| To me, the power of prayer is the incredible power | | | | to add one more layer of protection between me |
| we wield when we join our mind and spirit -- our brain | | | | and my life. I also started blessing what I saw in the |
| and heart, or thoughts and feelings. This is indeed the | | | | mirror -- and the fat that my body made to protect |
| secret to having your prayers answered: Align | | | | me. I started blessing my wonderful health and |
| yourself completely with what you are asking for -- | | | | fitness. |
| body, mind, and spirit. Whatever you ask for, | | | | I also spent time working on releasing stress, anxiety, |
| believing in your heart you have received it, will be | | | | fear, anger, resentment, worry, grief, and any other |
| yours. | | | | negative emotion, because they all cause stress; and |
| It occurred to me that, if this was true, people | | | | stress is what causes your body to release cortisol |
| should just be able to pray for those things they | | | | and produce and store fat. When I released the |
| want, things like: Better health, more happiness, | | | | stress, the fat disappeared on its own; I simply didn't |
| peace of mind, and quick and easy weight-loss, | | | | need it anymore. And I did all of this in my mind -- in |
| among other things. It had already occurred to me | | | | my thoughts and prayers. |
| that I was 50-pounds overweight; and it seemed | | | | The one other thing I can think of doing during the |
| natural that I should "put my money where my | | | | two-months I lost 55-pound was to apply the findings |
| mouth is," as they say. | | | | of Dr. Masaru Emoto as published in his Messages |
| I think anyone could lose weight by starving | | | | from Water series of books and videos. I removed |
| themselves and working-out like crazy. But would | | | | the labels from the water I drank, and wrote |
| they be happy? Some of them might; and others | | | | blessings on the water with the intention that they |
| may shift into a happy place upon seeing tangible | | | | would live on inside my body. I wrote words like, |
| results. But most people have tried this route to | | | | "Love, Health, Peace, Lean, Flexible, etc..." I wrote |
| weight-loss; and most of them have failed. | | | | only positive things I felt would help. Dr. Emoto's |
| Remember, there are over 200-million overweight | | | | work was featured in the movie, "What the Bleep," |
| Americans; that's over 66% of our population! | | | | and can be found at |
| Whatever we have been doing, collectively, is not | | | | It took less than two-months for over 50-lbs. to |
| working. It is, in fact, indirectly causing our | | | | simply disappear; I didn't work out or diet -- I simply |
| weight-problems to get worse rather than better. So, | | | | changed my mind and focused my thoughts on my |
| I decided not to do those things that most people | | | | new desire for my health. "As a man thinketh..." In |
| do; because most people (in the U.S., anyway) are | | | | my case, I only "thought-eth" of myself the way I |
| overweight. Specifically, I did not change my diet -- | | | | truly wanted to be; I declared it -- and it is so. I didn't |
| not the quantity of food I ate, nor the kinds of | | | | spend time thinking about what was; I spent time |
| foods I ate. I didn't alter the times I ate, either. | | | | loving what was and thinking about what will be. You |
| But I did start drinking about three-liters of clear | | | | can literally change any part of your life by simply |
| water each day. This was the only change to my | | | | changing your mind -- and thinking on that which you |
| diet. I didn't stop drinking any of the things I used to | | | | desire most. |
| drink -- like coke-floats, milkshakes, etc... -- but I | | | | For many, though, changing their mind isn't always |
| naturally drink less of those things because I am not | | | | that simple. Thanks to breakthroughs in modern |
| thirsty (thanks to all the water). I now choose to | | | | science and medical research, there are a number of |
| enjoy those things as food rather than beverages; | | | | techniques currently available to assist you with |
| and I do enjoy them -- without a shred of guilt. Guilt | | | | changing your ideas about yourself, your body, the |
| makes you fat. Actually, guilt causes stress; stress | | | | food you eat, the things that have happened to you, |
| causes you to create and store fat. | | | | and practically anything else you'd like to change. |
| I also refused to stick to any rigid programs or plans | | | | Using the mind, and nervous and meridian systems, |
| -- no programs at all -- and did not start an exercise | | | | techniques such as The Z-Point Process for Instant |
| program. I prayed, or visualized. I used only the | | | | Emotional Healing, EFT (Emotional Freedom |
| power of my mind and my belief in the concepts and | | | | Techniques), TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique), all |
| goals I decided upon. I used my mind to create a | | | | help you discharge the reasons your body makes and |
| new self-image, a new body weight, and I declared | | | | stores fat -- as well as negative or limiting beliefs |
| that it was so. And I declared it was so every day; | | | | about yourself. |
| and one day it was. Of course the process was | | | | These rapid change techniques, as they are often |
| gradual, but surprisingly fast. | | | | called, are being used by thousands of physicians, |
| I used my mind to change my mind about food and | | | | psychologists, coaches and therapists around the |
| fat. I decided that food doesn't really make anyone | | | | world because of the profound results they produce |
| fat, but that fat is made by my body when I need it | | | | by removing the obstacles to effective and creative |
| -- no matter what I eat. And, I decided that fat is | | | | thinking and allowing for more conscious, focused, |
| my friend -- produced by my body in times of stress | | | | thoughts. |