Many years ago, I talked with a friend who was sick with her self because she had put on weight, or as she put it, "I am fat." She thought of nothing but what a piece of no-good-dirty-rotten-turkey-tripe she was because she had put on that weight. In her mind, she was that weight, that fat, that no-good-dirty-rotten-turkey-tripe.
She assured me that she was repeating constantly, "I am a beloved child of God." However, that wasn't helping her feel better about herself which led her to believe she was hopeless, and the ugly circled ever downward.
The problem, of course, was that she expected the affirmation, "I am a beloved child of God," to take away the weight, make her fit and bring her peace.
No affirmation is going to do the work for us, whatever our work may be. If we want to lose weight, we must stop overeating. If we want to feel better about our self, we must start taking the action that will help us feel better about our self. The secret we resist is that almost exclusively the action we need take is for the benefit of another. It has nothing to do on its surface with our weight, our self-esteem, our financial situation or our love life even.
To stop overeating in order to lose weight does not in itself make us feel better about our self...deprived is more like what we feel. But when we stop overeating, get on a healthy regimen, and reach out to be of help to another, we feel better about our self.
If we keep overeating, don't get on a healthy regimen, and reach out to be of help to another, we will feel better about our self...which will lead us to healthy eating habits.
Life...a healthy, happy whole life, is not about our self...not you, not me, not him, her or them. Life...a spiritually based, healthy, happy whole life...is about others. If everybody got on that wavelength, we would have everybody concerned for us just as we would be concerned for them. We could study war no more.
Imagine.
Thank you.
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