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We've been talking a lot these days about loving our bodies, and how that love shows up in our lives.

But a question I get a lot is, how and where do I START loving a body about which, frankly, I can't find much to love? Every subject feels awful: weight, illness, injury, beauty, age, stretch marks, wrinkles, blemishes, yikes!

And when I look in the mirror, it feels even worse. I can tell I'm focusing on what I don't want.

One of the basic principles of Law of Attraction is to stick with subjects that feel good when practicing a new skill, rather than hammering on the topic where you feel so much resistance.

For example, in the case of our bodies, we could use a vision board, rather than a mirror. But personally, I would not use a picture of a "younger or fitter" version of myself, and not someone else's body with my face on it, as I've seen others do.

Here's a short transcript from an Opra session:

Q: How can I remove the conditions from my desires on my vision board?

A: "If we...

When I started receiving Opra (what some would call “channeling”) in early 2019, I had no idea where that would lead me.

To the extent that I was interested in steering it, I believed that I was heading for specializing in helping law of attraction coaches, and other entrepreneurs and business owners who had been following law of attraction for a while, to release whatever last bits of resistance and limiting beliefs that were “holding them back.” This “advanced market” appealed to me, and I experimented with reaching out to them to offer Opra’s services. And many of them benefited, and it was quite satisfying.

But a funny thing happened on the way to that goal! Somewhere along the way I started to realize that every single woman Opra was talking to eventually shared some version of “I hate my body!” And many additionally had NO CLUE that their thoughts and beliefs were “limiting” them, or that those thoughts were...

Why is my body still not responding the way I want it to?

It's a question both Opra and "Ramona the Human" get asked on a regular basis. Even from people who have been practicing Law of Attraction principles for many years.

Here's the summary version of all of the various forms of the full question that we hear: "I've been meditating for years. I know and follow all of the happiness principles. I even teach this stuff! Why am I still ___________?!"

And you can fill in that blank with overweight, sick, or any other physical "failing" you can think of. (You can also fill in "broke, single, unemployed, grieving, frustrated, etc." but those can wait for another day!)

I even asked myself that on a regular basis, before Opra appeared. "Why can't I use Law of Attraction to lose weight, when I have successfully transformed every other aspect of my life?"

And I had. I had systematically created exactly the life I wanted: Extensive travel to far-off lands, time freedom, true prosperity,...

I’ve been celebrating my own personal breakthroughs a lot recently:

• 2014: New clarity on what really matters to me and beginning to learn how and why to choose who and what I focus on (RESULT: feeling happy for the first time in a decade, in spite of my beloved life partner having just passed away);
• 2015: Breakthroughs in allowing my own abundance by letting go of poverty consciousness, in allowing better connection with my body, and in becoming able to finally release an old, stressful, unwanted job and step into what I want to do with my life and how I want to serve others (RESULT: more money, more pleasure, more joy, and more adventures);
• 2016: Finally getting more and more clarity about what I actually want in a romantic relationship - and accepting that I wasn’t ready yet! (RESULT: a ton of valuable experimentation that was 40 years overdue!);
• 2017: Letting go of clutter and the past in visceral ways, and buying the Summer home of my dreams (RESULT: feeling so much...