Stuart Wilde - Weight Loss for the Mind

Also by Stuart Wilde

BOOKS

THE TAOS QUINTET:
Affirmations The Force
Miracles
The Quickening
The Trick to Money Is Having Some!

Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
Life Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle
The Little Money Bible
The Secrets of Life
Silent Power
Simply Wilde
Sixth Sense
Whispering Winds of Change

AUDIOCASSETTES

The Art of Meditation
Silent Power (audio book)
The Force (audio book)
The Little Money Bible (audio book)
Miracles (audio book)
Happiness Is Your Destiny
Intuition
Loving Relationships

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Copyright 1994 by Stuart Wilde

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wilde, Stuart

Weight loss for the mind / Stuart Wilde.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-56170-537-3 (tradepaper)

1. Conduct of life. I. Title.

BF637.C5W49 1998

ISBN 13: 978-1-56170-537-5
ISBN 10: 1-56170-537-3

12 11 10 09 14 13 12 11

1st printing, January 1994, by Hay House, Inc.
11th printing, November 2009

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

A s you walk down a city street and look at reality, all the things you seebuildings, houses, carsare, in fact, an external manifestation of someones opinion. A building is placed where it is, shaped as it is, because someone had the opinion to construct it that way and to place it on a particular spot.

Internal realityour perception of life, the psychology and metaphysics of our humanityis constructed in the same way. It is formed solely by opinion. We perceive what we believe.

We mostly inherit our broad-based opinions and feelings from others, or construct them from common experiences. They make us predictable. They form and define our reality. Those opinions are as real and as solid as the gas station on the corner.

In this booklet, Weight Loss for the Mind, we look at the opinions prevalent in our mass psychology and how many of them cause us anguish. With a few simple flips of the mind, and a little psychological and spiritual understanding, you can release 95 percent of all anguish. The other 5 percent youll probably hang on to for the moment, out of habit.

But youll gradually dismiss the last 5 percent and free yourself from the opinions youve acquired from others, as well as those you have established yourself. This will liberate you from the collective emotion and the anguish it offers. Serenity flows naturally from a heightened perception. You process and understand things differently.

If you like your spiritual growth, psychological integration, and personal healing on the hurry-up, as I do, then this little book is for you.

Weight is described as the gravity exerted when a particular mass comes into proximity with another. Your physical weight is established by the mass of the earth. If you are overweight, it may not be your fault at all; it could be that the planet is out of balance, and it is exerting a bit too much gravity upon you!

Scientists cant tell us exactly what gravity is. They postulate that it is caused by minute particles called gravitons. As yet, we cant find gravitons so we dont know for certain. But we can observe what gravity does.

Gravity is, in fact, the expression of a contradiction. A large mass like our planet contradicts a smaller mass like your body, forcing it to remain within the planets gravitational influence.

Its interesting that in English we use the same word for the force of gravity and for seriousness. When we say that something is grave, we mean that it impacts our emotions and affects us negatively. We feel the presence of a psychological mass exerting itself upon us. Negative emotion and the force of gravity are really two manifestations of the same force.

The mental and emotional weight you experience as stress, or anguish, is exactly like the force of gravity. It relies on two or more psychological masses in your mind to establish a contradictory relationship with each other. Your reactions to the day-to-day circumstances of life form one mass in your mind, and the ideas that exist around your opinion form the other mass. Across these two masses flows a psychological tension that generates an emotional reaction.

For lifes circumstances to generate negative emotion, they have to contradict your opinion. If circumstances dont contradict one of your opinions, your reaction is neutral. When circumstances enhance your opinions, they generate positive emotion for you.

So negative emotion (psychological weight) is only possible when there exists in your mind two opposing mental forces. Imagine them as two large rocks. One is constructed from loosely interconnected ideas, which are grouped initially in your mind by their similarity. They are held together and made solid by personal argument, and form your opinionyour expectations. The other rock is created by your reaction to and perception of lifes circumstances. It often stands juxtaposed to the first mass, contradicting it.

Negative emotion, therefore, is nothing more than the experience of being contradicted. You have certain opinions and expectations; and life comes along and contradicts those opinions, thus generating negative emotion.

How do these expectations and
opinions arise?

Just as a rock is made up of a series of atoms that give it mass, when your thoughts and ideas are grouped around a personal issue they gradually generate a psychological mass in your mind.

For such a mass to exert power over you, there has to be an underlying opinion to bind the whole thing together. That opinion usually flows from some personal need you think is important.

Opinion is like the nucleus of an atomit is a mental power source. Your ideas hover around it, like the subatomic particles that circle a nucleus. As they orbit your opinion, the personal arguments they give out back it up. When enough similar ideas gather to form a solid opinion, they establish a psychological mass in your mind. That mass is extremely solid and difficult to shift.

The human personality relies on these psychological masses to grant it solidity. Its vital for your personality to feel that it is correct and just, and that the ideas it holds are holy and good, and, above all, right. People with crazy and irrational ideas often go to great lengths to justify them.