Eating and Getting Fat



Q:  How ya doin'?

B:  Perfect, and you?

Q:   Great.   Often you speak of following your excitement.  Why, when I
eat what excites me, do I get fat?

B:  Thank you!  Recognize, if you will, that many times the idea that may,
in your terms, pass for excitement is actually the manifestation of the
energy as anxiety.  And that is why.

Perhaps the idea, once again, is to recognize the difference between going
to something and running from something.  Because it is the same energy,
many times you will not necessarily, in general, be clear as to whether or
not you are allowing the energy to manifest as excitement or anxiety.

Q:  I see.  So it's a judgment on eating the lasagna that results in the
fat.

B:  To some degree, but it may also be the judgment that creates the type
of energy that moves you to the lasagna, instead of using the energy in
another way.  You follow me?

Q:  Yeah, but it doesn't sound very Italian, for sure.  I follow the
concept; I'll play with it a bit.

B:  All right.   'Tis up to you.

Q:  Okay.  One other short one.

B:  All right.

Q:  I have observed that there is a fascinating apparent mechanism which
goes, when you invest a lot of joy, excitement, and marvelousness in
something that... For instance, I go to create a mock-up...

B:  Yes.

Q:  ... a dream, a vision, a great love affair.  Then there appears, at
times, to be the manifestation of intense fear or terror at the idea of not
achieving that, of not pulling off the objective.

B:  Wonderful!  Then you are giving yourself a prime opportunity to examine
what the beliefs are that you have ingrained within yourself that should
cause such fear; the beliefs that you have that would allow you to think
that it is more probable that you will not get what you desire than it is
probable that you will.  It is your opportunity to use that fear to
recognize you have those beliefs and examine why you have them, so that
when you understand that, you can change them.

Q:  Yeah.  Since that's what I said to myself, I figured that's what you
would say.   Thank you!

B:  You're welcome.  Thank you.