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Then,
one day, horror of horrors, you are asked to sail out to sea. And you
are given no choice.
You must do it.
How do you think you would be feeling now –
the night before your travel?
Tense?
Anxious?
In fact, probably pure dread, because like
everybody else, you believe that if you sail too
far out, you might die and never be heard of
again.
Then ….an amazing thing…….
The next morning, you hear the most exciting
news that has just reached your area and you can't
believe it.
A foreign sailor has sailed around the world
and discovered that the earth is round.
And that
sailing is, in fact one of the safest forms of travel
available.
In one instant, your whole attitude to your
journey is transformed.
Now, you are full of
excitement and joy at the adventure ahead of you.
As someone trying to lose weight, the old belief that the journey
ahead of you will be hard and terrible is false,....
but if you continue to follow that old belief, you
will feel the same fear and emotions as the
travelers of old.
It's only a
belief that the temporary
feelings you get when you can't eat what you want
are bad.
Let's try to take a leap here and ask you a big what if….
There is nothing wrong with temporarily feeling ‘empty'
and 'lonely' when you can’t eat the old foods
that you loved to eat?
The real mistake ( and the REAL CAUSE of the discomfort you
feel) lies in
ALWAYS resisting this feeling
and judging it as ‘bad’, as ‘wrong’?
The real problem lies not in this feeling but
in you ALWAYS wasting so much psychic energy
wanting to fight it and ‘will’ or 'force'
it to go away.
A Real,
Earth-Shattering Realization!
What if ......
We could only REALIZE that this ‘temporary
discomfort’ or feeling of lack or lonliness caused when we can't eat
all our old processed foods is just an energy fluctuation in our
bodies – that's all.
No big deal.
It comes for a little while, makes known its
presence ..then vanishes.
That’s all.
That’s all….it is.
And it repeats this process a few times an hour
…until it gets fed up and leaves you forever…
Unless……
You give it an importance, prominence and FOCUS
it
does not deserve
And then ‘FEED’ it with your own fear and
resistance.
Can you now start to get a sense of how giving
all this energy, attention, will, and struggle to
this ‘empty craving’ to eat only perpetuates
the very thing you wish to be free from?
| Hating,
fighting, not
wanting it to be there
…..and then trying to get rid of it is a futile,
counterproductive venture. |
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