Guilt and Weight Loss

Guilt and weight loss are strongly linked because diets are designed to encourage this feeling. Listen to the audio above or read the transcript on our MindBodyWeightLoss.info website to learn.

Diets do not work because they ask you to take away and deny yourself something you like, so when you have the 'thing' which you should not eat you feel guilty. This 'Weight Loss and Guilt Audio' helps demonstrate what we can do instead, how guilt is not good for us and what we should do instead.

Guilt is one of the most pointless feelings ever as we are looking back and wishing we could change an event, which we all know is impossible. With this is mind, guilt is destructive and keeps us stuck in suffering and pain. There is another way which is suggested by Buddhists, the experts on ending suffering and we discuss this in the above audio.

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Mindful Mark

I Want Weight Loss or Just Weight Loss?

This week I found a fascinating graphic which really resonated with me. I found it on a website called zenpencils.com this site has illustrates famous quotes in to comic strip which always make me think.

This quote and comic strip was about the Buddha and less is more. Take a look:

Now we can replace the word 'happiness' with 'weight loss', 'wealth' or anything else we wish to attain. The point is nothing should get in the way of us achieving our goals and this includes our ego and desires.

This theory was discussed by Joseph Murphy in his great book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind he suggests that when you notice yourself having any negative thoughts or doubts about achieving your goal you should repeat the you goal over and over to yourself to focus your mind and body back on to its purpose. Now he does not suggest an affirmation, he suggests, like the Buddha in the picture above, that you repeat just the word; For example 'Weight Loss" if you want to lose weight, "Wealth" if you want to get rich, "Health" if you want to get better and of course Happiness" if you wish to attain happiness.

The thinking behind this is that by just taking your focus to what you want to achieve there are no distraction for the brain in knowing what you want so it can easily drive you towards the direction you want to head. I guess it is a little like putting directions in the SatNav you give the place name and that is it you complicate it with road names and land marks.

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Take care and speak soon.

Mindful Mark