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Johnny

Each of us here on earth has a body.  It’s an amazing marvel of what seems to be both joy and pain.  We use it for many, many purposes:

• getting from one place to another
• having babies
• experiencing our feelings
• thinking this is who we are
• exercising control (or not)
• proving maturity

We think many things about our bodies:

• We think they talk to us.  (They don’t)
• We think we have no control over them. (We do)
• We don’t understand the reason behind pain or illness. (We can)

I’m going to tell you one special, not-generally-known secret about your body.  Once you know this, you can never turn back.  It will give you the ultimate control you’ve always wanted.  It will remove all  your excuses if you understand it.  It will give you all the power you’d ever want or need. Are you ready?  Are you sure you’re ready?

The thoughts you think about your body appear as your body.

What have you been thinking about your body? Want to continue to do that?

Love you,

Pat

Happy, happy, happy

My brother called me last night after spending a few hours with my son Thad and Amy and Baby H. He commented that he had never in his life encountered such a well-balanced, loving and happy child. I know he has cranky moments like other kids. I mean, he must. I have never encountered one with him.  When I get to hold him and play with him, he’s always all smiles.

Happiness is our norm, and I think Hieronymous has, for the most part, never been torn away from his norm.  He is unilaterally loved and accepted and this allows him to stay inside what is normal.  Thad and Amy, you’re doing a superb job.

Those of you, my regular readers, would you like to return to your norm? We women have this tendency toward negative self-talk about our bodies.  Somehow, somewhere, someway we grew up with the concept that a) our bodies are who we are; b) other people have a right or a duty to make judgmental  comments about our body and c) we adopted the whole food/exercise idea as the way to handle our sinful selves. I’d like to address these things one at a time, because only in changing them will our bodies change, if we want out body to change.

a) Our bodies are who we are.  Inside your body lives the “I” of  you.  It’s invisible, changeless, perfect and good.  It is, in fact, goodness and perfection itself. Inside you is your Mind.  Your mind is the “I” of you - invisible, changeless, perfect and good.  The goodness who you are is 100% changeless.  Your goodness will never be deleted nor will it disappear.  You and I have added stuff to that goodness and perfection called “the negative thoughts I think about my Self.” We have believed those who’s input is less than generous, and we continued the diatribe long after their mouths clapped shut and they walked away.

It is our right, our duty, and our privilege to change the negative thinking we do about ourselves.  This work is done mentally because we are mental beings - invisible, powerful, changeless. So what’s the story behind overweight bodies?  We have thought them into existence. We have used our minds unduly, and our body, the faithful report card of our minds activities, has created a picture in the shape/size of our bodies to let us know we (our minds) aren’t thinking good thoughts.  We are not the body we have created, just like the robber isn’t the bank job he pulls. Our “norm” is to think good thoughts and remain comfortable, like little Hiero.

b) Other people have a right or duty to make comments about our body. You and I are here on this earth to learn the what, how, why, when and who about us individually and about life in general. Our circumstances - in particular, our bodies - are learning tools for this task.  Other people in our lives are ancillary lessons for us. They and their nasty ass words are a perfectly adjusted opportunity for us to do one of two things.

1.  Consider what is said to see if there is any truth in it.  If so, applaud your Self.

2. After consideration, if you find no truth in the words of another, cast it aside like pet poop.

Remember this:  the words of another can only have an effect on you with your permission.

c) We adopted the whole food/exercise idea as the way to handle our supposedly sinful selves. Because we are mental beings, we ought to have been taught from the get-go to use our mental tools.  The world at large doesn’t even know we’re mental, let alone that we have mental tools! The food we eat and the exercise we employ are effect. Effect has nothing in it that acts like cause. It is our minds thinking and coming to conclusions that are the cause part of us.  An effect cannot do that.  The reason that dieting and exercising seem to work is that the girl doing the dieting and exercising thinks that they work. Invisibly, she is using the power of her mind.  She thinks if she takes food away, she will lose weight, and she might do that temporarily, but if she doesn’t change the way she does the negative self-talk thing, the weight will return.  Oprah, bless her good, good heart, is a prime example of this.  And so am I.  And so are you.

I went kind of long today, but I think all those words bear saying. The old saw “Change your stinking thinking” has a lot of truth in it. I hope that my words today help you to see what you’ve been doing so that now you can change your thinking.  My book can help you do this work, and in particular will all the incredible questions in the two workbooks.

Love you.  Mean it.

Pat

Bears are the Power

I don’t think there’s anyone in the world who will doubt that bears represent Power.  Since I’m talking about Power today, I though this bear picture taken here in the San Bernardino mountains of a mama (background) and her two cubs would do the trick for today.

You were born with your full Power.  It’s one of the aspects of spiritual healing. Discovering that power has always been there within you is one of the key things that we unfold while we live our one sweet life.  How do I know this?  Because I unfolded another keen idea that pointed me to it.

I figured out that I cannot recognize something that I am not.  I cannot, for example, expect God to recognize evil, because it is just not in his Allness of Good, which everyone seems to rapidly and eagerly acclaim.  Where this concept of the devil came from connected to God, I’ll never understand and I consider it a HUGE misinterpretation.  It’s impossible. Here’s another example:  If an individual is classified as an idiot, he cannot recognize brilliance in another, because that brilliance is something he is not.  Get it?  Apples don’t know for oranges.

So, if we recognize Power, it has to be within us or we wouldn’t recognize it.  Did you make that leap with me?  I want to talk about Power and the shape of your body.  In today’s civilization, we are encouraged to feel powerless:  no power over food.  Heck, a donut has more power than you do!!! You couldn’t possibly be okay as you are, standing still, just BEING.  Oh no, you’ve got to go buy the latest exercise equipment, buy the latest pill, swallow the latest swill from those supermarket magazines.  All of them have more power than you do, right?

Right?????  Hell no!  You have relinquished your power to the pills, the machines and those supermarket rags.  Girlfriends, rise up!  All you have to do is to KNOW that  you are your own power and that your mentality has been creating the changes behind all the things you merely do - the dieting, the exercising, the self concept - it’s been you thinking “Oh this pill will help me lose weight” that helps you lose weight, and not the pill.  It’s been you thinking “If I exercise religiously on these machines, I’ll reshape my body,” and your thinking is what has been reshaping your body, not the exercise.

Can you see that?  Your Power is GIGANTICALLY ENORMOUS, but  you don’t recognize it because it’s behind the scenes, invisibly awaiting your recognition.  There is one drawback to recognizing and using your power, however, and I’m sharing from my own experience.  A lot of people might not take kindly to your understanding and reject both you and it. You can learn to be content 100% within and to heck with their aspersions.

Love ya,

Pat, Bear Woman

P. S. You can learn how to unfold your Power through reading my book “My Cats Have Seen Me Naked” and by working through the two accompanying workbooks.  It’d be the cheapest therapy you’ve ever purchased and you’ll end up loving your Self, a great pay back.