You destroy your own body by overindulgence of any kind. You have to pay attention to how your body feels and responds to different foods, because we all are different.
Being vegetarian is good, but to eliminate meat, cheese, eggs, fish all from the diet is not necessary. Remember balance is important. Do not use the way you eat to feel superior to others. You cannot attain spiritual perfection through diet. However, you can be healthy balanced and above all not judgmental of others in the process of learning.
Find your best suited diet and physical exercise and stick to it. If you cheat once in a while, do not feel guilty, enjoy the break, but do go back to your system.
Remember we are all beautiful Souls inside this physical structure. We must try to reflect this in our appearance to the best of our abilities.
Personal dressing or grooming habits are vital. We must care how we appear. It will make you more self-confident if you feel that you look good. I do not mean you have to look like a movie star. But to be well groomed and neat and clean is important – also for those closest to you!
You must not just say appearance does not matter. Of course it does! If you have went around only wearing black don’t you think you could brighten your image a little? Find clothes that are comfortable and attractive. Try a few different colors, fall into a new image. Break old habits and discover the hidden you. Do not be afraid to try new ideas. You can always change. But it is essential to be clean.
Do you think that cleaning house is nothing but an unpleasant duty? This doesn’t have to be so. Turn on your favorite music and get going! You’ll soon find out how much at ease you and guest feel in a neat and tidy home and how nice it is to always find your stuff. Letting go of unnecessary things is also a must in the physical world. Our body is able to take care of itself but is our responsibility to take care of our home, without being fanatic about it, though. All this is part of our living in this dimension. And when we are able to accept this as a natural part of our physical experience, our lives become more pleasant.
Being creative is another important factor in being physical. It actually helps to stimulate the energy that constantly flows through the body. Unfortunately many people do not consider themselves as creative. Being creative does not mean you have to be a great artist. It means to find a way to express yourself and your feelings.
You are being creative if you see shapes in the clouds, if you find a use for something that someone else discarded, or if you repair something with wire or tape because of necessity. Everything that people have created was out of necessity. They needed something and created it! Because we are attuned to the Creator and are part of that energy that created us we are by nature creators ourselves! We create families, societies, means of travel, and communication. Extend this further and focus on the ways you can become more creative. Remember the more you use your creative energy the more creative energy will flow through you.
Learning to deal with the Emotions
Many of our emotional experiences originate not only from our existence here, but also from previous lifetimes which are within our Souls taken into this life as memories or experiences.
Emotions are a very essential part of existence. These relate to every part of our being – how we physically look and feel, how we mentally function to our ability to relate to everyone and everything around us. It is easier to become emotionally unbalanced than almost any other functions, because the emotions are constantly in motion or use.
Life is an emotional roller coaster, constantly changing as our experiences. The emotions take us up from one existence to another. The dimension that controls and supplies the emotional body is the Astral Plane. To exist there is to rely on the feelings and experiences and to exist in an emotional state of consciousness. This is fine if you exist on the astral in the astral body. However, it is difficult to rely only on the emotions on the physical.
From birth we are affected by touch, taste, sight, sound, and even smells. These senses supply us with our first emotional patterns in this life. Basic emotional patterns are reactions or responses to things around us, such as smiling or laughing when we are content, crying in discomfort or fear. Eventually we progress from basic emotional behavior and create ties or bonds to people or comfort.
As we grow older we also encounter emotional crises and create emotional conflicts in our relationship to people within our daily life. One can even become emotionally addicted to certain behaviors or comforts – even to other people. Then emotional imbalance occurs. Also when we no longer can control our emotional behavior we have an imbalance. Sometimes these occurrences are caused by a physical chemical imbalance.
Emotions have a lot to do with self-confidence. Many find that because of some deep emotional traumas they have difficulty when encountering similar situations that caused the trauma. Many spend their lives avoiding such situations and running from these experiences. Sometimes this behavior becomes habitual and one is not aware that they are carrying unnecessary emotional baggage. Some look to drugs, alcohol or some other emotionally stimulating activity as a means of escape. Others are institutionalized as a result of not understanding or being able to cope emotionally. All these people can be helped.
As the emotional body is a primary important function we should strive to be emotionally well and balanced. Misinformation, mistreatment and a lot of social teachings are directly responsible for many emotionally ill people.
Do not let all that you have just read frighten you into an appointment with a psychotherapist or into doing self-analysis yet. The first step to being emotionally happy and balanced is to be able to understand why you feel like you do. Perhaps it is simply that you are just finding out that you are a Soul inhabiting a physical body, and to be able to view yourself this way is a giant step!
All emotions are usually normal reactions. However, we must not become so emotional that we lose control. It is easy to become emotionally involved or attached. You are your best judge as far as understanding your own emotions. Sometimes in an emotional conflict we should only take a break, step back and examine the situation. When we feel that we are becoming too emotional we must learn to control our own feelings. One of the biggest causes of conflicts is trying to control or force other individuals to see or feel the way we do. To recognize that each person has the right to feel and think from their own perspective changes a lot of conflicting situations to one of understanding and acceptance. Always ask yourself about the way you are reacting emotionally. You may be surprised at how much of it is habit. You may find that you really feel different after all.
A good exercise for the emotions is to make a list of what irritates you. Then list things that you fear. Then list what makes you comfortable, happy and sad. Try to understand these feelings and why you feel certain ways about certain experiences. Try to overcome your fears with remembering that you are an eternal Soul and that everything also is relative. Try to understand anger and to imagine smiling instead of feeling angry.
It helps to write down a real traumatic emotional situation that deeply affected you. Write it down and you have released it. Then find someone to share it with, someone you trust. You will be surprised at how much relief you feel.
We must all have emotional outlets or something we enjoy doing for relaxing. It is good to also pamper yourself sometimes – a good massage for example. This is always physically and emotionally therapeutic. I like a nice scented bath with candle light, incense and music. Of course meditation is also very good for the emotions. For a special meditation procedure read the chapter about Karma.
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