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LoveFreedom · 12-12-2007, 10:45 AM

Hi everyone,

I have been thinking about the current obesity crisis, eating disorders and weight issues in terms of LOA, particularly in terms of how self-perceptions and beliefs affect (create) our lives. I came to a conclusion that the weight problem; the way we are preoccupied with it and the consequences of this preoccupation (and of beliefs and behaviours etc) may be easier understood by looking at the collective effects in addition to individual. It is possible that what we think, feel about our bodies, our perception of where we are in terms of fat may be affecting us collectively as much as it affects us individually.

Take for example eating disorders. Apparenty, many people with eating disorders see themselves as fat - even as they become dangerously thin, many has a distorted perception of their body weight and looks. I am sure they send 'rockets of desire' into universe to be very slim, but, as they are not in a state of relaxed acceptance, and they keep seeing themselves as fat they shouldn't be able to 'attract' the thinnes and they should be reproducing the 'fat' reality. And yet, they can get awfully thin.

But maybe they affect the way we all look (collectively) as the number of fat and obese people increases.

In fact, most people in Western societies (especially women, but more increasingly men as well) see themselves as fat. Is that why we have an obesity epidemic, we create this collective fatness by our self perception??

What complicates things is that as we shoot the 'rockets of desire' to look thin and model like, but consistently see ourselves as unsatifactorily fat, there are also images of starving people in the media (for example, images of starving children and mothers in Africa) that potntially create a great deal of desires for 'less thinness'. Healthy plump versus unhealthy fat?

I don't have any answers, nor am I proposing a 'theory' or an explanation. Just something I have been pondering about lately.

Does anyone has any thought on this? I am specifically interested in your thought on how we as individuals can be affecting the collective level. Abraham talks about the 'universe expanding' as a result of our desires. And they don't mean individual expansion only. The way I see it is that we are turning this world into a fat place (by increasing dissatisfaction with our body weight), the same way we are turning it into a world with more and more oportunities, stimulation, wealth, contrast... you name it.

Any thoughts?

12-12-2007, 10:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
LoveFreedom Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 88	Obesity epidemic and LOA Hi everyone, I have been thinking about the current obesity crisis, eating disorders and weight issues in terms of LOA, particularly in terms of how self-perceptions and beliefs affect (create) our lives. I came to a conclusion that the weight problem; the way we are preoccupied with it and the consequences of this preoccupation (and of beliefs and behaviours etc) may be easier understood by looking at the collective effects in addition to individual. It is possible that what we think, feel about our bodies, our perception of where we are in terms of fat may be affecting us collectively as much as it affects us individually. Take for example eating disorders. Apparenty, many people with eating disorders see themselves as fat - even as they become dangerously thin, many has a distorted perception of their body weight and looks. I am sure they send 'rockets of desire' into universe to be very slim, but, as they are not in a state of relaxed acceptance, and they keep seeing themselves as fat they shouldn't be able to 'attract' the thinnes and they should be reproducing the 'fat' reality. And yet, they can get awfully thin. But maybe they affect the way we all look (collectively) as the number of fat and obese people increases. In fact, most people in Western societies (especially women, but more increasingly men as well) see themselves as fat. Is that why we have an obesity epidemic, we create this collective fatness by our self perception?? What complicates things is that as we shoot the 'rockets of desire' to look thin and model like, but consistently see ourselves as unsatifactorily fat, there are also images of starving people in the media (for example, images of starving children and mothers in Africa) that potntially create a great deal of desires for 'less thinness'. Healthy plump versus unhealthy fat? I don't have any answers, nor am I proposing a 'theory' or an explanation. Just something I have been pondering about lately. Does anyone has any thought on this? I am specifically interested in your thought on how we as individuals can be affecting the collective level. Abraham talks about the 'universe expanding' as a result of our desires. And they don't mean individual expansion only. The way I see it is that we are turning this world into a fat place (by increasing dissatisfaction with our body weight), the same way we are turning it into a world with more and more oportunities, stimulation, wealth, contrast... you name it. Any thoughts?