Health. The average person is preoccupied with the body, its functioning, performance, appearance, and survival. The average mind is beleaguered with worries, fears of sickness, suffering, disease, and death; therefore, the mind sets about defending the body in a great variety of ways. This leads to over-attention to diet, weight, exercise, and the health of the environment. With such inner tension, by the end of the day the average person frequently feels like a victim: drained, empty, and exhausted. One consequence of this preoccupation with the body is self-consciousness. Within the field of awareness, the body’s presence is prominent, and there is a mental fixation with what it is doing, its whereabouts and movements, its survival, the attitudes and approval of other persons toward the body, its appearance and behavior. Underlying all of this concern is the unconscious equation, “I am a body.” This is a very limited level of consciousness. In fact, in the spiritual world this is called “being unconscious.” Because it is a false identification due to a marked narrowing of awareness, it is like wearing blinders. It is like having a pimple on the nose and thinking that the whole world now revolves around that pimple, and going through the day with that pimple most prominent in our mind. Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender (Kindle Locations 3785-3796).
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 18:00:22 +0000
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