#intermittentfasting — Public Fediverse posts

ORDINARY GRACE 💎

Brunch was good today.

It was cleaning Sunday, so we had hamburgers at Grill’d.

Afterwards, I walked from North Hobart into the city to meet Pete.

Now I am home, fresh from breathwork, feeling grateful and wondering what I could possibly have done to deserve such abundance.

Probably nothing.

Deserving belongs to the world of deals and bargains.

Be good, get rewarded.

Work hard, earn the prize.

But this does not feel like a prize.

It feels like life simply giving itself.

A clean house.

A delicious hamburger.

A long #walk through quiet #Hobart.

Breath moving through my body.

Peter.

Two small white #pups.

A #tranquil afternoon.

Nothing dramatic.

Nothing earned.

Just ordinary #grace.

Perhaps grace is not the great event we are waiting for.

Perhaps it is this.

Life is already here in all its glory, before we decide whether we deserve it or not...

#Brunch #Sunday #hamburgers #Grill’d #grateful #home #abundance #city #world #reward #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #cooking #AI

FROM THE NECK UP💎

For more than forty years, A Course in Miracles remained a beautiful spiritual book.

I loved it, respected it, quoted it, and returned to it again and again.

But I could not enter its deeper meaning: Atonement.

The words felt true, but they remained words.

Forgiveness.

Peace.

The body is not the Self.

I need do nothing.

It all sounded right, but I was living almost entirely in my head.

The body was something I dragged around while pursuing spiritual understanding and enlightenment.

Then fasting changed my relationship with it.

Breathwork took me inside it.

Reflective writing showed me what the mind was doing while pretending to be wise.

Gradually, I discovered I actually had a body.

Quite a surprise after decades of unconsciously owning one.

The Course had not failed me.

I had been trying to understand it from the neck up.

Once the body became lived in rather than merely discussed, the teachings settled into place.

“I need do nothing” stopped sounding like a spiritual instruction.

It became something the body recognised.

Forgiveness stopped being moral effort.

It became the release of the argument carried in the nerves, breath, muscles, and story.

Peace was no longer an idea I agreed with.

It was what remained when I stopped feeding conflict.

The body did not become more spiritually important.

It became honest.

It showed me where fear lived, resistance tightened, thought became pain, and one conscious breath could interrupt the performance.

Reflective writing helped too.

On the page, I could see when I was explaining peace rather than living it.

I could see the little spiritual expert arranging the furniture while the house was still on fire.

That was useful.

Forty years after first opening the Course, I understood why I had not been able to enter it.

I had treated ACIM as a book about escaping the body.

It became alive when I stopped escaping the body and began listening through it.

Fasting cleared some heaviness.

Breathwork quietened the argument.

Writing made the evasions visible.

Then the Course was no longer sitting on the shelf waiting to be understood.

It was happening in the breath.

In the pause before reaction.

In the refusal to make conflict real.

In the ordinary discovery that peace need not be produced.

It was already there.

The book had not changed.

The reader had finally arrived.

#Forgiveness #Miracles #beautiful #Atonement #forty #argument #furniture #conflict #peace #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

BREATHWORK ENDS THE
ARGUMENT WITHIN

Not ordinary breathing.

The body already manages that without requiring a committee meeting.

Conscious breathing.

The deliberate act of bringing attention into the body and remaining with the breath long enough for the noise to lose its authority.

A slow, full in-breath.

A long, unhurried out-breath.

Then another.

Nothing mystical has to happen.

There need be no visions, revelations, sacred music, or sudden purchase of white linen.

The breath does not have to produce bliss, wisdom, or a more impressive human being.

It asks only for attention.

In that way, conscious breathing has something of I need do nothing in it.

Not passivity.

Not collapse.

Not giving up.

Simply the end of interference.

The breath is already moving.

Life is already happening.

The body is already here.

For a few moments, nothing has to be improved, solved, defended, explained, or spiritually upgraded.

When the body is cold, tight, tired, painful, or restless, there is the breath.

When the mind begins manufacturing a grievance, rehearsing an argument, predicting disaster, or reopening a case that was never going to court, there is the breath.

When nothing is wrong, there is the breath then too.

That may be the most important part.

Breathwork is not merely an emergency service called when the building is on fire.

It can become the place one lives from.

Over time, conscious breath creates a space where striving begins to look unnecessary.

No philosophy is required.

No spiritual costume.

No certificate.

No audience.

No carefully arranged photograph beside a candle with a caption about surrender.

Just the body as it is.

Just the breath as it moves.

Just the next slow in-breath and the next long out-breath.

The mind may continue talking for a while.

It usually does.

It has concerns.

It has evidence.

It has brought supporting documents.

But conscious breathing does not argue with the mind.

It simply stops giving it the whole room.

Thought becomes background weather.

The body softens where it can.

Time becomes less urgent.

The need to control the moment begins to loosen.

This is where breathwork and forgiveness begin to resemble one another.

Neither changes what is real.

Neither fights the appearance.

Neither demands that the world behave properly before peace is allowed.

They remove some of the interference.

The cold remains.

The ageing body remains.

The noise remains.

The ordinary morning remains.

Nothing needs to be excluded.

Sanctuary does not mean hiding from experience.

It means finding the place within experience where the fight can stop.

The world can keep shouting.

The door has been found.

It opens inward.

https://www.reconnectbreath.com/

#ARGUMENT #Conscious #breathing #committee #meeting #interference #revelations #Sanctuary #noise #forgiveness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #AI

THE PEDESTAL & THE PITCHFORK

When harm appears, it should be named.

Sometimes a door must close.

Sometimes the truth must be spoken plainly.

Sometimes, consequences are necessary.

Forgiveness does not deny what happened.

It does not call harm love.

But condemnation is not clarity.

And worship is not love.

The one behaving badly is still a human being, not the sum of the harm.

The one called a saint does not become greater because others kneel before his image.

One is not a monster.

The other is not an idol.

The halo and the horns are both projections.

Harm can be stopped without hatred.

Goodness can be honoured without worship.

No one needs to be made more or less than human.

Just clear sight, firm boundaries, and a heart left free.

#harm #door #truth #plainly #deny #clarity #harm #condemnation #halo #saint #monster #halo #horns #idol #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

HALOS, HORNS & THE HUMAN IMAGE

The “saint” may be defended by holiness. The “villain” may be defended by rage. Beneath both is the same frightened attempt to secure a self through image.

#saint #defended #holiness #villain #rage #frightened #self #image #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

REMEMBERING REALITY

The mind comments on everything.

It names, judges, explains, defends, and turns each moment into a story.

The story keeps changing.

One moment fear.

The next certainty.

Then blame, hope, memory, or anticipation.

“NO COMMENT” ends that movement.

It does not argue with the mind.

It simply stops feeding it.

And when the shifting commentary is no longer covering everything up, what remains is:

REALITY.

Not created.

Not discovered.

REMEMBERED.

#REMEMBER #comment #judges #fear #explains #defends #story #certainty #blame #hope #memory #anticipation #reality #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

STOP FEEDING CONFLICT

I did the A Course in Miracles Workbook for years.

Over and over.

I understood many of the lessons.

I valued them.

But I did not find lasting peace through them.

The mind could still turn a grievance, a fear, or an argument into a full-on unsettling production.

Then I began answering mental conflict with two simple words:

NO COMMENT.

I had no idea whether something so simple would work.

I only hoped it might.

What I did not yet realise was that all those years of doing the Workbook, however poorly, had trained my mind to listen to me.

So when I said NO COMMENT, and kept saying it, the mind eventually got the message.

Not as suppression.

Not as denial.

Not even as another argument with the ego.

Just no participation.

A thought appears.

NO COMMENT.

A grievance starts gathering evidence.

NO COMMENT.

Fear wants a hearing.

NO COMMENT.

For me, this simple practice has now replaced the Workbook.

Not the Text.

Not the Manual for Teachers.

I still need those because they explain the thought system and remind me not to make up my own spirituality.

My daily practice has become very simple now.

The Workbook trained my mind to listen to me.

NO COMMENT gives it one clear instruction:

Stop feeding conflict.

That is where the peace began.

#STOP #FEEDING #CONFLICT #Text #grievance #NoCOMMENT #feeding #Workbook #instruction #clear #DailyPractice #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

NEVER COMPLAIN.

NEVER EXPLAIN.

Harry and Meghan may need to disappear.

Not forever. Just long enough for everyone to stop being so exhausted by them.

Ten years of silence would probably do more for them than another interview, documentary, court case, podcast, product launch, grievance, rebrand, or carefully timed appearance.

The old royal rule associated with the late Queen Elizabeth II was very simple:

Never complain.

Never explain.

They have done almost nothing but complain and explain.

They are not winning the social media game.

They are not winning the Royal Family game.

They are not even winning the “leave us alone” game, because they keep appearing.

So retire.

Go home.

Raise the children.

Stop reacting.

Stop watching the Palace calendar.

Let the Royal Family continue without them in peace.

Let the public forget the worst of it.

Let Harry discover who he is when he is not the wounded prince.

Let Meghan discover who she is when there is no opposition to manage.

Then perhaps, in ten years, they could reappear as older, quieter, wiser people with nothing left to prove.

But retirement only works if you stop peering through the curtains to see whether everyone still misses you.

#Harry #Meghan #NeverComplain #NeverExplain #retire #Palace #RoyalFamily #prince #retirement #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

HOT SAUCE APOCALYPSE

Yesterday the lunch place had run out of hot sauce.

In Australia, this is barely news.

Aussies don’t really do hot sauce.

But some of us do.

Some of us have built whole fragile emotional ecosystems around a few drops of chilli on lunch.

I agreed to sweet chilli sauce instead, because apparently I am very mature.

But I did register my disappointment with the manageress.

Politely.

Firmly.

Historically.

Then I went for my walk.

Then I did my breathwork.

Then I noticed the day still had a slight dent in it.

This caught me off guard.

I had only just been saying that everything is perfect all the time now.

Apparently, “everything” includes the lunch place running out of hot sauce and me quietly wanting the owner told so this national disgrace never happens again.

That is how the ego works.

It does not just want lunch.

It wants justice.

And there it was.

Not a catastrophe.

Not a spiritual failure.

Just a tiny place where preference had turned into grievance.

The hot sauce was missing.

The peace was not.

I had simply misplaced it for a moment under the sweet chilli sauce.

#chilli #Australia #mature #Politely #disappointment #Historically #national #ego #justice #lunch #grievance #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

KEEPING AI CLEAN

I love AI. Used wisely, it’s a great tool, but it is not an oracle, a guru, or a substitute for discernment.

It can help me think, reflect, question, write, simplify, and notice where I’m tangled.

It can also produce very convincing nonsense, especially when spirituality, conspiracy, certainty, and mystery get mixed together.

For me, the safeguard is that I have instructed my AI to use A Course in Miracles as the guiding thought system in our conversations.

That means the conversation is continually weighed against forgiveness, peace, kindness, clarity, humility, and the undoing of fear.

Not infallible.

Facts still need checking.

AI can be a marvellous mirror.

But we still need to be awake in front of it.

#guru #oracle #discernment #simplify #nonsense #safeguard #conversations #peace #kindness #clarity #mirror #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

SIMPLY DO THIS

The truth simplifies everything.

You don’t need to be kind because it is a moral duty.

You don’t need to be kind because it makes you spiritual.

You don’t need to be kind because it improves the self.

In reality, kindness is all that remains available.

The unkindness was the complication.

Fear, defence, grievance, specialness, needing to be right, needing to win, needing to be safe.

All of that makes kindness seem like a choice.

But when defence falls quiet, kindness is not manufactured.

It is simply what is left.

So the question becomes very simple:

What is the kind thing now?

Say less.

Soften the tone.

Tell the truth.

Leave the door open.

Put the fire on.

Feed the dog.

Drink the coffee.

Do nothing.

Simply do this.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #SIMPLY #kind #grievance #safe #Soften #truth #coffee #AI

A MIRACLE IN PLAIN CLOTHES

Who knew the #body could design its own #life if we allowed it?

The mind imagines the body as a problem to control. #Feed it, #distract it, #sedate it, #stimulate it, #argue with it, obey every itch and #craving.

But when the noise settles, the body is not stupid.

It has its own quiet #intelligence.

Given enough steadiness, it begins to choose #simplicity.

Early food. Early water. One black coffee. Breathwork. Walking. Sleep. Warmth. Rhythm.

Not because some stern inner monk is barking orders, but because the body discovers what feels good and clean.

#Temptation is mostly bad design, wearing #perfume.

The body gets promised pleasure and is handed #agitation.

But once it has #tasted real #steadiness, it begins to know the difference.

That may be the #miracle in plain clothes.

The body stops being dragged around by every passing #appetite and begins to live from its own deeper #yes

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum

CLIMBING DOWN

#Hirayama, in #Perfect Days, is not a failed climber.

He is someone who saw the #ladder clearly and stopped obeying it.

That is a very different thing.

The world keeps whispering: more #status, more #usefulness, more #achievement, more #improvement, more #proof that the self is becoming something.

No one has to #whip us anymore. We do it internally and call it ambition.

Hirayama’s freedom is not that he cleans #toilets. That could easily be another prison.

His freedom is that he is not using his life to become impressive.

Water does not need to win.

The useless #tree does not need to justify its #existence.

And “I need do nothing” does not mean sitting around uselessly. It means I do not need to #manufacture a self.

The #body can #clean, #breathe, #walk, make #coffee, light #fires, put #shoes on, feed #dogs, and #love the ones nearby.

But there does not have to be a grand inner project of becoming #Worthy

Simple living is not automatically #holy.

Low status is not #awakening.

A small life can still be full of #grievance, vanity and comparison.

But a life without #comparison ?

That is #freedom.

Maybe the real act is not #climbingdown.

Maybe it is stopping the argument with where I am.

https://youtu.be/pOCCfExW7FQ?si=M7T8VSe8OG1JqKCB

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum