It’s Not What You Eat…But How
What if we were able to find beauty in our bodies…to love the vehicle that moves us around and holds our spirit? This is an invitation to approach your body from more than what society tells us we should eat and look like, and instead engage with a deep love and appreciation that may just lead to the best version of you that you can fall in love with.
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It’s Not What You Eat…But How
You’re not broken. You don’t need fixing.
If you're here, it’s likely your health, well-being, and self-image are of paramount concern. It’s likely you’ve genuinely tried to address your concerns through diets, which generally work for a bit before you put the extra weight back on. We believe our outward results are due to what we eat or our biology and don’t realize we’re addressing symptoms, not root causes.
I get that this will anger some of you and frustrate others who have spent your lives following strict regiments based on fats, carbs, body type, blood type, and a litany of other diets. What I want to know is, how has that process worked for you? If you’re like the 95+ percent where diets have failed you, what do you have to lose by following a different path…I’m here to tell you it’s about a lot more than weight.
Just to be clear, this intensive is NOT a weight loss program, although weight loss may be one of the results of this process. In fact, other than a few mentions, you won’t see me talk about being over weight or dieting. That’s not where the focus will be because it’s not the root of the situation.
We’re used to entering the new year by making resolutions, that this year things will be different. We join gyms, jump into the new diet, state to the world how things are going to be different…and a few months later you’re back to the same place you started, feeling even worse about yourself and your inability to make change.
It’s not your fault because you have two things going against you that are almost impossible to overcome:
1. Like it or not, we are animals and integrally a part of nature. In the northern hemisphere this time of year has the least energy to give us for creating in a dynamic way in the exterior world. All of nature’s energy is withdrawn. Most of us have a difficult time getting out of bed, our nature is to wake up later and go to bed earlier. We just don’t have the energy we do in the spring and summer. That’s natural. Starting a new venture or activity is antithetical to your biology. This is the time of the interior world, of the dream time and self-reflection.
2. Our subconscious regulates 90-95% of our cognitive function. It’s job is to keep us safe and happy. Unfortunately what that typically means is “the same as we are now,” even if that’s not what we want. Our hypothalamus is the thermostat in our brain that keeps us within a narrow band of acceptable outcomes and when we veer too far outside those parameters, it kicks in like a thermostat to bring us back to stasis.
We have to use different approaches and tools to change our subconscious and go to the root of the condition instead of trying to attack the symptom over and over and wondering why we can’t change our results.
In this intensive, we’ll look at clearing old beliefs through brain research and spiritual practices that will work on multiple levels to re-imagine who we are and these amazing vehicles we call our bodies. What if we could learn to love ourselves just as we are and know our ideal weight, food, and exercise for our inner well-being, not just what some formula based on BMI or weight calculators? This is the invitation to you for the month of January.
When we’re able to make peace with our bodies and learn to communicate with them in ways that are loving and supportive, our entire health and physical temple will change in accordance.
Mark J. Platten
Course Outline
This course takes a detour from what so many programs and books teach us regarding the vehicle we call our body.
We’re told by media, doctors, and health/fitness gurus that if we starve ourselves in just the right way, or follow just the right workout, or deny ourselves in just the right way, then maybe we’ll be lucky enough to be the five percent of people who diets work for.
If I were to tell you as a mechanic that 95% of the work on your vehicle won’t fix what’s wrong, or if as a doctor I tell you that what I’m prescribing you won’t work for over 95% of the time…why would you believe anything I said after that? Yet, we place our belief in something that gets us exactly those results and we keep coming back for the next big idea, research, or fad.
What if we look to the root of the situation rather than trying to attack the symptoms? That’s the invitation in this intensive on redefining the temple that is our body and what might happen if we focus in a new way on food, exercise, and the vision of our bodies as being much more than a repository of flesh.
During this intensive, you’ll receive daily videos accompanied by contemplative questions and interior action steps to ease you into the new year. I’ll have weekly Zoom calls starting on January 8th to discuss the previous week’s information and answer any questions. I’ll also do a final Zoom session on the evening of January 31st to wrap it all up and plan where to go forward. For those who like Facebook, we have a page there for more intimate interaction and connecting with others on this journey.
31 Days of Inspiration and Contemplation
The first week we’ll be looking at our physical vessel and what we put in it, and create new patterns and where we place our energy and attention, learning to change the inner and outer voice.
Week two will focus on our conscious, subconscious, and superconscious minds and the science and spirituality of how they work together to create our reality.
Week three we will explore the role our emotions play in creating our reality and how it relates to our body and food.
Week four we will be exploring the role of our spirituality and connection to the sacred and Divine and how we can access it for manifesting our desired results.
The final week we will explore wrapping these all together and create a plan forward, including other opportunities to take this deeper and stay connected if that is something that calls to you.
So, what’s this going to cost? That’s totally up to you. You get to choose how much you feel called to pay for the course. There are no differences in the content or what you get. I also call it a “Self Investment” because I truly believe that we don’t spend enough time investing in ourselves.