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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

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