You have weightless spiritual being to enjoy!
As a spiritual idea of God, you live in the body of Spirit which is weightless. It’s not a physical body summed up in pounds or kilograms, but a spiritual being that reflects the weightless qualities of Spirit. This being is buoyant, inspired, light, and full of joy, gratitude, truth, and love. It’s your perfect spiritual identity made in the likeness of God.
If you’re not feeling weightless today, perhaps it’s time to shed some heavy thinking that is contributing to that weighed-down sense.
It’s not pounds that are making you feel heavy. It’s mortal thinking that feels burdensome and onerous.
To feel weightless, think weightless. Be quick to shed any state of mind that is not God-inspired.
Mortal weights to shed might include an undue love of sugar and fat, careless habits, bad habits, fear of what you eat, too much attention to what you eat, false inheritances, apathy, laziness, or lack of discipline. These, and their kin, are the burdensome ways of thinking that would cover-up your buoyant, happy, healthy being of God’s creating.
To experience weightless being, live your weightless being—be the happy, grateful, inspired, and spiritually minded child of God that is not weighed down by mortal fears, doubts, and material beliefs.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “The human mind acts more powerfully to offset the discords of matter and the ills of flesh, in proportion as it puts less weight into the material or fleshly scale and more weight into the spiritual scale” (Science and Health, p. 155). Throw all your mental weight into the right scale—the spiritual scale!
Think weightless and live weightless. The burdensome feeling of extra pounds will melt away.
Thank you Evan for these helpful ideas. Living in our spiritual Identity there is neither desire nor need to indulge a mortal construct of non-existent mortal mind.
Thanks Evan. This is a great message to help overcome any temptation to over-indulge at Christmas, or indeed any time of the year. I love the thought to “think weightless and live weightless.” You are always on the ball with your messages.
Thank you for this Evan! Just what I need at this time. I’m so grateful that you put all the right thoughts together giving me concise guidance , lifting my thought , emphasising Gods hand in mine lifting me above material theories. SV is a treasure❣️
Thank you Evan. As the child of God we are strong in spirit, full of wisdom, and the grace of God is upon upon us all. This from the lesson, Luke 2:40,(paraphased) describing Jesus growing up. If this is true about him, it is true about us. We are so very blessed.
Another thought out Spirit View to appreciate.
Thank you Evan.❣️
As Mrs. Eddy says, “Fed by Thy love divine we live, for Love alone is Life.” The very third question asked in the chapter used to teach Christian Science, Recapitulation (p. 466) is: “What are spirits and souls? Answer: To human belief they are personalities constituted of mind and matter, life and death, truth and error, good and evil; but these contrasting pairs of terms represent contraries, as Christian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor assimilate.”
It continues to state that Truth, (mind, life, good), is immortal, limitless, intelligent, and REAL, while error, (matter, death, evil) is mortal, limited, non-intelligent and UNREAL.”
Assimilate means “to be converted into the substance of the body.”
The unreal can’t be converted into the substance of God, our only Life. It’s unreal. Not by swallowing material lies, but “fed by Thy love divine (which sees only the spiritually real in ourselves and others) we live.. . .” That’s nourishment!
Thank you, Diane!
Love that Diane w.a. Well Put. I have been working with this concept of true substance. Thanks Evan, I read over your many articles on this subject, and they have helped me a lot to see through the supposed power of excess food. I can testify that the temptation to overeat has been lifted. I used those quotes above consistently. I eat, enjoy, what I need but no longer obsess over food. Diane I especially love the insert on your last quote. and ending with That’s Nourishment.
Thank you Evan for the life saving ideas, I’m so grateful!
Such a good reminder for everyday thinking.”Be quick to shed any state of mind that is not God-inspired.” Most helpful, Evan. Appreciate what you shared, Diane w.a. about assimilation. Always gain much from reading these posts and all the ideas shared by fellow readers.
Thank you, Evan.
We do not have to be weighed down with old hurts, resentments, and perceived injustices. As hymn 329 says:
“His law man’s pathway brightens,
His judgments all are pure,
His word the thought enlightens,
And ever shall endure.
To heed His testimony,
And Wisdom’s way to hold,
Is sweeter far than honey,
And better far than gold.
Thanks for this hymn reminder.
Thank you, Evan! Your SpiritView is an inspiration each day and I appreciate all the comments made in addition to your inspirational information. There is a poem from Oct 5, 1998 by Pallas Hubler that I have attached to my refrigerator with a magnet that is a good reminder to watch our thinking.
Get fit
Exercise your right to be free of a material view of self.
Eliminate graven images of fat or thin matter.
Walk over the waves of commercial foo theories.
Count your blessings.
Firm up your understanding of Spirit as the only substance.
Tone your thinking with unselfish, brotherly love.
Cut out criticism.
Run down the path of forgiveness.
Strengthen your trust in the omnipotence of goodness.
Cool down with tender patience.
Balance the scales with mercy and truth.
Shower the world with kindness.
Thank you all again and know that everyday is filled with love and joy — sometimes we just have
to be more alert to tune in to that fact.
‘Thinking about food, exercise , healthy body’:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/2mk28cs1ibq?s=e
This is a very good article, Angie. Thanks.
Studying and praying with your *Weightless being* blog last night caused a healing of false bodily pain ~~~ so very grateful!
We are beings of Light, lightness, as God is Light. Light has different meanings: illumination, radiance, that which shines, but also another meaning is: of little weight, not heavy, not serious or solemn, easily borne or done (as in My yoke is easy and my burden is light- Matthew 11:30).
There seems to be great heaviness and fear in mortal thought right now so I love the suggestion to recognize our true lightness and weightless being in God.
Today I came across a guest editorial from Evan from March 2006 CS Journal p. 62-63, called Fear No Evil. Highly recommend this. It is about facing down fear and seeing it shrink into its native nothingness and keeping a spiritual outlook in the face of alarming events. I don’t have an online link, I was reading it it in the print version. Blessings to everyone here and thanks for your comments!
Sorry, the title of the editorial was “Fear No ill.”
Thank you. by spiritualizing my thought I have been able to eat when hungry and stop when full.
However, some aspects of my life have made losing weight a health issue by eliminating a disease.
I will have to think again about this. This was timely
Thank you Evan, very helpful and needed! I read it several times thoroughly.
I found very helpful what Rose said, namely “to recognize our true lightness and weightlightness being in God.” Thank you Rose!
The thing is that sometimes it doesn’t seem easy to be weightlightness, boyancy and what Evan mentioned, if you have to demonstrate the truth about a seeming problem. Then I must be quiet and listen to God’s truth thoughts and let God do the demonstration. I am grateful to God for Christian Science, the Christ Science!
All the comments are also inspiring; thanks you very much dear commenter friends!♡
Dear Evan, I just thank you again , now specially for the very comforting Truth you give us here in the beginning: “As a spiritual idea of God, we live in the body of Spirit which is weightless! ” Thank you for your love to us all, giving us the healing messages to the present relevant topics. That is priceless, love to you, too ♡
Great post and article ! thank you Evan and Rose.
Fear no ill’
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/ccv1d5k7hw?s=e
Dear Martine, thank you very much for the link to Evan’s so helpful, inspiring article “have no fear”.
That is also great post!
Form this I see that we really must not fear. The little girl demonstrated that there is nothing to fear, so does Evan’s whole article.it’s what I really needed to indulge spiritually this morning.
Again thanks deeply Martine and Evan!♡♡♡
Oh the title was “fear no ill” ♡