Category Archives: Private Practice Notes

Here is where we talk about the nitty gritty of day after day being in a room with a client in person, on the phone, or just doing the proxy work, in the absence of other practitioners with whom we can interact.
Here we can talk about how to nurture ourselves and stay connected to our best selves and peers while in the service of others.

November 3, 2013- A Fabulous Message From Patricia Cota- Robles

This message is just so wonderful from Patricia Cota Robles that I had to send it on early this week.

She describes the pilgrimage to Italy that was just completed along with some really helpful information about the release of many of our old patterns of limitation .

Just reading the first paragraph is so fabulous !

The New Moon Solar Eclipse that is taking place November 3rd will bring to fruition the greatest collective purging of the obsolete patterns and human miscreations associated with the old Earth that Humanity has ever endured. This is occurring in our individual lives and in our collective lives as the Family of Humanity. The Company of Heaven has assured us that with the intervention of our I AM Presence, this facet of the Divine Plan is being God Victoriously accomplished. Now, we can more easily move forward with the next step of our Ascension into the patterns of perfection for the New Earth.”

All I can say is Wahooo!!!!!!!!

Be A Peace Commanding Presence In The Midst Of Chaos

by Patricia Cota-Robles

www.eraofpeace.org

November 2, 2013

The New Moon Solar Eclipse that is taking place November 3rd will bring to fruition the greatest collective purging of the obsolete patterns and human miscreations associated with the old Earth that Humanity has ever endured. This is occurring in our individual lives and in our collective lives as the Family of Humanity. The Company of Heaven has assured us that with the intervention of our I AM Presence, this facet of the Divine Plan is being God Victoriously accomplished. Now, we can more easily move forward with the next step of our Ascension into the patterns of perfection for the New Earth.

Even though you may feel like you are still in a blender and your life is in chaos, know that your I AM Presence is in charge and you are successfully moving forward in the Light at warp speed. You may be tired of hearing that without much outer-world evidence, but it is true beyond your greatest comprehension. Remember, you are a multidimensional Being of Light and you are functioning on many levels of consciousness simultaneously. In the not too distant future you will realize this beyond a shadow of a doubt. In the mean time, if you are experiencing challenges in your life it is important for you to understand that they are happening only in the very densest frequencies of the 3rd-dimensional old Earth, which your I AM Presence is in the process of transcending and transmuting into Light. This is true whether you are consciously aware of it or not. The old Earth is the very last dimension to reflect the unprecedented shifts of energy, vibration, and consciousness that are taking place within the hearts and minds of ALL Humanity. The old Earth is also the least real of all of the dimensions we abide in.

Until you are able to see tangible evidence of the miraculous changes taking place in your life, it is vital that you stay focused on the Light and be a Peace Commanding Presence for yourself, your loved ones, and your sisters and brothers in the Family of Humanity who are so buried in the painful experiences of their lives that they cannot raise their heads above the chaos enough to know the Truth of what is actually occurring on Earth. You have been preparing for this moment for aeons. Know that the time to fulfill this facet of your Divine Plan is NOW!

The reason things are so confusing is because we are currently walking with our feet in both worlds. On one level we are experiencing the purging and the transmutation of the human miscreations we either deliberately or inadvertently created through the misuse of our free will and our creative faculties of thought and feeling while sojourning through life on the old Earth. On another level we are beginning to experience a newly awakened level of Christ Consciousness. This is allowing us to tangibly connect with the patterns of Oneness, Reverence for ALL Life, and Transfiguring Divine Love that are flowing into the mental and emotional strata of the New Earth, which we are also abiding on. These two experiences are very difficult to reconcile. Fortunately, as the old Earth dissipates and is transmuted into Light, the patterns of Divine Love and Oneness associated with the New Earth will become more obvious. These life-enhancing patterns will be the order of the New Day for ALL Humanity. When this transition is complete, we will live, move, breathe, and have our Beings on the New Earth, then the obsolete patterns of separation and duality will be a thing of the past.

I would like to share with you a few of the powerful things that occurred during our Pilgrimage to Italy which took place October 5-17, 2013. Hopefully, this information will be encouraging to you and help you align with the miracles that are taking place in spite of the illusion of outer-world appearances. There were 93 people from 17 countries who traveled to Italy to serve as instruments of God for this facet of the Divine Plan. This was a global activity of Light. In addition to those who were physically present, thousands of people from all over the world joined with us in consciousness.

Our group flight left from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is where the United States of America was founded and the sacred documents for our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were written and signed by our Founding Fathers. Over a year ago, several of us decided that we would go a few days early and visit the historical sites where these events took place.

Two days before we left for Philadelphia our Congress decided to shut down the government. Consequently, all of the buildings were closed except the National Constitution Center. We knew when we arrived that something very important was happening, because the entire world was focusing on the dysfunction and the ineptness of the only super power government. This global attention created a collective cup of Humanity’s consciousness. This in turn created an open portal through which the Company of Heaven could project the Light of God to transmute the maladies and the appalling abuse of power associated with the governments of the world. We were told by the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth that during that Cosmic Moment, the United States was serving as the microcosm of the macrocosm for all of the world governments. They revealed that an intense purging was necessary within all of the governments of the world before the portal for the Renaissance of Divine Love could be opened to full breadth in Italy.

The Beings of Light asked if we would be willing to serve as the Open Door through which the Light of God would flow to bless all Life on Earth. We, of course, in deep humility and gratitude willingly accepted that responsibility. As we traversed the National Constitution Center, Saint Germain and the Founding Fathers of the United States of America gathered in the atmosphere above Philadelphia. These Beings of Light have been holding the sacred space for the eventual manifestation of Divine Government for not only the USA, but for all of the governments of the world.

Divine Government in its full power and might will consist of world governments that are OF the I AM Presence of Humanity, BY the I AM Presence of Humanity, FOR the I AM Presence of Humanity. They will be governments that reflect the highest good for every person, place, condition, and thing in every country on Earth. They will be governments that emanate Divine Love and function from a consciousness of Oneness and Reverence for ALL Life. In other words, governments that are in alignment with the patterns of perfection for the New Earth.

In a powerful activity of Light, St. Germain and our Founding Fathers flooded the USA and every government on Earth with the most intensified frequencies of the 5th-Dimensional Violet Flame that Humanity was capable of receiving. This influx of Light transmuted the maximum effluvia associated with the governments of the world that Cosmic Law would allow. This event cleared the way for the next step of the Divine Plan.

October 4th is the day celebrated in the outer world as Saint Francis’ Feast Day. Saint Francis is the Patron Saint of Italy. In honor of Saint Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose the name of Francis when he was ordained as Pope. He has done several things since his ordination that indicate he is striving to emulate the genuine caring, integrity, and humble path of Saint Francis.

In the Heavenly Realms Saint Francis is known as Ascended Master Kuthumi. In the Spiritual Hierarchy he holds the office of World Teacher. His mission now is to assist in bringing the patterns of perfection for the New Earth into the awareness of the masses of Humanity. This will be accomplished more easily now that Humanity is resonating with a higher level of Christ Consciousness and we have birthed a Renaissance of Divine Love.

On October 4, 2013, Pope Francis made a sacred Pilgrimage to Assisi, Italy, which was the home of Saint Francis. Tens of thousands of people went to Assisi to be with the Pope. His Pilgrimage was reported throughout the world and as millions of people focused on the Pope in Assisi, another collective cup of Humanity’s Consciousness was created. The Beings of Light told us that this was the final step of preparation before our Pilgrimage in Italy would begin on October 5, 2013.

We were told that, in that instance, the Pope and the Catholic Church were serving as the microcosm of the macrocosm for all of the world religions. Once again, a purging of the maladies, the corruption, and the abuse of power was necessary within the world’s religions before the portal for the Renaissance of Divine Love in Italy could be opened. Pope Francis and the throngs of people who gathered with him in Assisi served as the Open Door for the Light of God that would purge the negativity and abuse of power associated with the various world religions.

For this activity of Light, Saint Francis and all of the founders of the world religions gathered in the atmosphere above Assisi with St. Germain and his Legions of the Violet Flame. During that Cosmic Moment, they flooded every religion on Earth with the most intensified frequencies of the 5th-Dimensional Violet Flame that Humanity was capable of receiving. That influx of Light transmuted the maximum negativity associated with the world religions that Cosmic Law would allow. This completed the preparation for our Pilgrimage to Italy.

On October 5th we left for Rome. Our Pilgrimage began on October 6th with an activity of Light in which the entire Company of Heaven joined in consciousness with the I AM Presence of every man, woman, and child on Earth. This unified forcefield of Light Beings created a Chalice of Light that cradled the Earth during our entire Pilgrimage. Those of us gathered in Rome joined our Heart Flames creating a powerful transformer through which the Light of God would flow during our Pilgrimage to open the portal for the patterns of perfection for our newly birthed Renaissance of Divine Love. This portal expands the length and breadth of Italy.

For the next two days, we visited the ancient Roman highlights, the early Christian sites, and the marvels of Vatican City. As we walked through the etheric records of these places, St. Germain and his Legions of the Violet Flame blazed that Sacred Fire through our transformer of Light and transmuted the obsolete patterns of Humanity’s human miscreations and the obsolete archetypes that are still being empowered by Humanity’s fragmented and fear-based human egos.

On October 9th we traveled to Assisi. Assisi is a mystical place that resonates with the energy, vibration, and consciousness associated with the loving and gentle heart of Saint Francis. When we arrived, we experienced a shift that let us clearly know that the purging of the old was complete. Now it was time for the initial process of opening the portal that would allow the patterns for the Renaissance of Divine Love to flow into the hearts and minds of ALL Humanity.

To begin the process of opening the portal above Italy, the Company of Heaven conducted an activity of Light that assisted every person’s I AM Presence to intensify the shift into Christ Consciousness that was initiated in August 2013. Through this unprecedented event, Humanity was lifted into a higher frequency of energy, vibration, and consciousness than we have experienced since our fall from Grace aeons ago. Once this shift was complete, the Legions of Light associated with the Ascension Flame sealed every atomic and subatomic particle and wave of Life on Earth in this new and higher frequency. The Company of Heaven said never again will Humanity sink to the depth of separation and duality we had experienced prior to that Cosmic Moment.

For the next two days, we traversed Assisi and the sacred sites associated with Saint Francis. Everywhere we went we experienced a new level of communion with the Elemental Kingdom. It became crystal clear that the patterns of Oneness and Reverence of ALL Life from the newly birthed Renaissance of Divine Love were beginning to flow through the portal in Italy initiating the initial impulse of the portal’s opening.

During our sojourn in Assisi, the patterns of Oneness and Divine Love that will comprise the only religions associated with the New Earth began to flow through the portal. That seems logical since Saint Francis was the first to publicly recognize the errors of the orthodox religions of his day.

Saint Francis was born into a wealthy family, but rejected his wealth to serve the poor. One time Francis was in an old church, and as he prayed before the crucifix on the altar he heard what he perceived to be the voice of God. God said, “Francis, rebuild my church.” Initially Francis thought God was asking him to rebuild the old church he was in, but he soon realized that the Church of God is not a lavish edifice or a controlling patriarchal Hierarchy, THE CHURCH OF GOD IS THE PEOPLE, THE ELEMENTAL KINGDOM, AND ALL LIFE EVERYWHERE.

On October 12th, we continued our Pilgrimage to Florence, the place where the first Renaissance began over 500 years ago. The first Renaissance was a time of enlightenment and played a critical part in liberating the human mind. It inspired civil liberty and a new internal order of culture and political development. It was the beginning of Humanity’s awakening and a crucial stage in the process of liberating the human mind from our fear-based, fragmented human ego’s paralyzing grip of fear and misinformation. In the midst of unrivaled, barbaric darkness, the first Renaissance birthed a civilization of a higher order.

When we arrived in Florence, the Company of Heaven reminded us that October 12, 1492, is the day that acknowledges Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of America. The name America is an anagram for the I AM Race. That name is intended to represent a “race” of God-conscious souls involving the vast diversity of all Humanity. The I AM Race involves every race, religion, gender, life-style, nationality, creed, and culture on Earth coming together in Oneness to live in freedom, peace, abundance, happiness, spirituality, and every other attribute of God. The Divine Intent for the establishment of America during the first Renaissance was for Humanity to cocreate a New World of Oneness and Reverence for ALL Life. Even though we have fallen far from that goal, our Founding Fathers were aware of that Divine Potential and included those archetypes in the sacred documents initiating the United States of America.

On October 12, 2013, the Company of Heaven and the I AM Presence of ALL Humanity expanded the portal of the Renaissance of Divine Love to envelope Florence. During that event the patterns of perfection for the Divine Government that is associated with the New Earth were secured through the transformer of our unified Heart Flames and anchored in the physical plane of Earth. As these patterns filter into hearts and conscious minds of the people in every land, we will witness the birth of a Higher Order of Being involving governments and the people involved in governments from this time forward.

For the next two days, we visited the wonders and historical places of Florence. As we did, the patterns for our Renaissance of Divine Love continued to flow through the newly opened portal and our transformer into the physical plane. These patterns contain the beauty and marvels of previously unknown expressions of art, music, dance, literature, and every other artistic expression from the Causal Body of God. They also include exquisite patterns associated with the New Earth, patterns that are beyond the comprehension of our finite minds. These glorious patterns will be perceived only through the heart and mind of Christ Consciousness.

On October 14th, we continued our Pilgrimage to Venice, the mystical Italian city associated with Love. The reason Venice is considered the city of Love is because of its connection to our sister planet Venus and the Celestial Temple of Divine Love that pulsates in the ethers above Venice. This temple is a replica of the Temple of Love that exists in the Celestial Realms above Venus. That is the temple from which the planetary Logos Sanat Kumara, the Being of Light referred to in the Bible as The Ancient of Days, and his Divine Complement, Lady Venus, came to assist the Earth.

Sanat Kumara and Lady Venus have been holding the Earth and all Life evolving upon her in their Love-filled luminous Presence for millions of years. Aeons ago, the planetary Logos from Venus volunteered to hold the Earth and all her Life in their embrace of Divine Love until Humanity could awaken enough to do this for ourselves. Their decision was made after the evolutions of Earth fell into such dense patterns of separation and duality that it looked as if the Earth would not survive.

Sanat Kumara and Lady Venus never gave up on us knowing that one day Humanity would awaken and return to Christ Consciousness, reclaiming our Divine Birthright as Beloved Sons and Daughters of God. They knew that when this happened, Humanity would return to the path of Divine Love that is our destiny, and that their selfless Divine Intervention would be brought to victorious fruition. This is the Cosmic Moment that Sanat Kumara and Lady Venus have been anticipating for literally millions of years.

This information may seem new to you, but every person evolving on this planet has etheric records and deep seated memories of the sacrifice made by Sanat Kumara and Lady Venus in order to prevent the Earth and Humanity from descending into oblivion. Once you assimilate the frequencies of the New Earth, you will be able to consciously perceive what it means for the Earth to have reclaimed her rightful place in our Solar System, an event that took place on December 21, 2012. Then you will realize the incredible assistance that all of our sisters and brothers, not only in this Solar System but throughout the Cosmos, have given to Humanity and the Earth during our miraculous Ascension process back into the Light.

When our Pilgrimage arrived in Venice, we experienced an obvious shift and were flooded with higher frequencies of Transfiguring Divine Love than we had ever known. Our unified Heart Flames expanded exponentially, and our transformer intensified until it embraced the entire length and breadth of Italy. The Company of Heaven and the I AM Presence of every man, woman, and child on Earth reveled in the newly activated level of Christ Consciousness now pulsating through every person’s pineal gland. Each one realized that Humanity was at long last ready to reclaim our responsibility of sustaining the path of Oneness, Divine Love, and Reverence for ALL Life in the physical world of form on Planet Earth.

When we gathered for our activity of Light during our first evening in Venice, the Hierarch of the Temple of Love above Venice, Paul the Venetian, projected his luminous Presence into the atmosphere above Italy. This Being of Light is an exponent of Divine Love, and he is one of the Mighty Kumaras who came to Earth from Venus millions of years ago to receive and sustain the Light and Love from Sanat Kumara and Lady Venus. His selfless service to Humanity and the Earth is acknowledged throughout all Creation.

Paul the Venetian and the entire Company of Heaven joined in consciousness with the I AM Presence of every person evolving on Earth through Humanity’s newly awakened level of Christ Consciousness. Together we invoked the most intensified frequencies of Divine Love the Earth has ever known. As we held the sacred space through the transformer of our unified Heart Flames, our Father-Mother God breathed this unfathomable Divine Love into the core of purity within every atomic and subatomic particle and wave of Life on Earth. Once that was accomplished the unprecedented frequencies of Divine Love flowed into the spaces in-between the particles and waves lifting the Earth and ALL her Life into a frequency of Divine Love that enabled the Company of Heaven and the I AM Presence of every person on Earth to permanently open to full breadth the portal for the Renaissance of Divine Love.

With the God Victorious accomplishment of this wondrous event, our mission for the remainder of our stay in Venice was to work with the Company of Heaven and the I AM Presence of every person on Earth, helping each one to assimilate the patterns of perfection for the Renaissance of Divine Love through his or her Heart Flame and their newly awakened level of Christ Consciousness.

Our sacred Pilgrimage was brought to fruition on October 17th. On that day, we traveled to our various destinations around the world to anchor the patterns for the Renaissance of Divine Love, and to prepare for the unprecedented purging that would occur during the two weeks of the powerful upcoming Eclipses. During the period of time between the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on October 18th and the New Moon Solar Eclipse on November 3rd, the Light of God pushed to the surface the residue of our human miscreations and the patterns of separation and duality associated with the old Earth. The Divine Intent of this incredibly intense purging is to clear the way for the patterns of the Renaissance of Divine Love now flowing through the newly opened portal in Italy.

As a gift from On High, the Company of Heaven have given us the initial impulse of the patterns of perfection that are flowing through the newly opened portal in Italy. These patterns are just the beginning of the wonders we will experience as this process unfolds moment by moment. The Beings of Light have assured us that the events awaiting us as the New Earth is incorporated into our lives are glorious beyond our greatest hopes and dreams.

Lightworkers have been downloading these patterns from the Causal Body of our Father-Mother God for some time. Now, through the miracles that have taken place since the birth of the New Earth, these patterns are anchored within every person’s Heart Flame. This was accomplished through the Divine Intervention of every person’s I AM Presence. These patterns will now daily and hourly filter into each one’s heart and mind. Day by day these patterns will resonate more tangibly as viable options for Humanity’s life experiences on Earth. Then through our thoughts, feelings, words, actions, beliefs, and memories Humanity will cocreate the Divine Love, Reverence for ALL Life, and Oneness of the New Earth as a tangible Reality.

Patterns of Perfection for the New Renaissance of Divine Love

I AM my I AM Presence and I AM One with the I AM Presence of ALL Humanity.

As One Heartbeat, One Breath, One Voice, and One Energy, Vibration, and Consciousness of Pure Divine Love we Invoke our omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent Father-Mother God, the Cosmic I AM, All That Is, and the entire Company of Heaven.

Powers of Light, join with me and every man, woman, and child on Earth as we draw the patterns of perfection for our New Renaissance of Divine Love through the portal in Italy, and cocreate them in the world of form through our thoughts, feelings, words, actions, beliefs, and memories.

And we begin…

I AM magnetizing the Infinite Flow of God’s Abundance, Opulence, Financial Freedom, and the God-Supply of ALL good things into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing Eternal Youth, Vibrant Health, Radiant Beauty, and Flawless Form into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing perfect Health Habits, perfect Eating and Drinking Habits, perfect Exercise, Work, Relaxation, and Recreation Habits, and perfect Spiritual Devotion, Meditation, and Contemplation Habits into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing Divine Family Life, Loving Relationships, Adoration, Divine Love, Divine Sexuality, True Understanding, Clear and Effective Communication, Open Heart Sharing, Oneness, and the Unification of the Family of Humanity into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing Eternal Peace, Divine Government, Cooperation, Fairness, Balance, Harmony, and Reverence for ALL Life into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing Self-Empowerment, Success, Fulfillment, Divine Purpose, A Rewarding Career, Self Esteem, Spiritual Development, Enlightenment, Divine Consciousness, and Clear and Truthful Perception into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing Open Heart and Mind Telepathic Communication with the Company of Heaven and the Angelic and Elemental Kingdoms into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing Creativity through Music, Singing, Sound, Toning, Dance, Movement, Art, and Education into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing Laughter, Joy, Playfulness, Fun, Self-expression, Elation, Enthusiasm, Bliss, Ecstasy, Wonder, and Awe into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM magnetizing Heaven on Earth, our Planetary CAUSE of Divine Love, and our Renaissance of Divine Love into my life and the lives of ALL Humanity.

I AM my I AM Presence and I ACCEPT and KNOW that these patterns of perfection for our New Renaissance of Divine Love are manifesting in my life and the lives of ALL Humanity daily and hourly with every breath I take.

I also ACCEPT and KNOW that my Father-Mother God’s 5th-Dimensional Crystalline Solar Violet Flame is instantly transmuting any thought, feeling, word, action, belief, or memory I may express that might block or prevent these patterns of Divine Love from manifesting in my life or the lives of ALL Humanity.

In deep Humility, Divine Love, and Gratitude I Decree, It is done. And so it is.

Beloved I AM, Beloved I AM, Beloved I AM.

Patricia Cota-Robles

New Age Study of Humanity’s Purpose

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This article is copyrighted, but you have my permission to share it through any medium as long as it is not altered and the proper credit line is included.

©2013 Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

The information in this monthly sharing is being given to Humanity by the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth. The Divine Intent of these celestial sharings is to encourage, empower, uplift, and inspire Humanity by allowing us to see the bigger picture during these wondrous but often challenging times

Happy Halloween 2013

Happy Halloween Everyone!

This year’s Halloween slide show was really fun for me  to compose for several reasons.

I started touring my neighborhood for festive houses last week and there were only a few moderately adorned sights. Then I went off to a long weekend in LA where I saw  the giant blow up decorations  used  with panache and creativity.

Being a New Yorker and living in Manhattan I always thought the giant blow-ups to be rather tacky.  My weekend viewing proved  me wrong.

When I returned to my city and actually went around on Halloween I was really delighted to see that 70th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues had a majority of decorated brownstones on the block.

I also found a lot more happening on 72nd Street between Second and Third Avenues.

I’ve included more pictures this year of people on the street in the early hours of All Hallows Eve.

I hope that you enjoy the show.

Sending you all lots of love,

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From Marc David- Is There Hope for Your Eating Challenge?

I know that this has taken a long time to show up on my Newsletter, but despite the lateness of this posting, I find that what Marc David is discussing is really important and resonant with me no matter when he first sent it out.

I hope that it has some meaning for you as well.

Love to you all,

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Is There Hope for Your Eating Challenge?

Posted on July 22, 2013 – 3 Comments

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Every day, I’m impressed and humbled by the sheer number and variety of eating challenges that so many people seem to face. An eating challenge might mean that someone simply is eating the kind of poor quality diet that industry and media shoves down our throats that robs us of the birthright of true health. Eating challenges could mean the desperate desire to lose weight, and the absolute frustration of trying so many different kinds of diets and strategies that fail to give us long-term and sustainable results. Eating challenges could mean overeating, binge eating, disordered eating, and the many ways we reject our human form, perhaps even hate it, and try to morph it through diet and exercise. I’ve watched too many people spend a lifetime struggling around food. Perhaps the silent question that consistently runs through these challenges, like a quiet river, is this:

Is there hope?

Hope is both a fuel and a fire. Hope allows us to move forward. And oftentimes, it seems as if hope is a distant memory at best, or at worst, something lost. But the good news, as the poet Alexander Pope reminded us of in 1734, is that hope springs eternal. Secretly hidden within every human challenge we face are the seeds for its solution. Really.

So how can we find the beautiful remedy hidden deep within our eating challenges?

Let’s get down to business. You deserve hope, and indeed hope is always trying to track you down, even in your darkest hours. But hope doesn’t so much rescue us. Rather, it points us in the right direction. Hope shows us the place where solutions are found. I’d like to offer you 5 suggestions, various roads that you can travel which all lead, in my experience, to the place where hope transforms into healing. As always, check it out and let me know what you think.

1 – Change Your Worldview

One of the first steps to finding hope with whatever eating concern, or health issue you might face, is to notice where your worldview needs to change. We get locked into apathy and despair the moment we believe in an unfriendly universe that either doesn’t care, or at worst: is out to get us. It’s easy to think that we’re truly alone in our suffering, and that no one could possibly understand what we’re going through. To find hope, at some point, we have to see the world through fresh eyes. We have to notice the kinds of limiting beliefs that keep us locked into a cycle of pain and frustration. Changing one’s worldview isn’t easy. We get locked into strong beliefs about how we see life. Republicans stay staunchly Republican, Democrats stay locked into their Democrat-ness, and it’s easy to assume that our religion, our way of eating, and our philosophy of living is clearly the right one. Yet, one of the greatest acts of transformation that a human can do is to change to a better and more efficient way of seeing the world. Rigidity is death. Flexibility is life. If you need proof of this, simply compare dead bodies to living ones. So, if you’re ready to stretch a bit, then you’re ready to find the hope that you want and the solution that you need. I think these next four principles will help take you where you want to go.

2 – Food Challenges Are Not About Food

As odd as it may sound, a majority of our food challenges are not merely about food. Yes, it’s a great idea to eat healthy food. Yes, certain foods can be rather addictive. And yes, there are so many different kinds of junk foods out there that have the power to hook us, but, I believe that at its core, our challenges with food go deeper, are way more interesting, and more telling than we might ever imagine. In other words, overeating doesn’t mean we have a mere willpower issue with food and we need to learn to control our appetite. Binge eating does not mean that we’re complete and total losers who have absolutely no control because we’re fundamentally damaged. Excess weight does not mean that we’re undeniably lazy when it comes to food. And our inability to change our body to the hot and sexy creature that we want it to be isn’t because we simply need to get better at diet and exercise. Our challenges with food, body and weight are here for a beautiful reason. They have a purpose. They have a message. It’s time to listen to our eating concerns and cozy up with them like never before. Which leads us to this next place:

3 – Food is a Doorway

Our challenges with food, body, health, and weight, are essentially a doorway. They position us in knocking-distance of the door. It’s easy to stay on the doorstep and do all kinds of dieting, exercise, or strategies that ultimately don’t work. It’s easy to sit at the doorstep and wonder why we can’t find an opening. Knock on the door. It opens up right away… And quite suddenly, you’ll begin to find yourself in a new place with new possibilities. Of course, entering any new place or space can be uncomfortable. The truth is, none of us know where the door leads to until we knock and open. The doorway to our food challenges might lead us to where the real action is – unhappiness in a relationship, loneliness, past hurts, past abuses, unfulfilled desires, a lack of connection, a deep desire for people who understand us, a longing for authentic communication, the need for greater purpose in life, and so much more. Food is simply this symbolic place where we often enact these greater life challenges when we are unable to confront them head-on. In truth, the door is always open to you. Are you ready to walk through?

4 – Food is Teaching Us, Helping Us Grow

If you are ready to walk through that door, then the first thing we tend to see, in our brave new world, is that our relationship with food is here to teach us, and is here to help us grow. It’s as simple as that. You don’t need to make it any more complicated. I’m not saying it isn’t easy to deal with our challenges with food and body, I’m simply saying that in principle, there’s nothing wrong with us because we have a food, weight or body challenge. Life is a classroom, and for many of us food is one of our most faithful teachers. If you’re willing to be a good student, the learning will be forthcoming. You’ll need to study a bit, the tests might be challenging, but life will always give you a passing grade for your hard won efforts. For many people, this is a significant and powerful change in worldview. And I believe, an extremely necessary one. If we want true hope for our eating challenge, then we need to see that despite the difficulty of it, there is a hidden benevolent function within it. It’s doing its best to be a great teacher for us. And with great teaching comes great learning, and great results. We don’t always get to choose, so it seems, the lessons that we learn – but if you get on board with the wisdom of life, then I personally promise you that, within time, your eating challenge will transform into a source of wisdom, strength, and compassion.

5 – There’s Something Greater Going On

If you wish to turbo-charge the process of finding hope, and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, for whatever eating issue you might face, then perhaps the last step is to awaken to the possibility that there is something greater going on here. There’s a wisdom to life that’s indeed intelligent, thoughtful, and profoundly more clever than anyone of us. If we believe in a random, loveless, chaotic and meaningless universe – then this will assuredly be our experience of life, and continued suffering is practically guaranteed. If you’ve been duped into thinking that there isn’t a powerful force of conscious design that moves and shapes all of creation, including your very important life, then this is perhaps the greatest worldview shift that any of us could make. We can never fully understand the forces of fate, destiny, and cosmic intelligence. But if we choose, we can experiment with being humble in the face of it all, and do our best to respond to how life is laying out our grand education. We’re all paying a lot of tuition to be in the school of life. Don’t let all that cash go to waste. Look around you at the magic of the world, notice it every day, and remember that no matter how challenging your eating concern might be, it’s secretly guiding you into your greatness.

Please join in the conversation: What kinds of doors have you been knocking on, sitting on the stoop, or walking through?

Warm regards

Marc David
Founder of the
Institute for the Psychology of Eating

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