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I received a Comment yesterday saying that the individual disagreed with me and for me to contact him or her to argue the point.  I wanted you all to know that due to my last 30 years of effort, education, and experience, I don’t care to qualify my understanding to anyone.

This presents an opportunity to explain something about understanding and belief to you.  A belief is an unproven fact.  It is frequently the child of fear.  It is like the old wives tales we’ve all heard about all our lives.  The way beliefs get born and propagated is this:  someone who has fear going, comes to a conclusion about something.  They decide that their conclusion is an absolute fact.  They tell others about this ‘absolute fact’ and the others accept it at face value without investigating to see if it’s really true or not.  These supposedly absolute facts get passed along from generation to generation as the Truth. It has created a very shaky foundation for the world as a whole. In my opinion, all of these beliefs need to be cleaned up. You cannot accomplish spiritual healing with these in your mind.

What are some of these absolute facts?

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• Butter on a burn will heal it.
• Cranberry juice cures urinary tract infections.
• Four leaf clovers bring good luck.
• Eating carrots improves your eyesight.
• Evil things happen on Friday the 13th.
• Starve a cold; feed a fever.
• Long lasting morning sickness during pregnancy means the baby is a girl.
• Spicy food causes ulcers.
• Swimming immediately after eating causes cramps.
• You must drink 8 glasses of water a day.
• Toads give you warts.
• Food makes you fat.

Okay, enough.  Not one of the above ‘absolute facts’ has any truth in it at all.  Every one is a belief.

Our lives are filled with hundreds of things-believed-in that are not true.  When you do the work of reasoning (which I have done) then you’ll automatically know what is true (actual understanding) or what is not true (belief.)  And this dear friends, is why I don’t have to argue for the truth with any whippersnapper who thinks I should.  Pish tush!

Love,

Pat

You’re going to have to put up with baby pictures for a while. This new grandbaby of mine is a major source of inspiration. I do believe the experiences of our lives contains all the tools we need to progress. We do, however, have to tune in to them. When I thought about an inspiration for you today, innocence came up.

Innocence

When you look at an innocent infant, and you realize that you once were one, you know that at one time in your life you did not think that you were fat, or chubby, overweight, or obese.  Somehow, someway, that idea was introduced to you.  And you innocently accepted the fact that it was true, whether it was true or not.  In my case, I accepted it and it was not true.  As a baby, I was normal sized, but because I got nicknamed Patty Fatty, there was never a time in my life when I didn’t think I was fat.

Did something like this happen to you? I flashed back on a memory I have of trying to explain my largeness to a group who hoo-hawed the idea that my parent’s influence had anything to do about it. I remember leaving the group with a face burning with anger, and now that I’m writing about this for you today, there IS some blame there.

I know that my grandbaby, as with all children, will undergo the influence of his parents, as I did mine, as my kids did, as you did. And we all survived.  We can go back and correct the ideas we once thought were true.  They might be more compounded as we add to them in our own growing up process.  I know that I added a whole lot of details about food being fattening and about exercise being necessary, neither one of which is really true, or we’d all be obese and we’re not.  I mean, a law is a law, right?  And if it’s not a law, then it’s just an individual belief - and a wrong belief for this obesity concept.

If  you can begin to think like a newborn and simply enjoy the food you eat without adding all other kinds of things - like ideas about weight gain - your life would be more pleasant.

Love,

Pat