| Does this sound like you?
You've been trying to lose weight for years. Diet after diet has either given you limited success or failed you altogether. You can't seem to figure out how to get the scale to budge, even when you've been eating nothing but rice cakes and salads for weeks on end. In frustration, you decide you were just never blessed with "skinny genes" or maybe you fear that you've ruined your metabolism through years of dieting. Or worse, your concerned that a slow thyroid could be stalling your weight loss. You've worked out endlessly, cut out carbohydrates, starved yourself, and even contemplated diet pills.
Have you ever wondered if maybe there is an easier way?
I mean, think about it. Our bodies are these incredibly intricate miracles. They are precision-based mechanisms designed to perform incredible feats in each moment. Regenerating cells, unconsciously blinking to protect our eyes, beating our hearts, pumping our blood, sending white blood cells to heal us, clearing out toxins, and digesting whatever crazy thing we put into it. Our bodies are constantly orchestrating perfectly timed and correlated events to keeps us alive.
If our bodies are so capable of operating themselves and finding their own balance, why does finding our ideal weight seem to be so elusive?
I believe the answer is simple. Our bodies are constantly responding to the stream of thoughts, images, and feelings we send to them all day long. When we go to a scary movie, our bodies can't tell that there is no genuine threat. Our hearts beat faster, our hands get clammy, and the blood rushes to our limbs. We shoot out adrenaline as if we're the ones being terrorized on the screen.
To test this idea, imagine yourself eating a lemon. Vividly imagine cutting the lemon, smelling its tart aroma, then taking a lemon wedge and squeezing the juice into your mouth. Imagine the sour taste of the lemon.
Notice anything? Mouth watering? From feeding your mind the image of you eating the lemon, your body has released the amount of saliva that would be secreted if you were actually eating the lemon.
What does this have to do with weight loss, you might ask?
Everything.
Our bodies are also responding to the image of its shape and size that we feed it. If we imagine ourselves as overweight with a slow metabolism, low energy, and unable to lose weight easily, just like with the lemon, our body assumes its true and goes to work to make it happen by slowing our metabolism and holding onto weight. So when we constantly judge our plump body in the mirror or weigh ourselves obsessively only to find we're gaining weight, we are actually feeding our body the image of ourselves as bigger.
The good news is that the reverse is also true. If we begin to regularly imagine ourselves living in the thin bodies of our dreams right now, with lightning fast metabolisms, thin and toned muscles, and high energy, our body assumes this is here already and so it goes to work to make that happen. That's right. It speeds up our metabolism, makes us easily burn fat, and even gets us moving more often because we've imagined ourselves with high energy!
Taking this a step further: If you have heard of The Secret, you have heard about "The Law of Attraction" which says that whatever we focus on, we attract more of it into our lives. When we focus on the feelings of wealth, we attract more wealth. When we focus on the feelings of finding true love, we attract true love. The Universe literally magnetizes to us anything that matches what thoughts and emotions we are habitually sending out.
So, if you begin to feed yourself the thoughts, images, and feelings of already being someone who has your ideal body and you do it often enough, you will literally begin to attract the circumstances that will help to make that happen for you. For instance, you may attract just the right eating plan that works for your body type. You may attract the exact workout program that gives your body the fastest results. You may even attract someone close to you inviting you hiking more often. This is the Law of Attraction in action.
As a Law of Attraction coach, I have seen hundreds of my clients create gorgeously thin, toned, and healthy bodies by changing the thoughts, images, and emotions they send out to the Universe on a consistent basis. They began feeling thin before they were thin. They would imagine themselves in the size dress they wanted to wear before they could fit into it. They would imagine themselves performing challenging physical activities with grace and ease. And their bodies listened! By vividly imagining already living in the bodies of their dreams on a consistent basis, it seemed that their bodies gently started to morph into the image that the client was holding of their gorgeous figure!
The Universe then moved heaven and earth to make the weight loss happen. It all became easy and natural. It no longe |