Question: Masters, could you give some guidelines for the body positive or body neutrality field? For example, should someone that is morbidly obese strive for loving the shape of their bodies or their fat cells, or what is a higher view? Is it possible to reach this kind of love at lower stages of the path, or what is a good way to start? I have ideas that have worked for me, but I am only overweight and it is possible that since I have been walking the path for a long time, it is easier for me. If I want to work with other women helping them love their bodies, I would like to know different angles that are important for people at different stages.
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.
The entire movement of helping obese people love their bodies is generally constructive, but there are of course always the possibility that some people can take it too far and become unbalanced. Let me propose that there is a subtle but important difference between loving your body as it is and still being open to the potential for change. It is somewhat similar to the Alcoholics Anonymous movement that helps people overcome the effects of alcoholism but makes them think that they need to see themselves as alcoholics for life.
In other words, you can love your obese body but still maintain an open mind that it can change. This of course is a challenge because many obese people have been trapped in the desire to lose weight and this has created strain and stress upon them. But we have before talked about the fact that there are many cases where you need to love a disease or love a bodily condition and come to accept it for what it is as a way to open yourself to change. There is a balance to be found there where you can love your body but still maintain an open mind that you could lose weight. Now, we have also many, many times talked about the fact that there is a connection between mind and body. Even for people who are not open to ascended master teachings or even spiritual teachings, they could still be open to the potential for this mind-body connection and they could therefore be open to the possibility that by seeking psychological resolution they can actually make it possible for their bodies to shed the weight that they have artificially taken on.
Many people have a subconscious reaction going back to past lives – but of course you do not necessarily need to tell them this – but they have a psychological reaction of wanting to isolate and insulate themselves from the world because there is some condition they fear. If they can come to see this fear, see the illusion behind it and let it go, they can actually experience a sometimes dramatic weight loss.
There can of course be more than one psychological block. I encourage you in general to help people accept the body, but not as an excuse for not looking at their psychology and working on their psychology and discovering why they have this subconscious desire to have this insulating layer between themselves and the world. You can of course also take the teachings we gave about accepting the body, even saying: “I am this body.” and fully accepting that you are the body in a sense that you as a psycho-spiritual being are taking command of the body rather than being a product of the body or a victim of the body.
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