Waiting to Lose Weight

Q:  I've been trying to lose weight for a good 10 years now, and I just
wondered if you might share any insight as to why I'm hanging onto the
extra weight.

B: All right, to be brief, we have discussed many times the idea of waiting
to do what excites you and therefore, literally retaining weight.  Are you
doing the thing that excites you the most in life?  We will begin with this
particular approach.  Yes or no?

Q: Probably not.

B: Probably not.  You're not sure?

Q: Well, I'll say no.

B: All right.  Why not?  Why are you waiting to do it?  You see, the idea,
in some sense, has a literal connotation in your language about waiting.
Because, if you have all this energy as a creator and you are keeping it
pent up, then many times that energy will convert into mass.  But if you do
what excites you the most, it converts from mass back to energy and you are
not "weight-ing" anymore. You understand?

Q: Yes.

B: What is preventing you from acting on the thing that excites you? Do you
know what would excite you the most to do?

Q: No.  But I feel that what I'm doing gives me security.

B: Security?  Securities...all right.  It gives you security to continue to
have a life of doing what you do not want to do.  Yes, it gives you that
security.  Is that the type of security you wish?

Q: Well, I guess I did it to feel secure.

B: All right. You did, and for then that was fine.  But obviously you are
now questioning it.  Which means you may not want it anymore.  Do you
understand that the issue is, if you really do what excites you the most
that is the most secure thing you can do, because that is the thing which
is most you and therefore, the thing that will be able to really
support you most effortlessly?  Do you understand that principle?

Q: Yes, I understand.

B: All right. Do you think you understand enough to act on that principle,
to act as if that principle could be, just maybe, true for you too?  Or do
you think you might be an exception out of all the beings in the Universe
that it would not work for you?

Q: No...

B: Did you just sigh?  That's a letting go...a kind of release.

Q: Well, I am losing weight very slowly, but it's taking a while.

B: I beg your pardon.

Q: It's taking a while.

B: All right.  Now, say it this way: "I prefer to lose weight!"

 Q: [quietly] I prefer to lose weight...

B: No, no, no.  More like "I PREFER TO LOSE WEIGHT!"

Q: I prefer to lose weight.

B: I PREFER TO LOSE WEIGHT.

Q: I PREFER to lose weight.

B: I prefer to LOSE. . .WAIT!

Q: I prefer to lose. . .wait?

B: "I prefer to lose...WAIT," actually means, "No, I don't" Catching on?
See why it's taking a long time?

Q: And it's taking a long time.

B: AND it's TAKING A LONG TIME.

Q: And it's taking a long time.

B: What element in the channel's voice is missing from yours?  I PREFER TO
LOSE WEIGHT and IT'S TAKING A LONG TIME.

Q: Enthusiasm?

B: And pride.

Q: Pride?

B: Yes.  Be proud of who you are, no matter who you are.  You understand?
Do the things you really prefer to do, to the best of your ability as you
can do them now.  You do not have to wait until you lose weight before you
do the things you can do now.  Start doing them now and you will lose the
weight.