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Alternative Health & Healing: Lose Weight Permanently: Stop the Endless Cycle of Dieting
Secrets To
Permanent Weight Loss
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by Rena Greenberg |
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The secret to permanent weight loss lies within. Consciously you know that in order to achieve and maintain your ideal weight you have to eat smaller portions, choose healthier foods and increase your activity level. But the obstacles to success are not in your conscious mind.
The obstacles to success are in your subconscious mind. The subconscious part of the mind is like a computer. It runs on programming. Ninety-five percent of the activities we engage in (and the thoughts that we think) are fueled by this automatic pilot in the brain. The subconscious mind makes life easy so we don’t have to think about every little thing that we do. Remember when you first learned to drive? You had to consciously think of each step . . . adjust the mirror, buckle your seatbelt, turn the key in the ignition, look behind you, put the car in reverse, take your foot off the break and press down on the gas petal. Remember how tedious that was? What a blessing it is now that all these steps merge into one flowing movement and we don’t have to be bogged down with a step by step process.
Well it’s the exact same auto-pilot that is engaging in overeating, binging, snacking and emotional eating mindlessly. When the clock strikes 12noon—it’s lunchtime! If you have a program installed in your subconscious mind that says that you have to eat lunch everyday at 12 o’clock whether you are hungry or not, guess what? That is exactly what you are going to do.
Consciously, you may have made a decision to lose weight, but until you reverse the automatic programs that have been running your life, you are going to continue with the same old self-sabotaging behaviors that you have always engaged in. How did the unproductive programs get installed in the first place? Through constant repetition. If every time you had a plate of food in front of you, someone (most likely an authority figure) told you to finish everything on it, you learned that when there is food around you better eat it. The reward was that your caretakers were pleased. You were a good girl or a good boy when you cleaned your plate, and you may even have been rewarded with more food.
Instead of beating yourself up mercilessly every time you “cheat” or eat the “wrong” foods, realize that you are doing so simply because there is some very unproductive conditioning repeating itself. At some level you are associating pleasure with those foods that are harmful to you. The good news is that all you have to do is install a new program—one that ensures your achieving the goal you deeply desire—living life healthy, fit, at your ideal weight and in control of your life and your eating habits.
Programs are installed through intensity of emotion and repetition. So next time you are about to indulge in a food that you know is poisonous to your system, use the following simple method to help you change your perceptions of that food and begin to install a new, more productive, subconscious belief system.
Try the following: Imagine the harmful food in front of you. Notice your habitual response to the food. You may even find yourself salivating as you imagine how good that food is going to taste. Now before you go any further, STOP. First of all imagine that you are viewing the food through a camera lens and zoom out so the food is far away from you now. Make the image fuzzy or black and white. By making these small changes in the way you view the food, you are beginning to shift your perceptions.
Next, imagine that you already ate the food and focus on the FEELINGS in your body. How does that food make you feel? Really notice any sensations of nausea, heaviness, disgust, guilt, discomfort and distension. Exaggerate the bad feelings associated with having eaten that food. Make these negative feelings as real for yourself as possible, by bringing them closer and brightening up any color visuals, and increasing the volume on the audio, if there is any. This step will help you to use the pain you experience regularly to your benefit. Now, place these horrible feelings that you normally experience AFTER you eat the food that is harmful to you onto the harmful food that you typically indulge in, BEFORE you eat the food.
The key is this: Rather than fantasize about how wonderful this food will taste prior to eating it, and then experiencing the pain of having eaten it over and over again, begin to associate pain with the food before you eat it. That will keep you from wanting it. By doing this exercise regularly with the “trigger” foods that cause you to sabotage yourself, slowly you will begin to change the deeply imbedded subconscious programming that is running your life and keeping you feeling helpless about your overweight condition. You absolutely can change your perceptions of the food you eat. When you change the way you think about food, your habits will automatically and effortlessly begin to support your desire to live your life healthy and fit.
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Rena Greenberg,
Author, Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, & Hypnotherapist
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Rena Greenberg is the Founder and Director of Wellness Seminars, Inc, which provides weight loss programs for over100 major corporations and city governments, including over 75 Florida and Michigan hospitals.
She is a graduate of City University of New York at Brooklyn College. Rena Greenberg’s wellness programs have been featured in many television and radio news features.
Ms. Greenberg holds two certifications in hypnosis from The Eastern NLP Institute and the National Guild of Hypnotists, as well as national biofeedback certification from the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. She is also a certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming and an ordained Minister.
Rena Greenberg is the author of The Right Weigh: Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss used by over 100,000 People (Hay House, January 2006).
Email:
wellnessseminars@aol.
com
Web:
www.easywillpower.com
Read an excerpt
of Rena's new book:
The Right Weigh: Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss
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