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Originally Posted by DoctorB2B  ... succeeding at anything takes hard work ... |
Ahh, there's more of that "common wisdom" I was talking about!
Doctor, I didn't hear Michelle saying she advocates cutting out eating healthy and moving her body. It sounds to me like she's advocating shifting the focus from these TOOLS -- these "in-order-to's" -- to a focus on the heart's desire that, if it were the focus, easily and effortlessly has her eating healthily and moving her body with joy and enthusiasm, rather than using those tools out of a sense of doing a chore or punishing herself for being wrong and bad.
People often start lower on the hierarchy -- they start at the behavior. But it's just not as effective at starting higher on the hierarchy -- up, up, up at the level of values, beliefs, and most effective of all, identity. If Who You Are is Love, then eating, moving, and everything else you do is done with love, with no effort at all -- no sense of "hard work" -- it doesn't occur as pain, but rather as Love. It may look like hard work to an outsider, but the person who is Being Love might just laugh at that notion.
And a person who is Being Love is not bloody likely to eat poorly or stay in bed all day. Being love just naturally spirals up as treating your body well.
I agree with Michelle that diet and exercise are not the answer. They are very valuable tools, and they are naturally and easily occurring outcomes of what I think the answer really is: Be your heart's desire.