THE CONSCIOUS DIET PLAN: A STEP BY STEP PROCESS FOR FREEING YOURSELF FROM THE FAT

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” - Anais Nin

Ever want to loose weight? It’s easy when you understand that the ONLY thing EVER weighing you down is your own resistance to BEING YOURSELF. Negative emotion or FEAR is a very slow and dense vibrational energy that weighs us all down. There’s nothing “wrong” with it, it just doesn’t resonate with the vibration of our nature state of being, which is LOVE.

Fear is heavy, resistant, unmoving, and holds everything back. Because of fear we continuously devour lies about ourselves that we believe are true. We “feed the beast” because we’re afraid if we don’t our Ego will parish. But the “beast” was never real. What we’ve been feeding is an illusion that we’re separate, limited, powerless, and unworthy, but none of this is true! We are EVERYTHING and ANYTHING we choose.

When we’re finally willing to recognize the lies, we set ourselves free from their grip. What remains when we let go of all the self-imposed definitions and limitations that have built up over lifetimes is our very svelte, TRUE SELF. The weight of the world no longer rests on our shoulders, and we PHYSICALLY feel lighter and freer…because we are! Energetically! We allow ourselves to FLOW “in sync” with the flow of our OWN consciousness…the flow of the Universe. We become fluid and at ONE with the ocean rather than rigid like a boulder blocking up the currents.

I can already hear waves of, “Yeah, that SOUNDS great but its so much easier said than done.” And to that I reply, “What’s harder? Holding on for dear life? Or releasing your grip and falling into the unknown?” Surrendering to the NOW is MUCH easier than holding on, what’s difficult is facing the fear of the unknown. We know the past, so we cling to it like it’s the last jelly donut in the world, but the realm of the “unknown” is unlimited—all the donuts you can eat without gaining an ounce!

We’ve been unconsciously reacting to the world our whole lives, so the idea that something else is possible seems like a fantasy and WAY too much effort. You think, “Yeah, I’d like to let go and just be happy all the time, but it’s just not possible. Shit happens. Life pisses me off. People suck. The world can’t be trusted and I won’t ever be happy about it. It’s just the way it is and I’m just who I am. We all have face REALITY!”

What I’ve tried to share, however, is that REALITY does NOT exist—at least not in the way we’ve thought. We’ve thought that there’s some objective, material world outside of us. Things happen TO us. There’s a separate world that exists—we interact with it but we have no control over it. But I dare anyone to show me or yourself, where this world “exists” except within your own Mind? I love this quote from Peter Russell:

Our perception of the world has the very convincing appearance of being "out there" around us, but it is no more "out there" than are our nightly dreams. In our dreams we are aware of sights, sounds and sensations happening around us. We are aware of our bodies. We think and reason. We feel fear, anger, pleasure and love. We experience other people as separate individuals, speaking and interacting with us. The dream appears to be happening "out there" in the world around us. Only when we awaken do we realize that it was all just a dream–a creation in the mind.

There’s absolutely no objective reality that any of us must face. The only “reality” we EVER face is what we believe is real within ourselves. If you WANT to believe that it’s you against the World, you can, but its only “true” because this is what you believe is “real.” What’s “real” is only your experience of what YOU believe is real. When you think about it the Universe is the Ultimate Mindf#$k! The amount of control we ACTUALLY have compared to what we believe we have is staggering and almost too much for our tiny brains to fathom! This is why the Truth must be felt in the heart, the Mind simply can’t wrap its head around it!

As you push against the World and demand that everyone be different so that you can feel safe and loved, its still only an INTERNAL experience that you’re creating within yourself. We’re all just interacting with meaningless stimulus and creating the meaning that makes the most sense to us based on whatever beliefs we’ve been carrying around with us.

I realize that when you’ve been holding onto the same beliefs your entire life, they feel ridiculously real and true and its difficult to understand how it could be otherwise. Again, this brings to mind the hamster on the wheel scenario. When a hamster keeps running to keep up with the spinning wheel, it has no idea that it’s spinning because it’s running. It seems that the spinning is “just happening,” but it’s the HAMSTER that’s making it happen, but its so concerned with keeping pace it’s not able to recognize the truth of the situation.

The same can be said for Humanity. We’ve become so blinded by our own reactions to what we’re experiencing, it’s almost impossible to see that we’re creating the entire drama within ourselves.

If you’re one of those people who remain skeptical to all this “happy” talk, hopefully, on some level, I’ve managed to appeal to your SENSE OF REASON. Humanities greatest power, gift, and asset is the LOGICAL REASONING abilities of the MIND. Many of us have forgotten that we have this amazing tool! Forget sexy, “I’m bringing logic back!”

With that, I’d like to offer a simple PROCESS for jettisoning the extra weight.

STEP ONE:

Decide that you would PREFER to experience yourself in your nature state of being—Peace and Harmony and FREE from ALL that no longer serves you. This doesn’t happen over night, but it will NEVER happen as long as you’re willing to accept that you don’t have the power within yourself to experience anything different than the status quo. You must first decide that you are WILLING and CAPABLE.

STEP TWO:

You also have to be willing to take FULL responsibility for your life experience. You can’t change what you’ve been creating if you don’t own your own creation. As long as you believe that something or someone else is responsible for you’re experience, than this “reality” will be true for you and you’ll remain powerless to change it. In other words, as long you BELIEVE you’re a victim, you WILL BE and you won’t be able to experience anything else.

STEP THREE:

This is the fun part! You must recognize or become CONSCIOUSLY AWARE that YOU are the “Will” behind your own thoughts and feelings. Whenever we REACT to anything, we do so unconsciously. We aren’t “choosing” we’re just “reacting” based on “conditioned” responses that we’ve been practicing our whole lives.

For instance, if you’re mother yells at you, you feel hurt. You’re not consciously “choosing” to feel this pain; it’s just a conditioned, unconscious response that you’ve practicing your whole life. When we are not free to CHOOSE, we’re akin to a dog having a Pavlovian response to a bell hoping for some reward. But we rarely get a treat; instead we suffer and wonder why.

The only way to CHOOSE a different response is to become CONSCIOUSLY AWARE of HOW we’re RESPONDING to the events in our life. When you are able to be aware of the response, and then recognize yourself the WILL (the decision-maker) behind your thoughts, you can then utilize your “will power” to choose a different experience of the exact same stimulus. You can do this by identifying the LIE and then choosing the TRUTH, instead.

STEP FOUR:

Practice, Practice, Practice!

We’ve ALL been trapped in this world of illusion for a VERY LONG TIME. Creating a different world based on FREEDOM OF CHOICE DEFINITELY takes practice.

Personally, what I have found is that as I practice more PRESENT AWARENESS of my experiences, most of “work” I do revolves around recognizing and healing the EMOTIONAL PAIN-BODY—all the deeply held (unconscious) FALSE beliefs we have about ourselves.

The pain-body is VERY literally a clump of dense negative energy that lingers just beneath the surface of our psyche that gets triggered into REACTION by seemingly random events. The only way to heal this emotional pain is to become CONSCIOUS of it, OWN IT, and then transmute it into something preferred.

We’ve been lead to believe that this process is “hard” or “daunting” and requires traveling into the past to identifying the moment it was created. NOTHING could be further from the Truth! There’s no need to spend ANY TIME rehashing your troubled childhood or reliving all the ways in which your parents screwed you up.

First of all, searching for the “root of the problem” makes the assumption that something has gone wrong that needs to be “fixed.” Again, the only “problem” EVER, is believing a problem exists. There’s NOTHING wrong with any of us because we have emotional pain.

The Pain-Body is a protective mechanism that has very LOGICALLY developed in response to our own FALSE BELIEFS. That is, whenever we believe a lie to be TRUE of who we are, we create the reality of that “false personality” within ourselves—it’s like a phantom person we carry around with us.

Whenever that False Sense of Self feels threatened in any way, it lashes out to protect itself. So there’s no problem, just the instinctual response of very adaptive Pain-Body functioning in perfect order. Who cares how or why it’s there! It’s irrelevant. Emotional Pain exists because at some point it served a purpose and held value in protecting the life of some conditioned, FALSE PERSONALITY we accepted as TRUE of ourselves. It exists because WE created its existence.

When we no longer IDENTIFY with the FALSE SELF that created the pain-body, the pain-body no longer has any value. When there’s nothing left for it to protect and serve, the negative energy dissipates. Can you imagine how much lighter you could feel when you no longer have the burden of carrying around all those miserable versions of yourself?

Through CONSCIOUS AWARENESS you can start to recognize these distortions and lies that exist within you and CHOOSE to replace them with the TRUTH—or whatever you PREFER to be true of yourself, instead.

You can do this by asking yourself THREE QUESTIONS:

1.“What am I currently experiencing as my ‘Reality’?”

2.“What must I believe to be true about myself in order for me to be having this experience?”

3.“What would I PREFER to be true of myself?”

EXAMPLE:

COMPLAINT:

“I constantly feel let down by my friends. As soon as I get close to someone, they do something to hurt me. Nobody ever seems to be there for me in the way I need them to be. If they really loved and cared about me, they would treat me better. I feel like I always do so much for them, but I don’t get the same in return. It’s not fair. I feel like they don’t have any respect for me or really care how I feel.”

STEP ONE:

Decide that you want to create a different experience and that you ALONE have the power within yourself to do so.

NOBODY NEEDS TO DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT. I ALONE HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE THE CHANGE I DESIRE.

STEP TWO:

IF you want to create a new and more desirable experience, you MUST OWN the current experience as YOUR OWN CREATION within YOURSELF. This does NOT mean blaming yourself. There is NO FAULT, BLAME, NO RIGHT OR WRONG. You just have to accept that nothing is happening TO YOU, it’s happening WITHIN YOU.

I AM NOBODY’S VICTIM. NOTHING IS HAPPENING “TO” ME, IT’S ALL HAPPENING WITHIN ME.

STEP THREE:

MY EXPERIENCE IS SHOWING ME WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE TRUE ABOUT MYSELF. TO CHANGE THE EXPERIENCE I HAVE TO CHANGE MY BELIEF

“I feel betrayed, disregarded, abandoned, unimportant, etc., therefore I must identify myself and experience these things to be true about myself.”

I am betrayed.

I am abandoned.

I am uncared for.

I am put upon.

I am taken for granted.

If you no longer wish to be identified or defined by these qualities you can choose to believe something different.

“I would prefer to experience myself as someone who is loved, respected, cared for, nurtured, and honored by the people in my life.”

I am loved.

I am nurtured.

I only take on what I want

I am honored and respected for what I do.

As you change your perceptions of yourself, your experience MUST also shift to match your new expectations. You’re no longer seeking to validate the LIES about yourself, but rather seeking to validate the TRUTH of who you are.

You may be thinking, “how can I suddenly feel honored and respected when I just don’t have any examples of that in my life!” And the answer is “you don’t have any examples because you were never looking for them. You were only looking to validate what you already believed was true—the lies.” As soon as you choose to experience yourself based on your desired BELIEF, you will “miraculously” see examples everywhere.

This simple process can be used to identify and change any core belief that’s limiting your life experience.

Anything that you’re experiencing in your life…ANYTHING, just ask yourself how you feel and your feelings will tell you EXACTLY what YOU believe is TRUE.

If you’re out of work and searching for a job, ask yourself, “How do I feel about this experience?” You might respond with,

“I feel like it’s really hard to get a job right now.”

“Nobody seems to be hiring.”

“I keep sending resumes out and nobody calls me.”

You’ve just IDENTIFIED WHY you can’t get a job! You BELIEVE that it’s hard, nobody’s hiring and no one’s calling you. You may say, “but it’s TRUE! This is my experience!” But again, this is ONLY your experience because this is the ENERGY you hold within yourself. Your experience is just validating what you already believe is TRUE.

Certainly it’s not a stretch of the imagination to believe that there ARE people out there in the world getting hired and that there are companies that are hiring. Right? BOTH perspectives are TRUE. You just have to CHOOSE which “reality” you want to live in.

You MUST shift your energetic relationship to the experience if you want the experience to change. THERE is NO separation between the two. THEY ARE ONE IN THE SAME. There is ONLY your internal experience and nothing else. As such, what you feel inside and what you experience “outside” can’t POSSIBLY be any different because there is no “outside.”

Again, this takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE and commitment, but it’s an investment in yourself that’s worth the effort. Plus, you get to loose weight without ever having to see the gym!

http://www.thepowerofsynergisticliving.com/Site/Blog/Entries/2010/2/25_T...