Only The Needs We Assign It….

(Olivia is my 7th baby and has been riding since she was about 8. She’s now 14. Sunday morning we are up and at the barn before the roosters crow….not really but feels like it!)

“Yet it is not the body that can fear, nor be a thing of fear. It has no needs but those which you assign to it. It needs no complicated structures of defense, no health-inducing medicine, no care and no concern at all. Defend its life, or give it gifts to make it beautiful or walls to make it safe, and you but say your home is open to the thief of time, corruptible and crumbling, so unsafe it must be guarded with your very life.” -ACIM L. 135

The Course as well as most spiritual paths, teach WE ARE NOT our body. We are Spirit. If I die now, it is only my flesh that dies. MY TRUE IDENTITY, who I REALLY am, is nothing but Spirit, connected to the Oneness Consciousness which we all are part of (god and eachother.)

I spend an exuberant amount of time on my body. I look in the mirror with a critical eye evaluating what needs to change. I feed my body. I groom. I exercise. I watch videos about better care of my body. I take my body to a doctor if I’m unsure I am well. I shop for clothes and this takes a great deal of time. I bring clothes home and try them on and change outfits if I think they don’t look good. I worry. I’m in my head space too much.

I spend more time investing and nourishing my false identity, than my TRUE IDENTITY.

How does one find their TRUE IDENTITY? How does one begin the shift from “physical realm” focused, to “spiritual realm” focused?

More to come.

If you can’t wait, pick up your chosen sacred text, and ASK your inner guide for direction. It never fails to answer.

Namaste (All my being sees, recognizes, honors and bows to your being.)

Shannon 🥰