment we need to hear it. When we believe that all things are significant and acting in our benefit and trust the tool of our inner guru,
Shuffle, each session is filled with "Aha" moments. It is important to provide
Shuffle with a language in which to communicate with us. This language is the content we load into our ipods and iphones (I will be including my own Playlist of what I have been listening to for those who are interested).
This reprogramming is complete when we have stopped reacting to things and instead have found a peaceful loving place within from which we respond to the world around us. This response is a harmonious activity of being Present and is based on Love.
Step 3: Doing, in the physical world, from a place of inspired action.
Once we have completed steps 1 & 2, Step 3 feels like a naturally occurring way to
Be in the world. It is an effortless allowing of our Self Mastery to come through and take over our lives. There is no struggle or regrets, just a peaceful knowing that all is well and that we are surrounded and supported by the universal life force. Inspiration comes through us when we are attuned to Let It, and the perfect action opportunity appears, seemingly out of nowhere. Step 3 is the allowing that Abraham is always talking about. It's effortless and easily doable though it may seem crazy or illogical at times. When we can recognize that our resistance to taking the inspired action is only based upon our past patterns and beliefs, then we can move forward into action anyway and benefit from the positive results. This is where our faith needs to be stronger than our past his-story and her-story.
As I was writing this I received my daily email quote from Abraham which is the perfect thing to end with:
I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving upon the path in harmony with your idea of that which is good.
--- Abraham
