Have you seen “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead,” a documentary on DVD? It's inspiring. Joe Cross, an Australian who was fat, sick and nearly dead embarked on a 60 day juice fast, traveling across America to document his progress and talk to people along the way.
He met another man, a truck driver weighing 429 pounds who was suffering from some of the same ailments as Joe, and the two of them transformed their health, their bodies and their lives through juicing.
It was amazing to watch the truck driver emerge from the blob and become a handsome, dynamic human being who embarked on a new career as a nutritional guru. Joe Cross also started a web site to assist people in juicing and healthy rebooting.
So I thought, I’m tired of this fat around my waist. I need to reboot my diet. But let’s not stop there...let’s reboot my life.
Now what exactly is rebooting? To reboot a computer is to restart and reload the operating system...probably because of some new software or hardware or to restore it after a program failure.
Personally, we might see rebooting as simply stepping outside our lives for a moment to view it from the outside. To see the New Year as a time to start fresh and make some positive changes. To do things...big or little...out of the ordinary to shake our routine. To make a Clean Sweep..of the house, our stuffed closets and cupboards, our busy schedules, our states of mind. Redo the To Do List. Empty our email box and start over. Ask: what no longer serves me? What am I tolerating? Can I become toleration free?
Can I push the reboot button on the resolutions and goals of last year and power them up for this new year?
A while back I developed a Dream Big Plan. I started well, developed an outline for a book and crashed about half-way through the project. Just stopped.
I obviously need a reboot of goals and resolutions for this year. Maybe some of you do, also. We can look at what went wrong, meditate on it, figure out why it didn’t go as planned...and then bury it. Last year is gone. Let’s start where we’re at.
Let’s look at what's been going right. We must have done some great things that we're proud of. Acknowledge them! For me, I have managed to do some home remodeling, produce several personal photo books, become an ordained minister, and do some traveling.
I can acknowledge that, put it behind me and look ahead. Examining new challenges helps us to strengthen our resolve to reboot. For me, I found I am still working through the grief process after the loss of my husband of 43 years. It’s been harder than I thought it would be.
But bottom line: What do I want to do THIS year? Who do I want to be THIS year?
We’re so fortunate in Religious Science to have the wonderful tool of Spiritual Mind Treatment---affirmative prayer. We can treat for clarity to define our our goals, and for the strength, energy, vitality, health, and resources...financial and otherwise...to achieve them.
Knowing we are individualized expressions of the One Source helps us to reboot our personal as well as our spiritual operating systems. We can treat and use our feet.
Ernest Holmes would agree. I’ll close with my favorite Holmes quote.
“Today the possibilities of my experience are unlimited...Life lies open to me...rich, full, abundant..I have only to open the portals of my soul and accept that which is ready to express through me. Today I fling those portals wide; today I am the instrument through which life flows.”
And so it is.
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