Inward Ho! - Locating Life Balance

Inward ho!" ......Christopher Morley

Today you will be working on the design of balanced life-plan. True health is balance. In fact it is called homeostasis meaning a relatively stable state. When your health is stable, your mind and body work hand in hand to bring this stability to other areas as well. However this is only the starting off point for managing sugar addiction and eating disorders. A person looking for optimum health, or extraordinary achievements, must look and work beyond the common accepted level. The work you are doing allows you to move beyond mediocre.

In this work you are becoming a remarkable detective, always observing minute changes in the mind and body. You are taking the presented opportunities as keys to moving closer to much high levels functioning. The first step is always the hardest. It is the step of "beginning." Once the foot is on this step, the other foot will follow and then it's just a matter of putting one before the other over and over with consistency and persistence. And once the ball starts rolling, it tends to pick up speed!

Today you focus on a place to begin the work. In actual fact you have already begun, but it is good to learn to notice other beginnings and the actual moment in time where you will begin. This type of awareness can then be applied to any other areas in life. You will be able to move out of procrastination in the blink of an eye and most of us know how valuable that could be.

Isolating belief systems are often a good place to begin. Since the focus of this work is managing sugar addiction and eating disorders, the exploration of beliefs relating to making changes in these areas will open up powerful subconscious mind information. You will be looking at how you view change in these areas, as well as your emotional ties to change. You will notice what you gain by changing, as well as what you lose. All of these areas have emotional connotations as well. The more awareness, the more self-power.

MIND EXERCISE.

Take a moment to enter the alpha mind state. Tilt your eyes up and image your inner movie screen. Earlier in the book you learned about utilizing your time-line and how to build resilience files for the future. Today I would like you to do a quick life review, focusing in on times when you made changes. Have a look at your motivations to change in these specific situations. Were they towards motivators or away from motivators? Remember, both have value. Now notice the tools you developed to persist. Locate an example of a "quick change", as well as a change that took a longer period of time.

Describe your motivating strengths in making changes. What worked in the past for you? What else did you notice which might be useful to you now? Notice as many details as possible. You can state these out loud or write these down when you are finished.

Adding emotionalized affirmations to this work will etch it further into the subconscious mind files. You can either utilize these, return to the affirmation section of this book, or allow your own subconscious librarian to bring some forward for you.

• I am aware of my inner motivating power.
• I know how to motivate myself. It is easy to motivate myself.
• Change is a part of my life and I am open to it!

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

It is helpful to utilize past subconscious mind files when working to make important changes. f you were an competitive ice skater you would practice your triple jumps over and over. It is no different for any other goal achievement. With this in mind lets go back , visiting reactive hypoglycemia or hyperinsulinemia.
Remember, if you have a personal or family medical history that includes adult onset diabetes, hypoglycemia, circulatory disorders such as stroke, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer of the uterus, breast, or ovary, obesity, yo-yo weight gain, smoking, and/or other addictions, such as alcohol, drugs both legal and recreational, or SUGAR, you may have this tendency towards this biochemical glitch. What this means is that when you eat or drink high carbohydrate or high glycemic foods, and especially if you do so frequently, your body may react by excreting excess insulin. When this happens over a period of time, you are more prone to developing a resistance as well.

Moments count. What you eat today can affect your body for years to come. It's important to stay awake and keep an eye out for what enters your mouth. Many people practice "sleep-eating" even though they appear to be awake. This can end up being a very dangerous habit, one that can take you right through the one-way door of disease.

Earlier in the book I made suggestions for your personalized nutritional intake. I also instructed you how to notice the excess insulin production through self-assessments. On your daily log sheets you will be able to see this quite clearly. It is very important to keep these for a while, until you are well on your way to managing this part of your program.

MIND EXERCISE:

You already know where the mind book is located that relates to daily changes in food intake. Take a quiet moment for yourself and visit the library of the mind. Take the book off the shelf and open to your already in process change work. With mind pen in hand make a new entry. " A positive change I will make today concerning my nutritional intake is:
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Now reinforce this mind etching with some affirmation plants. Here are some you might enjoy. Or ask your inner librarian to bring you some personalized ones. Remember they don't have to be complicated to work. It is important to color them emotionally. You might want to return to your emotional crayon area and pick some crayons you haven't used in awhile.

• I care for myself at high levels.
• I am aware of my balanced eating.
• I enjoy eating high nutritionally balanced meals.

MINDBODY WORK.....

We all need and benefit from reminders. There is nothing wrong with needing reminders. I like sticky papers because you can move them around. Write the letter "B" on one of these and place a circle around it. The "B" stands for your breath, the life-line to living.

MIND EXERCISE.

Place your finger tips very lightly on your lower abdomen just below your belly button.. Imagine that your lower abdomen contains a lovely colored balloon that gets bigger with the out breath and smaller with the in breath. Please do not force your breathing, but just notice this fact with your fingertips as witnesses of the event. Now, just sit for a few moments and observe this. This type of breathing is known as "mindful breathing." Actually, any time you observe our breathing at all, is mindful, but it is a good idea to get the mind and body used to breathing from the lower abdomen. As you do this exercise, you brain waves start to slow down and you will begin to experience the alpha brain wave state.

The alpha state is simply the name given to the level of brain frequency of between 7 to 14 pulsations per second, about half the normal rate. When you slow your brain frequency to alpha, you gain access to capabilities of the mind that were formerly outside your control. You become able to use the powers of your right hemisphere to achieve your goals in every area of your life.

This exercise is VERY IMPORTANT, and perhaps constitutes the most important part of our work. The reason I asked you to place that little sticky paper somewhere on your desk, or if you are at home, on the refrigerator or somewhere else you pass frequently, is so you will remember to practice this exercise. After a while the brain will remember to do this all by itself!.

From time to time program the following active affirmations when you go to the alpha state. Remember to color them with positive emotional crayons and visualize them like movies in the theater of your mind:

• I am now learning to use more of my mind and to use it in a special way.
• My increasing mental faculties are for serving humanity on a higher level.
• Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
• I will always maintain a perfectly healthy mind and body.
• I respect myself and my mindbody.
• My mind is my personal creative resource.
• Ideas form in my mind like fast growing plants.

NOTE TO NEW READERS:

This experiential blog/workshop is based on my new book, "How Many Cookies Will It Take to Make Me Happy?" This book is not published as yet, but you have the opportunity to read it in it's unpublished state. If you are new to my writing, you might want to read the earlier mini-chapters. They are available on FaceBook, The PublishersMarketPlace & at the following link. Remember to scan down to find the earliest chapters & work your way up. http://beyonddisorderlyeating.blogspot.com/
A bit of background.... we are working with creative Interactive Self-Hypnosis imagery, planting suggestions directly into the creative subconscious mind as you read along. What appears like a story is a series of self-hypnotic sessions, designed to bring about desired lifestyle changes. The inner mind is creative & rather child-like, loving to play with images, especially when they are emotionalized. Just like the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words", well-planted mind images, can be worth hours of therapy. We can actually change or motivate in 1/200th of a second. So come along & look forward to some lifestyle-changing events.


Copyright 2009 Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht
May not be copied or reproduced without permission of the author.

Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht is author of Sugar...the Hidden Eating Disorder & How to Lick It. She is also the writer/producer of over 350 mp3/CD programs in the areas of medicine, health, prevention, addictions, self-development & sports for adults & children.

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Day Two - Hurry Up Disease

"Everyone goes at their own pace. Watching someone pass you by doesn't make
your journey any less meaningful." Author unknown

Pacing change is vital to licking sugar addiction, eating disorders and long term success for all goals on your goal-den path. Many people suffer from the need for immediate gratification that I call hurry-up disease. If you have this disease, focus on it. This will allow you to see the tendency towards compulsiveness right under the surface of the hurry up mind state. Usually this is not new for most of us, especially in sugar addicted individuals or those suffering with eating disorder. These mind states present themselves in a variety of inner programs and as you become more proficient at examining your current subconscious programs, you will find clues to their existence in the different areas of both inner and outer life. As you work to become more aware and then to edit these emotions that interfere with pacing, you will find yourself reaching even more goals, perhaps some you haven't even thought about for awhile. The subconscious mind librarian will simply pick them up off the table in the inner library and do them for you.
Most of us don't have to look far to locate the inner and outer judge aspects of ourselves. They usually hang around and whisper critical messages into our ears. As you improve the observations of your thought patterns, listening to your verbal conversations you will find this emotional crayon literally coloring overtime.

Today's work is engaging the process of waking up to judgmental mind-talk., the little voice in the head that judges this and that. Notice that some of the judgments are aimed at you and some at others or situations. Self-judgment and that of others is very much a part of the addicted personality pattern, but this is not an excuse for keeping it as is. As thought awareness improves you will begin to notice the crayon coloring your verbal conversations, things you say even without thinking. The work today is to only engage the seeing process, not to change anything dramatically. Just the seeing will enforce a change and as you continue with this work the judgmental crayon will stay in the box more often.

You might take a mental scratch pad and make a check mark every time you notice your judgmental crayon. Make one column for self-judging, another for the judging of others or situations. This is inner "detective work". You are focusing on awareness of thoughts, your body connections to these thoughts and the emotional crayons as they come to color the experiences.

MIND EXERCISE:

Just as if you had a picture in your wallet of your judgmental emotional state holding it's little crayon, go ahead and describe it , just as if it were a little child wearing a tee shirt with the word "JUDGMENT" on the front. Listen carefully so you can hear the mind and verbal chatter. Notice it is separate from you and that you are the observer. This is a powerful exercise in disassociation. When something is separate from you the act of control is easier. The emotional child is outside of you where it can be contained and educated. _____________________________________________________________________
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Inner pictures with affirmation direction enhance new mind programs. Remember to tilt your eyes up 20 degrees and place your inner movie screen up and out before planting. It also helps to see a detailed picture with the accompanying words. In this exercise notice the building of the earlier blueprint. The inner mind is being directed to join this work together. This will enhance outcomes.

• I notice my judgmental emotional visitor and smile at it when it visits me.
• My judgmental visitor is outside of myself. I can notice it easily.
• When I notice it being present, I smile inwardly and then notice my breath.
• I make changes in small increments.
• I examine my blueprint many times a day. I am excited about my plans. I enjoy change.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

In the assessment you learned the importance of your family and personal medical history in relation to your current food intake. This history forms your genetic wallpaper. You might say, "Oh well, I can't do anything about that, so why should I be concerned?" The truth is that if you continue to think along these lines you will only run into more problems with sugar addiction, eating disorders and other chronic diseases that are waiting up the road for you. Each of us must take full responsibility for our genetic wallpaper.

Metaphorically speaking, either you get on the right bus or the wrong bus. Depending on the bus you take, the destination and the stops along the way will be very different.

As you become aware of your wallpaper emerging in different areas of your life, you can work to change certain aspects of your lifestyle behaviors. These changes will make you healthier in the long run, as well as RIGHT NOW! Of course this includes how your mind functions as well.

Earlier in this book you were introduced to reactive hypoglycemia, also called hyperinsulinemia. You learned if you have a family medical history making you prone to this biochemical factor, you may either over-produce a hormone known as insulin, or you may have a resistance to it. You might be prone to insulin build-up, or a combination of the two. The bottom line is that this biochemical glitch can make you feel quite miserable.

Remember some of the symptoms? They include yo-yo weight gain, cravings especially for sugar foods or other high glycemic foods, intense hunger, weakness, shakiness, the need for frequent meals, poor concentration, emotional instability, memory disorders, lack of focus, feelings of anxiety and panic, lack of motivation, fatigue, and a host of other symptoms. This condition is associated with stress, anxiety, smoking, weight, or poor concentration. The good news is that it is easily correctable and improvements come quickly. It is also important to remember that genetic wallpaper cannot be changed and therefore you must commit to taking care of it throughout your life. Believe it or not this is good news in disguise for the actual tools of caring for this wallpaper will enhance your ability to focus, manage emotional states and even accelerate learning as well as creative thought. Not a bad payoff for taking care of yourself!

MIND EXERCISE:

Let's go back into the subconscious mind library and pick up the book from yesterday. Remember you are learning to pace changes. You don't have to do everything at once. That type of practice leads to inviting the emotional state named "overwhelmed." So open to the chapter about nutritional change and continue reading. "A positive change I will make on this day concerning my nutritional intake is:
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

Each time you open your mind books and there are many of them by the way, you have the opportunity to place additional subconscious suggestion in the form of active imagery or live affirmations. You can either plant the affirmations listed here, go back to the affirmation chapter of the book or design your own right in the moment. These are gifts from your subconscious librarian. While some of these affirmations appear very simple, they are still very powerful. You often confuse simplicity with unimportance and nothing could be further from the truth. Remember that when you place any affirmation, see it in action just as if it were it's own little inner movie playing out in the theater of your mind.

Before you leave your mind exercise, etch some affirmations into your subconscious mind.

• I care for myself at high levels.
• I am aware of my balanced eating.
• I enjoy eating high nutritionally balanced meals.

MINDBODY WORK.....

It is human nature to continually want new and different things. This part of our humanity often keeps us from success. You get something new, play with it for awhile, tire of it and look for something else to entertain our minds. Following this awareness, I hope you are moving right along with the body scanner practice. Unfortunately the body scanner is one of those things that tends to be put back on the shelf and what a shame that it. This tool is one of the most important and holds the key for success in managing sugar addiction, as well as all accelerated learning and higher creativity.

Why does this happen? Sometimes you don't want to take this time for ourselves. Most addicted people tend towards compulsion. This can be both physiological, as well as emotional. As the food improves, the compulsiveness will lessen in most people. The body scanner often brings forth certain emotional visitors that are related to compulsion. Two prominent members of this group are impatience and intolerance. . Should you notice their arrival into your life experience during the discipline practice of body scanning, I would like you to do the following:

Build a stronger self-discipline for this practice. Schedule a time and write it down as an appointment to yourself. Make this the same time each day or evening. Do not allow yourself to break for trivial reasons.

Visualize yourself lying down, or sitting comfortably and enjoying body scanning.

Visualize your end goal and say the following affirmation: THE BODY SCANNER OPENS THE DOOR TO MY HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS. See a double picture frame. One side has you practicing the body scanner, and the other picture is you experiencing your end goal. Surround the picture frame with a white circle, and now send a white light directly at the picture frame and repeat the above affirmation: THE BODY SCANNER OPENS THE DOOR TO MY HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS.

MIND EXERCISE:

You know that you can scan your body in any moment and benefit immediately. Go ahead and scan your body now, noticing any sensations or tension. What areas of your body hold the most tension? Invite those parts to release by placing a flower on them and opening it slowly with inner vision.

This is a good moment to further etch your mind program for automatic body scanning. These active affirmations will work as post-hypnotic suggestion and keep your body at lower tension levels throughout your day.

• I practice the body scanner daily.
• My ability to focus is improving day by day.
• I am aware of my body sensations throughout the day.
• I practice noticing and releasing throughout the day.

Before going to sleep tonight revisit your muscle groups one by one. Start at the top of your head and make your way down, wishing them health and happiness. For instance, with your eyes closed, focus on the toes of your left foot, visualize the toes and deliver this message "I WISH YOU HEALTH AND HAPPINESS." Now, I realize how ridiculous this sounds. Those of us working in this field are well aware that many techniques you teach do sound this way, but this is how the mind works. These creative visualization exercises allow your body to release minute tension spots that not only lead to stress related illnesses, but block our ability to utilize our subconscious mind to its full potential.

A NOTE TO NEW READERS:

This experiential blog/workshop is based on my new book, "How Many Cookies Will It Take to Make Me Happy?" This book is not published as yet, but you have the opportunity to read it in it's unpublished state. If you are new to my writing, you might want to read the earlier mini-chapters. They are available on FaceBook, The PublishersMarketPlace & at the following link. Remember to scan down to find the earliest chapters & work your way up. http://beyonddisorderlyeating.blogspot.com/
A bit of background.... we are working with creative Interactive Self-Hypnosis imagery, planting suggestions directly into the creative subconscious mind as you read along. What appears like a story is a series of self-hypnotic sessions, designed to bring about desired lifestyle changes. The inner mind is creative & rather child-like, loving to play with images, especially when they are emotionalized. Just like the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words", well-planted mind images, can be worth hours of therapy. We can actually change or motivate in 1/200th of a second. So come along & look forward to some lifestyle-changing events.


Copyright 2009 Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht
May not be copied or reproduced without permission of the author.

Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht is author of Sugar...the Hidden Eating Disorder & How to Lick It. She is also the writer/producer of over 350 mp3/CD programs in the areas of medicine, health, prevention, addictions, self-development & sports for adults & children.

http://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.bohorquez
http://www.twitter.com/elizRN

http://www.hypnosis-audio.com
http://www.sugar-addiction.com
http://www.international-medical-health-writers

Day One - BluePrints

"Sometimes you do not know long it will take to complete a journey,
especially if you have never ever been there." author unknown

It is time to begin. Each day I will be introducing you to different ways to utilize the tools you were given earlier. These new applications will allow you to practice "exceptional living." as well as sugar addiction management. You now have the opportunity to make the tools truly yours and in so doing you will create and experience excellence throughout your life.

In this particular program you are learning to manage eating disorders and addictions through the practice awareness and interactive self-hypnosis "in the moment." I do hope you have utilized your Assessments, having outlined some of the first changes you plan to make as you grow towards your personal goals. Remember that your goals are multi-dimensional. While you are managing issues, you are also self-developing in the direction of many different goals.

You are designing blueprints for future growth. Each and every time you work with the tools and techniques of this program you are etching new neurological tracks for programming your mind and body. Each and every time you place your goal pictures into your subconscious mind following Awareness Meditation Banking or regular practice, the etching becomes deeper. Your outcomes will be speeded along by frequent review of "the blueprint" with creative visualization techniques. There are times when you may feel overwhelmed by the number of changes needed, but do not despair. Your focus is on your daily work. You already know to recognize and diminish unhelpful emotional states. As you continue to do this "in the moment" your positive changes will be quick and permanent.

Lasting changes are best made in small increments. While your basic plan will present much work, keep in mind that you will be mastering your blueprint brick by brick. You will continually return to the drafting table, observing and delighting in the end goals. You do know that modifications will most certainly occur as different levels of the project take on a life of their own. You also know and accept that the end project may look very different indeed from the original blueprint. Do not be put off by this, but instead, celebrate the unfolding of the process while enjoying each step of the way.

Writing goal descriptions is one of the most powerful exercises you can do. Perhaps you will begin a special journal for this work. As you read earlier in this book, it is a good idea to divide your life up into separate goal gardens and choose one important goal for each area.

MIND EXERCISE:

Just as if you had a picture of one of your end goals sitting on your desk, go ahead and describe it in detail. Make it vivid and as complete as possible. Be sure to allow your emotions to arise that connect to this wonderful end goal photograph: __________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

Let's go ahead and place this goal into the subconscious mind library. Take a deep yawn breath and allow your body to deepen. You already learned this work in the Awareness area, so utilize whatever images or sensations work best for you. Now tilt your eyes up 20 degrees and see your end goal picture as it plays on the movie screen. Spend some time with this. Allow it to play out in all it's detail. Bring in emotional states that benefit the goal, perhaps confidence, joy, focus and discipline. You might go back to your emotional crayon area and review the list of possibilities. Remember you will be continuing your work with this goal, so changes may be forthcoming. When you are ready place a gold frame around the activated goal picture and following another deepening breath, apply the following affirmation instructions in the form of living images.

• I make changes in small increments.
• I examine my blueprint many times a day.
• I invite helpful emotional states to color my experiences.
• I am excited about my plans.
• I enjoy change.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

Coming to terms with the need to improve nutritional intake is most important. Food intake can not be taken lightly. Every time you eat or drink you are making changes that effect your future. Sometimes it is difficult to focus on the early changes connected to the development of chronic disease, but this does not mean that they are not there. You might practice imaging the you of tomorrow and the you of five years down the pike actually eating with you and experiencing the outcomes of those current food choices. This is a good wake-up image to play in the moment, especially if the food choices aren't very healthy! . This book will help you see these so you can change earlier in the destructive process and go towards health instead of disease.

Earlier on in the book you designed your eating plan, but this did not mean that your nutritional work is was over. Far from it! Actually it is just beginning. Your eating plan is foundation of your blueprint for nutritional change.. Whether or not one of your goals is to manage sugar addiction, lose weight, gain weight, or maintain weight, the integration of a sound, balanced eating plan works as a catalyst for all other work. This is simple logic. The mind and body need nutrition to function. If the goal is "exceptional functioning" it stands to reason that the eating plan must also be exceptional. Fortunately in our country there is no shortage of high energy nutritional foods. The truth is that many of us are lazy, unimaginative and careless in our nutritional self-care. Often as not, the mind and body are not fed properly, yet expected to function at high levels.

I often hear the comment, "I do not know how to cook." "I have no time to prepare my meals." "I eat most meals in restaurants." "I have to eat in the car while driving." "My husband/wife/family does not like this kind of food." The bottom line is this....if you want to excel at exceptional levels, you must take full responsibility for your eating habits. Someone else's choices have nothing to do with what you are choosing for yourself. These are just excuses and poor ones at that! There really is no need to be a great chef, but if you really do not know how to cook a simple meal, this might be a great time to learn this life-sustaining skill.
This book is about putting the pen to paper and then putting the plan into action. It helps to make small precision-like steps, each building on the other. Here you will be making a commitment to yourself and this program:

MIND EXERCISE:

Relax deeply and tilt your eyes up inviting the alpha state. Notice you are taking a book off your library of life shelf. The title has to do with changes you are making and you are the author. Open to the chapter about nutritional changes and read the first paragraph. "A positive change I will make this week regarding my nutritional choices will be:__________________________________________________________________

The subconscious mind now takes the written commitment as a new mind program. Next it needs to be visualized and actualized with emotion. You already know how to reach your alpha brain wave level and to place a new program on the mind screen. Go ahead now and see yourself living out your nutritional change. Feel what it feels like to have this program in place. Allow the freedom of being well in this moment future-pace to next week, next year, five years from now and right down to the end of your life. Sit quietly and allow this program to sift inward.

Adding affirmations at this time will enhance the programming. Remember to energize them with emotions and active imagery.
• I make frequent positive changes.
• I am aware of my balanced eating.
• I enjoy eating high nutritionally balanced meals.

MINDBODY WORK.....

Today the focus is on the all important practice of Mental Biofeedback, also called body scanning. You already met up with this technique earlier in the book. Just as in your nutritional plan, mind tools have many areas of application and this daily process will allow the spoon feeding these to your subconscious mind. Just as sound nutrition is vital for the health of mind and body, the ability to read body sensations is essential for balanced living , high level health, cognitive and emotional functioning. It's interesting to note that most of us are completely out of touch with our bodies, despite the fact that we are preoccupied with them.
The body scan is a very powerful technique used to re-establish contact with the body through thorough and minute focusing. It is just like looking at very small muscle groups through a magnifying glass and noticing many things about them. It is an effective technique for developing both concentration and flexibility of attention simultaneously.

After completing the body scan you feel transparent, as if there is nothing left but the breath. In our program you practice this daily for at least a month. A good time to practice this is late in the afternoon, or an hour or so after dinner. While it is a great way to fall asleep, this is an awake exercise. If you find yourself falling asleep during practice, try doing it sitting up with your feet flat on the floor. Developing self-discipline is an important part of our work and this is a perfect day to get started.

Mental biofeedback or body scanning can be done slowly or quickly. There are benefits to both ways. Once you are well practiced and versatile, good communication is in place with the body and associated emotional states, you can benefit in additional ways. In any moment you have the power to request a change or shift in a body communication such as in a craving, pain or even an emotional state. As you work with sugar addiction and eating disorder, cravings or compulsions can be lessened and reprogrammed through body scanning.

MIND EXERCISE:

Sit up straight with both feet flat on the floor and allow your body to sit deeply into the chair. Place your finger tips on your lower abdomen and take in a deep yawn breath. Slowly allow it to exit your mouth, noticing that your body goes deeper into the chair. Once you have finished reading this, close your eyes and tilt them the twenty degrees and now scan your body with your mind, noticing any sensations or tension. Which areas of your body hold the most tension?_______________________________________________________________

In the future these parts will speak out to you more frequently. You already know how to open them and the benefits of doing so regularly. In the days that follow this you will be learning more applications of mental biofeedback so they can be etched into your subconscious mind as new and powerful programs. You will also learn to open the body sensations, release the stored tension and observe the connected emotional states that placed the tension there in the first place.

Before leaving your mind exercise, plant the following affirmations with live imagery.
• I practice the body scanner daily.
• My ability to focus is improving day by day.

A NOTE TO NEW READERS:

This experiential blog/workshop is based on my new book, "How Many Cookies Will It Take to Make Me Happy?" This book is not published as yet, but you have the opportunity to read it in it's unpublished state. If you are new to my writing, you might want to read the earlier mini-chapters. They are available on FaceBook, The PublishersMarketPlace & at the following link. Remember to scan down to find the earliest chapters & work your way up. http://beyonddisorderlyeating.blogspot.com/
A bit of background.... we are working with creative Interactive Self-Hypnosis imagery, planting suggestions directly into the creative subconscious mind as you read along. What appears like a story is a series of self-hypnotic sessions, designed to bring about desired lifestyle changes. The inner mind is creative & rather child-like, loving to play with images, especially when they are emotionalized. Just like the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words", well-planted mind images, can be worth hours of therapy. We can actually change or motivate in 1/200th of a second. So come along & look forward to some lifestyle-changing events.


Copyright 2009 Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht
May not be copied or reproduced without permission of the author.

Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht is author of Sugar...the Hidden Eating Disorder & How to Lick It. She is also the writer/producer of over 350 mp3/CD programs in the areas of medicine, health, prevention, addictions, self-development & sports for adults & children.

http://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.bohorquez
http://www.twitter.com/elizRN

http://www.hypnosis-audio.com
http://www.sugar-addiction.com
http://www.international-medical-health-writers