The Inner Path to Weight Loss Part 1
The Inner Path to Weight Loss Part 1
There are an endless number of diets, exercise programs, and
weight loss products designed to help you lose weight. In fact,
a whole multi-billion dollar industry has been created just to
get people thin. But the sad truth is that we as a society are
getting fatter every year. An inquiring mind would have to ask
why is this happening ? With all the different weight loss
products, and drugs how can it be that we can't seem to get
control over our ever expanding mid-sections ? The answer could
be that we are focused on the wrong thing. Looking towards
external solutions in an effort to fix an internal problem could
be our key flaw in our failure. Maybe it's our emotions and how
we feel about ourselves, our relationships, and our lives that
strongly influences our behaviors. Analyze your own relationship
to food. If you're like most people you have food triggers
associated with negative emotions. Do you eat when you are
stressed, sad, angry or when you feel overwhelmed ? What are
your food triggers ? I bet that when you are doing something
that makes you feel very joyful, or happy you don't experience
any food cravings. It's the negative thoughts, feeling and
emotions that we need to address in order for us to lose weight.
Your emotional state is the control valve that determines what
you draw into your experience. Your internal thoughts create
your beliefs and program your subconscious.
The Mirror Process: Each and every time you pass a mirror look
at yourself, then look deeply into your eyes and say to yourself
"I love you and I love my body".
This will feel strange as you begin to do this but in a short
amount of time this will feel more natural and you will begin to
realize that this is true. The first several times you do this
negative feelings and emotions will race out of your like a
freight train roaring out of a darkened tunnel. These negative
thoughts and emotions are contributing to your weight issues.
The first time I did this exercise I looked myself in the eyes
and said to myself "I love you and I love my body". I
immediately had a flood of thoughts, and self judgments as to
why I was wrong. "I don't love myself, just look at all the
mistakes I have made in my life" "And just look at me I'm fat
and out of shape, I don't love my body"
For a couple of moments I allowed these negative aspects to
bubble to the surface and I documented them in a journal.
Knowing your underlying negative thought patterns is very
important because now you know what emotional healing you need.
Once I documented them I sat myself down and I used 2 processes
to neutralize those negative thoughts and emotions. The first
process I use is the "Yeah But" process and the second is the
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) process.
The EFT process is a powerful tool for eliminating deep
emotional pain. I will be covering the EFT process in upcoming
part 2 of this article.
The "Yeah But" process is very simple to do. Each negative
thought or emotion that you identify simply suffix it with "yeah
but" then state a positive belief you have about yourself. For
example, you look in the mirror and say to yourself "I love you"
and the first thought that pops into your head is that you're a
bad mother because you just yelled at your child. You suffix
that though with "Yeah but, I really love and am supportive of
my kids and they love me even if I make some mistakes". As you
do the "Yeah But" process you can feel an emotional shift occur
and you begin to feel better. Over a short period of time those
positive emotional shifts begin to have a compounding effect on
your emotional state. You will begin to feel happier and better
about yourself. You will also begin to notice that when you look
in the mirror and say "I love you" you will start having
supporting thoughts as to why you are loveable or why you really
do love your body. This is a pivotal point in your emotional
healing.
>From this point forward each day you will feel more positive and
because you have internalized the belief that you love yourself
and you love your body you will begin to act in way that support
your new beliefs.
You will begin doing things without much thought that support
your health and weight loss goals. If you choose to start a diet
you will find that you will not have to deal with the usual
feelings of struggling to stay on the diet or the self-sabotage
that usually wipes out any weight loss.
If you choose not to diet you will find that the pounds will
easily begin to disappear as you naturally make better food
choices because you want to support the body and person you
love.
This transformation usually takes no more than 1 month to
complete if you faithfully do the Mirror and "Yeah But"
processes.
Look forward to Part 2 of "The Inner Path to Weight Loss" where
we will cover the use of EFT...
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