POWER OF MIND IN WEIGHT CONTROL: Stress, Lies, & Video Tape

For the many frustrated with the desire to drop pounds, relax and just breathe a bit while you read this. Take a breath!

There now. If you are still reading, you may have noticed a sense in that moment of acceptance. The first step with any goal is to first accept where you are and allow your mind to view the situation objectively. You have the responsibility for your own health and weight balance, but just allow yourself the time to reflect on your journey a moment. There are three main reasons outside of calorie intake and output that may be contributing greatly to weight gain.

Reason #1 STRESS: Pressured with day to day obligations of work and family you may be medicating yourself with comfort foods you subconsciously crave as a result of the stress. In response to the poorer or absence of any nutritive value of these foods, stress only increases and the non-useful responses feed one another. Sleep is disrupted or not experienced fully allowing the body to de-stress into its natural state of deep relaxation leading to the deep sleep needed to promote body processes and complete metabolism. As stressful behavior continues, even with a fairly balanced diet, the cycle continues and you are unable to experience life to its fullest offering with this destructive cycle. You may also notice that the people closest to you also have weight out of balance, subconsciously reinforcing the mindful elements that are keeping all stuck in the cycle. This is the group effect and acceptance of stress as a reality.  Be the leader in your group and practice a new way of living and thinking.  Mountains are conquered with single steps.
"Problems are not solved with the same thinking that created them."  Albert Einstein

Reason #2  HORMONAL IMBALANCE  Stress can also be the cause of hormonal imbalance and you may be able to naturally get back into better balance through diet, exercise and stress release.   You may need to talk to your health care professional about this, but remember that healthy habits are your responsibility.  Choosing to be a conscious practitioner and partner with your doctor regarding your health will insure the best outcome.

Reason #3 LAZY MIND  This may be very hard for those not willing to exercise the mind as well as the body to understand the power of mind in all you do.  The overload we have today of technology, cell phones, smart phones, magnified TV, internet can program and control you in ways you do not notice or just take for granted.  You are plugged in and cannot get free of mind numbing habits that disempower you rendering you a robot of your own non-useful habits.  Examining each aspect of your life and committing to improve on every level is actually a mental exercise that will burn calories.  Stay a robot to your schedule and beliefs and nothing will improve, but change which is constant will continue. You will change for the worse. You have the power of your own mind and its your responsibility to use it wisely.  Wisdom grows from a well fed mind.  A well fed mind knows how to feed a body. Repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome is a form of insanity.

In observing the growing obesity problem, I know very well that these people are not eating as much as it would appear.  The problem is the inability to take control of the mind.  Empowerment is the outcome when one chooses to commit.  Refusing the responsibility of your own thoughts causes stress.  It is much easier to be conscious once you get into practice.  Turn off the TV, cell phone, internet or at least be aware that media is in the market of selling to you; and often selling you what you do not need.  Figure out for yourself what lies you are being told and what lies you are telling yourself.  The new term Nature Deficit Disorder (NDD) describes that we are  disconnected from our Source.  Decide to connect with Nature at some level each day.  Observe a flower, look at the night sky, take a walk and feel the air; then realize that in the scheme of things there is a Great Power that you have access to moment by moment.

The solutions for dropping pounds are within your control and involve these very simple observations.  You can start today to take control and build the confidence of a successful person in control of her own weight.  Take the steps to de-stress, commit to empowering your own mind, stop plugging in endlessly to technology, be aware of your hormone balance, rest well, eat wisely, investigate reality and start to tell yourself the truth, spend time in Nature, spend some time alone.

As your spirit is empowered and lifted, your increasing inner beauty will show on the outside and you will return to the beautiful child of the Universe you were meant to be. 

Know who you are, feed the flower.

Boldness has Genius Power and magic in it. When one definitely commits,  then Providence moves too.   ~~Goethe