Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Using the "Three Phases of Creating" To Manifest Your "Designer Body"

Here is a quick outline in how to engage the Law of Attraction to create your "Designer Body", using the "Three Phases of Creation". The "Three Phases of Creation" is '"attraction system" which allows people to easily harness the Law of Attraction so they can live the life they want. Here I have customised it to help you create your "Designer Body". If you follow the steps and gradually build your vibrations as you move through the three phases, you will find you can achieve amazing results. 

As Super Mario says: "Here we go!"

  • Know what you want. Create a name for your "Designer Body". It is important that it resonates with the body you want to create and it should be a statement of where you want to be.  So positive terms only. There's no room for resentment for how your body currently is. 
  • Clarify the image of yourself with your "Designer Body". How does it feel? Use your feelings as a compass to point you in the right direction. Go with what feels good.  We can then formulate these into our intentions.
  •  Intentions are a superior form of framing our desires than setting goals, as they announce an action, unlike goals which  have duality. That is, there can be success or failure. Intentions have an implied obligation to take action.With a goal you can hold a desire in your thoughts, but there can be a negative aspect to them as well as a positive aspect.  So if you focus on your weight it may well be your extra weight that holds your attention. This means that you will continue to experience being overweight. Holding an intention only embraces only the positive aspects of our desires and enhances your ability to manifest your desire. We formulate our intentions asa follows.
I intend to analyse my schedule to create time to care for my wellbeing.
I intend to include  regular walks in my daily life for fitness and stress relief.
I intend to focus on the wellbeing that food will bring me. Nutrition is important to me.
I intend to enjoy one or two drinks, savouring the flavour and pleasure it brings and not drink for the sake of it.
I intend to take time out  daily to focus on my wellbeing. (Meditation? Calm time. Creative time)
I intend to take a weekly Pilates class to build strength and fitness.
I intend to have dinner with the family 4 times a week to maintain connection. 
I intend to  go to all the kids sports fixtures.
I intend to expect success.
I intend to hold a positive image of myself and my body.
I intend to share the load.
I intend to make the kids responsible for meeting their obligations.
I intend to make the household a co-operative. Everybody chips in to make it work.
I intend to analyse the week for opportunities for calmness and enjoyment.
I intend to focus on the wellbeing that food will bring the family. Nutrition is important to me.
I intend to get the family involved in meal times, Share the load.
I intend to walk/ride the children to school as often as possible.
I intend to walk more. Drive less.
I intend to take a weekly yoga class.
I intend to join a monthly book club.
I intend to have one family activity a week.
I intend to meet with friends regularly.
I intend to hold a positive image of myself and my body.
I intend to stand for the committee of my sporting club.
I intend to get a trainer to design a fitness program to improve my performance.
I intend to join some friends in buying a seasons ticket to the city's theatre company.
I intend to have a monthly "dinner date" with my "true" love.
I intend to ring friends weekly.
I intend to study meditation to enhance my wellbeing and promote joy and happiness.
I intend to take cooking classes to learn how better to cook healthy foods.
I intend to invite the whole family over to celebrate the families significant events.
I intend to expand my vegetable garden to become more self sufficient and grow healthier foods.
I intend to garden at least 2 days a week.

When you intend to do something there's it's  announcement to the world and the universe as to your desires.

Focus only on the things that you desire in your life. Be thankful for your body and the great things it has allowed you to do. This is VERY important because if you hold resentment or anger for it's current state, this vibration will hold you where you currently are. This maybe easier said than done, but if negative emotions are ruling your life, this is the place you'll stay. Remember "like attracts like". If this proves difficult try the "Sedona Method" to let go of unwanted thoughts and feelings. It is simple but powerful. I'll post my easy method in a  blog post for you to try.
  • Think as though you already have your "Designer Body". How would you act?
  • Look to hold feelings as though you already have your "Designer Body". How great does it feel. Remember these feelings. Visit them often. Our expectation is to receive our desires and so we can move to:
I expect to great wellbeing
I expect to enjoy being more active.
I expect get great benefit from walking instead of driving
I expect to create time to look after my wellbeing.
I expect nutrition and wellbeing from the food I eat.  
I expect to be in vibrational sympathy with the food I eat.
I expect to easily attain and maintain my "Designer Body".
I expect to enjoy liviing with a "Designer Body".


  • Don't limit your fulfilment to a particular path or means. Be open to the limitless possibilities of the universe to manifest your desire for a "Designer Body".
  • When inspiration and intuition reveal a path – take it without hesitating 
  • Have faith in that your desire on their way. Resist the temptation to meddle and make it happen. In other words don't go round looking for the desired result. Instead, be open to receiving, as it may happen in a most unexpected way.
  • Feeling good and being happy are positive indicatorss that you are on the right path.
  • Act as if you have your "Designer Body". This is ensures that you are creating the right vibration, as "like attracts like" . So we can move to the position of "I am".
I am looking sensational. 
I am feeling great.
I am eating delicious and nutritional food. 
I am loving my "Designer Body"!
I am trim fit and healthy. 
I am strong and resilient.
I am loving life.

Now your vibrations are in alignment with our desires! This can bring real change into our lives as all the little "I am" statements we hold about ourselves create our persona. If we can move from:

"I am always poor." To. "I am always flush with money."
"I am always struggling with my weight." To. "I am my ideal weight."
"I am never well paid." To "I am highly paid for my work."

We can improve our lives dramatically! This is the role of the "Three Phases of Creation". To take a desire and build the vibration from an initial intention. Build the vibration until you expect to e part of your life and finally it is integrated into your life when  you hold the belief. "I am!"


  • Most importantly we must be thankful and appreciate the things that you already have in your life. 
Once you have what you want be grateful for what you have received. 

"I am thankful for all the great things in my life."

The role of gratitude in receiving your desires  cannot be under estimated. Gratitude eliminates resistance that comes from be out of alignment. Gratitude puts us in a place where we can receive our desires.

So have a go. It does require practice, but with persistence the results can be amazing.

If you would like to read more about the "Three Phases of Creation", go to my web site:

http://www.practicalattraction.com.au/   And fill out the mailing list form and I will e-mail you a free copy of my E-Book "Practical Attraction."






If you would like to learn more about "Designer Bodies", go to my web site:  Practical Attraction

 Read my Law of Attraction Story at: Radical Attraction

Creating Your Designer Body

Today is the day to fulfill some promises that I've fobbed off in moments when I've been inspired to do other things. So being a man of my word I will belatedly fulfill my committments.

Firstly I am going to explore Designer Bodies. We are all unique with our own unique path in life and this means we should look to create our own unique body for  the journey we are on. In my previous blog I talked about the "All rounder Body" I wanted to create. Pretty boring I think! I also threw out some other options, some serious and some not so serious. Now let's get serious about some possible "Designer Bodies". I offered the "Over Worked Business Man" and the "Frantic Mother". I think there are plenty of people that would identify with these descriptions, but maybe it is important to label our "Designer Body" according to where we want to be and not where are. We are going to use the principle "Think What You Want". So let's try these names instead.

"The Master of Business"


  • Prioritises to do the important things first.
  • Eats a broad and balanced range of foods which are nutritious and delicious.
  • Dresses smart in stylish clothes to give a strong impression..
  • Is healthy and strong.
  • Is outgoing and energetic when mixing with people.
  • Is happy and full of wellbeing.
  • Enjoys a drink but doesn't use it as a crunch or stress relief method.
  • Handles pressure and difficult situations without bottling up stress.
  • Contributes to home and family life, achieving a good balance.
  • Commands presence and is always confident and in command.
  • Treats people with honour and respect.
  • Approaches life with optimism and confidence.

From here our intentions might be:


  • I intend to analyse my schedule to create time to care for my wellbeing.
  • I intend to include  regular walks in my daily life for fitness and stress relief.
  • I intend to focus on the wellbeing that food will bring me. Nutrition is important to me.
  • I intend to enjoy one or two drinks, savouring the flavour and pleasure it brings, not drink for the sake of it.
  • I intend to take time out  daily to focus on my wellbeing. (Meditation? Calm time. Creative time)
  • I intend to take a weekly Pilate s class to build strength and fitness.
  • I intend to have dinner with the family 4 times a week to maintain connection. 
  • I intend to  go to all the kids sports fixtures.
  • I intend to expect success.
  • I intend to hold a positive image of myself and my body.

You can see that by creating your "Designer Body" you begin to embrace wellbeing throughout your whole life.

"The Magnificent Mum"
  • Shares the load. The kids don't get everything done for them. Everyone is allocated responsibilities.
  • Looks at their life to look for opportunities to make less frantic.
  • Makes time for friends.
  • Eat a broad and balanced range of foods which are nutritious and delicious.
  • Dresses smart in stylish clothes to for confidence and self-esteem.
  • Is healthy.
  • Drives the car less. Walks more.
  • Focuses more on wellbeing than the house being a little messy.
  • Takes to read for pleasure and stress relief.
  • Makes sure the family connects as whole regularly over the week.
  • Is happy and Joyful.

( Sorry. This includes some of bias on how I believe kids should be brought up with a degree of responsibility and independence)

From here our intentions might be:


  • I intend to share the load.
  • I intend to make the kids responsible for meeting their obligations.
  • I intend to make the household a co-operative. Everybody chips in to make it work.
  • I intend to analyse the week for opportunities for calmness and enjoyment.
  • I intend to focus on the wellbeing that food will bring the family. Nutrition is important to me.
  • I intend to get the family involved in meal times, Share the load.
  • I intend to walk/ride the children to school as often as possible.
  • I intend to walk more. Drive less.
  • I intend to take a weekly yoga class.
  • I intend to join a monthly book club.
  • I intend to have one family activity a week.
  • I intend to meet with friends regularly.
  • I intend to hold a positive image of myself and my body.

In most families, everything just kind have happens with obligations and activities sprouting up all over he place. This can make life frantic. So by looking at you week, and looking for a more co-ordinated approach, you might be surprised at the opportunities for a calmer approach just might appear.

"Full On For Life" This is probably for someone who's family has grown up.


  • Gets involved in the community.
  • Plays regular sport.
  • Loves the theatre.
  • Loves food and wine.
  • Has a large circle of friends.
  • Always friendly and happy.
  • Outgoing and positive.
  • Invests in their relationship.
  • Committed to the extended family.
  • Loves garden and grows their own fruit and vegetables.
  • Always looks the part.

From here our intentions might be:


  • I intend to stand for the committee of my sporting club.
  • I intend to get a trainer to design a fitness program to improve my performance.
  • I intend to join some friends in buying a seasons ticket to the city's theatre company.
  • I intend to have a monthly "dinner date" with my "true" love.
  • I intend to ring friends weekly.
  • I intend to study meditation to enhance my wellbeing and promote joy and happiness.
  • I intend to focus on the wellbeing that food will bring me. Nutrition is important to me.
  • I intend to take cooking classes to learn how better to cook healthy foods.
  • I intend to invite the whole family over to celebrate the families significant events.
  • I intend to expand my vegetable garden to become more self sufficient and grow healthier foods.
  • I intend to garden at least 2 days a week.

You might say how is this going to create the "Designer Body" I want? Well too often people ignore the caring of themselves and focus on their business or family responsibilities and so they abrogate their responsibility to their body and their type body is then created by default. That's how all of sudden you realise you are not what you used to be and you become unhappy with yourself. By taking a more deliberate approach to life and ensuring there is a little bit of time to invest in the care of your body and focussing on a strong and positive feeling about our body, you will find you can make significant improvements. Your whole life needs to be integrated  as often it is people taking a single dimensional approach to fitness and diet that leads to failure. This is what "Designer Bodies" is all about. Creating the right body for unique life journey and so create the life you desire. It is a fully integrated approach.

So what have you got to lose. What are you going to call you "Designer Body"?


Yours in wellness.

Gray

If you would like to learn more about "Designer Bodies", go to my web site:  Practical Attraction

Find out about the "Three Phases of Creation" at :  Law of Attraction Handbook

 and read my Law of Attraction Story at: Radical Attraction


Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Embracing Wellbeing - An Alternative To Weight Loss Programs

For the people that don't know me, these days, I'm a plus size kind of guy. I wasn't always this way and have had phases where I have been reasonably trim and fit. As this blog is a testament, I am a student of the Law of Attraction and so this year I have intentions to be the best I can be by changing the vibrations that I have been creating through my thoughts. If your you're not in the kind of shape that you'd like, it's probable that the thoughts you hold about yourself, are generally negative. With me, I just gave up on my body, in what was a very hard year personally last year.

Accepting the Law of Attraction rule, that "like attracts like', then the types of thoughts and feelings that you are having about your body, appearance, what you feed it and how you look after your body are not in alignment with the body you desire. In other words, the state of your body is a reflection of the type of thoughts you hold about yourself. I call them "I am" thoughts. I am good/no good at sport. I am smart. I am dumb. I am/not creative. I am good/no  good at maths.I am good/no  good at confrontation. I am good/no good at my job. I am able to eat what ever I want. I have to be careful with what I eat. I am fat. I am thin. I am fit. I am unfit.

So all these little loops of thoughts go round and round in your head, dictating what we attract into your life and how we react. If you don't believe me, take the time one day and watch these thoughts. As things happen during the day these little loops pop up in your head.

You're asked: "Would you like to have a game of tennis?" The loop says: "No thanks/yes please - I'm no good/I'm good at sport."

You're asked: "Can you help me with my maths homework?"The loop says: "No thanks/yes please - I'm no good/I'm good at maths."

You're asked: "Would you like fries with that?"The loop says: "No thanks/yes please - I put on weight really easily/I never put on weight."

You can see how these loops of thought have an effect on our behaviour and when you factor in our "like attracts like" rule, then you can see these loops of thought have a big impact, as they are key to what you are attracting in you life. So to make lasting changes in your life you need to change these thoughts.

On the weekend I read an article in "The Weekend Australian", which focussed on people who had been on diets, who after losing significant amounts of weight, almost universally put it back on. It described how researchers have found that:

 "A full year after significant weight loss these men and women remained in what could be described as a biologically altered state. Their still plump bodies were acting as though they were starving and were working overtime to regain the kilos they lost."

This got me thinking. Could it be because the "I am" statements they held about themselves were still the same as those that held about themselves before they lost weight, creating a misalignment?

You need to change the thoughts you are  having about yourself and your body, to achieve long term wellbeing. You can't be madly counting every kilojoule that enters your body and exercising like a mad person, when all the feelings you have about yourself are loathsome and unloving. The internal image you hold of yourself and the feelings about you body have significant effect on how your body manifests physically.

When you decide that you would like to change the way you look, you will find the "experts" come out of the woodwork."You gotta eliminate carbs. Don't eat after six. You must try Pilates/ Yoga/Boxercise"..... what ever! Going on a diet is like declaring war on your body because it treats food as the enemy. It's all the foods fault! It's too delicious and all it does, is end on your hips or you stomach!  Putting the weight back on, as described above,is your body fighting back.

You will notice there are people in the world, the "lucky ones", who seem to be able to eat whatever and how much they want and remain slim and lithe. How does that work? The regular answer is metabolism. Their bodies are just great at burning the food that is put into them, so there is no little extra bits left for the hips or the stomach. 

Maybe their attitude to food has something to do with it? What if instead of war we declared: 

"Food is my friend!"

It is food that gives your body all the nutrients and fuel that needs to do the amazing things it does. So if we make food our friend maybe we will no longer categorise different foods as "good " or "bad". They're not good or bad they just have a different composition of fat, nutrients and fibre. When we are at war with food we are focussing on those constituents that have the highest likely hood of ending up as fat deposits on our bodies. The Law says "like attracts like" and so a negative focus on what food will do to your body will actually attract this negative aspect into our lives and body. So it is counter productive to what we desire!

With food as our friend we are seeking to restore the balance in our eating, eliminating the guilt and fear that comes from focussing on the negative aspects of food. To label what you are about to eat as "junk" is not respectful of your body. Labelling it as junk emphasises the negative  aspects of this type of food, even though it still has some things that maybe good for you body. But of course there are some foods that ars better . Maybe we could re-label it "fun food" instead. We know the primary purpose of this food is not nutrition, but convenience and taste. Eat it. Enjoy it. Know it's fun. Know that you will eat other food for nutrition, but it can be fun to have a burger and fries with friends. Fun is an important element of life. It adds to our wellbeing.

What would happen if we focussed on the positive aspects of food.

Maybe the answer is to move to the place of: 

"I love food. Food is my friend. It is great for my body!"

Can you see the difference if we embrace such an approach. The emphasis is now what is good for our bodies. We can now focus on what will bring wellbeing to our bodies. Isn't that what we want!

Further in the article described earlier, a couple detailed the extreme lengths they went to maintain their weight loss. It included exercising for more than 100 minutes a day, weighing daily and recording all food eaten They had calculated their bodies burn rate for a number of  different  exercises and the exact numbers of kilojoules their bodies require each day. It sounds like war to me and is devoid of any fun or joy. Could a focus on the positive aspects of life have greater impact than an obsession with a particular number on the scales?

There is one question all this obsession ignores:

"What is the optimal condition or shape for what the body is going to be used for?" 

Do you need to have an athlete's or model's body to live well? Is all the stress this puts on your body good for you? An austere diet, like the one described above take all lot of fun out of life. 

So a strong resilient body with resistance to illness may serve you better in you life than a body than one that is built to run marathon or wear size 6 clothes.

When people hear I am changing things in my life so my body maybe more to my liking, the automatic reaction is that I'm on a diet or an exercise regime which focusses on making me like an athlete. I'm never going to make it to model status! There's all these rules and regulations which are apparently mandatory for losing weight.

So. I am not on a diet. I am not on exercise program. I am just making lifestyle changes that feel more in line with who and what I want to be. It's amazing when you look at your life that there are lots of opportunities to improve you wellbeing. Opportunities to eat foods that are fresher or more nutritious or even tastier than the foods that you  currently eat habitually. Food is you friend! Maybe you can go and find new friends that will increase you wellbeing.

You can also find opportunities to be a little more active and allow your body to become a little stronger. Today as I was coming home I passed a young woman who had parked her car in a no standing zone near a very busy intersection, across the road from a sushi shop. This caused great inconvenience to other motorists,but she had ensured she took the least possible number of steps to get her lunch. She just may have achieved more for her body, if she had parked 50 metres away and walked to the shop, because I have found if you gradually ask you body to do a little more, it will do a little more. Opportunities to walk a little more are great! Do you really need to park right next to the door at the shops. Could you walk instead of drive? What about early morning exercise? I know I have always been resistant but I am enjoying it now. My focus is changing small aspects of my life permanently, which make me more active, improve my nutrition and over all wellbeing. These are not radical changes but incremental and permanent changes to give small but permanent improvements to my body.

In 5 weeks I have become a little trimmer, a little fitter and a little happier. I am enjoying the improvement. I am using a very handy app on my Android phone to track my walking and weight and I find this helps keep me motivated and confirms the impact of the changes I have made. It's not so important what the score but that I continue to make progress.

I know it's radical thinking, but I think it's a worthwhile hypothesis.You need to love your body...even though it may not look how you want  right now. Think of all the good things it's done for you.

In closing remember, improving your wellbeing will put you in the best place you can be for fitness, health and self-esteem. This is more important than a number on the scales. If you feel great, you'll be great and you'll do great things. So, don’t focus on how bad things are. Instead focus on how good you’d like things to be.

Next week I'll talk about different types of bodies and detail a process that I have created that will help you change these "thought loops".

May wellbeing be with you!

Gray