Karmic Muscle Group: Generosity and Sacrifice
Today’s Exercise: Give Your Meal To Another
- Pick a meal during the day. It should be a regular meal and and not a snack.
- Give up your meal to someone else and go without.
- If you are in a restaurant, buy someone else a meal and then leave without eating.
- Giving a sack lunch to a co-worker or a homeless person counts. [hr]
Training Note:
Let’s face it, most of us can use to skip a meal. But to skip a meal for the benefit of others, is a particularly good thing to do. Notice the conversation in your mind. You might be 100 pounds overweight, but most of us will come up with a wide variety of excuses not to do this exercise. Some people might notice that if you miss a meal, that they even panic a little bit. We eat way more than we need and we can use this excess as a benefit for others, but first we have to pry our own fingers away from our food. [hr]
Karmic Benefits:
- Breaking Away From Food Addiction: for most of us, our relationship to food is more emotional than anything else. Eating makes us feel better emotionally and when we use food as an emotional pacifier it hurts us both physically and mentally. Breaking this additive relationship with food creates the karma of good health by helping us only eat what we need and keeping our minds clear of addictive behaviors.
- Sacrifice: this is a word that hardly anyone ever uses any more. The idea that we give of ourselves to others, even if it is inconvenient or difficult is becoming a lost art. But sacrifice has huge karmic benefits. It creates acts of generosity. It puts our minds in order by having us focus on the positive impact we can have instead of living in our greedy, whiny self-absorption. Sacrifice makes you stronger because it shows you that you don’t need what you think you need and by doing without you create an opportunity for others.
- Generosity: face it, most of us do not do that many purely generous things. In the Me Generation, we have developed the habit of taking care of ourselves and avoiding any responsibility for taking care of others. A well thought-out act of generosity changes who we know ourselves to be. If you make it a habit, it will change who the world knows you to be.[hr]
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