Step 1:
The first necessary step to embarking on a weight release journey is to have confidence in your success. Many people have tried to lose weight and have either failed altogether or have lost the weight only to gain it back with a couple of extra pounds for good measure.
Maybe you feel like you have tried every diet under the sun? Or you feel as though you can't lose the weight no matter how hard you try? Well, I am here to tell you that 95%-99% of the time permanent weight loss is possible, although not necessarily through diets or even exercise. It often takes a more wholistic approach to lose weight and keep it off for good.
During the next few weeks we will pinpoint where, when, and why you eat- we will discover your emotions surrounding your eating and work to release your armor- we will work on various ways to incorporate more physical activity in your life without necessarily needing to go to the gym- We will learn how to eliminate the excess food from your life and create a healthy relationship with food. You will learn that losing weight is not about dieting- It is about making a lasting change in your emotional, mental and physical state so that the pounds fall off and stay off for good. It is a commitment to a new you.
My clients have lost an average of 40 pounds and many of them did not think weight loss was even a possibility for them. If you are ready to make the necessary changes in your whole person, the program this next few weeks is for you. You can check in every week for a new blog entry that will take you on a journey toward permanent weight loss. I am not saying that it will all be easy, but I am telling you that if you follow the program completely that you will experience desired results.
So, as I mentioned at the beginning, the first step is to have confidence in your success. It is absolutely essential that you believe that you can release your excess weight and keep it off for good, becoming a whole new person. I generally take my clients through a coaching and hypnotherapy session to help them accomplish this first task toward creating a new version of themselves. For you, I will provide you with a series of coaching questions as well as a meditation you can guide yourself through to bring yourself to a place where you already feel successful and have the utmost confidence in your forward movement.
Please take a few moments to journal about the following questions:
How do you feel when you think about the process of losing weight?
Do you feel discouraged, afraid, hesitant, a lack of confidence, resistant in any way?
Can you imagine yourself as a thin person- healthy and happy? What is this person like? How does this person feel? What does this person think? Include as many details as you can.
Now, remember a time where you experienced great success. Remember how it felt. Remember how happy and confident you were. Journal about this experience and bring yourself there. What do you feel and where do you feel it in your body?
Ok.. now that you've done all of that journal work, it is time to learn to visualize yourself as a success. Begin by getting comfortable and relaxed and begin breathing deeply and rhythmically, paying attention to your breath. Allow any thoughts you have to flow through your mind without attaching to them. Once you feel as though you are relaxed and your mind is empty, remember the success you journaled about earlier. Focus on the visual, emotional, physical and mental aspects of this success. Remember how confident and happy you were. Once you are there, locate this success in your body and feel it fully. You will use this memory of success any time you have doubt in the future so make sure you truly feel it and experience it.
Once you are fully engrossed in your success memory and where it is located in your body, move it to the part of your body that used to feel any of the negativity that has held you back from being totally confident in your weight loss success. Move your feeling of success to the part/s of the body where you used to feel fear, hesitation, lack of confidence, resistance or any other feeling that blocked you from success in your past weight loss attempts. Move the feeling of success to these areas of the body and feel the negativity disperse- feel it sizzle into nothingness. Then, feel the confidence, success, relaxation, and contentment grow and fill those spaces, knowing that all of the negativity is gone.
Next, imagine yourself in the future where you have released your excess weight. You are confident. Notice how beautiful and thin you are. Notice the shape of your body and how it feels to release all of the excess weight that made you feel so heavy. You feel capable. You feel self-assured, confident, relaxed and successful. You have released your excess weight and you KNOW you will keep it off for good.
Once you have completed this meditation, you can use this tactic on a moment to moment basis. If you find yourself in any kind of doubt or negativity, you will remember your past success and feel it fully as well as remembering your future success where you are confident, thin, happy, and healthy.
With practice you will get to a point where you can create this shift instantaneously until you are no longer doubting your success at all and are totally confident in your abilities to release your excess weight and keep it off for good.
Ok, that's it for this week. If you need help with this meditation and would like to do a guided meditation with hypnotic suggestion, please feel free to contact me. I can do this over the phone or in person. This week, (7/14-7/21) I will be offering these guided meditations/hypnotherapy sessions for $35.00- an incredible deal. Simply call me at 575-921-8234 and let me know you read this blog and would like the discount for this meditation. We take all major credit cards, cash, and check.
Have a great week! Next week we will pinpoint where, when, and why you eat and will make the shifts necessary to fill those voids with other activities that fulfill you and support your weight release goals. Here's to your health!
Sincerely,
Melissa McNulty
HypnoTherapeutics of Taos, LLC
hypnotherapytaos.com
575-921-8234
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