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I woke up this morning from another night of strange dreams and all the thoughts that had been swirling around in my head, many from reading The Geography of Bliss, came together into one clear thought: There are many ways to live, I’m going to live happy!
It suddenly all seemed so clear!
Yes, its similar in simplicity to my “eat when your hungry!” epiphany.
Tags: books, Eric Weiner, happiness, The Geography of Bliss
This really gave me an Aha! moment. Ok, several aha moments.
Every weight issue is really a power issue.
Your body is not what you want it to be. At heart, you feel that this is beyond your control. Thintuition is about returning power and control back to you.
You become the boss of your own body.
With each successful diet, you may feel you are finally coming to grips with your weight. In the short term, you feel empowered. The burst of confidence lasts until the first few pounds come back; usually in a matter of days or weeks, and your self-esteem plummets.
Then, you look for the next best diet, and start the whole process over again. To break this miserable cycle for good, you first need to realize that you never were, and you never will be empowered by dieting.
Dieting only gave you the temporary illusion of power while you were losing weight. You had given your power away to the diet. In exchange, the diet gave you what you wanted, for awhile. But the moment you stopped obeying, it retaliated with excess pounds. The reason has nothing to do with the particulars of the diet.
The root of the problem is giving away your power. Period. When you overeat, you give away your power to food. When you diet, you give away your power to external authorities who tell you what, when, and how much to eat. Either way, what’s missing from this picture is you.
Your body knows what, when, and how much it needs to eat. And your body is you.
When you let your body be the boss, you have taken back control. That’s power. The first step is to STOP dieting, and to start following your thintuition.
-Rob Stevens
What impacted me the most when I saw this was hearing that, “The root of the problem is giving away your power.” ! What? That’s the root of the problem? … Hey, that is the root of the problem!
I said that phrase to myself a few times and then turned it around. If that’s the root of the problem, then: The root of the solution is accepting my power.
The root of the solution is accepting my power.
The root of the solution is acknowledging my power.
Tags: happiness, health, quotes, Rob Stevens, Thintuition, uplifting, video, weight loss, Wishes for you
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