ideal weight : A Guide To Positive Imaging For Weight Loss

Have you ever imagined how visualization can play an
important part in losing weight and maintaining a healthy
lifestyle that keeps it off. Losing weight can be difficult for many
people who use fad diets and pills to achieve their weight loss
goals without letting their mind help in the process.

Visualization is a powerful technique that can help you make
lasting lifestyle changes. Just by "day dreaming", you can
significantly improve your chances in achieving your goals.

Visualization is a great weight loss tool and its as simple as
visualizing your body as you want your body to look like.

This mental image of yourself is then transferred to your
subconscious mind, which in turn starts to work on your body,
shaping it in accordance with your mental image thus reducing
your weight.

This means that if you program your subconscious with a mental
image of yourself as a slimmer person, through persistence your
mind will accept this and aid your body to conform to this mental
image.

Once your mind is programmed with the proper mental images,
it will start to work in assisting you to losing weight. I can't stress
enough how important it is for you to believe in your
visualization goals.

You have to let go of past dieting failures and refuse to entertain
any negative images that come into your mind.

If you can visualize your body at its perfect weight and
proportions, the subconscious mind will work to make it become
a reality. It will then begin to positively reinforce your body into
aiding the metabolism and eating habits.

Programming your mind into believing that you can lose weight,
and to visualize yourself at your ideal weight is of the greatest
importance.

Try to think of a different image of yourself, then let your
subconscious do the work for you. If you think of your own body
fat and being out of shape all the time, then the subconscious
mind will find ways to make it so.

The subconscious looks after all of all your vital functions, it is
the cause of all your good and bad habits, and also regulates
muscle (the muscles are controlled by the subconscious) and
body-fat composition on the body, and the latter is the one we
are most interested in.

So please try to visualize your body as lean as you would like,
and your mind will work on that image. The mind can be a great
partner in losing weight.

by Gary Matthews