Getting Needs Met
Picture yourself walking through a meadow. There is a path opening before you. As you walk, you feel hungry. Look to your left. There's a fruit tree in full ripe. Pick what you need.
Steps later, you notice you're thirsty. On your right, there's a fresh water spring.
When you are tired, a resting place emerges. When you are lonely, a friend appears to walk with you. When you get lost, a teacher with a map appears.
Before long, you notice the flow: need and supply, desire and fulfillment. Maybe, you wonder, someone gave me the need because someone planned to fulfill it. Maybe I had to feel the need, so I would notice and accept the gift. Maybe closing my eyes to the desire closes my arms to its fulfillment.
Demand and supply, desire and fulfillment -- a continuous cycle, unless we break it. All the necessary supplies have already been planned and provided for this journey.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie
©1990, Hazelden Foundation.Picture yourself walking through a meadow. There is a path opening before you. As you walk, you feel hungry. Look to your left. There's a fruit tree in full ripe. Pick what you need.
Steps later, you notice you're thirsty. On your right, there's a fresh water spring.
When you are tired, a resting place emerges. When you are lonely, a friend appears to walk with you. When you get lost, a teacher with a map appears.
Before long, you notice the flow: need and supply, desire and fulfillment. Maybe, you wonder, someone gave me the need because someone planned to fulfill it. Maybe I had to feel the need, so I would notice and accept the gift. Maybe closing my eyes to the desire closes my arms to its fulfillment.
Demand and supply, desire and fulfillment -- a continuous cycle, unless we break it. All the necessary supplies have already been planned and provided for this journey.
Today, everything I need shall be supplied to me.
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An interesting concept for a compulsive overeater: Today, everything I need shall be supplied to me.
We are so frightened that we won't get 'enough'..............we fear hunger, a tiny gnawing sensation in the stomach that is foreign to most of us..........because we make sure we overeat to avoid hunger at all costs. Ours is a disease of More. Our desires SO outweigh our needs, that 'satisfaction' becomes impossible to achieve. Yet we insist upon trying. We are certain that 'satisfaction' is to be found in the NEXT bite...........our binges progress to gigantic quantities of food, and still, satisfaction eludes us.
Seeking fulfillment in food is futile. Food is fuel to keep our bodies running, yet we treat it as a drug.............as a means to shut down and to feel 'high' and to stop thinking.
When we put aside our Wants and focus only on our Needs, we wind up 'needing' surprisingly little. All of our needs are met on a daily basis, when we have the faith to believe they WILL be.
For today, I believe that everything I need shall be supplied to me. I need not seek it out; it will be laid at my feet on an as-needed basis.
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