A Spiritual Journey

 Can losing a few pounds be called a spiritual journey? The seemingly shallow desire to be slim, can it really have deep meaning? The answer to these two questions is - Yes. Susie Orbach's book Fat Is A Feminist Issue was maybe the first book to hint at the deeper issues involved in losing a few pounds of body weight.

Whether it was twenty pounds or five pounds a woman wanted to lose, there was an emotional reason that excess weight was there, and there was emotional pain that the fat was hiding. 

Discovering and healing the emotional wounds linked to dysfunctional eating patterns became the work at hand if one wanted to be slim. And it is still true today, with the epidemic of worldwide obesity the answers given to overweight people need to looked at closely. To only focus on what goes into your mouth is not going to heal an eating disorder. For an eating disorder is a problem in itself and also the symptom of a deeper problem. Discovering and healing that deeper problem is key in losing excess weight for good.

On my journey of thirty years since I healed my own eating disorder, I have felt it has been a spiritual journey. The essence of meditation or sitting with a spiritual master is entering a space where one allows ones wounds to rise and rather than ''stuffing them down'' with food eaten when already physically full, we ''sit with'' the emotional content of that wound. This heals it.

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