what you eat should be a nonissue during the time period of this experiment. However, every time you do eat something over the next three days, whether it’s your morning over-easy eggs or an afternoon slice of a co-worker’s birthday cake, deliberately and consciously send the food positive, loving thoughts before ingesting it. Thank it for

Write for Your Life, by Lawrence Block.

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” —MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN AUTHOR

The only thing you need do is devote your mind only to things you want.

So during this experiment, you’re going to do the following: 1. Refrain from talking “smack” about your body. If possible, refrain from negativity of any kind. 2. Before you put anything into your body, send it loving thoughts, put your hands over it, and give it a blessing. 3. Concentrate on infusing your food with love, joy, and peace.

You have to live under the assumption that your intention has already happened. You have to feel as if it has already come to pass—to get those ducks lined up … to get all those waves in laser-like coherence.

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.” —MARCUS GARVEY, JAMAICAN POLITICAL LEADER AND MENTOR TO BOB MARLEY

“We are all captives of a story.” —DANIEL QUINN, AUTHOR OF ISHMAEL

I’ve heard the old adage “What you appreciate appreciates.” So I guess I’ll give it a whirl. Who knows? Maybe expressing gratitude is more that just some mumbo-jumbo Pollyanna/Oprah thing. Willie Nelson, after all, said that when he started counting his blessings, his whole life turned around. Like Willie, I’m ready to bet on the probability of