Weight Loss is a Spiritual Matter
An open letter I wrote to myself, and therefore, since we are all one on some level, to you as well….
Dear One,
Who gets up every day thinking “This will be the day I have enough willpower to eat healthy,” who tells herself, “Tomorrow will be different,” and “I should not have eaten that.” The answer you seek lies within – it is not in any diet or eating plan. It is buried underneath all the beliefs you carry about yourself and the world you live in, all the judgments and restrictions you place upon yourself. The truth is underneath all that. The truth is so precious that once you understand it instead of knowing it intellectually, it will melt away all struggles with your weight.
For you see, your relationship to food is just a mirror of your relationship to yourself. It is a reflection of you living in your mind instead of in your body. Your weight is an outcome of seeking the truth externally versus internally. It is all a mis-understanding.
Food is a comfort to the fears and insecurities you face daily. It is a temporary fix to a spiritual issue. The spiritual issue of having lost your connection, your felt connection to the divine, the universe, God, whatever you like to call it. Having lost that connection you believe that on some level you cannot handle the fears and emotions that make you uncomfortable, and running from discomfort, you eat for solace. Which works temporarily, only to add self-loathing on top of the discomfort for having eaten what you did.
Little do you know, dear one, how powerful and strong you are. If you knew that you could allow the fears and emotions to be, to just watch them, you would soon see how they come and go, and how nothing is big enough to swallow you or take you down with it. The resistance and the fear of feeling these uncomfortable emotions is worse than actually allowing yourself to feel them. Really feel them – physically in the body, without a story in your head. Using the body for what it was meant – to ground you in the here and now, and give you access to joy and peace.
For dieting is not why you are here, and it takes up far too much of your precious energy. Release your fears and your obsession with weight, and see that for what it really is: a way to avoid living your life. Your life, that happens while you obsess about what you just ate, what you are going to eat, and what you wish you could eat. You can handle, in fact you can actually embrace, everything that happens to you, whether you label it good or bad. You are so much bigger than you think you are. It’s time now to put down the weapons in the war with yourself.
Love,
Stephanie
Dear One,
Who gets up every day thinking “This will be the day I have enough willpower to eat healthy,” who tells herself, “Tomorrow will be different,” and “I should not have eaten that.” The answer you seek lies within – it is not in any diet or eating plan. It is buried underneath all the beliefs you carry about yourself and the world you live in, all the judgments and restrictions you place upon yourself. The truth is underneath all that. The truth is so precious that once you understand it instead of knowing it intellectually, it will melt away all struggles with your weight.
For you see, your relationship to food is just a mirror of your relationship to yourself. It is a reflection of you living in your mind instead of in your body. Your weight is an outcome of seeking the truth externally versus internally. It is all a mis-understanding.
Food is a comfort to the fears and insecurities you face daily. It is a temporary fix to a spiritual issue. The spiritual issue of having lost your connection, your felt connection to the divine, the universe, God, whatever you like to call it. Having lost that connection you believe that on some level you cannot handle the fears and emotions that make you uncomfortable, and running from discomfort, you eat for solace. Which works temporarily, only to add self-loathing on top of the discomfort for having eaten what you did.
Little do you know, dear one, how powerful and strong you are. If you knew that you could allow the fears and emotions to be, to just watch them, you would soon see how they come and go, and how nothing is big enough to swallow you or take you down with it. The resistance and the fear of feeling these uncomfortable emotions is worse than actually allowing yourself to feel them. Really feel them – physically in the body, without a story in your head. Using the body for what it was meant – to ground you in the here and now, and give you access to joy and peace.
For dieting is not why you are here, and it takes up far too much of your precious energy. Release your fears and your obsession with weight, and see that for what it really is: a way to avoid living your life. Your life, that happens while you obsess about what you just ate, what you are going to eat, and what you wish you could eat. You can handle, in fact you can actually embrace, everything that happens to you, whether you label it good or bad. You are so much bigger than you think you are. It’s time now to put down the weapons in the war with yourself.
Love,
Stephanie
Posted by Stephanie at Friday, May 21, 2010 7:28 PM 
Categories: Weight Loss, Happiness
Tags: joy diet inner peace weight loss
Categories: Weight Loss, Happiness
Tags: joy diet inner peace weight loss
I can relate to what you've said here! Since I'm a "visual learner," it helps to see these insightful gems in writing. Thanks, Stephanie!
--Kathy
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