The Power of Rumi in Healing from Eating Disorder- you can heal yourself and improve your life when your positive, optimistic and focus on things getting better.
“I’ve been sober for two years now. I had a serious addiction problem. I spent my teenage years experimenting with anything that became available. There was so much suffering and pain. when I went to a recovery meeting, a poem of Mevalana was recited by a group member. It turned out both of us had same roots in Arab culture. This started my journey into spiritual world and I worked hard with my sponsor to beat my addiction. To keep myself on straight path, I started to study spirituality and Rumi. His words have a power to heal. I’m 21 and sober now. I learnt one thing at meetings, only you can beat your addiction, only you can improve your life, you have the power to change your life. My sponsor told me, it all starts by applying the right kind of positive thinking so that you direct your subconscious mind to heal your body and improve your life. I used all of this to change my life”
21 Year old Male- Recovered from Drug abuse and Overeating
Recovery and Joy
Rumi says:
The Pickaxe
This is a rented house.
You do not own the deed.You have a lease, and you have set up
a little shop, where you barely make a living
sewing patches on torn clothing.
Yet only a few feet underneath
are two veins, pure red and bright gold carnelian.Quick. Take the pickaxe and pry the foundation.
You have got to quit this seamstress work.What does the patch-sewing mean, you ask.
Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak
of the body is always getting torn.
You patch it with food
and other restless ego-satisfactions.
Rip up one board from the floor
and look into the basement.
You may see two glints in the dirt.—————————————
According to Victoria Lee:
Rumi and all the wise ones want us to discover our capacity for joy. On the road back from recovery, it’s the biggest surprise.
In recovery, we realize that “stinking thinking,” was required to keep our addiction going. That’s true whether our drug of choice has been nicotine, alcohol, Vicodin, heroin or salt, sugar and fat. When we’re thinking like an addict, we believe false thoughts like,
If I lose this amount of weight, I’ll be happy.
If I eat, I’ll get fat.
My life sucks, because I’m not thin enough, beautiful enough.
To defeat your ED, addiction you simply have to take responsibility for yourself. The wishes and false beliefs have to go. As Dr Lee said: The path of becoming who you really are is similar for all addictions. The addiction stands between you and your birthright of joy. Giving up the addiction is not a loss; it means becoming able to find more delight in precious moment after precious moment. Rumi says We are lutes, no more, no less. When the sound box is full of anything, no music. When the belly burns clean…., every moment a new song.
Mevlana Rumi said:
You can’t go after more of a positive quality directly.
Mevalana tells us what you can do is go after your own blocks and obstacles to your desired positive quality.
Don’t Forget You have this power to beat your ED – now start using it to improve your life and your health.
The poem below is very close to sufferer’s heart:
I read this poem when I was in my 7th month of recovery. It spoke to me, it taught me about the real work in life. I’ve studied this in-depth and I try to apply it to my life as much as I can
There is one thing in this world that you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there’s nothing toworry about; but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life.It’s as if a king has sent you to some country to do a task, and you perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human beings come to this world to do particular work. That work is the purpose, and each is specific to the person. If you don’t do it, it’s as though a priceless Indian sword were used to slice rotten meat. It’s a golden bowl being used to cook turnips, when one filing from the bowl could buy a hundred suitable pots. It’s a knife of the finest tempering nailed into a wall to hang things on.You say, “But look, I’m using the dagger. It’s not lying idle.” Do you hear how ludicrous that sounds? For a penny, an iron nail could be bought to serve the purpose. You say, “But I spend my energies on lofty enterprises. I study jurisprudence and philosophy and logic and astronomy and medicine and all the rest.”But consider why you do those things. They are all branches of yourself.Remember the deep root of your being, the presence of your lord. Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. If you don’t, you will be exactly like the man who takes a precious dagger and hammers it into his kitchen wall for a peg to hold his dipper gourd. You’ll be wasting valuable keenness and foolishly ignoring your dignity and your purpose.
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