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(Pause, in another fast delivery.) Let us take another example, a very simple one. You are overweight. It is a physical fact. It grieves you, but you believe it completely. You begin a round of diets, all based on the idea that you are overweight because you eat too much. Instead, you eat too much because you believe that you are overweight. The physical picture always fits because your belief in being overweight conditions your body to behave in just such a manner.

In the oddest fashion, then, your diets simply reinforce the condition — since you diet because you believe so deeply in your overweight condition.

The same procedures as just given for those who are overweight should be used. In each case body conditioning is set up through natural hypnosis. Daily behavior and chemical functioning smoothly follow according to the belief.

[...] She worried about her overweight condition, and [was] depressed at what she thought of as her lack of discipline in following diets. [...] She was afraid that she might discover within herself the buried impulse to kill her husband, or to break up the marriage, but she was sure that her overweight condition hid some unfortunate impulse.

[...] She could say it was because she was overweight, after all, for he was always remarking adversely about her fleshy opulence — though he did not use such a sympathetic phrase.

[...] Let us take a simple example: You are overweight. [...] You say, “Because I believe I am overweight, I am, so I will think of myself at my ideal weight.”

[...] In your mind’s eye you still see yourself as overweight, imagine the goodies and snacks, and in your terms “give in” to your imagination — and you think that willpower is useless and conscious thought powerless.

[...] People are overweight. [...]

[...] You both often criticize those who are overweight, emphasizing in your minds and feelings the lack of control this implies to you, the overindulgence. [...]

[...] I am hypnotizing myself into my overweight condition (or my loneliness, or my poor health).” [...]

[...] If you are overweight, insert the weight that you think is ideal for you while you are following this exercise. [...]

[...] You think you are overweight and accept this as reality. [...]

Such behavior, of course, operates in any condition, from the overweight person to the alcoholic, for each individual forms his own reality, and yet does so unconsciously knowing the needs and beliefs of others.

These food ideas are important, since they are passed on from parents to children, and parents often use food as a way of rewarding a child’s good behavior, thus starting the youngster out toward conditions of overweight.

[...] He is at this point in a better position than someone with an overweight problem, in that the joints do not have much weight bearing upon them, or fat to smother their mobility.

[...] Now by stout I do not mean monstrous, but overweight. [...]

[...] Mr. McKeown, John told us, is quite overweight, but is not a truly obese person. John said his own idea of a “fat” man is one who is grossly overweight; this Mr. McKeown is not, even though on the heavy side.

[...] But except for some conditions which will be mentioned later, you can become healthy if you are ill, slim if you are overweight, gain weight if you prefer, or alter your physical image in profound fashion through the use of your ideas and beliefs.

And a man in his 50’s. Some overweight, round. [...]

There had been in the past overweight, and in this instance there was in some portions of the body an overextension of tissue about the joints. [...]

You may say, “I am overweight because I feel guilty about something in my past.” [...]

You both always railed against overweight people. [...]

On the other hand, our young man sometimes dreams of being overweight, and it is one of his most satisfying dreams. [...]