DAY 2 OF THE DIET

  Day 2: If you are still considering whether to attempt this diet, take a moment in quiet contemplation and ask yourself why? Be gentle with yourself, avoiding morbid reflection at all costs.

Beginning today start measuring the emotional tone of your thoughts, becoming aware at all times of your thoughts and how they are affecting you. When you become aware that your thoughts are wandering, and everyone’s thoughts wander for it is one of the ways our subconscious speaks to us, ask yourself quietly why you drifted into that thought and how it affected you emotionally. Often they will just be random thoughts generated because of something heard, seen or smelled in the moment so do not give into  “paralysis through analysis.” Remember, often a cloudy day is just a cloudy day, nothing more. If you find that perhaps there is more to a particular thought and you cannot take a moment now, briefly note the thought and when you have the time, reflect on it for a few moments in gentle contemplation. There is a rule here that must be obeyed. The rule is we never struggle or engage in negative appraisal of these random thoughts or our thinking. We are simply observing what floats through our mind as dispassionately as we can; this is not an exercise in judging, only in observing and noting affects.