Our mentality is like a smokey ghost busy behind the edges of the crowd and it surely doesn’t get the applause it should. Our mentality has been there working, serving us, providing for us. Our minds have raised our despair to hope, has served as a warehouse of our experiences, has sat in judgment over many of our experiences and yet throughout all this, they’ve received scant recognition for their role.

In truth, they are the source of both the problem and of the self healing than is possible.

I was in my early 30s when my therapist asked me “What did you just think?” and I was unable to answer him. When I sat in that chair across from his desk, already acclimated to accusations by my parents and my church, I felt intimidated by his question. I resolved to never be unable to answer that question again, should he even ask it.

That event was a milestone for me. It was the beginning of my journey within. I started to watch myself thinking. Now you may think it strange, but I had not begun to observe my thinking until this happened to me. What about you? Do you watch what you are thinking? Are you aware of the nattering that goes on inside your mind?

Another event that gets a big recognition happened when I was taking the est training in the early 70s. My trainer spoke about one’s “little voice” and she quipped, “You know - the one that just said ‘What little voice?’” And that’s exactly what my little voice had said! She clearly had my attention. From those early events, I became a keen observer of my thinking processes. I was fortunate to study logic in college and it helped me shape my ability to use my mentality to reason deductively.

I wasn’t consciously aware of all these happenings until I was a bit older. I was so immersed in trying to correct this dang obesity that I completely missed the connection between being fat and the way I’d been thinking about my body.

There are a large number of obese people who do not overeat. Some are. But every obese individual is a thinker. I know that what I’ve thought and not what I’ve eaten has caused my obesity. Here are a few of my mistaken thoughts:

* They call me Patty Fatty. I must BE fat.

* They say I look like Aunt Ida and she is fat. I’m going to be fat when I become an adult.

* Having a healthy appetite can make you obese.

It’s so sad when you think how an innocent child is affected by the inputs of their parents, relatives, teachers, and friends ~ all innocently enough. What’s true is that your thought, your mind, is the causative part of you. It works frequently unnoticed in the background.

I really, really pray that this article permits you to give your mind and its thoughts the attention it truly deserves. I’d encourage you to give these ideas some conscious review in your life. If you can see what you’ve thought, and you can see how what you’ve thought has manifested forth in your life, you can then create a way to un-do it by changing the way you think.

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