After I watched this week's SNL skit about the book titled The Secret I went off to read a bit about it online. After I found the following excerpt, I began to wonder if this book is 100% serious...it apparently is.
The excerpt:
It's about visualization, I'm sure, but am I taking this out of context or is the author saying that one of the ways to lose weight is to not look at overweight people? Is she saying that I have to ignore (disdain?) people who are less than my personal model of perfection? Or is all of this carefully crafted hype to sell the book?
The excerpt:
"The most common thought that people hold, and I held it too, is that food was responsible for my weight gain. That is a belief that does not serve you, and in my mind now it is complete balderdash! Food is not responsible for putting on weight. It is your *thought* that food is responsible for putting on weight that actually has food put on weight. ... If you see people who are overweight, do not observe them, but immediately switch your mind to the picture of you in your perfect body and feel it."
It's about visualization, I'm sure, but am I taking this out of context or is the author saying that one of the ways to lose weight is to not look at overweight people? Is she saying that I have to ignore (disdain?) people who are less than my personal model of perfection? Or is all of this carefully crafted hype to sell the book?