I've written an e-book called Eating from the Inside Out and I want to add a chapter about how the Law of Attraction relates to eating. Since I like blogging so much I thought I'd write some of my ideas here and then incorporate them into that last chapter. (The book will be available as soon as I get that last chapter written).
First, my credentials - I struggled with eating from my teens to my thirties, always feeling like I could weigh less than I did. (It's rare to find a woman in our country who doesn't feel this way) After successfully using a non-diet approach to balance my eating and my weight, I began leading groups and seeing individual clients in my psychotherapy practice, helping them use the same approach. Much of what we did over the past 15 years is written about in the first ten chapters of my e-book.
All along I've had another passion that I've only spoken about with clients who are receptive. I truly believe that our thoughts create our physical reality through the Law of Attraction. Now that science is concurring and you can find books about it at Barnes & Noble, I feel braver about coming out of the closet. It's hard for most people, especially when facing a very physical reality, to believe that we can change that reality with our thoughts. And yet, when you get right down to it, our thoughts are the only thing that do create the change.
So let's take eating and weight, a subject near and dear to many of our hearts. It's not as simple as "Think differently and you'll lose weight." There are two big reasons why its not that simple. First of all, it's really our vibrations that create our reality. Our thoughts affect our vibrations, our feelings, our emotional signals, our mood if you will. And our vibrations started with our DNA. Our genetics are vibrational messages. We were vibrational in utero, long before we were "thinking." So your body type is still your vibrational body type, and it would require an ocean of thinking to change your vibration enough to change your body type. That just doesn't seem worth the effort to me.
The second reason it isn't so simple is that we think collectively as well as individually. There are certain subjects that we all generally agree on. Health and nutrition is one of these. Our thoughts on this subject are shaped every time we pick up the paper and read "the latest findings." Our doctors tell us things with their considerable amount of authority, research seriously studies the subject...all of this adds to our depth of belief in "reality," what we all agree is true. We all agree that certain things are fattening, that exercise is good for you, etc. You can't just hold your hands over your ears and say "Lalala, I can't hear you" and change your vibration on the subject. Because the predominant thoughts of the culture have more sway with our individual thinking that we'd like to admit. But you can make inroads here. You just have to do it consciously and deliberately.
There's a third reason why it's not simple, and that is that we believe our experience. If our life experience and the experience of people we trust has been that their weight goes up and down or just won't budge, we believe that. And our beliefs are vibrational. Simply put, one thought...one new thought, thought on its own one time, isn't going to change our reality. But one thought held for a few moments (they say 17 seconds) begins to attract thoughts of a similar frequency and the accumulation of the new thoughts, held for over a minute, starts our new reality in motion. At that stage, our new reality is a thought form...it is forming in thought. As we add thoughts to it and add thoughts to it, over time the thought form gets denser and denser...it starts to feel like a belief...our vibration or mood or feelings is in tune with it...it hums within us...it makes sense to us...we can't remember when we didn't think that way...it seems so self evident...people saying something to the contrary doesn't matter as much...we don't even notice other opinions we feel so sure about our own...and all this time, the reality is still in thought form. We haven't experienced it yet. But it's building and building within us, getting denser and denser as a form (like a cloud gathering rain drops) until it drops down or pops up (or however you want to picture it) as a reality in physical form...it becomes. It IS!
How many times have you heard actors and actresses say that their "instant success" was a long time in forming? So let's picture how this would work with weight. Let's say you get hold of a belief that captures your fancy (the thought has to engage you on some level; it has to have some vibrational pull or attraction for it to begin to germinate). I like to think that I can eat baked goods (my favorite thing) and maintain my thinnest weight easily. Currently, I don't exactly think that. Currently I think that I can eat baked goods in moderation, especially if they're whole grain. So I line up my action with that thought, because I believe it. If you think one way and act another, the vibrations of the thoughts and actions are at cross purposes (I picture currents crossing one another in a stream) and the only reality you create is tension.
In the meantime, I'm looking for evidence of what I want to believe, so that I can add thoughts to my thought form. I'm looking for people who successfully eat baked goods and maintain their thinnest weights. I'm noticing the times that I eat something decadent and my weight balances itself anyway. This works especially well when I get my vibration in a really good flow before I eat the thing...it's humming to me; I'm loving it; it's a celebration that I love; I'm loving the people there, the weather, the flowers, and the wedding cake - the cake is just delightful...I think about the artistry of the bakers and the love that it symbolizes...you get the picture. And most importantly, I'm not in any hurry for this belief to become my reality. Hurrying, especially with a goal date in mind, squeezes our creative life force right out of us. It seizes us up if you will. Picture your digestion when you're seized up. It's not pretty. We all know how that feels.
So you see, you can read The Secret and hear that we can change our weight with our thoughts (which is true) and try it without realizing the larger picture and give up and declare that our thoughts DO NOT create our reality because you tried it and it didn't work. Or you can work with yourself, little by little, enjoying the process as you go (more on this another day) and get there some day. And the blessing about getting there this way is that you don't go back. Because you're at a whole new vibration and thus a whole new reality. Once its real for you it doesn't change, unless you change it, with your thoughts.
Here's to you, on your journey with eating...such a worthwhile journey!
Janet
