A Guide To Positive Imaging For Weight Loss

Have you ever imagined how visualization can play an important
part in losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle that
keeps it off. Losing weight can be difficult for many people who
use fad diets and pills to achieve their weight loss goals
without letting their mind help in the process.

Visualization is a powerful technique that can help you make
lasting lifestyle changes. Just by “day dreaming”, you can
significantly improve your chances in achieving your goals.

Visualization is a great weight loss tool and its as simple as
visualizing your body as you want your body to look like. This
mental image of yourself is then transferred to your
subconscious mind, which in turn starts to work on your body,
shaping it in accordance with your mental image thus reducing
your weight.

This means that if you program your subconscious with a mental
image of yourself as a slimmer person, through persistence your
mind will accept this and aid your body to conform to this
mental image.

Once your mind is programmed with the proper mental images, it
will start to work in assisting you to losing weight. I can’t
stress enough how important it is for you to believe in your
visualization goals. You have to let go of past dieting failures
and refuse to entertain any negative images that come into your
mind. If you can visualize your body at its perfect weight and
proportions, the subconscious mind will work to make it become a
reality. It will then begin to positively reinforce your body
into aiding the metabolism and eating habits. Programming your
mind into believing that you can lose weight, and to visualize
yourself at your ideal weight is of the greatest importance.

Try to think of a different image of yourself, then let your
subconscious do the work for you. If you think of your own body
fat and being out of shape all the time, then the subconscious
mind will find ways to make it so.

The subconscious looks after all of all your vital functions, it
is the cause of all your good and bad habits, and also regulates
muscle (the muscles are controlled by the subconscious) and
body-fat composition on the body, and the latter is the one we
are most interested in.

So please try to visualize your body as lean as you would like,
and your mind will work on that image. The mind can be a great
partner in losing weight.

Getting Rid of Bad Nutritional Habits

A bad habit is like second nature and is acquired over a long
period of time. Bad habits are programmed into the subconscious
and “will power” alone will not get rid of it. Many try using
all sorts of different ways to break it but without success.

Obesity is the result of bad nutritional habits and some of the
causes are boredom, stress, tension and different complexes.
Food becomes the substitution for these causes and before too
long, obesity sets in. Most people become concerned that they’re
obese, eat more and a vicious cycle is established.

The only way for lasting permanent weight loss is to break these
bad habits and replace them with positive new ones, and the only
way to do this is with visualization. Visualization puts you in
charge of your subconscious where all these bad programs are
stored.

All the will power in the world is not going to break these bad
habits unless one has the help of their subconscious.

Relaxation

Relaxation the best way to reach the sub-conscious and will slow
down the mind, turn off the exterior world so as to tune in to
one’s inner self. The best times for these sessions are in the
morning and late at night right, just before going to sleep.

Try performing two sessions, one in the afternoon (primary) and
the other before going to sleep (secondary) but once a day is
quite sufficient. Sessions usually last 20 minutes, which isn’t
time consuming especially when taking in the benefits received.

When you begin your relaxation sessions, make sure you won’t be
disturbed – lock the door, take the phone off the hook and
loosen all clothing. Now find a comfortable position, whether it
is lying down or sitting in a comfortable chair.

Sitting may be preferable as you may fall asleep if you become
too comfortable. You want to be conscious and not asleep in
order to tap into your sub-conscious mind.

Try to exhale all the air from your lungs completely and then
breathing in through the nose. Take ten seconds to fill the
lungs with air (not to capacity, but comfortable) hold for ten
seconds and then exhale slowly through the nose for another ten
seconds.

Each one of these breathing cycles should last for 30 seconds,
complete five cycles and after each cycle you will be feeling
more and more relaxed.

If you are sitting, open your eyes and look straight ahead. If
you are lying down, open your eyes and stare at the ceiling.
After a few minutes, slowly close your eyes.

Having reaching this calm relaxed state start your
visualizations. Put together images that power your emotions.
Make them alive and colourful. Make the scenes as real as
possible and imagine yourself as slim and toned the way you will
look after successful weight loss.

Picture yourself ten weeks from now on the beach, walking
briskly and confidently to your favourite spot, your breathing
is normal and relaxed. You smile to yourself; you could keep
walking like this for miles without feeling fatigued.

You lay your towel out and begin to take your clothes off
revealing a firm, toned, well conditioned body. You have just
bought a brand new swimming suit which just weeks before would
have been lying in your closet waiting to be used.

Glancing around you notice the beach is busy, you catch the eye
of someone of the opposite sex, they smile at you and you smile
back. You walk confidently to the water and swim a couple of
hundred yards with no problem or fatigue.

Or try this:

Visualize your family and friends complimenting you about how
good your body looks and how slim you look. Try to view the
scene as it is happening this instant – in the present, not in
the future.

Using these visualizations you can construct in your mind any
scene that desire. See yourself exercising, socializing, in the
company of friends. Try and hear people complimenting you about
your slim new body, and watch their admiring glances. Make the
mental image as real as possible.

· Remember set a goal for your ideal weight · You must want to
lose weight · Visualize yourself at your ideal weight · Use
positive images at every opportunity

Now that you are armed with this information practice these
sessions on a daily basis and over a period of ten weeks you’ll
be on your way to become a happier and leaner person.

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