It is very difficult to not live in this world saying your body is not real. Simple illness, such as cold, focused by mind on my body in such a way that one could see the obsession. As well, my partner and my friends are committed to alternative diets that create a great deal of effort on meal preparation. Just to state that eating a certain food is not compatible with my blood type is an affirmation on the existence of the body. The Lessons in A Course in Miracles do help in reminding me that I am not this body. I find freedom in the statement - "I am not a body, I am free. For I am still as God created me." (Review VI pg 332)
Yet it is the insidiousness of the voice, the eyes, the senses that tell us that we are real in the body. Sometimes a whisper, yet mostly a roar - a proclamation that we are real. The very breathe we take - in gasps as we exercise and in silence as we meditate - tells us that this body is real. The pleasure we experience through the senses affirms our joy in it, like the addiction to chocolate and coffee. Yet it is not ALL that we are and in truth - not who we are at all. Not even in our suffering through pain and death does it own us. We are Free. We are not these bodies. We are as God created us - immortal spirits that transcend this existence.
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