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Patty & Bougainvillas

I think that life boils down to deciding to focus on the inside or focus on the outside.

I believe that the individuals who focus on the outside live in cool looking houses, drive smashingly awesome and powerful cars, have dynamite smiles, are built like brick shithouses, wear clothing with designer labels, are accepted by other members of society.  They still have all the things left to resolve that people who focus on the inside are currently working on.

Things like eliminating self-doubt in all it’s ugly forms; feeling good about yourself regardless of the words thrown your way; trying to prove things by purely mental means, so that you know that you are Cause Itself and can use it at will; working to unfold your virtue set and use it appropriately; being fully consciousness.

I know it’s not for everyone.  It’s the path of the Master’s.  It’s not for namby-pamby’s or the weak-kneed. It’s my path.  It was graciously bestowed on me when my chubby baby body got nicknamed Patty Fatty and I believed it to be true.  I know how I got here.  Do you?  Do you know what your one weak link is and how you can turn it into  your salvation as I did?

Will I always be fat?  As long as I continue to think it as habitually as I do now, most likely I will.  Would I ever have the lap band surgery to get rid of this big body?  Never!  For me, it spits in the face of all that I know I am capable of.  It says “I can’t” to things mental, and this girl just cannot go there.  Is it okay for others?  Well of course, and there is a mental way.  It’s just not all that easy.  It takes courage, perseverance, single-mindedness.  It does result in permanent healing, though, so I think it’s worth every effort I can conjure.

Hugs to you and love,

Pat

How many Do-Overs?

I’m writing an article for the June issue of Magnify You this week. I have the topic of Rebirth in my mind and of course along with this comes the actual birth of our new baby, Hieronymous.  I got to wondering how many Do Overs he’ll experience in his one sweet life and how important they are. Of course when it comes to the subject of re-shaping your body using mental means alone as opposed to diet and exercise, well this is my theme song, eh?

If  you’ve slipped off the track of whatever project you’re working on about the size of your body, grant yourself permission to start all over again with a renewed intention.  It doesn’t have to be January for you to start a weight loss program.  It can be today.

It is an exhilleration beyond anything I’ve ever experienced to have participated in the unassisted birthing of that precious darling baby boy last month.  And it is also an exhilleration to know that I can use my mind to consciously re-shape my body as well. Same thrilling feeling.

Chi in bed

I do a lot of my mental work first thing in the morning in bed, with my kitty Chi on my hip, waiting and praying for wet food time.  I can lay there for hours thinking my thoughts (I love to think that I am two sizes smaller for the wedding in Penna in July) and holding them.  I savor each word and I conjure up a picture of what each word means and feels like deep inside myself.  I work to achieve absolute conviction that my truth is true for me. And then, my thinking manifests.

Using the seat belt marks method, yesterday I did a re-marking on my seat belt and I’ve lost 6 inches off my hips (my visual calculation) through purely mental means!  Hooray!

If you haven’t read My Cats Have Seen Me Naked: How I Achieved Self Acceptance and Self Love While Obese yet, I’ve got an autographed copy with your name on it, ready to go.

Love,

Pat

Pat & Amy (my other d-in-law)

Just so you know that I have experience with this obesity conundrum, I continue to post pictures. This is Amy, who’s carrying Hiero, my first grandchild.  (She is NOT obese.) Come on, April 8th!

Today’s topic “How Long Will You Remain Obese?” requires some honesty.  Are you aware that you are obese?  Do you know the definition that the medical community uses to qualify for obesity?  Do you use other words to cover over this classification?  Are you just pudgy or plump?  Do you claim to be voluptuous or just fat?  I am not here to criticize you for how you classify your own body.  That’s yours to own.  What I’m here for is to ask you how long  you’re willing to continue to be more than 20% over what is considered normal weight for your height?

I will also tell you that I don’t think medical statistics should be the only barometer for how much you ought to weigh.  They don’t know you.  All they know are some statistics and if you haven’t learned yet how statistics can be spinned and skewed, take a deeper look. They can only tell you what they’ve seen and how they have interpreted what they have seen.  I don’t know about you, but I know they haven’t seen me, so as far as I’m concerned their statistics are just “one man’s opinion” and heck, your opinion is just as valid as his is.

My point is that YOU are the one who should determine what a normal weight for you is. At what weight can you say “Ah, this is comfortable for me” without sitting in judgment over some numbers, including the numbers on the clothing you are wearing.  Maybe your current weight is perfect for you and you don’t have to do anything to change at all!  And maybe you are uncomfortable with your current weight, regardless of what the numbers on the scale say.  It’s your feeling of discomfort that tells you ok or not ok.

Are you really obese?  Are you healthy at your weight?  I went and had a physical in January to be sure the numbers support me shooting my mouth off in this Blog about them.  They did.  At 300 pounds, all my numbers were spot on.  The doctor was amazed I have no diabetes symptoms; no high blood pressure.  Sorry to disappoint the doc, but I have perfect health at my weight.  And girls, I’m 67 years old!

Is this just dumb luck?  No, it’s my understanding that life is good and mental and that the medical community isn’t always accurate. They have what they think of as educated opinion, but I ask you this:  who’s been living, walking and breathing in that body of yours and who should know better about it - you or some doctor who devotes ten who minutes of his time to looking at your body?  I teach about this in my book.  I teach about this in my teleclasses. I want to teach you if you’ll let me.  Come and join us, won’t you?  Wouldn’t you like to feel as self confident as I do?

The second teleclass Have You Gone Mental? will be taught Monday night at 6 pm PST on March 23rd.  You will learn how the unseen activity of thinking has been causing all of the events and experiences in your life to date. You will learn how critically important it is to honor your desires because they are the beginning of a very important mental process. You will learn the second and third steps in this all important process. You will learn one of the most powerful of Life’s Laws and you will learn how to use it to adjust the size of your body (if that’s what you want to do) or to learn to love and accept yourself more fully.  This is one huge eye-opener of a class.  Don’t you think you deserve a fresh perspective already?

Love,

Pat