The Rice Diet Renewal: A Healing 30-Day Program For Lasting Weight Loss

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Healing Your Heart

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and

whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish

much, and what is done in love is done well.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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his chapter enables you to focus on your feelings so that you
can maximize the emotional experiences that empower you and
heal the feelings that get in your way and prevent you from attain-
ing true health. We know that feelings can create disease just as
dramatically as an unhealthy diet can, although often much less
obviously. A big part of gaining control of your emotions — or the
power that you ’ ve unconsciously allowed them to have over you — is
your ability to become aware of, and then responsible for, your
feelings.
The fi rst tool you encounter in these pages will help you under-
stand your relationship with food. How do you think about food?