Thad 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!
I know that you know that you can think. Are you fully up to date on the significance of that little- observed activity? When I was in my twenties (yes, still in this century!) I was working with a therapist who’d asked me what I just thought. I couldn’t answer him, but I made a resolution right then and there to never not know the answer to that question again. It was when I began to become fully conscious of what was going on inside me - inside my World of Within.
I began to watch me thinking. I began to notice that when I was thinking about someone, they’d call me or I’d run into them in a store. I saw how easily I flared up in anger over particular things. I observed how speechless I became over the beauty in nature or in children’s innocence. I became aware of my “Oh, yeah!” feistiness when threatened. There was a full array of thoughts sprinting inside my head like dancing dervishes and the very observation of them sometimes left me breathless.
A very kind and loving lady once invited me to her house when I was a young woman and gave me some wonderful advice: “Channel your energy into one arena.” I began to think that if I used this glorious ability to think, having learned by that time that thought was causative, and I channeled my thought into one “box” (focused on only one project) it would sure enough bear fruit. And it did.
Knowing that you can think is one small piece of the “how to manifest what you want” party that’s going on all the time. And at Christmas time, instead of thinking “I’m going to gain weight! Arrrgggghhh!” you could substitute instead “I’ll eat all things with moderation; I’ll enjoy every single bite; and this year, I’ll maintain my weight without gaining an ounce.” I think this is a much better use of your ability to think and create what you want.
Happiest holiday season!
Pat
