Here’s the core idea we’ve been talking about
throughout the course:
For the next two or three
weeks, as you change your old eating habits
and cut out all the old high-sugar, dead, processed
'comfort' foods
......that were making you fat....and destroying
your health..... you will temporarily feel
uncomfortable and frustrated......
If you're not PREPARED when you
start to feel like this.....you'll start to feel
even more empty and frustrated ..and, of course curse the day
you decided to lose weight......
The experience will eventually
become so miserable.....that eventually you'll
give in and promise to start to lose weight another
day!!
But, as we all know- 'tomorrow
never comes'.
So this time, we 're going to
ask instead of hating these feelings when
you get them – be happy.
Yes, Be happy - during the few
times in the day when you START
TO FEEL LIKE THIS.
Do the
unthinkable:
As you lounge on the couch, not
being able to eat all your old
fat-producing foods... ACCEPT that you are now
temporarily feeling a bit
uncomfortable, empty and
lonely.
OF course you are.
You're missing what you 'believed'
were your 'old
friends'.
Your old 'comforts'.
Now, there is nothing WRONG with
feeling like this.
We all did in the beginning, but remember very soon they
disappear forever......
But for now.......
You must ALLOW yourself to have this temporary, empty
feeling.
"What! ", I can hear you say,
"Don't do anything - just allow the
feeling of lack, of being deprived to be.
"No!"
"No!"
"No!"
"I couldn't do that."
"It's bad."
"Not possible."
"I don't want to have to feel and experience
this feeling of absolute emptiness, of lack, and
of loneliness when I can’t eat the foods I
want."
Terrified to Feel !
This is a very important point, because it
reveals another core belief that most of us are
totally unaware that we possess.
We are all terrified to feel.
Our first impulse is to always try to
REMOVE
discomfort.
Always!
In fact, most of us will do anything --
ANYTHING -- to escape from having to
face unpleasant feelings and sensations.
We refuse to face them directly in the mistaken
belief that we can't bear the temporary emptiness
.
Now…here is something that most of have never
considered before.
It is the very foundation of
our philosophy.
If
we could just learn to sit down and make
friends with these feelings/cravings and
sit with them in the moment, like a
scientist without
trying to change them, escape from them or
resist them in any way -
just to allow them to be without
judgment - an
incredible change would occur.
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The
feelings which you thought you did not
like would loose their 'heaviness'
and their 'pain' and you would feel
and experience them as they really are - Pure
energy, pure harmony.
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