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discoveries lately that will make the wheels in your mind start turning and will validate what your intuition has already told you: that this weight-loss stuff is more complex than you’ve been told, and that emotional and mental stress can make you gain and retain weight. For instance, did you know that your thoughts and emotions affect you at a cellular level?
    These complex ideas, which are so different from what most of us have been exposed to in school or in the media, certainly make my head spin, so I’m going to simplify them a bit. I’ll start by explaining the nature of the energy field that both surrounds us and includes us (we’re each a part of this “fabric” of reality), and how we communicate in ways we can’t see, sending information back and forth through the energy field. Then, I’ll then touch on why our thoughts and feelings have energy, and how metabolism works, and then I’ll go into why you may never have heard these ideas before. The more you understand the science behind the mind-body connection, the more you’ll realize how important it is to do the exercises in this program and why they’ll help you stop carrying the “weight of the world.”
    THE FIELD AND YOU
    Just as there is a fabric of your life, there is a fabric of reality that all of us are part of. We all can sense this fabric, or field of energy, although some of us are more aware of it than others. The energy field comprises many types of energy, which is coming from people, animals, plants, the earth, the sun, the planets, and so on; but for simplicity’s sake, let’s just call it the electromagnetic field that we all share.
    Even people who don’t think of themselves as sensitive can pick up on extremely subtle changes in this energy field. Studies by the HeartMath Institute, which conducts research and educates people about stress, energy, and the heart, show that our brain waves respond to electromagnetic signals from the heart of a person in the same room with us. If someone is staring at us, we’ll almost certainly look up because we sense that person’s energy. Haven’t we all had that experience? Our senses regularly pick up stimuli that can be observed and measured by scientists, but clearly we’re also able to pick up the presence of another person, even when we can’t see, hear, smell, or touch that person.
    Something very subtle is going on. We know we have sensory receptors: the receptors in the inner ear, for example, pick up sound waves and send the information to the brain; the receptors in the skin tell the brain that something’s happening—a change in temperature or touch, for instance. Maybe somewhere on our bodies there are sensory receptors we don’t know even about. Maybe our sensory receptors are receiving subtle signals that a scientist’s instruments can’t detect but that our brains notice and register.
    Some people insist that they can smell snow, perceive the flicker and sound of fluorescent lights, and even, in cases of a rare condition called synesthesia , perceive that sounds have certain colors and shapes. It seems their brains take in and process sensory information differently from the rest of us; they are more sensitive. Remember: dogs have a fantastic, heightened sense of smell, and bats and dolphins have sonar and can perceive solid objects they can’t see. It’s possible that, early on, humans used to have more acute senses, too, and perhaps some of us have retained that ability, for whatever reason. We just don’t have the measurement tools to prove that the person who smells snow isn’t making it up.
    What if you can pick up on the tension or anger lingering in an empty room after two people have argued in that space? Could the changes in the room’s energy field, which a highly intuitive person might pick up on, be perceived and even measured by scientists some day in the