When I allowed the right hypnotherapist into my life, my life changed.  Admittedly before meeting my therapist I wasn’t much of a believer in hypnosis.  Not for any spiritual or intellectual reason, but because I’d been to two different ones in my distant past and neither of them produced a drop of positive results for me. 

Both were a long, long time ago, and both were more therapeutic in process, as opposed to spiritual.  They were very scripted in nature, passing along what they had been taught, by  rote.  There was no warmth, nor was there any real personal discussion about why I had come to see them.  They knew the minute I walked in the door why I was there, and they proceeded with a almost monotone session, which I’m sure was the same with everyone else who walked in the door.  I sincerely doubt either of them are still active in hypnotherapy anymore.

So I was surprised at my reaction when I first heard my sister talk about her experience with him.  I knew instantly he had been sent to me as an answer, a blessing, a guide and teacher.  My sessions with him are uplifting beyond words.  They are deeply spiritual experiences for me, and he tells me the words which flow out of his mouth are all guided by my personal guides, my support team in non-physical. 

I walk in his door feeling good about myself, but I walk out feeling euphoric, filled with confidence, connection, and a feeling of being loved that always has my feet a couple inches off the ground.  He reflects, like a mirror, my connection back to me.  He sees me as the spirit I am inside and reminds me to see myself as that spirit too.  We talk about the things I want to change in my life and he instantly sees me as changed already, then he reinforces that changed person in my mind.  My visits are highlights in my life right now, guiding me, showing me who I really am and springboarding me to change.  And the even more wonderful thing is that they are working!  The evidence is undeniable.

We’ve been meeting, at a pace completely set my be, for 2 months and the hypnotic suggestions he has been planting in my subconscious have been germinating, the roots are digging in and taking hold in my thinking.  The first couple of weeks I needed lots of concentration and determination to stay focused on eating healthy and allowing my body to release weight.  It wasn’t easy peasy for me, but I was determined, I knew I had been led to a huge answer in my life and I was willing to do whatever was needed to allow it to happen. 

And now, over the course of the last month and a half, I’ve noticed that staying focused just keeps getting easier and easier.  I don’t have to work at eating healthy, the suggestions he’s planting in my mind have started doing the work for me.  I'm changing, naturally, from the inside out.  It's no longer a struggle to stay focused on eating healthy, or rather less healthy eating choices don't seem natural to me anymore.

The insatiable mind hunger I experienced all my life, that noisy voice talking "food", "food", "food" has quieted.  The urgency to focus on food constantly . . . eating it, obtaining it, and just thinking about it . . . has faded and morphed into a growing curiosity about what “healthy food” really means. 

Cravings I’ve lived with all my life for salty, crispy, fatty, savory and sweet have been replaced with a feeling of being more in balance, and into desires for freshness, healthfulness and variety.  My desire for fast food, or even restaurant foods in general used to torment me.  If I was driving home, hungry or not, I’d be thinking about where to stop, what to buy, when and how to eat.  Feeling full of fear of arriving home and having missed the opportunity to bring something easy, hot and loaded with calories with me.  Each restaurant I passed represented a different opportunity to indulge.  Not sate by any means, I was never satisfied, but a empty attempt to fill the self devouring cavern that was inside me.

Now I've noticed, a drive home is more about the sunshine coming in the windshield, or list of errands I have next to me, or maybe that interesting person in the car sitting next to mine.  I find myself focused on anything other than the multitude of restaurants passing by the windows.

And when my old patterns rise in my mind, KFC or Pizza Hut pushes its way into my consciousness, I think to myself, “Yeah, I can have that.  Is that what I really want?”  Nine times out of ten, the answer is “No” and I drive past, feeling fulfilled, happy and free. 

Yes, it’s working.  God Bless hypnotherapy.  God bless people like my hypnotherapist who are committed to helping people explore who they are, why they do what they do and what life can be like if they allow it to change.  He talks about me “melting” . . . the pounds simply melting off my body effortlessly, and that’s exactly what is happening.  25 pounds have melted off me in the last 2 months.  But the most important thing to me isn’t the weight leaving my body.  Surprisingly, it’s the peace I feel in my mind and heart.  It’s the strength I feel building inside me and the feeling of power over my life I’ve received for the first time in my life.  It’s no longer feeling controlled by restaurant chains, food itself and the dieting industry.  It's the quiet peacefulness of a mind working for me.  It’s freedom.

I urge anyone who resonates with what I write to say a prayer and ask Spirit, your inner being, guides and/or angels to guide you to a spiritual hypnotherapist who is right for you.  Someone who will see you as the Spirit you already are and always have been and reflect that back to you.  It has changed my life and I have a strong feeling it will do the same for you.

Much love,

Tigerlily

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

Well I’ve been feeling very lost lately, for months in fact. Knowing that I have a purpose in this life, yet not being able to figure out exactly what it is. I know it’s all tied up with releasing weight and allowing my body to find it’s own place of perfection. But I haven’t been able to overcome all the old patters, habits and thinking that has gotten me to where I am, the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life. Even with years of Abraham-Hicks behind me, I haven’t been able to simply “think” my way to allowing my perfect body to happen. I feel like so many people who sit in the hot seat at an Abraham-Hicks seminar and say the teachings have helped them in every aspect of their lives except releasing weight. I’ve learned allot, and I’ve experienced periods of success, but I haven’t been able to stay focused and truly change my thinking and therefore my life permanently.

I’ve been at a crossroads lately, praying for inspiration, motivation and guidance. Asking Source for direction to the answers I need to get back into the allowing flow of eating healthy, of feeling powerful and in control of my life, and back on track, or rather, and better, to find a new track.

Then one quiet afternoon, my sister mentioned something to me that instantly gave me hope. She told me she had been to a Psychic Fair and met a man who gave her and my nephew readings about their past lives. She said the man was incredible and he’s also a hypnotist. As she talked about how wonderful he had been, a realization grew in my soul. I knew to the core of my being, here was one of the answers I'd been asking for, Source was coming through. I immediately made my first appointment. That was about a month ago, and seeing him over the last few weeks has been truly amazing.

How I think about myself, about my past, about releasing weight, and about my own power to create my life has begun to change, from the inside out. In the past, even when I was in the powerful, allowing flow of eating healthy, I always felt like there was a battle going on inside me. The huge conscious part of me was feeling so strong, so determined to do the things I needed to do to release the weight. Yet, inside me was a struggle of mythic proportions, my subconscious battling me at every turn, waiting patiently but forcefully for the opportunity to turn me back toward the path that has gotten me here.

I’ve been experiencing this internal battle all my life, and it’s the reason I’ve never succeeded at permanently releasing the weight. Many times I’ve been able to release 25, 50 even 100 pounds in my life, but I’ve never been able to stay focused long enough to sustain the weight release or to change my thinking permanently. I’ve never been able to quiet that ongoing battle or to conquer the loud and incessant voice of my subconscious.

Abraham has always said that if we dwell on the past, we’re doomed to repeat it, they often say if we can turn away from the past and are successful at releasing it completely, we will be free from it. I understand what Abraham says, and I know for some it is that simple. I know that it could be that simple for all of us. However, I’ve learned lately that for me (and maybe lots of others, maybe for those who sit in the hot seat and ask why) the key is the part about “releasing it completely”. I think that’s the tricky part. That’s the part that has made it not as simple or easy as Abraham says it could be. Or rather not as simple and easy as I’ve wanted it to be.

What I found out is that for me, in order to quiet that ongoing battle for control with my subconscious I needed help. I needed to understand the power my subconscious has had over me. I had to face the feelings behind the experiences in my past which not only brought me to where I am today, but which my subconscious uses to keep me imprisoned. I needed to see the past for what it truly is, just a string of experiences I’ve created, for a multitude of reasons. None of which are valid today, or were ever really valid for that matter. They are simply experiences I attracted to allow my soul’s desire for expansion and growth. I needed to truly accept that the past is over, and those experiences have no power except that which I give them today. Counseling and hypnosis are allowing me to see that. They are providing the key, the “releasing it completely” key.<< MORE >>

I’ve had some big lessons lately in the power of decision. There is simply nothing more powerful than making a determined and definite decision about something. For me, it’s usually derived from the feeling of being entrenched in contrast to the point where there feels like there is no other answer. When I finally do stomp my foot down and decide that I will create something different, it’s truly an amazing . . . feeling at least for a while . . .

Power In Decision

You could not begin to decide what is wanted if you did not have the contrast of what is not wanted—and from your broader Nonphysical perspectives, as creators, you understand that what a decision is is a literal focusing of Energy. In other words, everything is about Energy, and the way you express it, the way you focus it, the way you channel it, the way you guide it, the way you utilize it, the way you become a part of it, the way you get involved in it. The way you become a creative force, utilizing Energy, is by your perspective, by your belief, by your attention, by your focus, by your decision. Can you feel the difference in the power in saying, “I would like to have that or I want that” and “I’ve decided.” In decision, there is simply a focusing of Energy, and our dominant intent, as we are interacting with you here—is to help you understand, without any question whatsoever, how to know, how to sense or feel, whether you are a vibrational match to your own decision. Excerpted from the Abraham-Hicks Quarterly Journal - Oct/Nov/Dec 1997

The decisions I’ve been making lately are as varied as the many aspects of my life. But none is so strong within me as the decision that I WILL RELEASE THIS WEIGHT ONCE AND FOR ALL! I am simply through thinking in terms of “trying”, or “hoping”. I have decided this physical incarnation of mine will not end in me still wanting to be thin, I will accomplish my goal and live as a thin person for the rest of my time in physical. I will do it. I will experience that reality.

I am through living in this body and feeling almost helpless to change it. In my past, that decision has always been made in desperation out of the discomfort of contrast, and it has never lasted much past the easing of the contrast. I’ve known I could change my weight in increments for a limited amount of time. However never has the ultimate knowing that “I can do this, once and for all” lasted for any longer than the actual weight loss has, usually much less. I’ve never had much faith in my decision making or my ability to let the weight finally go.

What I’ve discovered recently is that making a decision to do something once and for all and faith itself are intrinsically linked. The key to one is in the other. I mean a decision, no matter how firm, will fizzle pretty quickly without any faith in oneself to accomplish the goal. And faith alone will eventually attract what we want, but not as surely as it does when reinforced by the decision that we “will have” whatever it is.<< MORE >>

I'm back to enjoying eating healthy!

It’s not a New Year’s resolution, it’s more of a flat out, I’ve had enough . . . it’s time to create something different decision.

For me, 2009 was about taking Spiritual responsibility for my life and seeing myself as the creator that I truly am. About accepting that I’ve created every aspect of what I’m living and even bigger for me . . . accepting that I can change and recreate every aspect of it anew.

That second part has been the hard one for me. I don’t know how to explain but it’s easy for me to accept that I’ve created where I am, but not so easy to believe that I can create something different. I know that sounds silly, but it’s how I’ve felt in the past. 2009 has been about me coming into my own power, me finally being able to see that I am the creator, I am the one who chooses what I experience.

So a couple of days ago, I stepped on the scale, I knew I was getting up there, and I wasn’t surprised that the scale reflected back to me the highest weight of my life. I’ve regained everything I released before and 10 pounds on top of that. I’m only 20 pounds away from a benchmark I never, ever, EVER want to experience. In seeing the number on the scale and accepting responsibility for obtaining it, I began to feel a quite determination. I felt determined to stop the upward climb I’ve been on and instead return to what I know works for me and go the other way.

No fireworks, or rockets declaring I’ve had enough, just a subtle, quiet determination that I want to create something different, completely different, and the wonderful feeling of confidence that I can do exactly that.

So that day, I began loading on the vegetables and enjoying every minute of it. In fact I'm surprised how great they’ve been tasting considering it's winter and none of them are really fresh like in summer. I’ve made big pots of veggie soups and stews, loaded with fresh vegetables and seasonings, but very little fat.

I've got such a wonderful mind set that even veggies I was never that fond of in the past are tasting wonderful to me now. I usually feel that there are no fresh vegetables when there is snow on the ground. But I’ve discovered that was just an excuse for not eating healthy in the winter, there are lots of fresh vegetable choices when the snow is here, maybe not as many as in summer, but still lots of choices! << MORE >>

I’m huge! I'm bigger than I’ve ever been before in my life. And yet my weight, recently has became an equally huge gift to me. I’ve mentioned this before, that when I look in the mirror I cannot deny what a powerful creator I am simply because of physical proof of the amount of extra weight on my body.

Creating is creating and every ounce is there, staring back at me as evidence that I am a powerful creator. Not creating what I want necessarily, but powerfully creating what I’ve been focused upon for all these years.

I look around and most people couldn’t possibly eat enough to get to where I am, weight wise, today. With my mind I have turned my body into a fat storing machine extraordinaire. Oh, I know the average American is overweight, but the majority of them are between 20 and maybe 100 pounds overweight. I’m not talking about average, I’m talking about extraordinary weight.

I know this is going to sound funny, but just as a professional athlete must believe in their ability to be successful, they must use mental focus and determination to obtain success, a truly fat person uses the same skills, they just don’t do it consciously. To really be extraordinarily fat, one must believe in their ability to be fat wholeheartedly. Like the athlete must believe in their ability to win, fat people must believe that fat is a distinctly possible reality for them.

The average person may be able think of themselves with a few extra pounds, they may be fearful that if they overindulge over the holidays they may put on 5 or even up to 20 extra pounds, but to carry around the extra weight I carry would be incomprehensible to them. I know because I occasionally see it in their eyes when they look at me, not disapproval . . . incomprehension. “How did you create that?”

For the truly fat person, that is the question. Because in my experience we don’t believe we really created it at all. Let’s face it, if we really could connect that that bag of chips was a direct link to the huffing and puffing after climbing a set of stairs, we’d drop the bag. There is a mysterious thing that happens when we pop open that bag, we honestly don’t intellectually get that those wonderful tasting chips can harm us in any way. How could something that feels so good in that moment be bad for us? As we fill our mouths, we disassociate what is going in our bodies with what extra is on our bodies. Until the delight turns to guilt and pervasive social ideas of what we are doing sinks in and that vibration turns our bodies into fat making machines.<< MORE >>

Hello Friends,

I have been all over the map lately with releasing weight and everything else in my life.  I’m in a place of big upheaval and I am so welcoming the changes that are coming.  I’ve been asking for fresh awareness for a while now and it’s coming in from every direction.  The wonderful thing is that as it comes in from each area of my life, I can see how it’s all interconnected. 

This Spiritual/Physical life is like a tapestry with a million different colored threads coming together to create an amazing picture.  I’m not too sure about the people who actually create tapestries, but in my case, I can never tell how one colored thread is going to interact with another, but I’m beginning to understand they are all connected.  Each one of them a path to the answer to the others. 

What I’m trying to say here is that it’s come to my awareness lately that all of the areas of my life that I’m less than thrilled with are all part of a Spiritual plan to guide me toward the one big answer to them all.  I’m beginning to see that there is only one answer.  Which Abraham-Hicks has been saying for years. 

Someone said, "I have 27 questions." And we said, we have one answer: You like knowing that you are the creator of your experience. You like knowing that everyone else is too. You like knowing that Source supports you in everything that you desire, and that there is nothing that you can identify, whether you articulate it or not, that the Universe withholds from you. All things are given in the moment that you ask.  When you are specific about what you want, and you find that Path of Least Resistance, and Energy flows through you toward your inspired idea--that is life at its very best.  Excerpted from Abraham-Hicks Stop Fixing And Start Savoring
 

Quite honestly the simplicity of their message sometimes tends to be too simple for me, I’ve found recently that it’s a little more complex for me than “just look for the better feeling thought”.  I’ve been doing that for years and there haven’t been the big changes in my life for which I've been looking.  Not the changes I’ve been wanting anyway and I’ve never been able to figure out what is blocking me.

I’m not only back on my blog, but I’m back into the Allowing A Perfect Body vibration! I’m back to thinking healthy, eating healthy, and being healthy! And it feels wonderful!!!

I received Abraham-Hicks “Think And Get Slim: Natural Weight Loss CD. I listened to it the first time and was thrilled with how many unique thoughts and potential awareness it brought to me. It’s going to be so much to mull over and write about.

As is common for me with Abraham-Hicks, I will listen to it over and over and each time I will get something different out of it. It is just full of amazing weight related information, awareness and inspiration.

Overall I think the biggest thing I got out of it listening the first time is a confirmation that when I am in the Allowing A Perfect Body mindset, when I get absolutely convinced I’m doing the best things for myself, when I get excited about releasing weight, when I’m eating rainbows of fresh veggies and fruits, when I’m lighthearted, excited and absolutely pumped about creating a healthy, thinner life . . . that’s when the weight just disappears from my body.

Looking back on last year when I lost 50 pounds (post surgery it was actually more than 50), I realize that when I was in that exquisite Allowing A Perfect Body attitude, releasing the weight wasn’t hard at all. The hardest part at the time was the logistics of eating; . . . what . . . when . . . how much . . . where. That was the only slightly complicated thing in releasing the weight. The rest of it was really automatic once I got into the place of allowing.

The place of allowing . . . lately Abraham-Hicks is calling it the vortex, that place where everything flows naturally, the attitude of self love. It’s the mindset where we offer little if any resistance and allow our dreams to materialize. Abraham talks about it a lot in the CD, in fact they always come back to that in every conversation. It’s the key to attracting anything . . . thinness, money/abundance, success, love or anything else.<< MORE >>

I’ve been walking this intentional Spiritual path for 16 years, and I’ve been a student of Abraham-Hicks for 7, and I had developed to a place where I was very comfortable in my understanding of the Universe, my role in it, and my Spiritual beliefs. I believed that being Spiritually centered was just who I was now, it was how I thought about life, and how I reacted to everything. I never got angry, I rarely got even frustrated, most of the time I was truly a happy, loving and Spiritually focused person. I had begun to take it for granted.

When I look back now, the last few months illuminated for me that I had become a bit arrogant about it all. I was proud of myself for being a woman who never got sucked into anyone else’s frustrations, much less their battles. One who was always deeply serene, centered and joyful. I was a voice of peace, love and soothing when interacting with others. I simply didn't allow anyone else's contrast to effect my life, I refused to let my vibration be lowered to any other level.

Sure I experienced contrast as a part of life, but I chose not to let it determine how I felt about my life. And through Abraham I realized being that feeling good was my birthright. What I didn’t realize that it was something that I had to hold on to and consciously nurture in order to maintain it. I thought I'd become immune to feeling disconnected. I mean I had my days of feeling more connected than others, even weeks, but I always felt my connection was a major part of who I was, something I could completely depend upon being there for me always.

The teachings of Abraham taught me that I get to choose my thoughts and how I react to everything. In 2008 I Gracefully lived through first, my dear Mother’s crossing over, and then faced major surgery feeling strong in my beliefs. I faced both with my Spiritual strength never for a moment wavering. After those events, I was so Spiritually confident that I didn’t think anything could seriously shake me, I thought my Spirituality was secure regardless what happened in my life. But in the aftermath of the anesthesia, my physical recovery, my old habits of self nurturing, and many other things, an overall feeling of numbness overcame me and I began to feel very lost.

My life passion had been expanding my thinking and creating my life through meditation and reading Spiritual books, but I got to a point where I felt so disconnected I could hardly open anything enlightening. When I did, I felt resistance, or worse, numbness. I didn’t know why I had become so resistant to the very part of me that had meant the most to me before. I just missed it terribly. << MORE >>

Looking back I see clearly why I attracted the weight back to me. The only way I ever learned to comfort myself is with food, and this past year has been one of necessary self comforting for me. I was shaken physically and emotionally much more by the surgery than I admitted or realized and I slipped back so easily into old patterns of eating, thinking and allowing mindlessness.

Spirituality for me is like the ocean tides, some times it’s easy for me to keep my focus and live magically. Other times I have to work at it, as if the tides are out and I have to make the effort to remember who I am, what I believe and the truth of life. But this year has been a new experience for me, I haven’t felt anything like it since I started on my Spiritual path, I haven’t felt this . . . well . . . lost before.

I can’t fully explain where I’ve been, how I’ve been feeling or what my thinking has been, and as an Aber, I realize that dwelling on those things isn’t a good idea anyway. The closest to describing it is I simply felt lost. There was no true intention behind my actions, only following my ego and allowing myself to do whatever it took to make myself feel “better”. Even though I never seemed to get to the feeling of better, only a feeling of more, more, more. That endless craving to fill the void.

For those of you familiar with Abraham-Hicks Emotional Scale, (I’ve created a separate entry for it, see Abraham-Hicks The Emotional Scale) I usually live in the top seven emotions and rarely dip to 8 or below. But this past year I’ve been dwelling between 7 and 16. Never truly upset, just numbly going from mild contentment to feelings of discouragement.

I’ve been an Aber long enough though that I don’t feel bad about this past year. I realize it had it’s purpose. I appreciate where I was much more because of it. I have a much more clear picture of what it means to follow my Heart’s Desire. I have a much deeper appreciation of the path I was on and how important it truly is to me. I feel so much love for this blog and how connected it is to be releasing weight and creating the life I want to be living.

It’s amazing to me the strength I feel, flowing in through my fingers as I type these words. As if my connection to Source, the Angels and the Universe is circling through me, my fingers on the keyboard, the internet, each of you, the Universe and back to me. And with each wave, I feel stronger and stronger in my determination and resolve to Allow My Perfect Body to blossom.

I guess I had to loose a bit of my connection in order to genuinely appreciate how unimaginatively wonderful it is to feel connected again. << MORE >>