Beyond Beliefs

Those beliefs you’ve been holding onto your entire life… it’s about time you bid them farewell. I’m talking about the beliefs your parents handed down from their parents, and so on. The ones you heard in church, school, and neighborhood throw them all out and become a skeptic.

Why should you throw them out? Because they have made your life limited. You don’t fully live your life because of what you’ve been told. If you haven’t experienced something firsthand, why would you believe it to be true? Because my friend’s great grandma Elizabeth was told by her neighbor Franny that it was so; it’s been passed down for generations, and you just agreed to it.

For instance, I have Polycystic Kidney Disease, which causes cysts to grow inside the kidneys and liver. This is what I’ve been told anyway. My sister and I were diagnosed at the same time. When we found out we both had it, I was angry for a moment; Then I realized that I may have this thing, but it will never have me. My sister took it as a way to deepen her card-carrying victim status. She became the disease.

Our PKD is an adult-onset illness. My sister talked about her condition so much her young children developed symptoms. Her saying, “you’re going to have this,” happened because it was a belief, and they agreed to it.

Other than teeth cleaning twice a year and getting new contact lenses, my only doctor is my Nephrologist. My family hates that I don’t have doctors, but I don’t need them. I’ve agreed to continue to see this one man. When he runs my lab work now, he is shocked that everything seems to be improving after years of decline. So much so that he wants me to have an MRI done before my next year’s appointment. He wants to measure how much the cysts have grown. I am looking forward to it. I know if any change has occurred, they are shrinking. I haven’t had any pain in my sides in years.

Long ago, my doctor was concerned about my blood pressure and cholesterol. He wanted to up the dosage at every appointment as my numbers were high. Since I don’t think about the illness inside me, he hasn’t had any concerns. But somehow, I am improving. After the MRI, I can’t wait to see him scratching his head.

We are told salt will give you high blood pressure. I like salt on my warm tortilla chips. At one point, I believed it would raise my ‘already compromised’ blood pressure, but I did it anyway. Now, I use salt whenever I want it; I never think for a moment that it can do anything to my body. It can’t. It only exists in the collective, who all agree that it will have a consequence if you consume it. And they agree on the consequence.

If you smoke, you will get lung cancer. If you sin, you will go to hell. We need eight hours of sleep. You need to work hard to get what you want. You need a college degree. You need to watch your weight. You must take this pill for that ailment. These are just a tiny sample of the beliefs your life is built around. When you step away from the collective mindset and really challenge these, you will start seeing them disappear.

I was overweight my entire childhood, through graduating from high school. My two older sisters had perfect bodies. I was silently shamed and obsessed with my body. When I was at the end of a horrible marriage, my co-worker was concerned and told me I looked anorexic. These words made no sense to me because the woman I saw in the mirror was a fat girl. I weighed 108# at the time. Far below where I’d ever been. I didn’t see myself as thin – at all. I believed I was fat. Diets, excessive working out, I did it all and always. My weight was always on my mind. I couldn’t hide my naked body from myself.

In 2009, I was not on my spiritual journey quite yet, but something magically shifted. I was hired for my first full-time shift on the radio. It was also the same time when we got a new dog. I walked the dog every day. I dropped my kid off at the bus stop daily and went to work. Picked her up after work. With such a fun job, my life was complete.

I pulled out the scale at one point, and I couldn’t believe that I had dropped twenty pounds in a short period of time. How did this happen? Because I stopped thinking about it. I didn’t feed the monster or give it any energy. When I stopped thinking about it, the weight went away. It was that simple.

I don’t t subscribe to illness or aging. People in my age group expect their bodies to start falling apart. They know varicose veins are on their way. Hair is going to start falling out. Osteoporosis will set in. I don’t agree with any of this. Why would I? Rather than agreeing with them, I started playing soccer.

I will never be ill or allow any of these thoughts to cross my brain. This is why I don’t need doctors. I can’t get sick. If I thought I should go to a doctor, I would be setting the stage that I agreed I could get sick. It truly is as simple as this. And my legs are still my greatest body part (as verified by strangers – men and women – in public places); no way would I allow varicose veins to appear.

We overcomplicate everything. If you don’t know something is true, don’t agree to it without experiencing it. Always remember you are a spiritual being, but you are in a human body. If you want to challenge the Law of Gravity, you might get back to spirit sooner than you planned.

Cari

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Cari Palmer Bio:

If I hadn’t lived the many phases of my life, I wouldn’t believe it could all happen in one lifetime. All I imagined after giving up my victim card was being a writer/speaker for Hay House. I was the queen of self-help and I was ready to change lives. Fast forward a decade or two and now, after re-membering who we are and why we are here, self-help was a lifetime ago.

Following my guidance has brought me to a place I couldn’t ever imagine! I have mastered living in the present moment. I have become a Zen-like creature. Once you feel this good in every moment, you can never go back. When you realize we create our own reality, why would we make any part of this thing we call life miserable?

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