Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 5

This final section of Mind Techniques for Weight Loss series focuses on Meditation and Visulaisation and how it can help you lose weight.

1 Imagine yourself eating like you should be. The more you imagine it, the more likely it will become reality.

Picturing the healthiest food and imagining eating it can have a positive effect on your body and mind and can encourage you to eat this food in real life.

2 Picture yourself thin. If you believe that you can and will be thin, then you give yourself the motivation and drive to actually make it happen.

By imagining yourself going from you current weight to your ideal weight sends a great message to your body of your goal, you are then much more likely to achieve your desired weight.

3 Think about activities you’ll do when you’re thin. If you’re too overweight to do things you love right now, picture yourself doing those things as the new, thinner you.

This is great forward planning and you could even start pacing yourself toward this activity.

4 Relax. You can’t take control over your thoughts and your mind if you’re stressed out and distracted. Simply relax and let go the problems of the day.

One good way to do this is to imagine placing all your stresses on to flying saucer about to leave earth and never to return. Really imagine this scenario right the way through to it taking off and going out of sight.

5 Picture yourself wearing something you’ve always wanted to wear. A big reason many people want to lose weight is to fit into the clothes and style that they love and admire. Get a mental picture of how you’ll look sporting something you’ve always wanted to wear to give you some motivation.

Start this by imagining to look at yourself in the mirror as you now watch as you become your ideal weight. Become aware of your feelings as you leave the house to walk to purchase this piece of clothing. Notice your confidence as you get to shop and try it on and then go to checkout and purchase it and go home and put it away ready to where it. Then finally imagine how you feel wearing it.

This visualisation/meditation is fantastic way to add to you motivation.

6 Imagine that you love to exercise. Rely on the power of imagination to help give yourself the initiative you need to get fit and in shape.

There is evidence to support that imagining exercise can be as effective as actually doing it. However if you are going to imagine 20 sit ups you just as well do them.

7 Don’t let negative thoughts interfere. It’s easy to think negative thoughts about yourself when you’re tackling a big and difficult obstacle like losing weight, but you have to make sure to keep these kinds of thoughts out during your meditation. Replace them with happy, supportive ones instead.

The quote of 'it doesn't matter how thin you slice it, everything has two sides' means that if you have a negative thought FLIP it to look at the other side and examine the positive angle, explore it and ask yourself why not follow the positive.

8 Kick all unhealthy habits and foods out of visualization. Don’t let your mental fantasies include unhealthy foods and behaviors. You might really crave them but the purpose is to retrain your mind to let them go.

Imagine anything unhealthy just disappearing from around you and as more and more healthy food takes over your imagination, notice how you are losing weight. This is a fantastic way a aligning your mind in to associating eating healthy and losing weight.

9 Breathe deeply and calm yourself. Once you’re calm, relaxed, and in control of your mind and body, you’ll be able to start thinking clearly about who and where you want to be.
Source - totallyzen.com

A great tip for this is to imagine your stomach is a balloon and as you taking in deep breaths your chest rise and as you continue to breath in your stomach rises like a balloon and you breath out your stomach go down followed by your chest really take notice of the rising and falling and you take 10 deep breaths.

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Read more in this series:
Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 1
Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 2
Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 3
Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 4