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Patti Helsten Petrella
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Body/Spirit Fitness offers you ideas and information for fitness and health for the body, mind and spirit.
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Patti Helsten Petrella
teaches Yoga and
Pilates.
This is a fitness site for
body spirit and mind.
Articles and help on
weight loss, wieght loss.
Diet tips, exercise tips,
weightloss tips, lowfat
cooking, low-fat
cooking, low fat cooking.
Vegetarian tips.
Dealing with obesity
resistance resistence
training with weights
The subconscious is very important when developing success from
within. Your subconscious has been programmed since birth, and we
want to reprogram it to work in our behalf.
Take just a minute and think about how you talk to yourself. Do you
say negative things to yourself like, “I’ll never lose weight.” “I have no
will-power.” “I’m so fat.” How does your subconscious interpret this?
Exactly as you said it: “I’ll never lose weight.” “I have no will-power.” “I’
m so fat.”
The subconscious is constantly working while you’re awake or
asleep. You must start reassessing how you talk to yourself. What
kind of images and behavioral patterns are you burning into your
subconscious? If you say you are fat, the subconscious will keep you
fat, because that is how it sees you. If you say you can’t lose weight
then the subconscious will support that idea.
The first thing you need to do is change the way you talk to yourself.
Instead of saying I can’t lose weight, start saying, “what I need to do to
lose weight is…?” Or “I am gong to lose weight by eating healthy food
and exercising and nothing will prevent me from it.” Positive,
empowering statements and questions lead to positive, empowering
results. The saying “if you can see it, you can be it” is very true.
The next thing you need to do is recreate your body image in your
subconscious. Right now, the subconscious works to keep your at
you present body size, because that is how it sees you. That is how it
is programmed. You want to rewrite that program. You do this
through positive visualization.
Every morning and every evening you will want to take a few minutes
to relax and practice positive visualization. Take this time to see in
your mind exactly how you want to be physically. Imagine yourself
doing something that you like or want to do. Make it real right down to
the details.
This subconscious picture will change your actions. This small
practice is perhaps the most important part of your plan, because it
can change the inner you, which will change your actions.
This is how you will use this positive picture of yourself in your mind.
Let’s say the office is having a birthday party, and you always, without
much thought to it, indulged in a piece of cake and ice cream. Now
when in a situation, where you are drawn into old habits, you will
simply materialize this picture in you mind, and the subconscious will
react in a way that is congruent with this new image of you. In other
words, you will not crave the same unhealthy things that you did
before.
You must practice it in order for it to work. You must take the time AM
and PM. You must make this body image so tangible that it is a reality
to the subconscious. You must be willing and able to pull this image
up whenever you are faced old unhealthy habits in order to make new
positive choices that will lead to a healthier happier life. Contrary to
what some people think, we do have control over our thoughts. It just
takes some effort.
Once you get used to pulling up this positive image of yourself, it will
become easier and easier, and then automatic. When you are
practicing positive visualization, try seeing yourself in a familiar
situation where you are about to overeat or eat the wrong things. But
this time, see yourself making the right choices. When the real
situation comes up, the subconscious will already have made the
choice for you.
See yourself exercising and making other positive changes in your
life. The possibilities are unlimited. See yourself at your highest
potential!
Creative Visualization by Patti Petrella
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