The world as we know it right now will end in 2012.

A new world will be born.

Humanity is about to go through a massive shift.

One of the energies that is accelerating that change is the awakening that many Lightworkers are going through right now in respect to “Dreamstealers”.

What Are Dreamstealers?

Dreamstealers are the people in your life who have these qualities about them:

• They fail to take responsibility for anything in their own lives.  Instead they always have someone to blame – from the Government, to the Rich, to everyone else.
• They always see the negative in every situation, and hide under the guise of “Just being realistic.”
• They are the first ones to point out everything that could possibly go wrong.
• They destroy your dreams, and hide under the guise of “I do it because I love you and I don’t want you to be disappointed.”
• They are often unhappy and miserable with their own lives, yet at the same time they believe their way of doing things is the only/right way.

Almost all of  us have people in our lives who exhibit these qualities – be it friends, co-workers, acquaintances or family members.

The 2012 Shift

Up until 2011, most of us tolerated Dreamstealer abuse and negativity because in a lot of cases it was just easier that way.

A lot of us even felt sorry for these people, especially in the case of friends and family members.

However, in 2012 and moving forward, that is no longer good enough.

Almost all of the Lightworkers I have spoken to in the last three weeks have begun expressing this energy of “I’m not going to let them steal my dreams anymore.  I’m done.”

I believe this is a global phenomenon.  We’re all awakening to this right now.

The Lightworker Rescue Mission Ends

Up until now, many Lightworkers were under the wrong impression that it was somehow their job to “rescue” these dreamstealers from their own negativity.

We would listen and allow these negatrons to spew their negativity, thinking that “It’s OK, I can handle it.  I’ll show them the positive side as soon as they’re done.”

We would let them “vent” and then offer a positive perspective/spin on what they just expressed to us, in hopes of “showing them the light” and helping them to feel better.

The challenge is that they don’t want to see the light.

What they do want is to temporarily feel better – (which is good) – but the way that they go about this is by STEALING your light instead of by connecting to their own.

You can’t help a Dreamstealer by giving them your light.  That is a short-term solution which leaves you drained and them only temporarily feeling better.

By letting them “feed” off of your positive energy, you’re in effect giving them their “fix” instead of allowing them to find their own inner light.

This is not in alignment with the highest good.

The Secret Weapon of Dreamstealers

However destructive this challenge of letting Dreamstealers “feed” off of your light energy is, it actually pales in comparison with the bigger challenge that this situation creates.

The bigger challenge that this situation creates is that it robs the world of the CREATIONS that Lightworkers are supposed to be creating.

You see, it takes a lot of light energy to bring an idea/creation into this world.

It takes a lot of energy to raise our own vibrations to allow us to create and manifest something new and amazing at a level higher than we have ever created.

Ideas and inspirations are like infants.  They must be protected and shielded from the outside environment, just like you would protect an infant.

A lot of Lightworkers I know have amazing ideas and aspirations.

They have great aspirations for starting & building businesses, or transforming their lives in some way.

The challenge is that most Lightworkers I know have not been aware of the secret “weapon” that Dreamstealers have, which kills and destroys their ideas and aspirations.

Many Lightworkers believe that if they invest X number of hours into a project, or new business of some sort and 99% of that time is spent feeding positive energy towards the project, then it doesn’t really matter what happens the other 1% of the time.

Most Lightworkers BELIEVE in their positive beliefs.  They believe that their new business idea or new project is the right thing to do.  They are convinced that they are right and no Dreamstealer will ever be able to convince them otherwise.

This is why most Lightworkers haven’t really cared about the negative opinions of a few co-workers, friends or family members they are exposed to from time to time.

Their thinking is “I know what I’m doing is right, those negative people can’t convince me otherwise.”

And they are right.  Dreamstealers, in almost all cases, CAN’T convince you that they are right and you are wrong.

The challenge, however, is that they don’t have to!

You see, the secret weapon of a Dreamstealer is NOT to convince you that you are wrong and they are right.

They know they don’t need to do that.  All they need to do to completely throw you off track is to introduce DOUBT and FEAR – even in small amounts.

Often times that is all that it takes to destroy your dream.

You see doubts and fears paralyze people.

If I was a Dreamstealer I wouldn’t need to convince you that your dream/idea/inspiration is WRONG.  All I would have to do is introduce REASONABLE DOUBT that your ideas is RIGHT.

All it takes is a little tiny bit of REASONABLE DOUBT and your idea goes POOF!

Let me give you an example.

Let’s say that you are currently working at a job you hate.  You know it’s not the right job for you and you have decided that it’s time to leave.

Sure enough, you manifest a business opportunity which you are very excited about.  This opportunity feels right, it aligns with your highest values and you are super excited to start building this business.

Deep down you KNOW that this business opportunity is better for you than the job you’re at.

So you start taking the necessary steps to build this business and to hopefully, one day be able to quit your job and do the business full time.

Now you come across a Dreamstealer who gives you their “opinion” of what they think of your business idea.

They themselves have never actually owned a business, operated one, or had any success with a business in their lives.

So basically they’re talking out of their asses when giving you this advice – but nevertheless that doesn’t stop them from telling you ALL about how your business idea is flawed.

After one hour of listening to their negative garbage, you’ve had enough.

You excuse yourself and go do something else.  You brush yourself off and keep trucking on.

Over time, however, your excitement about your business starts to dissipate.

You start to wonder if maybe there was some truth in what they were saying.

Is it really the right time to start a new business?

With the economy the way it is?

What if it doesn’t work out?

What if you lose your job because your boss finds out you’re starting a business?

What if this happens or that, or some other thing?

You see…what’s happened is that the Dreamstealer has INFECTED you with DOUBT.

They didn’t CONVINCE you that your idea was bad or that your business venture was not right for you…. they didn’t have to.

All they did is they just created a little, tiny, itsy-bitsy DOUBT.

And that’s all it takes to destroy most ideas at their infancy stage.

Let me ask you this… if you fed an infant baby healthy breast milk from the mother several times a day, every day for 3 months… and then just once fed it poison, what would happen to that infant?

I think the answer is pretty self evident, right?

Would it matter if you tried to then go back and feed it healthy food again?

No, once the infant is poisoned, it’s poisoned!

This is exactly what DOUBT and FEAR create in our lives.

The bad news is that the Dreamstealers in your life have most likely been responsible for poisoning thousands, if not tens of thousands of possible ideas and inspirations in your life.

The good news is that if you STOP allowing them to do this in 2012 and onwards – your life is going to transform so quickly, you’ll be absolutely amazed.

Our Addiction to Dreamstealers

This post is not about blaming the Dreamstealers, however.

You see, it’s not really their fault.

They are what they are.

Dreamstealers are like cigarettes.  They poison your body, but it is YOUR choice whether your smoke them or not.

You can’t blame cigarettes for being cigarettes.  They’re just pieces of dried up tobacco wrapped in paper.

It is our addiction to cigarettes that’s destructive, not cigarettes themselves.

It’s the same thing with Dreamstealers.

Most Lightworkers are addicted to being around Dreamstealers.

The reason for this is because when we begin to pursue our dreams and aspirations, we inevitably end up hitting the outer edges of our comfort zone.

Meaning, we have an inspiration and we get excited about.

We start to pursue it and everything is going great.  But sooner or later, in order for us to bring those aspirations into fruition, it means that we have to go past our comfort zone and GROW in some way, shape or form.

This is where most of us self-sabotage ourselves, by picking up the phone and calling a Dreamstealer or by meeting up with them in person.

Instead of facing our fears of going beyond our comfort zone, it’s much easier for us to distract ourselves by getting around someone negative.

We get around them, and listen to them spew their poison.

When the conversation is over, we have allowed them to poison our aspirations.

However, another part of us justifies this by thinking “It’s good I called them, because they were totally having a bad day (yet again).  I’m sure I made them feel better.”

And the destructive cycle continues.

You get to stay safe inside your comfort zone with your new aspiration now being suffocated and killed by the doubts injected into your consciousness by the Dreamstealer, and the Dreamstealer gets their “fix” of positivity for the day.

Shielding Yourself from Doubt / Fear and Negativity

2012 is all about letting go of this addiction.

It’s about surrounding yourself with positive, inspiring and encouraging people who will help you to GROW your dreams and aspirations, and will support your growth even if it means you having to get a little bit out of your comfort zone.

It’s about letting go of your co-dependencies on Dreamstealers who are just looking for their positivity fix.  It’s time to let them discover their own light inside, not to offer up a piece of your own.

It’s time to fully embrace your dreams and inspirations and let your light shine.

I’ve spent a lot of time lately having conversations with people about dreams, goals and desires.

Ever since I got my hands on the “Your Wish is Your Command” training course which teaches us how to manifest our desires, my ability to manifest my desires has taken a quantum leap forward.

Every day I now wake up in the morning with the thought “I wonder what I’ll create / manifest today?” and I’m excited to jump out of bed to see what happens.

It’s like Christmas morning every day now.

That doesn’t mean that I don’t have challenges in my life that need overcoming, or that my life is an image of what the general public would consider as “perfect”, or anything like that.

But what it does mean is that I spend a LOT more of my time throughout every single day FEELING GOOD than I did before discovering the “Your Wish is Your Command” program.

I go to bed feeling good, and I wake up in the morning feeling good.

The amount of synchronicities that I’ve noticed manifesting in my life has also shot through the roof.

There’s just no words to describe how things have changed for me in the last few months since discovering that program, and especially since becoming a GIN Member and going through the Success Mastery program.

I Don’t Know What I Want

Since manifesting our desires has been such a focal point for me over the last few months and since I’ve spoken to so many people about this recently, I’ve noticed a common theme emerging with the people I talk to.

I have come to realize that a LOT of people – myself included – are virtually CLUELESS about what we really want.

See, most of us spend much more energy and time and effort on trying to figure out and implement “the secret formula” for manifesting our desires, than we do actually getting clear on what we really want.

In fact, most people I talk to seem to have no clue what they want.

When I ask people what they want, they don’t know.

Most people seem to be too busy WORKING towards HAVING what it is that they want, to actually figure out what it is that they want in the first place.

Meaning, a typical conversation might go something like this:

Paul: “What do you want from your life?”

Person: “I don’t know.  I haven’t had time to figure it out yet.”

Paul: “Why don’t you have time?  What are you doing?”

Person: “I’m busy working.”

Paul: “Working towards what?”

Person: “I don’t know.  As I’ve told you… I’m too busy working to figure that out.”

This may sound like a ridiculous conversation, but it’s true.

Virtually ever person I talk to is too busy “working” or “surviving” to figure out what they want.

I’m no exception.  Until recently, my “vision” of what I want from life has been extremely blurry.

The True Reason Why We Don’t Know What We Want

So why is that?

Why is it that we all live our daily lives, waking up, doing our thing, and going to sleep every night, without any real clue as to what we want from our lives?

Is it because we’re too busy to sit down and figure out what we want?

NO.

I believe there is a different reason.

I don’t think the problem is a lack of time.

I believe the real problem why most of us don’t know what we want is because we don’t think we can get it.

Meaning, I believe that as we get older, we slowly start to ask less and less from life because we don’t want to be dissapointed.

Ask a typical 19-year old what their dream car might be and they’ll say something like a “Ferrari” or a “Porsche” or a “Lamborghini” or at least a top of the line “BMW” or “Mercedes” or something like that.  At the very least it will be a car worth over $100,000.

Ask a 40-year old man with 3 kids, two jobs and 9 credit cards what their dream car is and they’ll either say “The old Toyota I currently own, I just wish it was paid off”, or they’ll just say “I don’t know.”

Does that 40-year old man really DREAM about owning that old Toyota for the rest of his life?  Is that really his true desire?  Is that the best possible dream car he would want to own?

Probably not.

What’s more likely is that the 40-year old man has stopped dreaming.

Why?  Why do we stop dreaming?

I think most people stop dreaming because life beats the crap out of them.

For most people, as they get older, their belief in the statement “I can manifest my dreams and desires.” diminishes.

Meaning, they believe that statement LESS at age 40 than they did at at 19.

To me that’s a shame.

And like I said… Until recently, I didn’t even realize that this was happening to me as well.

I remember my huge dreams and desires from when I was 19 years old and even though I have been able to manifest a lot of cool stuff in my life, I haven’t really been expanding my dreams over the last 10-15 years.

If anything, they’ve been shrinking – until now.

Dare to Dream Again

I would have to say that probably one of the most exciting things that becoming a GIN member has done for me is that it inspired me to start dreaming really big dreams again.

The reason this has been happening is because my belief level in being able to manifest ANYTHING I truly have a burning desire for has skyrocketed in the last few months.

That’s not to say that I didn’t believe I could manifest my desires before.

The difference is in how easy it has become!

Why has it become easy?

For two reasons…

(1) Connecting to the Right Energy

By becoming a GIN Member I have connected to an extremely powerful energy / morphic field of wealth and success.

How does this make it easier for me to manifest my desires in life?

Well, the best way I can describe what GIN does for me is in this way…

… every day as I go through my day, there are thoughts, people and “facts” that show up which make it logically “impossible” to manifest those things that I want to manifest.

For example, if I wanted to manifest the interest rate on my credit card being reduced from 22% to 0% – several things might happen…

… the thought “That’s probably not very likely to happen.  Why would a credit card company want to reduce my interest from 22% to 0%?” might enter my mind.  Thinking this thought is like slinging black dirt onto the energy field of my desire.

… a person might say to me “Credit card companies never reduce interest rates to 0%.  Unless it’s one of those deals where you transfer your balance from one card to theirs and even then it’s only temporary… but outside of that, reducing your interest rate to 0% is impossible.”  Once again, this is like slinging black dirt onto the energy field of my desire.

Ten or twenty different thoughts might enter my mind at some point during the day, trying to convince me that the thing I desire is probably not “possible”.  It might not be my own thoughts that do this.  It might be someone in my life saying something to me, or something I see on TV, or read on the Internet.

The point is that whenever we desire something in our lives, there are “reasons” that show up which try to convince us that we can’t have what we want.

(Reasons, by the way are just thought-forms which use the limited human capacity of “reasoning” to try to convince us that if something is not “reasonable” it is impossible to manifest.  In fact though, unreasonable things manifest all the time.)

So if I use the analogy that limited beliefs, and negative thought forms, and “reasonable thinking” and people and resources and the media and the economy and any other “thing” out there which tells us that we can’t have what we want is like DIRT that is being flung onto our desires…

… then being a GIN member and listening to GIN training is like having a hot shower.

I set a desire for what I want.

I use the techniques taught in GIN training to communicate to the Universe what it is that I want.

Then “DIRT” usually shows up – in the form of “thought forms” , people, “facts” and that DIRT tries to convince me that what I want is not possible.

I then connect to GIN energy and their training and I allow that energy to literally wash away that dirt.

Depending on the magnitude of the thing I’m trying to manifest, more “DIRT” might show up.

I connect to GIN energy again and their training and I allow it to wash the dirt some more.

And then things manifest in my life in the easiest, fastest, most amazing ways possible.

When this happens, things like getting credit card interest rates reduced from 22% to 0% become possible.  Even when your mind thinks “No way, that’s impossible.”

(2) Letting Go of the How

The second huge reason why manifesting has become so much easier for me lately is because I have let go of the “how”.

Meaning, I no longer try to figure out HOW I’m going to manifest something.

I now leave that up to the Universe.  It’s not my job to figure out the how.

It may be my job to IMPLEMENT the HOW, once it shows up, but it’s not my job to figure out the how.

The more I’ve been letting go of the “How”, the faster and easier it has become for me to manifest things.

In fact THE most difficult thing for most of us to do is to LET GO of the HOW.

If you want to get out of debt, decide that you want to get out of debt.  Set that as an intention you want to manifest.  Don’t worry HOW you will accomplish this.

If you want to lower your credit card interest rates, decide that is what you want.  Don’t worry HOW it will happen.

If you want to manifest a new car, decide that is what you want.  Don’t worry HOW that will happen.

Delegate “How” your desires will be manifested to the Universe and you’ll be blown away as to how quickly you start manifesting things.

The more you try to control the how, the less powerful you are.

What Are your Dreams for 2012?

In 2012 and beyond I dare you to dream big again.

Put away your skepticism.

Let go of the past.  Let go of any disappointments.  Let go of any failures.  Let go of all the DIRT that stopped you before.

Start to dream again.  Dream something big.

Don’t say you “Don’t Know” what you want.  You know what you want.  You’ve just been too scared to admit to yourself that you want it.

If you truly could have anything and everything you ever wanted, what would you want?

What kind of house would you live in?

What kind of car would you drive?

What kind of plane would you fly in?

What kind of relationships would you have?

What kind of friends would you have?

What kind of events would you attend throughout the year?

What kind of vacations would you take?

What would be your ideal “job”?

How much money would you make?

What kind of clothes would you wear?

What would your body look like?

Would you want your own business?

What kind of business would you want?

Allow yourself to dream big.

Your dream life depends on it.

Since setting my intention to manifest my GIN membership fees the day before yesterday, I’ve been playing around with some Law of Attraction visualization techniques.

As I was doing my visualizations I had an idea pop into my mind.

The idea was to create a YouTube video showing you guys what I “see” in my mind when I do my “Law of Attraction Energy Ball” visualization which is a hybrid visualization technique that I created by combining several visualizations from the book “Creative Visualization” and a couple of other LoA books.

A few weeks back I remember seeing a neat visual effect in a YouTube video and it reminded me of the “Energy Ball” in my visualization, so I decided to see if I could reproduce that VFX in one of my videos.

I’m a total VFX noob, so take it easy on me, but this video shows more or less what my visualization look like to me…

I share several other visualizations like this one, and other Law of Attraction techniques in my book “Law of Attraction Turbocharge” which you can pick-up on Amazon.com, or for a limited time I’m also giving it away the eBook version of it free of charge to anyone who becomes part of my Global Information Network team as a member or (free) affiliate.

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Today is Day 100 of my Weight Loss Challenge with Tyler Cruz, and Day 59 of being on the Dr. Bernstein Diet.

As a quick recap, our competition is for each of us to lose at least 30lbs by Sept 21st.  Whoever doesn’t weigh in at least 30lbs lighter by Sept 21st, has to pay the other person $650 if they hit their goal – or $325 to the BC SPCA if neither of us hit our target.

My starting weight at the beginning of this competition, on May 24th was 216lbs.

Eight days ago, on August 22nd, I weighted in at 190lbs.

Now, even though I still had until September 21st to drop down to my target weight of 186lbs, while writing my update post I decided to set a goal for myself to lose the remaining 4lbs and to hit 186.0 lbs by today – September 1st.

I’m happy to report that I hit my target weight today – weighing in at 186.0 lbs.

Now, I’m not out of the woods yet as far as the contest is concerned as I still have to take into account a couple of factors:

1. Morning weight vs evening weight.  Typically I weigh-in a little bit lighter in the mornings on an empty stomach, than in the evening after dinner.  My final weigh-in will happen on Sept 21st at 10pm, so that will be my “evening weight”, which means I have to allocate at least 0.5 – 1.0 lbs extra for that.
2. Weight in clothes difference.  For my final weigh in I will be wearing slightly heavier clothing than I normally do for my morning weigh-ins.
3. Camera.  I have to allocate about 1lb extra for the camera that I will be holding in my hand while doing my final weigh-in, since that is what I did for my starting weigh-in.

These three factors combined mean that I still have to lose at least 1-2lbs minimum in order to weigh in at -30lbs on Sept 21st.

Of course with $650 on the line, there is no way I’d cut it that close anyways so I want to make sure I’m weighing in at a much lower weight than 186lbs on that day just in case.

Having said that, I’m not worried since I still have just under 3 weeks to lose enough weight for the “buffer”.

My Plan So Far

My plan in losing this 30lbs so far has been split up into two Phases.

Phase 1

During Phase 1 of my plan I actually made almost no “physical world” changes of any kind in my plan.

For the first 42 days of the challenge I simply focused on two things in Phase 1:

1. Aligning myself spiritually with manifesting a healthy, fit and energized body.
2. Aligning my mental beliefs with manifesting a healthy, fit and energized body.

Those were the two things my intuition told me to focus on first.

Meanwhile, my competitor – Tyler Cruz – who doesn’t believe in concepts like aligning yourself spiritually or mentally and pretty much mocks it as “woo woo” stuff, jumped straight into making physical world changes to his diet and exercise regime.

Ten years ago I was just like him, and I too thought that “success” is all just about taking action in the physical world.

Then I learned that 90% of “success” in any endeavor has nothing to do with the physical world, or the actions you take.

Without spiritual and mental alignment, action accomplishes nothing long term except one thing – burnout.  I learned that the hard way 10 years ago.  Today I know better than to ignore the spiritual & mental realms.

During my Phase 1 spiritual and mental preparation phase, Tyler was all excited checking in with me on a daily basis seeing yet another day of him losing weight and me accomplishing “nothing”.

In fact, if you look at a comparison of our weight loss graphs from May 24th to July 1st, here’s what they looked like:

Imagine how excited Tyler must have been on this day, seeing me weigh in at 215 lbs – having lost virtually no weight in the first 40 days or so in the competition.

On the same day, he weighed in at 204.4lbs which meant that he had lost 8.4lbs in the same time period.

That is typically the type of results you see if you jump in and make “physical world” changes ignoring everything else.

You see fairly quick, physical world results which can be very exciting.

This is also why 99% of weight loss programs out there IGNORE the spiritual & mental side of things. They know that the only way to get people to buy a program or diet is to show them instant, physical world results IMMEDIATELY after starting the program.

That is also why most weight loss programs out there fail.

Phase 2

For Phase 2 of my plan I was intuitively guided to start the Dr. Bernstein diet, which I started on July 5th – just 4 days after the 215lbs weigh-in I just mentioned.

Now let’s take a look at another graph.

This one shows what has happened up until today – Sept 1st. In this graph we’re also looking at the number of pounds lost, instead of just actual weight since Tyler and I weighed in at different starting weights.

As you can see I have not only caught up to Tyler’s weight loss, I have surpassed him as well.

I am now 9.2 lbs ahead of him in the competition, whereas on just two months ago on July 1st I was 7.4lbs behind.

Now, the funny thing is that for anyone who doesn’t believe in “woo woo” stuff like making the spiritual and mental shifts necessary for weight loss, they’ll just look at my results and point to the Dr. Bernstein diet alone as the source of my results.

They’ll say that the reason I’ve lost 29lbs in the last 2 months is because I just took “action” and stopped eating crap and started eating the Dr. Bernstein diet.

And while it is true that I did take action, and I did make dietary and exercise changes in the last two months – those things are not the CAUSE of the weight loss. They are the EFFECT of the Spiritual & Mental changes that preceded the actions.

The false belief that the true source of weight loss comes from physical world changes (like diet & exercise) is about as accurate as saying that the true source of electricity is your wall outlet, or that the true source of water is your tap, or that the true source of money is an ATM machine.

Before and After Pics

Here’s my before / after pics from May 24th and today.

As you can see, even though I’ve lost 30lbs, I still have some weight to lose. I’d guesstimate around 20 lbs more to really hit my ideal weight range.

What’s Next?

Well, I’ve still got 3 weeks to go in the competition, so I’m going to continue losing weight as I want to make sure I have a nice buffer for my Sept 21st weigh-in.

I also have some ideas for what I want to do next after Sept 21st, but I am being intuitively guided not to worry about those things until after the Sept 21st weigh-in, so for now I’m just focusing on that.

Following my intuition during this weight loss challenge has definitely been a learning experience for me.

It’s been so interesting to watch the path my intuition is unfolding for me, and to see the contrast between it and what my rational mind would want me to do.

This weekend things got even more interesting as my intuition showed me the diet it wants me to follow.

Before I go there though, let’s do a quick review of where my intuition has taken me so far.

Starting Backwards

Typically when we make the decision to lose weight or to get in shape, most of us start off by either making dietary changes or by starting to exercise – or both.

Although there is nothing wrong with making changes related to diet or exercise, those are only physical world changes. Making physical world changes is fine, but the physical world is the world of effect – not cause, so trying to make changes at that level never works long term.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience, therefore it makes sense that making any major changes in our lives would have to start at the spiritual level.

We can’t expect to lose weight and transform our Physical Body if we don’t first transform our Spiritual Body.

My Matrix Energetics training and Marianne Williamson’s book “A Course in Weight Loss” have been great in helping me to become aware of and to address the spiritual aspects of my weight loss journey. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a book that addresses the deeper, more spiritual aspects of weight loss.

I still haven’t finished the book or the exercises within it, as it’s not meant to be rushed or done all at the same time. I’m going to take my time and work through the book, while I simultaneously work on the other parts of my weight loss journey.

Next I was guided to focus on the mental side of weight loss. This is where the PSYCH-K Advanced course I took last weekend came into play. I’ve been using some of the balances we learned to help me align my beliefs with long term weight loss.

As an almost immediate effect of some of those balances, I finally cleaned out my exercise room – which has been a disaster zone for over two years – and started running.

Unlike before though, I’m actually enjoying running. It’s like some kind of switch flipped in my mind and I actually *want* to do it now, not because I have to, but because I want to.

So far, in the last two weeks or so, I have done 9 runs and 1 walk for a total distance of 32.2 kms in 5.5 hours. As I write this Blog post, I’m actually itching to get it finished so that I can go do my run for today. Something has definitely shifted for me.

I started by aligning myself with my weight loss goal spiritually.

I then worked on aligning myself with my weight loss goal mentally.

And now finally I’m making the necessary changes physically.

That path of Spirit first, Mind second and Body third is where my intuition is guiding me.

In the past I have worked on Body, then Mind, and then maybe Spirit – but I now realize that is backwards.

We can’t make changes by working in the world of effects (the physical world). We must start with the root cause of our challenges, and that always starts in the Spiritual realm of our consciousness.

Making Changes in the Physical World

There is a really easy way to know if your Spirit and Mind are aligned with your goals.

If they are, you will begin to take action towards your goals. It’s as simple as that.

If you know you should be taking some sort of action in your life, but you find yourself procrastinating or everything seems to be getting in the way – there is a simple reason for that. It simply means that your Spirit and/or Mind are not in alignment with your goals.

You can’t be aligned Spiritually and Mentally and not take action. Spiritual and Mental alignment cures laziness, procrastination and dissolves obstacles.

Otherwise, if we are not Spiritually and Mentally aligned, then we won’t take even the most obvious actions we know we should be taking.

It always makes me laugh when I hear people say that losing weight is easy. “Just eat healthy and exercise!” they proclaim. It’s as easy as that.

Well Duh!

That’s like saying that curing alcoholism is easy – just stop drinking!

Or like saying that building wealth is easy – just make more money than you spend and save / invest the difference.

Heck, while we’re at it, why don’t we just say that making a pile of money in the stock market is easy – just buy low and sell high! Duh!

Or that it’s easy to win the NBA championship – just score more points than the other team.

Wow, what brilliance.

The challenge with losing weight is usually NOT that we don’t know *what* to do, it’s that we can’t get ourselves to consistently do what we know we should be doing.

If you’ve got a healthy and fit physical body and you just can’t understand how fat people can’t get themselves to eat healthy and exercise, just take a look at the areas in your life where you’re having challenges.  Maybe it’s with your finances, or maybe it’s with your relationships or some other area of your life.

I have never met a single human being who had their entire life totally in order.  We all struggle and have challenges somewhere in our lives.

One of the main root causes of these challenges is a lack of alignment between the Spirit, Mind and Body.

Once we have the Spiritual and Mental side of ourselves aligned with our goal of losing weight, it actually becomes easier to take action than not to.

Like I said before, while I write this Blog post I’m just itching to finish so that I can go for my run.  Right now, exercise is not something I *have* to do, it’s something I *want* to do.

Big difference.

There is one other way to take physical world actions even when we are not aligned Spiritually and Mentally – and that is through the use of willpower. However, from my previous experience, willpower only lasts 15-60 days maximum and then we revert to falling back into alignment with our Spirit / Mind.

Looking back at my previous failed weight loss attempts, I can see now that I tried to do them by the use of willpower, and there just isn’t enough willpower in the world to keep the weight off if your Spirit and Mind are not aligned with being physically fit and healthy.

Dietary Changes

As the intuitive impulse to start exercising hit me a few weeks ago, I wondered how long it would be before I get the call to start changing my diet.

Since we’re now six weeks into the weight loss challenge, and I haven’t really lost any weight yet, my rational mind has been starting to get concerned. The last thing it wants to do is to pay Tyler Cruz $650 at the end of this challenge.

Luckily, about a week ago I started to get the intuitive nudges that it’s time to start looking at diet. The weird thing is that I’m actually really excited about this, instead of dreading it like I have in the past.

The funny thing is that as soon as my rational mind heard the word diet, it immediately went into overdrive trying to figure out which diet to follow.

I have dozens of diet books at home, so I started going through all of them to see what intuitively felt right. Unfortunately, nothing was jumping out at me.

With each of the diets that I’ve tried in the past, from the pH Miracle Diet to the Carb Nite® Solution diet, to just eating less, to cutting out certain types of foods, I have never been able to lose more than 15-18 lbs at any one time.

It’s almost as if my mind has a thermostat that only allows me to drop about 8-10% of my total body weight, and then it freaks out and self-adjusts to get me to get back to my “normal” fat weight.

Actually, when I say “it’s almost as if…”, what I really mean is that this is EXACTLY what is happening. I think that happens for most people. Until you align your Spirit and Mind that is. I think only then you open up to the possibility of going beyond that 10% zone.

Anyway, as I was looking through all the different types of diets out there I began to scan through everything, trying to find the one that my intuition would give me a “Green Light” on.

The weird thing is that nothing was standing out for me. At best, there were some new insights I picked up by looking through the books.

I even went to a book store to see if there were any other diet books that I didn’t own that jumped out at me. No such luck. I’d pickup book after book and get a “Nope” pretty much right away.

After a couple of days of this game, my rational mind got bored with searching and trying to find something that would satisfy my intuition.

It’s as if it finally said “Screw it. I’m done. If you don’t like any of these diets, then why don’t you tell us what you want us to do!”

When I sat down and meditated though, I didn’t get any answers on diet. Instead I was guided to get more clear on my goal.

I know I have a goal to lose 30lbs for this weight loss challenge with Tyler Cruz, but in reality that is NOT my ultimate goal. Losing 30lbs would be great, but it’s still not that exciting. It would mean that I would weigh around 185lbs, which is much better than the 215lbs I’m at right now, but it’s still not exciting!

What would really be exciting for me is dropping down to like 15-20% Body Fat. To accomplish that, I would need to lose more like 50-60lbs, not 30!

Considering the fact that in the last 10 years I have never lost more than 15-18lbs at any one time, and that in the last 6 weeks I have lost virtually no weight, just the idea of trying to lose 50-60 lbs sounds completely irrational, but my intuition told me get clear on what I *really* want, so I did.

So there I was, clear on my goal of wanting to lose 50-60 lbs, with no clue what diet to follow.

I meditated and said to my intuition “Ok, I’m ready. Please show me what I am not seeing. What do I need to do diet wise to lose this excess fat? I’m ready. Show me a green light.”

And then I let it go.

I can’t remember now if it was the same day or the next day that this happened, but I was driving in my car and I was stopped at a red light. No big deal. Just another day. Just another red light.

But then something happened. The light turned green, and I drove through the intersection and that’s when it hit me.

Instantly, I knew the answer to what I need to do with my diet.

My intuition went “There is your answer.” and my rational mind went “What?! You’ve got to be kidding me! No f#*&ing way! Really???”

I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was a sign, on the back of the bus right in front of me, for a diet that I heard about years ago.  It was a diet I had previously dismissed due to some misconceptions I used to have about how the body burns fat.

That’s why my rational mind was surprised to have this particular diet show up for me intuitively.  It (my rational mind) already made a negative judgement about this diet years ago based on some misconceptions I used to have.

When I got home I started to do more research on the diet and once again I was getting nothing but “Green Lights” from my intuition.

What’s interesting is that it was actually the stuff I learned on the Carb Nite® Solution diet, which I followed during my last weight loss challenge, that cleared up some of the misconceptions I used to have about how the body burns fat.

So in a way, if I hadn’t done the Carb Nite® Solution diet last year, I probably wouldn’t be interested in this diet right now.

I’m so excited now and I can’t wait to get started.

Today was my last day eating the way that I used to eat.

Tomorrow I start on my new diet.

Tomorrow I will reveal what the new diet is as well.

Stay tuned.

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 30 days since I started my weight loss challenge with Tyler Cruz.

When we first agreed to do a 4 month challenge, it seemed like such a long period of time – and now we’re already 25% of the way through it!

Progress So Far

Purely speaking from a weight loss results perspective, I haven’t made a lot of progress yet.

As of this morning I weighed in at 212.2 lbs which is only 3.8 lbs less than my starting weight of 216lbs.

If we were to break things down linearly, since we’re 25% of the way through the challenge I should technically have already lost 7.5 lbs in order to be on-pace to losing the 30 lbs I need to lose.

From a non-weight results oriented point of view I feel like I’ve made some good progress.

I’ve been intuitively guided to do some “house cleaning” on my external environment, prior to making dietary and exercise activity changes.

I went through my closet and got rid of about 10-15% of my wardrobe, letting go of clothing I no longer wear.

I went through my bookshelves and put together a box of books that I will be getting rid of.

Yesterday night I spent about four hours cleaning out my exercise room and making it a lot more comfortable for working out.  I can now actually get to my treadmill!

A Course in Weight Loss

I have also been reading a really great book which addresses the spiritual and psychological aspects of losing weight permanently.

The book is called “A Course in Weight Loss” and it’s written by Marianne Williamson.

The book teaches 21 spiritual lessons for surrendering your weight forever, and it’s based on lessons taught in the book “A Course in Miracles”.

I’m really enjoying this book and I think it really addresses the real issues surrounding weight loss.

For example, in one of the lessons you get to know, love and accept the “fat you” version of yourself.  Instead of trying to push away and hate this part of yourself, which perpetuates it’s existence, we instead accept it and forgive it and love it.

By doing this we end the cycle of self-hatred and allow for real, long term healing to start taking place.

Although I haven’t finished reading all of it yet, or going through all the exercises, just based on what I’ve read so far I’d recommend this book to anyone who’s struggled with weight in their lives.

Welcoming Exercise

Yesterday afternoon, seemingly out of nowhere I got this massive urge to clean out our exercise room and get my treadmill ready.

It was as if my intuition was saying “Ok, it’s time now.  Let’s get that room cleaned out.” and I was actually all excited about it.

I thought it was rather odd that I would have this urge since I have the PowerPlate machine all setup and I can do my workouts on it if I wanted to, and I could go outside to jog if I wanted to go for a run, but for some reason I just wanted to get that done.

I’m really, really looking forward to jumping on the treadmill and going for a run after I finish this Blog post.

This is drastically different to previous times when I would start exercising because I knew I “had” to in order to lose weight.  This time I actually want to do it.

Perhaps it’s some of the PSYCH-K balances I’ve been doing around weight loss, or maybe some of the exercises I’ve been doing from the “A Course in Weight Loss” book I mentioned above.  Whatever it is I’ve felt a slight shift around exercising.

Hopefully I still feel this way 5 minutes into my run tonight.

Dietary Changes

So far I’ve just been making very minor dietary changes in my routine.

More than anything I’ve just been trying to eat less snacks and crap like that.

However, I haven’t felt the call to make dietary changes yet so I’ve still been eating pretty much the same way I was eating before – minus a dessert here or there.

I have a feeling that as soon as I start doing more exercise though, diet will be next.

Tyler’s Progress

Unlike my approach of focusing on getting the spiritual and mental side of things figured out first, Tyler started implementing a healthier diet and exercising more right from day one.

Interestingly enough, even though he’s technically had a 30 day head start on me in terms of exercise and healthy eating, he’s only 0.4 lbs ahead of me in terms of weight loss as of this morning.

This Sunday, I completed an amazing four day training workshop in PSYCH-K® Advanced training.

The workshop was facilitated by Sandra Wallin, who is such an awesome person and who blessed us with the opportunity to take the workshop in her beautiful home here in Maple Ridge, BC.

The loving and learning environment that was created by Sandra and our small group of six students in these four days was just amazing.

The experiences and transformations we saw in each other and experienced in ourselves were truly magical.

Yesterday I actually experienced a bit of workshop withdrawal, feeling a bit sad that our time together at the workshop was over.

At the same time though, I’m super excited about implementing everything I’ve learned in the workshops into my daily life and helping others experience some of the same transformations we experienced during the workshop.

A Bit About PSYCH-K®

For those of you who are not familiar with what PSYCH-K® is, it’s essentially a system or a set of tools which allows you to change your life / reality by identifying and re-writing the self-limiting, and usually unconscious beliefs that are holding you back from achieving your full potential.

Just over a year ago I wrote about my experience with taking the PSYCH-K® Basic Workshop which I also took with Sandra, and in that post I wrote a bit more about what PSYCH-K® is, how I found it (or more accurately how it found me) and my experiences with it.

I have also created a PSYCH-K® page here, where I will describe PSYCH-K® in more detail along with information on booking a PSYCH-K® session with me for anyone who is interested.

Insights From the PSYCH-K® Advanced Workshop

I experienced some really profound insights and experiences during this workshop that I want to share.

To protect the privacy and confidentiality of the other students in the workshop, I have to be a little vague with some of my descriptions and I will not mention any names.  It won’t interfere with sharing the insights, but just in case you are wondering why I’m being a bit vague in some instances, it is for this reason.

To start with, I would have to say that probably the most profound set of experiences I had in this workshop all revolved around the process of going into surrogacy.

The best way I can describe surrogacy in PSYCH-K® is connecting and communicating with the consciousness of another person, pet, group or any other pattern of information / energy in consciousness.

By going into surrogacy, a person can act as the surrogate for someone or something that is not physically present, or unable to participate in the balancing process.

For example, during the workshop we had people enter into surrogacy for other people who were not present at the workshop and were able to do relationship balances between them and someone at the workshop as if they were present right there in the room.

I had the privilege and honor of going into surrogacy for several people during the workshop and the experience was absolutely amazing.

The experience is not something that is easy to share in words, but I’ll describe it as best as I can.

When I entered into surrogacy for another person – who was not present with us physically – I actually felt a shift in my perspective as if their perspective was now my perspective.

Not everyone experiences the same level of awareness during surrogacy, as it’s all based on individual intentions.  For the purposes of this workshop I specifically set an intention to fully feel as much of the surrogate process as I could because I wanted to prove to myself that it was “real” and not just “make believe”.

As I went into surrogacy for different people during the workshop, I noticed several interesting things.

Firstly, I am not normally a very kinesthetic or empathic person with my intuitive abilities.  I normally don’t “feel” things from other people like my wife does intuitively.  My claircognizant abilities are much stronger so I normally just “know” things – not feel them.

In this case it was different.  One of the first things that I noticed when going into surrogacy is that I could feel things in my body that I believe the other people were feeling.

For example, when I went into surrogacy for a few female individuals I felt a lot weaker in my upper body, as if my shoulder strength was greatly diminished.

I also felt pain in my ankle, lower back, ribs and other spots on the body depending who I was in surrogacy for.

Each time as I would release surrogacy, the pain would disappear as I returned to “Paul” consciousness.  I don’t know if the slight pain I felt in those areas was an indication that those people also feel that pain in those areas of their body, or if it was some form of symbolic metaphor for something else.

What I do know is that I could pinpoint very specific points on my body where I felt pain while going into surrogacy for different people.

I thought that was very cool.  If it is in fact an indicator of where people’s pain is or an area of their body which needs healing, that will definitely be a very useful tool for my Energy Healing sessions.

Secondly, while in surrogacy I noticed a difference in visual perspective when looking at people.

For example, when I went into surrogacy for one person, the person who I was looking at in front of me all of a sudden seemed a lot shorter than they really are.  I on the other hand instantly felt taller than I “should” be, almost as if I was standing up on a stool.  In that particular case the person I went into surrogacy for was significantly shorter than me.

It’s almost as if the person who I went into surrogacy for was looking at the other person standing in front of me through my eyes, and they were confused as to why they seemed so short.

In another instance, when I was in surrogacy for someone else, all I could see was a younger version of the person standing in front of me.

Thirdly, I noticed a difference in my thinking patterns and behavior / mannerisms.

For example, when I went into surrogacy for an older lady and I went to sit down on the couch, I sat down in a “little old lady” posture.  I don’t know why I sat like that.  It just felt natural to sit down like that, and I remember feeling a bit weird about it – but while in surrogacy it felt normal.

Afterwords, people commented that I looked totally different and they totally noticed that I sat down in that weird way.

In another instance while in surrogacy for a male I felt like my upper body was much stronger and I felt taller than myself.  My posture also changed and I was told that it was the same posture that the person who I was in surrogacy for has.  The person was also taller and “bigger” than me.  I didn’t know any of these things going into surrogacy though.  All I knew was a name, that’s it.

Throughout the different surrogacy sessions I was able to pick up “pain spots” in people’s bodies, body size, perspective, mannerisms, beliefs, thoughts, and other things.

Since the people who were at the workshop know the people I was going into surrogacy for, it was really cool to get validation that the things I was experiencing made sense in respect to the person I was going into surrogacy for.

Surrogacy For Animals and Other Forms of Energy

Going into surrogacy in PSYCH-K® is not just limited to other people.  It is possible to go into surrogacy for animals, groups of people or animals, conceptual energies and even inanimate objects.

For example, we can go into surrogacy for someone’s business and do a Relationship Balance between a person and their business.

Essentially, anything that you have any type of relationship with in life can be brought forth through surrogacy.  For example, a person’s relationship with their money, debt, health, obstacles, etc.

One person in the workshop went into surrogacy for the group of obstacles that I perceive to be in my way of achieving a certain goal in my life.

As soon as that happened, I felt an immediate energy of anger, annoyance and dislike for this person while they were surrogating that energy.

It was nothing I consciously thought about, the feelings just showed up instantly.

I felt like that energy was trying to bully me, overpower me and push me around, and I honestly just wanted to push it back.  There was a lot of tension in the room.

As we went through the balancing process though, we completely transformed my relationship with this energy into great respect and appreciation for each other.

I no longer perceive this energy as something that is holding me back, but rather as a great teacher that is here to teach me very important things.

It was an absolutely amazing experience.  Something I will never forget.

On the last day of the workshop I also facilitated a Relationship Balance between one of the students and their business.

It was a very enlightening experience.

I was able to actually see that the business itself has it’s own consciousness, and self-awareness.  It is it’s own entity.

I know that legally speaking a corporation is in fact it’s own entity, but what I now realize is that the “birth” of a business is much more than just a legal or conceptual process.

I now see that every business, every website, every object has consciousness.

Of course this makes total sense since consciousness is in everything around us, but actually experiencing the process of someone going into surrogacy for a business which I previously associated as something that wasn’t alive, was amazing.

It made me realize that every business (or any other ‘thing’ we typically associate with being inanimate) is it’s own entity in consciousness, alive and conscious of itself.  Even a rock has consciousness.

This realization has really opened my eyes, and the implications of this realization are tremendous.

Building Rapport

George Bernard Shaw once said “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that is has taken place.”

So often we try to communicate with others either one-on-one or in group situations and we get frustrated because we don’t feel like we are being heard.

This is often the result of a mismatch in the predominant modality of communication people or groups of people prefer.  For example, someone speaking in a “Visual” language often has trouble properly communicating with someone who predominantly listens in a “Kinesthetic” language.

So even when we’re speaking English, it doesn’t mean we’re speaking THEIR English.

Another great set of tools we were armed with in this workshop revolved around building rapport between people or groups of people with different language modalities.

By balancing out your ability to both speak and listen in any modality you can significantly improve your ability to communicate with others.

Improving your ability to communicate can be a huge catalyst for improving your relationships as well.

Core Beliefs

In the PSYCH-K® basic workshop we learned how to identify and balance out specific beliefs that may be holding someone back from achieving a specific goal in life.

Often times the beliefs that hold people back from specific goals do not necessarily correlate to the area of life that the goal is in.  Meaning, if you have a financial goal you are struggling with, it could be that the limiting belief that is holding you back has nothing to do with finances – it could be something related to relationships, or spirituality, or self worth.

This is one of the biggest reasons why I think PSYCH-K® is so powerful – it helps us to identify the actual beliefs that are holding us back, and very often those limiting beliefs are hidden in the subconscious mind in the last place you’d look.

Besides specific beliefs which correlate to specific goals, we all also have Core Beliefs that typically affect all areas of our lives.

For example, a belief like “The Universe is a Friendly Place” is a Core Belief that we either believe or don’t believe at the subconscious level.  Such a belief can affect every area of our lives.

In the PSYCH-K® Advanced training we learned how to balance out our Core Beliefs which was also very enlightening.  I can see this balance making a huge impact in the lives of most people.

Belief Points and Energy Focusing

There are 12 energy points on the body which represent key beliefs which can give us valuable information about how we are limiting ourselves in a given situation.

During the workshop we learned how to identify, test and balance these belief points through a process of energy focusing.

This energy focusing part of the workshop reminded me a lot of the stuff I’ve learned in my Reiki and Matrix Energetics training, but just more focused on very specific points on the body and using a more specific spectrum of energy.

I think for anyone who’s taken other forms of energy healing in the past, you will feel right at home with energy focusing.  I found it really straightforward and I really liked how it totally aligned with the energy healing stuff I already know.

Life Bonding

Another really awesome balance we learned during the workshop was called the Life Bonding Balance.

The life bonding balance helps us to “re-program” the negative associations we may have related to the trauma of birth, the fear of death or any other major trauma we may have experienced or fear experiencing in our lives.

This is a very sacred and powerful balance process and I had a really powerful and cool experience with this balance, as did everyone else in our class.

I didn’t particularly have a big fear of death (consciously), nor did I feel like I had any major birth trauma’s to balance out but I still found this balance awesome.

I can totally see that for anyone who even has an inkling of uncomfortable energy around their own birth and/or death would really benefit from this balance.

The other thing I found really cool about this balance is that it can be used to balance out these issues not just for people but also for businesses, or other energies by going into surrogacy for them.

I can’t wait to try this balance out with my businesses.

Other Awesomeness

There was so much more awesomeness and many more insights I got from this workshop, but since this post is already approaching the 2,500 word count I’m going to save these insights for future Blog posts.

Before I do though, I just want to say that for anyone who has already taken their PSYCH-K® Basic training I highly recommend doing the Advanced level training.  It is definitely a life changing experience.

Also, for anyone who’s local here in British Columbia I highly recommend getting your PSYCH-K® training from Sandra Wallin.

Now Accepting PSYCH-K® Clients

One of the main reasons I really wanted to get my PSYCH-K® Advanced training is because I want to be able to do distance / surrogate sessions for people.

When I got my PSYCH-K® Basic training I absolutely loved the balances we learned, but the big challenge I had was that the majority of my mentoring / coaching students and Blog readers in general are not local here in Maple Ridge, BC.

What this meant is that I had this awesome tool, but unless people wanted to hop on a plane and come see me in person, I had to refer them to someone else local to them to get their PSYCH-K® balances done.

This never seemed to work out for people because they typically either had no local PSYCH-K® practitioners in their area, or even if they did they simply did not resonate with their energy.

That is why one of my main intentions for this workshop was to get really good at being able to do surrogate sessions with people.

I’m so excited about this because I can now utilize my PSYCH-K® toolset to do balances with people regardless where they are in the world.

By going into surrogacy for someone I can do all the balancing work with them, their business, their pets, or any other energy pattern we identify as being appropriate regardless where they are in the world.

If you’d like to book a PSYCH-K® session with me, please visit my PSYCH-K® page for more information.

Since it’s been 19 days since I’ve started my weight loss challenge against Tyler Cruz I figured it was time for an update on my progress so far.

A few days after I started the challenge I announced my new strategy for this challenge in this post.  In that post I talked about how spirituality and mindset were going to be the fundamental backbones of my weight loss plan this time.

When people typically want to lose weight, one of the first things they work on doing is either going on a diet, starting an exercise program or both.

In contrast to that, one of the first things that I was guided to do this time was to let go of the pattern of “I might need that one day” in all areas of my life, not just in relation to my body weight.

Meaning, for example one of the first visions I got was to go through my closet and to get rid of 15-20% of my clothes.

I have a bunch of clothes in my closet that I hardly ever wear, but that I keep “just in case”.  For example from my days of working in the corporate world I have a whole bunch of dress shirts, which I haven’t worn except on a few occasions since quitting my job and starting to work from home in 2009.

I was guided to let go of that, so I did.  I went through my closet and got rid of a bunch of clothing that I no longer need.

I would estimate that i probably got rid of about 15% of my clothes.  I want to go back and do a second cleaning as well, as I think I want to get rid of another 10% or so.

Secondly, I was also guided to get rid of at least 20% of my books.  I actually just finally did that this morning.

I’ll be donating my books and clothes to charity, but I haven’t gone and one that yet.  I have them ready in a bag and some boxes.  I might go do that later on tonight.

Dietary Changes

Dietary change wise, I haven’t been guided to make a lot of changes yet.

In fact, I have mostly been eating just as “crappy” as I was eating previously.  For example, here are some pictures of the types of foods I’ve been eating:

This was a big pasta plate I had at Boston Vancouver Pizza.

It’s one of my favorite meals there.

It’s their chicken and mushroom fettuccine baked with cheese and of course with some garlic toast.

According to BP’s website, this meal is about 1,400 calories, not including the cheese on top.  With the cheese, it’s probably around 1,700.

I didn’t eat the whole meal though, I ate half and took the other half home to eat the next day for lunch.

On another day, I went out to one of our favorite Fish and Chips places for all you can eat fish and chips.

Although it is all you can eat, and they will just keep bringing out plate after plate like this if you’d like, I only ever eat one plate anyways as they are pretty huge.

I took these photos with my iPhone and sent them to Tyler Cruz, as I know he’s been making some drastic changes to his diet, trying to eat salads and veggie sandwiches to try to lose weight.

Normally, I’d be doing exactly the same thing.  Making huge changes to my diet from Day 1, trying to lose weight as quickly as I can.

This time around, I’m being guided NOT to do that.

Last night for example, I had pizza.

I must say that every part of my logical / rational mind is fighting this, as it believes that in order to lose weight I must make immediate and drastic dietary changes, but my guides keep saying “Not yet.  Just TRUST.”

So I’m listening.

In fact, it even goes beyond all you can eat fish and chips, pasta and pizza – all of which are super carb / calorie rich and low nutrient rich foods.

A couple Friday’s ago my wife and I were at a spiritual workshop in Surrey, BC and there is a Krispy Kreme donuts shop just minutes away from where the workshop was being held.  I think it’s one of the first Krispy Kreme donut shops in Canada.

Anyway, since we were so close I tuned in and did a quick intuitive check on Krispy Kreme donuts and got a green light.

You’ve got to be kidding right? Krispy Kreme donuts?  I know, right?

Anyway, we had some people coming over the following day so we bought two dozen donuts.  I didn’t eat all of them but I had a few.

I took this picture in front of the donuts, wearing the Krispy Kreme hat and sent it to Tyler.  He was probably eating a salad when he got the pic.

Now, it’s not like this is all I’ve been eating.  I’ve also eaten some salads, and some more nutritious meals, but the point is that I have NOT made any major dietary changes so far.

I keep waiting to get the intuitive nudge to start on that, but it hasn’t come yet.  I keep getting “Not yet.  Just TRUST.”

One thing I have been guided to do is to start drinking a Shakeology shake every morning, and sometimes twice a day.

Technically, it’s kind of a meal replacement shake so it could help me to lose weight if I was using it to replace my lunch or my dinner meals, but so far I’ve been drinking it in the mornings before lunch.

I guess you could say that it replaces my breakfast, but I never eat breakfast so it’s not really replacing any meals.

I’m being guided to drink it for it’s nutritional value, not for weight loss – so far.

Working Out / Exercise

For exercise, I’ve been using my new PowerPlate machine and so far I’ve done 3 full body workouts on it.

In the past, during other weight loss competitions I always exercised / worked out every day.  This time around I’m only working out when guided to do so and so far it’s been three times on the PowerPlate in the first 18 days, so once every 6 days or so.

One thing I will say about this machine is that it really hits all those stabilizer muscles outside of the normal large muscle groups I’m used to working out.

For example I did a shoulder workout on it during my first workout and some of the muscles around my shoulder area were still sore 5 days later.

Working out on the PowerPlate kind of reminds me of when I was doing martial arts training.  On the first day after training it would be all the major muscle groups like the quads, pecs, and back muscles that would be sore, but after a few days those would be fine but all the little muscles you don’t even realize exist like the muscles in between your ribs that still ache.

I really like the PowerPlate so far.  It’s a really tough workout in such a short period of time.

I’ll probably do a video of my workout on it soon.

Yardwork?

Yesterday, my intuitive exercise plan took me outside to do some yard work.

We live on a 5 acre property so there’s enough yard / landscaping work to keep me busy forever if I had the time/resources/desire to just go out there and work on my back yard.

So finding something to do outside is never an issue for me.

The weather has been pretty good for the last week or so, so yesterday I decided to get my tractor out and to work on getting my grass cut.  Even with my tractor it’s a 2-3hour job under perfect conditions.

By perfect conditions I mean if the ground was flat, dry, and there were no obstacles such as rocks, pieces of wood, branches etc. hiding in the grass.

The first cut of the year is always the  hardest because I have to watch out for all of those things while cutting grass that’s about 2-3 feet tall.

My dogs love to drag random pieces of wood, branches and toys all around the yard so there’s lots of obstacles you can’t see when the grass is long.

In addition to cutting the lawn, I also cut down some bushes, and got the chainsaw out to cut down some wood from an old fence that I tore down last year.

Holy crap using a chainsaw for an hour is a good shoulder workout.

All in all I burned 4,762 calories yesterday working on my yard.

Keep in mind that my resting metabolic rate is around 1,600 calories, so that’s an extra 3,100+ calories I burned yesterday on top of that.

Actually now that I’ve shown you this graph above, I might as well tell you about the BodyMedia Fit that I’ve also started using.

Tracking Progress

For the last week or so I’ve started using my BodyMedia Fit to track my daily activity levels.

One of the things I’ve actually noticed since using it is that I do a LOT more exercise – especially walking – than I previously thought.

For example, I have this habit of walking when I talk on the phone.  I literally get on the phone and just start walking around my house.

I hate talking while sitting down.  I don’t know why but my body just wants to walk while talking on the phone.

Since I do quite a bit of talking on the phone during my day-to-day business activities I have become aware of the fact that I do a lot of walking.

For example, I’ll get on the phone with someone and talk to them for 60 minutes and I’ll be walking around my house the whole time, or I’ll walk outside.

By using the BodyMedia Fit device I have, I have especially become aware of three main things:

• I already do a LOT of walking.  I’d say on average 3,000 – 5,000 steps per day.  11,500 steps yesterday.
• I burn a lot more calories than I thought during an average day.
• Doing yard work or even house cleaning is way more productive / efficient than running on at treadmill.

I remember when I was running on a treadmill every day, I would average around 300 calories burned for each run lasting about 30 minutes.

I can accomplish a lot more and burn more calories working on the yard even just once a week.

Tracking My Weight

In addition to using HealthyWeightCalc.com, and my BodyMedia Fit, I have also been tracking my weight daily using my regular bathroom scale and an excel spreadsheet.

Here’s what my tracking sheet looks like:

(Click on picture to enlarge)

I track a variety of stats, but there are two things that I’m particularly paying attention to.

Firstly, my weight.

On May 24th my starting weight was 216.0 lbs.

My current weight as of this morning is 213.2 lbs.

So according to that I’ve lost 2.8lbs.  However, this weight doesn’t take into account two things:

(1) When I weigh myself in the mornings I’m not wearing my weigh-in clothes, nor am I holding my camera.  I checked and those two things weigh an additional 1lb so I have to add 1lb to my weight when I check it in the mornings.  Just to make it simpler for me to keep track though I just track my morning weight as is and just know I’ll have to lose a total of 31lbs according to that weight, not 30lbs.

(2) My morning weight, which is what I track in my spreadsheet is always less than my 10pm (after dinner) weight.  I usually weigh about 1lbs less in the mornings, compared to evenings, so I have to account for that.

So really, if I add an extra pound to account for clothing/camera and another pound for the difference between evening/morning weight, I have only lost about 0.8lbs.

With almost 20 days gone in the competition, that is NOT a good thing as I should be at a weight loss of around 5lbs already if I divide the 30lbs weight loss in a linear way.

Am I Worried?

Speaking from a purely linear point of view, I’m almost 5lbs behind what my target weight “should” be right now.

I “should” be exercising daily.

I “should” be making massive dietary changes to my diet.

However, I am not doing any of those things as I have NOT been intuitively guided to do so yet.

Am I worried?

Nope.

I trust and have full faith in my intuition.  It will guide me down the right path. It’s saved my life on multiple occasions.  I’ll bet $650 on it any day.

It takes courage to follow your intuition.

It’s easy to follow your intuition when it fully aligns with reason, logic, and common sense.

But it’s not as easy to follow it when it’s guiding you down a different path.

Especially when people around you think you’re stupid / insane / an idiot to be doing what your intuition tells you to do.

I can feel an inner transformation happening within me.  If you look at my stats, ignore the weight and look at my body measurements you might notice something interesting.

I’ll post some updated pictures on my body transformation page later on today.

Right now I’m heading out do some more yard work!

Yaay!

Tyler’s Progress

Tyler just posted a progress update on his site as well.  He’s lost 4.4lbs so far. Check it out here if you’d like.

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In October 2008 I first heard about Soul Realignment™ Akashic record readings and was immediately drawn to getting one done.

I really wasn’t too sure what to expect from my reading but after receiving it I was thoroughly impressed.

I experienced some immediate tangible and practical shifts in my personal life almost immediately after getting my session done and I was so impressed with them that just a few weeks later in November 2008 I decided to become a Certified Soul Realignment™ Practitioner myself.

I was so excited to receive my training materials and to begin going through the process.

At first I thought that I was going to be able to master the materials in just a few weeks or months.

However, although I was excited and ready to begin the process, it took over two years for the learning, practice, experience and certification process to unfold for me.

Although my Ego is a little bruised by the fact that it took me that long to get my certification done, as some other practitioners get theirs done a lot sooner, I know that the process unfolded over the two year period of time in a perfect way, with Divine guidance and help from my Spirit Guide team.

Accepting My Role as a Healer

When I first received my own personal Soul Realignment™ reading/report, I resonate with a lot of the stuff that was written in the report except for one thing – being a healer.

My Akashic Record profile clearly indicated that one of my Soul’s specialties was being a healer, as well as an intuitive teacher.

The teaching part made total sense to me as I love intuitive teaching, but the healing thing just felt so icky to me.

Up to that point in time I was associating the word “healing” with being a doctor – like a traditional doctor  in a hospital or something.

That just did NOT resonate with me at all.  My beliefs about health and disease are not very congruent with what regular doctors believe.

Also, I am not one of those people who enjoys watching shows like ER or House or medical shows.  In fact they really bug me.

I’m also not a touchy-feely type person and when I think of professions like being a doctor, dentist, surgeon, or even a chiropractor where you’re touching people all day it does not resonate with me.

That doesn’t mean I have anything against other people doing that stuff, it just doesn’t resonate with me.

So I really didn’t get the whole “healer” part of my reading.

And then something weird happened…

Zoe Breaks Her Paw

In May 2009 we got our new puppy Zoe.

From the moment she ran up to me at the place we bought her from, I instantly formed a bond with her.

I spent weeks with her and Kobe getting them acquainted and making sure that Kobe – who is a huge dog weighing over 100lbs – didn’t hurt her as a little pup.

Kobe’s not a mean dog, but I had no idea how he was going to react around a small puppy like Zoe so I was very careful in introducing them as I didn’t want Zoe to get hurt.

After the two of them were getting along with each other I started to let the two of them loose to play in the house.

Zoe, like any puppy, was full of energy and bolted around the house at lightning speeds crashing into things and playing with her toys.

Then, one night while my wife and I were sitting at the dining room table and talking we heard the most ear-piercing and disgusting sound I have ever heard in my life.

Zoe, while trying to run from our living room into our dining room at mach-two speed, took a leap up the three stairs we have separating the rooms and somehow miscalculated the last step and smashed her front paw into the top step.

She tumbled and slid down our hardwood floor, shrieking so loud I almost puked.

I instantly lept to her side and my first thought after looking at her paw was “Holy shit she broke her paw!”

I didn’t know what to do because she was yelping in so much pain lying there, but as soon as I went to touch her to try to pick her up she would just start shrieking even louder.

My wife jumped on the phone to try to find a vet that was open, but it was around 11pm at night when this happened so the closest vet that was open was about 45mins away.

I picked Zoe up trying my best to hold her in such a way as to not touch or put any weight or pressure onto the hurt paw, but it wasn’t easy.

We jumped in the car and my wife drove while I held Zoe in my arms.

What happened next was really weird.

From the time I picked her up, even though she was yelping in a lot of pain, I felt a sense of calm enter my body.

When we got in the car, and my wife started driving, within a few minutes Zoe fell asleep in my arms which I thought was very weird.

At the same time, I noticed an immediate shift in my mental patterns.  It’s as if I entered an automatic meditative state of complete mental focus.

There was no effort to this and no thinking.  I just did it.  As if I’ve been in that situation a million times before.

The whole 45minute drive to the vet I was holding Zoe in my arms while at the same time sending healing energy into her body.

At this point in time I had not yet taken my Reiki training so I had no conscious idea what I was doing.

I wasn’t consciously trying to heal her.  A part of me was just doing something, but I didn’t know what it was.

I just had a sense of knowing that whatever I was doing was healing her.

After a 45minute drive to the vet, we went inside and waited in the waiting room for another few minutes while the vet finished up with another patient.

Then we brought Zoe in and explained to the vet what had happened and that we think her paw might be broken or at least very badly sprained.

He asked if she was able to put any weight on it after hurting herself, or if she was limping, etc.

We told him that no, there was no way she was able to put any weight on it.  When she fell, she lay on the ground and didn’t even try to get up and just touching her paw was obviously severely painful to her as she shrieked as I was trying to pick her up.

Also, when I first ran over to her and looked at her paw, I knew instantly that paws are not supposed to bend that way or look like that.  Something was definitely broken or out of place.

Anyway, as I held Zoe in my arms – she was now awake – and staring at the vet.  He came over and started touching her paw.

She was OK with that.

He then started moving her paw at the different joint points.

She was OK with that too.

He then started squeezing and putting a bit of pressure on her paw from different angles, and she was OK with that too.

So finally he asked me to put her down to see if she can put any weight on it and so I put her down.

As I put her down, she just looked up at me and started walking around, as if NOTHING had happened!

The vet looked at us a bit puzzled.

We tried to explain what happened and how she was NOT OK when we left the house and he just kind of said “Well, she’s OK now.”

He gave her a small injection of a mild pain killer and I think an anti-inflammatory to prevent swelling just in case and told us that if we really want he can do an X-Ray but he didn’t see a need for it since she was walking normally.

Now, I know that I can’t “prove” that Zoe did a lot more than just mildly hit her paw that evening.  I know that the vet thinks there was nothing wrong with her and we must just be one of those freak “parents” who over-reacted when we saw our puppy hit her paw or something.

Trust me, I’m NOT one of those people who takes their dog to the vet for no reason.  I know I can’t “prove” it, but I know how badly injured Zoe’s paw was that night.  If not broken, I know that at the very least it was severely sprained.  I’m talking about the type of sprain where she should have been limping for two weeks, not totally OK in 45mins.

In my mind there is no shred of doubt that some part of me facilitated some kind of healing on her during that 45minute drive to the vet.

That was the first night that I thought to myself “Holy crap, maybe I am a healer.”

Embracing My Healing Abilities

Shortly after that incident, I also began working on developing my intuitive abilities by working with an intuitive friend of mine – Chris – from Moncton.

During our sessions, Chris did several readings for me and also identified me as a strong healer.

He also shared something rather profound with  me that helped me a lot with developing my healing abilities.  He told me that developing my healing and intuitive abilities were two sides of the same coin.

He told me that if I develop my abilities as a healer it would have a huge impact on improving my intuitive abilities and vice versa.  He said that energy healing and intuitive development are like two sides of the same pyramid (triangle).  As you move up closer towards the top in one, you are automatically helping the other side move up as well.  The two sides help each other.

That really resonated with me and I then began really embracing my healer self.

Since then I have gotten my Reiki training, PSYCH-K and Matrix Energetics Level 1 and 2 training and no longer see healing and intuitive work as separate things.

I also now see everything I do as healing work, whether that be working with a person or animal or a group of people, business, Blog or anything else.

Accepting My Role as an Intuitive

I’ve always been intuitive.  For a long time though I thought everyone was the same way.

It actually wasn’t until I moved up the ladder in the corporate world though that it became apparently clear to me that I was able to see and know things that other people weren’t.

Being intuitive in the corporate world is actually very useful and I know it played a very large role in my financial success.

However, while in that environment I didn’t really label myself as an intuitive or psychic, as there is a lot of negative stigma against that in the corporate world.

Apparently shareholders don’t like to hear that someone is using their intuitive abilities to make decisions.  They prefer the safety of logic and reason.

Of course that’s just an illusion.  I’m pretty convinced that most successful executives in the corporate world are highly intuitive.

You think Warren Buffet makes his decisions based on logic or reason?  Ha!  He openly admits that at the end of the day he makes his decisions on intuition.

Anyway, since leaving the corporate world and not having to worry about upsetting any shareholders by openly admitting that I make my life and business decisions based on intuition, I’ve been more and more embracing my role as an intuitive / psychic.

I now have zero reservations with seeing myself as an intuitive / psychic / healer / teacher.

Getting My Soul Realignment™ Certification

In January of this year, after traveling to New Brunswick and having my Spiritual Alignment Connection healing work done I finally felt ready to fully embrace both my intuitive and healing abilities.

I instantly felt drawn to begin going through the “practicum” part of my Soul Realignment™ certification process and started doing my practice readings for people.

I was actually very excited by the positive response I received from my practice clients.

However, after completing several practice readings for people – all of which loved their readings – I now felt like there was still a small “piece” missing for me, but I couldn’t quite pinpoint what it was.

In was not until attending the Matrix Energetics seminars a few weeks ago that everything finally fell into place.

As soon as I got home from the seminars I instantly though “I need to get my Soul Realignment™ certification“.

I think there must have still been some kind of small energetic block that got cleared for me during the Matrix Energetics seminar.

The seminar experience really had the effect of connecting me to my calling as an intuitive, healer and teacher.

In the near future I also plan on taking my next level of training in PSYCH-K as well as my Level 2 training in Reiki.

I now very clearly see how all these modalities which I previously saw as separate are all part of my path as an intuitive, healer and teacher.

Soul Realignment™ helps me to heal the Soul, PSYCH-K helps me to heal the mind and Reiki helps me to heal the body, with Matrix Energetics acting as an “amplifier” to make all three more effective and fun.

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