Tag: Spiritual

• Being Me!

  I heard something today that I know I have never considered, that when you feel whatever it is you are feeling, that is you.  The You is comprised of feelings and so often we try and run from them, but then we are actually running from our self!

  Geneen Roth and Oprah were discussing her book, "Woman, Food, and God" and about feeling discomfort of any kind and how we usually  eat when we feel uncomfortable. 

  I see this like we are getting to know our bodies to be able to read what they are telling us, and if you look around your surroundings, you can usually find out what is the cause of those feelings.

  In my case, the fear was justified from my father, fear didn't arise for no reason, my body was trying to tell me something, and I ignored the sensations within my body.

  In her book, Geneen is trying to reconnect us back with our bodies and in doing so she will reconnect you with your truth.

  It is an amazing journey to look at what you are doing instead of feeling that which you don't want to feel.

  I simply love that what I feel is me.  And I love that I can now voice what I feel and act upon those feelings.  I no longer have to pretend that I don't feel what I feel, in fact I won't pretend to pretend to pretend any more!

  I am now learning when to stop eating or when to eat.  I am getting to learn the signals of fullness from my belly.

  What an exciting thing to learn about you by looking at your body.  She is the one too that says "Your beliefs are how your body looks."  Deepak Chopra says that the mind is manifested in your body.

  The more conscious I am, the more aware of my body, the less influence the crazy mind has on what it does.

  Just as I learned how to navigate out of dysfunctional relationships, I am hopeful that I can learn what kinds of foods my body really wants.  I will have to listen and pay attention to what it feels.

  Learning every day about this magnificent living organism, the human body.  Which goes back to the saying "We are Spiritual Beings having a Human experience."

  I am becoming more aware of both and learning what they both need, to have the best human experience of being me!

  Thanks Geneen and Oprah.

  May 24, 2010

  Deepak Chopra, feelings, food, Geneen Roth, God, Oprah, reconnection, Spiritual, Uncomfortable, woman, you

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• The only enemy was my belief

  When I had written the ‘community approval’ concept down yesterday, it followed me one step behind, lingering and pestering me, as to why?

   

  Why do I seek to find affirmations about my life in others, or why does someone disagreeing with me threaten me?  Why are there always they and we, two sides, friendly and foe?

   

  Why can’t it just be one whole bunch, like we are all equal?

   

  And it then occurred to me that the bases of my old religion was that we were special, the chosen one, the one and only path to God, the right Church, and all who didn’t believe as Us, went to Hell.  Them and us a definite split, God’s children and I guess the Devil’s spawn.

   

  It was from this basis I was raised always seeking to divide and separate.

   

  In fact it was preached to us to stay away from the enemy, to only congregate with our own.

   

  There is this identifier within me, this mode of operating that I seek only those who match me, and then disregard the rest.

   

  It is an enemy reflex muscle, always scooping the terrain for the ‘other’!

  I can feel how this plays out everywhere in my life, in little nuances and in large ways, always on the look out for the enemy and to self protect.

   

  I am now outside of the narrow religion but still using its tools to navigate and to communicate. 

   

  With the dawning yesterday I feel that that old tool lost its power, and that I will now operate from the standpoint we are all equal, totally, there is no enemy.

   

  In fact the only enemy is believing there is an enemy.

   

  The only enemy was my belief.

   

  February 8, 2010

  beliefs, ememies, faith, religious, Spiritual, splits, whole

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