Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Part III: Physical Stresses that Activate the FAT Programs

In some parts of the world, we are literally swimming in real poisons. Most of these chemicals and toxins are completely new, not only to our bodies but also to nature . Our Stone Age bodies are not equipped to deal with Space Age poisons. Sometimes, in your body’s attempt to neutralize poisons, it may inadvertently create new substances that are even more toxic than the original chemicals.

It’s not your body’s fault. It’s doing the best it can to deal with things that don’t even occur in nature.

There’s a famous I Love Lucy episode where she and Ethel are working in the wrapping room in a chocolate factory. Of course, something goes wrong, and the conveyor belt that is bringing the chocolates to them starts going too fast for Lucy and Ethel to be able to wrap the candies. The humor comes from their increas- ingly desperate efforts to keep up with a system that’s giving them more than they can handle. Lucy and Ethel end up stuffing bonbons in their mouths, into their uniforms, and into their hats, making their boss think they are doing a good job and inspiring him to speed up the conveyor belt even more. Dealing with poisons in your body can be very similar. If you are living in a crowded city and eating a modern conventional diet, the toxins may be coming in much faster than your body can safely eliminate them. As a result, all these toxins have to be stored somewhere in the meantime. One of the places that your body stores toxins is in your fat cells because fat is a very effec- tive chemical buffer. The fat surrounds the toxin and protects both the fat cell and the rest of your body from the potentially damaging effect of the toxin, until your body is ready to deal with the toxin. One study found that most Americans are storing somewhere between four hundred and eight hundred toxic chemicals in their fat cells. 2 Storing toxins in fat is supposed to be a temporary measure, a short-term solution. Your body is waiting for the day when it stops being overwhelmed by a toxic environment and has

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