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I got such a great response to last week's edition of Adam Up, that I am revisiting the eating theme this week as we recover from any over-indulgence, then we'll be onto a completely different theme next week.
With the recent Easter break; for some a time of excess, for others you may still feel stuffed and in need of popping the top button of your trousers, so I thought I'd offer up the healthy eating pattern as typically used in the field of NLP... I have not offered up anything directly from the field of NLP for a number of years on this ezine, but this is a great process I value and think you'll find incredibly useful.
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We all know it, don't we?
Even the most health conscious amongst us...
Even the most highly evolved amongst us fall foul of it....
Sometimes we just don't eat as healthily as we should in order to have the health and fitness that goes hand in hand with a vigorous and energetic life.
Do we have a good strategy for healthy eating?
Some of us may not.
You know what though?
Everything you need to know is there being carried around with you. Your mind and body have all the intelligence and knowledge you need to have an incredibly healthy and energetic life.
Eating in a healthy way involves intelligently reasoning with yourself and even listening to and feeling the signs that your body gives so that you can recognise when you feel "full" and "empty." In so doing, we learn to eat for nutrition, not for some psychological value: comfort, nurture, relaxation, etc.
When we were born, this instrument was used very overtly...We screamed and cried when we were hungry and our parents responded to the call of our bodies and we used that very special sense of appetite accordingly.
Then we got told to have 3 meals a day...
And then it changed into skipping breakfast and having a big late meal ...
Or whatever habits we got into as life progressed...
With different values being placed upon food at different times...
The sense of true appetite and listening to our bodies got lost along the way...
Eating in a healthy way also involves us making good (or bad) decisions, doesn't it?
You see, we need to make good choices on a regular basis that take into account long-term pleasures and certain criteria such as our well-being, energy levels, health, etc., rather than short-term pleasures that in turn become long-term problems if we are not careful.
Healthy eating also sometimes involves the shifting of beliefs - transforming limiting beliefs into empowering beliefs, getting over the old eating "programming" of childhood, and building supportive beliefs about self, body imagery and so on... Those are the kinds of things we deal with in therapy sessions.
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Let Me Guide You Through This Lovely Healthy Eating Pattern in Simple Steps
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Step One:
Firstly, you want to become aware of your eating time representations."Whoa there Adam... What on earth does that mean?"Let me explain this NLP jargon for you... Answer these questions to yourself: How do you know the time has come to "eat?" Do you see, hear, or feel something? Imagine that you have worked all day: how do you know the time has come for lunch or dinner?
What are your personal set of signals at certain times that result in you choosing to "eat"? Jot these down on paper or in your mind so that you can come back to them later.
Step Two:When you have a good idea of that, proceed to become aware of your tummy... Check the feelings of and in your tummy. What do you feel?
What finer qualities do you experience within those feelings? Check whether your stomach feels full, empty, or some degree in between. Also check for the overall feelings, is there any tension, relaxation, calmness, or even some turbulence, for example?Spend a good period of time here and explore the sensation within your tummy and tune in to your tummy..
Step Three:
Having explored the sensations within your tummy as much as you can, now explore your thoughts about those sensations.
Here is a key question to ask yourself; what would feel good in my tummy right now?Ask this of your body and mind and trust in it's wisdom.... Then notice what response you get.Think of an available and healthy food item (e.g., turkey sandwich - loads of them coming up soon - vegetable soup, salad, etc.) and imagine eating it. Go through this with as many items as necessary to find the most appropriate one. The one that really sits well with your tummy's sense and your minds thoughts in relation to your entire being. Recall the sensations that this item creates. So, become aware of all the sensations in your body that you feel when you think of that food in your tummy.
Step Four: Compare the feeling from this healthier, favoured food item with the feeling you had in your tummy before you imaged eating anything. Which feels better?Imagine what your body will feel like over the next few hours. If you get a "No" that it won't feel better, decline that food. If you get a "Yes," then accept it. Notice that you decide now based on which will give you the best feeling over time.What you are doing here is allowing your body and mind to work together for your higher good.
Step Five:
Explore and compare using a non-healthy item. There are going to be plenty of temptations coming your way over your life time...In your mind just imagine an unhealthy food item, like any of those I just naughtily mentioned and feel that in your tummy.... Experience what it feels like now. Experience what it feels like in a few hours. Experience and imagine what it feels like tomorrow. Imagine what you think and feel about it over time.
Now go ahead and compare these feelings with the feelings you got from the earlier steps (three and four). Notice which feeling you find more pleasurable. Which choices make you feel better? Which choices contribute to a bigger, better and longer term healthy sensation of well-being?The information you are overtly giving to yourself here is helping to programme your mind for the longer term just by running through this.
Step Six:
When you have considered enough possibilities, notice the food items that make you feel the best and imagine yourself taking these choices into your future. In your mind, imagine a variety of future moments, where you are making the healthier and better decisions and choices... Where you are having long-term health and well-being.Get it lodged into your brain that this is how things are going to be as far as your healthy eating habits are concerned...
Get yourself and your habits in order to get yourself on the right track with your eating habits and get that top button closed again!
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