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Study of the Text, Chapter 8: VII. The Body as a Means of Communication, Paragraph 3 10-3-14

VII. The Body as a Means of Communication P 3
3 If you use the body for attack, it is harmful to you. If you use it only to reach the minds of those who believe they are bodies, and teach them through the body that this is not so, you will understand the power of the mind that is in you. If you use the body for this and only for this, you cannot use it for attack. In the service of uniting it becomes a beautiful lesson in communion, which has value until communion is. This is God’s way of making unlimited what you have limited. The Holy Spirit does not see the body as you do, because He knows the only reality of anything is the service it renders God on behalf of the function He gives it.

How do I teach others that they are not bodies? By not attacking them. Only bodies can attack or be attacked, so by not attacking and by not defending against attack, I teach myself and others that we are not bodies. And of course, the opposite is true as well. In defense and attack I teach that we are bodies and separate and limited.

As a sales person I used to think of my customers as a means to earn a living and other sales people as competitors, enemies who were a threat to that goal. This is how the ego uses the body. It promotes separation and thinks of its needs as different from, and more important than, the needs of others. It can be very single minded in getting its own needs met.

As I began to experience more mind healing, I began to see my customers and even my competitors in a different way. Instead of seeing bodies that could be used to meet my perceived needs, I began to see brothers and sisters. I began to see opportunities to practice kindness and to extend love. I began to ask the Holy Spirit how He would have me serve God in these relationships.

Now, with this practice, I recognize when I am misusing the body by putting it into service to the ego, and I ask for correction. Usually, my vision shifts pretty quickly, but even if fear blocks that shift temporarily, I know the goal and I persist. I want to use the body as a communication device rather than a separation device. I want to teach myself and everyone else that we are one in spirit regardless of the appearance of separation.

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