We are not our body

It is a beautiful spring morning with perfect temperatures and a nice breeze.  I've already had to go outside and save a chicken who snuck into a netted garden bed trying to steal my sprouting veggies.  I gave her sisters some oatmeal and she was losing her little chicken mind trying to get out so she could have some oatmeal also.  

I was sitting here journaling about a book I was listening to while I was cleaning yesterday.  It's a Wayne Dyer book called, "There's a spiritual solution to every problem", where he talks about vibration, energy, and frequency.  He says you have to raise your vibration to truly connect with God and hear the guidance you need for a beautiful life.  It got me thinking about the body and what the body's purpose is in this life we've chosen to live on earth.  I believe that we are souls living in a body that was created by our parents.  When we are done with this life, we leave this precious body that has helped us to move and communicate, love, laugh, and experience all five senses.  Some bodies create other bodies that give God the resource to place another soul.  We are not our body.  That idea seems so out there when you think about it but I think it's true.  We use this body, care for it, abuse it in some ways, take it for granted in many ways and then when we are ready to go home, we leave it behind to join the earth again without us.

This last year I've had the opportunity to learn how our mind causes illness when it is troubled.  I've done the counseling and seen how we allow our Ego and the Ego of others to affect our thinking in a way that troubles the mind and then we feel it in the body.  I learned that I allow my mind to live in the body.  I put my mind there.  I think about my discomfort.  It's hard not to.  But when I started working on my mental health issues and healing them, my body started to heal.  I have a long way to go but it has been eye opening to see how much stress affects the body.  No only that but certain kinds of stress or trauma effects the body in certain ways.  Loss seems to be related to certain cancers, anger seems related to heart issues.  I think we are just now starting to learn how these things work.  Mental health should actually be treated before medical health in my opinion.  That doesn't make doctors or drug companies any money, but I feel like healing the mind heals the body where medication just treats the symptoms.  

I've also learned that therapy is not the only way to heal your mental health.  I've actually had one good counselor and one that had too many of her own issues to be able to help me, although she was really nice and gave me some really important information on PTSD.  But most of my healing has come from books that talk about quieting the mind, learning to forgive, learning to heal yourself.  There is so much information out there that can help and maybe even totally heal a person who is struggling.  

I've learned a lot about the Ego and how it works and how it is not a part of God but instead causes all our suffering.  That has been huge.  When Jesus was on the cross he said, "Forgive them for they know not what they do".  As Christians we have been taught that the phrase was about the Pharisees as if Jesus was telling us to forgive them.  Now I see that he was talking about everyone.  We see a person that does something bad and we are angry and want vengeance.  When you learn about the ego and how it works you realize that the Ego controls the mind and the soul that God created seems to have no control because it only listens to the Ego.  So it does what the Ego tells it to do.  The Ego in some people is so strong that it controls that person's understanding.  They may think what they are doing is right when it's not.  Jesus is telling us to realize this and forgive anyway.   

The body is the subject to all these things.  It does what it's told.  It endures our disrespect.  It carries us, cares for us, cares for others, creates, works, and allows us to use it for our pain.  It does all this and then we leave it behind once we've run it into the ground.  So maybe I need to take better care of it and think about it as something that is not me but is in service to me.  I need to be a better steward of my body.  We all do.  Maybe one day science will learn more about how we can heal our body without all these doctors and medications.  Until then we should work to become more mindful of our mind and how it affects our body.  

Today I see my body and a precious creation that has done so much for me and helped me to create 4 beautiful babies.  It has carried me through my life and endured my high expectations.  I am grateful and blessed that she is still with me.  I will strive to take better care of her.

Hugs

Shannon