Reginald Cuffee

 

Recently I had my annual physical, and my doctor stated that I had gained twelve pounds since my last physical.  I wasn’t really aware of my weight gain because my clothes still fit and I felt good physically.  However, immediately after my doctor said I gained some weight, the word diet surfaced in my consciousness.  Since I don’t normally regulate my body weight by dieting, I was surprised that I became aware of this word. 

It is amazing that when most people think about losing weight, they immediately think of dieting.   Believe or not, a lot of people are on diets these days. There are tons of diet regimens, including the Atkins, South Beach, Change One, Rosedale, Weight Watchers, Zone, Thyroid, Mediterranean, and Okinawa diets just to name a few.  There are even diets, such as the Martha Vineyard Diet, that are designed to detox your body.  Despite the fact that some people doubt the efficaciousness of this diet, it does remove toxins that are stored in your body. 

Although most diets are designed to reduce your body weight and improve your health, I would like to tell you about a diet that is designed for improving your thoughts; thus improving your ability for manifesting prosperity and success. 

Your thoughts are the initiator of all your actions and the reality you are experiencing now, but most people are unaware of impact of their thoughts.  Psychologists estimate that the average person has 60,000 thoughts racing through his or her mind each day, and many of these thoughts are negative in nature.  If you take notice of your thoughts and let go of some of the negative ones, can you see the cascading positive effects it would create in your life?

Most people are bombarded by information that promotes negativity, limitation, and lack consciousness on a daily basis.  Negativity spews from your TV, radio, the Internet, friends, family, and the people you work with.  In fact, most people are so saturated with lack programming that all they do is complain, blame, and criticize which cause them to struggle.

Let me ask you a question — when you watch or hear the news, do you feel joy and inner peace or do you feel depress and anxious?  When you are with your family members, friends, and others people you meet throughout the day, do you hear complaining and other forms of negativity most of the time? 

I’m sure most people are not even aware of the negative energy they are putting out all day.  If you just listen to their conversations, you will most likely hear nothing but complaining.  They will be complaining about their work load, about their job, about their spouse, about their children, about their day, about how short the weekend was.  They complain, complain, complain on just about anything and everything.

Although negativity can impact your prosperity and success, there is a diet that you can use to counter the effects of negativity.  This diet can allow you to become aware of your thoughts.  I called this the 21 Day Mental Diet, and it  is based on the 7 Day Mental Diet by Emmet Fox; however, I increased the number of days from seven to twenty-one because most psychologists state that it takes 21 days to change a habit. 

 

The 21 Day Mental Diet

The 21 Day Mental Diet is designed to help you become aware of your thoughts and offers you a way to be more conscious of your thinking throughout the day.  Although this diet takes twenty-one days to complete, it may have far-reaching benefits that could transform you mind and your life.  However, the success of this transformation is dependent upon you completing the diet, but this will not be easy because this may be the most challenging diet you’ve ever attempted. 

Just as you consciously pay closer attention to what you’re eating when you are on a diet to lose weight, you need to start paying closer attention to thoughts that surface in you conscious mind throughout the day.  If you have never consciously listened to your thoughts throughout the day, your findings will be eye opening.

Goal

The goal of the diet is very simple.  For twenty consecutive days, don’t allow yourself to speak a single negative thought.  It is your job to stop all the negative thoughts that come into your conscious awareness, refrain them, but do not speak them.  If you speak a negative thought, you have to restart the diet.  For example, if you are on day 10, and you complain how the price of gas is too high, go back to day one. 

The first time I did this diet, it took me about four months before I could complete all 21 days without speaking negatively.  The average person who really gives this their best effort usually takes 4-10 months to go 21 consecutive days without speaking negatively.  This is not easy, but you will find that your entire life is happier, more loving and more enjoyable!

So if you are willing to do this diet and transform your mind and your life, let’s examine what is a negative thought.

 

What is a negative thought?

•  Any thought of fear, failure, confusion, anger, disappointment, criticism, sadness, or worrying.
•  Any thought of disparagement, blame, spite, gossip, jealousy, or disapproval of others.
•  Any thought of sickness or being in an accident.
•  Any thought that is not positive and constructive in nature, whether it concerns you or someone else.
•  In short, any kind of complaining.

 

Note, Eckhart Tolle, the author of A New Earth stated “Complaining is not to be confused with informing someone of a mistake or deficiency so that it can be put right.  And to refrain from complaining doesn’t necessarily mean putting up with bad quality or behavior.  There is no ego in telling the waiter your soup is cold and needs to be heated up-if you stick to the facts, which are always neutral. ‘How dare you serve me cold soup…?’ That’s complaining.”

 

When you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, reframe it.   To do this, say CANCEL!  and state a positive affirmation.

For example, if you are have a negative thought such as “gas prices are too high.”  Say CANCEL!  You can it out loud or silently in your head.

Next reframe your negative thought by stating “I choose be financial abundant and allow money to flow to me easily and consistently.”

If you know EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), you can increase the effectiveness of this affirmation.   

Well, are you ready to begin to change your mind and your life?  If you are ready, make a decision to start the  21 Day Mental Diet today.  After you have made your decision to follow this diet plan, do not tell anyone.  In fact, keep it a secret.  Sometimes when you attempt to step out of your box,  even well meaning friends and family can negatively influence your thinking.  If people notice a change in you attitude, continue to keep the diet to yourself until you successfully complete it.

Remember, your thoughts are the foundation from which all your dreams are manifested, so in simple terms, you need to tune OUT of the world negativity, and tune IN to your own prosperity and success.

 

Namaste,

RC

written by Reginald Cuffee

Personal Development is something I have been passionate about since I was a teenager; however, my own healing journey started about 8 years ago, was when I began to discover the possibilities of creating my life based peace, happiness, and prosperity.  As I discovered the power within myself, I attracted people, books, and classes to aid me on my journey of healing myself and  returning to wholeness. 

I began my own journey of healing when crisis had struck me in my life after going nearly financially destitute.  Everything I thought myself to be was taken out from under me, and I had no idea who I was.  

In the beginning of my journey, I was searching for the secrets to being financially free and successful.  I read books and listened to tapes on visualization, goal setting, and using affirmations, but I was not getting the results I wanted.  As time went on, I became depressed, angry, and frustrated with the world.   As a way of protecting myself from feelings of my financial “failure”, I suppressed the pain of my emotions, but all that changed when I was introduced to a process that transformed my reality.

At the time I was a working as an insurance agent, and one of my clients who was training to be an energy therapist asked if she could demonstrate a process that would release my anger and frustration.  At first I was skeptical, but I was very amazed by the process after using it.  As she continued with the process, I began to access the repressed emotional pain and release it.  Immediately I began to feel shifts take place in my body and my mind.  During that initial session, I discovered limiting beliefs of being “undeserving and unloved” stemming from a my childhood.  I saw how these beliefs had literally controlled my life and stopped me many times from going after what I wanted.   

With this process, I was able to reframe and create my new identity by changing the way I looked at myself and the world.  I received many new perceptions about myself and the world, and I was able to see the lessons I needed to learn to awaken.

What was this amazing process that allowed me to easily release my suppressed emotions?  It is called Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT.

 

What is  EFT?

Emotional Freedom Techniques is an Energy Psychology process developed by Gary Craig, a personal performance coach in California, that uses the ancient Chinese meridian system to eliminate all kinds of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual discomfort.

If you are familiar with acupuncture, you know that the body is made of a system of meridians.  The meridian system was mapped out by the Chinese over 4000 years ago and is the basis of all acupuncture treatment.  Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) use the same wiring as acupuncture except there are no needles; instead you tap with your fingertips on some of the acupuncture meridian points.

 

The theory of Emotional Freedom Techniques is that the cause of all negative emotion is a disruption in the body’s energy system.

 

Strong negative emotions cause a shock in our systems, creating the equivalent of a short circuit in our energy system.  Strong emotions can be triggered by a thought, a memory, or an event (depending on how you think about the event). For instance, if you think about how angry you are that your spouse yelled at you, you may feel tension in your body.

Once there is a build-up of emotional or psychological distress, one of these pathways or meridians becomes blocked and must be cleared or aligned in order for healing to occur.  Using EFT, you can balance the energy system which stops the power of that thought from affecting your body in that way.  .  Once the energy circuits (meridians) are then realigned, balance to the energy system is restored.  You may still have the thought and the memory of what occurred, but  without the emotional intensity that the thought was associated with. You are then much more able to think about the event differently.  Your thoughts become more flexible.

While the theory may not make much sense to you, what I know is that EFT works.-  often quickly, and often dramatically. I have seen this with my own eyes over and over again.

EFT has been proven clinically effective as a simple yet powerful way of  releasing fears, phobias, anxieties, angers, addictions, and all kinds of emotional and physical issues.  This is a new paradigm in healing because it no longer takes months or years of therapy and boxes of tissues to resolve problems. With EFT, specific issues can often be dissolved in minutes - forever!

The beauty of EFT is that ANYONE can learn how to apply it on themselves.  It is  painless and harmless, and it is completely safe, simple and easy to use.

For more information about EFT, watch this video from Gary Craig.

 

Namaste,

RC

 

written by Reginald Cuffee