I just finished reading Brian Clement's new book, Life Force: Superior Health and Longevity. If you’re looking for inspiration on the road to a new, healthier you, print out the list below and tape it to your bathroom mirror. Then read it every morning.
Here's his 12-step program for breaking food addictions, taken from Life Force, Chapter 9, Page 132.
We admit that we are powerless in the face of our food addictions - that our life has become unhealthy and unmanageable as a result, and we must make a change.
- We choose to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can help to restore our health and our ability to manage and control our food addictions.
- We make a decision to turn our will, our trust, over to the care of this Higher Power, as we understand it.
- We agree to undertake a searching and fearless moral inventory of the Truth about ourselves in relation to our food dependencies and beliefs.
- We confess to the Higher Power, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our cravings and weaknesses.
- We are entirely ready to remove all of these defects from our lives.
- We humbly ask the Higher Power to help us to remove our shortcomings.
- We have made a list of all persons we have harmed as a result of our weakness, and we are willing to make amends to them all, including ourselves.
- We have made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would inure them or others.
- We continue to take a personal inventory, and when we are weak or wrong, will promptly admit it and seek the support of others.
- We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand God or a Higher Power, and we seek to tap into our own power to carry out our desire to control our compulsions.
- Having a spiritual awakening or a more enlightened worldview as the result of undertaking these steps, we try to carry this message to others and to practise these principles in all our ways of being, both with ourselves and others.
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