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Happy New Year, everyone.  I’ve spent the days between today’s blog post and my last one before Christmas conjuring up the plan for this year.  It has to be about Please Don’t Diet.

Have you become aware of all the diet pill ads, the exercise machine ads, the diet plan ads on the TV these days?  It’s as barfable as those political campaign ads were just a few months ago.  So, I’ve just worked on becoming “accepting” of that is how it is, and I’ll just let those heathens rage.

Why heathens?  Because I know that every single one of their promotions will SUCCEED for a while and then in the long run, it will NOT BE PERMANENT.  If you were honest with yourself, and you looked backover all the diet things you’ve tried, you know they are not permanent.  And yet, you return to that type of a cure time after time after time?  Worshiping false gods, I’d say, eh? 

I think that not just you, but me too - I returned time after time to that type of diet remedy.  Why do we do that?  Because we know no other way!  Well, here’s another way:

1) We have to figure out what is causing the overweight in the first place. I did that.  It’s in my book, My Cats Have Seen Me Naked. Make it easy on yourself this year.  Buy the book, and you’ll know what is causing the overweight.

2) Make a new plan, Stan.  Once you know the cause, you can create a new mind model for yourself to think something new and wonderful in the place where your current body now seems to occupy space. How to create this new mind model is in the book, too.

3) Do the work suggested three times every day and watch (and enjoy) the fresh new results.

Here is the New Mind Model I’m going to be thinking three times daily. I hope you’ll write one for yourself and then think it.  It might be close to mine, but it won’t be precisely like it. You deserve your own customization.

1. My body is as youthfully mature as my mind is.

· I refute and refuse the concept of aging.

· My muscles are strong.

· My body is fully proportionate.

· My body is flexible.

· My body does not become tired.

2. All signs of excess are disappearing.

· I know what my perfect size looks like and that is all I permit myself to acknowledge.

· My stomach is flatter.

· My thighs are lean, strong, and handsomely muscled.

· My arms are perfectly proportioned.

· My eyelids shrink back to their normal size.

3. My body is beautiful.

· I say “You’re so pretty” when I pass a mirror.

· I think “You’ve gotten me this far, honey girl” when I see my body in the mirror.

· I pat my body approvingly when I shower or take a bath.

· I congratulate myself on the perfect health state of my body.

· When I get dressed, I think “My body looks good in these clothes.”

4. About food:

· I eat only the foods that allow me to think “I am losing weight.”

· If there is a food that makes me think “I will gain weight” I don’t eat it.

· I eat all foods, and I eat them in moderation.

· I eat all foods with the sense of pure enjoyment behind the eating.

· I know that thinking (not food) is causative, so I watch my thinking and not the food.

5. About exercise and pills:

· Pills are for making pill manufacturers wealthy and have no permanent effect on my body. I don’t take pills.

· Exercise is for the enjoyment of feeling good as I walk, breathe, take in the sights and sounds of nature.

· If I think that exercising causes something, I am forever shackled to that idea. I don’t like being shackled. I will stick with my “thinking myself thin” and know that it’s a hell of a lot easier than exercising.

· I applaud my mental efforts.

· I applaud my perseverance/persistence. I’d like to think away 60 pounds this year.

I’ll be blogging about this process three times every week:  Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays.  Come along with me.  Tell me what you need if I don’t intuit it…and I probably won’t.  Make comments.  Join up to the 2009 Don’t Diet Program.

Love,

Pat

This is a picture of my new front deck. It was built last summer and it replaced a much smaller, very rickety version of the entrance to my home.  My house was built in 1979 and because I live in the mountains where the weather is a bit more in-your-face, that old deck swayed a bit and made entrance to the house scary.  Do you like the rustic look of the handrails?  It’s a nice ‘mountainy’ touch, I think.

We are on the downhill slope of 2008.  January is just around the corner and all those New Year’s Resolutions are looming.  Don’t you think it’s interesting how we all feel somewhat compelled to make them? 

For me, the resolutions have always been about what I’m going to accomplish inside myself - where my spiritual/mental life lives. And I thought about The World of Within and you all.  I wondered if you know how to get “within?”  Well, first step is to build a new front deck to get in there! I’m experienced now; I’d like to help you get that deck built.  I’d love 2009 to be a big turn around year for you when it comes to loving your own within and the self that lives there.

Your deck (resolution to go within) has to be strong and sturdy.  How would a sturdy resolution look? One that would carry you a long way into 2009? I’m thinking it might answer these questions, so here they are for you to answer for  yourself?

What do I want to accomplish in 2009 that will change the inside me, so that by Dec. 1 next year, I will feel really, really accomplished?

What fear prods at me the most? Could that be my 2009 project?

What is there about myself that bugs the shit out of me? Do I see what I can do to change that? Am I willing to do whatever it takes?

Try to compile a list of at least five things.

Now, whittle it down to the two that mean the most to you.

Now, create a monthly plan for the steps you’ll take every month to manifest your two accomplishments.

Now, break it down into daily steps you will absolutely take, and create some consequence for when  you just don’t want to do it so that you’ll do it anyway because you detest that consequence.

Seven steps to building that new deck of yours that will get you inside yourself and be a strong support for the doing.  See how good you are?

Christmas gift idea:  If you know someone who would really appreciate, enjoy, or simply ‘need’ these types of ideas, MY CATS might make a splendid Christmas present.  And if your friend is a large woman, this is one gift that for sure will fit her.

Pat

Have you got a fat friend whom you love and cherish, but it’s a bit hard to talk about her weight, and you have no clue as to what to buy her for Christmas because it’d be too embarassing to ask her what size would fit? Have I got a great idea for you!  Send her a copy of My Cats Have Seen Me Naked: How I Achieved Self Love and Self Acceptance While Obese.

I’m not all that good with the manipulation of graphics and so this got cut off a bit.  Sorry.  You can see the full picture on the website here. This book contains the story of how one girl suffered the slings and arrows of being large all of her life and how it turned into the biggest blessing eventually, because it became the main catalyst in her life in her successful search for understanding. This is a bare-the-soul look at the inside of a fat woman, where wit, wisdom, love and vitality prosper despite the burden of obesity.  It will lift the souls of your friends and allow them to embrace who they are unequivocally.

Because I live in the mountains, sometimes mail delivery lags, so if you’d like this lovely gift to arrive in time for Christmas, get your order in now!

Pat Matson

909-867-2413

www.theworldofwithin.com

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