Shift Weekly: NO!
Happy
Veterans Day BTW!
This week I
want to focus on the POWER OF NO. No?
Yes, NO!
The mind
can’t really separate fantasy from reality.
Ever find yourself watching a James Bond film where James is being
chased by the bad guy and realize that your heart is beating faster, your
breathing is elevated, and your stomach is tensed up just as if you were being
chased right alongside 007? Have you
ever watched someone watching an intense sporting on TV stand up and begin
yelling at the players on the screen as if they believed the players could
really hear them? We can use the power
of self hypnosis to tap into this phenomenon and SHIFT out of Fat Thinking into
Thin Thinking.
I am going
to give you a subtle but easy and effective cognitive technique that you can
use in a relaxed (self-hypnotic) state to help change your relationship to a
particular trigger food (usually sweets or starches) that you have a
vulnerability to over eat or binge on. I
have used this with some of my trigger foods (frosting, Wine Gums, and candy
corn) in the past and it works well. You
will want to practice this exercise a number of times for it to have a real
impact.
-Find a
place to get comfortable and close your eyes.
-Now imagine
your trigger food in front of you.
-Now
practice saying “No” to that trigger food in many different ways and times.
(IMPORTANT: Not “No” as in, “You can’t have it.” I mean “No” as in “I choose not to have it.” Making
this distinction between –you can’t have and I choose NOT to have is huge. The former engages the Inner Critic and the
latter engages the Inner Coach.)
-Practice
saying “no” to your trigger food politely—Pause and take a deep breath between
each time you imagine yourself saying “no” to your trigger food.
Thank you,
but no.
No thanks.
No.
No.
No.
-Now imagine
saying no to the trigger food firmly the same way.
No!
I said no!
No!
No!
No!
Repeat this
polite no and firm no with the trigger food in the circumstances that you might
encounter it; at the grocery store, at a vending machine, in a restaurant, in
your cupboard (hey, what’s it doing there?), at a drive through etc.
-Now imagine
someone else is eating your trigger food and telling you how delicious it is
and offering it to you.
-Imagine
many different ways of saying no politely and then firmly to them.
You can even yell at them if you wish( in your
imagination that is!).Now, still in the relaxed position run this exercise again but now add your voice. Practice really saying no politely at first and working your way up to a resounding firm “No!”. Make sure you take a breath in between each “NO!” and align yourself with that feeling that you are saying “No” because you choose to and not because you have to. You can do this part while you are driving in the car—just say no!!
Great
job! I bet you can feel a shifted
relationship to that food already, no?
Join us this
coming Saturday online (details below—just click on the link) to learn how to
use self-hypnosis to help stay focused on healthy eating this holiday
season. Details below!
Have a great
week practicing the POWER OF NO!
Oxox Rita
Saturday Online Class November 17th
SELF-HYPNOSIS!!
Want to learn the powerful technique
of self-hypnosis to get you through the holiday feeling focused every day? Join us the Saturday online from
9amPST-10:15. Register on the link
below.
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