You’re fat and you know it! At this moment I’m going to talk you something you don’t already know.
*** You consider you already know why you’re fat but you don’t. You believe it’s since you simply don’t have sufficient period and motivation to apply. You think it’s as you love food and don’t quite have sufficient 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 speedily athletes improvement weight when they retire from competition? It’s freakish. The same reason that athletes are fantastic at sports later causes them to bloat — they have especially “trainable” subconscious minds. If you understand the mechanism then you can learn to control your weight lacking diet, suffering or an inhuman use schedule.
*** Weight Loss and your Athletic Mind
Before I continue, I must say that it is true: the immediate cause of weight-benefit 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 hard and I will show you why. If you consider you can change your behavior pattern with sheer willpower — then you just haven’t in fact tried yet.
Sure, you and I pride ourselves inside being rational adults, in control of our choices and our destiny. But that’s just a load of crap. In truth, we rarely still do anything that brings us discomfort inside the short run. You think otherwise? Go take a straight-cold shower only to prove who is in control. Go lacking solid food for two days. It won’t harm you, but it will make your body angry. And the detail of the matter is that we are usually slaves to response 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 each 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 may perhaps 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 essentially doing is using the conscious mind to burn inside a pattern which develops into a subconscious skill-set. When you’ve truly 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 on top of. Once you have “learned” the skill, your conscious mind need just 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 while your conscious mind is like the clever quickly chimp.
Chimp (conscious mind)
———————-
Quickly
Clever
Creative
Forgetful
Thinks he’s inside control
Elephant (subconscious)
———————–
Slow
Not creative
Slow learner with a vast memory
Awesome reflexes (ok so the metaphor’s not perfect)
Commonly inside control
*** The Willpower Myth
The nice thing about this small metaphor is that it allows me to point out the absurdity of the entire concept of “willpower” inside the sense of the conscious mind overwhelming the subconscious with a show of brute force. Seriously, simply imagine the chimp wresting the elephant. Where’s the “brute force” of the chimp? The elephant’s just going to sit on him and the game is on top of. That, by the way, is precisely where all diet ends when supported by willpower alone. The subconscious is a powerful part of your mind. You can control it through persuasion but not with brute force.
*** The Elephant, the Stick and the String
Inside Indonesia, elephants are used in construction work as 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 requisite to hold an elephant? It’s only 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 little to pull free. For the rest of his life, he remembers this and never questions the enhanced power of the small stick and string. Believe about it.
What are you in fact 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 just a protective cage built by a scared child. What would you supply to have the power to redefine yourself?
Now for the great news: you’re not only an elephant, you’re also part chimp! That can have sounded greater but never mind. Your mind has a small, clever, conscious aspect that gives you the ability to reprogram your total mind. That’s correct, your conscious mind (the chimp) has the ability to completely re-write and take control of your complete mental detail.
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 radical sports, the vast power of the mind is tapped by this uniquely human capability.
*** Ok, so what does each this must do with 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 people need to understand. If you understand this easy principle then you be able to be the master of your own mind. You will also understand why our educational system doesn’t work (but that’s another article absolutely).
Our subconscious mind ignores most of what we talk it because we bark at it in 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 several particular behavior. For example, say that you’re trying to learn a fresh skill. You’re working difficult 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?” Healthy, 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 state, and how easily did you learn in high school?
It may not feel like it but you’re inside entire control of your conscious emotions. And this is the fundamental process of programming the subconscious mind. It is, devoid of a doubt, a form of accepted hypnosis. Whereas accepted hypnosis works by moving aside the conscious mind, emotional programming works by using the conscious mind – but to the same response.
Now 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 every the period. 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 groovy activity, very very wonderful activity”. Food cravings are actually subconscious patterns based on years of such programming.
*** Thankfully, the mind is fully re-programmable.
At present that you understand the main mechanics of programming your mind, you can put it into exercise exact away. What you are going to do is to replace food cravings using exercise cravings. This method is fun and very powerful as, rather than working against years of food programming, you’re going to do any mental Ju-Jitsu and only translate an existing food craving into a choose for apply. Magic? It’s better!
It’s quite easy: first of each you’re going to stop eating for a even 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. Currently, 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 wholly loving it. That’s exact, visualize yourself hungry and doing sit-ups and agree to a feeling of joy and satisfaction flood above you. Then return to whatever you were doing.
Inside some minutes, when the next pang of hunger comes, repeat this mental exercise. Keep it up for an hour or so and then go have a light snack. While you are eating (especially as 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 healthy established response pattern. You will be amazed at how you be able to apply this technique to stimulate a deep urge to do sit-ups. The mind is really amazing.
By the way, after any days go ahead and provide into the urge to do any sit-ups. Because you apply, make sure to continue the emotional feedback by “letting” yourself enjoy use. 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 simply gymnasium that truly matters. Eventually, your mind will push your body and you will be able to enjoy the method.