03-21-2013, 09:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-21-2013, 10:03 PM by JustLikeYou.)
anagogy Wrote:Basically, you have to stop seeing the imperfection. Believe you are healed, and so you are. You just can't fake it is all. That sort of faith is the mastery of very very few.
Or, to put a different spin on this very accurate suggestion: when you view your imperfections, seek to learn how these are simply distortions taken on due merely to the fact that you believe you have imperfections. Beneath these imperfections, if you have an open mind and an open heart, you will discover that you have a perfected self which has become obscured by the distorted illusion of imperfection that you have freely decided to buy into throughout your life.
For example, when I was younger, I believed that I was physically weak and had little energy. At one point in my life, I realized that this might only true because I believed it was true. So I decided that I would start imagining that I was strong and energetic, and behaving as if it were true. It was not long before it became true.
Another example: I used to think I was sexually depraved because I found desires within myself which, according to the religion in which I was raised, were considered sinful to act upon. Eventually, after letting go of the restrictive religion, I allowed myself to act upon my desires (so long as they didn't hurt another), and have progressively discovered that I am really quite sexually normal and healthy. Although it was a long process, accepting my sexual self exactly as it is without attempting to judge or change it alleviated the more "degenerate" of my sexual desires.

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