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    Think and Be Slim
    Think and Be Slim
    Think and Be Slim
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    Think and Be Slim

    By Paul Hurley

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    This book has been written for anyone who wants to achieve his or her health fitness goals. Whilst it has chapters dealing with both exercise and nutrition, it is NOT a diet or exercise book. The subject of this book is how to program your brain to achieve your goals. Every action and subsequent result begins with a thought. By changing the way you think, you change the way you act, the results you get and ultimately the way you feel about yourself and your life. We all behave according to our internal programming, much of it installed early in our childhood. Such programming determines our beliefs, habits and self-identity. This book will explain methods by which you can discard negative, limiting programs and replace them with positive, empowering ones that have been used by others to achieve incredible results.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJun 2, 2006
    ISBN9781412226059
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      Think and Be Slim - Paul Hurley

      THE STRUCTURE OF THE MIND

      Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think-Ambrose Bierce

      An understanding of how the mind works is crucial to understand both the way you are now and how to change in order to be the way you want. In this chapter, I will discuss the makeup of the mind and how your beliefs and habits are formed.

      THE MIND CAN BE SEPARATED INTO 3 SECTIONS:

      1.   The Unconscious Mind

      2.   The Conscious Mind

      3.   The Subconscious Mind

      While the Unconscious Mind plays a crucial role in maintaining your Automatic Bodily Functions and your Immune System, it is the Conscious, Subconscious and what is known as the Critical Factor that are of critical importance when it comes to weight-loss, health and fitness.

      THE CONSCIOUS MIND

      Your address, your phone-number, your alarm code, your route to work and what you ate for breakfast today. These are just some of the things you can easily remember. Your conscious mind stores all your short-term memories, information that you need to call on a regular basis.

      The Conscious Mind also consists of the Analytical, Logical and Rational parts of the mind. When someone is talking to you, for example, the Analytical and Logical parts are at work, trying to make sense and evaluate what the person is saying to you. It is the Rational part of the mind, however, that gets people into trouble.

      Think of all the things you currently do that you really know you shouldn’t. Why do you eat when you’re not hungry? Why do you smoke? Why do you drink too much? The answers that immediately pop into your head are a result of the actions of the Rational part of your mind. The function of the Rational part is to justify all of your actions, good or bad. People who smoke know of the damage they are inflicting upon their bodies. The Rational part comes up with a list of reasons to defend their smoking habit: It helps me concentrate It eases my nerves "If I stop,

      I’ll put on loads of weight!. The same applies to people who are overweight: I’m fat because my parents are fat I have a slow metabolism I only need to look at chocolate and I put on weight!"

      The Rational part of our minds is always working hard to make us look good. It does so to protect us. There are many highly intelligent people who are in psychiatric hospitals because they have lost touch with the Rational parts of their minds. They are doing things like inflicting self-damage and they cannot come up with a valid reason for doing so.

      As a result, they go insane. So the intentions of the Rational part are totally well meaning. The problem is that it never comes up with the right reason for your bad habits. It is vital that you understand this so that you ignore what the Rational part of your mind is telling you is the reason so that you can discover the real reason. Then, and only then, can you make the changes you want.

      THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

      The best way to explain the Subconscious mind is to compare it to an organic computer. All of your memories are stored in your Subconscious mind. Things that you thought you forgot are actually part of your permanent memory. With the use of regression hypnosis, you can remember anything that has ever happened to you, including your birth! Your subconscious memory is like a non-stop video recording of your life. Nothing is judged, filtered, analysed, distorted or analysed. It is non-judgemental. Once it enters the subconscious mind, it is just stored there. Our emotions and habits are determined by the subconscious mind.

      THE CRITICAL FACTOR

      Due to the fact that the Subconscious mind is non-judgemental, the Conscious mind works to protect it, doing its absolute best to ensure that no damaging beliefs or suggestions are accepted. Both the Logical and Analytical parts of the Conscious Mind work together choosing what to accept or reject. They put up a barrier called the Critical Factor, which compares new information with existing beliefs and associated pieces of information learned in the past and held in permanent memory of the Subconscious mind. If the new information is significantly different, it is rejected as being not true.

      Unfortunately, you don’t develop your critical factor until you are approximately midway into your childhood. You believe everything your parents tell you because you trust them unconditionally and have yet to develop your ability to think critically. Your teachers, your peers, your environment, your family and what you see on the television all fill your mind with beliefs and suggestions. Since you are blissfully unaware of everything you are unconsciously absorbing, you have absolutely no choice as to what to reject or accept. This is where so many limiting beliefs are formed. Maybe you were taunted about your weight in school and as a result, you believe you are a fat person. On the other hand, it might have been a totally harmless comment, made by someone, that you interpreted in such a way that caused you hurt and pain. Many parents unwittingly pass on their limiting beliefs to their children. Believing that they themselves are overweight because of their parents, they pass on the same limiting beliefs to their kids. Such beliefs are stored deep in the Subconscious and, until changed, have a huge effect on that person’s habits throughout their lives. Advertisers are always attempting to bypass the critical factor in order to plant their suggestions in your Subconscious mind and thereby influence your actions. They can do so in several ways. The first is to recruit an expert or a personality who you trust unconditionally. This could be a highly qualified doctor or a sports personality who you’ve always greatly admired. When they rave about how great a certain product is, they totally bypass your critical factor and their suggestions take effect. Another great way to achieve the critical factor bypass is via distraction. What have gorgeous women got to do with cars? Absolutely NOTHING! While the Conscious minds of all the hot-blooded males are fixated on the charms of the female in question, the suggestions made during the advertisement are shot directly into the Subconscious totally unchallenged. The same process happens during advertisements featuring classic songs you know well. The ad starts and your Conscious mind focuses on the melody

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