We are surrounded by distractions, habits, people and things that may cloud our vision and slow our progress towards becoming the person that we are meant to be. Many of us are easily influenced by what others do or think, by what society accepts, and to “fit in” we may act, say or do things that are not pleasing to God’s eyes. :(…I can only imagine how he must feel when we go against what God has told us to do.
We are spiritual beings living in mortal bodies. We were given these precious temples to allow our spirits to live inside. We are in charge of how we take care of our bodies and most importantly of how we take care of our spirits. I always give the example in class of imagining ourselves being on an airplane and how we rise up and begin to see the little houses, the cars, all of our possessions behind etc. It will be the same when we leave this earth, except for the fact that we will leave EVERYTHING! even out bodies! This is when we will really realize that the whole time on this earth we were supposed to take excellent care of our spirits! to lear to bridle our passions, feelings, emotions, and to become a little bit more like the incredible children of GOD that we are.
Letting go of the natural man, and focusing instead on our spiritual side: means that we know the things that are truly important. it means that we learn to say NO to our passions, our addictions and to what the world and others would want us to do. It becomes easy to say no because we know that would rather please GOD more than the rest of the world or even ourselves. There’s a scripture that talks about this and It says
For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child,submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father. (Mosiah 3:19)
And the other one reads:
And now, my son, all men that are in a state of nature, or I would say, in a carnal state, are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity; they are without God in the world, and they have gone contrary to the nature of God; therefore, they are in a state contrary to the nature of happiness.(Alma 41:11)
We have a choice each day we can either choose to pamper and take care of spirit or to accept the enticings and passions of our natural man. The choice is ours, but the more that we practice feeding and taking care of our spirit the easier it will become to say NO to the things of the natural man. We will find true happiness this way knowing that we’re living the way that God intents us to do so and when we take care of our spirit this will also affect other areas of our life! we will have a desire to also take care of our bodies in a healthy way and to be service minded and kind to others. God is by our side ready to help us when we show him the full desire and intent to RISE UP in our lives and become the person that we are meant to become. 
Our physical goal is to take care of our bodies in the healthiest way we can this week. eating good things, exercising and meditating.
Our Spiritual goal is to rise higher to control ourselves in the ways in which we know we need to change to come a little closer to God than we have been. 🙂 He will help us! <3
Can’t wait to see everyone tonight for an amazing class that will feel so good for our bodies and spirits! <3 Do it because you love yourself and want to do this for your health and spirit. Love you all and please stay safe during the hurricane! God bless you all!!! xoxox
Love,
LILI 
