Weight loss is a common goal, yet many find themselves trapped in cycles of dieting, exercise, and frustration. Abraham Hicks, through Esther Hicks, offers a unique perspective on weight loss, emphasizing the power of beliefs and vibrational alignment. This article explores the Abraham Hicks approach to weight loss, highlighting key principles and practical steps to achieve your desired physique.
The Downstream Approach to Weight Loss
The core message of Abraham Hicks is that weight loss isn't solely about food and exercise. It's about your beliefs about your body and the actions you take because of those beliefs. This is the difference between going upstream versus downstream. One is clearly easier. For any change to occur, you must get in the downstream flow of your desires.
Ester and Jerry once had dinner with a friend in San Francisco. She was thin and attractive, like a model. She ordered two complete meals and ate them herself, then ate dessert, and then ate Ester and Jerry’s leftover dessert too. Ester turned to her friend and said, “I hope you understand that we can no longer be friends.” And her friend replied, “Food is my friend.” Ester joked back and said, “Well, it hates me.” The point of this story is that it’s not food that makes you overweight or even the lack of exercise.
The Law of Attraction and Weight
The Law of Attraction states that you attract what you focus on. If you constantly focus on feeling fat, worrying about food making you fat, and obsessing over when you'll no longer be fat, you're sending out a negative vibration. The law of attraction reflects your vibration by sending back more of what you don’t want: being overweight. So, no matter how much you cut calories or spend time exercising, losing weight will be a struggle because your focus is feeling fat, this food will make me fat, and when will I not be fat.
Shifting Your Vibration: From Self-Hate to Self-Love
The first step is to accept the person looking back at you in the mirror. Forget the reasons why you gained weight; it doesn’t matter. You can’t change the past, and having regret won’t help. This is you, here and now, and you’re exactly where and who you’re supposed to be at this moment. Your body has carried you through all of your life experiences thus far, and you should be thankful and appreciative of that.
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Shift your focus from "I hate my body" to "I love my body.” As you come into alignment with your body as it is right now, you’ll be inspired to take action that supports the love for your body.
Inspired Action: Allowing the Universe to Guide You
As you shift your vibrational thought from “I hate my body” to “I love my body,” the result is inspired action that leads to improvement, which then leads to motivation from the inside-not the outside.
Outside motivation is comparing yourself to others, thinking if you looked like them, you’d be happy. Every person’s body works differently based on their beliefs, so it’s unfair to compare. In other words, you’ll attract people, places, and events that match your positive thoughts about your body, and it will feel easy, like going downstream. It’s your job to tune into these gifts and allow them to flow.
You could suddenly have reduced sugar cravings, or a friend shows up as a walking buddy. Perhaps you discover a healthy recipe app on Instagram, or a new gym opens up close to your house. Things will pop up in your life that match your positive vibration towards your body. You’ll start to feel differently towards food and movement. You’ll want to do what is best for your body. And as you receive these gifts which drive your actions, you will see improvements, such as your weight going down or increased energy. This then increases your motivation, which leads to even more inspired action.
Gratitude and Momentum: Staying in the Flow
With weight loss, it’s a number game, whether it’s pounds lost or pant size. If, after two weeks, you jump on the scale and only lost one pound, be careful not to let that shift your focus to “What, only a pound?” Instead, be grateful for that pound lost. It’s progress. And remember you’re doing all that you can do, and that’s enough.
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Now that you’re in the flow and things feel easy and good, you’ll want to stay in that momentum and your lifestyle choices will begin to support that. For example, you’ll want to exercise more, or with food, you won’t think to count calories or skip dessert because your self-love alignment is at the helm. You’ll automatically choose a healthy item, or simply enjoy dessert without guilt. Either way, food and exercise will be your friend-without even trying.
Practical Techniques for Weight Loss
Here are some practical techniques inspired by Abraham Hicks to support your weight loss journey:
Clothing
Wear clothes that make you feel good about yourself, regardless of your current size.
Treats
Depriving yourself of sweet and salty treats will only make you crave them more. Remember, food is your friend. Allow yourself to enjoy treats in moderation, without guilt.
Movement
Each day your body’s tolerance for exercise changes. When exercising, listen to your body. What is it saying? What does it need? There will always be an ebb and flow of exercise tolerance-that’s OK. Choose activities you enjoy, and don't push yourself beyond your limits.
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Intention
Every morning, set an intention. Before you get out of bed, put your hands on your heart and say something like, “I am grateful for my slim, healthy body” while visualizing your ideal body. This sets a positive tone for the day and aligns you with your desired outcome.
Momentum
Use what inspires you for motivation and continued momentum. It could be music, nature, or yoga/meditation. Find what energizes you to be your best self.
Navigating Challenges: Branches in the Water
Recently, due to the coronavirus pandemic, I gained some weight and was feeling bad about it. Unfortunately, my emotional state wasn’t helping my self-love alignment. I mention this because there will always be branches in the water, blocking or slowing down the flow.
What’s important to remember is that these branches are there for a reason. They are meant to teach us life lessons and ultimately expand us as living beings. At your own pace, push those branches out of the way and resume downstream-which is all you can do-and it’s enough.
The Emotional Guidance Scale: A Tool for Deliberate Creation
Abraham demonstrates the ease and power of the Emotional Guidance Scale. One viewer wrote in with a question about dealing with others who don’t seem to take responsibility for their behaviors or actions. In this video, Abraham discusses using the Emotional Guidance Scale to reach for your better feeling place and to improve your own point of attraction.
Identifying where you land on the Emotional Guidance Scale and then calibrating to the improved vibration will get you anything and everything you want.
Key Principles from Abraham Hicks
- Getting Into The Vortex!
- Who You Really Are!
- Let Loose!
- Telling A New Story!
- Joyous Adventure!
- Everything You Want!
- Path of Enthusiasm!
- Revealing The Secret!
- Reality Check!
- Keys To Freedom!
- Great Expectations!
You can always return to your own personal place of clarity. Knowing you have a guidance system puts you on the leading-edge of creating. You know what to do about it when you don’t feel good. You are showing yourself every day that your desire is expanding and your capacity for feeling good is expanding as well.
The Simplicity of the Process
I’m sure for some of you, this approach to weight loss may seem too easy or unrealistic. For many, weight loss involves strict food diets, hours of cardio, and tons of stress about the numbers. The law of attraction brings more of what you put your attention on. Whereas, if you constantly send out a vibration of loving your body, then you’ll always love your body.
As someone who’s belonged to a gym since I was 15, and struggled with bodyweight since I was 30, I can attest that dieting and over-exercising don’t work.
Living in the Receiving Mode
“And when they ask me, ‘How is it that you’re so joyful? And how is it that so many things come to you with such ease?’ And I will say to them, ‘I just get into the receiving mode. I care about being satisfied. I go with the flow. I chill out. I push against nothing. I seek love. I move in the direction of what feels good. I find what feels good. I maintain that balance by my intention and focus. I care about how I feel until I have mastered alignment with Source Energy so that I continue to be a radiating light of Source Energy wherever I go.
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