Weight Loss for People Who Feel Too Much by Colette Baron-Reid Read Free Book Online Page A

Hey, I’m not actually being insulted here, so there’s no need to feel anger. I’m just misinterpreting his anger as being directed at me .) That is not our instant reaction.
    We don’t just affect other people with our feelings, thoughts, and beliefs; we also affect physical objects that don’t have feelings or emotions (at least, as far as we can tell, they don’t). In The Intention Experiment, Arizona University professor Dr. Gary Schwartz and Lynn McTaggart describe an interesting experiment they conducted. People in a controlled laboratory setting in London, England, were asked to focus their thoughts on a particular leaf sitting in a laboratory, thousands of miles away, in a lab in Arizona. The subjects had to imagine the leaf glowing. Shortly, the leaf began to emit biophotons that were picked up by a very sensitive camera, while another leaf lying next to it, which was not the object of the subjects’ thoughts, remained the same. Similar experiments involving beans and water showed similar results.
    So, if thoughts and feelings have such a powerful effect on a leaf, or on water, how much do you suppose your beliefs and emotions, or the thoughts and beliefs you take in from others, affect your cells and organs? For instance, what happens when you think, I’m fat ? How does your body respond to the belief, To be a good person, I have to take care of others, no matter how hard the burden is ”? Does that get your cortisol running? What if you feel the disapproval of others, believe others think you’re fat, or pick up on their beliefs that you’re not good enough?
    While we’re at it, what emotions and thoughts do you hold on to when you hear bad news, like the precariousness of the global financial markets or the 7 billion people on the planet competing for limited resources? How do those emotions and thoughts affect your body?
    It’s hard to feel confident and to believe you, personally, will be okay when everyone else is telling you that the economy is going to collapse, that you’d better have a basement full of supplies to survive the disaster that’s looming. When you’re constantly exposed to fearful beliefs—“The whole world is going to pot and we’ll be fighting each other over clean drinking water!”—is it possible that your body is responding by storing calories as fat, “just in case”?
    Of course, we have some control over our beliefs and, consequently, over our emotions. Let’s say we become aware of our fears, and our fear-driven beliefs, and we consciously release them (which you’ll learn how to do using techniques in this book). When we change our emotions, we change our field of energy and then others who come in contact with that energy entrain themselves to our higher vibration. Have you ever been in a group and felt the fear and contraction other people were experiencing, or, conversely, felt a collective sense of hope and joy? When that happens, you’re tuning in to the vibrations of people around you and you are changing your energy field in response to theirs (which is easier than affecting theirs, as you’re outnumbered and collective vibration is very strong).
    MIRROR NEURONS: I SEE MYSELF IN YOU
    About twenty years ago, neuroscientists made a discovery that helped us understand why we experience empathy—why we’re able to actually experience someone else’s emotions. For example, if I got stung by a bee and yell, “Ouch!” you cringe and actually have a fear reaction—a raising of your own cortisol levels. If you smile, I smile back without even realizing it, and that creates endorphins in my body in response to suddenly feeling your joy as my own. This happens because our brains have something called mirror neurons that allow us to imagine ourselves in someone else’s shoes.
    If I don’t have enough mirror neurons, I’ll see you smiling but I may