{"id":217,"date":"2010-06-14T09:14:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T09:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/06\/jan-shepherd-on-becoming-lighter.html"},"modified":"2010-06-14T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T09:14:34","slug":"jan-shepherd-on-becoming-lighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/06\/jan-shepherd-on-becoming-lighter.html","title":{"rendered":"Jan Shepherd on Becoming Lighter"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Have you ever noticed that when people lose weight they also tend to lighten up?” says Jan Shepherd in her Huffington Post blog<\/a>, titled “The Bearable Lightness of Being.”<\/p>\n

She points to four tips for creating more lightness in your life and says that it could be that weight loss carries a “gratitude switch” that turn on when we realize how light we can be.<\/p>\n

“I wonder if it takes
\nan actual physical change to activate that switch or that switch causes a
\nphysical change,” she says. “Whichever, things have lately become very heavy and I think its
\ntime for us all to lighten up.”<\/p>\n

Read more about The Bearable Lightness of Being<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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