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Today’s fact/truth is:  My Mind Creates What It Thinks About.  Throughout history, many keen thinkers have made an effort to explain the mental triune action.  Yes, your mind works in a three-step method.  Some of the names for this trinity of action would blow your socks off if you truly understood it. (email me if you want to discuss this:  pat@theworldofwithin.com)  Let me explain the simplest words to explain this trinity of mental activity.

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!

I’ve been talking to you about not having to worry about weight gain over the holidays due to the celebratory, extra, food.  The reason it works for me is due to the understanding I’ve unfolded over the years through my search for the Truth…and finding it. My dream is that on New Year’s Eve, because you’ll follow this blog throughout December and you’ll 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.

An now, the trinity at work in your mind:

1.  Mind or mentality.  It exists.  You have one.  Even more so, you ARE one.  It is intrinsically what your nature is. You were born to think!

2.  Thought or thinking.  It’s what you, mind, does.  It is the activity of mind and it is the active force of mind. When you turn over this engine, honey, jump back because The Big Cause Machine is very powerful!

3.  Your conclusion.  The feeling of conviction or certainty you arrive at after you think things through.

When you begin to think “these donuts literally jumped out of the store on to my hips” guess what?  That’s precisely what you are creating!  Holy shit, batman.  And those skinny girls who think “I can eat and eat and eat and I never gain an ounce! guess what?  That’s precisely what they are creating!  Holy shit, batman.

Most people aren’t aware that this is how things work.  Most overweight people think that food has more power than they have themselves!  Too sad.  So, my hope for you this holiday season is that you use the power of your mind to desire simply to maintain your weight through this season.  Use your thinking (#2) to think this into place.  Use common sense and moderation in the amounts that you eat and the foods that you choose.  It would be unintelligent to eat only foods you think are fattening and then expect to maintain your weight!  Come on now.  You’ve got too much invested in all those wrong ideas, so take it slowly, and have ‘maintaining your weight’ as this years simple goal.

And when you come to a conclusion, I sure would hope it contains some “I cans and I wills” in it, because if you will, you certainly can.

Holiday hugs,

Pat

Seth Matson

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!

Following along in the list of facts that I learned which keep me from worrying about weight gain over the holidays due to the celebratory, extra, food (see them all here), today we’re going to look at the fact that I  am a mental being.  So are you.

I think that one of the worst perpetrations of lies foisted off onto mankind over the last — oh, let’s just look at three centuries — is the fact that we are taught that we are physical beings with a soul.  I don’t know who came up with this innacurate idea, but it’s one of those times when a millstone around his neck would be too kind.  We are not physical beings.  We are mental beings.  We are spiritual beings.

You and I can think.  This is a mental process.  That makes us mental beings.  If you tried to steer  your car by using the rear view mirror, you’d soon be in a ditch.  I know you can see how that works.  Well, when you try to steer  your life using so-called physical things - like medicine, therapy, food - you are steering by using the rear view mirror.  What you would benefit more from is steering by using the steering wheel - aka, your mind.

Your mind can think.  When it thinks, it fills in the details about what it’s thinking about.  At some point in the process, your mind becomes convinced that what it’s thinking about is some kind of “A-okay” and this conclusion the mind comes to manifests itself in an objective phenomena.  Might be a car; might be new clothing; might be a new relationship - but whatever it is, it began with YOU THINKING.

If  you truly want to enjoy your holidays this year, not gain weight, be light-hearted and care-free, this “I am a mental being” idea can be of immeasureable use to you.  You can see the food and think “You look good and I’ll enjoy a taste of you” versus your old way “You look good.  I’ll probably gain weight.”  Doesn’t it just torque your jaws that you’ve been doing that to you?  Well, don’t do it this year, okay?

Love  you,

Pat

P.S. Don’t you think I have handsome sons? 

Thad Matson

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!

I know that you know that you can think.  Are you fully up to date on the significance of that little- observed activity? When I was in my twenties (yes, still in this century!) I was working with a therapist who’d asked me what I just thought.  I couldn’t answer him, but I made a resolution right then and there to never not know the answer to that question again.  It was when I began to become fully conscious of what was going on inside me - inside my World of Within.

I began to watch me thinking.  I began to notice that when I was thinking about someone, they’d call me or I’d run into them in a store. I saw how easily I flared  up in anger over particular things.  I observed how speechless I became over the beauty in nature or in children’s innocence.  I became aware of my “Oh, yeah!” feistiness when threatened.  There was a full array of thoughts sprinting inside my head like dancing dervishes and the very observation of them sometimes left me breathless.

A very kind and loving lady once invited me to her house when I was a young woman and gave me some wonderful advice:  “Channel your energy into one arena.”  I began to think that if I used this glorious ability to think, having learned by that time that thought was causative, and I channeled my thought into one “box”  (focused on only one project) it would sure enough bear fruit.  And it did.

Knowing that you can think is one small piece of the “how to manifest what you want” party that’s going on all the time.  And at Christmas time, instead of thinking “I’m going to gain weight!  Arrrgggghhh!”  you could substitute instead “I’ll eat all things with moderation; I’ll enjoy every single bite; and this year, I’ll maintain my weight without gaining an ounce.”  I think this is a much better use of your ability to think and create what you want.

Happiest holiday season!

Pat