The use of NLP has helped me achieve what
had been eluding me for many years, when all I needed was to get rid of my
limiting beliefs and create new ones in their place.
Every year, the diet and fitness
industry makes millions - much of it coming from the purses and pockets of
people who have already - often over many years - spent considerable time,
money and energy trying to lose weight, to learn to love exercise, to become
fitter and live healthier lives. The truth of it is that for many of us, diets
and exercise programmes don't work, at least not in the longer term. For sure,
whilst we are earnestly following them we notice our dress or trouser size
dropping, and the fact that it becomes easier to take the stairs rather than
the lift. Once (and, for some of us, before) we reach our goal weight/fitness
levels, however, we relax, take our eye off the ball and soon are back to
square one - overweight, unfit and unhappy about it. More and more people are
finding that, for them, NLP can offer a safe, sustainable way of achieving
their healthy living goals - of losing weight and keeping it off, of eating
healthily and of fitting exercise into their already busy schedules. This is
because NLP can help you
·
Identify
and really associate with your personal fitness/healthy living goals so that
they are truly inspirational for and personal to you
·
Retrain
your brain - changing your beliefs so you think about food and exercise
differently. For some, this will include changing how you think about yourself
( for example, a number of lifetime dieters self sabotage their efforts by
holding a firm, but unacknowledged, belief that 'I can't stay thin')
·
Help
eliminate 'problem' foods from your diet
·
Identify
and deal with secondary gain - for some of us, part of us wants to lose
weight/be fitter etc - and another part wants things to stay as they are because
that has some payoff - or secondary gain for us
·
Focus on
long term lifestyle changes rather than short term fixes.
Is it safe?
A key consideration when embarking on
any healthy living or weight loss programme is is it safe? In the context of
weight loss, exercise and health living a reputable and ethical NLP
Practitioner will
·
Check
whether you have any medical or physical condition which means that you should
consult a medical doctor before embarking any programme designed to change your
eating habits, help you lose weight or increase your levels of physical
activity
·
Take a
personal history both to help them plan how to work with you most effectively
and to identify whether there are underlying themes which might suggest that
specialised medical, nutritionist or similar support would be helpful
·
Help you
frame and work towards your goals ways which respect your body. One consequence
of this is that it may be easier than you think to make the changes you
identify as being helpful. Another is that it's unlikely that you'll experience
what some diets offer - i.e. that weight will drop off you. It isn't a quick
fix diet or exercise programme.
Using NLP to help you achieve your
healthy living goals is about changing your attitudes and behaviours - safely..
Is it sustainable? Most
certainly!
Many diets and exercise programmes
fail for one or more of these reasons
·
They focus
on a goal with a finite point (like a goal weight or dress/collar size). Once
we reach that - we think we're done. So we take our foot of the pedal - and
slowly, often imperceptibly, the weight starts creeping back on again
·
They
'work' by getting us to do things differently. But the difference isn't
comfortable. So as soon as we've reached our goal we revert back to our old
familiar and more comfortable ways
·
They focus
on the symptom (excess weight, lack of energy) rather than the cause (beliefs/attitudes
which, in turn, drive our behaviour).
NLP, on the other hand, focuses on
·
Goals
which remain valid and motivational
·
Helping
you make changes which are comfortable - so that it becomes easier and more
comfortable to do this than to revert to your old habits. So that, even if you
still have a target weight still lurking in the back of your mind, once you
reach it - you're better able to maintain those changes that will help you
sustain it
·
Dealing
with the cause (underlying attitudes and beliefs) so that you can change your
behaviours for long term success, rather than just temporarily getting rid of
the symptom.
So, as well as being about helping
you achieve your healthy living goals safely, NLP can also help do this is a
sustainable way.
References
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