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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

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? 

Christmas Dinner with Family

I love the holidays. I see them as a reward for a year well spent, learning how to get more deeply inside of myself and acknowledge the good that is there, helping those I love intensely (and those I don’t even know very well) to learn more about themselves, and then celebrating these efforts to the max!

I’ll be wrapping gifts this week and decorating my home.  I began to think about overweight women who wrap themselves in dismay over the holidays, and I decided to share my new perspective as well as my old one (the one about dismay over the holidays) in the hopes some of you will be well served with a changed perspective as I was.

I used to worry about weight gain over the holidays due to the celebratory, extra, food.  I no longer do that.  So, how did I get to here from there? I learned the following facts.  I’ll list them here and then I’ll write about each one individually in my December blogs - plus the ones I can’t think of today but will add at the end. 

• This is a mental universe.
• I can think.
• I am a mental being.
• My mindcreates what it thinks about.
• The things my mind creates are “effect” and my mind is Cause.
• Effects cannot cause one single thing.
• There is no difference between mental and spiritual.
• There are no physical things in a mental universe.
• Knowing there are no physical things is very important.
• Physical things cannot be changed.
• Mental things can be changed.
• Truth is real.
• Error is unreal.
• Both truth and error have an appearance.

Okay, since I only blog three times a week, I think that should be enough for the entire month. 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.

One idea:  the book I wrote in 2008 is all about my life story and how I learned these Truths.  If you want a really unique gift for your overweight friends, I’d love to autograph one for them.  Go here to purchase My Cats Have Seen Me Naked: How I Achieved Self-Love and Self-Respect While Obese.

Thank you for being out there.  When I write for you, I review for me and I appreciate this opportunity.

Love,

Pat