I haven't been keeping up with my blog lately because I've been pretty busy with the radio show and coaching, but I suddenly realized that I've got LOTS of stuff already written. So I'm going to start posting some of my show monologs. This one was recorded right after the Fire The Grid global meditation last summer. Enjoy!

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When it comes to losing weight, do you want to know why changing your diet doesn't always work? Because your diet might not be the problem!

If changing your diet doesn't work, it might be because your soul wants you to look elsewhere. When you decide that you want to lose weight or just get healthier, and declare it to be so, the ethers begin churning and immediately begin bringing the tools to achieve that desire into the forefront of your consciousness. That’s how the “Law of Attraction” works.

Therefore, if what you eat was really the cause of your weight problem, then the Universe would immediately deliver the tools you need to easily change your diet.

But you’re not asking to change your diet. You are asking to lose weight, or get healthier, so the Universe is trying to show you how. If it’s not leading you into an easy diet change transition, then it should become obvious that the issue is NOT changing your diet. The real issue is looking at whatever the real cause is.

I talked to a woman who was asking about having a hard time losing her post-pregnancy weight, and we discussed the fact that she might not necessarily be ready to be a sexual person again, because of all the mommy feelings that go on after babies are born. There are also all sorts of issues like hormone fluctuations as your body adjusts to all the extreme changes you’re putting it through, which are connected to emotions.

There is also tremendous pressure to be thin immediately, to go back to work immediately, and to get back into bed sexually, immediately … it can be overwhelming! The last thing on your mind may be getting your body back into the shape you want, because it’s trying to tell you something that you’re not looking at, something like TAKE TIME FOR YOURSELF, TOO! In this case, it has nothing to do with how much food you eat!

Someone asked me recently about how the spiritual path played a part in my writing the book Shape Shifting. I realized that, before I ever saw any results, I was only focused on the body/mind aspects of why I couldn't lose weight, and I was so discouraged by my lack of results, that I began my desperate search for answers.

Now, in hindsight, I can see that it never really worked until I added the third ingredient of the holy trinity, Body, Mind AND Spirit. See, it never worked for me before, because I was so knee-jerk, dead set against god and religion, because they had both been so very cruel to me while I was growing up. Not only that, but my oldest brother, whose opinion I valued greatly because I had sort of a hero worship thing going on with him, was an atheist. I didn't want him to think less of me if I turned to "god."

So I really fought it. I didn't allow any Spirit to enter my Body/Mind equation because I was either filled with hatred for it, or was embarrassed by appearing gullible enough to believe it.

But it was only after I began questioning my beliefs in god, religion and spirituality that I actually lost over 50 pounds. It took a combination of all three to get those results.

Finally, I want to talk real quickly about my own experience with Fire The Grid, because it, too, relates to Shape Shifting.

As you may know, Fire The Grid was about praying for world peace. Now, if I’m going to pray for world peace, and I know that the most effective -- in fact the ONLY effective method of prayer is to first BE the peace, to BE the change I wish to see in the world -- then I know that the best way for me to pray for world peace is to find it within. So I didn't spend FTG praying or meditating, I spent it being peaceful.

Fire The Grid happened while I was getting ready to go to work, and the place I work is about as dysfunctional as it gets so it's a true challenge to stay centered when I’m there. I’d like to flatter myself that I’m needed in this maelstrom of muck because I’m a "lightworker, there to raise the vibration of the space," but that doesn't change the fact that sometimes it's just a crappy place to be.

You know, it's real easy to be all connected and centered when you're not challenged. When I’m alone it's a piece of cake to be Gandhi-like. It’s when I’m around people who are still living the illusion that it can be a struggle.

So I spent the hour of FTG getting ready for work in an extremely peaceful and connected state of mind. This way, I could bring the vibe with me as I moved about my day. I have an outdoor shower in my back yard behind the shed; so I took a sunrise shower, breathing deeply the cool, damp Florida summer morning air. It had been monsooning all night, and the skies were finally clearing. The air was crisp and freshly washed. There were just a few wispy white clouds in the brilliant blue sky, framed by palm trees. It was exquisite.

It’s a great shower, because the water pressure is strong -- just right to make large, solid drops that catch the sunlight and shoot prisms everywhere. Using this shower is like bathing in a sparkling light show. I took a much longer shower than usual, just standing there letting the water fall on my body, enjoying an intense connection with nature.

When I went inside, I listened to some Abraham Hicks, put on something pretty that I never wear because it's special and lots of rings and stuff, which I never wear because they get in the way when I type. Then I put on a CD called Journey, by Jerry Brunskill, which is based on the Conversations With God books. I was all colorful, and I even put on some makeup.

During that hour, I became peace incarnate. I became the change I wish to see in my own world. I fired my own grid.

When I walked out the door, I carried it with me and had a really pretty good day. It didn't occur to me until later in the day, HEY, why does it take a global meditation for me to do this? Why am I not doing this every single day? It didn't take any more time or effort to do all this, I didn't do anything extra, I just did things differently.

THIS is the essence of Shape Shifting. Don’t wait for a special occasion to be whole. You can choose to be authentic and genuinely you, RIGHT NOW. Go ahead … what’s stopping you?