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This is a Santa we all know and love

These are the “grands” assessing Santa.  Do we know this guy or not?  Even skepticism keeps us excited at Christmas, do you remember?

I’m blogging in December about how I am able to enjoy the holidays without kvetching about food or weight gain, and about how I got to this wonderful place. Look to the right: there’s a category called “Christmas” where you can read all of December’s posts. 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.

My last post was about how physical things cannot be permanently.  This is the reason diets and exercise are not ultimately successful.  Today, I’m going to explain to you how mental things CAN be changed, and changed permanently.  If you are a yo-yo dieter, this will help you to understand the whys of it and the wherefores of how to quit.

Here are the mental mistakes I made that made me fat:

1.  I believed I’d inherited a fat gene.

2. My named rhymed with Fatty.  Must be true.

3. I was raised to be obsessed with my body and its size.

4.  My folks said I was fat.  I believed them and thought it for myself.

5.  I became paranoid about being fat and finally manifested it in high school.

6. The best way to stay fat is to diet.  I’m living proof.

7. I had a harsh self-judgment about the size of my body…all the way from size 12 to size 3x.

8. I perpetuated my condition through repetition and ignorance.

Those eight reasons are the Cause of my overweight, not the food I eat or the exercises I do or do not do.  It’s a matter of thinking fat into existance and then perpetuating it from inside my own mentality. When I change any of those items above, and I keep it changed in my mind, my body automatically changes and the changes are permanent because I am no longer thinking it into existance.

You may be thinking “Oh, God, if this was only true, how easy it would be.”  It is true.  It is this easy. These hard-won ideas are my Christmas gift to you.  I hope you print them out, review them with regularity, and grant yourself some blessed relief next year.

Cookies, fudge and puddings!

Pat

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

Perry Family

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