Hello. Happy you stopped by. You won’t miss one juicy tidbit if you sign up for updates in the box on your right. Don’t forget, it all starts with “My Cats Have Seen Me Naked” – a permanent healing message for you who struggle with bodily image.

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

Before I give you a list of the Basic Principles, you’ll need to understand how to affect a mental healing of the mistaken sense of obesity you’ve been lugging around. Please answer these three questions and be brutally honest with yourself.

© What do you want?

© What does it take to get what you want?

© Are you willing to do whatever it takes?

Question three is the kicker, don’t you think? Why? Because willingness is an attitude and it is your attitude that governs your life. Without a good attitude, nada. With a good attitude, everything.

If you inflate a balloon that has printing on it, the printing appears to get larger and larger. It’s not readable until the balloon is inflated. Life’s laws are like that as well. Until you look at them in great detail, you don’t see the connections or understand what they are about.

The Basic Principles discussed in chapter three of My Cats Have Seen Me Naked are all about just one thing – the Law of Cause and Effect. This law has so many juicy parts to it that you are well served to look at them in small pieces, so it will be blowing up the Law of Cause and Effect throughout all of my writing so you can read and interpret what’s written there.

After you have completed reading the book and working through the questions in its accompanying workbook, you will have a much fuller sense of the Law of Cause and Effect than you do now. You will know what the Law of Cause and Effect means. You will know what Cause truly is. You will easily identify Effect and you will know precisely how it got there in the first place! Better yet, you will learn how to use the Law to generate precisely what you desire in your life.

Just as in building a house, you have to have a strong foundation for this learning, and the principles below help you build just such a foundation.

Principle 1. Always be honest with yourself.

I’ve always been an “up” kind of person. For me, the glass is usually half full. But I have pockets of resistance myself to what I just wrote and I have a nasty attitude about those pockets.

If you know you’ve got a terrible attitude, resolve here and now to improve it. Attitude goes into the foundation of your success. You cannot build on a weak foundation, if you recall Harry Belafonte’s wise words.

I told lots of lies as a child to protect myself from punishment. This was a hard habit to overcome, but I made it. I can be brutally honest with others (I always ask for their permission first) and with myself. When someone says “Pat, you’re like this…..” I can listen, evaluate and if I see truth there, say “You’re right.” I wasn’t always able to do this.

Honesty should be in your foundation.

Principle 2. All that you do comes from integrity.

Integrity means moral soundness. I don’t think it matters where you come from, how you were educated, what school you attended, which church you belong to - somewhere along the line integrity was discussed. When I was a little girl, I did not have the strong concepts I now hold about integrity. Today, this is a place of great strength for me.

I like to think of integrity as universal good. If whatever you undertake is good for everyone concerned, you’ve got integrity on your side, and then more good can be added for your life’s score card.

If universal good is not being served, you are doomed to lots of inharmony. Oh, you might make tons of money, drive an expensive car, wear wonderful clothes, or have a skinny body, but inside yourself (where it’s not visible to those watching,) there won’t be harmony in the picture. There might be illness, anger, dissatisfaction, sneakiness….. you know the picture. You recognize the modus operandi.

Let integrity be your cornerstone.

Principle 3. Learn the Laws of Life and then Use Them.

In a mental universe, the laws that govern life are mental laws.

Life is good, mental, individual.

The essence of your life is goodness itself.

You think, therefore you are mind.

Only you can do the work you need to do for

yourself.

The Law of Cause and Effect:

Good things come from good thoughts.

So-called evil things come from evil thoughts.

The Law of Proportion:

The more good you think, the more good you get.

The more evil you think, the more evil you get.

The Law of Individuality

There’s only you in your world, thinking.

You can only think one idea at a time.

You can choose which thought you will think.

Wisdom is the Principle Thing.

“Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom. And with all thy getting, get understanding.” Proverbs 4:7.

Wisdom means the right use or exercise of knowledge. The scripture above means Use what you currently know. Use it out of your sense of universal good. Use it so that all benefit and you will get greater understanding. And then, Use that greater understanding and you will get even greater understanding. The key to having wisdom is that you use it, in case you didn’t get my bolding clues.

If you operate your life from the three principles and the five laws explained above, you will be successful in creating a more accurate self-concept, you will unfold more understanding, and eventually you’ll disappear the obesity you created inadvertently with your mistaken thinking.

Persevering

I have been a believer in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, that guy on the white horse who carries me off into the sunset, and that I’ll win the lottery all my life. Aside from the quarters, the Christmas gifts and the chocolate, the payoff has been kind of sketchy.

I’ve also been a big believer that miracles can happen. I believe that one of my ideas will pay off big – maybe this book! I believe that Mr. Right does exist and that if he’s now in the jungle, he’s hacking his way out on his way to me. Most importantly, I believe that I can change my erring sense to a more accurate one and all excess weight will be gone forever.

And while I’m waiting for all those things to happen, I learned that I am the only Cause there can be in my mental universe. I learned that Phineas Quimby was right when he proclaimed “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me.” It’s a bit more graphic to say “Wish in one hand….” you know the rest. See which one fills up the fastest. It’s not by wishing, I can tell you that!

Take Action!

Action is the key to getting everything you want. You’ve got to take some action. Planning is wonderful. By all means, plan. But then, you’ve got to implement that plan by taking some action. Without action, zip. Don’t wait until your plan is perfect. Begin and refine the plan along the way. I once had a roommate in a house which had a very light-colored carpet. I wanted to shampoo the carpet. She was afraid if we wet it, it would stretch. I scrubbed the carpet over her objections. It didn’t stretch. I could never have known that unless I took some action.

Rather long.  Hoped you enjoyed it. There’s more like it in the book.

Love,

Pat

There seem to be many things, people, occasions - I’m not sure just what to call them - in my life where forgiveness is required, practically mandated.  I am beginning to see the connection that  holding on to hurts, grudges, offenses, sensitivities might just have something to do with the concept of weight we are all holding on to as well that serves as protection.

I have a history of feeling offended.  I operate my own life from a place of “no intentional malice” so when things come my way that seem “less than,” I have a tendency to act like a deer in the headlights.  I go into a state of shock that someone can have done, said, or pointed in my direction something that appears less than good.  This lesson has been a very difficult one for me to learn and a few years back, I shined an especially bright light onto it for myself.  I think I am now filing away at the ragged edges and working to complete the job.

The light that dawned on me some years back is that while I don’t operate from a place of malice, the intention to hurt another, there are folks who do.  This was unfathomable to me, and the light that got shone on it was this: I am too good for that kind of behavior.  When something evil comes at me, because of my own goodness, it throws me for a loop. There was a time when I felt the need to argue, to go hide away and suck my thumb feeling hurt, deflect via argument their barbs, and like behaviors.  Now, because I understand my own goodness, I simply step aside and let it go by.

I once heard that when someone offers you a gift, and you do not accept the gift, they are left holding the bag.  I work hard to do that: not accept the gift.  There is an individual in my life who has just recently offered me a gift.  It looked all pretty, but I’m afraid it contained, basically, dog poo.  I am working hard these days to forgive her, to let it go and permit her to own it, and to move on to more mental weight loss for me.  Why hold on to something like that?  I am too good to kvetch over dog poo.

I recently read “Forgive everyone for everything.”  I would give the author credit but for the life of me, I can’t recall where I read it, dang it all.  That idea jumped off the page for me and I have it on a sticky note on my monitor.  I use it all the time, so thanks to that anonymous author from the bottom of my heart. It’s amazing to me how frequently I have to exercise forgiveness.  I think that I have developed a hyper-sensitivity and that sensitivity is frequently offended.  So I have to drag out my forgiverer and put it into play.

No links, no pictures, no marketing today - just a generous gift that I hope will help you forgive everyone for everything and augment your own mental weight loss.

Love ya,

Pat