Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Part IV: Positive Forces that Make Your Body Want to Be Thin

Not Just About Losing Weight I don’t have a weight problem. I’m a naturally skinny person, but I’ve suffered from very serious health problems. I had severe candida and was on the anti-candida diet for four years. I’d been diagnosed with diabetes insipidis and urinary tract infections. Body-wise, I just wasn’t functioning properly. I wasn’t sleeping properly. I was going to the toilet two, three times a night. My bowels wouldn’t work. I couldn’t eat; I couldn’t think. I couldn’t remember. Some days I couldn’t even get out of bed because my health was so bad. I could sleep for three days and still be tired. I’d been under every medical track you can imagine. I had high acidity in my blood. I had hair and nail analysis, and they found I had high mercury levels, low calcium. It didn’t matter what good food I was eating, the nutrients just weren’t getting to my cells. Then my partner bought Jon’s book. There are a thousand and one weight-loss books out there, and I didn’t think anything of it, but then he bought all of these weight-loss supplements like digestive enzymes and the omegas and flaxseed oil and all that, and I thought “These are damn good supplements!” Then my partner lost eighteen pounds and I thought, “This guy must really know what he’s talking about!” So out of curiosity, I decided to have a look at Jon’s book. Chapter 6 just blew me away because I realized I had to accept myself, my family, my upbringing, and that I had to forgive— forgive my mother, forgive my father—forgive all the bad things that ever happened to me. The first time I read that chapter I nearly threw it across the room into the wall because I thought “You’ve got to be kidding! I’m NEVER going to be forgiving these people in my entire life.” The second time I read it, about three months later, I played around with the idea a bit in my mind. I thought, well, maybe I could, maybe I couldn’t. And I decided “No, I’m not doing it.” I thought that forgiveness was being weak. So I couldn’t for- give because I had to show “them” I was strong, and that I would fight them. That was my mentality. I had to learn to be independent, so I built this big wall surrounding me. I thought

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