All of us have things about ourselves and our lives that we want to change.

Unfortunately, most of us waste our time and energy hating those things that we want to change, but it is this very hatred that stops the flow of change.

This week, use the power of love to open a flow of energy and allow change to happen within you.

After reading the tip once through,try it right now while you’re sitting at your computer.

Ready? Here it goes:

Take a deep breath, and close your eyes.  Picture, imagine, or feel the flow of love in your body (use things and people that you love in order to channel the emotion).  Do you feel the way the love moves through you, into you and out of you?  Can you feel its energy, and that feeling of possibility that it holds?

Good.

Now, feel the energy of hatred.  How does that feel?  Does it feel heavy?  Solid?  Miserable?  Burning?  Cold?

Now, open your eyes. Did you notice anything about that hateful feeling?  Did it feel like the way you feel about the areas of your life that you want to change but that feel stuck?

Try this exercise throughout the week.  Whenever you feel confronted with one of your issues or problems, take a deep breath, and see if you can picture, imagine or feel the issue or problem in your body or visualize it outside of you.  Then, allow that feeling of love that we just experimented with to spread through you, enveloping you completely, moving through your veins, arteries, organs, bones.  Now extend that feeling of love to the issue or problem and see how the love transmutes the hate for the problem. 

You may get a flash of an action you can take, or you may simply feel as though the problem, now downgraded to an issue, is subsiding.  Notice what you see and what you feel. 

Want to learn more about where this hate comes from and why it’s such an impediment to positive change?  Then check out Soul Food.

Golda is a certified holistic health counselor and founder of Body Love Wellness. She counsels women and men throughout the country on how to get off the dieting roller coaster, give their bodies what they really crave, and love their bodies and themselves. Golda's counseling and activism work have been featured on CBS's The Early Show, ABC's Nightline and Time Out New York. For more support with healing your relationship with food and your body, get your free copy of Golda's Top Ten Tips For Divine Dining by clicking here.