I perceive you to be a decent individual and usual- ly I can tell if somebody is an overeater. Usually I can tell if someone is really doing themselves a great deal of damage by impulsive eating or com- pulsive eating. I really don't sense that with you. I feel that what has happened is that your subcon- scious mind has sent a message to your conscious mind for you to put on some weight. And it will be sort of like insulation, if you will. It is sort of like a protective security blanket. By being over- weight it may keep you safe.
And the psychological reason for this is that you are probably not ready to move on to the next lev- el of your life. So unconsciously you are keeping yourself status-quo. And the message is, well, if I am overweight I am probably not as attractive as I normally would be. And if I am not as attractive as I normally would be, perhaps the opposite sex would not take notice of me, and it will give me a chance to resolve what is left unresolved.
Statistically, people that are overweight are usual- ly not overweight because they are compulsive eaters, or addictive eaters. It is usually because of some unresolved emotional issue in their life. And it may well indicate that you have gone through some unresolved, unrequited issues, in your life.
It is interesting to note as well, that usually when a person is overweight, something of a traumatic nature has occurred in their life to make them overweight. So if you can think of the bear hiber- nating for the winter, and they eat and they eat, and they get big and plump, and then they sleep all winter. It sort of protects them against the ele- ments that will happen in the future.
By you being overweight, and I think basically you're a very attractive person, you know you've got the brains, the personality, and simply by be- ing overweight I realize that you are the same per- son as you are outside. I know there's not any change there. And I know that by being over- weight that you, in a sense are overtaxing your body.
What happens is when you go for a medical checkup, no matter what the reason is for the med- ical check up, they are going to say well perhaps you could take off some weight, you're going to feel better. And that's probably rightly so, because by being at your proper weight, and I would sense that your proper weight is probably going to be a few pounds less than you weigh now, but you did not put on all of the weight at one time. •
It took a pretty good time to put on the weight and you can't take off the weight all at once. But I feel in my mind that it will come off. I feel that you will be able to maintain your proper weight. And there is probably two or three things that you can do that I can share with you to help in your goal. One is, several times a day to visualize in your mind, you know, just sit in a corner somewhere and close your eyes, and just... it's not meditation and its not hypnosis, it is more or less guided im- agery, but you sit down and you close your eyes and you visualize yourself standing on your scales.
In your mind you look down at the scale and try to visualize your proper weight. Not necessarily how much you weigh now, but whatever your proper weight is, you try to visualize this in your mind, and these numbers become your lucky numbers. And so that by doing that you are sort of reinforc- ing who you want to be and what weight you want to be at. It is sort of like planting positive seeds. That is one visualization that you can keep doing. Another visualization is to look in the past at a time in your life when you really felt good about yourself, you really felt good about the way you looked, the way you felt, and how much you weighed, and it may be two years ago, or it may be twenty years ago. It really doesn't matter. But it should be a time in your life when you real- ly felt pretty much in balance with the universe, and in harmony with the universe, and in harmony
with your own body. You can make that visualiza- tion within your mind. An affirmation to go along with the visualization is that I possess the power within my own mind, to make what seems impos- sible, possible. That is one affirmation.
Another affirmation to give yourself is if in my life there have existed any reasons for me to be overweight as of this moment those reasons no longer exist. These are two very strong affirma- tions relative to weight loss. I am not a doctor, I cannot prescribe medications, and I can't even prescribe medical procedures, but what I can do is intuitively say to you that you hold the key to your own happiness in your life relative to weight loss.
By getting down to your proper weight you are going to pretty much add an additional 20-25 years onto your life. I believe you can live 20-25 years longer than you ordinarily would. I believe ' that you'll look healthier, I believe that you will look younger. You will look more vital, you will look more attractive.
Your clothing will fit you better, and people will have a tendency of accepting you as an equal rath- er than you feeling stigmatized, and I think all things considered, I think it's the proper direction for you to go. Think about eliminating eating any junk foods that begin with the letter 'C
That would include cakes, cookies, chocolate, car- amels, cupcakes, chips, cheeses, Cheeto's, and whatever junk foods. Obviously I am not talking about cabbage, carrots, and cauliflower. I am talk- ing about junk foods that begin with the letter C. It is widely believed that if you can ingest a half a gallon of water a day, for some people it might even be less. That's- going to rinse the salts through your system.
I believe there is another psychological factor that is involved here. My sense of you as an entity, or my sense of you from your voice, from who you are, I would almost think in a previous existence, in a previous lifetime, I would sense that you were probably Indian, and I would think that your whole tribe died of starvation.
I would see you being of the opposite sex in this past lifetime, but something went wrong, in the winter time, there was just not enough food for you and your tribe to get through the winter. And I sense that you died because of that.
Now, if you believe in fate and if you believe in reincarnation and past lives and future lives, that would indicate that in this lifetime you may be overcompensating for the past lifetime when you died of starvation, and in this lifetime you want to sort of insure that you will not die of starvation in this lifetime. So there may well be some psycho-
logical factors involved there. I believe that you are at a crossroads within your life where it's nec- essary for you to make a determination and make a decision.
Because obviously if you continue in your current eating habits I think that you will always be over- weight. Which has a tendency of affecting your self esteem, which has a tendency of affecting your ego, your psyche, the way you interact with people, your interpersonal relationships, your ca- reer. It really has a tendency of effecting a lot of different aspects within your life.
My personal feeling is that you have been in hid- ing. It is almost like you have been a split peson- ality. There is two people that I am talking to. And you have the option. The choice is yours. As I have said throughout my teachings, that your life is by choice, not be chance. Nobody forces you to eat. I am not standing in judgment of you, and I am certainly not being critical of you, there may well have been reasons in the past for you to be overweight.
There may well have been reasons for you to keep the security blanket, to keep yourself insulated. I don't want to say there's been no reasons, but there may well have been reasons. What I am say- ing to you now is I sense at this moment, that those reasons no longer exist.
So it is time for you to move on. There will be a point in time in your future when you walk along the street there will be old friends of yours that will probably not recognize you.
Friends that you have not seen for a period of time, I don't think will recognize you. Any weight loss should, of course, be in conjunction with doc- tors visits and any weight loss should be really a joint venture between you and your physician. I don't want you to take what I say as Bible truth, I am simply giving you intuitive feelings. I have a deal with the American Medical Association, I won't prescribe medicine and medical techniques, and they won't do psychic readings. But my sixth sense is usually very acute and very accurate. I sense within you there is a person wanting to come out. There is a person deep within you that wants to come to the surface because they are tired of being the person that they have been for such a long period of time. And I do say to you that medical studies have shown that by being at your proper weight, your heart beats normally, that your blood pressure has a tendency of being normal, that your moods, there are no super highs and super lows.
By being at your proper weight there is a lack of depression and despondency. You simply look
healthy, feel better, and obviously you get a great many compliments from people around you. That is certainly a challenge, but based on your past track record I think that you would do well in ac- cepting a challenge.
So it's a question again, and I believe we are gov- erned by fate and Karma and the universe, but I still feel that some of the times that we have the determination and the decisions to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and get on with our lives. And I believe you have been in a holding pattern too long.
You have been in this limbo situation too long, and I believe now that it is time to move forward and I think that... my sense is, at least my psychic sense is, that you can accomplish whatever you want to accomplish by believing in yourself and knowing that you can do this, because basically you are a very attractive person.
Basically, you're a nice person. You've got the brains, the personality, a likable individual. And if you were short, fat and ugly, well, and you lost a bunch of weight, you'd end up being short, thin and ugly. You see. But that's not the issue here. I think you are a very attractive individual.
I think you've got a lot of charisma, a lot of mag- netism about you, and I think that the timing is right, because timing is everything. And perhaps... I realize that you have thought a great deal about weight loss and I realize that you've thought a great deal about getting down to your proper weight, and there never seems to be enough time. Or you don't have the consistency to stay with it, but what I am sharing with you, these things that I am sharing with you... we are not talking diet, we are not talking diet control, we are simply talking about visualizations that will work for you.
By visualizing these different scenes, how you looked in the past, how you want to look in the fu- ture... If you do these several times a day, things will kick in to make this happen. In any event, hopefully when I see you in the future or talk to you in the future or hear from you in the future, you shall be a much happier person because of the words that I have shared with you. Good luck and God bless.