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Alternative Health & Healing: Heal Your Heart, Heal Your Life.
Four Keys to Permanent Weight Loss
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by Rena Greenberg |
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Have you been struggling to keep your weight down—fighting with yourself? Do you feel that maintaining your ideal weight is an uphill battle? If so, then I want to share with you four keys that will help pave the way to effortless and even joyful weight loss. I invite you to think of your decision to lose weight as nothing more than an excuse to embark on a journey of self-discovery and self-love. In the process, by following these four keys, not only can you allow your physical body to grow strong and healthy, but your inner self can mature and develop into the greatest expression of you!
Key #1:
Accept and Tolerate Discomfort
One of the greatest sources of pain we experience as human beings stems from our resistance to discomfort. We don’t want to believe that pain in one form or another (mental, emotional or physical) is a part of life. We label it pain—but actually discomfort could be more realistically viewed as constriction.
When we observe nature, we can see clearly that nature involves both expansion and constriction, life and death, growth and stagnation, light and dark. These same polarities exist within ourselves and yet we spend so much time seeking the joy, light, and pleasure—that we inadvertently increase our level of pain (and the mistaken choices that result from that quest).
How is this possible? Because when we contract against the natural constriction that occurs within—as if we were warding off a fierce wind—it actually brings more attention to this powerful force that we consider dark. What we focus on and react to seeps into the forefront of our reality, thereby influencing our thoughts and actions in a “negative” way.
For example, let’s say you wake up and your energy is low. You notice that you feel irritable and out of sorts. Your thoughts are judging and disapproving and you feel disappointed. When you feel into your body, you observe that your jaw is locked and there’s a knot in your stomach. You now have a choice. What you might do is tell yourself that this is not how you want to be feeling and make up a story to yourself about why you feel the way you do e.g. “You know, if only my boss wasn’t so intense about that project, I wouldn’t have to feel this way. He is such a _______”
Since this thought process doesn’t really bring you much comfort, you now proceed to get dressed uneasily as you brew a pot of coffee. As you sip the coffee and the caffeine fills your senses, you perceive some relief from your thoughts and the tightness in your body. You shrug off your life situation as something to live with and drive to work. On the way, you find yourself pulling in to Dunkin’ Donuts to “give yourself some pleasure” as a reprieve from what you perceive to be the challenges that lie ahead.
The problem with this approach of wanting to avoid pain is that by 4 p.m. you are feeling exhausted from your crash from the caffeine and sugar, even more deflated than you felt when you first woke up. Now you need another “fix” of something to take you out of the stupor you have sunk into. So now your problems have multiplied. Not only do you physically feel as constricted as you felt when you arose earlier in the day, but you have the added discomfort in your body from your poor choices of food and drink (and lack of deep breathing, inner centering and physical exercise).
When we can tolerate the ebb and flow of our feelings and our bodily sensations (and our thoughts), and stay on course with our vision for our life, despite these ups and downs, then we are much less the “victim” of transient states and more the creator of our greater experience of life. When we accept pain as part of the cycle of our existence, then pleasure becomes our driving force for getting what we want.
I am not choosing to eat that bread and pasta as a means to distract myself from an argument with my spouse or best friend, but rather I prefer to eat mostly salads, greens and good sources of protein, such as hormone-free meat or fish with healthy fat like olive oil, because no matter how I feel on this particular day, in the big picture of my life, I have made a decision to honor and care for my body. It’s really about making the connection between what I put into my body and how I am likely to feel later, notwithstanding the normal ups and downs of life.
During some parts of the month the moon will be fuller than others. On some days you will naturally feel more motivated to exercise than others. This is why you can not let your daily moods impact your commitment to yourself.
Key # Two: Create a vision for your life.
Decide what you want. Know that you are strong inside and that you can weather your inner storms. There will be days when you feel like sticking to your plan and days when you won’t. But if you see yourself as a person who exercises, then you will know this to be true about yourself and follow through. No matter what happens, you exercise in one form or another—even if it’s nothing more than climbing up and down the stairwell at work for ten minutes on a busy day.
How can you convince your subconscious mind—the driver of all your choices—that this is indeed true? You can do this by planting new positive and empowering suggestions. Tell yourself—“I am a person who exercises every day. I love to move my body. My stomach is getting flatter every day. I love working out—that’s when I feel most alive and burn up all my stress. I am growing younger and more alive! I move my body easily . . .”
You have to know that your vision for your life is about creating a deep pleasure that fills you in your core with gratitude and joy. Accept that you will still have moments of discomfort and constriction, just as the most beautiful rose may bear the beating of a strong, whipping storm from time to time. Rather than establishing eating, lifestyle and thought habits that serve as an ineffective means to ward away feelings of fatigue, shame, anger, grief or regret, accept that these feelings come and go like the weather and the only way to perpetuate positive feelings is to create an inner vision and allow it to guide you.
1. Commit to Acting With Integrity
Acting with integrity may be the most important key to success. When you make a promise to yourself or someone else—keep it. When you make a mistake, apologize for it. When you receive a gift of any sort, give thanks for it.
Integrity may look like different things to different people. For some, acting with integrity would mean offering support to a person in need who crosses your path. This is certainly a very admirable course of action, and a great example to set for yourself and others.
However, what I am talking about here is having the integrity to honor your commitments to yourself. If you tell yourself that you are eliminating white flour for two weeks and then toss that decision to the wind when your waiter arrives at your table with a bread-basket in hand, you begin to lose faith in yourself. You begin to doubt and distrust yourself and your word means nothing to you.
Feelings of remorse become inevitable and what’s worse is that regret is often accompanied by harsh judgments about yourself: “I have no willpower,” and the underlying belief you haveabout yourself is, “I can’t trust you.” Self-reflection as opposed to self-condemnation would be a much more productive course of action when you make a mistake. Ask yourself, “What can I learn from this?” Perhaps you set the bar too high. Maybe it was unrealistic to think that you could abstain from wheat products at such a busy time in your life. If that is the case, then to act with integrity you could apologize to yourself for your mistake and take some time to determine what you really need to do for yourself to make your vision for your life—living at your ideal weight—your reality. Mistakes are a wonderful thing IF we learn from them.
When you make your next commitment to yourself, keep it realistic: I am going to do some form of activity every single day—and stick to it! When your belief about yourself changes and you truly know that your word is as good as gold, then you will achieve your goal—regardless of life’s interruptions that intervene from day to day, and the fluctuating energy of the people around you.
4. Affirm Your Strength!
Use affirmations to enhance your integrity, your commitment to yourself, and your ability to tolerate the discomforts in life.
Read, write and recite affirmations. Think of them as a form of prayer. They absolutely work because they help you attune to your own greater nature. The secret to success with positive self-talk is to say your positive phrases with emotion, as if they had already manifested.. Feel what it would be like if your declaration were true for you. Affirmations are a wonderful tool to tap into that 90% of your brain that you have not been using.
Here are some examples:
“Even though ________________is happening, I love and accept myself exactly as I am.”
“I love and care for my body. I prefer healthy foods that nourish me.”
“I LOVE to exercise my body. It’s a joy and a privilege to move my body. I find ways to sneak in exercise throughout the day.”
“I let go of the past and say YES to a wonderful today and an even better tomorrow.”
“I trust the process of life. I surrender my need to control life. I am strong and in control.”
Refer to these four keys every day, and you will find that your life begins to move in a new direction. When discomfort inevitably taps on your shoulder, take a few deep breaths and surrender to what life has for you in this moment. Remember that it only is this moment that you can experience.
When your mind wants to jump to the conclusion that the situation at hand is intolerable or destined to continue eternally, shift your perspective to remember the earth hurtling through space – and the tiny speck that you are on this earth (and the tiny specks the other people in your life are, too). Give yourself compassion for the feelings flowing through you.. Breathe space and love into yourself . . . remember your vision . . . treat yourself with integrity and affirm your own beauty, strength and goodness!
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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. Master's Degree in Spiritual Ministry and Sufi Studies from the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism.
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
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of Rena's new book:
The Right Weigh: Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss
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