Weight Loss – What do you believe?  (part 3)

This is a short extract from ‘Weight loss in Mind’ by Janet Thomson:

Complete the first part of the following statement – be honest:
The because part of the sentence which automatically comes next in your internal chatter is how you justify this limiting belief. These comments are based on past experiences or observations that you have accepted as the only outcome of you trying to achieve your goal. In coaching many people approach this part of the sentence first, and that can work well: However it can be quicker and more beneficial to address the limiting belief head on and not bother with the “because” part. In my experience the word “because” often precedes a torrent of verbal bullshit, either from internal chatter or words someone actually verbalises when telling me why they can’t achieve something.

Order the book & CD set ‘Weight Loss in Mind’ or reserve your place on Janet’s forthcoming weight loss boot camp weekend.  Both are available from this website.

Weight Loss – What do you believe?  (part 2)

This is a short extract from ‘Weight loss in Mind’ by Janet Thomson:

Beliefs are formed during childhood. When we are children we believe we are capable of absolutely anything until the grown ups teach us otherwise and start putting limits on our behaviour.

•    don’t touch the oven
•    don’t run across the road
•    don’t go near the waters edge

We are taught not to do so many things that it becomes almost second nature to think about everything in negative terms: Even though these are very “good” instructions that teach us how to be safe, taking this concept into every aspect of our life i.e. focusing on what we “Can’t do” can lead to us developing a string of negative beliefs.

When you fail at something more than once, it can lead to a belief that you will never be able to do it. Once you believe you cannot do something you stop trying, in-fact you often subconsciously avoid anything connected with this “thing” to protect yourself against the pain of failure: in this way your negative or limiting belief becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. You think you can’t, therefore you can’t.
The nature of limiting beliefs is that once you have them you “honour” them in a way that stops you progressing or achieving what you truly desire.  What don’t you believe you can achieve?

Order the book & CD set ‘Weight Loss in Mind’ or reserve your place on Janet’s forthcoming weight loss boot camp weekend.  Both are available from this website.

Weight Loss – What do you believe?  (part 1)

This is a short extract from ‘Weight loss in Mind’ by Janet Thomson:

There have been people in history who have had such strong beliefs  that their behaviour and the way they lived their lives changed the way you and I live our lives today for good. Amongst the people we have to thank are:

•    Christopher Columbus for believing the World was round not flat
•    Isaac Newton for believing that light could be transmitted through a bulb
•    Martin Luther King for believing the colour of your skin doesn’t make you less of a person
•    Christian Barnard for believing it was possible to take a heart or other organ out of one body and transplant it successfully into another
•    Emmeline Pankhurst for believing women should have the same rights to vote as men

Without people questioning traditionally held beliefs we might still believe the world was flat, or that man could never travel to the moon, or that it isn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes! We have Roger Bannister to thank for that one: Interestingly as soon as he shattered that belief and proved it could be done, within months other athletes were achieving the same seemingly “impossible” task. Now when elite athletes train for this distance they expect to be sub four minutes. When you consider beliefs in these terms you begin to see how important it is when goal setting, to have a well formed belief system that works on the basis of what you can do.

Order the book & CD set ‘Weight Loss in Mind’ or reserve your place on Janet’s forthcoming weight loss boot camp weekend.  Both are available from this website.