Can You Really Use Law of Attraction To Lose Weight?
Gratitude is a concept that is thrown around a lot in the self-help and personal development communities. But what does it actually mean? How does one develop an “attitude of gratitude” when faced with challenging life situations?
One thing that is not helpful is to diminish the emotions and frustrations around the “problem.” Adopting the sound bite of personal and spiritual challenges being “First World Problems” does not help in healing and transforming the psychological and emotional perspectives revealed by the situations.
To say “you shouldn’t feel bad because other people have it worse” is as ridiculous as saying that “you shouldn’t feel happy or grateful because other people have it better.”
The fastest way to cultivate an experience of authentic gratitude in which your heart is filled with peace and joy and your “cup runneth over,” is to do the intensely personal work of personal transformation.
Allow yourself to be your authentic you. And from your authentic self, curate a relationship with your body. When you heal your relationship with your body – all of the problems and issues surrounding food, exercise and your weight are also healed.
To Eat Or Not To Eat (It Really Doesn’t Matter)
What do you do when you’re at a party, they serve cake, you like cake, you want cake, but…
it’s not on your diet, it’s full of sugar, it’s high carb, or you think it’s bad for you or not “worth” the calories?
At this point, it doesn’t matter if you eat the cake or not – neither action will benefit you. Eating the cake will not serve you and not eating the cake will lead to the experience of “I just look at a piece of cake and I gain weight.”
This episode shares techniques and tools to help you reconcile yourself so that whether you eat the cake – or not – both experiences can contribute to your highest health, vitality, well-being, beauty and joy – so that you really can “have your cake and eat it too!”
Forget The Fear & Find Freedom From Food
Whether it is controlling your body and your weight through the cultural, conventional “diet and exercise” model or trying to use the Law of Attraction to manifest your dreams, what is your real motivation?
I submit that it is ultimately happiness. You only want whatever it you want because you think having it will make you happy. This is important because if the experience of creating – or maintaining – your desire is in anyway unhappy, you cannot achieve that which you ultimately desire.
Creating peace and happiness can be especially challenging when motivated by fear. Fear and trauma lead to a desire to control – control yourself, control others, control outcomes.
This episode illustrates how true the words of the wise Franklin D. Roosevelt really are: There Is Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself. By deconstructing spiritual and psychological principles relating to fear and manifestation, this episode offers a perspective to lead you out of fear and into creating peace and freedom and a body you love.
Constructing Reality vs Creating Reality
In today’s world you need a special set of media and marketing literacy tools to navigate the strategic assaults on your self-esteem and body image. In the tech area, “reality” is being constructed by algorithms. Internet searches and social media recommendations are based on what algorithms conclude is true about you (which may not be the case). This limits the perspective you experience of the world, therefore shaping your perceptions and “reality.”
This constructed reality is a completely different issue that the idea of “creating your reality.”
This episode illustrates how tech influences manufacture your “reality” and deconstructs the metaphysical principles of “creating your reality” in a practical, tangible way.
Louise Hay in Diet Drama Land?
Louise Hay is sort of the “grandmother” of the current self-help world. She taught us that we could heal our bodies and our selves by harnessing the power of our thoughts. She taught us that our bodies responded to affirmations. She taught us to say affirmations such as “I love myself just the way I am” and that it was even better if we did that while looking in a mirror.
I have spoken extensively on my love/hate relationship with Louise Hay. I have nothing but love and respect for the woman. During a dark time in my life, I wrote her a letter – and she wrote me back!
However, affirmations are not “magic.” Affirmations are not about “reprogramming your unconscious.” Affirmations are tools to help you feel better in the present moment.
This episode deconstructs one particular affirmation and demonstrates how even the Queen of Self-Help fundamentally still operates from within the context of Diet Drama Land.
Your Pain Is Not Your Fault – Your Healing Is Your Responsibility
Your weight is not your fault. It’s not to your credit either.
Your pain is not your fault. But your healing is your responsibility.
An important episode for anyone struggling with food, exercise, weight or body image issues – whether you have been diagnosed with an eating disorder or not.
Discover the two parts to an eating disorder and why this makes them so difficult to truly overcome and put to bed.
Learn how certain mindsets keep you stuck in “recovery” when true freedom begins when you have “recovered.”
What You Need To Hear To Heal Your Body Drama
What do you really need to hear to heal your pain, shame, and drama around food, exercise your body and your weight?
Is it the latest celebrity diet? You know that’s not true.
Is it the hottest new calorie busting workout? Nope – you’ve been down that road too.
Is it a “secret to manifestation” or a legitimate spiritual truth? Well – how do you apply it?
What YOU need to hear is based on your own journey – what you’ve learned, what you’ve experienced, what you know to be true for you.
The words might be different – but the message is always the same: Take three deep breaths. Get centered. Get grounded. Connect with yourself. Connect with your body – and you will “hear” the answer.
Milkshakes, Science & Weight Loss
Does “Science” really matter when it comes to creating a body and life you love?
What happens metabolically if you think you’re eating “good” food? Or “bad” food?
Is “science” always right? Can it really help you?
Join me in a discussion exploring the discipline of Science through the lens of the Happy Calories Don’t Count® model and discover the perspectives that truly empower you to diet the diet drama, find peace and freedom from food – and create sustainable results.
Influencing Thought & Normalizing Dysfunction
How do you create true freedom from food drama? How do you claim your personal power?
You are allowed, you have the right, you have the freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do and exist how you want to exist – and to want to look how you want to look.
Part of standing in your personal power comes from understanding how other people are trying to influence your behavior, influence your pocket book, influence your mindset – all of those things. When you can stand back and you can really look at a situation eyes wide open, and see what’s going on – then you can decide from a place of empowerment, how you want to engage.
People try to influence behavior all the time. Everyone does it. It’s it’s part of life. What is really important is where it shifts from trying to influence behavior to influence how you think – especially about yourself.
How Diet Culture is Normalized
Are you in charge of your own thoughts and beliefs about your body and yourself?
Are you sure?
This episode illustrates how complex systems – including economic profit motives and slick psychological marketing – influence your thoughts and sense of self like you never imagined.