Here's a great technique to use with your clients when they are having a difficult time being objective about a situation, or when you are working on forgiveness with them. Make sure the client is in somnambulism, then use the following script. Afterwards, you can have them relate what happened to them, separating the story from the factswhat really happened. This technique produces fast, lasting change, even for resistant clients. The Story Imagine that you've just received a traffic ticket. You were driving down your street, stopped at a stop sign, then turned down another road. There you go, the lights in the rear view window - they had you. The officer comes up, looking like he's had a really bad day. He's got a scowl on his face, circles under his eyes and as you roll your window down, he says in a gruff voice " Ma'am, (or sir), do you know why I stopped you?" Your mind is racing trying to figure out what you did wrong, trying to figure out why this guy pulled you over instead of the stinking criminals that we have abducting children and robbing banks. Doesn't he have anything better to do??? He says "well, you rolled right through that stop sign back there without coming to a complete stop." Your stomach sinks, as you realize you might have done just that, and you begin to get angry - you gotta be kidding, you say to yourself. This jerk of a cop should be out doing his job instead of pulling me over for not quite stopping! OK, Stop Right There. Let's step back objectively and look at the facts. You were driving down the street. You got to the stop sign. You are unsure if you stopped all the way or not. You turned. You pulled over for the policeman. He told you that you rolled through the stop sign without stopping completely. He wrote you a ticket. That's it. That's what happened. Those are the facts. What about all the other stuff? You made it up. That's right - invented it out of your wonderful imagination. Let me prove it to you. Let's try it again. Imagine that you just received a traffic ticket, you were driving down your street, stopped at a stop sign, then turned down another road. You looked in the rear view mirror and saw police lights so you pulled over. You wondered what you could have done to be pulled over. The officer came up to the window, looking disheveled and sad, like he hadn't slept in a couple of days. You wondered if he had been on a stakeout or night shift somewhere, protecting society, maybe putting his life in danger. He asks "ma'am (or sir), do you know why I stopped you?" You say "I sure don't officer, please tell me what I've done, so I can be more careful in the future." He says "well, you rolled right through that stop sign back there without coming to a complete stop." You realize that you did just that and say "Oh, man. Officer, I apologize - I guess I wasn't paying attention like I should have been." And you think about how good it is that the officer brought this to your attention, so that you will pay more attention - you realize that you're driving right through a school zone, and that if there were children present, you might not have seen one. Now - the facts here are the same. The same thing happens, but we end up with a completely different story, don't we? You see, things happen, and then we make up elaborate stories based on our feelings, thoughts, past events and belief systems. Your story will be different from someone else's because they have different feelings, thoughts, past events and belief systems. What that means is that we can change our stories. You have many stories in your past, stories of how people hurt you, stories of how things didn't work out for you, stories of success, stories of failureyou name it - we have a story for it. But if you made that story up, if you invented the meaning of what happened based on your past events, your history, doesn't that mean that you can change it? Doesn't that mean that you have a different meaning for everything in your life than your friend, spouse, boss and your children? Take a moment and consider what meaning you attribute to the happenings in your life, and how other people make those happenings mean completely different things. You might be amazed to find that you can be more objective, and more compassionate towards others, for just as you are a product of your environment and belief system, they are a product of theirs. Does that make them right or wrong? It just makes it different - they feel differently than you, they do things differently than you, and they might make up a completely different story about what happens than you do. If you create the stories you make up about what happens, then why not make them great stories? Why play the victim when you can play the victor? Why not find the strongest position you can in any event and give yourself the advantage of making that story? How many stories do you have from the past that you would like to change? Remember, you get to choose the meaning, you get to create the story - you just didn't know that before. Let's go back and let your SC change those stories. Your SC wants you to be powerful, compassionate and understanding. Imagine that right now, it's changing all those stories to be stories that you would choose. You get to choose - notice how powerful that makes you.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
5 Ways to Burn Fat & Boost Your Metabolism
I'm going to show you five ways to burn off excess pounds and increase your metabolism. This means that you'll be burning extra fat while you sleep and all throughout the day. Here are the five techniques to boost your metabolism 1.Put on more muscle 2.Eat more often 3.Interval Training 4.Run sprints 5.Eat a low-fat, 100% Raw Food Diet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Put on more muscle: This is quite simple. A pound of muscle burns an average of 75 calories per day. A pound of fat burns only 2 calories per day. If you add more muscle, it increases your metabolism. That means that even if you aren't very active that particular day, you'll be burning more fat, now that you have more muscle. The Lightning Speed Exercise quickly builds up the largest muscles in your body, your legs. By spending just five minutes a day doing this exercise, you can dramatically lower your body fat levels, while building more muscular legs. I can tell you from personal experience that the more muscle I put on, the less fat I have. It just burns up the fat. For more information on the Lightning Speed Fitness Program, please visit: http://6582jbx377.superbeing.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=4G9M9X3W 2. Eat More Often I bet you'll like this method. That's right - eating more often, makes you burn more fat. The key is to eat the right kinds of foods more often. If you really want to burn the calories, then add two extra salad or vegetable meals during your day. These should be raw and with no overtly fatty foods like oil, avocado, coconut or nuts and seeds. You can even add oranges or other citrus fruit or berries to your salad. Or you can add a couple of extra melon meals of melon, to your day. These low calorie and raw food meals will boost your metabolism and actually help you to burn fat instead of putting it on. Do you want to know how Sumo Wrestlers get so fat? They fast throughout the day and then late at night they eat a huge meal. By fasting during the day, it tricks their bodies into thinking there is a shortage and so their metabolism slows down greatly. That is how they get so fat. So if you want to lose weight, eat low calorie and high water content, raw meals, throughout the day. To succeed at an Optimal Raw Food Diet, please visit: http://HowToGoRaw.com 3. Interval Training There have been a couple of studies done testing the effectiveness of different kinds of exercise programs on fitness levels and how much fat these exercises help you burn. It turns out that moderate intensity aerobics was much less effective at burning fat than interval training. What was found that for every calorie burned during the workout, that interval training actually burned, 9 times more fat, per calorie burned. The interval training actually burned less calories (during the exercise) and was a much shorter workout. But for each calorie burned, somehow the interval training produced an increased fat burning effect, by 9 times that over the aerobics. I have more detailed information about this technique at my Lighting Speed Member's Only Forum. To join please visit: http://6582jbx377.superbeing.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=4G9M9X3W 4. Run Sprints Running sprints is another great technique to build up your leg muscles and therefore burn fat. It has also been shown that running sprints in 30-second intervals, actually increases human growth hormone production by 500%. Over twenty years of testing and research in clinics and universities all over the world have proven the effectiveness of human growth hormone. It literally de-ages the body. Increase metabolism, Decrease body fat & increase lean body mass Restore lost hair and hair color Restore collagen levels to erase lines and wrinkles Improve mood, sleep, and organ functioning Increase energy and endurance Increase mental energy and clarity Increase in sense of well-being and emotional stability Increase in bone and joint flexibility 5. Eat a Low-Fat, 100% Raw Food Diet There's nothing like eating a 100% raw food diet, for getting that ripped look. Unfortunately, many people complain that they look too skinny. The reason for this is that most people eating a Standard American Diet are over-fat and under-muscled. I know when I first went raw I hated how skinny I was getting. Little did I know at the time of the health benefits of being very thin. Then I learned that if I didn't want to look skinny I had to make sure I had good muscular development. Here are some quotes on the benefits of being thin, from Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book "Eat to Live," page 21: "After limiting the analysis to nonsmokers, it was very clear that the ** longest-lived women were the leanest." "Dr. I-Min Lee, of the Harvard School of Public Health, said her 27 year study of 19,297 men found there was no such thing as being to thin. (Obviously, it i s p ossible to be too thin, however, it is uncommon and usually called anorexia, but that is not the subject of this book.)" "Among the men who never smoked the ** lowest mortality occurred in the lightest fifth." "We observed a direct relationship between body weight and mortality. By that I mean that the thinnest fifth of men experienced the lowest mortality, and mortality increased progressively with heavier and heavier weight." "If you have gained even as little as ten pounds since the age of 18 or 20, then you could be at significant increased risk for health problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. The truth is that most people who think they are the right weight still have too much fat on their body." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *~* 3 Reasons Why You Lose Fat on a Raw Food Diet *~* 1. Excess toxins are stored in your fat cells. A raw food diet is the lowest in toxins out of any diet. On a raw diet, you have much less of a daily toxic load; your body will then start removing the excess stored toxins in your fat cells. This results in a dramatic fat burning effect. Excess fat is due mostly to toxicity and not calories. 2. On a raw diet it is hard to get fat because you will feel stuffed before you can possibly overeat. That is due to the extra fiber, nutrients and water contained in raw Vegan foods. You have to eat much more by weight and volume than you are used to on a raw diet. So you will be full and still consume less calories. This is especially true if you follow an Optimal Raw Food Diet. All cooked food is dehydrated. That is why doctors recommend the extra 8 to 12 glasses of water per day. On a good raw diet, you will usually need to drink little to no water at all. The extra water and fiber will make you full with fewer calories. 3. You'll also feel more nourished and therefore won't want to eat as much. With cooked and processed foods, the nutrient content of the food is dramatically depleted and you'll tend to overeat because your body is desperately looking for more nutrients. Therefore, you end up overeating in your body's search for nutrients.
