SYMPTOMS OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
Advice: Don’t freak out, but just accept it as a symptom of where you are right now. You will release/gain the weight when all your fears have been integrated. Release your anxiety about this. Then you might find it easier to lose/gain the weight eventually. Exercise.
Before eating, try this: Sit at the table with an attractive place setting. Light a candle. Enjoy how the food looks. Place your dominant hand over your heart and bless the food. Tell your body that you are going to use the food to richly nourish it, but that you are not going to use the food to fulfill your emotional hungers.
Then pass your hand from left to right over the food and bless it. You may notice that the food feels warm to your hand even if the food is cold– I like to think that the food is good for me when it feels warm and nourishing to my hand. I have also noticed that when I practice blessing the food, I don’t eat as much. It is important not to let yourself off the hook when you forget to bless the food before you eat.
If I’ve forgotten and I’ve nearly finished eating, I bless the food anyway. That way I don’t slip out of the habit. Another thing you can do is to stay present while eating — don’t watch TV or read. Heartily enjoy what blessings are before you.
6. Changes in eating habits: Strange cravings and odd food choices. Some find they are not as hungry as they used to be. Or hungrier.
Went through all this insanity years ago. Then everything was taken away from me, lost my career, my retirement money, everything I owned, My life as I knew it collapsed, and I developed a long lasting, undiagnosed health problem. I see how money must be my focus. Without it, I cannot keep the physical body alive. Not that I want to, there is no reason to live [oops, was I not supposed to reveal that?]. And now what? Really? Staying alive to stay alive to stay alive to stay alive. Seems silly, doesn’t it?