Change Your Story, Change Your Body.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Written by Deepak Chopra M.D. author of WHAT ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR? Find out more at http://bit.ly/WAHF_Am
At this moment you and I, even though we’re complete strangers, are doing the same thing. We are living out our life stories. The biggest part of everyone’s story could be titled “How I Make Myself Happy.”
Every story contains the same goal, because even if person A is playing professional football in order to reach the Super Bowl, while person B is commuting to work every day, and person C is raising two small children at home, those differences disappear before the overriding aim to be happy as best we can.
You can change your story so that one chapter will read, “How I Lost All the Weight I Wanted To (And Kept It Off, Thank You).” Now, every story has themes that run through it, and presently your themes around food and eating are probably negative. When I talk to overweight patients, the same themes repeat themselves, often for decades. Any of this sound familiar?
• “I’ve tried everything and read all kinds of diet books, but nothing has worked. I might as well give up.”
• “I must be genetically programmed to be overweight.”
• “I'm unattractive anyway. My appearance makes me miserable.”
• “I'm too old to start all over again.”
• “This is my body, and I have to live with it.”
• “I know I should exercise, but I can't stay motivated.”
• “I know the right foods to eat, but I give in to temptations and cravings.”
• “It’s all just too hard. “
When most doctors hear such remarks, they aren’t paying attention to the psychological implications – the doctor is trying to isolate a physical complaint. Beyond that, the vast majority of physicians, including myself, have received no training in nutrition when they were in medical school, only the most basic training about weight (covered in lectures on endocrinology), and almost zero hours spent on the effects of dieting. As for emotions, those require a psychiatrist or other therapist. They aren’t part of a typical physician’s job description.
It’s incomplete medicine when the mind-body connection is being ignored. In anyone’s story, the main themes aren’t incidental or irrelevant. When you feed negative input into the brain, it changes, shaping itself to conform to the messaging it receives. The brain has no mind of its own. It cannot choose which instructions to obey and which to ignore. You are the one who possesses a mind, and you are the author writing your story. Which means that you have the most control. You can feed negative messages to your brain or positive messages – the choice is yours.
I realize that neuroscience treats the brain and the mind as one and the same. That’s because the mind is invisible while the brain is a semi-solid object that can be touched and measured. My position is different and I think closer to real life. The brain is like a radio receiving what the mind has to say. When you hear a concert broadcast, you don’t mistake the radio for Mozart. If someone whispers “I love you” into your ear, you are the one who falls in love, not your limbic system. The mind comes first because the person comes first.
Your body is the physical record of your life story as you’ve lived it until today. Every pound represents a choice to eat a certain way, and each bite is silently influenced by a set of habits, a list of likes and dislikes, and how others around you are eating. If you are unhappy with your weight, those extra pounds are likely to represent some unhappy experiences: moments of frustration, high levels of stress, anxiety over a job or a relationship. If your body represents your story so far, the natural way to change your body is to change your story.
In my experience, when someone is overweight, they say negative things to themselves over and over. Remember, when you change your internal messages, you aren’t just talking to yourself. You are writing new pages in the book of your life. The key is to change the negative messages so that instead of reinforcing bad behaviors, you being to reinforce good ones.
“In my experience, when someone is overweight, they say negative things to themselves over and over. Remember, when you change your internal messages, you aren’t just talking to yourself. You are writing new pages in the book of your life. The key is to change the negative messages so that instead of reinforcing bad behaviors, you being to reinforce good ones.” Absolutely. The key is to change the negative messages. Only it is much trickier than it sounds. These messages are coming very powerfully from our internal programming. But that is the trick that gets played on us. Instead of tackling the messages go for the feelings that are creating the messages in the first place. Like this: Deep, psychological, lasting change. First time this has ever been done. Having loved self-improvement most of my life I set out to find an exact method to producing change. Little did I know when I started what a development it would be for myself. Over twenty-five years later I can finally describe how change actually takes place within us. Gutap – the system to achieving core level change of any limiting belief. Any programming can now be reprogrammed. The steps of Gutap: 1. Feel the feeling of your false belief to know it. You have to feel your feelings in order to change them. 2. Find what the false or limiting belief truly wants you to know to be better. What does the false belief actually want you to know that is positive? 3. Connect that feeling of the positive answer (not necessarily the concept or picture) to the negative feeling of the false belief to let it flow into negative feeling to change it. The positive feelings change it – you don’t. The example I use for proof of Gutap is anger. Forgive. Forgiving cures your anger almost instantly. When you are angry and you forgive them your anger is gone. It takes one feeling to heal another. Every “negative” feeling has its own positive healing feeling.
“In my experience, when someone is overweight, they say negative things to themselves over and over. Remember, when you change your internal messages, you aren’t just talking to yourself. You are writing new pages in the book of your life. The key is to change the negative messages so that instead of reinforcing bad behaviors, you being to reinforce good ones.” Absolutely. The key is to change the negative messages. Only it is much trickier than it sounds. These messages are coming very powerfully from our internal programming. But that is the trick that gets played on us. Instead of tackling the messages go for the feelings that are creating the messages in the first place. Like this: Deep, psychological, lasting change. First time this has ever been done. Having loved self-improvement most of my life I set out to find an exact method to producing change. Little did I know when I started what a development it would be for myself. Over twenty-five years later I can finally describe how change actually takes place within us. Gutap – the system to achieving core level change of any limiting belief. Any programming can now be reprogrammed. The steps of Gutap: 1. Feel the feeling of your false belief to know it. You have to feel your feelings in order to change them. 2. Find what the false or limiting belief truly wants you to know to be better. What does the false belief actually want you to know that is positive? 3. Connect that feeling of the positive answer (not necessarily the concept or picture) to the negative feeling of the false belief to let it flow into negative feeling to change it. The positive feelings change it – you don’t. The example I use for proof of Gutap is anger. Forgive. Forgiving cures your anger almost instantly. When you are angry and you forgive them your anger is gone. It takes one feeling to heal another. Every “negative” feeling has its own positive healing feeling.
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