Well I’m so proud to report that I’ve released 17 pounds in the last month!  I'm very proud, Yeah me!!!

Yet I have to admit that sometimes I feel like it takes so much effort to stay focused and think positively about releasing weight.  Sometimes it feels like a huge, continuous and tiring effort to believe in myself and my capability to ever do it permanently.  Or I guess, more honestly, it just feels so much easier to lapse back into old thinking.

When I think about my whole lifetime of thinking in terms of “I’ll never get the weight off”, “I’m not strong enough”, “I’ll always be fat”, “I don’t have what it takes”, I realize that I’m still just dealing with momentum.  I know when those thoughts come up that it’s only my “false self” speaking, but it makes me wonder when those thoughts will become quieter than my new thinking of belief in myself and “I can do this!”  When I really look at the incredible amount of passionate and even dispassionate negativity I’ve dumped upon myself in my life, I realize it makes sense to be asking these questions.  And taking a little while to get to where my optimism and faith in myself are more ingrained and comfortable to me than the negative patterns of the past is normal. 

I remember Abraham-Hicks talking about how sometimes we don’t feel like we are getting anywhere, even after working to change our thinking, but it’s just the ending of slowing of negative momentum.  They compare it to a semi-truck barreling down the highway, and how it takes some time for the truck to stop, much less turn completely around.  For those of us who’ve had years of patterned thinking it can take some time to “slow down the truck”.  As usual they said the answer is to turn away from thoughts of negative momentum and focus instead on the momentum you are building, the goal you are building momentum toward. 

Again I realize it’s all about belief.  When my mind starts going to that place where it seems hard, in that moment is the answer to everything.  Because in that moment I get to make a choice to feel the heaviness of habit or to choose to look for the lightness of faith.  In that moment lies the biggest blessing this life has to offer us, the gift of choice.  The choice to believe that in faith all answers are easy.

“The trees in winter dream of their budding in the spring.  So too you can dream of the growth you wish for in this coming year.  You can dream of the things you want to create in your life.  The trees do not know how their buds will be called forth.   Instead it is in their very makeup and genetic program to respond to the impulses of weather and sunlight to do so.  So too, dear ones, you do not need to know how your dreams will be called forth in your own life.  You only need acknowledge them and trust that it is in your soul's makeup and program to respond to the impulses of the universe when they are given.”  The Angels as channeled through Ann Albers   02/20/10

When staying focused feels like a burden, I realize I’m simply letting old patterns get the best of me in that moment.  I have a choice to see myself exactly as I would see a tree or a rose.  With all the secrets of the Universe alive within their branches and petals.  They don’t question if they are going to grow, blossom and bloom.  They simply live in faith that the Universe, through the sun, rain, and soil will provide them with whatever they need to become what they are destined to be. 

"Make peace with where you are. Appreciate your magnificent body as it is.  Appreciate that it moves and that it is flexible and that it digests, that it assimilates. Accept the cellular metabolism, the cellular functioning. Your body is a veritable chemical factory.  It is an amazing mechanism. It is morphing constantly into that which is new. It is constantly becoming. It will be whatever you ask it to be. It will be whatever you ask it and allow it to be. It will be whatever you want it and allow it to be. It will be whatever you ask and allow it.  It will be whatever you see it to be. It will be whatever you EXPECT it to be!”  Excerpted from an Abraham-Hicks workshop in Sedona, AZ on August, 25 2007

It’s the same with me.  Everything I need is supplied by Grace to achieve any goal in my life.  My job is to just allow the answers, believe in myself and expect success!

Much love,
Tigerlily