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For those of you not familiar with Wisdom of the Body (aka wizbod) I have been reviewing a bit and realized how revealing this methodology of self discovery/diagnoisis was for my own life and the lives of others. If you are interested please read on. I wrote this for a particular friend who is dealing with a very scary illness and the insights offered by this illness come after the explanation. At the very least I hope she and the thre other friends involved in the current struggle read on!

The basic structure of Wizbod is that mind/body/spirit are never serparated except in language, there for because they are one and have always been one in your life, your body reveals excatly what you have been believing/attituding/emotioning/wording/feeling/living in your life. Your body is not just a body it is a Spiritually Mindful Body in which your mind and spirit and body exist and interact simultaneously as a oneness for that is what they are.

To end your repetitive non-advancing struggle to understand yourself and life and well being, through duality, judgments, and "causes", it is necessary to borrow a page from physics which properly shows us that "for every action, there is a simultaneous equal and opposite reaction". While the "causes" of actions have always been assumed but never revealed, this universal truth of simultaneous action/reaction is always revealed and has NEVER been disproved. Under these conditions, which are you willing to accept and live: the assumption of and endless struggle with unrevealed "causes" ...or the truth and oneness of simultaneous actions/reactions?

Since you have chosen to accept that "for every action, there is a simultaneous equal and opposite reaction", we now ask, " which is the action and which is the reaction?" Most people reply that the one that occurred first is the action... while the other, the consequence, the one affected, is the reaction. But, since the action/reaction is truly simultaneous, as a whole event, there is no cause and separate effect, ...they are one. What science has always done is observe a "presumed effect" ...then searched backward for an "assumed cause".

Now, this truth of simultaneous action/reaction is important, because, for centuries physicans have been searching for the "causes" of disease, so they can provide cures, ...but now it is revealed that the "cause" and illness are one,... or, more apporopriately, the individual/illness is one. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THE INDIVIDUAL "CAUSES" HIS OR HER OWN DISEASE, nor does it mean that a person's way of life, attitudes, emotions, or thoughts "cause" the disease, ... BUT THAT THE SYMPTOMS REVEAL, as in the oneness of action/reaction, THE SELF AND LIFE THE INDIVIDUAL IS LIVING!

For example, as you step in front of a mirror and bring your image with you, the mirror reveals that, ... and when you take your image away, the mirror stops revealing you. In this situation you did not "cause" the image, simply because the mirror imaged before you arrived ...and continued imaging after you left. Disease is much like the mirror: it provides an image of the self and life you are living.

In other words, in the Wizbod Descriptionary, your symptoms are the outpicturings and the inner-lifeself you are living and the inpicturings. And, like action/reaction, the outpicturing/inpicturing are simultaneously one: you are "not causing" your symptoms or disease, ... you are symptoming and diseasing,... you ARE your symptoms and disease. Now, don't be distrubed by that, we are not accusing you of "causing" your symptoms or disease, but without you, your pains and symptoms no longer exist, and neither do your illnesses.

It is important to realize that by being your symptoms and diseases you are fully empowered to change your self and life and in that change or heal the outpicturings, for illness and disease are never healed or cured by medication, manipulations, treatments, or surgery. These medical tools merely offer a temporary relief of symptoms, so you can devote the fineness and wholeness of your mind/body/soul to change the self and life you are living and inpicturing.

When you outpicture symptoms or a disease, you are diseasing, you are forming, sensing, and living a life of complaints, burdens, afflictions, improperness, and suffering: and you are creating a struggle between how you beleive and want things to be and how you sense matters to be, and between the beliefs, thoughts, attitudes, words, and actions you feel you are living and offering adn those you are actually embodying and putting forth. You are senseing and understanding through judgments and dysaccord and living these inner-conflicts which simultaneously embody as disease, pain, and injury. Your inner-conflicts and outer-symptoms indicate that you are doing what you want to do, but believe you should or ought to do something else, or are you doing what you don't want and believe you have no other choice or can't do other; in any case you are living the painful conflict, struggle and way of dysaccord.

To change or "heal", you must, first, know exactly what you are outpicturing and living, so you can truly choose anew; or, of course, you can decide to continue living your self and life "as usual", and you certainly know what that is like, don't you? It is the embodied outpicturings of illness and symptoms you are living and struggling against. Obviously, to change or permanently "heal", you must live a different self and life; but unfortunately, most people create a different lifestyle, get different jobs, involve themselves in different activities and relationships, move to different cities, follow different beliefs, etc. and believe that through all of this, that they are living a different self and life and wonder why, with all of these changes, little or nothing in their body and life has changed.

The answer to this dilemma lies in understanding the difference between "different" and "differnetly". To live a different lifeself means to live other than what you were living before, while living differently mean to live the same lifeself but in a different way. Unfortunately, most people do different things and believe they are different, when actually they are living the same self adn life "differently", so little or nothing changes and the outpicturing symptoms remain much as before, because all the medical efforts must struggle against your self and life "as usual".

Or medical treatments do, temporarily, relieve your symptoms and illnesses, as you continue living your old self and life differently, your old symptoms and illnesses will return, or new, similar outpicturings will appear. For example. if your physician "cures" your outpicturings symptions of viral pneumonia and you continue living your self and life "as usual" it is likely that you will begin struggling with bronchitis or asthma or emphysema, as outpicturings of slightly different, but essentially the same, attitudinal conflicts.

Helping you know and understand the particulars of such outpicturings/inpicturings is the purpose of WIZBOD, so as your physican is relieving the symptoms, discomforts, and dangers of your illness, you can assist and uphold this "healing" by genuninely living a differnt self and life, the life self you truly desire.

That said...

I have a friend who has just been diagonesed with the pre-cancerous condition of Cervical Cancer. That said I looked up in my Wizbod descriptionary what this revealed about the self and life she was living and what images she was holding in opposition and struggling to maintain.

The descriptionary had this to say about CERVICAL CANCER:

Cervical Cancering: Long-standing, unwholesome and injurious beliefs out of control concerning the opening or doorway between her sacred inner place of creation and development and her great feeling leading to your outer lifeself of femininity.

Anyone who knows her, knows that that definition hit the nail on the head. Since she may be reading this post, ( I do hope she is) here is a list of questions to help get to the root of these beliefs and reveal the self you are living. Consider the past conversations as well and why most of your relationships (intercourse) with individuals you care for might also be in struggle.

Is your outer and inner sense of femininity, creation, and development in conflict? Do you maintain a separation between the two?
Are you fearful of your sexuality?
Is your life, are your thoughts, too carnal and fleshy?
Have you been unchaste?...immoral?
Do you feel unwholesomely erotic and passionate?
Are you accepting of and open to your feminine role in the creation and development of yourself and new forms of your self and life?
Do you shut others out?
Remember, when you close others out, you close yourself in, is that what you want?
Are you too accepting?...to closed off?
In what ways do you feel violated?
Are others infringing upon you?...trespassing?...without regard to your rights and desires? Are they trampling on your feelings? ...encroaching too near?
Do you feel abused?...dishonored?
Have you been ravished? ...defiled? Has someone dishonored you?
Do you feel outraged?...resentful?
Are you only willing to admit those who fully honor and respect you?...those who will protect, defend, and uphold you?
Do you find it difficult to protect yourself from those who would violate your inner creation and development?
Do you feel closed off from much of what you desire?
Have you shut yourself off from others?
Are you afraid of intimacey?
Do you close off your feelings?
Do you disassociate your inner feminine life self from the outer world?
Have you blocked your openings between your inner and outer worlds of feminine creativity and development?
Which are you protecting?...discarding? Are you unwilling to bring these together?
Is your feminine creativity and development stopped up?
Are you too vigiliant?...too lax?
Are you keeping yourself cloistered?
Have you been overly protective and withdrawn?
How has this small confinement kept you detached, secretive, and isolated?
Your intimate contracts with others should be based on principles...not on personalities. Have you gone through life missing much of the joy and beauty and goodness constantly offered to you?
End every sense of fear and self-defensiveness and let goodness and inspiration be your guide.

For those of you who are aware of the situation since last November, these questions pretty much hit the problem dead to rights. I hope this helps and that we can move on to a friendship in which aiding one another to live the life we truly desire is possible. Principles not personality are the key, and these are just a few of the ones I stick to. Hope this article helped.

Thanks again to Connie, Roger, and Misty. You remind me why it is so important to help.

Current Location: home
Mood: peaceful

Halloween is just around the corner but I was looking for something a little more meaningful in dealing with certain people and I found these articles. Hope everyone enjoys them as much as I did they are very insightful.

Article 125: Vampire Moments - part 1 by Cotting and Mistler
Since Halloween is almost here, it
seemed appropriate to discuss vampire moments. Have you ever experienced an event or situation which seemed to suck the life out of you? …to dry you up? …to rob you of vitality? Have you ever been in a crisis …fully sustained by adrenaline …and flying high, filled with energy and vitality? …only to discover, soon after the crises, that you felt completely drained, fatigued, and without enough energy to continue? If so, that was a VAMPIRE MOMENT simply because it sucked your emotional energy out of you. You probably have little vampire moments every day without realizing it, …and these little vampire moments suck the life out of your life …just as certainly and surely as big vampire moments do.

Do you stress yourself driving to and from work each day? …or while
at work? Those are little vampire moments! Do you get upset waiting in
line, disturbed by ineffective cashiers, anxious about your job, annoyed by
neighbors, angry at governmental policies, or concerned about the effect of
large corporations or the environment? These are all little vampire
moments, …self-created and self-imposed vampire moments. Do you get
upset at others expectations of you? …or their criticism about how well you
met those expectations? Are you frequently bothered by others’ actions?
…or inactions/ Do worries and concerns seem to pester you? Do things
about your partner and friends bother you? …exasperate you? Do others’
accusations and disapproval irritate you? Are you constantly creating such
dramas in your life? …maybe to bring a little excitement to an otherwise
“ordinary” existence? If so, you are sucking the life out of your own life. You
are the vampire in your own life. And though you don’t realize it, such
actions suck life-giving emotions out of you.

It seems impossible to consider any aspect of your self and life
without coming back to the subject of life-giving or life-draining emotions
which circulate throughout and drive every aspect of your embodied lifeself.
By looking into your emotional life, it is possible to see and understand
what impulses you to action, know the empowerment behind those actions,
and realize the judgments involved in every situation.
Since you alone determine the meaning and significance of each
emotion, it is impossible to declare that what others consider to be joyful
emotions will invigorate you …and sorrowful or painful emotions will burden
you; that satisfying emotions enrich and vitalize … while unsatisfying
emotions weaken and drain you. It is impossible even to say that
confidence, courage, and cheerfulness strengthen, enrich, and empower
you …while other attitudes and emotions weaken and diminish you
…simply because what stimulates one person may depress others. In other
words, it is impossible even to determine a stimulating, life-giving emotion
from one that depresses and drains. Fear can either excite or drain you.
It is equally impossible to say that pleasant emotions bind
together…while painful emotions tend to separate, ..for people are
frequently bound together more strongly and firmly through their
undesirable, even painful emotions than through pleasing emotions.
People, it seems, are intensely impulsed and more-strongly enriched by
what they are against than by what they are for. Fear and anger tend to
bind and strengthen more-securely than joy and contentment. People are
easily united to oppose someone or something …and are seldom united in
what they are for. Now you may not understand this yet, but depressing
emotions do not create fatigue, unwellness, or separation, …and no
amount of joy will ever create vitality, wellbeing, or togetherness.
You can read all you want about invigorating/devitalizing emotions
and still not understand yourself or your emotions, simply because what
invigorates you may devitalize another, …and though your mindful body
and life seemingly responds in consistent ways to pleasing/painful
emotions, you cannot, necessarily, predict, with any degree of certainty,
what will pleasure one person …or pain another. And, in this light, it is
appropriate to declare that there are no stimulating invigorating emotions
as opposed to those that are undesirable and burdensome …or even
painful and distressing.

While your mind and body exist and function in oneness as a mindful
body, your emotions fully interpenetrate this mindful body as a medium of
communication and coordination. In fact, your emotions are the oneness of
your mind and body and life~your mindfully embodied lifeself~for you never
live the events, achievements, or attainments in your life, you live the
oneness of how you feel about those things. As all separate visible “things”
appear in space~in a spacetime medium~which actually binds them
together in oneness, all separate invisible things in your life occur in and
express through your emotions~as an emotiontime medium~which binds
them securely together in oneness with all visible things.
Events and things do not create emotions to advise you, emotions
merely convey and outpicture your “judgments” of events/experiences/self
…and securely bind them and maintain them in an even greater oneness.
Emotions are the medium of existence, communication, and understanding
…not the subject of what is communicated; therefore, blaming your
emotions when you feel depressed is as foolish as blaming the space
between things for causing something you do not like, or blaming your
telephone because you are upset about what others say to you on the
phone. And it is just as foolish to rail against and try to control or medicate
your depressing emotions as it is to cut the telephone line because you are
depressed about what you hear. In either case, the problem, if one exists,
is in what is said, not in the medium of communication. Of course you can
medicate yourself or cut the phone line …but, in this, nothing of real
substance has changed or been resolved, …has it?
Whether it is a telephone call or your emotions, you must deal with
your judgments, …but, as in our illustration of being depressed, you can
excuse yourself by declaring that you are too depressed to truly consider
your depression.

Keep your garlic handy …at least until this vampire article concludes
next week.

Article 126: Vampire Moments - part 2 by Cotting and Mistler
Read our previous article before continuing, …and keep your
protective garlic handy …just in case! In fact, if you tend to create vampire
moments in your life, maybe you should carry a garlic clove in your purse,
backpack, or pocket. And remember, larger cloves are less powerful than
the smaller ones …so choose wisely.

Do not deal with or medicate your emotions with assumed remedies
or cures, as you do with your illnesses, unless you are willing to discover
what they are conveying and binding together …for that alone is significant.
If you are, for example, depressed, changing or blocking that emotion
without understanding what that depression is revealing about the lifeself
you are living is like cutting your phone line in the middle of a depressing
conversation, …and covering your depression with happiness, or
sublimating it into cheerfulness or excitement is equally useless
…especially when you consider that all such actions will most certainly
create vampire moments which will suck the life out of your life.
It used to be commonly believed that emotions were born out of
instinct and heredity, that these things were responsible for most emotions
…and there was very little you could do to change your emotional make up
and responses. Then it was taught that your early environment, especially
joyful or stressful events and circumstances, or vampire moments, were
responsible for your primary emotions. Since none of these beliefs or the
treatments they spawned seem very effective, we are suggesting that your
judgments~in this life and in previous lifetimes~of your self-created events,
circumstances, and individuals are primarily responsible for the contents of
your emotions …and their enriching or destructive effect or nature in your
self and life. Ohh, certainly, instinct, heredity, and environment all play
active roles in your emotions …and their content, but you chose and
created those things for yourself through judgments …and it is those selfchosen
judgments that your emotions are conveying. Do your judgments
seem hereditary and instinctual …and beyond your control? If so, your
body and life will be constantly filled with vampire moments …seemingly
beyond your control.

In other words, as emotions interpenetrate and bind together every
aspect of your mindful body and life, your judgments, being conveyed by
your emotions, interpenetrate every aspect of your lifeself as well, …and
medicating emotions or judgments to relieve your problems …or covering
one emotion or judgment with a vampire moment is like taking an aspirin
for a painful affliction …and letting the disease rage on within you, …does
that make any sense to you? Are you struggling to control your vampire
emotions, such as anger, depression, anxiety, need for protection, or
unhappiness, while leaving your judgments to rage or within you?

Emotions being different for every person indicates that everyone has
created a unique emotional-language to bind all things together in an
understandable oneness of self. This is not the language of emotions, it is
the language of judgments within emotions. After all, can you really tell
whether someone’s anger speaks of pleasure or pain? …of courage or lack
of confidence? …of assurance or fear? Does anger talk about self-reliance
or dependency? …fulfillment or lack? …enrichment or loss? If others’ anger
reveals their not getting what they want, do you really know, from the
anger, what that is? And from your own anger or unhappiness, do you
know what you truly desire …and judge you have not gotten? Dealing with
or relieving your anger or unhappiness, like stopping a conversation, will
keep you uninformed about the judgments that are the content of your
emotions.

As a child, did you cover your ears and throw a tantrum~maybe just a
little tantrum~when you didn’t want to hear what was being said? …maybe
that you couldn’t go out and play? Well, medicating your emotions or
creating vampire moments to conceal them with excitement is your way of
covering your ears and throwing a tantrum today.
Have you learned enough about your “inner-self” to vaguely see and
partially understand how you express your beliefs and ideas …and your
judgments? Your inner-self, completely immersed in and interpenetrated by
emotions which convey your judgments, accurately empowers every aspect
of your lifeself as you direct …and clearly reveals, in your emotions, the self
and life you desire …and what you are judging, creating, and living.
And if what you are creating and judging and speaking about in your
emotions is, for you, desirable and fulfilling, you are an angel in your own
life, …but, if those things are undesirable …and you are creating
excitement and drama to overcome other feelings and judgments, you are
the vampire creating vampire moments in your embodied lifeself. It is not
that you desire the excitement and drama …so much as it is that you do
not desire an ordinary self and life …and you seem willing to do almost
anything, even living with constant anger, distress, anxiety, irritation,
dissatisfaction, and other drama-like emotions than ever being ordinary in
your eyes, judgments, and emotions …even if that sucks the very life out of
your life. It seems that you have not learned that living the self and life you
truly desire through self-evidenting is the most emotionally uplifting,
enriching, and sustaining lifeself you can live …without the drain of
judgments.

You alone are the vampire creating vampire moments in your body
and life~and all illnesses are vampire moments sucking the life out of your
life~are your moments of excitement and drama worth the loss of your
most desirable, self-sustaining, ever-expanding life? As you can only kill a
vampire by driving a stake through its heart, to live the immortal life you
truly desire, and without creating undesirable emotions and vampire
moments, you might have to drive a stake through the heart of your
judgments.

Current Location: home
Mood: calm