The Weight Loss Digest

 

Hypnosis for weight loss, science has shown how you think about yourself and what you can do, to literally can change your weight and your appearance.

It is all in your mind.

 

Hypnosis For Weight Loss Tips, Tricks & Techniques

1. • Your subconscious mind is completely neutral and impartial – it will carry out any instructions you give it.
   • Specific parts of your brain, such as the reticular activating system (RAS), which works with the visual parts of your brain to call your conscious attention to things that are important to reaching your goals and to filter out those things that are unimportant.
   • Your own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the primary ways that your “mental computer” is programmed on a sub-conscious level, which is the level of beliefs, habits and automatic behavior.
   • To change your results, you must overwrite old negative programming and install positive new programming into your subconscious.
   • Your brain cannot differentiate between real practice and practice that is vividly imagined.
   • See yourself in your “mind’s eye” not as you currently are, but as you ideally would like to be.
   • You have the capacity to create an almost infinite number of new neural connections in your brain.
   • Controlling your thinking and keeping it constructive may be one of the most difficult challenges you have ever faced.
   • If you want to transform your body or any other aspect of your life, then you have to change on the inside (the mind) first and then everything else will follow.

 

“Your thoughts are things.” and they can be very powerful things when you combine them with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire to change and obtain an object of your desire.

The wise men have been preaching this idea for generations, now science has shown how you can use your thoughts to think yourself thin.

When we shape our thoughts to obtain a desired result such as weight loss and combine those thoughts with emotions that can assist and compels us to act upon those thoughts, our reality changes and it appears like magic.

Successful people have been performing this feat of magic for generations. Now you can learn how to obtain the weight loss you desire but did not now how to consistently achieve that miracle.

Tom Venuto has written an article that will help you begin your journey down this wondrous path of enlightenment.

Enjoy!

 

 

The Law Of Attraction And Weight Loss: Can You Think Yourself Thin?
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
www.burnthefat.com

Metaphysics & Brain science merge and prove that positive thinking and goal setting literally create your body and your entire life experience

On a special edition of CNN’s Larry King Live, Mr. King interviewed a panel of “mind experts” about how the thoughts you think literally turn into the events you experience and the material things you possess… AND even the health of your body.

For years, “positive thinking” and goal-setting were often criticized as “pollyanna” and “the law of attraction” was relegated to the category of “new age” fluff.

On the recent Larry King show, panel experts Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, and others who were featured in the movie ‘The Secret‘ explained that recent breakthroughs in neuroscience along with understanding mental laws, reveal why goal setting, the “law of attraction” and “positive thinking” all work, regardless of whether you look at them from a metaphysical or a scientific perspective.

Scientists have even identified specific parts of the brain, such as the reticular activating system (RAS), which works with the visual parts of our brain to call our conscious attention to things that are important to reaching our goals and to filter out those things that are unimportant.

The RAS is activated by “programming” goals into our subconscious minds. Our subconscious mind is the “power center” and THIS is the mechanism that explains why goal setting and positive thinking are now being accepted as scientific methods for change.

We are discovering that our brain is cybernetic in nature, which means that it is literally like a computer, waiting for a program to be installed.

Here’s the kicker – the subconscious is completely neutral and impartial – it will carry out any instructions you give it.

Unfortunately, many of us are still running negative programs we picked up from others as children when our non-conscious minds were totally open and impressionable, or which we developed over the years as a result of repetition of our own negative thinking.

As it turns out, our own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the primary ways that our “mental computer” is programmed on a sub-conscious level, which is the level of beliefs, habits, and automatic behavior.

To change your results, you must overwrite old negative programming and install positive new programming into your subconscious.

This can be achieved through such techniques as written goal setting, positive self-talk (affirmations), and mental imagery (visualization).

In the 1970s, the Soviets and East Germans were the first to formally use structured mental rehearsal, and at that time, they dominated several Olympic sports. This was reported in great detail in Charles Garfield’s landmark book, “Peak Performance.”

Today, virtually all elite athletes use visualization extensively, as we now know that the brain cannot differentiate between real practice and practice that is vividly imagined.

If you are getting more of the same negative results in your life – such as the same health problems, or the same body fat continues to return even after you lose it, then you have probably been un-consciously running old negative programs and re-informing them with negative thought patterns.

You can begin the positive mental reprogramming process by writing down your goals, changing your internal dialogue, and taking a few minutes to relax, quiet your mind, and perform a session of visualization or mental rehearsal every day (seeing yourself in your “mind’s eye” not as you currently are, but as you ideally would like to be).

These methods, repeated often enough, will begin to program the non-conscious portion of the mind, which is the same part of the mind that controls your heartbeat, digestion, and new cell production, all on “automatic pilot.”

In the last decade, neuroscientists discovered that you have the capacity to create an almost infinite number of new neural connections in your brain when you run new thought patterns.

The Old neural pathways are like grooves in a record, and if you are struggling with your health-related behaviors or behaviors in any other area of your life, you have been playing the “old records” over and over again.

If you were to carve a new groove into that record, it would never play the same way again. the old pattern would weaken and the new one would take over.

Brand new, positive thoughts, feelings, and images begin to create new neural patterns.

Psychologists estimate that it takes 21 to 30 days to establish a new pattern in your brain. During this time, the focus on sticking with your practice and repeating your new thought patterns is critical.

Is this easy? For most people, no it’s not.

Controlling your thinking and keeping it constructive may be one of the most difficult challenges you have ever faced. Fortunately, writing goals and reading affirmations can help get you started.

You can take some of the pressure off yourself by simply accepting that negative thoughts and self-criticisms will pop up from time to time.

Just observe them, without mulling over them or adding to them, and change the polarity of the thought by quickly repeating one of your positive affirmations or by changing your mental pictures.

So is there something to this whole “positive thinking” thing?

The philosophers and theologians have been saying yes for the entire span of recorded history: “As you think, so shall you be.”

Variations on this proverb can be found in every spiritual and philosophical tradition.

But… if you are the left-brained, “prove-it-to-me” type, you don’t have to go on faith anymore. Scientists are beginning to prove more and more convincingly that thoughts are powerful things.

Even Larry King seemed impressed with what his panel of “mind mentors” had to say.

So how soon are you going to begin your mental training right alongside your physical training? When are you going to learn how to harness this power locked up inside your mind?

Guess what? You’re already using this force every day because you cannot turn it off. Whatever you are thinking and picturing in your mind repeatedly daily is already on its way to you, so it’s simply a matter of HOW you are using it, not IF you are using it.

What do you say to yourself every day?

Do you say, “I am becoming leaner, healthier, and more muscular every day?”… or do you say “I am a fat person – I’ve tried everything, but nothing ever works?”

The fact is – you can think yourself thin and healthy or you can think yourself obese and ill. Maybe not in the literal sense…but most certainly as the critical part in the chain of causation…

You see, there’s a lot of talk these days in the personal improvement world about the law of attraction, manifesting, intention, visualization, affirmations, and of course, positive thinking.

Without understanding that there is an orderly, scientific basis underneath all of these things, many people will simply remain skeptics, while on the opposite extreme, others may get the idea that you can sit around meditating and visualizing, then expect a mystical “law of attraction” to kick in and then “poof!” a great body materializes out of thin air… along with the perfect relationship, a nice bank account, and fantastic career success.

What really happens is “Positive thinking” and related methods quite literally re-program your brain, which in turn creates new behaviors that move you physically toward whatever you have been thinking about and focusing on.

So success is achieved through positive thinking + positive doing…. attraction + action. There are two sides to the coin. Without paying attention to both, you may continue to struggle… often against nothing but yourself.

If you want to transform your body or any other aspect of your life, then you have to change on the inside (the mind) first and then everything else will follow.

This process of scientific goal setting and mental reconditioning through emotionally charged mental imagery (visualization) and internal mental dialogue (affirmations) is the very first thing I have always taught my clients and the first thing I wrote about in my book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle You can learn all of these techniques in detail in chapter 1. Learn more about the psychology of body transformation inside the Burn The Fat book: www.burnthefat.com

About the Author:

Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the #1 best-selling e-book, “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and turbo-charge your metabolism by visiting: www.burnthefat.com