This Year put Your Brain on a Diet!

As a personal trainer for 14 years, I had the opportunity to work with hundreds of women. I found that when a client’s self esteem was high, they tended to receive results more quickly than those who felt poorly about themselves. Those with low self esteem would look in the mirror and only see their faults. In my 20’s I used to do the same thing, I can remember the first time I read the words “your thoughts create your reality.”  I was shocked! Why hadn’t anyone told me this before? For years I had been playing tapes in my head that said “I was ugly, fat and stupid.”

Like most woman I knew I had a difficult time receiving compliments from others. If someone said you look nice in that outfit I would quickly mutter something like this old thing! It took years to say thank you and mean it!  Weeding out the daily negative chatter was done through mediation, affirmations and reading any self help book I could get my hands on thank god for the new age section in the library. It took years of pulling out pictures of my self from an infant to my teenage years to retrieve my lost selves and to change the deep seated negative perceptions of myself. To weed out everyone’s voice but my own. Family, friends, teachers, society and the media were all playing tunes in my head that I didn’t realize were running the show of my life I quite buying out of touch magazines, hanging around negative people, turned off the television and quite comparing myself to models that didn’t even exist.

When I look back at my pictures now, I see a smart, beautiful yet very thin woman! As the years went by my perception of myself improved for the better. Everything changed drastically when I did my inner workouts, which involved looking in the mirror, noticing my smile, my eyes and how far I had progressed. Now, I feel much healthier, gained a bit of weight, and have become more in-tune with the woman I am on the inside. 

Being a hypnotherapist for the last 5 years has given me the opportunity to hear what other people think about themselves.  Looking in the mirror was almost impossible for many of my clients. With practice, they learned to see the beauty within and change their negative thoughts. Physical exercise is vital to maintaining your desired weight, muscle tone and aerobic capacity, but it will do you no good if you don’t feel worthy of receiving love.

Now I encourage a spiritual workout that helps with blockages in your chakra system. I know now that the energy you can’t see does indeed matter! Changing your thoughts and tuning up your chakras allows you to energetically rid yourself of past issues that may be weighing on you. Holding onto negative emotions can add physical weight to your body. If you are having trouble taking off those extra pounds, then you may be protecting yourself unknowingly, and no diet in the world will help you. Why not put your brain on a diet? Why not try a holistic approach to weight loss? You may lose inches and gain more energy… plus a ton of self-esteem.