Re: excert from A Return To Love by nne on

July 17, 2008

So very IE!! How can't we love the body that we live in?!? It

functions so well and is uniquely our own. Such a precious possession

it is

Thanks for sharing that passage Alana - ehugs, Katcha

>

> As She is talking about the body she writes the following which is

> so in line with IE:

> When I was in my twenties, I had a problem with weight - not enough

> of a problem to be called fat, but enought to keep me miserable.

> There was a problematic ten to fifteen pounds that I could never

> shake. Anytime I went on a diet, I ended up gaining weight. This

> makes sense psychologically, because if someone tells us not to

> think about the Eiffel Tower, we'll think about it all the time.

> Telling myself not to think about food only made me more obsessed

> about it. Deprivation is a lousy way to lose weight. I used to

> pray about my problem and would receive the folowing guidance: " Eat

> any thing you want. " That sounded thoroughly insane to me. " But if

> I tell myself to do that, " I thought, " then I'll start eating and

> I'll never stop. " To that my internal guidance responded, " Yes, you

> will do that at first. You will have to compensate for all the

> pressure you've been putting on yourself for years. And then you

> will have had enough. Then you will return to your natural

> rhythms. Then you will heal. "

>

> So I let go. I met a woman who had lost a huge amount of weight and

> told me she had asked God to do it for her. " I didn't ask to lose

> weight, " she said. " I just asked that he take the monkey off my

> back. I didn't even care if I was fat. I told Him that if He

> wanted me fat, to make me comoftable with it. I just wanted out of

> this Hell. "

>

> I decided that it didn't matter how much I weighed. I couldn't take

> the hourror of the obsession anymore. Becoming a student of A

> Course in Miracles, I began to realize that how much I weighed

> didn't matter. All that mattered was love. If I could train my

> mind to concentrate more on that, then my problems would disappear

> by themselves. In Eastern religions it is often said, " Go for God,

> and all that is not authentically you will drop. " As I got more

> involved with practicing the Course, I stopped thinking so much

> about my weight. That was all. And one day I looked in the mirror

> and saw that it was gone.

>

> What I realized was that my weight had nothing to do with my body,

> but with my mind. I was terrified of people, and had unconsciously

> manufactured a wall around myself to protect me from them. I was

> terrified, however, because of the love that I myself was not

> giving. My ego's purpose for the weight was to keep me separate,

> and until I gave up that purpose, I would never be able to give up

> the extra pounds. My subconscious mind was merely following

> instructions. As I began to put my energy into reaching across the

> wall, when I allowed the Christ to enter my mind, the wall

> miraculously disappeared.

>

> After learning in the Course that the body isn't important, I

> couldn't understand why we should exercise or eat well. What I

> learned was that, When I exercise, I actually think less about my

> body than when I don't. When I don't exercise, I can't help

> thinking about heavy thighs and a thick waist. Similarly, the point

> of healthy food is that it supports us in existing the most lightly

> and energetically within the body. It is heavier, unhealthy food

> that ties us to the body. We take care of the body as a way of

> taking better care of the spirit.

>

July 18, 2008

I LOVED reading this and can apply it to other areas of my life as

well. Thank you so much!

July 18, 2008

Although I can understand part of the message being conveyed, the

religious overtones in the quote from nne on really

bother me. If I am in the wrong group, please let me know as this

makes me uncomfortable.

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