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How to Lose 30 Lbs in 90 Days


The Body is a Metaphor

Our physical well being is a reflection of our emotional and spiritual well being. Our physical appearance is a creation of mind that is an indication of what is going on inside of us. If the island you can see is the physical aspect of who you are then the ocean all around you represents your emotional and spiritual aspects. As you sit on the island beach looking out over the horizon you are consciously oblivious to that other world beneath the waves. This is how it is with each one of us as we go about our daily activities oblivious to the forces within, that control everything we think, say and do.

Inner Conflict Sabotages our Efforts to Change

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If you are over weight then chances are you don’t feel good about it. If you do feel good about being overweight then you are not overweight and you should stop reading this article. Feeling bad about any aspect of yourself is an indication of inner conflict and you are sabotaging every effort you exert to make the changes you know you want. The secret to making any change is in overcoming the dynamic of mind that resists change.

Knowing what you want and feeling what you want are two very separate experiences, the dynamic of which, many people fail to understand. Though everybody realises at some stage in their lives that there are times when they cannot get themselves to do what they want to do, they still keep trying anyway. How many people do you know who have tried to lose weight by cutting down on the amount they eat and exercising more only to keep failing miserably? How many times have you given up on diets and exercise regimes that you simply could not stick to? Every time you fail at something you lose a little more self confidence which makes it harder the next time you try.

If you feel overweight then you are thinking about yourself in a certain way. The way you are thinking about yourself is definitely not the way slim people think about themselves. Here already evident is the dynamic between thought and feeling. The feeling creates the atmosphere for the kind of thinking that it generates and the thinking creates more of these same feelings until you are trapped inside a cycle of thoughts and feelings that attract people and circumstances to create even more of the same thoughts and feelings. The thinking directs your energy and that is why you find yourself thinking more frequently and more intensely about food than someone who does not feel as you do about yourself. The point here is the importance of the interaction between thought and feeling that many people fail to realise.

Change Your Mind if You Want to Change

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In order to make any change in your life you must first create the change in your mind. The mind commands and the body obeys. The only trouble with this is the mind is sending conflicting commands so no change ever occurs. Your first and most important task is to create in your mind the change that you want for yourself.

To lose weight you will need to change the thoughts and feelings you have toward yourself to thoughts and feelings you would have about yourself if you were thinner.

So how do you change your mind? The answer is very simple and lies in a feeling called Hypnosis.

Hypnosis is the Key

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Hypnosis is a feeling everyone naturally experiences but few know how to achieve deliberately. It is unfortunate that most people associate hypnosis with the antics of stage hypnotists and so never take the feeling seriously as a means to make lasting changes in their lives. Hypnosis is a feeling anyone can learn to achieve deliberately and for that reason I created an audio that does just that. By regularly playing the audio you eventually learn to experience the feeling of hypnosis and in becoming familiar with the feeling your mind automatically learns how to get it back every time you choose to experience the feeling.

In order to lose weight the first step is to teach yourself how to achieve the feeling of hypnosis. Once you can do that you are in a position to change the thoughts and feelings you feel toward yourself to the the thoughts and feelings of a thinner human being. You then wake up every morning feeling so appreciative of being you because you start noticing changes immediately. You realise how powerful your mind is and for the first time in a very long time you start to say what you really think and you start to do what you say. In other words your mind and heart start to work as one. So when you say that will not longer eat certain kinds of bread, or that you will never again use oil to cook then you know you won’t. Doubt will no longer exist.

It becomes easy then to follow my final instructions for you to lose the weight you want in the time frame you choose. I suggest 30lbs in 90 days but that is not a hard and fast rule. You choose but it is important that the mindset is correct before you begin.

Download the audio “Introduction to Hypnosis” and put it on your iPod or MP3 player. You could burn it to CD if you wish. Play the audio “Introduction to Hypnosis” every day for at least 2 weeks before following my final instructions. Some people play it every night in bed before falling asleep others find time during the day or even before getting up in the morning. Do what suits you but it is a very crucial element for success in this method.

Final Instructions to Losing 30lbs in 90 Days:

Part 1

  1. For a period of 3 days eat only meat and fish. No bread, no rice no vegetables, no pasta , no sugar, no alcohol, no cereals, no chocolate, no salt, and definitely no oil or butter.
  2. Eat a small bowl of porridge in the morning for breakfast and change to a sugar substitute like Splenda if you need to sweeten it.
  3. If you get peckish you can eat slices of ham or chicken. You can also eat fat free cottage cheese and fat free yoghurt whenever you feel hungry.
  4. To cook meat I suggest you slice onions and use these slices of onions as a bed to fry the meat on but no oil.
  5. Drink plenty of water but no fizzy or sugar based drinks.
  6. You can also eat boiled eggs but no salt.

Part 2

Having eaten as I have suggested above for three days. You will notice some major changes physically, emotionally and mentally. Your thoughts and feelings are in line with your desires and your life takes on a whole new meaning. What started off as losing weight becomes much more than that and you feel great. You realise how easy it is to lose weight and to stop eating and drinking those things that prevented you from feeling as good as you feel from not putting them in your body for three days. You are now ready to embark on a completely new style of life. Certain foods and drinks now simply repulse you and you know you will never eat or drink them again. Following is a plan you now find easy to follow and you continue to play the audio throughout the 90 days program.

For the 90 days you eat three meals a day. You have a choice of porridge or eggs in the morning. Meat or fish for lunch and again meat, eggs or fish for dinner. You can eat as much sliced ham, chicken and cottage cheese or yoghurt in between meals but will find yourself doing less of that as time goes on. Weigh yourself at the end of every week and take your measurements to see the progress you are making. It is very important to maintain this high protein diet for at least 50 days. After that you can start introducing vegetables, and fruit into your diet. Wholemeal brown bread can also be introduced but never more than 2 slices of wholemeal brown bread per day.

You will find that you have more energy for exercise and I highly recommend some easy Yoga type stretches and postures in the morning followed by a few minutes of meditation or silent sitting.

Walking is the best exercise and I highly recommend a daily routine of walking brusquely for between 30 minutes to an hour.

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The Middle Way

There is no need to overdo anything. You are now finding the “middle way” advocated by Buddha. You are now experiencing a life of moderation and you feel happier and more alive than you have ever been.

This is a 90 day journey that prepares you for the more important journey of your life without all that extra baggage, physically represented by the weight you are carrying and emotionally by the heavy heart you carry around full of regret, past failures and apathy. Having taken the time to purify yourself physically you have also triggered an emotional and spiritual response that propels you positively into the rest of a very bright future for yourself and everyone you touch.

Bon Voyage!

Mind Fullness


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It is the subconscious not the conscious mind that is the creative force in our lives. Most people however are oblivious to the fact that they are constantly creating the lives that they lead. They are imagining themselves separate from everyone and everything around them. They even imagine that there is some force outside of them that has created it all and everything that they experience. They imagine themselves like aliens who have been dropped onto this planet and life is something that happens to them while they are here.

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We spend most of our daily lives absent from the present. We are preoccupied with thoughts that hijack our attention and we spend most of our lives in a kind of sleep while we are awake. A good example of this is when a child seeks his father’s attention while  the father is involved in a conversation that has consumed all of his attention. The father talks to the child and says things like “go and play with your friends” or “ask your mother” or “don’t worry everything will be fine, don’t worry about it” or words like this to deflect the child so the father can carry on being somewhere else. This is an example of being absent and we do this all of the time but mostly to ourselves. We are actually absent for most of our lives so the life we imagine as happening to us happens while we are somewhere else unless of course the happening is catastrophic enough to force us to be present like when we get word that our child has been killed in a car accident or the specialist tells you that the tumour he found in your body is malignant or when your wife tells she no longer loves you and she is leaving you.

Most of the thoughts we think amount to nothing and are like monkeys in a tree jumping noisily from branch to branch. Then there are those that hijack the mind and we find ourselves consumed by them. They evoke emotions in us that affect our mood and impact on us physically. We somehow are unaware of this process maybe because it happens so regularly we have come to accept this way of being as the norm and that it has nothing to do with what is happening to us in our lives.

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In fact our thoughts have everything to do with what is happening in our lives. The thoughts we allow to consume our attention and which then go on to affect how we feel are responsible for what those feelings then attract into our lives. Our emotions are the attractive force that pulls into our world everyone and everything that reflects those same feelings and emotions. Sadness sucks sadness out of everyone and everything around us so we can experience even more sadness. Anger creates chaos around us igniting the most ordinary situation into a volcanic eruption with the lava consuming everyone and everything in its wake drawing even more anger and chaos to us. We are the ones doing the thinking so we are the ones creating the feelings that cause havoc in our lives and we are the ones who then beat ourselves up when we get what we continue to dwell upon most of the time…conflict, criticism, anger, resentment, poverty, disappointment and the list goes on. We attract people and circumstances to give us more of the same because that is what our feelings draw to us like a magnet and the cycle continues.

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The thought you dwell upon is your order to the Amazon.com of the Universe and once you place that order you can be certain that it will arrive unless you cancel it before it gets to the delivery stage. I must emphasise here again that though the thought is ultimately responsible for what you get, the thought is the gun you point and unless you pull the trigger the bullet is not released. It is your emotions and feelings that pull the trigger. If you can cancel the thought before it affects your feelings then you are in effect cancelling the order before it gets to the delivery stage.

You could decide to take charge of your awareness and choose to be present in your life for more of the time. You could choose to dwell upon thoughts that you know will make you feel happy. You could attend to the destructive thoughts as if they were unwelcome guests in the house of your mind and usher them out politely. You could decide to consume your mind with the present and so much so that there would be no room for those unwelcome visitors to get back in.

Our minds are not randomly captured by thought as I have described. We surrender our minds to certain thought forms out of habit and so we now are not even aware we do it. Using force to replace negative thoughts with positive ones is not what I am suggesting because to do so would actually result in the opposite. By focussing on what you don’t want you are giving what you don’t want the attention that then creates the feeling of fear. Fear is the surest way to attract what you are afraid of.

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By exercising our free will to choosing what to think as often as we can we make ourselves feel the way we would like to. It is our feelings not the thoughts that actually create our reality. Our feelings come from the subconscious which is the power behind our lives. Our intellect and the conscious mind can only think about feelings but never feel them. People who over compensate intellectually don’t get this and actually never add the most important ingredient to this mix of creation…feelings.

Understanding the dynamic of how we have been unwittingly using the power of attraction to create what we have in our lives all along why would we now not use this same dynamic to create what we truly want? To do this all we would need to do is choose the thought that we know will make us feel the feelings that will attract what we want. Another way of doing this is to access the subconscious using hypnosis and conjure up the feelings that we then attach to suggestions or thoughts that direct those feelings to create what we want. The key is living fully in the present with awareness and being mindful of what we are thinking now!

Think Thank Thoughts of Love to Happiness


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We spend most of our lives see-sawing between our feelings. Sometimes it might feel as if you are on a boat on the ocean at the mercy of the weather not realising that not only does the boat you are in have oars but it also has an engine. We wake up every morning not knowing what to expect and if we take the time to think about it most of us would probably imagine that life happens to us and how we feel depends on external circumstances quite out of our control. In this article I would like to explain how you are responsible for how you feel.

Happiness like sadness is a feeling. You can’t explain a feeling all you can do is feel it. You can explain a thought but you cannot feel a thought. A thought is not a feeling. I can think about the sea and even remember or imagine a time I spent by the sea. I can even conjure up the sound of the sea, the smell of the sea and the feel of the spray on my skin. The feeling I associate with this thought could be sadness because I am sitting on the beach crying because my wife has left me for another man or it could be joyful as I look out over the horizon in anticipation of seeing the boat that is bringing my son home from war.

The thought you think affects your mood and makes you feel how you feel. The thought propels you into the feeling and once you are feeling the feeling your thoughts are hijacked and you keep thinking those thoughts and making yourself feel more of those same feelings.

Normally when we are in “idle” mode thoughts come and go. When we give a thought our attention we are directing ourselves into a feeling. It is how we choose our thoughts that determines our mood and the way we feel. The thoughts we pay attention to create our feelings. So you can conclude that the more time you spend paying attention to happy thoughts the happier you will become. By the same token the more time you spend thinking about sad things the sadder you feel.

By thinking happy thoughts you make yourself feel happy. Thinking sad thoughts makes you feel sad. You are the only one in there with you. You are the one doing the thinking and you are the one choosing the thoughts to think. So, you are the one responsible for how you feel.

Knowing this then why won’t you choose to think the thoughts that will bring you feelings of happiness, joy and love? The reason is habit. The mind has gotten into bad habits. Because you have never taken control of your ship and directed your mind to think what you want your mind has been steering the boat. The boat has gotten used to docking at certain ports and to steer a new course to happier destinations you must now take control of the steering wheel.

Like any change you want to make in your life some effort must be exerted initially. By persistence in choosing the thoughts to focus upon you change the old pattern and you get used to a new way of being in the world.
One very good way to trick your mind into reversing its attention from sad to happy thoughts is to regularly ask your self the question “What can I be grateful for right now in my life?” Simply finding things in your life to be grateful for has the affect of changing the direction of your thoughts from negative to positive and so altering how you feel. Start the day saying thank you, spend the day saying thank you and end the day saying thank you. This is a sure way to attract more love and happiness into your life. .

Keep finding things to be really grateful for like things that you have, things that you do and things that you are and you will start feeling happier. You cannot feel bad while you are feeling grateful so gratitude is the short cut back to happiness. The happiness then makes it easier for you to remember happy memories and the cycle continues. Photographs are a great way of getting you to kick start happy memories.

Before I get out of bed every morning I say thank you to my bed and feel a great sense of appreciation that I have such a comfortable bed to sleep in. I look across at my wife and I think how thankful I am to have another day to spend with her. I look across at a photograph of myself as a boy of 3 years old and I thank the child within me. I thank the clothes I am going to put on. I say thank you to my body for being fit and healthy and the list goes on. I spend at least 10 minutes every morning doing this before even getting out of bed and continue to do this during the day as often as I remember to do. I thank everyone I meet (not out loud but in my heart) and send them good feelings. What you send out comes back to you 100 fold. I do it and it works. I am a very happy man most of the time and when I am not I know exactly how to become happy again and I do!

Here is a poem by a lady who expresses everything I say here in this post but far more eloquently. Shipwrecked by tnderhrt23

You Attract What You Think About Most


Microsoft office ImageThe Universe wants to give you everything you desire. When I say everything I mean EVERYTHING and this includes material possessions, things you want to do and even the way you want to be. So if you want to be rich, if you want a new car, if you want that promotion, if you want to find your perfect partner, the Universe wants to make your wishes come true. You might then ask why don’t you already have all the things you desire if the Universe wants you to have them? The problem is you were given free will. The Universe cannot give you what you say you want when you live as if you do not want what you ask for. It is like saying one thing and meaning another. You have to mean what you say and do what you mean for the Universe to comply. You must make the effort to understand the laws that govern our existence if you are to use those same laws to enhance your life. It is not a coincidence that one man is rich and another is poor. There are no coincidences in life. We create what we have and if you don’t like what you have then you must endeavour to understand how you created what you have in the first place and let go of your victim mentality. You are in charge and you have always been in charge of what you have, what you do and what you are. You just never realised how you created it all.

The thoughts that enter your mind are like birds that fly across the sky. You can choose to follow Microsoft Office Imagethe trajectory of any thought that crosses the sky of your mind and by the same token you also have the choice not to follow a thought. Some thoughts when followed lead to feelings of sadness, anger and fear. It is like getting on a bus to go to a place you know you don’t like. Why get on the bus in the first place and why keep taking the bus to the same horrible destination? You and only you can choose your thoughts. There is nobody else inside you telling you what to think. The thoughts you choose to dwell upon affect your feelings and it is your feelings that attract the people and circumstances that create what you have. If you dwell on sad miserable thoughts then the destination will always be sadness and misery. If you choose to dwell on happy thoughts then you will feel happy. This is a basic law of the Universe but one that seems to get missed by the majority of people nowadays who would prefer to believe in some power outside themselves to blame for their misery and hardship.

Microsoft office ImageSo when someone annoys you or upsets you you have the free will to choose how to think about that. You can choose to give your power away and allow your thoughts to be hijacked by the person who upset or annoyed you. By doing this you are attracting even more upset and annoyance but most people just keep going like the hamster on the treadmill behaving as if they had no choice. By choosing to think positively about anything that happens you are in affect reclaiming your power of choice and you are no longer a victim. If you choose to think positively then you attract positive results and get what you desire. You get back what you give out. It is as simple as that!

There is effort required to break old habits. You have spent your life being led by the nose byMicrosoft Office Image thoughts that have made you feel bad and you never realised that you had a choice. To break this habit you must develop a new habit. Think about all the things you love. Not just material things, think also of the things you love doing and the things you love being. Keep your mind occupied by everything you love and then only speak about the things you love. If you do this you are making an effort to change the old patterns and you are choosing to take responsibility for your life and your happiness.

Every morning first thing before you get out of bed set the wheels of positive thought in motion by choosing to think about things you love. Use every excuse to talk about what you love throughout your day. Rather than join in conversations that involve speaking badly of another compliment your colleagues at work at every opportunity and deliberately find things about them to compliment. Love your ability to change, love your awareness of how lucky you are, love the clothes you wear, love the food you eat simply find excuses to think and speak about what you love and before you know it you will be attracting into your life all the best things in life and more because the Universe responds to love quicker than it does to anything else in this world. You Microsoft Office Imageare the miracle in your own life.  All you have to do to reclaim your happiness is wake up from your self imposed sleep and take charge of your life by choosing happy thoughts to dwell upon. Your thoughts affect your feelings and it is your feelings that are heard by the Universe. If you spend most of your day feeling sad then that is what the Universe hears that you want and it goes out of its way to pile on even more sadness and misery. Feel what you want and trust the Universe to give you what you feel. Seen in this light doesn’t it make sense to deliberately choose to feel happy?

To read more about the power of thought to create your reality click the following link  As A Man Thinketh

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