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This is a Santa we all know and love

These are the “grands” assessing Santa.  Do we know this guy or not?  Even skepticism keeps us excited at Christmas, do you remember?

I’m blogging in December about how I am able to enjoy the holidays without kvetching about food or weight gain, and about how I got to this wonderful place. Look to the right: there’s a category called “Christmas” where you can read all of December’s posts. My dream is that on New Year’s Eve, because you follow this blog and you tell your overweight friends to read it too, we’ll all be better prepared to move into 2010  with a basket full of right ideas to help us think differently about this overweight phantasmagoria.

My last post was about how physical things cannot be permanently.  This is the reason diets and exercise are not ultimately successful.  Today, I’m going to explain to you how mental things CAN be changed, and changed permanently.  If you are a yo-yo dieter, this will help you to understand the whys of it and the wherefores of how to quit.

Here are the mental mistakes I made that made me fat:

1.  I believed I’d inherited a fat gene.

2. My named rhymed with Fatty.  Must be true.

3. I was raised to be obsessed with my body and its size.

4.  My folks said I was fat.  I believed them and thought it for myself.

5.  I became paranoid about being fat and finally manifested it in high school.

6. The best way to stay fat is to diet.  I’m living proof.

7. I had a harsh self-judgment about the size of my body…all the way from size 12 to size 3x.

8. I perpetuated my condition through repetition and ignorance.

Those eight reasons are the Cause of my overweight, not the food I eat or the exercises I do or do not do.  It’s a matter of thinking fat into existance and then perpetuating it from inside my own mentality. When I change any of those items above, and I keep it changed in my mind, my body automatically changes and the changes are permanent because I am no longer thinking it into existance.

You may be thinking “Oh, God, if this was only true, how easy it would be.”  It is true.  It is this easy. These hard-won ideas are my Christmas gift to you.  I hope you print them out, review them with regularity, and grant yourself some blessed relief next year.

Cookies, fudge and puddings!

Pat

Seth & Jenn Matson

I have often wondered what was in that wine glass that made Seth look unconscious?  Ah, well, it’s the holidays, and he is usually just playing with us.  Just ask Jenn.  She knows. Aren’t they a handsome couple?

In each post this month, I want to remind you that each post is one in a series about the key factors intrinsic to my being able to enjoy the holidays without kvetching about food or weight gain, and how I got to this place….finally! If you’ll notice, there’s a category called “Christmas” on the right where you can read them all.  Enjoy!

My dream is that on New Year’s Eve, because you follow this blog and you tell your overweight friends to read it too, we’ll all be better prepared to move into 2010  with a basket full of right ideas to help us think differently about this overweight phantasmagoria.

Today, we’ll look at why you cannot change so-called physical things.  I think the best way to explain this one is to put you in front of a mirror.  You have just noticed that your hair is a mess!  Do you reach out to the image in the mirror to make the changes, or do you work with the real thing, the hair on your head? Right, with the hair on your head! So, what’s the moral?

You are a Cause machine.  You cause things by thinking about them.  I know you’ve had the experience of thinking about something, having it show up, and thinking “What a coincidence!”  Or maybe the experience has happened when you think about someone, and they call or email you?  Either way: as a mental being, the subject of your thinking becomes objectified.  The one thinking (that’d be you) has activated Cause with your thinking.  Cause forms its thoughts using consciousness, the Primal Element, into the subject of its thinking. When the subject is completely thought through to a mental conviction, the thoughts objectify themselves as whatever, or whoever, you were thinking about.

The things you create are called effect.  We have all been taught across the last few centuries that these effects are physical.  Because of the way they were created (mentally) they cannot be physical.  They can only be mental or spiritual.  I consider those words synonyms. See Dec. 17th’s post.

So the things that you now think are physical (like your body) and you try to change (like through diet and exercise) can never retain those changes because the tools you are using are not mental, like the way you created your body in the first place, by thinking yourself fat.  You’ve got to change your mind about your body.  In that way, you are changing Cause…..and the effect will automatically change……and the change will be as permanent as the thoughts about it are permanent.

This is not a subject for sissies.  It takes healthy, hard work to change your mind and keep it changed. And this is why surgieries are not successful permanently.  You still have the Cause machine thinking fat, so it’s going to reproduce the fat unless you change it permanently.  And for that, I say, to all a good night…and good luck.

Snowflakes on your noses,

Pat

Marilyn, Pat and Lesley

For you newcomers to the World of Within - Merry Christmas from me and my girlfriends with a reminder:

Each of my posts in December is going to be about the key factors intrinsic in my being able to enjoy the holidays without kvetching about food or weight gain, and how I got to this place….finally! If you’ll notice, there’s a category called “Christmas” on the right where you can read them all.  Enjoy!

My dream is that on New Year’s Eve, because you follow this blog and you tell your overweight friends to read it too, we’ll all be better prepared to move into 2010  with a basket full of right ideas to help us think differently about this overweight phantasmagoria.

Today, I’m going to be reminding you about how “mental” you are and that the universe you live in is a mental universe.  Trust me, if you can wrap yourself around this idea, you won’t ever sweat the food stuff any more.  Freedom in this area really feel great!

You can think.  This makes you mind, because only mind can think.  Let that one soak in for a while because I’m confident you haven’t really let it absorb in.  Do you realize what it means if you are a thinking, mental being?  Do you realize the height it elevates you to to recognize that as a mental being (since what you think is what you get) you are the gal on the throne? You are the one calling the shots by what you entertain in your mind?  If you are thinking “Egads!  All these desserts are going to put the tons on my hips,” guess what?  Your mind is in there thinking “You want what?  Now why would you add that bunch of crap to something so wonderful?  Oh well, if that’s what you want, I’ll do it for you.”  And then your very own thinking creates the thing you most fear.

Why is it so important for you to realize this is a mental experience, that you are a mental being? Two main reasons:

If we are physical beings, we cannot change permanently.

If we are mental beings, we can change permanently by changing what we think.

We have been taught that all the things we can see with our eyes are physical things.  I am saying those things are mental.  They have been created using the Primal Element, consciousness as the substance, and they have been formed using Mind, our minds, as the Cause.  You can prove this, you know?  You can think about something you really really want, and not let go of it until it’s in your experience.  Think about all it’s happy details.  Think about how you will use it and enjoy it.  (One big clue:  if you entertain thoughts of doubt or fear, you will stop the process entirely, so I’d encourage you not to doubt or fear.  Instead, expect your desire to manifest and it will.)

Merry Christmas,

Pat