Resolution:
Stop Dieting for the Health of it
"Now is
the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.
Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his
last drink, and swore his last oath.
Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty
days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to
the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings
considerably
shorter than ever." -- Mark Twain
Hello Everyone! This is part of my annual anti-resolution
newsletter. Hope you enjoy it and are already having
a great new year.
New year's type resolutions have never worked because
they are usually associated with something the person
doesn't want [as opposed to what they do want] anyway,
or with something that is wrong/missing in their life.
Focusing on what you don't want or what is missing also
has the tendency to produce more of that in your life.
The word resolution itself means to re-solve...again...again...again.
Not a good word to describe permanent change. "New
Year's" makes it sound as if change is not possible
at other times only one day per year. How's that for
a limiting belief?
Being overweight, for example, is a focus on what you
don't want. Diets and the deprivation that go with them
as well as exercise we'd rather not do...eeks...more
of what we don't want!
One of the strange ways that people motivate themselves
to lose weight is to feel bad about being fat and then
use those feelings to fuel the program to lose weight.
As soon as they lose some weight they are thrilled [good
feelings] and thus lose the motivation to continue to
lose weight which was based on bad feelings. Sounds
crazy but that's how professional yo-yo dieters do it.
Think about how crazy that is: feel bad about what
we don't want! The only thing stranger is to know that
most people motivate themselves this way for everything!
You have to feel bad to stay motivated and focus on
what you don't want.
Far better to motivate yourself with good feelings
about the things that really do matter to you. Good
feelings across the board for everything.
How about a focus on gaining [what we want] instead
of losing [what we don't want]? Gaining health/fitness
instead of losing weight. Gaining all the perks vs.
doing all that stuff you hate cuz you feel bad about
it...
Remember I'm only a hypnotist and these are merely
suggestions so...Michael
About the Author
Michael Dimas is a performance consultant, workshop
leader, speaker, coach, health/fitness mentor. He teaches
how to empower your body, mind and spirit. www.selfchangetechnologies.com
or
[email protected]
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