{"id":25412,"date":"2017-10-11T01:50:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=25412"},"modified":"2017-10-03T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T12:06:08","slug":"tips-regina-lesson-264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/tips-regina-lesson-264\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ Lesson 264"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the Body?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our special theme refers to the body as a dream. It says, \u201cLike other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This speaks of duality. As we looked at our last special theme, we saw that outward focus, judgment and duality are the means by which the mind \u201cseeks to let illusions take the place of truth.\u201d And the \u201cbody is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That means that the duality of the body, including its ability to be healthy and sick, for example, is part of the mind\u2019s effort \u201cto let illusions take the place of truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy feeling healthy. I enjoy a body that is strong, flexible and pain-free. However, the body doesn\u2019t always fit that description. If I begin to judge the body by deciding how it should be or should not be, aren\u2019t I falling into the mind\u2019s choice to deceive itself?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some judgments that we commonly make about the body:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Healthy or sick<\/li>\n<li>Fit or injured<\/li>\n<li>Strong or weak<\/li>\n<li>Attractive or unattractive<\/li>\n<li>Fat or thin<\/li>\n<li>Young or old<\/li>\n<li>Capable or handicapped<\/li>\n<li>Normal or deformed<\/li>\n<li>Okay or dying<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you able to see your ideas of \u201cshould be and should not be\u201d in that list?<\/p>\n<p>Our current special theme says, \u201cMade to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some people interpret that to mean that we can make the body be what we define as good by choosing truth as our purpose. For example, we can make the body healthy, fit, and strong and avoid sick, injured and weak. However, isn\u2019t that still belief in what should be and should not be?<\/p>\n<p>As I said above, I enjoy feeling healthy, and if there are steps I can take to keep the body healthy or to return it to health when it is sick or injured, I will most likely take those steps. However, does that mean I need to judge sickness or injury as \u201cshould not be\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>If my purpose is to let go of the ego illusion, don\u2019t I serve my purpose better by loving all experiences exactly as they are?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am surrounded by the Love of God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s lesson says, \u201cFather, You stand before me and behind me, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. \u2026 There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness. \u2026 We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today we contemplate all things as love. This is sometimes challenging, since the mind judges what should be and what should not be, and we often believe the mind\u2019s judgments. It is common to believe that cancer should not be, mass shootings should not be, etcetera.<\/p>\n<p>How do we see these things as love?<\/p>\n<p>I could go into an explanation of love that might be somewhat satisfactory to the mind, but the truth is that the mind doesn\u2019t see love. The mind sees its illusions of duality. The way we come to see that all things are love is to let go of the ego and its illusion. The way we do that is by ceasing to participate in the ego\u2019s illusion\u2014let go of believing the mind\u2019s stories and judgments\u2014and focus our attention on practices that point to truth.<\/p>\n<p>Today we will focus on love by practicing the Loving Consciousness meditation and by practicing the Loving All Method.<\/p>\n<p>The Loving Consciousness meditation is similar to Awareness-Watching-Awareness except that as you watch awareness, you also love, appreciate and cherish it.<\/p>\n<p>As a review, I recommend this guided meditation today. It is 30 minutes long:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/introduction-to-loving-consciousness-meditation-with-rev-regina-dawn-akers\/\">Introduction to Loving Consciousness Meditation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Body? Our special theme refers to the body as a dream. It says, \u201cLike other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born.\u201d This speaks of duality. 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