IF IM SUPPOSED TO LOVE MY BODY....HOW DO I DO THAT? QUESTION: I enjoy my body from a 3-D perspective and I love to run but Im having trouble with my knee and Ive put on some weight and have developed a hemroid. Could you please tell me what is the meaning of the knee and hemroid trouble? ANSWER: The meaning here is it is time for you to move beyond the pleasure of the focused physical awareness. To put it simply, it is time for you to move beyond the pleasure of being in charge of your body through the use of your will. It is time for you to open up to and discover the fact that your body knows how to be what it was formed to be, and that it knows how to be the form that it was formed to be. Your body is a divine idea in the Mind of God. It is a specific and unique expression of the Fathers Will to Be. Because it is specific, it is forever identifiable, both as the Father and as you, not as though you are actually two separate things. But the specific expressions of the Father, of the Fathers Will are specific and individualized, so that there is no confusion between one individualization and another, even though it is all the Father. The meaning set into motion by the Movement of the Mind of God is the Movement of intelligence, and also it is a Movement which is incapable of, Im going to say, decaying or losing definition. And so the specific definition of your body is eternal. Now if your body knows how to be the form that expresses the intent and meaning of the conscious Movement of God, then it is not necessary for you to exercise it into shape. And it truly is not necessary for you to diet to reconfigure your rear-end. Now Im going to come back to this point we discussed earlier. Knowing the spiritual or metaphysical absolute fact does not negate the wisdom of using simple common sense. And if the particular configuration of your rear-end at the moment is uncomfortable, and if changing your diet will allow for reconfiguration to occur that more nearly expresses naturalness, then change your diet. But understand that that is a manipulative process that you can alter again through improper diet and inappropriate exertion of energy, and therefore the reconfiguration does not represent your yielding to your bodys intent to identify the presence of your individuality perfectly, or shall I say, your bodys intent to identify the intent and meaning that the Father has set into motion that is called your individuality and that which identifies you. And so even though you use the common sense means to relieve what is uncomfortable, understand that that is not ultimate. Because until you have let yourself into the experience of the underlying order of your body and of your world, you will not feel secure, and your healing will not be permanent. The uncovering of the eternal form of your body will not occur, and you will not feel your security. What you call a problem with your knee and with your derriere is truly your bumping into the inconsistency between your beliefs from the egos frame of reference, and the Reality of you in the middle of the Kingdom of Heaven. In other words, I am suggesting to you that you not try to find the great lesson in the hemorrhoid or the problem with the knee, but rather that you find the lesson in the opportunity that you have to experience a breakthrough because Reality has come up and, shall I say, kicked you in the rear-end to get your attention. Always what you call problems is Reality getting your attention and saying, Give up the limit that you insist upon being bound by. In this case the limit you are being bound by is the belief that your body is not divine and does not know how to be what the Father set into motion. And that it needs your personal help through the use of your will, your personal will. I encourage each and every one of you to appraise your body more constructively, and begin to trust its capacity to be what it is--it is the intent to identify the Fathers Will, the Fathers Creative Movement. And the less you distrust, the less you hate it, the less you are frustrated by it, the less you will introduce negative and conflicted dynamics into your means of perception, and the less distortion you will see. In other words, what you have called healing will begin to occur. Thats the end of the answer. ~excerpt from Gathering with Raj/Jesus Ashland Or, 1989 Conducted by the Northwest Foundation for ACIM nwffacim.wordpress FaceBook:https://facebook/groups/183859725130360/ All of the activities of the Northwest Foundation for A Course In Miracles are provided without charge or obligation. This is possible because of thoughtfulness, love extended without conditions. 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Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:39:53 +0000