by Maike Jaeger…

blog100208_maikeI was turning 30, eating one whole box of chocolates a night. It finally became obvious to me that this was not a way to live, but a way to die. I cried when I realized that. It was a horrible shock. But I made the decision then and there that it didn’t matter how many people in my life had given up on me or I had given up on, that the only thing that really mattered is not to give up on myself.

I had yo-yoed my weight through vigorous exercise, only to gain back all the weight I had lost with such hard work. That changed, though, once I realized that the problem was my mind, not my body. I decided to find out more about how to influence my mind to tell my body to shed the weight for good.

I knew instinctively that I could change my eating habits and diet all I wanted, but without thinking about myself and my life differently it would be to no avail. I had come to the realization that my weight was actually a physical shield against the pain I was experiencing in the outside world on a daily basis. It was also a shield against my father for a long time who never accepted me for me. He has his own struggles with weight and reflected them back onto me.

Luckily at the right time I came across a website which has helped me tremendously: www.gabrielmethod.com. I saw it as an ad while I was browsing the internet. At first I thought this sounds too good to be true. It is probably just another get rich quick scheme for weight loss. But I started to read and saw the results of others and my interest was peaked to the point that I ordered his book. What he says makes so much sense. For the first time someone tackled weight loss from a different angle: how our mind influences our body to gain or loose weight. Gabriel’s results speak for themselves.

I have been losing weight steadily for 6 months. It’s now 57 lbs and counting. I average between 2 and 5 lbs every week! That is amazing! No other program, exercise or diet ever made me achieve such results. The approach is different for everyone, but I realized that I don’t need this physical shield anymore and I started communicated effectively with my mind. I started telling my mind what I want for my life and what not and it is working! Simple, minor changes have proven most effective. When before, weight loss was a struggle and a daily battle with the scale, it is now something that comes easy and I don’t even have to think about it.

Listen to yourself. Listen to what feels right to you. Allow yourself to go through the motions of depression, allow those negative feelings, because if you don’t it will take you longer to overcome that “dark tunnel” if at all; if you deny it will catch up to you with a vengeance. I speak from painful experience.

Your body and mind give you all the answers you need; you just have to learn to listen. Don’t do things that don’t feel right to you. Let go. You cannot control life and you cannot control your daily stresses; but you are in charge of your reactions to them. Follow your heart.

I have realized through more than 10 years of depression that once you let go you can get back to a state of letting life flow and through this process you can rediscover yourself and who you truly are in order to find your happiness.

Life does not have to be darkness and it does not have to be a struggle. The only thing you have to do is to make a commitment to yourself that no matter whom or what fails you, you will never desert yourself; you will always be there for yourself no matter what life throws at you. I get a tremendous sense of satisfaction from knowing that I am accountable for myself and that I will always be there when things go wrong. Only I know what’s best for me.

I would like to pass this confidence on to you. Listen to yourself and do what’s best for you. Trust yourself and you will always be on a path that is beautiful and bright. Open your heart and open your mind and only good will come to you.


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