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Releasing Weight Through Self-Forgiveness
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To release excess weight and create a healthy, vibrant body, you need a foundation of unconditional self-love. This is so because every cell in our body holds the energy of our thoughts and emotions. Our bodies are then “shaped” by the energy of our cells.
You cannot create health within a body that is filled with the toxic energies of self-contempt. It is almost as if excess weight fastens itself tightly to your body in the same way you hold tightly onto shame-based and guilt-ridden thoughts. By releasing this negativity you allow your body to receive wellness.
A self-forgiving state of mind purifies and cleans those negative energies. Only then will your body accept the changes you are making. Begin to develop the spiritual habit of self-forgiveness and you will surely notice significant changes in your physical health and in your ability to no longer use food for comfort.
We all do the best we can with the level of awareness that we have. Here’s a process to help you expand your awareness and open to the healing power of self-forgiveness: (more…)
“I’ll call her Anna. She believes her weight gain started when she was in the fourth grade. That was the year she moved into her stepfather’s house and he began sexually abusing her. She remembers it was then because she loved the little purple flowers on the wall paper in her new bedroom. She methodically would count the purple petals hoping he would stop touching her by the time she reached one hundred. When I saw her in my office some thirty years later, she was depressed, overweight and didn’t realize her obesity had anything to do with being sexually abused. It was only when she realized that her weight gain was her incredibly resourceful way of trying to protect herself, that she understood. She then could begin to set herself free.”
I feel fortunate to have discovered running while in my early twenties. I had exercised sporadically at health clubs, but this was different. I loved how my body felt after a run, so invigorated and alive. It was a meditative and creative time too, solutions to problems magically appearing during those runs. I was passionate about it, running road races and eventually challenging myself to run marathons.
I love this book! Marianne Williamson’s, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever, is brilliant! To permanently release weight from your body you must change your consciousness and make a spiritual shift in how you think and connect with your body. This book is about SO much more than weight loss. I love the visualization and writing exercises as they are in alignment with the daily practices I already do myself and that I teach to my clients. They are very powerful and will help you connect to your inner Divine Love and to your Highest Self. 
“A single grateful thought raised to heaven …is the most perfect prayer.” – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“The ablity to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary
“Everything is about Law of Attraction. Not law of going out and getting it. It’s not law of deserving. It is not law of earning. It is just law of achieving vibrational harmony with that which you want, and then it cannot not come. It must come to you.”
I learned this Taoist tale several years ago:
