Choices Made

Every One every second every minute every hour every day makes choices. Many of these choices  are body specific and determine whether you live or die (or hurt alot) in the next second. However nothing your body does is really automatic; it is a finely tuned machine that, by design, reinvents you constantly  - as long as you don't get in its way with wasted thoughts, life-depriving food and actions, and general lack of the most elementary maintenance (such as enough sleep). Your body is a miracle, not just a random or simple evolutionary 'thing' you inhabit. Your choice. You picked it. If you realize that, then a life-altering fact becomes apparent: you can change it, for the good. First, though, you have to shed commonly held expectations of your body. You have learned to expect your body to decay, to grow old and wither like a tomato plant in a pre-Winter freeze. You know your mind doesn't decay (just some use of it, again another choice of yours) so why does your body? Your body wasn't made to die; you just expect it to.
     Your Soul inhabits this body; it never dies. It knows that Earth is the only place you can experience a physical being. Yet some among you deny yourself - and others - physical pleasure of all kinds, calling it 'bad.' The only thing bad is the emotion in your mind that says you 'aren't good enough' for...........(fill in the blank) so you deny yourself what you really want, physically, and become so jaded you deny what others really want (if you have the power to do so, which is where really insecure people end up, in 'power'). There's nothing bad about being a physical being unless you choose to make it bad.
     Your soul knows better; it is a traveler from the stars and will return to the stars after this physical body ends. Since the soul never dies it doesn't really worry about the body dying. It's your mind, the machine that runs your body, that 'decides' what will keep the body safe. Sometimes it works in amazing ways, saving a body from destruction. Other times it corrupts the body because of what it hears constantly about the badness of the body; the choices made to warp its shape with bad food, the choices made to disregard its general health, and the choices made to listen to those who have appointed themselves as guardians of every body on Earth in either a legislative, spiritual or physical action that determines your body to be 'bad.' How can a miracle be bad? It cannot.
     Gain control over your body, tell your mind 'no,' when accustomed to belittling the body, it resists your control. Make a mantra for yourself. Anything positive will do. When you (your body through your mind's accepted actions) decides to do something or continue something that is negative to you, repeat the mantra you have made three times, over and over in several ways until you (1) feel comfortable with what you are saying, and do it daily (or more), and (2) until you hear a small 'click' in your mind that acknowledges you really, really want to go somewhere else with your thinking. Your mind, and body, will then begin to follow you, somewhat grudgingly at first, and you will be able to change your choices and make new ones which will put you on a path of enlightenment and joy. Do you believe this? You must accept first the possibility it is true.
     Most of you want to have control - maybe over events or people, even conditions; once you change your path to a more positive one, you will also realize for once and all that the only thing in the Universe you can control is and always has been within your grasp. It is you.

Namasté