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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? 

Labor Day Picnic

I remember the days when an upcoming holiday had me stressing about weight gain.  Then, I learned the real truths about what causes weight gain (reversing the Law of Cause and Effect), and my holidays became stress free.  I share those ideas with you so that you will have a stress-free Labor Day.  After you read this, be sure to forward to your friends who stress over food, too.

Have you noticed that you can think?  Only mind can think, so this would make  you a mental being.  You cause things when you think about them conclusively.  What you think about to the point of conviction appears in your experience.

If you think “Oh, all these picnics this weekend will add weight to me,” then that is what will happen. You see, you are in charge.  You’ve been in charge from the get go, but the truths about life have been hidden behind so much claptrap, that few people know about them any more.

We’re all so filled with TV commercials (take this pill; have this surgery), the input from our parents (you’ve got Aunt Berthie’s big butt), the things taught in our schools (food has calories; some are good; some are not) and the things taught in our churchs (It’s God’s will that you’re sick) is all so much hoo-ha.  If you actually sat down and tried to prove those things were true,  you’d eventually discover and prove to  yourself that they were NOT true.  I know.  I’ve done that work.

In a mental existence (and that is what you are in) ONLY your thinking can cause anything.  Your mind is Cause. It alone has the ability to be active.  It thinks.  It reasons.  It comes to conclusions.  Those conclusions manifest.

Everything in those picnic baskets is Effect. Effect cannot think.  Effect cannot reason.  Effect cannot come to a conclusion.  Effect cannot manifest one damn thing!

Your mind thinking, Causing, is the ONLY thing that has causative abilities.  This is the law.  And if you think some Effect - like fried chicken or cake - can cause anything, you just reversed the Law of Cause and Effect.  You tried to make Effect be Cause.  It’s very convoluted, and this is what our world’s come to, folks.  Bassackwards!

I think you ought to buy my book, My Cats Have Seen Me Naked, and read more about this and free yourself up from this miasma.  And then, having completed her rant, she says “Happy Labor Day!”

Always with love,

Pat

Happy New Year, everyone.  I’ve spent the days between today’s blog post and my last one before Christmas conjuring up the plan for this year.  It has to be about Please Don’t Diet.

Have you become aware of all the diet pill ads, the exercise machine ads, the diet plan ads on the TV these days?  It’s as barfable as those political campaign ads were just a few months ago.  So, I’ve just worked on becoming “accepting” of that is how it is, and I’ll just let those heathens rage.

Why heathens?  Because I know that every single one of their promotions will SUCCEED for a while and then in the long run, it will NOT BE PERMANENT.  If you were honest with yourself, and you looked backover all the diet things you’ve tried, you know they are not permanent.  And yet, you return to that type of a cure time after time after time?  Worshiping false gods, I’d say, eh? 

I think that not just you, but me too - I returned time after time to that type of diet remedy.  Why do we do that?  Because we know no other way!  Well, here’s another way:

1) We have to figure out what is causing the overweight in the first place. I did that.  It’s in my book, My Cats Have Seen Me Naked. Make it easy on yourself this year.  Buy the book, and you’ll know what is causing the overweight.

2) Make a new plan, Stan.  Once you know the cause, you can create a new mind model for yourself to think something new and wonderful in the place where your current body now seems to occupy space. How to create this new mind model is in the book, too.

3) Do the work suggested three times every day and watch (and enjoy) the fresh new results.

Here is the New Mind Model I’m going to be thinking three times daily. I hope you’ll write one for yourself and then think it.  It might be close to mine, but it won’t be precisely like it. You deserve your own customization.

1. My body is as youthfully mature as my mind is.

· I refute and refuse the concept of aging.

· My muscles are strong.

· My body is fully proportionate.

· My body is flexible.

· My body does not become tired.

2. All signs of excess are disappearing.

· I know what my perfect size looks like and that is all I permit myself to acknowledge.

· My stomach is flatter.

· My thighs are lean, strong, and handsomely muscled.

· My arms are perfectly proportioned.

· My eyelids shrink back to their normal size.

3. My body is beautiful.

· I say “You’re so pretty” when I pass a mirror.

· I think “You’ve gotten me this far, honey girl” when I see my body in the mirror.

· I pat my body approvingly when I shower or take a bath.

· I congratulate myself on the perfect health state of my body.

· When I get dressed, I think “My body looks good in these clothes.”

4. About food:

· I eat only the foods that allow me to think “I am losing weight.”

· If there is a food that makes me think “I will gain weight” I don’t eat it.

· I eat all foods, and I eat them in moderation.

· I eat all foods with the sense of pure enjoyment behind the eating.

· I know that thinking (not food) is causative, so I watch my thinking and not the food.

5. About exercise and pills:

· Pills are for making pill manufacturers wealthy and have no permanent effect on my body. I don’t take pills.

· Exercise is for the enjoyment of feeling good as I walk, breathe, take in the sights and sounds of nature.

· If I think that exercising causes something, I am forever shackled to that idea. I don’t like being shackled. I will stick with my “thinking myself thin” and know that it’s a hell of a lot easier than exercising.

· I applaud my mental efforts.

· I applaud my perseverance/persistence. I’d like to think away 60 pounds this year.

I’ll be blogging about this process three times every week:  Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays.  Come along with me.  Tell me what you need if I don’t intuit it…and I probably won’t.  Make comments.  Join up to the 2009 Don’t Diet Program.

Love,

Pat