Your Fat Cells Are Listening

By Carol Tuttle Master Emotional Release Therapist and the author of the best-selling book, Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century. At a quantum level, we are all just big bundles of energy. Our thoughts are energy, our words are energy, and our emotions are energy. Whatever you choose to focus on multiplies.That is, energy flows to whatever you think about a lot, speak about a lot, and whatever you respond to with emotion -- and it grows. You have a relationship with your body, and YOUR BODY IS LISTENING TO YOU! If you keep telling your body it is FAT, it will continue to be fat for you.Your cells are an intelligence system with which you communicate.Whenever you say, "I am fat," your fat cells listen and respond. Most people with weight issues are very practiced at speaking negatively about themselves and their bodies.The result is that, by doing this, they keep adding to the problem. It is almost impossible for your body to change when you keep sending it negative messages.As long as you say, "I am FAT," you give your body more instruction and energy to BE FAT! I teach my clients to change their language to support their body in changing.Changing the negative "I am" to a positive "I am" is a powerful first step. Change the "I am fat" to "I am slimming down."Change the "I never get results; it is too hard to lose weight," to "I am getting results; it is getting easier to lose weight." Some people have a hard time saying a positive "I am" when that is not their current reality.The point is, if you want to change your reality, you had better start changing the way you think and speak about it. Your body's intelligence system is smart.I believe the natural state of the body is to be lean and healthy.The body is always striving for this outcome, yet the power your mind has to disrupt this natural outcome is strong -- especially when your body keeps getting daily doses of negative feedback from you. Trust your body to start doing the job it was created to do for you.If you despise your body, you weaken it and block its power.Love your body in its current condition.The body is in many ways like a small child: it just wants to do a good job and be appreciated and loved.You wouldn't tell a 4-year-old child that she was no good and unlovable, would you? Imagine your body as if it were a small child, to whom your thoughts and words are directed every day. Are you being an abusive adult to your body?Stop abusing your body with your thoughts and words.Start loving your body, and you will be amazed at how it will start working even harder for you to get the results you desire. The following are some of my clients' favorite affirmations that can be used to empower your body:

• I am healthy and lean.
• I give myself recognition beyond food.
• I love myself, I love my body, and fat just disappears.
• I look nice; I am active; I am enough; and I count.
• I am my ideal weight.
• I feel great in my clothes.
• I enjoy exercising several times a week.
• I can say "No."
• It is easy to find other things to do in the evening rather than eating.
• I can let down my walls.
• I am proud of my body; it did what I told it to do.
• My body's natural state is to be lean.
• I am fulfilled.
• Food is a resource I manage wisely.
• My metabolism works great.
• My body knows what to do with what I give it.
• I am patient with my body as it learns new habits.
• Others notice how great I look and feel.
• My organs are relieved of overwork.
• I am slim and trim.
• My body responds to my thoughts.
• I am physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually balanced and healthy.
• I am whatever I think and feel I am.

Make your affirmations more powerful by using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) while you are speaking them.Learn how to apply EFT, the fastest and easiest way to change your energy, at the Carol Tuttle Healing Center Web site. Carol Tuttle is an energy therapist and the author of "Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century." Check out her best-selling CD, "Clearing the Issues that Are Keeping You FAT!"For more information on Carol, her book and CDs, go to her Web site. Dr. Mercola's Comment:Earlier this year I had an opportunity to attend a three day Internetseminar with Carol and had a chance to get to know her. Although I enjoyed the seminar, the highlight was the opportunity to get to know Carol. Without a doubt energy psychology is one of the greatest tools I have ever encountered in the healing modalities and EFT is an amazing application of this discipline. Carol happens to be one of the most gifted EFT clinicians I know of. If you want to apply some of the principles Carol discusses in the above article and learn powerful healing techniques to release the emotional issues that are keeping you from losing the weight you willwantto pick up Carol's best-selling Audio CD Clearing the Issues that are Keeping You Fat.You can also reviewCarol's other life changing books, CDs and DVDs thatI highly recommended. Carol stopped seeing clients awhile ago so she can concentrate on sharing her message over the internet.However there was such a demand for her services that shedecided to limit her patient load andincrease her fees to $10,000 for a series ofcomprehensive individual consultationsand even at thoserates she has more clients than she can handle. InOctober Iinvited Carol to spend some time at my center to teach my staff some of her principles and we had a great time and decided that we will offer a joint seminar in Chicago in April 6, 7 and 8th. I want to tell you that now as by then it will have been nearly two years since I have held a major event. The last one was also in Chicago in June of 2004. It was an EFT event with Gary Craig and we sold out the 550 seats in a few days and had a waiting list of over 500 people who could not attend. Well, this event should be far better than the one last year as we have some incredible programs that will absolutely amaze you at the benefits you will receive. Can't tell you much more about it now, but I do want to forewarn you to mark you calendars now for next April 6-8th and plan on being in Chicago for an event you will remember the rest of your life.