Listen to your body (it's smarter than you are)

They say we teach what we need to learn.  After 2 or 3 years of thinking about starting a support group for chronically ill people, I finally start one--when?  When I'm in the middle of a longterm illness of course.  I'm on the second round of 30 days of sick leave from work (in other words I've been off work a little over 30 days) on doctor's orders.

I have been extremely low energy off and on since October to the point where I haven't been able to work without exhaustion.  Some days i think, this is nonsense, I'm fine and then return to my old level of activity (minus work)--woah, by the end of the day I'm in bed by 7pm unable to string together sentences.

So now I'm preparing to introduce other people to what I've learned about listening to my body, hearing what it was to say and following its direction.  And what do I know about it?  If I'm so good at listening to my body, how come I'm on leave?

Actually, I'm glad I asked.  That's why I'm on leave.  I'm on leave because I listened to my body and to my doctor and this is what I needed to get well.  Now I just need to trust and keep listening.

Day 38: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--Do something different

 My consciousness of the Spirit within me as my unlimited Source is the Divine Power to restore the years the locusts have eaten, to make all things new, to lift me up to the High Road of abundant prosperity.  This awareness, understanding and knowledge of Spirit appears as every visible form and experience that I could possibly desire.*

All things new--what does that really mean?  To me it means that I only have this one minute, this one day.  It may be Saturday, January 19th, 2013.  It may be my son's 18th birthday (happy birthday, Nick!).  It may be the 38th day of a 40 day abundance meditation series.  It is certainly today.  It is certainly now.  This is the only time I have and I have the choice today to begin again and be new.  

We acknowledge that and celebrate it on New Year's Day and create resolutions for all sorts of ways we're going to change.  By January 19th, we may have let go of a number of our resolutions.   The truth is that I can turn on a dime and starting today, I can choose to do things differently for myself.  I can let go of habits that weren't serving me (how about just one?) and I can embrace habits that serve (again, just one?) and make all things new.

I heard an interview with Deepak Chopra on NPR the other day where he suggested just doing one thing differently than usually do to challenge your brain.  If you always buckle your belt on the left, turn it around and buckle it on the right.  If you always take a given route to work in your car, drive a different way (or better yet, bike or take a bus to work).  Do something different (and new) today.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 35: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--Truth is streaming live 24 hours a day

Money is not my supply.  No person, place or condition is my supply.  My knowledge of the all-providing activity of the Divine Mind within me is my supply.  My consciousness of this Truth is unlimited; therefore, my supply is unlimited.*

Like Netflix, I can stream consciousness 24 hours a day.  Unlike Netflix, there is an unlimited selection of what I can stream and I don't have to pay a monthly fee (unless you count tithing my time, talent and treasure to my spiritual source).  How fast I get it depends on my connection.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 34: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--I am fully supplied

Through my consciousness of my Godself, the Christ within, as my Source, I draw into my mind and feeling nature the very substance of Spirit.  This substance is my supply, thus my consciousness of the Presence of God within me is my supply.

For some reason this is making me think of a website I wasted time reading the other day specifying what post-apocalyptic supplies I should lay in.  As I started to think I needed to go to Target at 9:30 at night with the list (can you get bullets and cartons of cigarettes--crucial for barter--at Target?), I realized, hey, I'm a backpacker.  I've got a sleeping bag, pad, water filter, camp stove, backpack, tent and LOTS of duct tape (you can't imagine how vital a role duct tape can play in your survival, people!) in my alley storage.  If I only move all the camping supplies in house and add some food (plus the bullets and cigarettes, see above), I'm good to go.

This is how God works.  My supply is already here (possibly in off-site storage, meaning I'm not using it daily), close at hand and available.  I don't need to go to a big box store (church) to find God.   I can.  But it's already here and the relief I feel knowing that I'm protected and loved and have plenty of cigarettes and bullets to barter is incalculable.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 31: 40 Day Abundance Meditations--one day at a time

God is lavish, unfailing Abundance, the rich omnipresent substance of the Universe.  This all-providing Source of infinite prosperity is individualized as me—the Reality of me.

Wow, here we go, our fourth time through this ten meditation series.  Now it's important for me to recognize that I only have today and not to focus on the end of the series or what I'm going to gain but rather, what do I experience right now.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program

Day 30 -- 40 Day Abundance Meditations--God can only do for me what God can do through me

 I keep my mind and thoughts off “this world” and I place my entire focus on God within as the only cause of my prosperity.  I acknowledge the Inner Presence as the only activity in my financial affairs, as the substance of all things visible.  I place my faith in the Principle of Abundance in action within me.”*

Don't be daunted by the reference to Christ above--as my minister Rev. Georgia Prescott would say, "Christ is not Jesus's last name"--it is an energy of love that I have access to through in and as me.  So the idea of letting my Christ consciousness or Inner Presence be the "only activity in my financial affairs" does not mean that I suddenly expect God to sit down and write the checks.  It will still be me, but I will be drawing on my higher power to do it.

*If you are just joining our show in progress, meditate on this for 15 minutes today.  You can start the meditations any day, don't worry about the day it says it is, but then do it for 40 days.  At any time you can look ahead or behind and see how it works by going to this link:  How to do the 40 day Meditation Program