A Course In Weight Loss : Lesson 3 : Part 1

My apologies for this late late late post.  My past 2 weeks have simply been crazy and did not get a chance to complete this to post.  But trust you have had an awesome weekend so far!

This was a very soothing and comforting chapter.  It speaks of your relationship with a Higher Power and how you work with trusting and commanding the power from this Source.  It really speaks to what you put your faith in.  Is it fear, is it stuff that hurts you, is it hopelessness or is it in love and that there is something bigger that can take care of the stuff that holds you down and away from happiness.

What I found very fascinating was the concept that we learn to trust something bigger based on our relationships with our parents.  As we learn to trust in them to take care of us so we learn that there is something bigger, wiser and stronger than us that we can trust to help us on our way.  Parents are human and victims of victims and so our relationship with something bigger is tampered with and for some it is about finding their journey back to trusting in something bigger than themselves.

I can see in my life where I learnt to start trusting in me and my independence and hence my issues with having a God, a Higher Power or something grander and greater to believe in.  It simply made me a little hostile!  Hostile because nothing was done on my terms and my way and why must I do it your way in any case?  But all apart of learning to heal your relationship with that higher, wiser and all knowing power.

This lesson goes on to encourage one to build an altar of love.  A place where you can come and be and surrender to love and know that love rules versus anything else.  It is meant to be a place where you lay down and cherish all that is good and sacred to you.  I have called this part 1 because I am still building an altar that works for me in my home.

So far, I find my altar to be in my bathroom.  Not sure why but I am pulled to being in the bathroom where every morning for about 10 minutes, I have a cup of coffee and revel in the love that is in my life and that rules my life.  My vision board is also in my bathroom as well and I am able to connect with life.  I can also play a list of awesome songs that help me connect to that feeling place of peace and love.

So for this lesson, key themes included:

• Work on healing your relationship with something higher and wiser.  Start building and working with your ability to trust in this Higher Power
• Trusting and surrendering to this power is not a sign of weakness on your side.  It is asking for help and support to command the awesome power that surrounds you to allow you to live your best and happiest life
• Build an altar/a space that allows you to revel in the truth that love exists and rules over any issue or problem you think is out there.  Every start of your day spend some time in this space where you honor that life is ruled by love and blessings above all else

Go Strong my dears and please let me now how this works out for you.  I can safely say that it has allowed my life to take on a whole new level of energy and blessings.  I am just seeing how wonderful things are falling into place that allow me to just live my best life.  All exciting.  I am happy to share some examples via email (crazeebeelivin@gmail.com)  if you would like.  Mwah!

A Course In Weight Loss : Lesson 2

I finally got to wrapping up Lesson 2 about a week ago which I will admit was such a stretch for me.  I honestly resisted the whole affair.  I guess I was just not ready to face what could come out for me to deal with.

Anyhoo.

The primary focus of Lesson 2 is to get to know the fat side of yourself.  It is basically opening up to the idea that you have all these parts of you and that your essence is the common theme through all these different sides of you.  What was awesome for me was the notion of "You cannot negotiate with what you do not understand"  This was a profound phrase for me that to this day still impacts how I am seeing the world.

Lesson 2 invites you to start understanding that fat side of you.  That side has a lesson/message/story that would be for your highest good if you only open up and look to understanding what is going on. So I highly recommend Lesson 2.  For me, I have discovered how arrogance, being one dimensional and closing off to taking in wisdom around me or understanding others can be such a natural thing for me if I focus on a goal.  My excess weight serves as a reminder for me to stay open and see a bigger picture.  It is all abstract at the moment for me personally, but a theme I will work with the theme to unpack it into practicality that makes sense for me.  You will see a post on any realisations I make of it as a result

Key take aways from Lesson 2:

• There are many facets to you and they all have a message or story for you to understand.  You can choose to embrace that and understand it or ignore it or ban it
• Ignoring it ensures that that part of you will do what it needs to in order to get your attention.  You could get fatter or sick or something that simply is enough for you to take note
• You cannot negotiate with what you not understand, so you cannot move forward if you are not willing to start looking that facet in the eye and understand what the story is
• Life is mirror that you can use to work through the blockages and limiting stories.  Although the focus of lesson 2 was on weight, I found that I could relate the concept to more than just weight.  I could see it in the people that irritate and piss me off or simply make we want to avoid them.  I could see how there was a facet of me that wanted my attention to say what it needed to.  I have found that when I took the time to understand where those people were coming from, I learnt something deeper about myself.  Just an interesting process indeed.

So my dears, there is something to be said about expanding your view on a subject and going with the notion of understanding something ugly or disgusting before throwing it away!  I would also read up on the concept of mirrors which this link explains beautifully.  The Little Book Of Mirrors

I would love to hear about your experiences with facing those sides of you that you ignore!

Keep up to date on the other lessons by visiting the The Business Of Good Livin page.  Love and Light xoxo

A Course In Weight Loss : Lesson 1

I started reading A Course In Weight Loss by Marianne Williamson not so long ago and wanted to share some of the take aways from the book.  These were the kind of truths that resonated with me and got me thinking or seeing life and it's relation to me in a different light.  Key themes that stood out :

• We all have a wall that we build to keep something away from us.  Be it a person, a situation, a feeling or a truth.  the trick is figuring out the make up of your wall.  Mine is food.  For others it could be sex, drugs, excess TV or some from of addiction or escapism
• We are meant to feel no matter what.  Pain, joy, peace, fear, shame etc.  We are meant to feel it, experience it, process it and move on.  It's through feeling it that we process it and move beyond to a space of choice and truth.  Somehow we get stuck with some by not truly feeling and processing.  I love how after you feel something that you come a point of choice to take a different view or let go of the one you hold.  It's a powerful place to get to.
• Being truthful with yourself can take many forms and do what sits comfortably with you.  For some it is confessing, for some it means coming clean and for some it is writing it down.  But what is truly remarkable is that being honest with yourself is merely surrendering to the rawness of that truth and looking it straight in the eye and acknowledging it for what it is.  When we brave to do that, we move to a powerful place of choice.  Choice to let the story go or deepen our understanding of the perception

My biggest take away from Lesson 1 has been the concept of how we fear seeing ourselves clearly!  It's hard not to see when the lights go on in a room and the darkness disappears.  You cannot deny what is in the room.  I see how the walls that we build protect us and keep us in the dark so that we do not have to put the light on and see clearly.  It is the whole stay in ignorance and be blissful thing.  Some of us prefer that state versus having to own up and look at what's in the room and choose to leave the mess or clean it up and make space!

The other take away is that I can ask for help from something bigger and wiser than me!  I can pray and be grateful for the access to a higher wisdom, a higher power and a higher intellect that I can surrender my problem to help me solve it and move forward.  This whole notion of faith and trust come into play which I will admit is still a challenge for an outcomes based individual as myself.  But it is something to work with and unpack and take one step at a time.

I would love to hear about your stories when it comes to trusting in the Universal wisdom, limitless solutions and intelligence?  Have you had experiences that you can share?

Keep up to date on the other lessons by visiting the The Business Of Good Livin page.  Love and Light xoxo