Use Your Intuition to Lose Weight

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By Sherrie Dillard

Would you like to lose a few pounds or more? Do you have difficulty losing weight? No matter what you eat and how much you exercise, do you find that you are unable to lose and might even continue to gain weight? Your natural intuition can be a surprising, but powerful ally in losing weight and maintaining a healthy diet.

Many people have an ongoing struggle with unwanted pounds and are confused and discouraged by their failed attempts to maintain their optimum weight. Although we would like to believe that issues with weight are purely diet and exercise related, your thoughts, emotions and energetic vibration also contribute to weight gain. Your intuition can be a surpassing source of insight and help in becoming aware of these nonphysical influences and in reaching and maintaining your optimum weight.

 
Intuition: Tune into Your Emotional Connection to Food

Although we are aware of the healthiest foods and how much to eat, we often find ourselves overeating and consuming nutritionally low and high-calorie food. We do not do this because we are hungry. Instead, we often reach for food in an attempt to satisfy and deal with difficult and confusing emotions and feelings. Food changes brain chemistry and some foods can trigger temporary feel good emotional and psychological responses. Emotions such as stress, loneliness, anxiety, sadness, exhaustion and anger, can be uncomfortable. Certain foods provide soothing chemical reactions that regulate our moods and suppress our feelings.

Emotions and our desire to eat are powerfully linked. Your intuition can be a valuable tool in helping you to tune into and heal the underlying emotional energy that leads to weight gain.
Try This:

Before you head for the kitchen to satisfy a hunger craving, sit quietly and close your eyes. Take a deep breath and slowly exhale. Continue to breathe deeply and release any stress and tension in your body as you exhale. Focus your awareness within and ask yourself either aloud or silently what you are feeling. Gently repeat this question a few times. Allow any emotions to surface. Put a name to them and continue to breathe and allow as much feeling and emotional energy to surface as possible. Listen to the feeling or emotion and dialogue with it. What is it saying to you? Listen and ask what you can do to heal and calm these emotions and come into a state of inner peace and calm. Breathe and trust what you receive. Ask for the presence of love and allow it to transform these feelings.