Your mind has to adopt the following statement: “I am a slim person.” This thought will spread below from here, from your head, and affect your life, your habits, and your body. And then you will finally become slim. I am not really a true artist, so don’t expect a masterpiece. (draws a slim body). A woman from another group told me recently: “I don’t want the body you’ve drawn.”
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– But to succeed, you really have to accept this thought: “I am slim.” Because if you still consider yourself a dummy, a pig, a cow, we’ll never succeed.
Now you know that your slim body is still with you, it’s inside of you. You are slim!
Everything you need is to adopt a way of thinking of a slim person, feed yourself regularly, praise yourself, and enjoy your life – as a slim person does.
We’ll talk about it later. Next.
– When you gain weight, you always think: “It’s OK. I am slim.” At least I used to think this way. But then I saw myself on video. Oh my, I considered myself slim.
– I know what you mean. It was a moment of self-awareness. You realized that your slim body had gone. The paradox is that in order to return your slim body, you need to call yourself slim!
Nikolay Ivanovich Kosenkov, member of Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ph. D. of medical science
The consciousness of a human can operate only skeletal muscles. We cannot regulate the operation of smooth muscles, the release of hormones, and biologically active secrets.
Consequently, if any dominant occurs, that must be accompanied by a certain action, and the action requires the activation of skeletal and smooth muscles, hormone release, we can stop (if the dominant is undesirable) only our skeletal muscles. But it doesn’t stop the whole process, and the dominant stays unrealized for many months and years.
Any event or memory of the unfinished action activates the hormone system and contraction of the smooth muscles of vessels and internal organs.
As a result, we’ve got exacerbation of psychosomatic illness since a memory (even subconsciously) causes a biochemical explosion in the body, which requires the urgent intervention of the liver, pancreas, and heart into the processing of biochemical material.
But we can use the dominant mechanisms for “peaceful purposes” as well, by creating a “slim body” dominant in our mind and trying to accomplish it.
It’s one of the aims of our training – to create “I feel light – and I am light!” dominant.
Group session of psychologist
Artyom Andreyevich Ovechkin:
– You have to feel your slim body. It’s inside of you. It’s still here. Your slim body exists inside of you. Agree?
– It’s just covered with fat.
– Yes. It’s covered a bit (or a lot) by fat, but it still exists. If you consider yourself slim, then you’ll start to lose excess weight.
If you consider yourself fat, then you’ll continue to gain weight. You won’t be able to follow all the recommendations and to go all the way to the slim body if you berate yourself and consider yourself fat.
Your only way is to adopt the “I am slim” mindset.
Your slim is in your mind, in your head. Then it creates habits of a slim person and then – a slim body.
The next exercise.
Visualization of your slim body.
What are the aims of this exercise? The first is to relax, to relieve psycho-emotional and physical stress. The second aim is to imagine yourself slim. For example, you imagine a new car when you are going to buy it, right?
– Yes.
– Of course. You imagine how you get in this new car. You haven’t got it yet, but you’ve got its image in your mind: How you get in the car, its color, interior. For example, the seat is comfortable; it smells good. And the other things: lamps are on, and you grab the steering wheel. You imagine all the details, right?
When you, Victor, buy a new suit, or you, Olesya, buy a new dress, you imagine how it fits you before purchase, don’t you? You dream about a new dress, and you visualize, imagine it. It always works the same way. In order to acquire anything, even a slim body, we have to imagine it at first. Then it will be easier to acquire it!
Training of athletes includes elements of visualization. Sports psychologists and coaches set them up for success, encourage them to imagine that they beat the world record, that they are the first to reach the finish line or jump higher than others, score a goal, or stand on a pedestal, that tears of joy are running down their face, the national anthem is playing, the flag is flying.
So, if a person regularly thinks positively, imagines positive events, visualizes what he wants, will it improve his capabilities and abilities?
– Yes!
– Of course, as the person constantly receives a powerful energy recharge. He starts to run and jump better. And then he wins!
So, let’s start to imagine your slim body. What difficulties can we face while doing it? They are the following. A person is not able to imagine himself at the end of his long way to a slim body. Some people are going to lose eighty pounds. But they can’t imagine their body without this excess weight. It just happens.
Two women from the morning group told me recently: “One of us has to lose at least sixty pounds and the other – at least eighty pounds.” The first woman says: “But I can imagine myself only without thirty pounds.” I tell her: “Well, then imagine that you get a bit slimmer, but haven’t reached your goal yet. If you are able to imagine yourself ‘absolutely’ slim, then do it.”
Relieve psychoemotional stress
– Stress can cause health issues. As they say by now, all sickness comes from mental stress.