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Wasn’t Valerie Bertinelli just so touching in that Jenny Craig commercial where she said she wouldn’t have to worry about losing weight because she’d already done it, as she waved her fingers in front of her face to cover up her tears?

That made me sad, that commercial. “Why?” you might want to know. Well, not to pick on anyone who’s lost weight this way, because this type of accomplishment is phenomenal, but the weight loss that was accomplished was based entirely on the manipulation of effect. Eating less, plus a belief that if one eats less, one would lose weight allowed ha manifestation of weight loss. But “Cause” was not used in this process. Only effect was manipulated.

If you know anything about the Law of Cause and Effect, you know this: Cause is YOU, THINKING. Effect is the manifestation that results from YOU, THINKING. Your body is one of those effects. It’s the Report Card that tells you what you’ve been thinking about your Self.

When you resort to the same old weight loss techniques - pay someone your money so you can eat less and manipulate effect into weight loss - it does not have permanent results unless you continue to manipulate the effect, because once you stop, you KNOW you regain the weight. Why is this? Because you think that food (the effect) has the same properties as Cause (your thinking) does. It does NOT. Oh, you use your thinking in the old mind-model of a weight loss plan, but you never change your mind completely. You continue to think that food has the ability to cause you to gain or lose weight, and what results is this:

You become (with your complete permission) the slave of an inanimate effect when the truth is that you are Cause Itself, sitting there in neutral, not knowing how to kick your Sweet Self into Gear!

How sad is that? You have the power, the strength, the courage, the persistence, the honesty and the chutzpah to get this job done mentally, but you:

1) Never even knew that such a thing existed or
2) Haven’t made it your #1 focus and did the work to get the job done for once and for all using mental means alone.

Now I know that people out there who know me personally know that I fall into the #2 category. I have lots of excuses for this as you know. I detest my excuses. I think that developing a business that will allow lots of women like me to know about these truths, and then as I work the business helping them, I will HAVE that focus that I so make less-than-a-priority and will enjoy the results we all want.

I also know that talking about Cause and Effect as deeply as I do is confusing to some of you. Not to worry! The World of Within is going to have a Community where you can ask tons of questions and get great answers so that you CAN gain the necessary understanding. There are fourteen tele-classes designed to help you understand how this works, too.

2008 will be here tomorrow. Lots of activity happened in December that is bringing my book My Cats Have Seen Me Naked: How I Achieved Self-Acceptance and Self-Love While Obese all that much closer to being sent off to the publisher. New talent has been found to complete the website The World of Within. Improvements to this blog Chubsey Ubsey are under development.

So, we all have a lot to look forward to in 2008. I want all of you to be sure you are signed up for my ezine In-Sights. You’ll love all the tips and the meaty article you’ll get each month. Please be with us from our maiden voyage.

Blessings! Peace! Love and Joy!
Pat

Hello, y’all. I thought you’d appreciate knowing that The World of Within has moved forward in another stately step of progress: the editing on My Cats Have Seen Me Naked: How I Unfolded Self-Acceptance and Self-Love While Obese has been completed.

I want to bow low before the feet of the talented grammarian, PatriciaPattyPat Derenberger. In the midst of her choir practices, her deer hunting (and canning), her Christmas cookies and massive amounts of house cleaning, my dear friend and former high school mate, has completed the proofing of the book.

My son, Thad, has developed a paragraph format in InDesign, and the book is being typeset as I write to you here.

Next step: to the printer! And then, it’s only six short weeks until it hits the market. Seth from Matson Graphics (aka, my second son) has the website cooking, too. It is my strong hope and desire to go live at the latest by March, perhaps end of February.

Be sure that you and your chubsey ubsey friends are signed up for the Maiden Voyage of the ezine, In-Sights. You won’t want to miss one juicy issue.

Merry Christmas. I won’t say Happy New Year, because once our site goes live, having a happy new year will be moot.

Love,
Pat

Before I got that life is mental, good, and individual, the holidays were a pain in the ass for me. I lived in fear that everything I put into my mouth would end up on my body somewhere and it wouldn’t be a pretty sight when it happened. I am so glad that is no longer in my experience. I now know that the real purpose for food is for enjoyment. So when I eat something, I focus on the food, on the enjoyment that I am imbuing into the food, and I drop entirely any so-called weight-gain ideas.

Why? Because I know that what I think is what I get. I did this for just years and years until I made myself obese. It was ignorance and innocence that was behind my thoughts. I simply didn’t know any better. I’ll bet you’re thinking “Shoot! I do that too!” You don’t need to do that any more.

Hold on to this thought: Food can’t make anything happen to me. Food has no causative capabilities. It’s just food - an effect. But my mind CAN cause things by thinking them, so, this Christmas, I’m only going to eat what I enjoy and enjoy what I eat. And I’m not going to think “This will make me fat” because guess what? If I think it, it will!

I might not see you until after Christmas. I hope the joy of the season sprinkles all over your sweet self.

Love,
Pat