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We’ve attempted to compile the most innovative NON-diet and NON-exercise approach to dealing with the problem of being overweight. There are behaviours that have NOTHING to do with food that have a direct influence on your physical weight. The following tips are offered as a unique perspective to help and inspire you to attain your weight-loss goals! If someone pays you a compliment do you immediately apologize for not being even better? If someone offers to pay you money for something do you insist on giving something back? This behaviour is a habit we get into because we think it is polite. But the truth is that it not only is hurtful to the person who just tried to give you something, but it is incredibly damaging to you. If you continue to push away the nurturing things that come your way, you will feel empty all the time. This hunger is usually and wrongly interpreted as a physical hunger and leads to overeating. Our physical reality is simply a projection of our thoughts. If you have a distraction tendency then it means that you have an “expanded” attention span. This mental expansion manifests itself as a physical expansion in the form of extra weight! Giving yourself the best chance to learn focusing skills begins by doing one thing at a time. For example, don’t balance your cheque book while you are having an important talk with a loved one. You’ll surely make errors in your cheque book as well as saying something you'll regret. The human brain really can only attend to one task at a time consciously. If you are doing more than one thing at a time, you only have the illusion that you can handle it. In reality, you are only focused on one activity for any small moment. Then your concentration flips to the other activity, and back again. So you can delude yourself that you are clearly focusing on more than one thing, but you are in reality alternating your attention between activities at a rapid pace. This is DISTRACTION. Remember: DISTRACTION = WEIGHT GAIN! Please realize that this idea of doing one thing at a time refers only to activities that require focused concentration. For example, If you are running and you notice your mind thinking of 100 things, this is actually OK. That’s because running is normally a mindless activity and does not compete for the attention of your thoughts. Interrupting and inability to receive are related. The tendency to interrupt stems mostly from a discomfort in really hearing another person. (Inability to receive information from another.) This inability to listen actually creates an inner void. This void or emptiness is often later “filled” by overeating. Also, if we could talk less, and listen more, we would also be better able to “hear” the true needs of our own being as well! The tendency to interrupt also stems from a fear of really revealing who we are inside. It is a kind of deflection technique. Sure, it seems that people who interrupt a lot are creating dominance over a conversation. But often, it is another way of getting the attention off the overweight person and onto the other person. This habit is like a verbal armour, just like the fat itself is a physical armour. Both insulate and separate the real person inside. Are you a perfectionist? A perfectionist wants to make the best decision. So he/she goes back and forth on the issue, for so long, that in effect, no decision is made at all! This pattern is repeated in their career, residence, relationships, raising their children and any other major issue in their life. It’s kind of like the clown at the circus, trying to keep all the plates spinning in the air — the attention is definitely not focused! All this energy expended and wasted, and nothing is actually getting done! Ironically, the result is far from perfect. Relating this to food, the perfectionist will often declare to his/herself: “OK, no sugar for one year!” Not only is this not a perfect goal in the first place (emotionally we need the pleasure of sweets once in a while) but it is so unreasonably strict, that we are doomed to fail! To sum up, SET REASONABLE GOALS AND GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO MAKE MISTAKES ON YOUR WAY TOWARDS THESE GOALS. Article by Howard Richman of Sound Feelings Publishing Tarzana California For some innovative and unusual ways of natural weight loss visit his site Sound feelings
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