CRAVING BUSTER –

(This amazing technique was developed byDr Roger Callahan, author of ‘Tapping the Healer Within’.)

If you are feeling a strong craving for a particular food right now or a cigarette and you want to reduce it immediately, just follow my instructions completely and your craving will vanish.

Before you do this exercise read through all the steps first.

What you are about to do involves tapping on certain acupuncture points on your body. The code for any craving is stored like a computer programme in your brain. By thinking about the food you are craving while tapping on each point in exactly the sequence I am about to describe, you re-set you brain’s operating software to bypass your cravings so you can easily get on with your life.

1. Focus on the food you are craving for a moment. Now, rate your craving on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being he lowest and 10 the highest. This is important, because in a moment we will find out how much you’ve reduced it. On a scale of 1 to 10, how strong is your craving?
2. Now think about that food you have been craving and taking two fingers of either and tap about ten times firmly above one of your eyes.
3. Now tap under the eye.
4. Now, tap under your collarbone.
5. Keep thinking about the food you were craving and tap under your armpit.
6. Now place your other hand in front of you and tap on the back of it between the knuckles of your ring finger and your pinkie.
7. Open your eyes – now close them.
8. Keep tapping, open your eyes, and look down to the right and down to the left.
9. Keep tapping and rotate your eyes round 360 degrees clockwise, and now 360 degrees anticlockwise.
10. Still thinking about the food you were craving, hum the first few lines of ‘Happy Birthday’ out loud.
11. Now once again hum the fist few lines of ‘Happy Birthday’ out loud.
12. Repeat the beginning of the sequence. Still thinking about the food you were craving, tap under each eye about ten times.
13. Now, tap under your collarbone.
14. Now tap under your armpit.

Ok, let’s stop and check – on a scale from 1 to 10, what number is your craving at now?

If it hasn’t completely gone yet, simply go back through the entire sequence again until it does. It may take as many as two or even three times before you have completely eliminated the craving, although most people report getting their craving down to a manageable level on their first or second try. You may eve find that it is gone completely.

PS if you don’t know how to do EFT go to my section on EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques and read EFT on a Page.

Love Christine

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Power words can be a great assistance to reaching your target weight or even to get started on the diet you have been putting off for ages.

Say that you wish to start a healthy eating regime but you’ve been putting it off.  First create a mental image of yourself eating healthily and feeling proud of yourself for doing it and seeing the weight fall off.  Then you can add to the technique by brightening the image and enlarging and zooming in on it.

Once you have a clear image in your mind repeat the appropriate power word, in this case “energize.”  Repeat the word over and over while holding the image of the thing you wish to do. You will find your energy building to the stage where you will in fact energize yourself to do it.

There are many words that you can use as power words to help you to lose weight.  Slim, healthy, attractive, beautiful, elegant, skinny, svelte, gorgeous,  thin, successful, satisfied, delighted or excited to name a few.

See how many more you can think of that would be useful to you. Understand that you are in control, and that one of the tools of that control is the directed use of the power word.  You can change, by degrees, from weak to strong, from fearful to courageous, from fat to thin, from putting things off to getting them done, and from failure to success in any goal you direct the powerful force of your mind to achieve.

For more information on the use of Power Words refer to my section on Affirmations.

To Your Success, Christine

I picked up this little gem of the Internet yesterday and sent it to several of my weight loss clients, two of whom had told me only hours before that they tended to eat in the evenings when they felt tired but still had a lot to do.

Now funnily enough, during our weight loss teleclass on Wednesday I had just told them the key to losing weight is to take time to eat your food. Eat slowly and chew each mouthful at least 20 times.

In the following article it says that eating food like this frees up energy. I’ve just been pondering on whether that would have the effect of speeding up the metabolism. Whether my theory is correct or not I know that eating food slowly and chewing each mouthful at least 20 times (it usually takes at least thirty chews for meat) works.

If you do it properly you will find that you only eat half to three quarters of what is on your plate. Either bin the rest or do what I do and put it back in the fridge to microwave up for lunch next day.

Do it diligently and you WILL start to shed the pounds. I’ve been doing it for two weeks now, not during every meal but most of them, and I’ve lost 4lbs already. Only two pounds left to go.

Article below From:
Mark Joyner
A-Stone’s-Throw-from-Paradise, New Zealand
Saturday, 9:59AM

Why People Feel ‘Zapped’…
Did you know that most people aren’t aware of the fact that the whole act of ‘digestion’ actually takes a whole lot of energy?
FACT: We burn over 10% of our available “fuel” every day just digesting our food!

We certainly can’t turn off digestion, but we sure can make it easier – freeing up mountains of energy – with this neat little trick.
Brace yourself …

Chew every bite of food 30 times before swallowing.
Silly, right?

No.

Actually more profoundly life-changing than you can possibly imagine.
On this surface, this may sound like it wouldn’t do much, but we’re now discovering how many ways this practice unleashes our hidden energy.
For example …

• Digestion starts in the mouth. If we skip that process, we only get a fraction of the nutritional value of our food.

Next …

• Gulping down partially chewed food puts tremendous stress on our digestion and saps us of our vital energy via several pathways.

And it gets worse, but hold up for a second.

Tune in to your stomach right now …

I mean it. Turn your attention to how your stomach feels for a quick moment.

You may be aware that it doesn’t feel so “right”.
Before you jump to wild conclusions, I’m no Kreskin.
I make my ’safe bet’ through statistics like these…
No guesswork, no voodoo.

from the National Institutes of Health

(U.S. NIH)

• Over 70 million Americans are affected by various digestive diseases at any given time

• Most disease goes untreated and unreported
You may even recall a case of this from earlier in the day or yesterday.

What’s worse is that these digestive problems don’t even manifest in a sore stomach – only in fatigue.

This is one of many the easily-avoidable ways we chronically prevent our bodies from unleashing our available vitality.

Ready for a kicker? – Well, not only does it sap our energy, but it weighs on our minds preventing clarity of thought.

Anyone in chronic pain knows this quite well.

You simply don’t function as well mentally when your body is in pain.

But …

Many times, simply correcting our chewing habits can open the energy floodgates by freeing up energy that was already there!

And get this:

This is only one of dozens of little “body hacks” like this that cumulatively can turn you into a “demon” in the board room, on “the courts,” and even in the … (I’ll let you finish that sentence so I don’t have to say something inappropriate)

As you discover how simple and easy this is, you’ll only look back and laugh at how much money we’ve all wasted on bogus supplements and kooky magic tricks to put sloppy fix-it patches on our health.

PS From Christine………

Just check this out by watching how people eat………Overweight people do not eat prettily…….They gulp down their food without chewing……….Slim people eat very differently.

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I was working with a client recently who wanted to lose weight and she told me that she was often angry with herself because when she went out for a meal she always said, “I’m not going to have a pudding.” Then she went ahead and did just that. She said, “It happens every time.”

I explained to her that her deeper mind, (the part of her that is in charge of her body) only works from the pictures it receives. When she said “I’m not going to have a pudding,” she had to see herself having a pudding to make sense of that statement. The deeper mind acts on every picture it receives which means she always had the pudding.

I gave her these words to use instead. “I’m going to really enjoy my meal this evening. I’m going to have a great time and when I get home I’m going to feel really proud of myself.” She couldn’t wait to get back to me and tell me that it worked perfectly. Everything went as she’d planned and puddings didn’t even come in to it. .

Remember to talk about what you want instead of what you don’t want.

Love Christine

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Sorry to keep on harping on about the same the same subject but today there was an article in the Daily Mail on page three titled:

Something to chew over:
Eating fast makes you fat…………………… The article goes on to say…If you are wondering why your waistline is expanding, don’t watch what you eat. Watch how you eat.

Scientists reckon the modern manner of eating too quickly – and until absolutely full – is a significant factor in the obesity epidemic.

Also folks……………last yearish?? there was a programme on TV about Victorian diets. Don’t know too much about it because I only caught the last programme by chance. Anyway, three couples were locked away in a Victorian house and each couple was on a Victorian diet.

One couple were calorie controlled, can’t remember what couple number two were on but couple number three could eat anything they liked. They could have cakes, biscuits, puddings, you name it. The only stipulation was that they had to chew each mouthful at least 20 times. Guess what? Couple number three, lost slightly more weight than both of the other two couples.

So many people tell me that they can’t understand why they are overweight. “But I only eat healthy food, I don’t eat any junk food at all,” they tell me.

The Truth: Junk food may not be good for your general health but as far as putting weight on goes, it doesn’t make a jack shit of difference how healthy or unhealthy the food is. If you eat more than you need you’ll get fat.

Eating slowly stops that from happening. It’s no magic formula. It’s always been known. How long ago did you hear that it takes 20 minutes for the brain to get the message that the stomach is full. iF you’ve eaten it all in 15 minutes it’s too late.

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We are not only what we eat,
But what we think as well.

Your self image is how you see yourself in your imagination. It is the blueprint that determines everything about you, from how motivated, intelligent and confident you are willing to let yourself be to how much weight you are willing to carry around with you or lose.

Nearly every overweight person has a self image that say’s they will always be fat. They think they are different to thin people and they usually have a range of reasons for that – such as “my mother was always fat”, “I have a slow metabolism”, etc.

How we see ourselves is how we are, so slim and attractive = slim and attractive, fat and unattractive = fat and unattractive.

Like it or not we have to see ourselves as slim before that can happen.

Your subconscious mind has a perfect blueprint of you, but unfortunately it is always listening to your instructions too. Stop giving it the overweight picture and it will return to it’s perfect (normal) self.
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How do we change the pattern?

Answers:

• Focusing on what we want instead of what we don’t want
• Choosing thoughts and statements that create good pictures in our minds

One way to do this is by using visualization (Imagination)

• Athletes use visualization to imagine themselves doing perfect routines. Basketball players practice getting perfect scores using the power of imagination

• Scientists have experimented by hooking people up to biofeedback machines and asked them to visualize themselves jogging and in response every muscle began to fire, though at a minimal level

• Using visualization daily and taking the time to stop and watch a movie of a thin, happy and confident you will dramatically increase your weight loss.

TIP: Pick a time in the future with some special significance for you. It might be a holiday you are going on, a party you are going to or even Christmas. Then, daily spend about ten minutes imagining yourself sitting on the plane ready for take off, arriving at the party or cooking xmas lunch and see yourself how you want to be at that time. Make it believable. If you have 4 stones to lose it’s hardly believable to imagine yourself at your ideal weight by this Christmas.

Impress upon your mind a picture of yourself on the plane wearing those jeans that are much too tight right now and imagine how it feels to be wearing them comfortably. It’s just a game of pretend but the part of you that is in charge of your body doesn’t understand this. It thinks everything you think is real. Keep on impressing this picture and do it every day, perhaps at bedtime and your mind will adjust your body to your new picture.

I spent the first 30 years of my life as a really skinny person desperate to put weight on and unable to do it and then one day it happened. I started to get heavier and at first I loved it, womanly curves at last! Trouble was it soon got out of hand and I tipped over the ‘loving it’ phase into the ‘hating it’ phase.

Now I was desperate to lose weight and I found that as hard as putting it on. Help!!! I struggled on for years until I learned the secrets of weight loss. IT’S ALL IN THE MIND. It’s not what we EAT, it’s what we SAY. Of course I know that if we eat too much we’ll put weight on no matter what we say, BUT, and it’s a big BUT, the amount we eat is determined by the things we say.

Let me explain it by telling you what recently happened to me. I teach my clients that their subconscious mind, the part of them that is in charge of the body, listens to everything they say. I also teach them that this deeper part of their mind doesn’t understand language and instead of hearing the words they speak it receives the pictures that the words they speak create within their mind.

You may have heard the saying that ‘The Universe’ doesn’t understand ‘don’t, no or negatives,’ and this is the reason why. When you make any of the following statements or ones like them, “I don’t want to put any more weight on,” or “I hope I don’t put weight on when I go on holiday,” the picture that is created within your mind is of you putting weight on. Get the picture? Excuse the pun.

Well, I had put on 7lbs and believe me, for a tiny person that’s a lot, and although I knew what to do about it I just wasn’t getting myself motivated. About three times a week I was eating a battered fish from the local chip shop for lunch and I was getting a lot of Indian takeaways too. Disaster!!!

Then I realised that every day I was saying to my clients as an example, “Imagine if I said, I hope I don’t put any more weight on, what sort of a picture that would create in my mind?” What a fool!!! Every single day I was giving my subconscious pictures of me putting weight on. As soon as I realised what I was doing I stopped. I started to use another example instead. Then I decided to eat slowly, which I did for about two weeks. At the end of that time I had got into new habits, my stomach had shrunk and I was just naturally wanting and eating less.

Then I came up with a bright idea. I realised that for the first 30 years of my life people, including me, would say, “You don’t want to get any thinner.” I decided to try it out as an experiment. Research purposes only you understand. This drove my family mad for a few weeks. They kept telling me to, “Shut up.” Don’t know why but they did. I persisted.

And folks I am now thinner than I’ve been for about 4 years. I have ceased using the phrase, “I hope I don’t get any thinner,” and have changed it for, “I am my ideal weight of………….”

Now I realise that for some people the phrase, “I hope I don’t get any thinner,” might not suit but if you’ve bought any new clothes for Xmas you could always say. “I hope I don’t get slimmer or this new dress/trousers/jacket will be too big for me then I won’t get my wear out of them.” I mean, who gives a bugger about the new outfit if you get slimmer. You’ll have all the other clothes in your wardrobe to wear that have been waiting for you to reclaim them.

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This is an article by actor Bruce Byron, who plays DC Terry Perkins in The Bill. He’s been dieting for several months apparently and also writing a column in the paper giving his top tips for losing weight. It’s funny that this is the only one I’ve seen. Anyway here it is:

The Title:

I’ve lost even MORE weight. My secret? THe chew-chew diet.

OK, FELLOW fat felons, this week we’re cutting straight to the chase, with dieting tip number ten: Chew your food.
Yeah right, I hear you say, pull the other one Fat Bloke.
But stop I say, and just consider this: It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to send “I’m Full” messages to the brain, so if you chew everything properly (give it a good 10 to 20 chews per mouthful), you’ll be stuffed before you can say double cheeseburger with fires. There won’t actually be any room for any more.

True you might not make the ideal dining companion – never masticate on a first date – but as they say, there’s no gain without pain for someone. Honestly I make it so easy for you guys. And I promise you that it really works. Since I started a few weeks ago, I’ve lost another – trumpet fanfare – 3lb. This is amazing since I’ve been struggling with the workouts………………………….he then goes on to say how lazy he’s been in the gym.

Bruce is one more person who has discovered that chewing slowly is an easy way to lose weight.

Have you put it into practice yet? If not why not? It really is so simple to do and works perfectly as long as you do it that is. Or are you still making excuses like:

• I keep forgetting
• I haven’t got time
• I’ll start next week
• I’ll start after Xmas
• I’ve got too much on my plate
• I like my food too much

Ask yourself whether you really want to lose weight and if you can genuinely answer, “Yes,” then start now to do something about it. Stop making excuses and get determined. Start chewing slowly right now and see results before January 1st 2009.

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Emotional Overeating……….everyone talks about it, but what actually is it. Emotional Overeating means we eat when we feel bad. Bad, can mean a multitude of things and includes feeling angry, sad, lonely, depressed, fed up, unloved, undervalued or overworked.

When humans feel these negative emotions it’s natural to seek comfort. When you were a child and you felt ‘bad’ you turned to your parents for comfort and if you didn’t get comfort from them sometimes you got sick just so you could get looked after.

Now, if you are an emotional overeater you’ve learned to turn to food to give you the comfort you crave. So now you try as hard as you can to fight the need for comfort but it’s an uphill battle you probably can’t win. The trouble is that you are trying to fight the battle on the outside instead of going inside and making the changes.

This is why most diets fail. We keep on feeling bad and try to prevent ourselves from reaching for comfort. It won’t work. To win the battle we have to stop the fight. The only way to stop the fight is to change the thoughts that make us feel bad and here’s a way to do it.

Remember I said that your subconscious mind is in charge of everything that happens? Well that is literally true, and yet, it has no way of making ‘IT’S’ own choices. YOU, using your conscious mind makes the choices and your deeper mind carries out your instructions. If you get out of bed in the morning and think it’s going to be a crap day, then it is and if you expect your boss to pick on you, then he/she will. But if you tell yourself a different story you’ll get a different outcome.

Try this simple exercise from the book ‘Ask and it is Given’ by Gerry and Esther Hicks.

Segment Intending

Use this exercise when:

• You want to change or influence a particular upcoming part of your day.
• You recognise or believe that something coming up may be difficult or not go as you want, to make sure it goes the way you want.
• When time or money is important to you, and you want to make the most of it.

It is easier to create a future experience than it is to change an already existing one. What exists right now is a result of your past thoughts and continuing to focus on what is wrong right now will result in projecting more of that into the future.

So if you are looking at a mountain of work and wondering how in God’s name you will ever get through it, the thoughts you are having about the impossible situation will keep the same experience with you day after day. Whatever you focus on is what you get remember.

Your subconscious mind is habitual. It remembers things and goes into default mode. If there is always a mountain of work on your desk and you are always feeling frustrated by the never ending load you will spend every day at work in the same habitual way.

‘It’ ( your subconscious mind) is also amenable to suggestion and has to find a way to obey your commands or requests. However if you don’t tell ‘It’ to do anything different ‘It’ will keep on repeated the old pattern. Segment Intending allows you to make those changes in a simple way.

Imagine for a moment that your day is in segments! Each segment can be as long or as short as you like but for the purpose of this explanation we’ll make them short. When you get out of bed in the morning your first segment can be from awaking to leaving for work, the next segment can be the journey to work and segment three can be from starting time to first break, then from first break until lunchtime etc.

If you have a meeting to attend then make that a separate segment too. Similarly, if you have one or more phone calls to make you can make a segment for them too, either as a whole, if they are connected, or each separate one. It is a good idea to enter a separate segment any time your intentions change. When you get into your car, get home and cook the evening meal or a friend pops around, you enter a new segment.

At the beginning of each segment you set your intention:

• Everything is going according to plan this morning I’m ready for work with time to spare
• I’m driving safely to work, it’s a great journey, the traffic is light and I arrive at work on time
• The perfect parking place is waiting for me when I arrive
• I’m flying, (skipping, racing, dancing) through this work really quickly
• This meeting is going really well, everyone is in agreement and it’s over really quickly
• I’m feeling energised and I’m getting loads done
• In the next two hours I am achieving ………………………….

Contrast this to what you normally intend:

• Oh dear, look at the time, I’m going to be late again
• I bet the traffic is bad this morning and I’ll be late for work
• I bet I can’t find anywhere to park
• Look at all this work I’ve got to wade (plough) through, it’s never ending
• I’m not looking forward to this meeting it’s going to be really tricky
• I’m knackered and I can’t concentrate
• I’m never going to get this done

You can pre-pave future intentions that are immediate or experiences that are in your more distant future using this tool. For instance, “I’m having a great holiday,” as soon as it’s booked, or “My wedding day is fantastic, it’s the best day of my life,” even when it’s months away.

Before, I hear you say, “But this all sounds like hard work,” remember you are already pre-paving your future experiences constantly without even realising you are doing so. You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences. (See above)

If you go out with friends every Friday night for example and it’s always pretty boring that’s what you expect and that’s what you get. If, instead, while getting ready, you say, “I’m having a great time tonight, a really funny, (brilliant or exciting) time. I’m meeting lot’s of lovely people and having a ball,” or words to that effect something will happen to make that occur.

Once you have experienced segment intending in action you’ll want to do it more and more and more. Now you are making the changes from the inside instead of trying to win a battle on the outside.

Have a good day, INTEND IT.

Love and best wishes until next time

Christine Wesson

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I was doing a bit of keyword research a few days ago and I noticed something very interesting but not surprising, for me anyhow. Thousands of people a day are searching the internet using terms like, ‘weight loss,’ lose weight,’ ‘how to lose belly fat,’ and ‘diets.’ That is where most peoples concentration lies. They are seeking ways to rid themselves of something.,

But, because this is a vibrational Universe which has ‘The Law of Attraction’ as it’s basis, saying ‘No’ to something actually means saying ‘Yes’ to it. When you give your attention to something you want or desire you are saying ‘Yes’ to it, you are including it in your vibration. And, when you give your attention to something by saying ‘No’ to it, you are also including it in your vibration. When you give no attention to something you do not include it in your vibration so therefore won’t attract it at all.

You absolutely cannot exlude anything you are giving your attention to, because your attention to it includes it in your vibration. Think of it like this. Imagine you were going on a journey. You are setting off from where you are now, overweight (Brighton) and you want to go to, a new slimmer and healthier you, (London). You’ve programmed your Sat Nav and you’re about to start.

To get to London, whether you are aware of it or not, you have to set your sights on London and you have to keep your eyes headed in the right direction, (In this case North). Every time you turn around and start looking South, you are heading back towards Brighton. Concentrating on being overweight, fat and out of control, (Brighton) is keeping you right where you are.

Setting off on a real live physical journey and going two miles up the road and then returning to base over and over again would be sheer madness and yet, if you are constantly going on a diet and failing that’s what you’re doing. And you thought you were relatively sane didn’t you? Ok, maybe not. If you really do want to get to London (a heathier slimmer you) then my advice to you is to set out once again, only this time keep focussed on your goal.

Every time you hear yourself say the dreaded words, ‘fat, overweight, diet or anything that is going to take you back to Brighton (overweight), stop and focus on where you want to go. And for goodness sake, enjoy the journey too.

Imagine two people setting off for London. One of them spends the whole journey complaining. “I hate this journey, there’s so much traffic, it’s so stressful, blah, blah, blah. And when I get there it’ll probably all go wrong, like it did last time, blah, blah blah.” Maybe they do eventually get to London but they hated every minute of the journey, and maybe they made themselves feel so bad they turned around and came home.

Person number two decides to enjoy the journey, “What beautiful countryside, what a lovely day. It’s so nice to see the sights and to live in such a lovely country. I love to see the big houses and the architecture of London. It’s so exciting to drive into the city. I’m really looking forward to getting to my destination.”

Person number two was travelling the same route but what a difference her/his attitude made. Focus on what you want and give no attention to the rest.

Bon Voyage, and send me a postcard when you get there.

Love Christine

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