Before launching each experiment, make the intention to give up past conditioning. I usually start with this adage from A Course in Miracles: “Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive.”

Keep your mind focused only on what you want. And anytime that puppy starts heading toward those slippers, pick it up and take it back outside.

As long as you harbor negative energy about yourself and spend time wanting to lose weight, that’s what you’ll get: negativity and “the state of wanting to lose weight.”

To be in the kingdom, as A Course in Miracles puts it, is to merely focus your full attention on it. You have to be willing to perceive nothing else.

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.

setting up a framework, posing a deadline, and using scientific-style experimentation was imperative to real spiritual growth

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.

In the meantime, you can experiment with something scientists call applied kinesiology. It may sound complicated, but it’s really just an elementary method of testing how your body reacts to negative and positive statements, spoken aloud. Dr. John Goodheart pioneered applied kinesiology in the ‘60s when he discovered that muscles instantly became

Once we begin to look for what’s right, our lives begin spinning in unimaginably exciting new directions.