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Amy and Thad

This is the handsome Thad Matson family prior to the most wonderful addition this year of Hieronymous Rex. And on Thad’s lap is Percy the Magnificent, my Inbox Warmer.

If you’ve been following along this month, you already know that 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.

In the past few days, I’ve explained that this is a mental universe in which you think because you are a mental being; that your mind creates what it thinks about; and that would make your mind Cause and all the things it creates effect. One of the most poignantly tasty pieces is the blog about effects cannot cause one single thing. For me, that is one of the most empowering pieces of info and one of the reasons I can eat comfortably through holidays without gaining weight.

Today, we’ll be adding to our knowledge around the topic of the meaning of the words mental and spiritual. There has been a spate of conspiracy theories wafting in the breezes ever since I became aware of such a thing as a child.  Everybody is convinced that somebody, somewhere is tyring to pull the wool over someone’s eyes.  I’m no different.  Whether accidentally or intentionally through manipulative propaganda, I think that mankind has lost the original sense of the words mental and spiritual due to the huge influx of religious opinion.  I guess I’m entitled to my opinion, too.  I think the two words are synonyms.

Spirit is that thing which animates us.  I hope we can agree on that. Some people call is a soul.  I think that mind or mentality is that spirit which animates us.  I will give you an example.  Let’s take a trip to the morgue.  On the slab is a dead body.  No life.  It’s so-called spirit or soul has departed.  Simultaneously, I’d ask you to think about “Can it still think?”  For me the answer is no, because soul, spirit, mind, mentality are all synonymous.

So, how does this help me not to gain weight over the holidays? If I am a mental being - a spiritual being - a soul being, then I am a Cause being, because it is spirit that animates me and I use spirit or mind to create things.  Food is what I create.  Food is effect and is has zero causative ability or properties.

What that means is this: the Yule Log is not fattening.  The turkey and stuffing is not fattening. The booze I drink is not fattening.  All of these are effect, and effect has no causative ability.

I know there’s a questions roiling around inside you.  “So what does cause fat, because I’ve been getting fat on these things for years!”  No you haven’t.  You’ve been getting fat when you eat these things because you are adding fat to them with your thinking they cause fat.

Ever heard a thin person puzzle over why we overweight women struggle over food?  What do they say?  “I can eat, and eat and eat and I never gain an ounce.”  They are using their minds to add zero weight gain to their eating experience.

Um, you could to that too if you’d like.  Go back through these “Christmas” blogs, read slowly, and take notes.  I just know you can shake this one off and enjoy the freedom I do.

Warmly,

Pat

Jakey

Today we’re looking at another slant on the Law of Cause and Effect.   In our last blog, I explained that you, your mind thinking, is Cause.  It causes what it thinks.  Since you are cause, whatever you cause is effect.

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.

Key Ideas about Cause and Effect:

Cause has the properties of cause.  It causes things.  That is it’s nature.

Effect has the properties of effect.  It cannot cause things.  It’s nature is to be effect.

So what?  What does this have to do with my not gaining weight over the holidays…. or any time I eat food, for that matter?

Girlfriends, food is effect.  Food has the properties of effect.  It cannot cause things.  It’s nature is to be effect. It cannot make you fat.  It cannot cause allergic reactions. It cannot create constipation.  It doesn’t have the ability to cause anything, because it is effect…..dead effect.

So what?  What does this have to do with my not gaining weight over the holidays?  Here’s the secret: YOU are causing fat, allergy and constipation by thinking that food (effect) has the ability to cause! It’s you and your thinking that is causing it!  OMG! True dat!

Hence, the title of today’s blog post:  Freedom from Effect.  You are operating under the umbrella of error when you think food makes you fat.  It’s  your thinking that food makes you fat that actually makes you fat, and not the food itself.  Food, effect, can cause nothing because it is not cause.  Your mind thinking is cause and the only cause there is. You don’t have to go get the lap band to quit this!!!

You know, I love sharing these truths with you.  I want your holidays (and eventually your entire life) to be as carefree and enjoyable as my life is and not be afraid of food.  It’s my strong hope that you’ll tell your overweight girlfriends about this blog so they can enjoy freedom from food too.

Holiday hugs,

Pat

Perry Family

Today’s Blog Post is about the appearance on each of our bodies, and how the Law of Cause and Effect helped it to get that way.

To reiterate the purpose behind this month’s blog topics:  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.

I am aware that the appearance of my body is not pleasing to some people.  I love and accept my wonderfulness with that body. What I know is that I have perfect health - no forms of deterioration due to overweight, and this is due precisely to the understanding I have worked to gain throughout my life. There’s a lot out there these days about the Law of Attraction.  This is just a fancy-schmancy new name (which proves in it’s very name that it is inaccurate) for the good old Law of Cause and Effect.

I’m going to take a run at explaining C&E to you because if you understand it, you’ll be free from thinking that it’s food which causes your weight gain over the holidays.  Nothing could be further from the truth. This law cannot be explained in one blog post.  What I’m hoping to do is whet your whistle.

You, your mind thinking, is Cause.  It causes what it thinks.  There’s some great background information over to the right in the “Christmas” category. You have a desire for something. You begin to think about it.  You fill in the details of what you want mentally.  You form a visualization of how it will look, feel, taste, smell etc.  You eventually reach a conclusion about your thoughts regarding your desire, and then you manifest the object of your thinking.

If this seems simplistic, that’s because it’s Truth.  Truth is simple.  Jack Nicholson may have been damn close to the truth when he said “You can’t handle the truth.”  You’d have to give up some of your cherished ideas to accept the truth, and this simple truth in the previous paragraph is a very powerful truth.

If you are cause, whatever you cause is effect.  If you can see it, it’s an effect.  When the object of your desire is still inside your mind, it isn’t yet visible.  It becomes visible when you arrive at a deep feeling of conviction and then, what you desire and what you thought about, objectifies itself.

What’s the common sense truth about all this?  Holiday meals are effect, not cause.  Effect cannot cause one damn thing.  Only cause can cause.  So, Christmas cookies do not lust after your buttocks.  Plum pudding doesn’t dive in and start swimming for your bat wings.  They don’t do one damn thing - not a single one!

What does generate the fat making then?

It’s YOU, thinking the food will make you fat!

My German grandpa would say right now “What am I’m gonna do?”  The way I see it is you’ve got two choices:  you can keep thinking along the lines you always have and grant your papal permission to continue to experience weight gain, thinking it’s from what you eat, or, you can put a stop to it.  Use common sense. Eat all things in moderation.  Have as your goal for eating pure enjoyment and that alone.  Don’t add these old “I’ll gain weight” ideas.

Isn’t that meatier than a Prime Rib dinner?

Merry Christmas!

Pat