Passing the time

[Unbound]

Is it then that you are experiencing a feeling of powerlessness?

This is true. Being a prisoner is no way to live a life. We all yearn for freedom and I am no different.

I might suggest that the mental weight of being attached to the idea of being "imprisoned" is enough to drain you. How can you ever be free if you do not first let go of your attachment to being imprisoned?

How can I change this? This is how I feel, and have felt for so long now.

Well, acknowledging and accepting that is how you feel is a good start.

The first phase of mental work as described by Ra I believe could be of help here.

To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.

By that note, where you see a prison within yourself, you must find the corresponding freedom from bonds, where you see powerlessness, you must find the corresponding power.

It seems the focus of your idea of imprisonment is based on the perceived limitations of the body as compared to the apparent freedom of the mind, is that correct?

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Is it then that you are experiencing a feeling of powerlessness?

This is true. Being a prisoner is no way to live a life. We all yearn for freedom and I am no different.

I might even offer to suggest that the reason your body has no energy may be because your mind sees it as a prison and so seeks to keep it from being energized in order to allow the idea in the mind to be made real. Why would you energize your body if you have disdain for it?

Exactly right. Why perpetuate my prison sentence. Why energise a tool I no longer want to use.

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It's entirely valid to have had enough, FL. Tanners last post addressed a perspective I was going to proffer; the root cause of powerlessness and imprisonment.

Do you consider yourself as having infinite worth?

Yes, I do believe that to be true about myself and about everything, no exceptions.

You have strongly contradicted yourself here, as you express everything has infinite worth, yet are giving no worth to your body and your experience here.

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As to your question whether or not your mind can change it, I would say yes, at least in part but more importantly, have you tried? Also, how do you take care of your physical self?

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I can tell you that in my experience it is of significant difference to use your mind to offer love and nourishment to your body rather than to use the mind to disdain the body.