How the Light of Life helped me
with my weight issues
I struggled with a weight problem for eight years that began my freshman year in college. I felt that I was doomed to egg whites and hours of exercise everyday for the rest of my life. I know the hell that is emotional eating. I remember the need to stuff all my feelings with endless trips to the refrigerator sometimes only seconds apart in an almost unconscious manner. If someone could just erase the pull between my mouth and my hand. It was just the space of a foot, and had a lifetime of force between it. I would give any amount of money to be free.
At twenty-four, I relocated to Los Angeles. My weight went up and down anywhere from 5 to 20 pounds about every two months. Events in my life would send my already unstable eating pattern into a downward spiral. This was not healthy. Fortuitously I was told of a man named Howard Y. Lee.
I grew up in a suburb of Chicago. My family was Ivy League educated and very conservative. Therapy was considered “out there”. I had no clue what an energy healer was. I went to Mr. Lee’s office expecting dead chickens to be hanging from the ceiling and a man to be dressed in some sort of tribal garb dancing around a fire chanting incantations. I was relieved to find a very nicely decorated office and to be greeted by a very elegant man. Mr. Lee never once touched me; nor did he say much. I left the office feeling as though I were drunk. I never swallowed anything. I went home that evening and began to take a bite of a candy bar and stopped.... This had never happened before. Th pull was gone! I actually put it down and then away. I could see everything clearly. I was able to see past that moment. He had cleared away that foot of space. This was magic.
In later discussions with Mr. Lee, I asked why, if we are intelligent rational human beings, who know not to eat or drink too much, do drugs, gossip, or whatever else one’s vices might be, do we do this time and again? He answered with an analogy. He said that we have many paths that we can take in life and to think of them as train tracks. What Mr. Lee does is clear away the imprints, the tracks that run us off course. This allows us to see clearly from the top down. It is like being above a maze; one can see the best path to take.
After the need to stuff my emotions with food was cleared, I found myself frozen as what to do next. I had all this freedom, seemingly too much freedom. After restricting myself for so long. I did not remember how to eat. All I knew were calories and fat grams. For so long I had been following some kind of diet program’s idea of what and when I should be eating. For a while I experimented with eating only when I felt physical hunger. When I told Mr. Lee of my experiments he would respond with a little chuckle and tell me that I could eat whatever and whenever I wanted, whether I was hungry or not; just as long as I didn’t abuse the privilege (not stuff myself). While I had been free of the emotional need to stuff myself for some time, I still had not settled into complete trust and let go of all the previous programming of this country’s strangle hold on Americans’ eating habits. Not until I found myself having to move an entire household in a short period of time did Mr. Lee’s advice finally register. I was too busy to think about what to eat, and ate when food was available. Anytime a thought of food started to come into my head I would imagine gently pushing that thought away. I did this for two weeks, and then it happened; thought and action as one. I
literally began to sweat grease at night. It was as if my body could not get rid of any extra weight I was carrying fast enough. People kept asking me what I was doing. How was I losing so much weight seemingly over night? I was happy to tell them I wasn’t doing anything. I was eating whenever and whatever I wanted (usually sweets). I just wasn’t hooking into any idea about food.
Like many, I was looking for answers. After experiencing Mr. Lee’s energy I truly understand how thought and action are one. This clarity, insight and enlightenment has permeated every aspect of my life. I have been able to have true transformation. I am no longer just another talking head. I had read numerous books, all the authors knowledgeable, but seemed to me to be poets of what Mr. Lee’s energy embodies. He is able to explain things free of superstition and dogma. Mr. Lee is the embodiment of integrity and grace. I am grateful to know him. After only a few sessions Mr. Lee told me that I was okay and I no longer needed sessions with him. Over the years I have sent friends, family and even strangers. All have had amazing results, most often life changing, no matter whether they were physical or emotional ailments.
I am thirty-one now, and have discovered inner peace. I have given birth to two beautiful girls and weigh what I did in high school. I eat whatever I want and have not vigorously exercised in three years! I have a sweet tooth and often have pie for breakfast guilt free.
