I wonder when Shakespeare penned the words for Hamlet to utter….
Refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence, the next more
easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of
nature,
And either master the devil or throw
him out
With wondrous potency.
….if he knew that he would be
speaking to the modern day woman starting yet another diet!
Refrain so that
there is a kind of easiness to the next abstinence?
I suppose Ralph Waldo Emerson’s mentor-like words…“That
which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of
the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”…should
apply to the determined dieter as well don't you agree?
Does every “NO I
WON’T HAVE THAT” lead to an easier “NO I WON’T HAVE THAT” later in the day?
Perhaps each little victory is not a stand-alone deal but a building block added onto our internal fire-wall that protects us from temptation and allows us to move on down the narrow path to self
mastery.
I needed to hear James
E. Faust's words that “Self-Mastery is the ultimate test of our character.”
A reminder that
self care is not a matter of self indulgence but self respect. So, onward brave
dieters! Let's quote the bard and “Master the devil or throw him
out.”
