This week we finished the last chapter of the workbook...we had ourselves a little church at the Thursday gathering! We looked at the spiritual perspective of weight loss.
We were created in three parts...body, soul and spirit. Our body, the physical part of us which relates to the material world. Our Soul, made up of our mind, will and emotions, our personalty you might say, which relates with people. And our spirit, the deepest place of who we are, which relates with God.
To live completely healthy lives, we need to submit our body to our soul, our soul to our spirit and our spirit to God.
The problem lies, when we have an unhealthy soul; a mind that is negative, a will that says, "I do what I want" and emotions that are wounded and have not been healed from past and present pain. You can imagine what a body would look like that comes under that kind of influence.
God makes our spirits new when we invite him in and surrender to him.
Our work, is the work of the soul; renewing the mind, submitting the will and healing the emotions.
I continue to see men and woman work so hard at dieting, losing weight and will power, all while their souls are ravaged. When we focus on the work of the soul; renewing, submitting and healing, the body comes under the influence of a healthy soul and this journey of weight loss gets a lot easier.
We continue at The Healthy Weigh to challenge you in areas of soul work. How many times have we talked to you about renewing your mind..saying no to the bad and yes to the good, and healing those emotions that are keeping you from an abundant life? It's all soul work, at The Healthy Weigh!
We have a society of excess! As we grow older and deny past pain, empty places begin to develop in our souls. We do a great job of trying to fill those empty place with things. Food, clothes, cars, houses, money, and busyness. Excess of anything, is about our emptiness. All those empty places are addictions waiting to happen.
The belief I have says this...many of our empty places can be closed up, healed, with God's help and our soul work, but many of those empty places are holes that only God can fill. He created us for relationship with him and until we surrender to Him, we will always be looking to "fill" those holes.
Whatever your faith background is, I hope that you are able to see the importance of submitting your will regarding your weight loss and your maintenance journey over to God, as you understand Him.
We celebrated our winning teams once again...we are getting closer to 'graduation'...who will win this Spring Team Challenge?
This weeks winners:
Noon: Team "T&C Taking Control" Tina and Charlene, won again with a 1.96% of weight loss! You two are looking GREAT!
6PM: Team "17 minutes" Michael and Olivia, won with 2.26% of weight loss! What an awesome week you two had!
We gave our last assignment...do the homework for "Body Soul Spirit ~ The Spiritual Perspective" and be one of the top two individual weight loss % winners of the week and earn the Summer Team Challenge for FREE!!
Can't wait to celebrate next week, your weight loss, your perseverance, your commitment! Three teams will walk away with cash prizes next week but MANY others have "won" in the last ten weeks!
Hoping that this week is one of surrender for you. Letting go and giving over might be the greatest thing you'll ever do! Here's to surrender!
Always encouraging you,
Letha
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