Being healthy

Yes, the world is an illusion, but that doesn't mean don't take care of yourself while you appear to be here. The Course says that ignoring the fact that we appear to be here is a particularly unworthy form of denial.

⁸The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world. ⁹Its abilities can be and frequently are overevaluated. ¹⁰However, it is almost impossible to deny its existence in this world. ¹¹Those who do so are engaging in a particularly unworthy form of denial.
(T-2.IV.3:8-11)

So in otherwords, don't be weird and act like you're not a body when you are experiencing yourself as being a body and having bodily needs. There is a dialog between Arten, Pursah, and Gary in Love Has Forgotten No One where they explain this better than I could.

PURSAH: There is a narrow door you can walk through, if you're willing to, and it is this: A truly spiritual attitude would be that there isn't any difference between having a healthy body or a sick body. Why? Because neither one is true.

GARY: Then why should I try to have a healthy body?

ARTEN: The answer is why not? Remember, I said this was a preference, not a rule.

What I take from these passages is that it is perfectly reasonable to prefer to have a healthy body while you appear to be here. Afterall, we do appear to be here, so why not be as healthy as we can be while we appear to be here. As someone who is currently unhealthy in some ways as I write this, anyone who has had health issues knows that it's hard to remember the truth of our existence when we're experiencing bodily distress.

Why not have a healthy body so that you can have more time to work on gently undoing the ego?

Bodily Healing for an Enlightened Mind #

Health tips from Arten in Pursah in Love Has Forgotten No One by Gary Renard.

1. Walk
2. Breathe deeply
3. Stretch
4. Drink a lot of water
5. Fast one day per month
6. Eat honey
7. Drink noni juice
8. Drink juices
9. Go out in the sun for 20 minutes a day when it's sunny, and take vitamin D3
10. Laugh
11. If you want to stay young, look into age extension
12. Oxygenate your body

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