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Law of Attraction: Weight Loss Advice – Nothing for Sale Here Folks August 27, 2009

I’ve been working with my weight issue via the techniques taught by Abraham-Hicks. This post will review the techniques I’m using – nothing to sell here. Just stuff out of Ask and It Is Given Mostly and the new book, The Vortex.

This is producing interesting learning but no weight loss yet. (I will say that I feel much, much better about myself however. And my self-talk is kind, even in front of a mirror. A big improvement!) .

A desire for bodily change is a good way to learn how to become a deliberate creator because the condition is always there and present and seemingly stuck or resistant to change. AH defines these stuck situations as ruts or grooves of vibration that we have a hard time climbing out of. They get a momentum of their own, because you constantly see them and respond, see them and respond, see them and respond. This forms an endless loop of similar vibration. The deeper the rut of seeing and responding, I also observe, the more that I frame the situation up as “I want its opposite.”

And the deeper the rut, the more difficult it becomes to reach for just a little bit of relief.

The law of attraction is hard at work here because as I start to focus on “being stuck” and I get more of being stuck. And actually part of the “being stuck” is the desire to be “completely unstuck”. But notice that being ”completely unstuck” has the same impatient feel or vibration about it. There is no ease or happiness or delight. Nothing but frustration. This is what keeps me stuck.

So how to find the incremental step of relief to climb out of this deep rut?

First I am going to go and yell out the window: 
I HAVE TO DO THE WORK TO FIND THE THIN VIBRATION!!! READING ABOUT HOW TO DO IT IS NOT THE SAME AS DOING IT. IF I AM NOT ENGAGED IN ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK I WILL NEVER KNOW IF THIS METHOD IS EFFECTIVE OR NOT.

Ahem…now I’m back. Here is what I am doing.

Actually, to precede my active steps, I’ll just say that for the last 4 months I have been eating whatever I felt like it and observing my emotional response to what I ate. Mostly, in this observing, I learned to turn off the negative thoughts that came with eating foods that I defined as “not good for me”.  Over the course of the past 4 months in doing this and turning off the negative thoughts and just reaching for a better thought (like: I love this peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I’ve always loved peanut butter and jelly. I was a skinny little kid when I only ate peanut butter and jelly)…since I’ve started this I have become much, much calmer about food. It is rare when I put something in my mouth and feel bad now. It is rare when I have a negative feeling about anything I eat. So, with this progress report, here are the other steps I’ve been following.

1. Recognize the work is in learning how to feel good, great – THIN – or at least better than you feel right now.

2. Resolve to become very picky about your thoughts and emotions and to pivot immediately away from the bad feeling ones that plague you – no matter what.

3. Recognize the intense desire to be unstuck as part of the stuckness and the incessant comparison of how you are feeling now to what you would like to feel (all the way unstuck) as a “bad feeling” pattern – where you are beating yourself up.

4. Stop reaching all the way for thin and happy when you are now overweight and frustrated. Learn to reach for just a small feeling of relief…and then the next small feeling of relief from there… …or you just pivot away from the topic entirely and learn to feel good by attending to things that feel good, if the stuckness has already ramped up into bad feeling.

5. (This is what I am just starting to do on the weight issue) Spend a larger percentage of the time engaged in dreaming about thinness…times when I was thin, what it felt like to be thin, the feeling of my body engaged in many activities when thin, and so on.

I’ll keep you posted.