So I have two brand new clients, with brand new ambitions and brand new hope!
They had both tried Herbalife twenty years ago, but were completely abandoned by their distributors, so they gained the lost weight quickly again.
I managed to gain their trust, thank goodness, so they are bracing themselves for a new life!
I will call them Ellen and Anna to protect their privacy.
Ellen is a hard working woman, with a very, very demanding job. Since this is a small town I can't even tell you her occupation, then the locals who read this would immediately know who she is. Anyway, like many others, she has been on diets all her adult life. She is 60 now, and is obese. She can barely walk and I can tell that she feels dissapointed with herself. She has managed to handle things that are more difficult than most could imagine, but her weight is an ongoing battle. She really blames herself for this.
Anna is 61, and only needs to lose 5 kilo to reach her ideal BMI weight. She falls for temptation and persuasion easily, and when she stands on her scale, she feels anger, sadness and she keeps thinking 'why the hell can't I manage to lose these extra kilos? Why not?!'
In other words: her friday morning is never a happy one. She dreads that day and that morning. She says she feels great agony after she has seen her weight, that seems to slap her in the face.
I ordered her to put away the scale, since this kind of unhappiness will NOT give her a great, relaxing weekend she needs.
How come we can feel more understanding and compassionate towards our friends than towards ourselves?
I will tell you about Ellen and Anna's journey on this blog, and I know there will only be bright moments. Some moments will be hard, but never again sad and frustrating. They will do just fine, they just don't know it yet.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Think out of the box!
The great thing about our society today is that there's an endless amount of information available for us. ABout just anything.
That means, that whatever your goals are in life, there are plenty of sources for information! Whatever you want to do, you just pick from this big buffet and make your own choices based on the facts you find.
But the information load is basically more one of quantity than quality. There is a wide range of information, but no longer sources that dig deeply to get to the core of something.
That's why I don't want this to become a blog of low-fat recipes and peptalks for you to excercize. No, I care more about the first, real steps: your thoughts. Your wishes. And what your self-talk is saying to help you or sabotage you.
Check this video, an author talks about his book "What If", that helps understand why we do the things we do, why we break promises to ourselves...In short, a good video for most of us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ7lfU7OTyA
I don't know about you, but I want this book!!
My headline says "think out of the box!" because my point is that to reach your goals, you have to change what you are doing now, to get different results from what you're getting now.
That means changing something in your life in a way the 'old' you would never have dared or wanted to.
My latest interesting read was Ask and it is given, by Jerry and Esther Hicks. Normally I wouldn't read books that claim to be channeled messages from dead people, but I thought, what the heck: let's think out of the box. My thought patterns were damaging my self-image, and I had had it with all my destructive self-talk!
Guess what: since I've read it, weird things are starting to happen. I'm feeling more compassionate towards myself than ever. I felt this urge to start this blog about my holistic view on health. And I didn't feel the normal fears about this new adventure.
The book talks about how your emotions vibrate signals into the universe. And now I've monitored all my fears, I've been able to silence them.
It feels great to live life with less and less fears. When I started reading that book, I had no idea that the results would be this mind-blowing. I just wanted to think out of the box.
So what new path are you going to try out today?
That means, that whatever your goals are in life, there are plenty of sources for information! Whatever you want to do, you just pick from this big buffet and make your own choices based on the facts you find.
But the information load is basically more one of quantity than quality. There is a wide range of information, but no longer sources that dig deeply to get to the core of something.
That's why I don't want this to become a blog of low-fat recipes and peptalks for you to excercize. No, I care more about the first, real steps: your thoughts. Your wishes. And what your self-talk is saying to help you or sabotage you.
Check this video, an author talks about his book "What If", that helps understand why we do the things we do, why we break promises to ourselves...In short, a good video for most of us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ7lfU7OTyA
I don't know about you, but I want this book!!
My headline says "think out of the box!" because my point is that to reach your goals, you have to change what you are doing now, to get different results from what you're getting now.
That means changing something in your life in a way the 'old' you would never have dared or wanted to.
My latest interesting read was Ask and it is given, by Jerry and Esther Hicks. Normally I wouldn't read books that claim to be channeled messages from dead people, but I thought, what the heck: let's think out of the box. My thought patterns were damaging my self-image, and I had had it with all my destructive self-talk!
Guess what: since I've read it, weird things are starting to happen. I'm feeling more compassionate towards myself than ever. I felt this urge to start this blog about my holistic view on health. And I didn't feel the normal fears about this new adventure.
The book talks about how your emotions vibrate signals into the universe. And now I've monitored all my fears, I've been able to silence them.
It feels great to live life with less and less fears. When I started reading that book, I had no idea that the results would be this mind-blowing. I just wanted to think out of the box.
So what new path are you going to try out today?
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