I must learn to use my body as a vehicle for
Knowledge. CT Step 50 (MP3)
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| I must learn to use my body as a vehicle for Knowledge. CT Step 50 |
If the mind serves the Spirit and the body serves
the mind, then everything serves the Spirit. Your physical body then becomes
your key link with the world. Its promise here is to become an instrument of
communication and contribution. For this to happen, the body requires a
developed degree of health and ability. If you do not have a healthy
relationship with your body, then it cannot fulfill this greater function. That
is why it is important for all students of Knowledge to maintain an exercise
program and to eat very well in order to elevate their health and physical
ability. You do not want your body failing you after you have done so much work
preparing the way for Knowledge.
We are saddened that people do not value their
physical body after so much work has been done to bring them into the world.
But we understand this neglect because if you do not know your purpose or your
greater reality, then you will think of your body as a prison and you will
exercise your self-abuse by misusing your body. It will then become an image of
your self-neglect or self- abuse. We seek to correct this destructive attitude
by reminding you that the body is an instrument for communication and
contribution. It must be maintained with a high degree of health and vitality
for this purpose.
Think today of how you may elevate your level of
physical health. Do not think spiritual development is only working at the
level of your mind or emotions because your body needs certain things, and
these are already apparent to you. If your body is to serve you, then you must
take very good care of it.
Today practice stillness and upon the hour exercise
awareness and discernment. Throughout the day think of your body as a great
instrument and recognize what you can do to support it and maintain it for this
purpose.
Practice 50: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Hiking for fitness - Arches National Park,
Moab, Utah.
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link
to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps CT Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training - Working file
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the
first time you’ve seen Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. Begin at
the beginning.
If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps
twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction
of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:
“This is the Steps
to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps
that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to
enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in
your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do.
If you have completed the book, Steps to
Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were
given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to
begin this more advanced study”.
If you are an independent student, that is
certainly an option. Posts here provide a trail that may let you have a virtual
companion when and if you want one. One may have to study alone, as I did in
the beginning. There are other Steps students blogging their experience and you
might find a person more like you as a companion, or use a number of such Steps
journeys. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.
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