Roman Clarkson

Over the course of this trimester I had to reshape my beliefs about what can be healed in my life. Originally, I thought only a physical condition could be healed. It took me a long time to realize that there is more to heal in my life than just physical maladies. It includes addition to foods, caffeine, and habits. The main healing that I finally wanted to manifest was a healthy and nutritional relationship with food. I wanted to minimize my intake of caffeine, sugars, and refined/processed food. I wanted to improve my diet with more vegetables, larger variety of food, less dairy, and meat from animals that are treated humanely.

My first part of this healing was addressing what principles I wanted to exemplify. I came up with the following Spiritual Principles, harmony, wholeness, and intelligence. I was going to intentionally change my diet and nutritional habits so they express these Spiritual Principles.

I choose these Spiritual Principles for the following reason. I decided that if I used the natural intelligence of my body to tell me what I need to eat, I would continuously commune with the natural intelligence of Spirit. By communing with this intelligence my life would be focused on remaining in harmony with the world around me. How else could it be? Lastly, wholeness is the expression of being physically and spiritually in tune with Spirit. These principles stood out to me more than any others I contemplated.

The real crux of this paper is did I manifest the healing and do I remain healed? The answer is yes and no. During this time of reflection, treatment and healing I experienced a great change in my diet. I avoided as much junk food as I could. I reduced my fast food and junk food purchases. I began cooking more and more home meals, made healthier selection from menus when I was at restaurants. I reduced my caffeine intake to the point thinning my coffee to one forth of a normal cup. Now, I can barely drink more than two or three weak cups of coffee. Now, I am going address the “no” portion of the question. I began to stop paying attention to what I wanted to demonstrate. I was at a job that began to take a toll on my positivism. I began to be surrounded by situations that in a job that became more than I could bare at the time. During this time, I really just let my intention fall flat and became none committal about it. It took me a while to wake up to what was happening and to get back into the good habits I was demonstrating.

I researched the Spiritual Principles I choose and how they affected my creative, demonstrative, process. I have pulled three applications from great teachers that I have tried to exhibit in this healing. First, I used the SOM textbook and the inspiration of Ernest Holmes that helped me determine which principles to choose. The exercise of choosing the principles was directly pulled from examples in class and writings by Ernest. Second, I tried to use the ideas of just being in the present, or Presence, as Goldsmith wrote about. I exercised lessons I found in Practicing the Presence. These lessons were focused upon during meditation as I just experienced the Intelligence of Spirit as me. Lastly, I am a dedicated reader and student of the Tao Te Ching. When I was able to get my hands on and read the Dyer book I used it as inspiration to simplify my nutritional needs and cravings. Just picking up the book and looking for a ten minute inspiration is always there.

The unintended effect that I experienced away from this exercise, this effort and focus, was the demonstration of the attempt. I acquired a lot of little lessons that I will never talk about with anyone but carry with me every day. It was worth it.

My Life Purpose Statement is: Be prepared every day when I awake to know the truth for every person and everything. Then experience every moment knowing I am a perfect manifestation of Spirit.

Treatment: I know that there is one perfect Spirit that is all things and I claim that perfection to be mine. I claim that perfection is the expression of me and all things known and unknown to me. I am that perfection and in that perfection all things are whole. Furthermore, there is no lack only abundance and perfection. Therefore, I express myself as a perfect expression of Spirit in all aspects of my life and I know that perfection is all things and all persons. So I rejoice in with gratitude, love and peace now in this moment for always. I am thankful that I can know the truth about my “self”, “Self”, and all things in this body and mind. I release my word into the Law knowing it is perfect, fully realized in this moment, and so it is.

References:

Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes

Living the Wisdom of the Tao, Wayne Dyer

Practicing the Presence, Joel Goldsmith

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