Consciousness, health, and excess of weight – "How can I be loved if I suffer from health issues?"

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Excerpt: Do you know when it becomes most difficult to convince people that consciousness governs the physical? When they are confronted with their physical body. The evidence is right there - illnesses, chronic pains, weight - so how can I say that it's all psychic? In this post, I tackle the issue that bothers most people in the modern world - the excess of weight.


I have been approached too often with the following dilemma:

“You speak about love and how to achieve it. You claim that love is a privilege that every human being is entitled to and that it is not natural to not have love. But, how can I have love, or even begin to work towards it, if I have other serious problems in my life - illness or physical deformation like an excess of weight? What’s the point in doing the inner work of love if I will never be able to enjoy it with a sick or a fat body!?"

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And indeed, although the question is legitimate it ignores several principles that are well rooted in the concept of love.

The first and foremost of them repeatedly emphasizes that your physical life is solely governed by your inner reality. That means that your physical well-being and the condition of your body, in particular, are subject to the directives and the suggestions that you choose to exercise. Every illness that seems to happen to you is the direct result of a mental blockage that you have put on yourself.

You must understand that health and physical well-being are a natural condition of the human body. It's not natural for the body to not be in balance. There is not a directive of any kind that says “at the age of 54 I will suffer from arthritis; at the age of 42 I will have cancer like my dad had” etc. Except for extraordinary situations (usually from birth) if you suffer from a chronic pain or if you face a severe disease it is because you have blocked the flow of the healing energy from coming into your life. Most probably, that flow was well teeming in your childhood and adolescent times but as you grew up you succumbed to ordinary beliefs about the deterioration of the body and its relationship with your inner world in general.

The weight problem in the modern world

Excess of weight, whether it is small or large in scope, almost always is the result of the following three lifestyles and Thoughts-style:

  1. You gain weight because you are afraid to show yourself to the world. You are afraid to speak up your truth either because you fear the consequences or you have not decided yet that what you have to say is worth to be heard. In both cases, it is a question of self-esteem and self-love. The mental blockages that you put between you and the world - those same blockages that keep you away from the reality around you – are translated by your nervous system to body weight. A good augury to identify your position in this category would be to ask yourself if you occasionally use lies in your interactions with the world.

  2. You gain weight because you fear from outside elements in your reality. Sometimes those fears were already rooted within the child that you were by your parents and your teachers. Those have told you that you should be afraid of God; Nature; Bad people etc, who would only want to judge you/hurt you/confuse you. Whichever the cause of your personal fear might be, it is you who allowed those fears to control you and override your inner power as the creators of your reality. Most probably you built that excess of weight to protect you from emotional or physical ghostly injury.

  3. A third main cause of gaining disproportionate weight is your imbalanced interaction with people. You gain weight because your interactions are not balanced. You spend time with people, you talk to them, you hear their problems and their issues, but instead of leaving all those behind you, you take it all in! You take their problems onto yourselves! Those huge amounts of energy are collected by you, day after day, moment after moment, and ultimately are translated by your nervous system into physical blockages of energy called fat. Finding the balance between your empathy, the desire to help other human beings and your own needs and well-being is a task that you will have to master in order to effectively help others while having an enjoyable life for yourself. Do understand, you cannot serve other people when you are out of balance. It's like giving sugar to a diabetic.

There is a catch-22 scenario here. You currently believe that you cannot begin your path to love until you first find solutions to your physical problems (illness and weight as presented in this message). However, the self-love IS the structure in which you will find those solutions. So again, you are facing the ultimate dilemma, who will you be? Masters of your consciousness or slaves to others'?

In addition to the above, you may also want to examine your dreams. Your craving for food in your waking hours does not stop when you go to sleep. You still need to feed yourself and to fill the reservoirs of energy which could not be filled on the physical planes while you are awake. Therefore, when you sleep, you travel to the close dimensions in which you absorb as many energetic foods as you can. You envision and dream of, huge quantities of food, literally food, be it cakes, hot dogs, fries etc, and you devour them. No wonder you cannot lose weight.

You are addicted to that type of energy and the first step is to cut the cord of seduction.

How? You already know the answer – Self-love. There is really no other way.


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This is actually true tho I am not suffering because I am gaining weight but I was bullied before since I am too skinny. In our world right now most people define self-love by letting themselves stuck in a room and just be alone until they experience depression. They are actually not guided properly of how to love theirselves but not in a distructive way. Good post again @nomad-magus. I always look forward to this kind of interaction.

And let me emphasize, there is absolutely nothing wrong in whichever degree of wight that one has. The key point is to trust the natural balance of the body and be aware to one's connection with it. In this post, I am addressing those of us who use their physical situation as an excuse to not being worthy of love.
Thank you for the comment🙏

True and I’ll keep that in mind 😊 Thank you

"You are talking about love and how to achieve it.You claim that love is a privilege that every human being is entitled and unnatural to have no love, but how can I love, or even begin to work, if I have other serious problems in my life - disease or physical deformation like being overweight? What's the use of doing inner love work if I can never enjoy it with a sick or fat body?" This is what I will keep in my memory memory. Because this sentence that becomes representative of the overall delivery @noman-magus. allow me to share or resteem post @ nomad-magus, so that this useful thing is readable by my friends. Very enlightening. Thank you @nomad-magus

Before loving and caring for other people one should first start to develop the love for ownself and start caring about ones own physique personality etc. I am not of the opinion that one should not love and care for others but i suggest one should first love and care about himself/herself than others. Let me list out the things that could be a possible result because of this:
1)first of all we will develop a good health which for sure is the most important thing. We could be than able to do lot of things that can make us and others happy without getting much exhausted.
2)if we start caring about our health right from teenage later in old we would require less attention from our children mostly. This indirectly will help in saving lot of time of our family mostly our children. Thus they could have more time for themselves and it will obviously make them happy. Seeing them happy would be great for us in old age.
3)being fitter we could save lot of money which could be utilised differently like family friends vacations enjoyment etc. This for sure will make them happy.
4)last thing is we would want to do a lot of things during our old age but that could be possible only if we are healthier.
So in short i could end up say present fitness is investment for happier future. Not only ours but our loving ones too.

Indeed.
I'd add that it's never too late to begin.
Thanks for your insights 👍

No no i am not of the same opinion as you are. You are simply saying its never too late. It maybe right upto some time but not always. Let me clear it for you @nomad-magus. I believe prevention is better than cure. Let me give an example if a person is obese he has got the majority of chances of having a diabetes in nearby future. So if person turns diabetic once he has to be on medicine for rest of the life. So even if he becomes health cautious afterwards it for sure will not help him with diabetes even though if he becomes slimmer. On the contrary had he started earlier he could have saved himself from such a thing. Not only diabetes there are other diseases too like hypertension etc. Hope i was able to change your ideology a little bit. And I hope i was not offensive.

There is no disagreement between us about that, my friend. Preventive measures are better, indeed; we do not need to suffer pain in order to grow.
Nevertheless, for those who are in the midst of a physical situation, I say that it is never too late to change the course of your thought-patterns and allow healing.

Indeed yes thats true. There is no doubt about it. You for sure could start from any point not thinking about the physical condition you are in. You could just make one physical condition make you remind that there can be more to come. So for that instance you could start a preventive measure to stay away from them. You have just now made me change my opinion a little never late for future to come. Thank you for this @nomad-magus. Anyways its a vast topic maybe others don't have same opinion like we do. Atleast we are on the same page almost.

Indeed, pioneers of conscousness.

Of course staying conscious is what we want and what we should do. I just wanted to add one more point because i again read the blog this a point caught my eye "I will not be loved if turned fat". It may or may not be the case. For being loved all that you want is you should have a nice heart because love starts from heart and ends at heart. So for sure there must be a person who falls in love with the heart you have. Moreover some believe life comes only once and should be lived to the fullest. They maybe fat yet they eat a lot whatever they want and simply enjoy. Even they have beautiful wives remember i said wives. No doubt for move wives you need a big deal of money haha.

This is a pitfall that many fall into. Hear me my friend -
In order to be loved you need nothing.
You don't need to do anything or have anything because you are loved right now!
We have been so blocked by the mind and mass consciousness that we forgot this simple truth. Hence, the pioneers 😀
Thanks for your insightful comments🙏

I have seen people who have really gained hell lot of weight and they dont give a damn about anything ....they live perfect lives...eat alot ..most probably they are rich..... They have beautiful fiances ......even if the inappropriate weight makes them look ugly ...they dont care....
They only live with one perspective

" live once coz you aint gonna get another chance".....

Hmm...
Are you sure they don't care? Or perhaps they have come up with a magnificent way to cover it all up? Building many inner, mental, shields that are expressed as excessive weight?
Again, I claim that there is nothing wrong in any form of physicality as long as it is conscious.
And about the "live once" illusion - any life is indeed precious, but it's definitely not temporary. 😊

Yup that is for sure no life is temporary , but i have seen many with the mentality like who cares , i love eating.....i have seen alot like this even a friend of mine....maybe they do know being rich will get them any beauty in this world....So no insecurities... Looking on the other end of this particular talk (middle class people) they do care alot....they put every effort to bring the charm in them.....lol , this reminds me of my another friend....

in essence the love does not look physical and treasure,
but nowadays love has little influence with physical, treasure, and also the throne. because I think love also needs the support of the people around us, a very touching writing @nomad-magus

Well, this is the best post I have seen all week on steemit. This is the major issue that this new generation is going through. There are some things that I disagree and some points that I highly agree.
I disagree with the title of your subject. How can I be loved if I suffer from health issue. I think there is no relationship between the two. Being healthy will never make you being loved. We are always loved by our friends and family irrespective of our health.
The content under this heading "the weight problem in the modern world" is impressive. Absolutely you gain weight because you are afraid to show yourself to the world. It's all about confidence,and the ability and the courage to get up. This is such an awesome post, this is the story of modern day people. This post made my day. Cheers

You are fortunate to be surrounded by a loving family and friends.. Thanks for the feedback, mate👍

the self-love IS the structure in which you will find those solutions)
absolutely!
When your opinion of yourself goes up then you’ll stop trying to get so much validation and attention from other people. You become less needy and find an inner stability even when your world might be negative or uncertain at times.

The "less needy" is a key point here. Look what happens with medicine - we are so trained to not trust the natural healing abilities of our magnificent body that we need outside sources.
Good point!

I experienced being depressed before because I actually listen to the people that sorrounds me. That’s true before listening the views if others listen to yours first. Teach yourself to love your own before you listen to the opinions of others specially the way you look. Great post. Thank you for sharing

@nomad-magus ...SELF LOVE ..THERE IS NO OTHER WAY...!
Yes, the fact is that we often pay attention to those things which are just natural rather than using our energy in those things which actually needs to be corrected..
As you gave three reasons for weight gain and its evident that all the three reasons are with respect to the people of the world and thus we are afraid of them.. if during our illness,we think of the people then we definitely are the SLAVES ...But if we really believe in SELF LOVE...then we are the Masters of our consciousnes...
...The point is that we block the ability of natural healing by ourselves by thinking so deep about the people and often get depressed....
....I would love to mention my opinion and to have your comment/suggestion over it..:
... Mind control plays an important role in balancing ones life..we should live our life "NATURALLY" In the real sense..only then we can regain the ability of natural healing..
Thankyou..

What do you mean by "mind control"?

@nomad-magus ...mind control like we often think too much about all the issues being it our health or anything else..and the main fact is that we often think in the negative sense which ultimately leads to depression.. that why our mind should be well controlled in order to avoid such depressions .

I would recommend to abandon the duality all together. You see, the new-age spirituality came up with the notion "positive thinking", telling us that if we direct our mental activity - thoughts, images - in the positive direction we will achieve what we want. This method of course didn't work for long. The mind does not have any creative abilities whatsoever.
So for me "mind control" means to stay in the now moment and cease the mind chatter. It certainly does not mean to convert the negative thoughts to positive ones. However, if one to think at all then better think positive thoughts than repressing and downgrading ones.

@nomad-magus ...thats where the actual difference lies between the "philosphical point" (like yours) and a "common point" (like mine)...
...Yes to stay in the new moment and cease the mind chatter can help a person almost in all the possible ways...
But may be its lack of understanding on My part that: how long do u think that mind-control will work?? I mean for how long we can live new moment and cease mind chatter?? Help me to absorb this point completely.

For as long as you live, my friend

May be there is lack of understanding on my part sir @nomad-magus ...still i will try to get it as soon as possible...

I agree as we grow old we block the healing power which comes within ourselves, and I liked the way you described the weight problems, well I was only aware about excessive diet makes you fat

That too. When one messes around with their minds, the natural healing is blocked. You see it clearly.

So true, but no one takes it seriously, it's the health that should be the first priority

I think so too. When one is at great pains the awareness is blocked. That's why, btw, in hospitals nowadays, doctors treat pain right away. They do not let people bear the pains as they know that it blockages the healing process.

I completely agree

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