Day 1: Self-Image and Fear of Inadequacy
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I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in a system that uses images within advertising and media to create a fear of being inadequate in human beings in order to have them desire solutions to their fear in the form of products that are offered as the solution to provide the consumer with the feeling or appearance of being adequate in comparison to the images used within the advertising and media.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in a system that not only use advertising and media to spread images designed to promote a fear of inadequacy based on a person not possessing the 'correct' outer image and appearance in an effort to sell products as solutions to the perceived inadequacy, but also to deliberately sell a product that does not and cannot actually serve as a real solution to the perceived inadequacy thus supporting the formation of the belief within the consumer that they are in fact inferior and 'beyond help' because the product or service offered as the solution did not actually assist the consumer to be adequate in comparison to the image presented as what is acceptable in this world.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate as the consumer of media and advertising to believe that the image I see of a man or woman on a magazine is an ideal to strive for myself and that not only am I inferior to the image presented but that I am inferior as a human because my physical form does not look exactly like that presented on the magazine or media.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the system of deceptive marketing and advertising not only as the consumer but as the person who judges other people according to the images presented by the media.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in belief system that people who have a certain percentage of body fat - defined as 'high' - are worth less and are less capable of contributing to humanity and to reality than those who have 'low' percentages of body fat.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to look in the mirror and to compare the reflection that I see to the images of men that I have seen on body-building magazines and fitness magazines and to either judge myself as like those images or not like them and to then either feel good about myself and my capabilities if I fit the images I have seen in magazines or to otherwise feel worthless and inadequate if I do not fit the images that I have seen in the magazines.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that eating should be done in a way to shape my body image to that of what I have seen in the fitness magazines, and to thus ignore the fact that billions in this world go without proper food and water to just be able to survive in this reality and that for most in this world eating is not a game but rather a point of life or death, and thus I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the game of eating as a way to look and feel a certain way while ignoring the starvation and hunger of all those in this world who starve and suffer due to the abuses of the money system, of which fitness magazines, dieting, and the food industries, play a major role in contributing to the increasing financial inequality within this world.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to feel ashamed of myself for having ignored the suffering of all those who starve and go without proper food and nutrition and water while I have participated in the desire to look and feel a certain way through eating, and that I have used this shame as an excuse to not stop my participation within a system, using it as a false form of penance instead of standing up and participating in changing myself and this world to no longer allow the abuse of food through an unequal money system to allow others to starve and go without proper food and water.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate as a partner in a relationship/agreement from the starting point of wanting to be with someone else who fits the image and likeness of the pictures of women and men I have seen in the media, magazines, fitness, bodybuilding, movies, porn, and all other forms of images and to participate in feelings of self-worth and self-acceptance and joy when the partner fits the image of the people I have seen presented as 'ideal looking' humans and to otherwise feel bad and feel like a loser when I am not in a relationship with a partner who fits the picture of the 'ideal looking person'.
I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the picture of the 'ideal looking person' in all its variously presented forms are presented from within the starting point of attempting to create a fear or desire within the person viewing it to either want to be like the image or to find a partner who fits the image or to create a fantasy relationship in the mind towards the image - all of which require either more images or products to be created to satisfy the desire for the image or person who fits the image or to suppress the fear of not having/fitting the image or finding the person who fits the image to be in a relationship with.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in a system where to survive, one must participate in creating and designing images to promote fear in other humans to never feel safe and secure within who they are and to thus feel and believe that they require something outside of themselves that they cannot produce themselves and must thus buy from someone else to feel safe and secure but that never actually makes them safe or secure or actually improves the lives any everyone around them including themselves so that they never cease to require new and more products that they must buy in order to ensure the survival of those who produce the products and design and promote the fears upon with the products are based.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I am inadequate and worthless and to thus look for ways to make myself feel adequate and of worth, and to thus participate in a game based on the experience of energy wherein I deny myself of worth in order to search for it and to experience the energy of 'satisfaction' and to thus not be here in reality but instead playing a game where only I exist and only my desires exist and to thus completely ignore the reality of all those who are suffering in this reality through the abuse of the economic system to create a small place in reality for me to play my energy game.
I commit myself to stop the energy game - to no longer place value on my individual experience of satisfaction at the expense of others in reality going without that which I would like for myself, namely food, shelter, water, clothing, relationship, enjoyment. I commit myself to investigate the ways in which I participate in reality and accept reality that supports the abuse of those in less fortunate positions than I am in who do not have an education and access to proper food and water to be abused through threat of survival to create products which only exist to be used to create an experience for myself and others to feel energy and enjoyment while others suffer.
I commit myself to stop the pattern of participating in desire to be like the image in the magazine and to judge myself and other according to how I or they compare to the image in the magazine.
I commit myself to recognize the equality of all forms of life on earth and to not base the value of anything or anyone on whether it fits the image of the 'ideal picture' as what is presented in a magazine or media and to instead evaluate what I see here on the Earth only in terms of whether it is in a form that supports what is Best for All and whether such a form is practical within a world that is Best for All. I commit myself to investigate and realize what forms are Best for All within the understanding that I do not yet necessarily know and understand what forms are practical and what body shapes practically support human beings to live here, not as competitive egos, but as equals to support each other and all other life forms.
I commit myself to support myself to eat and exercise, and to investigate and learn how to do so, in a way that supports myself to let go of fear, to remain here throughout my day, not obsessing over food or the shape and form of my body or of others, but to be able to focus in order to study and to write and to participate in reality without causing unnecessary suffering to myself or others in my environment, within the realization that until the money system is changed it is unavoidable that I will have to participate in the money system in order to eat and sustain my physical body.