Finding New Delights in Common Things
By A Starsoul. Filed in Ahas from Abraham, Book Review, Prayer, Science of Being Well |Tags: Awarness, Happiness, How to Eat, Morning prayer
This morning when I woke up, still lying in bed, I found myself already being caught up in a train of thoughts…Some beautiful wishes, acompanied by sighs of not having them right now. The uncomfortable feeling constantly stays with me.
Why does every joyful wish have to come with a sense of lack?
I caught myself right there, stopped the train, took a deep breath, looked at the dark sky out of the window and the silhouette of trees, said a prayer,
“Dear God, I surrender to you my day. Please enter my heart, renew my soul, and free my spirit. Help me to begin again, moment by moment of this day.”
I got up, turned on the lamp, sat on the couch, and started to read a new chapter of the little book Science of Getting Well (you can download this wonderful book free from beloved Dr. Alexandra’s website). This incredible little book which was written around 1910 is doing miracle to me. I stopped eating breakfast, having one or two light meals a day, less than half of what I used to eat for years, drinking not much anything but water, and only when I’m thirsty. To my amazement, I don’t feel as hungry as I imagined I would be. Or, should I say, somewhere in my heart, when I set myself into this life experiment, I knew it. I knew I could get up before 5am every morning and feel fabulously refreshed and energetic; I knew the surplus of food that I habitually intaked didn’t do me good physically mentally or emotionally at all.
Just holding this books in my hands makes me feel wonderful. Today it says, “For the habit of eating purely for sensual gratification is very deeply rooted with most of us… and makes it difficult to focus your attention on the satisfactoin of your true hunger. You will find that if you eat as directed in the preceding chapters, the plainest food will soon come to taste like kingly fare to you, for your sense of taste, like all your other senses, will become so acute with the general improvememt in your condition that you will find new delights in common things.”
Yes I have found delights in slowly chewing each bite of food into liquid. That simple taske is just beautiful. And today I set the tone, I’ll find new delights in warm morning shower, in walking to work in the rain, in sitting, in silence…When I enter deep into each moment truly, all the newly found delights are right there embracing me, touching me deep into tears.
Cleaning my desk preparing to leave the office, I found some post-it notes on the corner of my desk. One of them recorded Abraham’s teaching,
Step 1, Ask
Step 2, It is in the vibrational escrow (which means there isn’t anything we need to do for this step.)
Step 3, Use anything and everything as my excuses to get happy. As I move downstream I’ll move right in the view where it’s obvious to me what action to take.
Rather than those steps, there is nothing else we really need to DO.
I laughed hard. Truth is embarrassingly simple! This is not a guidance toward mental peace or spiritual serenity. It is actual a guidance towards achieving your goals. We have taken too many actions. We have complicated out being into doing. We have made success harder than it needs to be.
We don’t need to Do further; instead, we just allow things undone, undone, undone… When all the limiting beliefs ego setups are let go and released, what’s left behind is our truly happy being…
As we find new delights in common things…
