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Figueroa Mountain Springtime in CA

Springtime is always a time for the renewal of our intentions.  If  you are someone who needs to renew  your intentions for losing weight mentally, this would be a great time.  I always get inspired by the beauty of springtime flowers.  I have lots of them outside my office sliding door, and I’m too lazy to go upstairs to get the camera and share them with you, so here’s another California springtime flower picture that I really like.  In fact, one of my sons has painted this scene on my very tall stairwell wall.

Here at The World of Within, I”ve renewed some of my intentions.  I got a touch mentally lazy over the past week and don’t you know it, 2 pounds sneaked back on.  Wrong direction, so it’s time for renewal of my intentions.  I thought maybe you could use a nudge in that direction too.

• What do I want?
• What does it take to get what I want?
• Am I willing to do whatever it takes?

If you can answer those three questions, you’ll be well along the way as I know I will be. You might also get really inspired by reading My Cats Have Seen Me Naked.

Love,

Pat

Hieronymous Matson, 2 days old

Being gone from Thursday afternoon to Sunday afternoon for the birth of my first grandbaby was a bit disorienting for me.  To boot, I became one of those dithering grannies.  Get used to his picture appearing here.  :)  Add to that the fact that I got a new computer installed yesterday.  I’ve spent just hours and hours trying to get everything set up the way it was on my old PC.  Sigh!  I want to run away from home…..and go see Hiero.

Has this stopped me from doing the mental work I know is so necessary to change the size of my body?  No it hasn’t.  That at least remains constant. I’ve been hit with tons of changes (including snow last night!) and I think I’m going to have to give myself an A+ in perseverance and consistency.  It takes that to get the job done.  After all, I am going from 67 years of thinking “I am fat” to a total reversal of concept “I have a normal sized body” and it does take assiduous effort to make that change.  I’m worth the effort. So are you.

If you’ve been making those efforts along with me, here are some tips:

1.  Review your intention.  What is it?  Is it still as strong as it was when you made it?  If not, how can you re-infuse it? Do-overs are strongly encouraged.

2.  Review your daily practice.  If you aren’t stopping to mentally think what you want into place three times a day for at least 15 minutes work, how about a renewal of that effort?  Right thought takes a right thinker, and because right thought expresses itself, and because you know that diet and exercise just don’t work permanently, are you ready to do whatever it takes?  It takes 15 minutes 3 times a day!

3. Use a support system to stay on track.  Diet is not a permanent cure, but it can be a nice prop to remind you what you are truly about.  I don’t know about you, but with a lifetime habit of wrong thinking, are you able to eat rich desserts and simultaneously hold the thought that you are losing weight? I’m not. And sometimes, when my thinking is truly dead-on-accurate, I enjoy a moderate dessert. Please note the word moderate.  Everything in moderation works.

4. Enjoy what you eat and eat it consciously. Think only about enjoyment as you eat.  Don’t eat so-called diet foods.  They don’t taste right and you cannot enjoy them.  Enjoyment is a key ingredient.  Try it; you’ll like it.

Love,

Pat

Amy's Due Tomorrow

This is a picture of my son’s girlfriend, Amy, at her shower.  Their baby is due tomorrow.  We’ve all been waiting, watching, hoping and praying.  It’s a difficult thing, waiting.  But nature has to complete it’s processing 100% before that baby will move into the being-born position and we just have to be patient.

It’s the same with any work you undertake.  I’m thinking of weight loss specifically.  The process has to be 100% completed and this takes a lot of patience and even more perseverance.  I’m happy for my -32 pounds.  After that 5 week plateau last month, I am grateful for the smallest step forward.

I went to dinner with a friend last evening and she is unconvinced that my losing weight is due to mental means alone.  Well, if it wasn’t, why was it that when my mental work got so scrambled and inconsistent, did I plateau out?  Why didn’t the food choices I had been making carry the day?  Because it’s my mental work that is doing the job!  I am absolutely convinced about that and I see it so clearly that I can never deviate from my path now, because it is the Truth.

I’d love to teach  you how to do that.  We didn’t have the class last night.  It got re-scheduled for next Monday, April 13th at 6 pm PST.  If you want to find Your Power Inside, you can sign up for the April 6th class on my website, but know I’ll teach it on April 13th.

I want to leave you with a powerful thought today.  I found this quotation hanging as a sampler on the wall at Mimi’s Restaurant in Torrance, CA:

Goodness

Keep thy tongue from evil.

Refuse to do a mean act, be it ever so small.

If we would do good, we must be good.

You can do more good by being good than in any other way.

Never excuse a wrong action by saying someone else does the same thing.

From National Institution for Moral Instruction, Washington, DC

Love,

Pat