Confessions of a Fitness Model: The Ugly Truth about the New Standard for Beauty by Madelyn Moon

Author:Madelyn Moon [Moon, Madelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archangel Ink
Published: 2016-02-24T18:30:00+00:00

2. A lack of gratitude

Expectations can easily result in a lack of gratitude.

On the other hand, experiencing gratitude can cause you to relinquish expectations.

You may have heard the simple but powerful quote by Dale Carnegie:

“Two men looked out from prison bars,

One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.”

How we see the world is shaped by our experiences and perceptions. Though we cannot change our experiences, we can change our perceptions by experiencing gratitude for life itself.

In an effort to be honest and vulnerable with my beautiful readers, I have to admit something. Being grateful was never natural to me.

I wasn’t grateful for the body I had. I wasn’t grateful for my college education. I wasn’t grateful for the exceptional family I was raised by.

Why? Because I was always the victim and never the victor.

I was the victim of life, never in control, regardless of how hard I tried.

Life continuously aimed to work against my superficial desires.

This is where my disordered eating stemmed from.

I was always the victim of life and its unexpected outcome, therefore I never experienced true gratitude for all of the wonder I was given.

I truly believe in the Law of Attraction and the Power of Positive Thinking (Google this if you don’t know what it is), so I’m not saying that life won’t bring you what you want, but again, both of those things require one secret ingredient: gratitude!

If you want to attract abundance into your life, you must first experience gratitude as if you already have the life you want. You don’t need to have any expectations for this to “work” because you are cultivating a vision from a place of contentment and happiness.

It’s the same with the Power of Positive Thinking; positive thinking cannot result from feeling victimized in life. Instead, it results from viewing life as the victor. Merely mastering the art of gratitude can result in so many wondrous shifts in your life.

When people ask me how I conquered my disordered eating, they are usually looking for a formula that involves therapists, workbooks, workshops, and hypnotism.

While some of these strategies work really well for certain people, my secret to recovery truly lies in training my gratitude muscle.

I could have talked to somebody twice a week and festered over the lack of abundance in life, but instead, I searched within. I spent days and days investigating within, trying to locate my gratitude muscle.

For a really long time, I couldn’t find it.

It was out of order.

But eventually, I began to connect with it in spurts. Over time, I started appreciating the little things in life more. My disordered eating habits were still second nature, but I started to at least see that some of the things that controlled my life weren’t the be-all and end-all.

I realized that the five calories in an Emergen-C packet weren’t going to ruin my body. Soon enough, I realized the calories in a banana weren’t so bad either. Eventually, after a lot of practice and patience, I also realized that two scoops of ice cream on a cone weren’t going to ruin my body.

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