♦ Step Seven: __________________________________________
Was ready to have a healthy, balanced, and supportive relationship with my body and body image.
This body is my truest friend and support in this life everything depends upon its care and well-being. It is the miraculous vehicle through which I, as essential consciousness, find expression and life in this world; t is the vehicle through which I am able to enter into, and evolve through, this dimension.
I am not the body: I am the conscious presence within this body; I am the eternal consciousness which illumines and animates this body. Yet, even though I am beyond this body, I am charged to take care of it.
Care for the Body
This step involves caring for the body by eating well, drinking the proper amount of water, exercising regularly, and cultivating positive thoughts and emotions. We need to form an intention to honor and care for the body—which means taking conscious actions to support the body and becoming more conscious of (and avoiding) actions which are harmful to the body. For most people, the body is the “fall guy” for every negative thought and emotion: when a person tries to satisfy emotional needs, or cover up a sense of emptiness, by overeating, eating junk food, consuming alcohol, or using drugs, the body suffers. When a person is prone to stress, worry, fear—or any negative emotion—the body absorbs that negativity and suffers. However, when we find the resolve to honor the body, and when we realize its supreme importance (in the fulfillment of our spiritual aspirations), this provides a counter-valence, a force which moves us in a positive direction with regards to our body and its care.
The general areas addressed in the Twelve Foundations, relating to the care and cultivation of the body, are:
1. Eating and Diet
2. Exercise
3. Breathing
4. Enjoyment of the Body
All of these areas are inter-related and all add to the health and well-being of the body. Of course, one’s mental state always affects the body, so cultivating true and positive emotions is of fundamental support to the body (and, likewise, being in a state of fear, depression, stress, regret, etc. harms the body and undermines one’s health-related practices).
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Was ready to have a healthy, balanced, and supportive relationship with my body and body image.
This body is my truest friend and support in this life everything depends upon its care and well-being. It is the miraculous vehicle through which I, as essential consciousness, find expression and life in this world; t is the vehicle through which I am able to enter into, and evolve through, this dimension.
I am not the body: I am the conscious presence within this body; I am the eternal consciousness which illumines and animates this body. Yet, even though I am beyond this body, I am charged to take care of it.
Care for the Body
This step involves caring for the body by eating well, drinking the proper amount of water, exercising regularly, and cultivating positive thoughts and emotions. We need to form an intention to honor and care for the body—which means taking conscious actions to support the body and becoming more conscious of (and avoiding) actions which are harmful to the body. For most people, the body is the “fall guy” for every negative thought and emotion: when a person tries to satisfy emotional needs, or cover up a sense of emptiness, by overeating, eating junk food, consuming alcohol, or using drugs, the body suffers. When a person is prone to stress, worry, fear—or any negative emotion—the body absorbs that negativity and suffers. However, when we find the resolve to honor the body, and when we realize its supreme importance (in the fulfillment of our spiritual aspirations), this provides a counter-valence, a force which moves us in a positive direction with regards to our body and its care.
The general areas addressed in the Twelve Foundations, relating to the care and cultivation of the body, are:
1. Eating and Diet
2. Exercise
3. Breathing
4. Enjoyment of the Body
All of these areas are inter-related and all add to the health and well-being of the body. Of course, one’s mental state always affects the body, so cultivating true and positive emotions is of fundamental support to the body (and, likewise, being in a state of fear, depression, stress, regret, etc. harms the body and undermines one’s health-related practices).
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