The cause of obesity found, maybe.

[bijou]

SheilaT  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-15-08 11:48 PM
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Something I think I can only post here.
 Advertisements [?]Please look at this discussion, especially my post, number 10.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3806485

Someone recently suggested to me that perhaps a lot of the current "obesity epidemic" is a lot of people who starved to death in a recent life, and so overeat without control this time around. It certainly makes sense to me, at least as much as my postulated viral connection.

I personally think that past life issues are important and ongoing and rarely recognized, especially by those who don't acknowledge the possibility of a past life at all. But, as far as I'm concerned, it makes a lot of sense out of many things.

Anyway, if anyone has a comment to make I'd appreciate it.
 

Callie McAllie  (343 posts)      Sat Aug-16-08 01:21 AM
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1. I can totally see that
 I agree with you that past life issues are not considered much. So many people died in the past of starvation, or in violent ways. It makes total sense to me that something related to that past life would play out now.

Shallah  (1000+ posts)     Sat Aug-16-08 02:38 AM
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2. I know this to be part of my own weight issue
 BTW I believe past life therapy can be effective even if the person does not believe in past lives. If they are willing to try it and treat the memories as a way for their psyche to symbolically represent the issue behind their problem and so go with the flow, feel and release the feelings, they will still find healing.

I have undergone many past life regressions including several with starvation including unto death. In one of my most recent regressions I remembered a lifetime somewhere in Northern Africa. My elder sister and I were teenage orphans when famine hit. She pretended to eat more than she really did giving the lions share of what little we had to me. She died but I survived that famine because of her sacrifice.

There are other traumas from past lives that leaked over and IMO predisposed me to this problem or current lifetime events caused them to leak over. I believe that past life therapy is a good part of the reason I have finally released half of my excess weight.

I wish more people would try it. It is certainly less toxic and dangerous than the methods many use to loose excess weight from smoking to diet pills to crash diets to excessive exercise replacing one addiction with another.

dadsblacksheep  (680 posts)       Sat Aug-16-08 08:16 AM
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3. I have been wanting to post a past life thread! I completely agree with you
 I had some information about a past life of mine become very clear before the lunar eclipse this month. I had several weeks of very intense remembering/activity/dreams, and after the eclipse, it stopped.

In my past life I lost a very beloved husband in some sort of war/conflict, and then was a refugee with my children and could not scrounge up enough for us to survive. This is why I am so absolutely terrified of what could happen with these awful republicans in power, and I have moments of panic at least once a day about not being able to provide for my children.

I agree with you, many people overlook th significance of this. But they have to believe first, and unfortunately for them, they don't.

Journalgrrl  (721 posts)       Sat Aug-16-08 03:39 PM
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8. Spiritually speaking, think of the currently shifting planet 
 as magnetics have dissapated over the past 40 years, the obesity has increased ...now, HFCS may be part of the mechanism to make this happen...but what if people were using all that extra weight to stay grounded?


I think the emotional body factor of protection against pain is big, as is the need for people to remain in their bodies and not fly away off the planet...

let me know what you think

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Dispose of your diet books now, they are useless in the face of  the real cause (that and you might float away if you get thinner). 

[Ree]

My cause of obesity....sittin on my ass eatin Pringles....

[Bondai]

Past life therapy my ass....some shrinks have big scams going....

[Carl]

They are insane and stupid beyond description.

All they want and ever yearn for is an excuse for their faults,something that is beyond human reckoning so that they are never to blame and will always have something to point to and wail against as the cause of their suffering.

**** them,they need to grow up.

[jtyangel]

Excessive exercise crash diets
Why is it that people fool themselves into thinking that the only solutions are extreme ones or that anyone who has been successful at weight loss has done it at the expense of their health? This simply is not true. The key is to create a calorie deficit so that you use the fat in your body instead of the calories from food. It can be done in a healthy way that does not cause the body to go into starvation mode and should be tempered to respond to increasing or decreasing levels of activity so that weight is either not gained or starvation mode not triggered. One should never go below something like 30% deficit of their required daily calories to maintain.

Past lives sounds like another way to be a victim in pertuity. 

[JohnnyReb]

So, which one of the angry, progressive, socialist, DUmmies was Hitler in a past life?

[comradebillyboy]

this could be one of the stupidest and most insipid threads I have ever seen from DU.

 
Someone recently suggested to me that perhaps a lot of the current "obesity epidemic" is a lot of people who starved to death in a recent life, and so overeat without control this time around. It certainly makes sense to me, at least as much as my postulated viral connection.

 
BTW I believe past life therapy can be effective even if the person does not believe in past lives. If they are willing to try it and treat the memories as a way for their psyche to symbolically represent the issue behind their problem and so go with the flow, feel and release the feelings, they will still find healing.

these posters are all insane

[Servonaut]

My cause of obesity....sittin on my ass eatin Pringles....

Have you tried the minis yet ?

They're awesome....

and evil.

I have a bag of the "sun dried tomato" and

the "sour cream and onion" sitting on top of my

icebox right now.   

[MrsSmith]

The cause of obesity ...

Spiritually speaking, think of the currently shifting planet  
 as magnetics have dissapated over the past 40 years, the obesity has increased ...now, HFCS may be part of the mechanism to make this happen...but what if people were using all that extra weight to stay grounded?

[JohnnyReb]

The cause of obesity ...

Spiritually speaking, think of the currently shifting planet  
 as magnetics have dissapated over the past 40 years, the obesity has increased ...now, HFCS may be part of the mechanism to make this happen...but what if people were using all that extra weight to stay grounded?

The best way to stay grounded is to lick your finger and stick it a light socket. ...but please be environmentally friendly and only do it on a wind farm.

[Servonaut]

The cause of obesity ...

Bacon Cheeseburgers too ? 

[bijou]

My cause of obesity....sittin on my ass eatin Pringles....

Have you tried the minis yet ?

They're awesome....

and evil.

I have a bag of the "sun dried tomato" and

the "sour cream and onion" sitting on top of my

icebox right now.   

Sun dried tomato? I bet those are tasty.  I hope they start selling them here, it may cure my current addiction to my recent discovery of Reece's Nutrageous bars.

[Chris]

The cause of obesity ...

Bacon Cheeseburgers too ? 

I thought it was those damn pickles.  They can keep 'em.

[FlaGator]

I guess that we can assume that anorexics were members of the Donner party in a previous life.