I’ve had the good fortune to be spending the weekend with Lisa Natoli and Bill Free.  We’ve become very good friends over the years, thanks to our love of A Course in Miracles.  We spend our time together talking about spiritual teachings, coffee and, of course, food.  

I’m putting together my next big program which is called Change Your Mind About Your Body and both Bill and Lisa will be teachers in that program, along with folks and friends like Gary and Cindy Renard, Jon Mundy, Corinne Zupko and many more.  I’m excited about what we’re going to be able to offer and the difference it will make in people’s lives.

One of the things we’ve been talking about this weekend is how our lives have changed over the years.  The more we let go of the false beliefs and step into the truth, the more our mind is simply open to inspiration.  

Living from inspiration is completely different from living from ego.

It used to be that so much effort would be put into trying to figure things out and trying to understand things, especially in our work.  We’ve had to learn so much about websites and email systems, advertising and a lot of technical things. 

It’s such a relief to move from laboring to figure things out to feeling Spirit led and guided.  Working at the level of form can be exhausting.  Working at the level of the mind is working in the invisible, Spirit moves instantaneously and there’s no effort.

Last year, I was given an idea to do a Change Your Mind About Your Body program and I felt the beauty and power of it immediately.

I got excited and inspired even though I had no idea how it would unfold or when.  Then, I was guided to offer it in May this year and got the whole team from the Power of Love Ministry on board to support this new program.

It’s really wonderful to see how things can come to fruition when Spirit is in charge.  

The more I contemplate this new program, the more I’m discovering about the many patterns of the mind that affect the body and I’m excited for us to look deeply at the relationship between the mind and the body.

I am not a body, but I have a body.  

The body performs an act of service for us, by enabling us to experience this life in form, in the illusion.  Many of us, at times in our lives, can sometimes feel like we have an adversarial relationship with our body – it’s as though the body is our enemy.  We can feel trapped in the body and helpless.  

At times, we can feel enslaved to what seems like the bodies addictions and temptations.  Sometimes we even feel hatred for our bodies.  Other times we’re trying to make the body into some perfect ideal that’s not really attainable, believing that if we could just “improve” the body we’d be happy – and all the while we’re looking at our body and thinking “not good enough.”

We all know how intense this journey with the body can be – and yet, ACIM tells us that our body is our second best tool to work with the mind after relationships.  Our bodies are to help us work with our mind to realize we are not a body.  Interesting!

So many people, truly living the principles of A Course in Miracles, have miraculous healing in the body.  Jesus, when he walked the earth, was consistently participating in people’s miraculous healing of the body – the blind would see, the lame would walk.  Many, many spiritual teachers have major issues in their bodies.  

What I see in my life, with those around me, is that when we really work these ACIM principles closely, and we have great willingness, we can heal our mind about our body and then, very often the body will heal, but more importantly we can truly know the Peace of God.

It’s a journey.  

It’s an opportunity.  

I used to have so much anger towards my body, so much confusion and I used to really feel hopeless and ashamed – not because of my body, but because of my thoughts about my body.  Now, I feel blessed by my body every day.  I feel grateful.  Every day I have more clarity about my relationship to the body and the opportunity it gives me.

What I’ve seen over the years is that pretty much everyone has body issues and those issues can be a tremendous blessing – mine have.  Being able to recognize the blessings and benefits and move out of any hostility, shame or disappointment directed at the body has been a real game-changer for me.  

For years I’ve seen people I know move from feeling hopeless to inspired when they applied the ACIM teachings to their experience of the body.  It can truly speed up our awakening!

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