Examining our thoughts can help us create the best conditions for a healthy weight. Here are two areas to examine:
First: I am not my body. If I said, “I need a new transmission, or I got a huge crack in my windshield yesterday.” There would be no doubt that I was talking about my car. Even if I spend many hours a day inside my car, my car and I are separate. I am not my car and never will be. Its the same with the physical body. I am not my body.
So if I say, “I have arthritis, or I cut my finger badly yesterday,” I am actually talking about my body. This body is experiencing arthritic or this body has a cut. I am separate from my body even if I live in that body for 90 years. I am separate.
What is the “I” that is separate? I like to call it my spirit and it is my belief that the spirit uses the body as the vehicle to be in the physical world. The spirit is perfect with no disease and no injury ever. The body is the tool to teach the spirit different lessons. Knowing this – that I am not my body, can bring a better perspective to the journey of weight loss or healing.
Second idea: How am I treating my teammate? Let’s say we are watching a doubles tennis match. One team is working together fabulously. They encourage each other and each works very hard at communicating positively at all times. They enjoy the game and seem to work as one. They will likely win many times with this unity.
The other team is sad and embarrassing to watch. They fight and bicker and play mean tricks – and not in a fun way. They are truly enemies and sometimes one of them misses the ball deliberately as if trying to sabotage the game. They speak in cutting and disrespectful ways most of the game. They will likely lost many times with this fighting.
I and my body are on the same team. So which kind of team are we? How do I treat my team member?
This week examine thoughts about our internal dialog and external actions toward our team member. Awareness is the first step to change.
5) My body is my friend. How much do you believe this?
Think about the qualities you most desire and appreciate in a friend; loyalty, compassion, truth, perceptiveness. A friend will be the one who when you most need help – even if that help is a kick in the pants or a call to the police, will give that help. A friend wants the best for you, even if you don’t want it for yourself yet.
This is the kind of friend our own body is to us. Our body gives us messages thru weight, injuries and illnesses that something in our attitude or behavior needs to be examined. We might ignore this message for a long time and even think our body is an enemy because it sends this message, but like the loyal friend that it is, the body will keep sending the message, keep doing the harsh thing until we listen and change something.
We are raised in the culture to view our body as the enemy. We must train it, subdue it, fight it, drug it, judge it in order to get what is culturally acceptable from the body. This fight is exhausting and not making use of an ally in our own camp for health and wellness – the body.
The body is my friend. If we have uploaded all the programming from childhood into the unconscious mind, then we don’t believe this in our heart. So to change that we will use the temporal tapping and the affirmations to go along with that. A more detailed explanation of temporal tapping is here
When you tap on the left side say these affirmations:
My body is not my enemy
I don’t want to view my body as my enemy
My body doesn’t sabotage me
When you tap on the right side, say these affirmations:
My body is my friend
I can trust my body’s messages
My body helps me achieve my goals
