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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

A Deer in Mammoth

Animals live in the immediacy of every moment. They are incapable, due to their inability to think or reason, of self-deceit.  You and I, on the other hand, have used our ability to think and reason to create scenarios-of-protection:  rationale that we conjure up to protect ourselves from hurt.

And I would know this how?  Oh, girlfriends, I am the Queen of Self-Deceit.  And I’m such a know it all that I won’t permit anyone else to tell me what they see.  No, I have to suffer through my mistakes until I give myself permission to finally see the truth.

I have been processing a doosey for nearly a month here, and I believe that I’m about the peel the wrappings off a substantial truth, so as part of my processing, I’ll share it with you because it is part and parcel of the reason behind why I remain obese.

I’m not at all sure when this happened, but behind the scenes in my one sweet life, behind the pretty, talented, intelligent me, there lurked a deep hidden doubt - the doubt that I am good.  I don’t know when it started.  I’m not sure why I’ve always felt that way.  I just know it is my own, personal Linus blanket and it goes with me wherever I go.

Using it, I have kept myself from wealth.  I have kept myself from health - although to a lesser degree in this category.  I have kept myself from happiness.  How have I done this?  I have - in my own mind - made myself excluded.  Due to my concept of not being good enough, I have made myself take a step backwards in so many situations they are uncountable.  I have been permitting me to see myself doing this for some weeks now.  I watch me observe a situation, and then I see the old tape click on and that drone of a voice that says “But not you, honey…..”

I don’t want to tolerate this any more.  I’ve had enough.  I want to pull the plug out and I want to let myself enjoy all that I’m supposed to do.  This one sweet life is supposed to be about health, wealth and happiness and I want my full share.  I want satisfaction and enjoyment, and I’m in the process of letting more in.

Stay tuned.

Pat

Granny & Hiero

I spent the afternoon and evening with my precious, darling grandson, Hieronymous.   He’s very close to four months old now and his smile makes me feel thin and rich, it is such an indulgence.  Who knew grandmotherhood was this joyous?

I got to thinking about some of the internal, mental issues I was dealing with last week.  In particular, without sharing all of the particulars with you, I will tell you that regarding some of my family members, I had to do a lot f work centered around forgiveness.  I posted on Twitter that you should give yourself lots of do-overs and you should forgive everyone for everything including you.  There was a good reason for that.  I was working my guts out to accomplish that very thing.

So is spiritual healing for obesity only about weight loss?  The answer is a decided “No!” Obesity is a mental mistake.  It is about thinking you are obese.  It is about protecting yourself from having to look at painful emotional issues.  And it is about emptying out from the inside those very issues.  When you complete this emptying out, your body will automatically change it’s size - without diet and exercise.

So when the folks who diet and exercise begin to gain their weight back again (and they always do, don’t they?) it’s because they haven’t accomplished the Spiritual Healing that needs to be done on the inside. And this message is why I blog.  So that you who seek the truth can begin your healing, find support here for continuing and completing it, and know that you are loved fat or thin.  By me.

Love you,

Pat