Spell to Lose Weight
Preparations:
- Light a white candle.
- Burn some Frankincense
- Bathe in warm water with several drops of orange fragrance oil. [not essential oil]
- Relax.
Lie back. Feel the warmth of the water on every part of your body. Look closely at yourself. Which parts of you need reshaping? Why aren’t you happy with your figure? Make sure that you want to change for your own reasons and not for someone else or to fit in with the imagined norm.
Once you have decided you want to change those parts, visualize how you would like them to look. Make firm resolves to exercise those parts. Even one or two extra movements a day will make a difference. Don’t expect to become an athlete overnight. I often recommend doing household chores to music. Dance while doing the dishes, sweeping the floors, making the beds. It’s amazing how those jobs become more fun to do and your body will appreciate the extra energy it gains from the stimulus. Bring back the joy in moving your body.
Visualize how small changes in your diet would change your body. Make realistic goals and set small challenges for yourself. Do not set the goals too high. A good method to use is the process of habituation. Simply put, if you are in the habit of eating, say, a chocolate bar a day. Eat one square of the bar less, break off the square and store it in a container. Do this every time you eat it. When you are totally used to eating that amount without feeling deprived, break off two squares. Follow this method until you only want to eat a square at a time. Use up the stored chocolate.
Get to know your body intimately. See how it feels. Massage problem areas, feeling the flesh and treating it well. It is part of you. Remember that size does not matter; it is health that is important. Societal culture has a habit of dictating ideals in female form, the more commercial the society, the more unrealistic the form seems to be. A whole industry is based upon making you unhappy with who you are and what you look like. There are, in fact, many societies which value the voluptuous female, one notable example is a tribal people who do not allow their girls to marry until they have spent a whole moon cycle inside a ‘fattening hut’. Body fat is a huge factor in the female reproductive cycle. Keep these things in mind while you breathe in the aroma of the fragrance oils.
Visualize changing a little at a time. It is important that you do not create new stresses for yourself by wanting immediate results. Stress is often linked to weight gain and you will just be counteracting your good intentions.
Re-evaluate your goals. If your weight is unhealthy, change it. If weight loss is merely a vanity issue, consider if your body is capable of being changed in the way you desire. Some things are meant to be, accept them, and move on to a happier way of being.
(from Spells for the Lazy Witch by Deborah Ashe)