Appreciation – Create a Shift in Your Life
Self-love is one of the keys to lasting eating disorder
recovery in my opinion. Yet I’ve come to realize recently that it
is the feeling of appreciation (of anything, not just ourselves) that creates a
shift in our lives. When we appreciate something we align with that which
we are. We align with our highest Self, God, the Source within us.
I
went on a spiritual quest years ago and spent a long time in nature just
learning the feeling of appreciation. I tapped into the feeling of love
that Source is. I learned that our true nature is love. Love is at
the core of who we are. Each and every person, every animal, every plant
or species is at its essence love. Love it what binds us and love is
Source.
When we are focusing our attention and feeling the feeling
of appreciation we are feeling love. We are being loving and our Source
energy is love so we become aligned with who we innately are. If you want to
overcome bulimia there are many tools and resources to help you break your
habits of abuse, but I believe it is when we finally learn to love and be
loving that we really find lasting eating disorder recovery.
Self-love
When I talk to women who are struggling with regaining their
strength after years of binging and purging, just the mere act of stopping the
cycle is a major breakthrough. I realize that when you’re “in it” with
your eating disorder it’s too much of a stretch to ask you to love yourself
right then. Self-love is pretty much the furthest thing from having an
eating disorder. After all, if you loved yourself why would you abuse
your body, mind and spirit this way? You wouldn’t.
I’d now like to offer than instead of trying to move up the
emotional scale to self-love right out the gate after starting recovery that
you instead take it gradually. I have an idea that I hope will help you
move your needle from self-hatred and self-loathing towards self-love more
rapidly and with grace and ease.
Start by loving and appreciating things that are easier to
appreciate (than yourself). Start by loving things like babies, kittens,
flowers and sunsets. When you can focus your attention on something for
as little as 17 seconds you activate a vibration within you that law of attraction will respond to and bring
more thoughts like it to you. When you have the vibration of appreciation
active within you, you’ll begin to attract more things to appreciate. The
momentum will begin to create a shift in your life that will allow more things
to appreciate into your life.
When you’re appreciating the things around you, in time you
can turn your love towards yourself. If you spend a few days or a few weeks
practicing appreciating the things in your day-to-day life you’ll have practiced
the vibration and alignment with Source. That feeling will be activated
within you and with practice it will feel like your new normal. Your new
normal way of feeling will be loving. So when you activate or think thoughts
about yourself it will be easier to be loving instead of hateful.
Negative self-talk can be so
crippling when you’re trying to beat bulimia. Overcoming your eating
disorder I believe requires you to activate a new vibration. A new
pattern of thought within you that’s aligned with a higher vibration, a loving
vibration instead of a negative, harmful vibration. The way we feel is
just our practiced vibration or focused thoughts. If we can actively
focus on loving the thing around us I think we can create a shift in our life
that will make it easier each day to appreciate our Self.
How to feel appreciation
It’s the little thoughts, the little moments that if we
recognize them and milk them for what they are – opportunities to feel love –
we can find so many reasons to appreciate the world around us. This is
why I’ve often recommended a gratitude journal. If you were to sit in bed
at night before going to sleep and write in your journal five things you’re
grateful for, you would spend at least the 17 seconds it takes to activate law
of attraction and you’d put yourself in a positive vibration just before going
to sleep.
To take it a step further, I encourage you to spend time in
every day looking for things to appreciate. For example:
- I love this beautiful morning.
- I love my husband…my children…my friend…my friends.
- I love my home…my car…my clothes.
- It feels so good talking with my best friend…
- This food tastes so good.
- I love writing….dancing…going to the beach…knitting…painting.
- I love my dog….my cat…my bird….my horse.
Finding things that make us feel good and holding them as
the object of our attention will activate pure positive vibration of love and
align us with Source. Focus on the things that are easiest to appreciate
first. Then turning your attention on yourself will be easier. Have
fun with it.
If you are struggling with an eating disorder I would
encourage you to check out my blog, Inspiring Bulimia Recovery.
This blog is one of the best resources for support and self help methods to
help you recover from an eating disorder. Find real bulimia
stories, videos and blog posts all aimed at assisting you on your road to
recovery. Discover where you can find additional support to enhance the tools
we provide you with. This blog is more specifically aimed at bulimia recovery but is
applicable to all other eating disorders.
Appreciation from Abraham
I would like to conclude with this uplifting video. The feeling of gratitude is palpable in
this video. Just listening to this exchange between Abraham and a guest
your vibration is uplifted. I listened to this a few times and it brought
me to tears when I focused on the feeling of appreciation. The benefit to
you and the world by your vibration is worth the effort.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1VJMiniBP8A
From Guest Blogger, Polly Mertens: http://www.getbusythriving.com/
