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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

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?