To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/07/04 17:34
Subject: [K-list] Re: K-list Digest, Vol 13, Issue 4
From: Stephen Kowalchuk
On 2004/07/04 17:34, Stephen Kowalchuk posted thus to the K-list:
Shadow,
The reason you are not losing weight is because you carry things with
you. The origins of the weight you seek to lose are not in the food you
eat but in the limiting beliefs that you have already swallowed. Here is
your first step.
Reality exists whether or not you believe in it. Not necessarily an
independent reality, but your reality. The conscious mind does much to
fool us. It is a "pattern-matching" machine, designed to funnel input and
output but not address the deeper processing needs of your whole being, the
self.
The clearing you speak of is the self recalibrating the mind, correcting it
a piece at a time. The mess exists because the clearing process has
altered what the mind believes is messy vs. what is clean. What you see as
messy was not necessarily messy at some time before, nor had it appeared to
you in such stark difference (thus your increased attention to it). Now
that the contrast is apparent.
Belief implies a function of the mind. Being implies a function of the
self. Instead of believing, try being. Belief is, unfortunately, a
tentative proposition, since all belief is based on rule-making, and all
rules must at some time be broken. Being requires no such judgement, and
allows us the freedom of inconsistency, which is more in line with our
personal realities. Beliefs are made for the convenience of the mind, to
fool us into security. Being allows us to directly interact with the other
parts of the self, taking care of their needs without the burden of complex
and fallacious judgements.
We attract what we project. In your statements, you project self-pity and
self-loathing. You attract people who are self-loathing and those who wish
to "fix" self-loathing people. When you are found to be un-fixable, or
when you do not give these others what they seek (a "fix" or an affirmation
of their beliefs), they leave. You leave.
Let go of needing the attention of others. Focus on releasing your
anger. Thich Nhat Hanh's book "Anger" may help. Release your anger,
refocus your energy on purification (especially of the lower chakras), and
the rest will happen automatically. As Angelique has said many times,
depression is anger turned inward. There is no requirement that you be
angry with yourself. You are, like the rest of us, another step along the
path. There are no firsts on the way to moksha or nirvana, there is no
need to compete. We all go as we go, and encounter what we encounter, and
become what we become.
:-)
Steve
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