(an excerpt from Leslie Masters' weight-loss book, Thinnervention)
This vessel, this body and this soul, are all that I have been given. I will live this life surrounded by this skin and thinking with this mind and yet what has been given to me I have surrendered to a force outside of me. I have jumped in and let "it" take me. How in the wold can I expect to "just feel better' when for all practical purposes I have given my primary "feeler", my body and mind, away to the world outside me? How did this happen?
Was I born this way?
I think not.
When did this happen?
I want to scream, "HAS ANYONE SEEN THAT GIRL? The one I used to be. The girl that hoped and dreamed and idealized and romanticized. You know, the one that was innocent and confident and curious, full of life and energy. Energy!? Oh my God the energy! She was so full of energy and spirit, yes, spirit. That intangible something that was infectious and beautiful and kind and loving and desirable.
Where did she go?"
Know the feeling?
Norman D. Brown wrote, "Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress."
We human beings are a restless lot, discontented, even irritable. In search of that magical "It" that will make everything better, that which will fill the hole, make us whole, complete, content, happy… that which will "just make us feel better". We just keep bustling about preparing to arrive at that ever elusive mirage of spectacular happiness and never ending tranquility.
Brown calls it "unhappiness". Is it truly unhappiness? Perhaps it is more accurate to call it uneasiness or unsettledness.
Mystics, theologians, psychologist, philosophers both famous and infamous and "great thinkers" both present and past have dug deep into their vocations, their Holy books, their conscious and subconscious and ever into their souls searching for a word to describe this incomprehensible feeling.
It is a feeling that all humans have felt at one time or another, but one that we have forgotten to name.
Ask anyone to tell you what the feeling is and what you will get is people trying to describe the feeling but unable to quite come up with the right word.
I don't know what it looks like or what to call it, but I know when I feel it. As I probe deeper and peer down into my own depths I see an anxiousness, a rattled, shifty, unbalanced feeling, a restlessness, an incompleteness.
The great thinkers call it a hole, an abyss, a void, and emptiness, a something-is-not-quite-right feeling. Philosopher William James coined the term zerrissenheit translated as "torn-to-pieces-hood."
All of these descriptors word, more or less to put to words something intangible, profoundly personal, yet astoundingly universal; universal not just now but universal throughout the history of mankind. We all "just want to feel better".
The weight issue is an incredibly intimate and often times self-destroying affair. Many people spend their life, their entire life, battling this issue and yet never have a day when they get to just live as strong, healthy, full-of-life people.
A snapshot of any portion of their life would show that the continuous battle, the never ending pre-occupation with food was always present. At any point in their life they would be seen struggling with, obsessing over and all consumed by food, calories, carbs, all of it!! For too many people, the issue and the obsession just never goes away.
It is here that The Masters Plan is different and it is here that these two silly, simple books will change your "experience of living" forever. To find success and serenity with The Masters Plan, there are three things that are needed from you: honesty, open-mindedness and willingness. These are all that is required, but these my friends are indispensable. There is a quote I like, know well in a few select circles, and it applies here:
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer
"Contempt prior to investigation," it is indeed the key to everlasting ignorance. Please, please, please just believe. Even when you feel like what you're doing has nothing to do with weight loss --just trust.
What you will find in these pages has helped millions of people over many, many centuries. It works.
Do the work and trust the process.
Thinnervention "gets it off" and Rehabilition "keeps it off."
It is time to put the rapture back in to the experience of being alive!
Please join everyone who has chosen to embark on this one-of-a-kind journey.
Happy Travels,
Leslie Masters, M.D.
