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Weighing Heavy on My Mind

by Rev. Liz Swearsky, O.M.C.

A Message from Spirit: “I want to tell you how beautiful you are, how perfect and magnificent you are as a holy child of God. This is still foreign to you. Really embody it. You embody it by allowing God to work through you. Let go. Don’t be stressed out about anything. Smile and know that everything is fine and just how it is supposed to be. Be Love. Embody love for that is what you are. Love isn’t fat! “

I heard this as I was getting ready to write about something that has been challenging me for a while; my weight. Mind you, I am not overweight, but in the past, I have been obsessed with becoming overweight. It stems from a mother and father that were very critical of my body growing up. (I think I have some forgiving to do!) I thought that I had moved on with the issue, but maybe there is a new opportunity for me for a deeper healing. Especially since now that I am going through menopause(!), it seems to be creeping its way back into my thoughts, (and the fact that I have gone up a size or two). It is time again to hand it over to Holy Spirit.

So, how do I do that with regards to eating? It’s not about eating silly! It’s about realizing your Truth. And, oh yeah, it also means that if you are going to put God/Spirit in charge, you better let go of your fear of Him. Nouk Sanchez talks about this extensively. I for sure am working on that. I also know that I am not alone. We all have to eat. There is no way of getting around it. Therefore, there is no way of getting around the fact that we have to let go of this existential fear. So, when I am wanting something that I shouldn’t be eating or wanting too much of something, I say, “I release my fear of God. Thank You God.” I do this constantly, many times a day and apply it to everything that I am having “trouble” with. Fear of God is the ultimate, unconscious cause when we put ego in charge. Then I say, “I let go and let God.”

In addition to this, I am reading a book, A Course in Weight Loss, by Marianne Williamson. It comes from the perspective of a ACIM student/teacher. This is what she writes, “Lesson 5: Start a Love Affair With Food. You probably read this chapter title over a couple of times thinking that you’d caught a typo. Perhaps you thought I must have meant end your love affair with food, not start one. But nope, you read it right the first time. It’s time for you to start a real love affair with food.
What you’ve had up to this point has been an obsessive relationship, and an obsessive relationship is not love. Whether with a substance or with a person, an obsessive relationship is a dance of the wounded… a carnival of pain… but not a real love affair, because there is no love there. To think you need food that you don’t really need, to practically inhale food, to crave food, to obsess about food, to binge on and then alternately avoid food, to control food and need to be rigid around it — none of these bespeak a love affair. Pain and compulsion and self-hate are not love.

“The true lover of food is able to take time with it. She can savor food, and non-neurotically delight in it. She can chew it thoroughly and actually taste it. She can eat without guilt and stop eating without too great an effort. She can celebrate how food is contributing to her health. She can wonder at it and appreciate its beauty… She can shop for groceries without wondering if anyone is watching her or judging her. She can gaze at a pretty bunch of grapes and consider whether she’d prefer them in her stomach or in a crystal bowl on her table. She can take one bite of something delicious, ecstatically breathe in the taste and enjoy waiting before taking another bite… No, the compulsive over eater is no lover of food. When it comes to your enjoyment of eating, your best days are not behind you, but ahead of you.”

In the final lesson, she writes, “Feel not only the physical; feel the body brilliant. When sitting, feel your body… then sense the spiritual body that sits within you. Simply feel its presence; that is all you need to do. Feel not only the physical; feel the body brilliant. When standing, feel your body… then sense the spiritual body that stands within you. Simply feel its presence; that is all you need to do. Feel not only the physical; feel the body brilliant. When walking, feel your body… then sense the spiritual body that walks within you. Simply feel its presence; that is all you need do. These are subtle actions, yet they can change your life. For what you feel is what you will feed. The fact that this will diminish your weight is almost incidental… You are leaving behind a merely material sense of who you are, and identifying instead with the spirit within you. In the spiritual realm, you carry no excess substance, because you are love and love only.” Lovely words indeed.

Rev. Liz Swearsky, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Southington, Connecticut.

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