This is not just another diet book. Nutritional knowledge and portion control are absolutely necessary for lifelong weight management and maintenance. However, if portion control were the total answer, our current obesity epidemic would have been solved a long time ago. One can see the obesity epidemic as a natural response to the crazy stresses and over-frenzied pace of our current lifestyles. The over-consumption of food has become the answer for millions of people who are seeking satisfaction and not finding it in their everyday existence. Here you'll come to understand the importance of mental outlook and attitude on weight loss, improved health and the overall well-being of your body. The information shared within has come the author's own personal experience with weight loss and 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist. As humans, we are mind/body beings. We create through the efforts of our bodies and the use of our minds. We are taught that when we decide to lose weight and begin a weight loss program, we must change our eating habits and/or change our exercise habits, yet few people learn to focus on changing their mental habits as well. An essential aspect of achieving lasting weight loss is the mental/spiritual work that needs to be included in any successful weight reduction program. Thinking Thin through Spiritual and Mental Steps has been designed as a workbook - it's "A Companion Guide to Help You Succeed on Your Journey to Healthy and Permanent Weight Loss." Each chapter includes exercises and worksheets that will add depth and understanding to the material presented. Completing them can make losing weight and maintaining that weight loss a more joyful experience. No matter what diet or exercise program you are currently following this guidebook is designed to help you enhance your self-esteem and body image. This book will take you step by step through the process necessary to feel good now and throughout the journey to your own perfect weight. You will come to truly understand and benefit from the knowledge that as you Change Your Thinking, you will Change Your Weight and Health!

READY TO END YOUR FOOD and WEIGHT WORRIES? If so, Skinny Thinking is for you. The only way to create a healthy relationship with food and stop battling with your weight is to change the way you think about food. This is the missing piece of the eating puzzle. Once you change your thinking, your eating and your body will change. Simply by practicing the five steps presented in this book, you will never again need to worry about food or your weight. HERE'S HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT: Learn to make wise food and eating choices Permanently change the way you eat and think about food End your weight struggle forever and free yourself from food worries Learn to accept your body

Personal accounts exploring the shift from mental illness to spiritual awakening. The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with courage, insight and poetry. There are fascinating parallels in their experiences, suggesting minds in extremis go to similar places. These are beautiful postcards from the edge of human consciousness, testaments to the soul's natural resilience. Our authors have returned from their descent with valuable insights for our culture, as we go through a collective spiritual emergency, with old myths and structures breaking down, and new possibilities breaking open. What is there beyond our present egocentric model of reality? What tools can help us navigate the emergence? "This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the connection between spiritual awakening and what we normally term 'mental illness.' It is full of inspirational and moving stories that show that psychological disturbances often lead to significant personal growth, if supported properly. As a culture, we urgently need a new paradigm of mental illness and treatment, and this and this book makes an important contribution to that shift.' Steve Taylor PhD, author of The Leap and Spiritual Science

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse returns with this revolutionary guidebook filled with the crucial mental strategies that will provide the missing piece in your weight loss journey once and for all. After helping dieters lose over two-million pounds in two years, JJ Smith realized the most important, yet most overlooked, factor for permanent weight loss is mental mastery. In Think Yourself Thin, Smith helps you uncover the root of your struggle and address the spiritual or emotional issues tied to your eating behavior. By applying the strategies outlined in this book, you will have the tools you need to take control of your weight, and thus your health, and experience the joy of having your dream body. Divided into four parts, Smith’s book uncovers the five psychological stages required to lose weight and keep it off. Smith also introduces the all-new SUCCESS System detailing the mental habits and approaches necessary for permanent weight loss. Filled with inspiring, motivational success stories and user-friendly principles that provide the guidance you need to eat in a manner that helps the body burn fat and lose weight, Think Yourself Thin makes long-term weight loss a reality by starting with what matters most.

This breakthrough book offers a spiritually based approach to weight loss, drawn from the author's experience as a weight-loss counselor and as someone who lost 95 pounds more than 20 years ago and has kept it off ever since. Thin Through the Power of Spirit makes the startling disclosure that excessive overweight is a spiritual problem the root cause of which lies in the subconscious mind. The seriously overweight person is subconsciously unhappy with, and warring against, their own physical incarnation. With this perception that the "soul" (self) is caught in a prison (the body) the compulsion to overeat takes over -- a symbolic acting-out of this imprisonment in flesh/fat. Because the subconscious expresses on the outside (body) what is believed and felt on the inside (mind), obesity results from a subconscious sense of alienation from the physical world. The cure for excess weight lies in remembering that in the flesh, one is not meant to suffer. Permanent weight loss is possible when body reverence replaces body hatred, and weight-loss efforts are then seen as part of a larger commitment to creating Paradise on Earth. Thin Through the Power of Spirit shows readers how to change their world view, psychology, body image, and food choices so that they can move out of the prison of excess weight and into Paradise-like conditions of normal weight and increased freedom. Here is permanent weight loss that has not only worked for Lucia Capodilupo and her clients, but can now work for the millions of people who struggle in frustration year after year -- because it rejects superficial quick-fix schemes and instead goes deep into the causes of excess weight at the subconscious soullevel. It is an in-depth plan that can change your weight and life forever.

"We need to encourage an understanding that inner peace comes from relying on human values like love, compassion, tolerance, and honesty, and that peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace." —His Holiness, the Dalai Lama These six words—please heal my fear-based thoughts—change lives. In this brief and inspiring book, based on Engle’s study of A Course in Miracles, she explains how to use the prayer and experience immediate benefits: being less irritable, more patientlaughing morefeeling like you have more time, more energyworrying lessmaking decisions more easilysaying no without guilt A typical prayer goes something like this: "Please help us find the money to pay our mortgage this month." Saying the prayer may help you feel like the burden of that month's mortgage has been lifted, but the part of you that feeds on fear will simply seek out new financial worries to keep you awake at night. Old patterns remain intact. In contrast, asking, "Please heal my fear-based thoughts about our mortgage" lifts the burden AND relieves the need to re-create that fear and hold onto it. This prayer heals your very desire for burdens, your addiction to fear-based thoughts, freeing you to live without that fear and with greater peace of mind. As a result, your financial situation is also free to improve. That's what makes it so different. One Facebook fan told Engle, "The most blessed aspect of this prayer is all the open space it creates for peace—I never knew how many fear-based thoughts were clogging up in me until this prayer."

For weight-loss, life-long health, spiritual well-being, it's not enough just to change what you do, says Crystal Hansen. Crazy as it may sound, she insists, the first thing you must change to guarantee results is what you believe!