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ENDING FAT INSTABILITY
For the first time in a long, long life, I feel stable.
It is boring sometimes.
There is less drama, less urgency, less emotional weather pretending to be meaning.
But in a million years, I would not go back.
I would not go back to the fat instability of mind and body.
Six years of fasting have made the body lighter.
A year and a half of breathwork has made the mind quiet.
Routine has made the days trustworthy.
There is coffee in hand, a warm fire, Pete nearby, the dogs moving through the morning, and a body that no longer feels like an emergency waiting to happen.
None of this is glamorous.
It is simply a life that no longer needs to keep exploding into illness, falls, and confusion to prove that I am alive.
Sometimes peace is boring.
Good.
Boring is underrated.
#fat #boring #drama #million #Routine #coffee #pete #dogs #emergency #glamorous #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
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ENDING FAT INSTABILITY
For the first time in a long, long life, I feel stable.
It is boring sometimes.
There is less drama, less urgency, less emotional weather pretending to be meaning.
But in a million years, I would not go back.
I would not go back to the fat instability of mind and body.
Six years of fasting have made the body lighter.
A year and a half of breathwork has made the mind quiet.
Routine has made the days trustworthy.
There is coffee in hand, a warm fire, Pete nearby, the dogs moving through the morning, and a body that no longer feels like an emergency waiting to happen.
None of this is glamorous.
It is simply a life that no longer needs to keep exploding into illness, falls, and confusion to prove that I am alive.
Sometimes peace is boring.
Good.
Boring is underrated.
#fat #boring #drama #million #Routine #coffee #pete #dogs #emergency #glamorous #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
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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
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BODIES DON'T LIE
This morning’s breathwork was hard.
#Cold room.
Very #intermittent_breathing.
I finished the session, but it was not comfortable.
And afterwards, I found myself thinking about the ACIM line, “I am not a body.”
Some mornings, I can say that easily enough.
Other mornings, honestly, it feels like #lying to myself.
Because the body is right here.
Cold.
Spasming.
Needing shoes, fire, warmth, patience, and #care.
So I can’t use “I am not a body” as a way to deny what is happening.
That feels false.
What feels truer is this:
The body is having a hard morning, and I am aware of it.
The body is here, but it is not the whole #truth of me.
That is enough for now.
#Kindness first.
Warm the room.
Let the breath be broken if it is broken.
No need to pretend.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking
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SHAME IS LEARNED
Shame is body-identification with a whip in its hand.
The body eats, shits, sweats, smells, wants, ages, leaks, trembles, hungers, and dies.
None of this is guilt.
It is just mammal life.
But the mind learns to look at the body through other people’s fear.
A look.
A tone.
A punishment.
A withdrawal of love.Then the body becomes evidence.
“Something is wrong with me.”
That is the error.
Guilt may say, “I did something wrong.”
Shame says, “I am wrong.”
Mind training begins here:
Do not attack the body for being a body.
Do not worship it either.
Just stop accusing it.
The body is innocent.
It is an instrument.
It needs breath, warmth, food, washing, rest, and kindness.
Shame says, “Hide this.”
Kindness says, “Meet this.”
That is the whole turn.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #identification #mammal #guilt #people #tone #punishment #love #error #Shame #Mind #body #wrong #worship #innocent #instrument #Kindness #canadaday
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SHAME IS LEARNED
Shame is body-identification with a whip in its hand.
The body eats, shits, sweats, smells, wants, ages, leaks, trembles, hungers, and dies.
None of this is guilt.
It is just mammal life.
But the mind learns to look at the body through other people’s fear.
A look.
A tone.
A punishment.
A withdrawal of love.Then the body becomes evidence.
“Something is wrong with me.”
That is the error.
Guilt may say, “I did something wrong.”
Shame says, “I am wrong.”
Mind training begins here:
Do not attack the body for being a body.
Do not worship it either.
Just stop accusing it.
The body is innocent.
It is an instrument.
It needs breath, warmth, food, washing, rest, and kindness.
Shame says, “Hide this.”
Kindness says, “Meet this.”
That is the whole turn.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #identification #mammal #guilt #people #tone #punishment #love #error #Shame #Mind #body #wrong #worship #innocent #instrument #Kindness #canadaday
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SHAME IS LEARNED
Shame is body-identification with a whip in its hand.
The body eats, shits, sweats, smells, wants, ages, leaks, trembles, hungers, and dies.
None of this is guilt.
It is just mammal life.
But the mind learns to look at the body through other people’s fear.
A look.
A tone.
A punishment.
A withdrawal of love.Then the body becomes evidence.
“Something is wrong with me.”
That is the error.
Guilt may say, “I did something wrong.”
Shame says, “I am wrong.”
Mind training begins here:
Do not attack the body for being a body.
Do not worship it either.
Just stop accusing it.
The body is innocent.
It is an instrument.
It needs breath, warmth, food, washing, rest, and kindness.
Shame says, “Hide this.”
Kindness says, “Meet this.”
That is the whole turn.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #identification #mammal #guilt #people #tone #punishment #love #error #Shame #Mind #body #wrong #worship #innocent #instrument #Kindness #canadaday
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SHAME IS LEARNED
Shame is body-identification with a whip in its hand.
The body eats, shits, sweats, smells, wants, ages, leaks, trembles, hungers, and dies.
None of this is guilt.
It is just mammal life.
But the mind learns to look at the body through other people’s fear.
A look.
A tone.
A punishment.
A withdrawal of love.Then the body becomes evidence.
“Something is wrong with me.”
That is the error.
Guilt may say, “I did something wrong.”
Shame says, “I am wrong.”
Mind training begins here:
Do not attack the body for being a body.
Do not worship it either.
Just stop accusing it.
The body is innocent.
It is an instrument.
It needs breath, warmth, food, washing, rest, and kindness.
Shame says, “Hide this.”
Kindness says, “Meet this.”
That is the whole turn.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #identification #mammal #guilt #people #tone #punishment #love #error #Shame #Mind #body #wrong #worship #innocent #instrument #Kindness #canadaday
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SHAME IS LEARNED
Shame is body-identification with a whip in its hand.
The body eats, shits, sweats, smells, wants, ages, leaks, trembles, hungers, and dies.
None of this is guilt.
It is just mammal life.
But the mind learns to look at the body through other people’s fear.
A look.
A tone.
A punishment.
A withdrawal of love.Then the body becomes evidence.
“Something is wrong with me.”
That is the error.
Guilt may say, “I did something wrong.”
Shame says, “I am wrong.”
Mind training begins here:
Do not attack the body for being a body.
Do not worship it either.
Just stop accusing it.
The body is innocent.
It is an instrument.
It needs breath, warmth, food, washing, rest, and kindness.
Shame says, “Hide this.”
Kindness says, “Meet this.”
That is the whole turn.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #identification #mammal #guilt #people #tone #punishment #love #error #Shame #Mind #body #wrong #worship #innocent #instrument #Kindness #canadaday
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DRESSED TO KILL
I used to look quite comically dishevelled.
There is no need to dress that up.
After the stroke, and after years in an obese body, I more or less gave up trying to dress properly. I wore badly fitting everything. Clothes were not helping. They were joining the argument against me.
They seemed to say, “This body cannot be dressed.”
So I stopped expecting much.
Going out in public then did not feel like being unnoticed. It felt more like being quietly assessed, quickly dismissed, or politely avoided.
A room full of people can feel like a row of silent witnesses when you already feel wrong inside your own clothes.
Then, slowly, something changed.
Fasting took some of the heaviness out of the body.
Breathwork changed the way I lived inside it.
Not dramatically. Not as a project. More like a daily return.
Breath by breath. Morning by morning. The body became less of an accusation and more of a place I could inhabit.
And now the clothes fit.
They sit properly. They do their job. They let me move through the room without adding commentary.
Maybe no one is looking.
But now that feels different.
Not invisibility as humiliation.
Invisibility as ease.
Just me, dressed well enough, carrying myself differently, not needing the crowd to confirm it.
And somewhere underneath all that, the old dishevelled version of me gets a little mercy too.
He was not ridiculous.
He was overloaded.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #dishevelled #stroke #Clothes #public #polite #mercy #humiliation #Invisibility #overloaded #inhabit #dramatic #project #silent #obese #Clothes
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LIFE ENOUGH
Coffee in hand. Breathwork done. Rain over Hobart. Pete nearby. Dogs settled somewhere in the background. Meals on Wheels is waiting.
There was a time when I might have thought this was a small life.
No grand project. No public importance. No impressive busyness. Just the same ordinary movements repeated each day.
But I don’t feel that now.
A life does not become meaningful because it is dramatic. It becomes meaningful because it is fully inhabited.
The body gets older. The weather changes. Plans simplify. The world keeps making noise.
And still, there is this.
The cup warming the hand.
The breath moving through the chest.
The door opening.
The small act of showing up.
The quiet kindness of doing what is in front of you.
Rain falling outside, and this life is enough.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #Hobart #project #dramatic #meaningful #weather #kindness
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Where is your mind, really?
Most of us feel like it's in our head, but what if it's everywhere—your hands, the stars, the entire cosmos?#Zen #Mindfulness #Awareness #Consciousness #Meditation #Nonduality #SelfInquiry #NatureOfMind