There’s SO MUCH possibility for healing for each and every one of us if we’re willing to open our minds and “come out from among them.”

We live in a world where there are many intense thought patterns around what we should and shouldn’t do with the body.

Many people are more unloving with their thoughts, beliefs, and treatment of their own body than in any area of their lives.

People who are so completely loving with their children, their animals and others in their lives are actively unloving with themselves in the treatment of their body. One of the most common forms of psychological dysfunction people experience shows up in abuse of the body temple.

We get such mixed messages in this world and that is why in order to heal our mind about the world we must realize that we are in the world, but not OF this world. We have a body, but we are not our bodies.

A Course in Miracles tells us that the body is a temple. And we are the altar.

The temple is a shell, let us not worship or idolize the body temple.

Let us acknowledge the altar that is within.

Seek first the kingdom, which is within, and all else will be added unto you.

We can be willing to look at our thoughts and behaviors around the body and learn to be more self-loving by honoring the temple. How we hold the body in our mind is so helpful to our healing if we choose to view it that way.

Myself, I’m not interested in perpetuating the mental and emotional anguish that comes from making the physical body a false idol. I know that it’s a teaching – learning tool and I am choosing that path of learning for my awakening.

It takes great willingness to be vigilant over these crazy body thoughts, opinions, and judgments. I’m willing! Let’s do it together!