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How To Change Your Eating Habits and Lose Weight Permanently
Posted By: Hypnotherapist on February 14, 2007 at 3:18 pmNow the mind/body system is very clever and ingenious. Not only is your mind running all your bodily functions without you having to give it a single thought, it has also set up a system whereby it can take on what are termed “subconscious programmes” that run or operate your more mundane behaviours so that you can free your mind up to think about more interesting matters. In some ways it is a bit like a computer (and that is no accident). There are programmes that run and you can see them on the screen, but behind them is the operating system with all the programmes that you can’t see. Without the latter, the former simply wouldn’t exist, you’d just be looking at a blank screen. Your mind has hidden programmes running too. The one we are interested in might be called “habit install” and the other important programme “habit sustain”. As your mind goes about its daily thinking it is always looking for shortcuts or information about you to make the whole system function better. If your mind notices that you are doing something regularly it sort of thinks “Ooh! I notice my person has started reading a book at bedtime to get to sleep. That’s every night for three weeks now. I think I’ll install a subconscious programme to make her automatically reach for that book without thinking. There, that’s a job well done for me!” Or another example might be “I’ve noticed my person is having two biscuits everyday with her (habitual) morning coffee. I’ll make that a habit too for her, then she won’t have to worry about doing it, it will happen all by itself” And that is exactly how it seems to you as you go about your life wondering why it is so hard to do this diet properly. All those habits are getting in the way and you don’t even feel you’re in control of them. Your habit files are full up with all the actions and behaviours that make your life run effortlessly for you. Most of the time it’s a nice, easy way to live and it helps you to conserve your mental and physical resources so you can really concentrate on the difficult things in your life.
There is a fly in this particular ointment. What about reversing these habits, is there a programme running to do that? Well, yes, there is, but you are not going to like the sound of it. Simply stopping the unwanted behaviour or doing the opposite or an alternative behaviour can reverse habits. “But that’s a swindle, you cry! I still have to just do it!” That is true, but now that you have more understanding of your inner mind and its workings, the real bonus is that you can approach changing them in a way that is less painful.
The worst possible way to try and change is to change everything at once. Your mind/body system is knocked sideways by this and the outcome as far as you are concerned is deep emotional and mental discomfort. You have lost all of your behavioural bearings and feel unaccountably strange! No wonder you end up throwing in the towel and scuttling back to those comfortable old habits, the ones you don’t have to think about. If you approach habit change in a methodical and sensible way (dull, I know, but worth it in the end) you can make it seem easy and safe. Start by making a list of your top twenty habits that you know, deep down, you have to change if you want to lose weight and become slim and healthy. Now rank them in order with number one the easiest to change and number twenty your real toughie. Put them in order on your list on the left hand side of a sheet of paper and then on the right hand side write an alternative behaviour or action that you would like to substitute. Now if I tell you that it takes a few weeks for your mind to recognise a new habit and dump an old one then you get an idea of a timescale for your changes. You see, you want it to be permanent and effective, not your usual impatient dash to change everything overnight. That usually fails, you know that already. You might want to allow two weeks for each change or you may want to do two easy ones at once, but don’t rush, that is not the point. You can judge how well you are doing by how happy and secure you feel about your new habits and making sure you are not accidentally defaulting to your old ways. When you no longer think about your old habit, it is completely in the past, you are safe to move on to the next challenge on your list, all the time minimizing your pain and discomfort and maximizing your chances of success. After all, the way to make dieting and losing weight easy is to make it enjoyable, then we unconsciously want to do more of it. Simple, but true. It is still a serious job of work to be done, but by working at a comfortable pace with your own habit changes you lay down the secure foundations for life change that you can do without conscious effort. In fact your new healthy habits will become automatic and that, in itself, is truly miraculous.
OLD UNWANTED HABITS
Deborah Bromley, Clinical Hypnotherapist & EFT Practitioner Bedford Bedfordshire
Email: deborah.bromley@btopenworld.com
Website: www.DB-Hypnosis.co.uk
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