Being YOU
I’m Beth, you know me as your Life in the Body teacher. There is something important about that statement that makes LIB very different than most anything you’ve experienced before. Traditionally the world calls me your teacher, you know me as that, but the truth is, I’m actually the Learner and you are the Teacher. That truth is what makes Life in the Body so powerful, here’s how.
As a “teacher” (I prefer to say guide or even better is friend, but for the sake of understanding my point, teacher), what is it that I have to give? Knowledge and experience, mainly, right? I’m sure we can all agree, that’s what you’re here to get from me.
The more important question is how do I give that to you? How do I give you “my” experiences? How do I give you “my” knowledge? Do I have you read all the books I’ve read, practice all the practices, experience all the variety of moments that brought me here? Not only is that impossible, but it would only produce clones of me, which is no good for either of us.
A second question, maybe even more pertinent especially if you are unsure if Life in the Body can help you, or if you doubt your abilities, is how can I be sure that what I have to share can be understood by the limitless variety of people that will come to the door? People from different backgrounds, with different limitations (mentally and physically), with different goals and past experiences they bring with them? How can I possibly know you can get what I’m giving?
The short answer is I don’t know, and that is my greatest strength as a “teacher.” The strength is knowing that I am the learner. I am not pulling you along, I am not ahead of you hoping for you to catch up. I am behind you, listening, encouraging, supporting. I am learning how to show you to be your own teacher, guide and friend. I have always been the learner, and through that experience I’ve gained a solid knowledge of what others need to make lasting change in the body, mind and being. That knowledge is my foundation, and the foundation of Life in the Body. Its super solid, and has held up to all the field testing.
Even still, I come everyday, listening to YOU, hearing YOU, trying to understand YOU. Because only when I understand you, can I help you understand me. Only when I learn from you, can you discover that the knowledge was inside of you all along. Only by being the example of how to listen, will you learn to listen. Only be being the example of how to respond will you learn to respond. Only by being YOU, can you possibly know that, regardless of the exterior and superficial differences, we are the same. When you know that, there is no teacher and no learner, there is just this moment.
To Study the Way is the Study the Self
To Study the Self is to Forget the Self
To Forget the Self is to be Enlightened by All Things
To Be Enlightened by All Things is to Remove Separation between you and other