— have you ever walked into a room with other people and felt tension in the air? The atmosphere may feel pressured, and all you want to do is get out of there as soon as possible. You may even experience this in complete silence. And the opposite is true as well. You may go places that exude a sense of calmness and relaxation. Is this all fake because you cannot touch it? Moreover, what about when people express kindness, compassion, or sympathy, and you feel your heart melt? Is that “feeling” real? Can you touch the experience of a beautiful sunset, or touch the experience you can have when you watch a newborn? What do you mean when you say that you felt the “energy” in shul on Kol Nidrei night? All your feelings, emotions, and thoughts are energy vibrations running through your body! You don’t need to understand how this works, because you know that you’re experiencing it. For practical purposes, you can think of energy as air. What happens when you have a negative thought? Well, the air travels through your heart and may continue to circulate though your body. If you didn’t work through that thought, then it won’t be released, and so it will get stuck somewhere inside of you. This is why you may hear people complaining about different aches and
pains, which the doctor will tell you actually comes from stress. The stress is that “negative trapped energy” that becomes attached to certain parts of your body and makes them really ache! Can you see now how your mind and body are totally connected? It’s simple stuff; this is something you know and feel, yet many of you simply may not be connecting to it.
WHAT DOES THE MIND/BODY CONNECTION HAVE TO DO WITH WEIGHT LOSS?
Since every thought either flows out of you or stays trapped in your body, imagine all the negative stuff trapped within you! Negative thoughts create negative feelings, which ultimately turn into negative habits, actions, and behaviors. You may think you want a third slice of cake, even if you’re not hungry. You may say things like, “I crave it, and I need it now,” or perhaps you’re aware that you’re stressed out, and so you feel like you can’t resist. However, if you have trapped and repressed thoughts like, I always gain back the weight I lost, or I can never keep to a food plan for too long, it’s because you never replaced it with a positive thought. All those negative thoughts will continue to take over your life. Try to replace this energy with
positivity by thinking, I choose to make a better choice now, or Just because I did this in the past doesn’t mean I have to do so in the future. Change your “always.” You create your reality! If you don’t have a toolbox with strategies and techniques to help yourself, you will continue to act on impulse — and you will constantly be overeating, blaming it on all kinds of circumstances. Let’s get “real”! There will always be something outside of your control that it will be easy to blame overeating on. For example: I made chasunah, I traveled, I had so many guest over, I had extra kids over at my house, I am financially stressed out, my marriage is off… We should only be busy with simchas, but be aware that as long as you have a heartbeat, there will always be “something” going on… You have a thought, a feeling and then proceed by taking action. That’s all there is to it! And depending on what your thought was, your actions will have either positive or negative consequences. This brings us to the next article, where we’ll be discussing potent and powerful techniques that all begin with your thoughts. Now you know how different thoughts will lead you to different actions!
Esty Weiss, CHC, is a certified weight-loss expert and President of WeighSmarter™, a dynamic weight-loss program geared towards orthodox women. She specializes in solutions for lasting weight-loss, using many techniques including, but not limited to, personalized fat-burning food plans, guided imagery, positive affirmations, and EFT. Esty first used these powerful tools to lose over 70 pounds, herself, and since 2006 has used these same tools to help others. She lives in Monsey, NY with her husband and five kids ka”h. For any questions or comments, Esty can be reached at: 845-459-4807 or weighsmarter@gmail.com
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