 If you're struggling to lose weight, and you think that you just need to have more will-power, I invite you to think about another possibility. You may be running some subconscious program that is contradictory to what it is you say you want. "What does that mean?", you may ask. Let me elaborate... our brain is divided into two parts, the conscious part. This is the logical part of the brain where we try to solve our problems. And the subconscious part, or you can also think of it as the nervous system. This is where we hold all of our life experiences and the beliefs that we create about those experiences. I'll give you a couple of examples...as a small child, if you touch a hot stove, you immediately form the belief that stoves can hurt you and you should be careful around them. You will probably carry this belief with you the rest of your life. This is an obvious one. A less obvious one is, perhaps you grew up in a house where children are seen but not heard. Maybe children weren't even supposed to be seen very often. A small child, who doesn't really have the capability to see a situation for what it is and reason logically about it, can easily form the belief that this means they are not loved, wanted, or valued. It is very common to carry this belief through life and affect how we feel about ourselves.
Now, remember, these beliefs are carried in the nervous system, or subconscious brain, so, as an adult, thinking with the logical or conscious part of your brain you may think, "Of course I'm lovable, wanted and valuable". But the subconscious part of your brain says something quite different. If your subconscious belief is..."I'm not worthy or lovable", this could show up as stubborn extra weight. The body tends to take our thoughts in a literal sense, so if children weren't supposed to be seen, weight is one way it can be trying to hide. In this case, trying to solve a subconscious problem using the conscious mind can cause a lot of frustration, to say the least. So, now the question is, "What do you do about it?". Well, just as technology becomes obsolete, many of our internal programs that were formed years ago have become outdated. Some still have value, like the belief about the hot stove...still very valid. But the way we think about ourselves or view the world is often a result of the environment we were in at the time those beliefs were originally formed and we don't even realize how much it affects our present lives. So it's time to update your internal program! There are a lot of ways to do that. Neuro-linguistics (NLP), literally meaning the language of the nervous system, is a great way to understand how you are "thinking" about things. Hypnotherapy is also a great tool to quiet the noise of the conscious mind to understand what is really going on below the surface. If you are stuck in a pattern and just can't seem to break it, I invite you to do a system update. You won't regret it! |
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