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Real or Not Real?

Today’s post completes the Christmas succinct idea overview - all you need to know to get a grip on why you’re overweight and what you need to know to turn that around using purely mental means.

If you haven’t read all in the series, you can read them here.

Take a close look at Mr. Crunk Ain’t Dead above.  You can see him, right?  Does that mean he’s real? I assure you - he’s not real, just because you can see him.  Here’s the real deal.

Do you still think this is for real?  Well, you certainly can see it.  Should you trust what you see, or do you think so additional reasoning might be the way to go?

The Real Deal, Mr. Seth Matson

Both Truth and Error have an appearance. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out the difference.

And because Thought is Causative (or, what you think is what you truly do get), once you recognize something that is NOT good, true, harmonious, beautiful, perfect, or loving - here’s what you do:

Quit Thinking It and Think Something Better In It’s Place!

It isn’t too good to be true.  It is Truth itself.  Truth is always simple.  Using it is quite another thing.

You think because you seem to be overweight - hell, you can see it in the mirror, can’t you? - that this is for real, for certain, for true just because it has an appearance.  Is that appearance good, true, harmonious, beautiful, perfect, or loving?  If not, it’s unreal.  You thought it into place mistakenly.  You can think something different and you’ll get an improved appearance.  Promise.  You do have to persevere in that new thinking, however.

Happy using,

Pat

My 92-year-old Step Mom, Dede

If anyone has a great sense of self, it’s my Step Mom, Dede.  She is the most loving, accepting woman I know.  My dad was very lucky to have found her.

Yesterday, I talked about how Truth is Real.  Real things have these qualities: they are good; they are true; they are harmonious; they are beautiful; they are perfect; and they are loving.  If they don’t have all of those qualities, they are not real.  They are, in fact, unreal.

Unreal things lack substance, substance being goodness itself.  You can easily distinguish what is not real and turn your mind and your self away from it.  an example: Dede is real.  She has all the qualities that make something real.  Some of our current politicians are not real, and need to be turned away from. You can fill in the names yourself, I’m quite sure.

One of the clues that help you to decide if a thing is real or unreal is this:  real things never change, while unreal things change.  Truth Itself is changeless.  2 x 2=4 is a changeless truth.  It is true now and will always be true. What’s really cool about this is that once you know a particular truth, nobody can fool you about any other answer.  For example, if I said that 2 x 2 = 6, you’d know immediately it was untrue, unreal, wouldn’t you?  Like that.

Mistakes (error) is not real.  You can turn away from mistakes and think something better in their place. If you currently think you are too heavy, and you recognize that it can change, you know immediately it’s not real.  So, turn your thinking away from “too heavy” and think instead “I am my perfect size.” Your mind has been waiting years for you to get this one.  It would be thrilled to give you “perfect size” if you’ll just keep thinking it……until YOU are convinced it’s true.

Hugs,

Pat

Thad Matson Family at Christmas

I apologize to all who were reading the Christmas series of ideas.  I got so swamped at the last moment with all the holiday events that I am only now recovered enough to address the last three topics. If you’re just joining us, you can read the whole series here.

Today’s topic is Truth Alone Is Real. We live in a perceptive environment where we judge all that passes in front of us by whatever we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell.  Well, that works for a while.  There are two more senses, did you know?  Uh huh!  There remain reason and understanding.

Reason (hopefully you’ve all arrived at the state of reason by now) changes what passes in front of us. Reason lets us place our educated judgment - perhaps understanding - on what we see, hear, etc. One of the most wonderful things that reason can do is that is can permit us to determine if a thing is Real or if it is Unreal. Real is defined as actual being; true. Unreal is defined as not real; not substantial; having appearance only. Have you noticed how the word “unreal” has become a throw-away phrase in common speaking?

It’s that “having appearance only” that helps you reason your way through something that you see, hear, touch etc.  Both real and unreal things have an appearance.  Unreal things are not substantial.  They have no verity, only an appearance.  This means they can disappear if you remove your attention from them.

Your attention (intentional or unintentional) is what keeps things in your experience.  If you only want good things, only recognize or think about good things.  If something “unreal” passes before you (like an image of  your plus sized body in a mirror) you can tell yourself “This isn’t true of me.  Perfect proportion is the truth about me.”  In time, if you can keep yourself from obsessing about your appearance, it will return to its normal state.

I’m going to be working on that this year.

Happy New Year!

Pat