Comments on: How Our Thoughts Sabotage Us http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/142 An uplifting journey to recovery from bulimia - with tips and coaching for your own recovery. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:39:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Heather http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/142/comment-page-1#comment-1295 Heather Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:04:11 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=142#comment-1295 Hi Christine, I'm so glad you mentioned that -- it's a wonderful and amazing experience, isn't it? I tried that for the first time in the beginning of my recovery at my home in Saba. I was lying on my bed and there was this emotion of depression. Well, Saba is a small island surrounded by the ocean, so it is a very healing environment. I felt the gentle ocean breeze and the ebbing and flowing of the ocean waves -- and that's what I felt the emotion doing. Just ebbing and flowing through me -- so I didn't have to grab onto it or own it. I just let it wash through. I got that from Eckart Tolle and didn't know about Gangaji -- now I'm excited to pick up Diamond in Your Pocket! I think it's so great that you are doing this with such great results! Thanks for the reminder of something that works so beautifully -- I hope others will try it too and share their experiences! With love, Heather Hi Christine, I’m so glad you mentioned that — it’s a wonderful and amazing experience, isn’t it? I tried that for the first time in the beginning of my recovery at my home in Saba. I was lying on my bed and there was this emotion of depression. Well, Saba is a small island surrounded by the ocean, so it is a very healing environment. I felt the gentle ocean breeze and the ebbing and flowing of the ocean waves — and that’s what I felt the emotion doing. Just ebbing and flowing through me — so I didn’t have to grab onto it or own it. I just let it wash through.

I got that from Eckart Tolle and didn’t know about Gangaji — now I’m excited to pick up Diamond in Your Pocket! I think it’s so great that you are doing this with such great results! Thanks for the reminder of something that works so beautifully — I hope others will try it too and share their experiences!

With love,
Heather

]]> By: Heather http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/142/comment-page-1#comment-1294 Heather Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:58:50 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=142#comment-1294 Hi Sarah, Wow, I love that you created your own set of questions! Funny, it's the process of becoming aware of our thoughts and working with them that becomes so important. And that we get so bundled up in thoughts and emotions when we just let them roam free -- all twisted up in our "story." I'll try your questions next time too -- thanks for sharing! With love, Heather Hi Sarah, Wow, I love that you created your own set of questions! Funny, it’s the process of becoming aware of our thoughts and working with them that becomes so important. And that we get so bundled up in thoughts and emotions when we just let them roam free — all twisted up in our “story.” I’ll try your questions next time too — thanks for sharing!

With love,
Heather

]]> By: Christine Kane http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/142/comment-page-1#comment-1278 Christine Kane Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:21:05 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=142#comment-1278 Heather, I've been working in this same way, but with my emotions. When an emotion comes up, I try to fully experience JUST the emotion without any story hooked into it. What ends up happening is that the emotion quickly disappears. It's the same thing as Byron Katie's work... but I got the technique from Gangaji's book Diamond in Your Pocket. (and my friend Marty, who studied with Gangaji.) It's really about being present and in your body so that the stories don't run the show. Thanks for the post! Heather, I’ve been working in this same way, but with my emotions. When an emotion comes up, I try to fully experience JUST the emotion without any story hooked into it. What ends up happening is that the emotion quickly disappears. It’s the same thing as Byron Katie’s work… but I got the technique from Gangaji’s book Diamond in Your Pocket. (and my friend Marty, who studied with Gangaji.) It’s really about being present and in your body so that the stories don’t run the show. Thanks for the post!

]]> By: Heather http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/142/comment-page-1#comment-1084 Heather Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:16:33 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=142#comment-1084 Hi Karen -- bravo, you are perfect, whole and complete just as you are! Isn't it interesting how sometimes things seem so hard for us to do? I totally understand that because when we are in pain, everything seems hard. I guess the idea is that if we can separate the physical pain from our minds, we might just be able to have a happy experience, regardless of what's going on in our body. Hmmm, that's like a tongue twister for the mind, since mind and body are so inter-related. My thoughts on that is that if we can free one, it may recruit the other to be free. So if I am in physical pain and I set my mind free, the joy in my mind may send signals to my body to release tense muscles and other hormones, neurotransmitters, nutrients, etc. to help my body heal. Or vice versa. As my physical body feels good, it may send serotonin (located in the gut) and other feel-good hormones and nutrients to my mind, to set it free. Our bodies are certainly geared to do this, so the trick is figuring out how we can make them work for us in a holistic way. If both mind and body are bogged down in pain and grief, there is no one working to recruit the other back into health. It reminds me of a story I heard from survivors of that crashed plane in the Andes (the Alive movie was based on it) -- one of the survivors said that every time one of them was about to give up hope, another one was feeling strong and buoyed their spirits up so they would want to live. That's how they got through. Wouldn't it be great if our mind and body were that kind of team???? With love, Heather Hi Karen — bravo, you are perfect, whole and complete just as you are! Isn’t it interesting how sometimes things seem so hard for us to do? I totally understand that because when we are in pain, everything seems hard. I guess the idea is that if we can separate the physical pain from our minds, we might just be able to have a happy experience, regardless of what’s going on in our body. Hmmm, that’s like a tongue twister for the mind, since mind and body are so inter-related.

My thoughts on that is that if we can free one, it may recruit the other to be free. So if I am in physical pain and I set my mind free, the joy in my mind may send signals to my body to release tense muscles and other hormones, neurotransmitters, nutrients, etc. to help my body heal. Or vice versa. As my physical body feels good, it may send serotonin (located in the gut) and other feel-good hormones and nutrients to my mind, to set it free.

Our bodies are certainly geared to do this, so the trick is figuring out how we can make them work for us in a holistic way. If both mind and body are bogged down in pain and grief, there is no one working to recruit the other back into health. It reminds me of a story I heard from survivors of that crashed plane in the Andes (the Alive movie was based on it) — one of the survivors said that every time one of them was about to give up hope, another one was feeling strong and buoyed their spirits up so they would want to live. That’s how they got through. Wouldn’t it be great if our mind and body were that kind of team????

With love,
Heather

]]> By: Palmtreechick http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/142/comment-page-1#comment-1083 Palmtreechick Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:09:20 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=142#comment-1083 I can't wait to check it out. I can’t wait to check it out.

]]> By: karen http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/142/comment-page-1#comment-1079 karen Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:04:21 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=142#comment-1079 I am trying to banich negagive thoughts She wil be in Pasadena next weeek with Wayne Dyer KAren I am trying to banich negagive thoughts
She wil be in Pasadena next weeek with Wayne Dyer
KAren

]]> By: karen http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/142/comment-page-1#comment-1078 karen Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:02:43 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=142#comment-1078 Heathr I have been aware of Byron Katies work for along time I have gone in and out of it for a while But as it has been my nature when it gets hard or the questions are too hard and I get afraid and then i leave I have been reading her blog and I do love what she says and she makes so much sense Someday I would like to see her. She is on my list of all the people I would go listen to speak and go to ther workshops, If I only had the money Right now I am looking foir the truths and the ways tio make me well As you said I am whole and complete I remember that of course from Louse Hay who Ifollowed for many years I have been in intense intestinal pain for about20 hours now and I am try to keepmy self as relaxed and calm and warm as I can And I need to go tothe doctor Much love KAren Heathr
I have been aware of Byron Katies work for along time I have gone in and out of it for a while But as it has been my nature when it gets hard or the questions are too hard and I get afraid and then i leave I have been reading her blog and I do love what she says and she makes so much sense Someday I would like to see her. She is on my list of all the people I would go listen to speak and go to ther workshops, If I only had the money
Right now I am looking foir the truths and the ways tio make me well As you said I am whole and complete I remember that of course from Louse Hay who Ifollowed for many years
I have been in intense intestinal pain for about20 hours now and I am try to keepmy self as relaxed and calm and warm as I can
And I need to go tothe doctor
Much love
KAren

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