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Turning Over a New Leaf
I awakened this morning knowing I would write the article for the WooWoo column for January. I had tried a few times and none of the attempts had been good, so I either discarded them or saved to use them for something in the future. But this morning? I knew in my heart what it would be. Resolutions!
Perfect. It is the new year and what a great time for a few new resolutions.
The problem with resolutions throughout my life has been I am
excited to be doing these new things for the first week. Sometimes less
than that. Then, I forget about them, and it isn’t until March or later
on in the year that I recall dimly that this was the year I was going
to walk, write or wriggle more.
Now, here is where the WooWoo part comes in. When you ask
your spirit guide to remind you to do whatever it is that you tasked
yourself with, they will remind you. It is wonderful (depending on what
you chose) and they cheerfully will remind you. It is not tiresome
(depending on what you chose). It takes the burden of remembering
(depending on what you chose) from your shoulders and you can say at the
end of the year that you had, indeed, done something you really wanted
to do.
Now, as with all things wished for that we have heard for years: be careful what you wish for.
Changing habits for anybody is hard. I read somewhere that it
takes 3 weeks to make a difference. I just looked it up on the internet
and they said 18 to 254 days with 66 days being a somewhat magic number
that might ensure a habit becomes automatic. That said, for me, it has
always sort of hovered around 3 weeks. Maybe, based on what I just read a
longer period of time is needed. I know I can backslide something
terrible at times. So, maybe, for me, 6 months ought to do it. One of my
guides just said, “Be careful”. I had to laugh.
So, here is what happened when I asked my guide to help me
lose weight. I can’t remember how long a period of time this took, but I
did lose 50 pounds. This was after I had quit drinking and then 6
months later quit smoking. These were both things I needed to do. I had
already done both once before and I knew how horribly addictive smoking
was seeing as how it took all of 2 minutes for me to be hooked again
after a 3-year abstinence. So, I chose to stop drinking alcohol as the
first change thinking that might be the more achievable goal and six
months later I quit smoking. Quitting both of those bad habits put me
under such stress that I gained 50 pounds. I really needed to lose that
weight again.
I say lose weight again because I am a yo-yo dieter. At that
time in my life, I had already lost tons, it seemed, of weight. All of
those losses were substantial numbers. Once years before I had lost 75
pounds. I know what it takes, and it has never been easy for me.
So, I asked my guide, Seth, to help me.
In the process of learning how to channel it has been my
experience that in the early days the contact with spirit, depending on
how naive you are, can be pretty dramatic. It was during this first year
of learning how to channel that I asked for help. I swore I would never
do it again.
Seth was like a Marine drill sergeant. It was horrible. I
felt like a plebe. “Don’t do that. Put that back. Chew slowly. Think
about what you are eating. Would it be better to have a salad? Why are
you buying cookies?” It’s like having your sister at your elbow 24/7 to
nag you into line. It was horrible.
It worked. I lost the 50 pounds I had put on. If I was to guess it took 6 months? I’m not sure. But it worked.
It has been a good 28 years since that happened. My
relationship with Folk in Spirit and my guide is different. I am toying
with the idea of asking him for help again. Actually, I could ask more
than one of them for help.
Why I am telling you this is that you can ask for assistance
from Spirit as well. I mean, we pray, don’t we? We tend to ask for all
sorts of things from God. Why not ask for some help in changing or
establishing a new habit for the new year? Or, even if you don’t know
your spirit guide you could ask them for help. It won’t be an experience
like I had with an invisible drill sergeant at my elbow. I would
imagine it would be more subtle.
It makes sense to me. Happy New Year and I hope I can lose 100 pounds this time but I will certainly be happy with 50 again.
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