Probably the most important thing I learned from the book, "Remembering Wholeness" by Carol Tuttle is that the choices I have made, the paths I have chosen in the past are what brought me to this point in my journey. The choices I have made. ME! I created this life. This information was pretty hard for me at first. I was very good at the blame game. Everyone and everything was to blame for the sorry state of my life. (i.e. eating certain foods is to blame for my weight problems)
Once this concept really sank in, though, it was very freeing. This means that the mess which was my life could be changed. I had control. It was up to me, and only me, to change it.
In the book, "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay, I learned how emotions and stressful situations affect me. In the back of that book is a list of ailments with the emotional causes. (This list later become a separate book called "You Can Heal Your Body.") For each physical ailment listed, Louise Hay shows an emotional connection. From this I learned that my emotional responses to anything will affect the way my life turns out.
Another empowering book I used is "The Dynamic Laws of Prayer" by Catherine Ponder.
I used the information in these books to help re-script my life and improve broken finances and relationships.
Why can't I use the same information to work on weight issues? If the techniques are the same for healing in other areas of my life, why not for weight issues also? What if my weight issues are not about what and how much I eat, but more about emotions and stress in my life?
In the past, to heal the financial and relationship issues, I would take time in the evening to review my day and identify any situations that I wanted to improve. If anything happened that caused a strong negative emotional response and stress, I would then create in my mind a new scenario that had a more positive outcome. Just like in the movies "Delirious" with John Candy and "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray, I would re-write my day to create a different outcome. Then I would drift off to sleep imagining my day with the more positive outcome. Eventually, my life became more and more like the life I was creating in my mind.
I am going to start experimenting with this exercise. This could go a couple of different ways. Let's say as I am reviewing my day, I remember a strong emotional response when I ate a bowl of ice cream. I was angry at myself for giving in to temptation once again. I could chose to re-write my day in one of these two ways:
1) I am hungry. I chose to eat an apple. I am very happy with my choice.
2) I am hungry. I chose to eat a bowl of ice cream. I am very happy with my choice.
I believe these two scenarios are basically the same. They both create the response I want - I want to be happy. So, I will start experimenting with this and see how it goes. More later.
By the way, here is a good video on weight loss by Abraham-Hicks. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5iwooFszo8&list=PL4C5BD92AD09C6351&index=40
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