The Mind's Needs Are Not The Body's Needs
I have a wonderful insight to share with you here, from Don Miguel Ruiz, from his book 'The Mastery of Love', explaining the wisdom of knowing the nature of our various needs and their source.
I believe that this will provide a key distinction for many of us and I believe it can benefit us in many areas of our lives, such as our health, and weight management, our relationships, our peace of mind, and more.
Don Miguel explains;
"Your mind and your body have completely different needs, but your mind has control of your body. Your body has needs that you cannot avoid; you have to fulfill the need for food, the need for water, shelter, sleep, sex. All those needs of your body are completely normal, and it's so easy to satisfy the needs of the body. The problem is that the mind says these are my needs.
" ...The mind thinks it has the need for food, for water, for shelter, for clothing, for sex. But the mind has no need at all, no physical needs. ... How do we know this is true? When your mind says, "I need food," you eat, and the body is completely satisfied, but your mind still thinks it needs food. You keep eating and eating and eating, and you cannot satisfy your mind with food, because that need is not real...
" ...it's the same with sex. When the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need. When the need is in the mind, the whole judgement, the whole knowledge, is also there. This makes sex so difficult to deal with. The mind doesn't need sex. What the mind really needs is love, not sex. ...
"When the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need." - Don Miguel Ruiz
" ...We need to give the body freedom from the tyrant that is the mind. If we no longer have the need for food in our mind, the need for sex in our mind, everything becomes so easy. The first step is to split the needs into two categories: These are the needs of the body; these are the needs of the mind."
Taken from pages 126-128.
We'll leave the rest there for now but it is definitely recommended reading, going on to explain how the mind needs to know 'What am I?', in this confusing world of ours, and so problematically identifies itself as the body. And, of course, there are eleven other wonderful chapters as well as this one.
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