Visualization can play an important part in losing weight and
maintaining a healthy lifestyle that keeps it off. Losing weight
can be difficult for many people who use fad diets and pills
to achieve their weight loss goals without letting their mind
help in the process.
Visualization is a powerful
technique that can help you make lasting lifestyle changes.
Just by "day dreaming", you can significantly
improve your chances in achieving your goals.
Visualization is a great weight loss tool and its as
simple as visualizing your body as you want your body
to look like. This mental image of yourself is then transferred
to your subconscious mind, which in turn starts to work
on your body, shaping it in accordance with your mental
image thus reducing your weight.
This means that if you program your subconscious with
a mental image of yourself as a slimmer person, through
persistence your mind will accept this and aid your body
to conform to this mental image.
Once your mind is programmed with the proper mental images,
it will start to work in assisting you to losing weight.
I can’t stress enough how important it is for you
to believe in your visualization goals. You have to let
go of past dieting failures and refuse to entertain any
negative images that come into your mind.
If you can visualize your body at its perfect weight and
proportions, the subconscious mind will work to make it
become a reality. It will then begin to positively reinforce
your body into aiding the metabolism and eating habits.
Programming your mind into believing that you can lose
weight, and to visualize yourself at your ideal weight
is of the greatest importance.
Try to think of a different image of yourself, then let
your subconscious do the work for you. If you think of
your own body fat and being out of shape all the time,
then the subconscious mind will find ways to make it so.
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The subconscious looks after all of all your vital functions,
it is the cause of all your good and bad habits, and also regulates
muscle (the muscles are controlled by the subconscious) and
body-fat composition on the body, and the latter is the one
we are most interested in.
So please try to visualize your body as lean as you would like,
and your mind will work on that image. The mind can be a great
partner in losing weight.
Getting Rid of Bad Nutritional Habits
A bad habit is like second nature and is acquired over a long
period of time. Bad habits are programmed into the subconscious
and “will power” alone will not get rid of it. Many
try using all sorts of different ways to break it but without
success.
Obesity is the result of bad nutritional habits and some of
the causes are boredom, stress, tension and different complexes.
Food becomes the substitution for these causes and before too
long, obesity sets in. Most people become concerned that they’re
obese, eat more and a vicious cycle is established.
The only way for lasting permanent weight loss is to break
these bad habits and replace them with positive new ones, and
the only way to do this is with visualization. Visualization
puts you in charge of your subconscious where all these bad
programs are stored.
All the will power in the world is not going to break these
bad habits unless one has the help of their subconscious.
Relaxation
Relaxation the best way to reach the sub-conscious and will
slow down the mind, turn off the exterior world so as to tune
in to one’s inner self. The best times for these sessions
are in the morning and late at night right, just before going
to sleep.
Try performing two sessions, one in the afternoon (primary)
and the other before going to sleep (secondary) but once a day
is quite sufficient. Sessions usually last 20 minutes, which
isn’t time consuming especially when taking in the benefits
received.
It has been stated that one of these sessions is equivalent
to 2 hours of deep sleep and upon waking you will feel revitalized
and full of energy. Believe me instead of worrying about time
constraints; you will be looking forward to the next session.
When you begin your relaxation sessions, make sure you won’t
be disturbed - lock the door, take the phone off the hook and
loosen all clothing. Now find a comfortable position, whether
it is lying down or sitting in a comfortable chair.
Sitting may be preferable as you may fall asleep if you become
too comfortable. You want to be conscious and not asleep in
order to tap into your sub-conscious mind.
Try to exhale all the air from your lungs completely and then
breathing in through the nose. Take ten seconds to fill the
lungs with air (not to capacity, but comfortable) hold for ten
seconds and then exhale slowly through the nose for another
ten seconds.
Each one of these breathing cycles should last for 30 seconds,
complete five cycles and after each cycle you will be feeling
more and more relaxed.
If you are sitting, open your eyes and look straight ahead.
If you are lying down, open your eyes and stare at the ceiling.
After a few minutes, slowly close your eyes.
Having reaching this calm relaxed state start your visualizations.
Put together images that power your emotions. Make them alive
and colourful. Make the scenes as real as possible and imagine
yourself as slim and toned the way you will look after successful
weight loss.
Picture yourself ten weeks from now on the beach, walking briskly
and confidently to your favourite spot, your breathing is normal
and relaxed. You smile to yourself; you could keep walking like
this for miles without feeling fatigued.
You lay your towel out and begin to take your clothes off revealing
a firm, toned, well conditioned body. You have just bought a
brand new swimming suit which just weeks before would have been
lying in your closet waiting to be used.
Glancing around you notice the beach is busy, you catch the
eye of someone of the opposite sex, they smile at you and you
smile back. You walk confidently to the water and swim a couple
of hundred yards with no problem or fatigue.
Or try this:
Visualize your family and friends complimenting you about how
good your body looks and how slim you look. Try to view the
scene as it is happening this instant - in the present, not
in the future.
Using these visualizations you can construct in your mind any
scene that desire. See yourself exercising, socializing, in
the company of friends. Try and hear people complimenting you
about your slim new body, and watch their admiring glances.
Make the mental image as real as possible.
