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Affirmations
What you put your attention on grows. The law of attraction states that you attract to you what you think and feel most about. Your mind is like a powerful magnet attracting to you people and events that energetically match the content or vibration of your thoughts and feelings.
All thought is creative. You can use your mind to create good with the use of positive thought, or you can use your mind to destroy by focusing on negative thoughts. Our bodies actually have a physical chemical reaction to the content of our thoughts. Negative thinking makes our bodies produce cortisol and other stress hormones, which make us store fat around our bellies.
Positive thinking has the power to unleash endorphins and other feel good chemicals throughout our body. Most of us have far more negative thought than positive ones. Yet, most of us go through our days unaware of the negative content of our minds, Then we wonder why we feel so badly.
Each of us is responsible for the content of our own minds. You have a choice as to the content of what you program your mind with. I like the saying, "Garbage in garbage out." It reminds me to become more conscious of what I put into my mind. If I want to feel good and create positive actions and results in my life, I need to feed my mind a steady diet of positive thoughts.
Affirmations create powerful intent. Repeated often enough they will create a powerful shift in your reality. Most people do not use affirmations correctly and therefore have minimal success with them.
They either choose ineffective wording that is not meaningful to them or they do not use affirmations long enough to effectively reprogram the mind. They give up on them too quickly.
When you begin to use affirmations for weight loss, or any other goal in life, it is important to choose an affirmation that matches your desires and emotions. It must feel right to you. If you weigh 250 pounds and start to use an affirmation that says, "I now weigh 110 pounds," it will feel like a lie to you. It's just not realistic.
It is best to start your affirmations that are more realistic and achievable. A better one in this situation is, " I'm getting thinner everyday!" By making your affirmations more realistic they will become reality sooner. Break down your weight loss goals and affirmations in small, doable increments. You want to build success quickly as that will build the positive energy and momentum for more success!
When you begin to use affirmations for weight loss you may notice resistance coming up for you in a matter of days. This is to be expected. Most people give up this time. This resistance is the analytical, critical side of your brain saying things like, "This is dumb," "This will never work." Or, "You'll never lose this weight, etc." This is also the voice of the saboteur inside of you. This is part of you that does not want change. It has a vested interest in keeping you fat.
When this resistance comes up use on of the following affirmations:
I AM WILLING TO CHANGE!!
I CAN DO THIS!!
I HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE MY LIFE!!
YES I CAN!!
Repeat hese 100-200 times a day until you feel less resistance. Remember, your weight has been serving you in some way. It has been filling a void or need in your life. Along with doing affirmations and visualizations, you must find out what that void or need is and find a way to healthier, positive way of filling it. If you do not, you will quickly lapse back into your old destructive behaviors.
This is one of the main reasons diets fail.
Affirmations are powerful to use when you are going into situations that cause you to overeat. If your at a restaurant or party where you are tempted by food you can repeatedly say one of the following affirmations.
I EAT ONLY WHAT I NEED.
I CHOOSE TO EAT HEALTHY FOOD.
I CHOOSE TO STAY ON TRACK.
I AM COMMITTED TO MY GOALS.
I EFFORTLESSLY STAY ON TRACK.
I EAT FOODS THAT SUPPORT MY NEW WEIGHT.
I EAT LIKE A THIN PERSON.
Repeating affirmations at these times will keep you focused and on track.
Using affirmations will help you begin self-nurturing. If you beat yourself up about your weight, or if you say negative things about your body, use affirmations instead. If when looking in the mirror you say things like, "You have such thunder thighs." "Look at that cellulite." "I hate my butt, stomach, body, etc." Choose to say positive affirmations like this:
THANK YOU FOR SERVING ME!
I AM GETTING STRONGER AND SLIMMER EVERYDAY!
I TREAT MY BODY WITH LOVE AND KINDNESS!!
MY BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF MY SPIRIT!!
Every time you catch yourself speaking or thinking negatively turn it around to something positive. Negative thinking is just a bad habit. It will take some time but it can be turned around. It can even lead to depression.
Affirmations do take some work. That work will pay off for you. They are not a quick fix. They are however a powerful tool in your weight loss toolbox. Hopefully you have already come to the realization that all your efforts at dieting and search for the magic bullet has not paid off.
Think of this work as an investment in your thinner and inner life!!!
