Weight loss for Couch Potatoes – Don’t Acquire up, I’ll Explain…

You’re fat and you know it! Now I’m going to speak you something you don’t already know.

*** You think you already know why you’re fat but you don’t. You think it’s since you only don’t have enough time and motivation to apply. You think it’s because you love food and don’t quite have adequate willpower to cut back sufficiently. You don’t have a clue!

The real reason you’re gaining weight is going to shock you: it’s because you have the mind of a healthy-trained athlete. Don’t laugh quite yet. Have you ever noticed how quickly athletes advantage weight when they retire from competition? It’s freakish. The same reason that athletes are magnificent at sports later causes them to bloat — they have especially “trainable” subconscious minds. If you understand the mechanism then you be able to learn to control your weight with no diet, suffering or an inhuman usage schedule.

*** Weight Loss and your Athletic Mind

Before I continue, I should say that it is true: the immediate cause of weight-gain is what you eat and how you live. I’m not preaching a few pseudo-science here. However, controlling what you eat and how you live is elusively difficult and I will show you why. If you believe you can change your behavior pattern with sheer willpower — then you just haven’t truly tried yet.

Sure, you and I pride ourselves in being rational adults, inside control of our choices and our destiny. But that’s simply a load of crap. In truth, we rarely ever do anything that brings us discomfort inside the short run. You consider otherwise? Go take a straight-cold shower simply to prove who is in control. Go with no solid food for two days. It won’t damage you, but it will make your body angry. And the detail of the matter is that we are generally slaves to reaction patterns established by our bodies. Sorry but it’s true.

*** The Key to Controlling your Body is to Control Your Mind

Training your body is all about training your mind. We’re not talking calculus here, we’re talking about your sub-conscious mind — where deep emotions, established patterns, habit and instant responses live. You are a trinity of sorts, 1) a lazy body, 2) a clever and fickle conscious mind and 3) a lumbering but steady subconscious that does most of the work around here.

You probably know already that the subconscious mind provides emotional responses to reinforce “terrific” behavior (like eating pizza) — but what you possibly will not know is that the subconscious is also responsible for all athletic ability. Even the simple stuff like walking or typing is a constant interaction of conscious commands and unconscious responses. For example, when you learn to shoot a basketball, what you are in fact doing is with the conscious mind to burn inside a pattern which develops into a subconscious skill-set. When you’ve essentially mastered a move, you “no longer be required to consider about it”. If you’re ever thinking about the mechanics of a dance step — it’s a sign that you have not “learned it” yet. That is, your subconscious cannot yet take higher than. Once you have “learned” the skill, your conscious mind need simply call out the command and the subconscious does the action.

To better understand your psychology, agree to’s liken your mind to a couple animals: imagine a Chimp riding on the back of an Elephant. The subconscious mind is like a slow dumb strong elephant even as your conscious mind is like the clever quickly chimp.

Chimp (conscious mind)
———————-
Rapidly
Clever
Creative
Forgetful
Thinks he’s in control

Elephant (subconscious)
———————–
Slow
Not creative
Slow learner with a vast memory
Awesome reflexes (ok so the metaphor’s not perfect)
Usually in control

*** The Willpower Myth

The nice thing about this tiny metaphor is that it allows me to point out the absurdity of the complete concept of “willpower” in the sense of the conscious mind overwhelming the subconscious using a show of brute force. Seriously, simply imagine the chimp wresting the elephant. Where’s the “brute force” of the chimp? The elephant’s simply going to sit on him and the game is on top of. That, by the way, is exactly where all diet ends when supported by willpower alone. The subconscious is a powerful section of your mind. You can control it through persuasion but not using brute force.

*** The Elephant, the Stick and the String

In Indonesia, elephants are used in construction work because they are so powerful and yet obedient. Every day long the elephant moves hundreds of tons of stone and wood and at night he taken to his bed of straw and tied up. Do you know how big the rope is necessary to hold an elephant? It’s just a tiny string tied to a stick driven into the ground.

You see, when the elephant was very young, he was tied using the same stick and string — and he was too small to pull free. For the rest of his life, he remembers this and never questions the enhanced strength of the tiny stick and string. Consider about it.

What are you really capable of? To be blunt, you have no idea. Your limitations are defined by childhood experience — and bear no relation to your adult capabilities. Like the elephant, you are emotionally tethered by childhood ideas. Most of your adult personality is simply a protective cage built by a scared child. What would you give to have the power to redefine yourself?

At present for the fantastic news: you’re not just an elephant, you’re also part chimp! That may perhaps have sounded better but never mind. Your mind has a little, clever, conscious aspect that gives you the ability to reprogram your whole mind. That’s exact, your conscious mind (the chimp) has the ability to entirely re-write and take control of your entire mental fact.

This ability defines humans — it makes us the most flexible animals on earth and it allows us to train our minds to do amazing things. From playing concert piano to extreme sports, the vast strength of the mind is tapped by this uniquely human capability.

*** Ok, so what does every this be required to do using weight loss?

Remember, the elephant learns and repeats patters of behavior that are taught to it — so the real question is “how to teach the subconscious”. Here’s the simple single trick that public require to understand. If you understand this simple principle then you can be the master of your own mind. You will also understand why our educational system doesn’t work (but that’s another article completely).

Our subconscious mind ignores most of what we talk it because we bark at it inside the wrong language. The language of the subconscious mind is EMOTION. Using the barometer of our emotion, the subconscious mind is able to determine the importance of any particular behavior. For example, say that you’re trying to learn a fresh skill. You’re working not easy to learn but you are not enjoying the task and your emotions are saying “this sucks, I wish I were elsewhere, how much longer is this going to take?” Well, it’s going to take a lot longer since you’re broadcasting to your subconscious mind the message “ignore this activity, just move along, there’s nothing to see here.” What was your emotional country, and how simply did you learn in high school?

It can not feel like it but you’re inside whole control of your conscious emotions. And this is the fundamental practice of programming the subconscious mind. It is, without a doubt, a form of natural hypnosis. Whereas conventional hypnosis works by moving aside the conscious mind, emotional programming works by with the conscious mind – but to the same effect.

At this moment for the dark side: remember how I mentioned that have three aspects? Body, conscious and subconscious? Healthy, because it turns out, your body is busy programming your subconscious mind each the era. For example, you’re hungry so you bite into a slice of thick cheesy pizza — at which point your body screams out (on an emotional level) “this is wonderful activity, very very great activity”. Food cravings are really subconscious patterns based on years of such programming.

*** Thankfully, the mind is absolutely re-programmable.

At this moment that you understand the basic mechanics of programming your mind, you be able to put it into exercise right away. What you are going to do is to replace food cravings using handling cravings. This technique is fun and very powerful as, rather than working against years of food programming, you’re going to do a few mental Ju-Jitsu and only translate an existing food craving into a decide for use. Magic? It’s greater!

It’s quite easy: first of every you’re going to stop eating for a as (non-sugared drinks are ok). This is not a diet plan, we’re not yet trying to lose weight. We’re simply trying to stimulate a hunger response. Now, when you start to feel the initial sense of hunger, do this:

Breathe inside deeply, relax, and feel the hunger — then don’t believe of food. Instead, imagine yourself doing sit-ups and absolutely loving it. That’s correct, visualize yourself hungry and doing sit-ups and let a feeling of joy and satisfaction flood above you. Then return to whatever you were doing.

In a few minutes, when the next pang of hunger comes, repeat this mental practice. Keep it up for an hour or so and then go have a light snack. While you are eating (especially while you are eating) visualize yourself doing sit-ups and loving it. Associate in your imagination hunger, food, situps and joy.

*** Hunger, Food, Sit-ups and Joy? He’s Crazy

Possibly, but what you are doing is linking a desirable behavior to a very fit established reaction pattern. You will be amazed at how you can handling this technique to stimulate a deep urge to do sit-ups. The mind is in reality amazing.

By the way, following a few days go ahead and provide into the urge to do some sit-ups. Because you practice, make sure to continue the emotional feedback by “letting” yourself enjoy usage. If you feel yourself not enjoying the practice, take control of your emotions right away or stop exercising. It’s not value sabotaging your work to burn several extra calories.

Don’t push your body, push your mind! Your mind is the only gymnasium that really matters. Eventually, your mind will push your body and you will can enjoy the procedure.

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