Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948
Today you get two quotes for the price of one. These both stood out for me when I came across them, so I had to share them.
There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billing
What I keep finding over and over in my learning is that the key to life is balance. That is the main reason I quit poker, because entire days were spent where I was absorbed in poker. I played for four to six hours, I studied for another four to six hours, then I talked about it with friends, I watched it on t.v., read books, read magazines, nothing else could penetrate my life if it didn’t involve poker. It became difficult for me to even find time for friends and family, because I had to do one or more of the things that I had just listed.
There even came a time, earlier this year, when I was getting out of balance again, but this time with my spirituality. Yes, you can have too much of God, or whomever, or whatever it is you worship. Every minute of my day became just like poker all over again. If I wasn’t writing about it, I was studying it by reading something, or watching a program on t.v., or listening to a CD. So I scaled things back quite a bit. I went out and got a job, I made sure I was going out with friends, and visiting my family.
I’m sure you’re asking, what does this have to do with weight? Quite a lot. Life was meant to be enjoyed, and if we spend every moment agonizing over every detail from how much were spending, to how much time we allocated a certain project, event, or fiends, to what we’re eating, we are clearly not enjoying the blessing that we get when we awake each morning.
Also, when we agonize over those decisions, you have to ask again, what is your dominant thought? If you’re agonizing over all those little details, then you are afraid you’re spending too much money, you’re afraid there are too many calories in that ice cream. Your dominant thought is fear, and it is no surprise, because fear rules much of our lives when we allow it to.
However, the problem with that, is when your dominant thought about these things includes fear, then that is the experience you will definitely be getting more of. If you’re afraid you’re going to gain weight, don’t be surprised when you do. If you’re afraid you’re going to go broke because you decided to treat your family to a nice dinner instead of five dollar pizzas at Little Caesars, then once again you will go broke, because that is the experience you are attracting by your dominant thoughts.
Now to get onto my perfect weight. For me, my ideal weight is 155 pounds, that is what I will experience, because I am once again asking, believing, and receiving.
I learned something this last week, and it really struck a chord with me. Sanjay gave me a copy of The Secret on CD, and it goes into greater detail than the DVD, and he and I discussed how weight, and the Law of Attraction works. At first I didn’t quite get it, until I got to that part on the CD, and it makes a lot of sense. We go around saying to ourselves, “I want to lose weight.” The problem with such a statement is that when you do ask, believe, and receive, that is exactly the experience you will get, losing weight, but over and over. Why? Because you are telling the universe that is the experience you want. The problem is your body and the universe give it to you. You lose the weight, then you will gain it back, and quite possibly then some, because the universe wants to give you the experience of losing weight AGAIN!
So now, I don’t focus on losing weight. I focus on my perfect body weight, and for me that is 155 pounds. Some of the suggestions that are made in the CD are to stop weighing yourself, or write your body weight on a piece of paper and tape that over the scale so that is what you see every morning. But most of all quit sweating every little detail, find balance in your life. It is my intention, and I hope it is yours, to be wealthy, spiritually, mentally, physically, and financially, ultimately finding a balance in my life, with all of these things.
