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Weight Loss And The Power Of Affirmations
Note: This article is an excerpt from Catherine L.Taylor's new CD, The Power Of Affirmations: Reshaping Your Mind, Body And Destiny One Thought At A Time. This CD is available to purchase here on Ebay! Affirmations are powerful tools for weight loss, and any other goal you would like to achieve in life. Affirmations are short, positive statements about something that you would like to attract or manifest. The word affirm means to “make firm.” Your mind works like a powerful computer.
Affirmations work like software programs to
reprogram the subconscious mind. What you put your attention on grows. The law of attraction states that you attract to you what you think and feel most about. Your mind is like a powerful magnet attracting to you people and events that energetically match the content or vibration of your thoughts. Everything in the universe is made up of energy.
Thoughts
too are a form of energy. You have probably heard the term, “Thoughts
are
things.” I’m sure you have had the experience
of being brought down by the negative vibes of a negative person, or
you have
found yourself depressed by your own gloomy thoughts. All thought is creative. You can use your mind to
create
good with the use of positive thought, or you can use your mind to
destroy by
focusing on negative thoughts. Most of us go through our days unaware
of the
negative content of our minds. Then we wonder why we feel so
badly! If you are like most people, you probably focus
more on
what you don’t want, rather than what you want to create. You focus on
the
problem not on the solution. Each of us is responsible for the content of our
own minds.
You have a choice as to the content of what you program your mind with.
I like
the saying, “Garbage in, garbage out.”
It reminds me to become more conscious of what I put into my
mind. If I
want positive actions and results in my life, I need to feed my mind a
steady
diet of positive thoughts. You can use your emotions as a gauge as to the
content of your
thinking. How are you feeling? If
your happy, and feeling great, you are thinking positive thoughts. Are
you
feeling irritable or depressed? You can be certain you are thinking
negatively. When you are feeling badly try to remember what thoughts led up to feeling this way. Then reframe those thoughts in a more positive manner using affirmations. Anxiety and depression are nothing but loops of repetitive fearful and negative thoughts. The field of positive psychology is a relatively
new field
of psychology. Its focus is on what is right with people instead of
what’s
wrong with them. There is a large body of evidence that shows that
optimists
(people who see the glass half full) live longer, healthier lives than
people
who are pessimists (people who see the glass half empty). Pessimists
are more
prone to loneliness, colds, illness, suicide, depression, and even
cancer.
People shy away from negative people. Optimists attract others like
bees to
honey! You will find evidence for whatever life view you
hold. A
pessimist is continually looking for what is missing or wrong in their
life, and
that is what they get. That’s why pessimist’s lives are filled with
evidence
that life is horrible. That’s where their focus is. You get more of what you pay attention to. An
optimist is
looking for the good and the good is looking for the optimist. Your
beliefs
bring you more of the same. Life becomes a self-fulfilling
prophecy. Most dieters and people who are struggling with weight tend to be pessimists. It's hard to stay positive when your failing or starving on a diet. Dieting is a very negative act with it's focus on lack and deprivation. I don't trust anything with the word die in it! Weight loss doesn't have to be such a struggle. The good news is that it is possible to change
your
pessimistic, negative thinking. Affirmations are a form of positive
self-talk.
Using affirmations will change your negative thinking into positive
thinking.
With practice you will begin to automatically reframe your negative
thoughts
into positive, powerfully creative ones. Affirmations create a powerful intent. Repeated often enough they will create a powerful shift in your reality. Most people do not use affirmations correctly and therefore have minimal success with them. They either choose ineffective wording that is not meaningful to them or they do not use affirmations long enough to effectively reprogram the mind. They give up on them too quickly. When you begin to use affirmations for weight
loss, or any
other goal in life, it is important to choose an affirmation that
matches your
desires and emotions. It must feel right to you. If you weigh 250 lbs.
and start
to use an affirmation that says, “I now weigh 110 lbs,” it will feel
like a
lie to you. It’s just not realistic. It is best to start with affirmations that are
more
realistic and achievable. A better one in this situation is, “I am 10
lbs.
lighter.” Or, “I’m getting thinner every day!” By making your
affirmations more realistic they will become reality sooner. Break down
your
weight loss goals and affirmations in small, doable increments. You
want to build success
quickly as that will build the positive energy and momentum for more
success! When you begin to use affirmations for weight loss you may notice resistance coming up for you in a matter of days. This is to be expected. Most people give up at this time. This resistance is the analytical, critical side of your brain saying things like, "This is dumb." "This will never work." "You’ll never lose this weight, etc." This is also the voice of the saboteur inside of you. This is the part of you that does not want to change. It has a vested interest in keeping you fat. When this resistance comes up use one of the
following
affirmations:
Repeat these 100 -
200 times a
day until you feel less resistance. Remember, your weight has been
serving you
in some way. It has been filling a void or need in your life. Along
with doing
affirmations and visualizations, you must find out what that void or
need is and
find a healthier, positive way of filling it. If you do not, you will
quickly
lapse back into your old destructive behaviors. This is one of the main
reasons
why diets fail. Affirmations are powerful to use when you are
going into
situations that cause you to overeat. If you’re at a restaurant or
party where
you are tempted by the food you can repeatedly say one of the following
affirmations-
Repeating affirmations at these times will keep you focused and on track. Using affirmations will help you to begin self-nurturing yourself. If you beat yourself up about your weight or if you say negative things about your body use affirmations instead. If when looking in the mirror you say things like, “You have such thunder thighs." "Look at that cellulite." "I hate my butt, stomach, body etc,” choose to say positive affirmations like this-
Every time you catch yourself speaking or thinking
negatively turn it around to something positive. Negative thinking is
just a bad
habit. It will take some time but it can be turned around. I used to be
a very
negative thinker. It’s also the reason I was always depressed. If a
pessimist
like myself can become an optimist, anyone can! Affirmations do take some work. That work will pay off for you. They are not a quick fix. They are however, a powerful tool in your weight loss tool box. Hopefully you have already come to the realization that all your efforts at dieting and the search for a magic bullet has not paid off. Think of this work as an investment in your thinner and inner life! Next Page Weight Loss And Affirmations For Living
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