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1. If you have been thinking you need to go on a diet and just haven’t mustered up the courage, maybe it is because diet, has the word DIE in it!  umm
2. Going on a diet heavily suggests that there is something wrong with you. You either feel fat, or actually may be a little fat. Either way, you may feel ashamed of how you look.  Have you managed to get your dog, your kids, your staff, or significant other to consistently cooperate by using shame?
3. Numerous experiments have shown that if you starve a rat (put a rat on a diet) he will, given the opportunity, eat more than before, especially sugar. Think about that for a moment.
4. Diet foods suck.   Fake sugars are shown to make you fatter.  Your brain thinks it got something your body can use, but where the hell is it? and so it keeps looking? not to mention, diarrhea,  gas, and neurological difficulties   Well sugar really is a problem, but fake sugar is not the answer.
5. Dieting ultimately teaches you to focus upon the wrong numbers. The number that counts is how often you manage to feed yourself with love, kindness, and consideration.
6. Dieting is a disconnect. Your yangy left-brain with all its logic is put in charge. Your right brain with instinctual, feminine tendencies has been dismissed.
7. Dieting is often an event that begins and ends with a Food Bender.
8. Dieting is live, sexy, juicy bait for your Inner Rebel.
9. How much you eat, why you eat, overeat, forget to eat, and insist on eating the wrong foods for you, has never been sustainably resolved with a diet.

Instead of Watching Your Weight, Try Minding Your Magnificence

One of my favorite fairy tales is The Crescent Moon Bear.

A woman is  distraught because her husband has returned from war a different man. He is distant, and grouchy, and she sorely misses the sweetness of the companionship she remembers.

She goes to a healer and is told to journey to the top of the mountain and to get a  white hair from the neck of a black bear.

It is no small quest. She must climb the mountain, find the bear, and coax him with food. Oh, and then get close enough to a bear to pull out a hair.

She succeeds and runs down the mountain only to have the healer  throw her precious prize into the fire.

The woman is told to go home and practice everything she learned from the bear on her husband.

This is really a tale about taking one’s own pain and anger and learning love and trust. Everything she needed to know she learned within her journey.

For people who are ashamed for being overweight, the journey to love and trust oneself, can feel as dangerous as getting a bear’s neck hair.

But ultimately, it is the path to inner peace.

Pick the right journey for you.

Free Hypnosis for Setting Intentions

My client opened her eyes from hypnosis and said, “That was great.”

She had a list of things she wanted to change, and rather than list them, I had her create a colorful image of cilia on the outside of a cell.

Cilia are amazing little buggers: they get things done.

If you are looking for some change in some part of your life, you will want to give your subconscious mind a healthy dose of this image.

For the first few seconds, this recording has a  little noise in the background.

You know how to ignore what isn’t important, right?

At the very end I can hear the drumming of a Shaman in the background.

Like music, captured live, this hypnosis has a wonderful feel, as it gently lulls you into thinking about what you really want.

I have added this recording to my Hypnosis Listening Library. Click here to get access.

Although everyone was excited to see all of the candy I brought to class, I couldn’t give any of it away.

The “Let’s get this party started” feeling quickly faded in the Make Peace with Food and You group.

One woman said,”If I am overweight, I shouldn’t eat those M&M’s , so I certainly don’t want to eat them in front of everyone.”

Someone else said, “I feel ashamed.”

The archaic meaning of shame is covering oneself.

A few weeks later, in the same group, what I heard was, “This is who I am.  Accepting me, and not coming from a place where I have to change me, kind of freed me to be nicer me. My obsession with food just isn’t there.”

I wish that for each and every person.

 

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