Workbook Day 14 - Thought Popping

"For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward."............Jim Robn

Back to managing thoughts with Awareness Banking. Why is it that thoughts just pop up in the mind? There are many reasons for this, but the most important consideration is that the mind has not been well trained. It's been left to it's own devices. This concept reminds me of when the teacher leaves the room and the kids take this opportunity to go wild. The same thing happens to the mind. When the teacher returns the disruptions might continue if he or she doesn't have good control over the class.

You can gain control over your thought processes by paying attention to them as an observer. This is very different than being a participant or actor in the thought process. In an early chapter in this book you learned exercises to enhance this skill.

MIND EXERCISE.

Lets practice right now. You don't have to wait for a special time to practice. You can elect to practice in any moment you choose. Remember, you are retraining your brain to do much of this work for you on a subconscious level, so it is important to practice frequently.

Take a moment to go to your alpha state and then go even deeper using a different skill than before. You might like to check back into the earlier chapter and find something you might like to try. This will keep your tools sharp. Once you have deepened, keep your focus on your belly breath. Before long you will find yourself up in a thought. Observe it and mind label it "thought." I'd also like you to notice what kind of thought this is, just as if you were putting them in organizational file folders..

Some examples might include:

• To do thoughts
• Goal thoughts
• Worry thoughts
• Emotionally charged thoughts.

I'd like you to develop your own your own filing system. As you label you thoughts you will literally place them in a file with their category or name. Follow this labeling with another trip back to the breath. Stay with the breath until you are thought-interrupted again, continuing your labeling process and filing away all thoughts.
There is a tremendous benefit to this filing system. The mind is now getting the idea that you do not need this information (thoughts) right now. It will learn to wait for the time when you will request them. Obviously, there are some thoughts you will never request, but there are files you may want to utilize. For example, let's say you have a file for "creative projects." All you would need to do to access this file would be :

• Go to the alpha state
• Request the file "creative projects."
• Open the file and find what you need.
• Ask your Inner Coach to locate even more "creative projects" from your library..

Since you are in your subconscious mind, why not take some time now with your Inner Coach. Ask to be shown the filing cabinets and system. I'm sure you will notice that you could certainly benefit from some inner organization!

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

Just as the mind needs organization, so does the body. How much food do you need? The question could also be how much gas does your car need? The next question might be, "how full is the tank and how far do you need to go? If there is a long time between breakfast and lunch (more than 4 hours), or if you exercise aerobically at a high level, the body will need more fuel. It is important to eat sufficient food for your learn body mass. Look back to your blueprint and review those numbers. They are vital to the functioning of your mind and body.

Your body has built-in mechanisms to teach you. Your hunger levels are one of these mechanisms. Have a look at yours. . Earlier in this book you learned the difference between body hunger and mouth hunger. It's important to review this, because there is much to learn from body sensations. If you are having a lot of mouth hunger, look at your emotional states, as well as your thought processes. Are you building excess insulin from stress? Have you been doing the body scanner and practicing emotional management with Awareness Meditation?

If you have body hunger before 4 hours, look to see if you skipped a meal, ate too little, ate high glycemic foods, had extra sugars or caffeine somewhere in the last 24 hour. Don't just look at the meal before, Look to the last 2-3 meals, even if that means looking to the day before. Remember, you are the mind and body detective. This is how you solve the mystery of your sugar addiction and eating disorder. Those who do the work win!

It's a good idea to start noticing if you feel hungrier when you eat specific foods. For me, one of those foods is corn, especially on the cob. My body must be very sensitive to corn sugar and I probably over-produce insulin in reaction to eating this food. Does this mean that I shouldn't eat it? Only I can decide that. I might try eating a smaller amount and certainly making sure that I have sufficient protein, as well as low carbohydrate foods at that meal. I may even decide not to eat any other high glycemic carbohydrate at the same meal and see how I feel. Looking through the magnifying glass at the way our mindbody works helps us solve our mystery.

This is a good moment to decide on another nutritional change for this week. The more you learn through this Inner Coaching, the more changes you are ready to make. Knowledge clears the path for change. Now you must make the choice and then the action plan.
An exciting nutritional change I will make this week will be: ________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Making changes go right along with planting affirmations. They are like the fertilizer for the change plant.

• I care for myself at high levels.
• I am aware of my body sensations in relation to the foods I eat.
• I am becoming more and more aware nutritionally.

MINDBODY WORK.....

A goal of this work is the development of a focused mind state. There are many reasons why this is such an important goal. When your mind is focused you are awake for the moment at hand. You can see the emotions, the thoughts and notice if you are on goal path or not. With mind flexibility or flow, you can gently move from where you are to where you want to be. There are many exercises to enhance this ability. In this work you will have the opportunity to practice many of these.

MIND EXERCISE.

Lets practice an exercise that will allow you to be even more aware of your thought processes and especially specific thought groupings. Go to the alpha level and ride your breath for a few moments. Keep your focus on the breath. When you find yourself up in the thought process, note whether this is a "past thought" or a "future thought." Place your hands on your knees, and allow them to rest there. Stay on the breath. If a past thought comes into the mind, tap your left knee. Return to the wave of the breath. If a future thought comes to mind, tap the right knee. Return to the wave of the breath. Practice this awareness exercise for five minutes or so. When you are finished, not whether you had more past thoughts or more future thoughts. You do not need to do anything with this information, other than to be aware.

Practice this exercise whenever you have a few minutes. When the brain is trained it will automatically label the thoughts for you. You will become aware early on, when you are lost in the past or future. Your goal is to stay in the present as much as possible. This keeps a handle on stress chemical production and allows you complete flexibility of mind.

Take some time to record this work. The actual process of recording is very valuable as it engages several senses. Also, once a goal or idea is put to paper, it becomes a subconscious planting.
My experience of past and future thought patterns: _______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

Take an additional moment and place some affirmations just below the alpha level. Notice how you know to do this very easily. You are learning and applying as you learn. These are tools you are applying are those of stress managing and accelerated learning.

• I stay aware and awake.
• I find time to practice my new techniques.
• I am changing in small increment, and they are adding up.
• My small moments build on each other.
• My small moments are valuable in themselves.
• My small moments lead the way to my greatness.
• I am comfortable with my greatness.
• I am a teacher and student in each moment.
• I share my greatness and receive the greatness of others.

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR...

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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Workbook Day 13 - Thoughts & Etchings

The ancestor of every action is a thought."......Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working with though processes is a major part of our work. The tools for this include both body scanning, awareness and active meditation. You read about these earlier in this book. It is important to work with the tools and to wake up to the fact that they are always available on your tool belt. Living in awareness is like driving a bus. Thoughts and emotions are street signs. They let you know when you are on the right road, as well as when you are not. You will come to learn that being on the right road does not mean that you don't steer the bus and look to avoid potholes. Awareness also helps us to understand that being on the wrong road is not a crime and that there are important lessons to learn including where you made the wrong turn.

For this work you will be utilizing the visual and auditory metaphors of the internal radio station. Right now begin to listen to the chatter in your mind. This has been playing as background music continually. Unless you purposefully turn this radio off, or change the station, it will continue to play. Not even a chance the batteries will wear out!

It is most important that you take time to give the radio a rest, as well as to evaluate the quality of programs you are playing. You will be doing this through awareness and meditative work. Earlier in the book you learned some basic techniques. In your work with the Inner Coach, you will be experiencing some different applications that are built on the basic techniques. This will give you more flexibility as you go through life.

When I began my practice in stress management and optimum mindbody functioning, I found some students balked at the words meditation and self-hypnosis. I started addressing these tools as the "M" work and the "H" word. Even today I find myself having to educate on the benefits of meditation and self-hypnosis. You learned some of these earlier in this book. These wonderful tools help us to direct our body physiology, as well as our emotions and thoughts. Perhaps this is a new experience for you. As you come to work more and more with these tools you will see how they benefit your life in so many ways. They are key to managing sugar addiction and eating disorder, but you will come to find that they are so much more.

As you practice begin to notice you are paying much more attention to our mind and body functioning. Perhaps you are beginning to notice your body sensations at much lower levels than before. This is real progress. The earlier you notice the body sensation, the easier it is to release it and to free your body from the production of stress chemicals. As you begin to notice thoughts and emotions at much lower levels you will become aware of the triggers to the body sensations. A familiar example is saying that someone pushes your buttons. While that can be true, what is important is not only how you push your own buttons, but the level of sensitivity of those buttons. This work will allow you to notice and adjust this sensitivity.

MIND EXERCISE.

For many years I taught nursing students the management of psychiatric patients. They learned to look for the prodromals, those triggers of behavior that preceded the patient's outburst. You can utilize those same ideas for yourself. . As you observe your body sensations, start to work backwards. What emotion has been hanging around you? Now go back even further..........what types of thoughts have been playing on your radio station? Think way back in your day. What were you thinking about upon awakening.? What was the very first thing you noticed on your mind? How about in the shower, or when you were brushing your teeth? How about at breakfast? What type of conversations did you have with family? What about your thoughts in the car, etc.? You get the idea.

You are continually writing happenings in your book of the day. The happenings are colored with emotional crayons. These become memories and connect up with past books and future books. Past books reinforce beliefs about your experiences and future books spell out expectations that are also colored and reinforced. Slow your brain waves now and ask your Inner Coach to bring you the book you are writing about today. Remember, you are the writer/producer/director of all your happenings. Open this book and review the following.
Some thought patterns I experienced today and the emotional crayons I utilized to color them.
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

Many people in our country eat a very poor breakfast, some do not eating. stating loud and clear, " I hate breakfast." "I have no time for breakfast." "I am nauseated in the morning." "I'm not even awake." "I find the whole idea revolting." It's not uncommon for sugar addicted people to have a coke and a donut. When I ask these same people what time do they eat first in the day, most will have something after arriving at the office, usually coffee and whatever is available in the kitchen. Certainly there is no nutritional plan in place here and the day is now set up for major sugar addiction issues. But since you are reading this book the assumption is that you are hanging up your old behaviors for healthy change.
The nutritional plan is absolutely necessary for recovery and certainly without it there can be no thought of high level functioning. Your mind and body need this nutrition to function. It also sets the discipline for your internal machinery. Make no mistake, if you do not give your body what it needs throughout the day, it will continue to let you know about it, even to goes far as to interfere with your sleep process! I have had many students who complained of sleep disorders. Once their nutritional intake was corrected sleep was not a problem.

What makes a good breakfast? Please go back to your "blueprint" , reviewing the suggestions made for you. It's also a good idea to look at breakfast creatively. What are some protein foods you enjoy and would consider eating in the AM? Remember, you don't have to wolf this down the minute you wake up! Many people prepare breakfast the evening before, micro-waving it at work.

MIND EXERCISE.

Perhaps you would like the help of your Inner Coach or inner librarian. Go ahead and induce a visit to your alpha state. You know how to get there. Envision your Inner Coach coming forward, chatting along the way with your inner librarian, perhaps about foods you enjoyed as a child or when on vacation. Ask for the book all about creative ideas for breakfast. Notice you are walking through the supermarket and are taking new choices off the shelves, of course reading the labels. Take yourself into that wonderful little restaurant over there. Sit down and read the menu, inwardly knowing that you can prepare these things for yourself. Take some mental notes from this creative book and follow through with some notes below to further etch this important program into your subconscious mind.
Some creative ideas for breakfast include:
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

Since you are planting and etching, go ahead and plant these.

• I care for myself at high levels.
• I always eat breakfast.
• I respect the needs of my body and mind.
• I care for my body and mind and they reward me!

MINDBODY WORK.....

Lets go back to your garden. A few days ago you were planting some powerful seeds. You planted your desires, sense of purpose, clear sensory goals, the all important planning and organizing seeds, as well as patience and perseverance. Do a mind check now and notice if you are developing a certain ease and willingness to acquire new learning and skills. Adults learn differently from children and this book is written to meet those needs. I hope you are also developing a positive relationship with your Inner Coach and that you are brining a sense of play and pleasure in relation to your work. Perhaps you might like to draw a little picture of your garden plan and place it where you can admire it during the day.

All gardens need nutrition or fertilizer of some sort, mulch to keep down the weeds, as well as a good supply of light and water. There are certain thoughts and emotions that appear as weeds in your beautiful garden. You want to be on the lookout for these. The weed you are going to look out for today is a cluttered mind, one where the thoughts just keep zooming through, like taxicabs on a busy New York street. Take a moment to stop now and observe the activity of your thought processes.........are they zooming? Don't get in any of these cabs, just observe them.

MIND EXERCISE:

Today I would like you to practice noticing the appearance of this cluttered mind state. Every time you catch it being present, simply notice and follow this noticing by bringing your attention to your belly breath. Ride the breathe for a minute or so. This is a letting go or release application. Know that it only takes 1/200th of a second to pluck these weeds. Once you begin to wake up to them, the brain will start to be re-trained to help you with this work. The focused mind state is a very powerful ally in reaching your ultimate goals and creative thinking.

When visiting your subconscious library, ask your Inner Coach for the book about weeds. Open it and spend some time in this area. Take a moment now and locate some of your common weeds. Remember, the more you notice the better your outcomes. You cannot release what you cannot see or feel. Make some mental notes as well as some written notes to etch these ideas.

Common weeds I'm aware of include: ________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Take a moment to place some affirmation plants in the areas where you just weeded.

• I can see many weeds in my garden and I know their names.
• I'm becoming an expert gardener.
• I plant affirmations in place of weeds.

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR...

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

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http://www.international-medical-health-writers
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Workbook Day 12 - Seeds or Weeds?

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time you repeat the act you strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act".....Orison Swett Marden

Through this work discipline you are beginning to form your personal goal quilt. Every one who reads this book and works with their Inner Coach has different goals. Even if the goals appear similar on the surface, such as sugar addiction or eating disorder management, weight loss, accelerated learning, improved memory and concentration, etc., the goal will take on the shape of the person, just as new shoes take on the shape of the foot as they are worn.

You all love to observe people who are high achievers. This observation helps to break down the walls of impossibility. You think, "If he or she did it, there is hope for me." Sometimes however, you say it consciously, but the subconscious is right there with a negative judgmental jibe, "You'll never succeed. Who do you think you are?!"

You are going to utilize role modeling at a different level of consciousness, a level where the judgment visitor cannot reach. You are going to plant seeds right into the subconscious mind where they will be nurtured, growing into beautiful prize-winning flowers, but first you must go off to the seed store to choose the seeds.

One seed you will be looking for is "a strong sense of purpose." This should sound familiar by now. You saw that seed when you were looking at persistence under the magnifying glass. Next you want a "sensory rich vision." This means that the goal is very clear to all your senses. You can see it, feel it, touch it, smell it and taste it! Image the picture of your goal and enhance the picture with as much emotion you can muster from all departments. This is sensory rich visioning. Another seed on your shopping list is "a strong belief in yourself." Also pick out the seed labeled "ability to plan and organize." Remember that one? Now choose "patience" and "perseverance." Add to the pile the "ease and willingness to acquire new learning and skills," "positive mentors or coaches,", and "a sense of play and pleasure in relation to work."

MIND EXERCISE.

Later today take some time to go deeper down. Go to the area of your Goal-den path, stopping at several of your gardens, planting the seeds you acquired. It's a good idea to write the names of the seeds on an index card. Simply open your eyes at the garden, see yourself planting, watering and fertilizing those seeds. During the day, observe your breath, go directly to the garden, weed if necessary, water and fertilize those seeds.

Take some time now to do this inner work. Check which of your seeds need the most care and make notes of these.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

And now some great affirmation fertilizer! Emotionalize these and place them in color and high action. While the words may be simple, the outcomes may be very complex.
• I care for my garden.
• I am focused on my seeds of self-discipline.
• I am growing patience and persistence.
• I like gardening in the mind.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS.....

If you have been following your new nutritional guidelines that you designed, you are already noticing both big and small changes. Perhaps you notice how your hunger patterns are changing. Is it easier to get through the morning without looking for a "quick fix?" If you are a smoker, you may be finding less desire to light up. This is not a coincidence. As you get the insulin in balance, you have fewer hypoglycemic dips and therefore you feel less stressed out. Many people smoke when they feel the body sensations that accompany these insulin imbalances, or use cigarettes to quell hunger. Now this is no longer necessary.

You may also find yourself getting more creative with your meal planning. This planning doesn't need to involve great cooking escapades. Of course, if you enjoy cooking, certainly go ahead, but if this is not your forte, you may still be thinking about your meals in new ways. Perhaps you have reintroduced shrimp, lobster, veal, pork or filet mignon into a noon time treat to accompany your fresh watercress or arugula salad. Eating like a king or queen. So many wonderful foods and so easy to prepare.

MIND EXERCISE.

Go to your alpha state and take the deepening ride a bit further down. Mini self-hypnosis journeys release stress and provide the opportunity to program the mind for change right in the moment. Once you have arrived at the level you prefer, ask your Inner Coach to come forward with some suggestions of foods to add to you meals. Perhaps take a mind journey through the supermarket or to some specialty stores in your town. Notice how many foods you haven't eaten in awhile even though you already like them. Place these in the supermarket cart in your mind. You might also etch these finding further by writing some notes to yourself.
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

You are in a good brain wave place to plant, so please go ahead.

• I'm waking up nutritionally.
• My nutrition forms the basis for my mindbody functioning.
• I function at high levels.
• I enjoy planning my meals.
• I think a lot about myself and my nutrition.
• I'm becoming an expert at meal planning for me.
• My body celebrates my meals with the promise of good health.
• My meals hold deep meaning.
• I communicate with my body through my food choices and I am rewarded.

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR...

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

Workbook Day 11 - Olympic Gold!

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.".......John Dryden

You are developing a very special discipline through this work. Many changes that are already occurring are permanent changes. When you program change from the alpha state, you place new material into your subconscious mind. This is very different than struggling with trying to change on the conscious level. You have been clever by engaging your body through improved nutrition to join in your quest for high level functioning. Your entire mindbody unit is working together towards your own Olympic Gold.

Perhaps you don't like the word "discipline." For many this is a "dirty word" and certainly does not impart fun! Actually discipline can be lots of fun and can make you feel terrific. Self-discipline is a skill that can be learned and converted into a habit. With self-discipline you can accomplish anything you desire. When you are self-disciplined the world is your oyster. The choices are limitless. Close your eyes for a moment, envisioning yourself shopping in the market of life, free to choose whatever you want. This is what self-discipline and the tools you are learning offer you.

As you become more self-disciplined your confidence will increase. This will empower you with determination and inner strength. You will begin to feel a new passion for life and any depression or anxiety will appear to lift, floating away like a dark cloud. Your thinking will sharpen and your abilities to analyze will greatly improve. Your creativity will enhance and fill you with great ideas!

MIND EXERCISE.

Take a moment now to ride your breath to the alpha state. Utilize some deepening exercises from the earlier areas of this book. Notice that your Inner Coach has already requested that your inner librarian bring you the book called "Things I am looking forward to through my development of self-discipline" Open this book noting some of the earlier entries. With your mind pen in hand, continue to author this book. Make notes of areas you would like to improve and explore. Remember, self-discipline offers you anything and everything in the market of the world.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS.....

To snack or not to snack......that is the question. A CEO asked me the other day, "Well, if I'm not going to snack on cookies, what should I snack on?" This question sheds light on a false belief, one that states "you all need to snack." I went on to explain the necessity of three balanced meals per day, having a look at his aerobic activity pattern (he did grin at this), as well as his hunger patterns, and whether the hunger is mind or body. I also wanted to know if his schedule required a small fourth meal or snack.

I am a recovered "grazer." It was not until I became involved in nutritional research about twelve years ago, that I even considered the possibility of eating three balanced meals. I also had no idea that I could manage my hunger and cravings in this way. To be honest, I didn't believe it. It only took me one week to realize how wrong I was. In the way my day is organized, I do not need to snack when I follow my eating self-disciplined program. I never miss breakfast and plan my intake around my schedule. If I am to have a late lunch, I make certain that I eat a bit more in the a.m. I do the same if I plan to have a late dinner. Sometimes I will bring a snack to work if I know I will not be eating until really late. This is a good example of organized planning for good sound nutrition.

MIND EXERCISE.

How about looking for another small change to do for yourself today? Which one feels right for now? Remember to state it as if it already occurred.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

Take time to plant some affirmations. Notice your emotions are sitting and reading all about your successes.

• I'm waking up nutritionally.
• My nutrition forms the basis for my mindbody functioning.
• New ideas for changes find me and plant themselves.

MINDBODY WORK.....

Today's work is with interactive self-hypnotic. You learned about this tool earlier in this book. Here you will be working with additional applications. You already know that self-hypnosis is the process of slowing of the brain waves and placing suggestions in the subconscious mind with special imagery called metaphors. You have lots of choices when working with self-hypnosis. You can choose your induction technique, as well as how deeply you will go into trance. You might like to go back and review some of these in the earlier sections of the book. A great image to utilize for deepening is counting backwards. You can also add an image of a spiral staircase to this counting and focus on the toe of your shoe going deeper down. Sometimes when deepening, the body sends up a communication such as a part jumping or twitching. Remember that this is only the release of stored stress and nothing to be concerned about. Actually, as it releases you will go even deeper down.


MIND EXERCISE.

It is not necessary to go to go very deep in order to practice hypnosis. The most powerful work for change is accomplished right below the alpha level in an area called theta. After you finish reading your work for today, plan a time to practice going deeper down. If you find yourself deeper than you like, simply climb back up the same way you went down! When you arrive at a level you like, look up and see how far down you are. This cements this level in your mind and body. Take some time to walk around the area where you stopped, noticing how beautiful it is. Perhaps you might like to use the image of the Goal-den path and your goal gardens. Notice the colors, stop and smell the flowers. Feel how soft are the pedals. Notice how far the gardens go to the right and left and how they are divided into sections including mindbody health, work, play, relationships, prosperity, spiritual to name a few.

Deepening practice is a good time to sneak in some affirmation planting.

• I am learning new tools and they benefit my self-development.
• I go deeper and open my stress areas with ease.
• I'm in control of my mind and body.
• I strengthen myself with self-hypnotic trance work.
• I manage my addictions and eating disorders with self-hypnotic trance work.
• Uncovering stress areas are beneficial to my self-growth
• Every moment is filled with value, waiting for me to claim it.
• I move past fear and other emotions easily.

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR...

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

Workbook Day 10 - Parade Route!

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.".....Harry Emerson Fosdick

"I don't have time to do all of this work!"

If I had a quarter for everyone who told me that they don't have enough time, I would be rich! You have been discussing the need for organized planning and this is where one of the secrets of time management will be revealed. As I told one group I was speaking to yesterday, "since you are already breathing anyway, why not breathe to your advantage?"

The work you are doing together actually changes the body physiology, allowing us to concentrate at much deeper levels. You are also retraining the brain through the body scanner, now adding in emotional and thought management. These techniques are also known as focusing tools. As your concentration, focus and mind flexibility improve, you will see that you can accomplish much more in less time.

So while it appears that you are adding more things to your "to do list", what you are actually doing is training your brain to work more efficiently and effectively for you. For many, the brain is like an employee who is not working up to potential. Some brains are actually quite lazy............but now, thanks to improved awareness exercises, the body scanner, and beginning work with active meditation, you are on your way to true time management and optimum functioning.

MIND EXERCISE.

Nothing happens by itself. The fact that you are reading this work will not bring change. You must think, apply and act. If any of those steps are missing, you will continue to rest by the side of the road while others pass you by. The things you have to do to succeed are not difficult, but they must be done consistently and with persistence. It helps to have reminders for practice. Spend a moment of internal quietness and ask your Inner Coach for some suggestions to remind you to practice your new work. Sometimes the Coach will answer directly and other times a bit later or in a dream state, but you will always receive an answer. Be sure to write down the messages to further etch them into your subconscious mind programming.

Since you are in contact with your Inner Coach, take this opportunity to plant some affirmations. Each and every time you do so you are stimulating the neuronal growth of the brain.

• I am aware of my frequent visitors who interfere with my persisting.
• As I recognize them and smile, they move away.
• I am a winner.
• This is easy for me.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS.....

Recently I did a "brown bag lunch" presentation for a very high profile technological company. I was very curious as to the type of lunch prominent "high tech" people consumed. Needless to say, I was shocked. Out of the thirty people, only one had anything near good nutrition and even she chased the good food down with a diet soda. In fact the company provided soda and sweetened drinks for everyone!

It is important to follow your new food plan. You can eat everything you like everyday, but it is very important to keep your balance based on your family and personal medical history and exercise level. I am well aware of the perceived difficulties in making these changes, but as you begin to feel less fatigued, more concentrated and focused, these become their own motivators. I remember when I started my own personal nutritional changes about twelve years ago. I was looking to manage my sugar addiction and to lose weight. When I noticed the tremendous difference in the way I felt physically, emotionally and mentally, I remember saying that I would trade any weight loss to just keep this feeling of wellness. Of course I did lose the weight, and also got to keep the feelings!

MIND EXERCISE.

How about looking for another small change for today? Which one feels right for now? Notice that you are considering changes that you never would have considered last week. Your body physiology is changing and your confidence levels are rising. You have already changed many things and so you no longer feel frightened or overwhelmed. You also know to experience "choice." You don't have to do everything at once. This is a form of release and freedom.

Make some notes of things you might like to change now or even in a few days in relation to your nutritional work.

Take this quieting moment to plant affirmations. They may open additional areas for change possibilities. Don't forget to emotionalize and set them into action..

• I notice all of my meals.
• I congratulate myself for a job well done.
• I can shop for food and keep in control.
• It is easy to pass up foods that don't add to my long and short-term goals!

MINDBODY WORK.....

Earlier in this book you learned about the practice of Awareness Meditation and how your thoughts connect to your emotional states and how your body sensations respond to these interactions. The practice of body scanning allows you to notice body sensations and to open them, thus changing the body physiology. Now you can apply the opening to emotions, as well as thoughts. Opening emotional states allows for release, or partial release and the changing of body sensations. Through the opening you will be able to ask for further insights and information from your Inner Coach and subconscious librarian. Emotions tend to tighten the muscles and cause stress chemicals to be produced at higher levels. Opening emotions releases stress. As you practice catching thoughts as they roam the corridors of the mind, you can spot the emotions that are responsible for them.

Awareness Meditation Banking helps us to notice the mind talk of our emotions. You call these thoughts. I'd like you to really tune in to this inner radio station during quiet moments. Notice how it plays constantly. Remember that these are not just random thoughts, but true subconscious mind programs. These are goal programs, even if you don't want them. This is why it is so important to learn to catch and release them. As you listen, write down the emotion that is speaking to you at that time. As you learn to become more familiar with these visitors and their chatter, you can begin to make some choices, one of which will be to turn the volume down at will!

MIND EXERCISE.

Meditation Banking plays a big part in organized planning. It allows for clearing the mind and opening the door to the subconscious mind. It gives us the opportunity to place information in and to request inner assistance. Just as in body scanning and awareness breathing, it is important to actively practice these skills. Go to your alpha brain wave state and relax deeply. Allow inner joy to enter along with deep relaxation. Celebrate the fact that you have tools that are life changers. You no longer have to window shop in the world. You can enter your mind and access your goals with organized planning. Allow your powerful positive emotional crayons to color this new knowledge and become the motivators for daily practice.
When working with powerful positive emotional crayons be sure to plant hot affirmations.

• I practice Awareness Banking daily.
• I am open to new ideas and the ideas open even further.
• I am freeing myself from all addictions and eating disorders.
• I am free to be the me I want to be.
• I am free to grow and achieve.
• My life is my own.

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR...

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

Workbook Day 9 - Enemy Camp!

"The reward of a thing well done is to have it done." Author unknown

When you started the development of your personalized blueprint the need for a good honest self-evaluation was presented to you. You want to get underneath that magnifying glass . The more willingness you have to see yourself, the easier it becomes to persist and achieve. For many of us this is difficult, especially if you have a history of being harshly judged by others, especially our parents.

Some of us have spent our lives harshly judging ourselves as well. I want to suggest to you that these "magnifying glass exercises" are not judgmental, but just informational. If you promise yourself compassion and self-love as you look through the magnifying glass you will find it easier to be brave. You need to be able to see to be able to change. Then you can develop organized plans to move forward.

MIND EXERCISE.

Today I am going to suggest that you look for some of the big enemies that keep you, as well as all of us from succeeding in reaching goals. Go right ahead to your breath and ride the waves for a minute of so. Now, stand before the mirror in your mind and see if any of these difficulties are hanging around you:

• Failure to see clearly what it is you really want
• Lack of interest or desire
• Alibi making or passing the buck
• Procrastination usually seen visiting with alibi making
• Indifference or being ready to compromise frequently rather than meet the opposition and
wage war if necessary
• Willingness to quit at the first roadblock
• Lack of organized written plans
• Habitually being indecisive
• Looking for short cuts
• Fear of being criticized.

Go ahead and make some notes for yourself for subconscious mind etching.
Some visitors I saw in my mirror and some of the things they told me were: ___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

Let's go ahead now and plant some powerful imagery-driven affirmations. Great colors this time.

• I am aware of my frequent visitors who interfere with my persisting.
• As I recognize them and smile, they move away. I am a winner.
• This is easy for me.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS.....

Earlier in this book, when you were reviewing your personal and family medical history, I explained the necessity of cutting back on high-glycemic foods, as well as the frequency of eating or drinking them. It is important to keep a running list of them in our mind computer. If you learn to label when you notice them, you can become more aware of how pervasive they are in our society. Next time when you go to the supermarket practice finding and labeling high glycemic food choices. You may be shocked at how many you find. Also label the lower glycemic foods.

A good exercise when driving is to spot the high glycemic eating places. Remind your brain that these are not good choices for you. As you do this on an ongoing basis, should you have a keen desire to stop there, or purchase those foods, your mind will be ready to help keep you on course. For a review of high glycemics, go back to the nutritional areas of this book information . It helps to review these things from time to time, especially during the process of reframing our nutritional experiences in the brain storage.

MIND EXERCISE.

The work of the past few days has triggered some new changes for you. All you need to do to collect them is to enter the alpha brain wave state, deepen somewhat, tilt your eyes up and collect your subconscious mind email.

• I care for myself at high levels.
• I am aware of my food and drink intake.
• I enjoy keeping my food logs.
• My awareness is expanding....
• I can stop high glycemic foods easily.
• I eat these in a balanced meal only, cutting back on the amounts.

MINDBODY WORK.....

Today you will begin our work on the management of thoughts and emotions. Let's review the emotions by family groups. Earlier you learned how to disassociate by always looking for the emotions OUTSIDE of yourself. You are familiar with the imagery of emotions being children with tee shirts stating their names. You all have lots of emotions, but most of them live and hang out in family groups. The more emotions you can spot, the better you can manage them. You cannot manage an emotion if you are not aware of it. First comes awareness, then choice and then control.

All emotions speak, just like children. You can hear them in your thoughts. When you catch them early enough, you can deflate them and then educate them towards your goals.. If you do not notice their arrival, not only will they continue to hang out with you, but they will become more powerful. This would be great if they are helpful, but many are not. They tend to call in their counterparts to join the party and sometimes the party is not a good one for our goal outcomes, nor for our health.

The family you are going to recognize today is the ANGER FAMILY. Some members include fury, outrage, resentment, wrath, exasperation, annoyance, irritability, hostility, hatred and even violence. There are other members but these are the most popular. I would like you to go back over the emotional crayon list again and highlight your most frequent visitors in the anger family. Find lower anger emotions and start to be aware when they come hanging around. All you really want is to be aware of their arrival.

MIND EXERCISE.

Your Inner Coach is willing to help you notice members of your anger family. Relax deeply now and tilt your eyes up. You can feel the arrival of your Coach. Ask inwardly to be advised when one of these emotional children are present or about to arrive. When you notice a visitor call him or her by name and ask what is needed. Be accepting and gentle. This may sound a bit strange, but when you learn to work with emotions in this non-judgmental way, you will be more successful in having them move on. You can also gain information from them. Listen carefully after you ask the question, "What do you need?"

Notice that the emotions can be helpful in planting affirmations.
• I recognize my emotional visitors.
• It is getting easier for me to notice them.
• I am learning from these visits.
• I am growing in new ways.

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR...

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

Workbook Day 8 - Skinned Knees

"All things are difficult before they are easy.".........John Morley

The idea, thought, group of thoughts or the "old story" that things are too hard, too complicated, too painful, etc., etc. can keep you locked up, just as if you were in a prison without a key in sight. And so, let me give you the Key in the form of an idea. Perhaps you've known this before and of course, you have known this, but this time you will act on it in new ways, for that is the purpose of your reading my work.

It is important to develop a strong belief in your ability to carry out the plan towards your goal. Sometimes you are not even aware that you don't have this belief, so let's go ahead and do some inner checking.

Focus on your breath for a minute and gently allow the following question to arise. "Can I achieve this goal?" The answer will come before the question is even completely out of your mouth...the mind works very fast! If you get a resounding "YES" just smile knowingly. If, however, you get a weak little "yes maybe" or a resounding "NO", you have some additional work to do. These answers were returned to you from your subconscious mind based on past experiences and beliefs. This does not mean that they are correct, nor does it mean that these beliefs cannot be changed. These needs will form some of your focus work for today.

It is important to start growing some plans for persisting and final goal expectation.. Your inner plans should be organized from start to finish. Don't worry if they appear weak or impractical in the beginning, because as you become involved in the unfolding of the goal, the plans will become stronger and more perfected. Plan to spend some time each day perfecting your organized plans. As you do this exercise, your willpower will increase, as will your ability to persist. If you notice difficulties in evolving a plan of action, have another look at the goal, making certain you really desire it and that there is some definite purpose for the work you are proposing.

The act of organized planning leads to the development of habit and persistence is the direct result of habit. Your mind will become absorbed by the daily experiences on which it feeds, and since these are directly related to your goal achievement, you will continue to move closer and closer. On occasion you will hit a stumbling block....just notice it and step right over it. Some blocks are small and some are much bigger....it really doesn't matter to the person in pursuit of the goal. Stumbling blocks are a signal to move past or over. If you notice the arrival of the emotion called "fear", just label it and refocus on your breath and your goal. You will certainly be doing more work with emotional visitors in days to come.

MIND EXERCISE.

Take time to enter your alpha brain wave state and go deeper down than before. You learned many deepening exercises earlier in the book and it's always a good idea to review them and to keep them active in practice. After you read this exercise, close your eyes and begin the work. Enter your inner or subconscious library and notice that your Inner Coach is standing next to the subconscious librarian fingering some of your organized goal plans. Go ahead over and pick up the plans. Notice that your goal areas are written on the top of each plan. Begin to review them one by one. After reviewing each one, open your eyes and make some notes of important findings.
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

Notice that affirmations have already organized themselves on the inner screen of your mind. This time they brought their own action images, some even with sound.

• I work on my organized planning daily.
• I review my plans and they are clear to me.
• Details of my plans magically appear on my mind screen.
• My plans are alive and speak volumes to me.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS.....

Go back to the beginning of your food logs and notice that your Inner Coach has indicated areas that need some change. Some changes are very small. It's easy for you to see these now. . Have you made these changes yet? If you haven't I would like you to choose just one change to make today. Perhaps you will choose the easiest one for you, or maybe you will choose the most difficult one. Whichever is fine. Often times you balk at change because it seems overwhelming. I want you to spend a few moments with your breathing at the alpha level and then see a picture of yourself with the change already made. See how happy and pleased you look. It really was quite easy.

MIND EXERCISE.

The opportunities to change something nutritionally are all around you. Every day you should attempt to get a bit better at managing our nutrition. Perhaps you could make a list of all the things you didn't eat or drink that interfered in the past with your optimum functioning. Even something as small as only having one cup of coffee instead of two or three, is a step in the right direction. Long term success is made up of many small achievements day after day.

Notice your Inner Coach has become more active and whispers in your ear. Sometimes it is about things to do or change, but other times it is about celebrating things you have changed. Take some time now to note some messages you have received: ___________
____________________________________________________________________

The Inner Coach is placing affirmations for you today and notice they are in color with powerful images that delight you.

• I care for myself at high levels.
• I am aware of my food and drink intake.
• I enjoy keeping my food logs.
• My awareness is expanding......

MINDWORK.....

It would be a good idea to relax deeply before reading this work. A light alpha state would be great and allow the images to truly etch in your subconscious mind. Read this as if I were writing you a letter about things I've noticed about you.

Yesterday you worked with the goal pictures encircled with white. Today I want you to place a picture of yourself with your new belief in that circle of white. See yourself achieving your goal and especially notice how easy it was to do this. You might even see and hear yourself repeating, "This is so easy. I had no idea this would be so easy."

You might see yourself organizing your plans to achieve your goal. Notice how relaxed you are and how you are so focused in your intent to organize the plans. The plans come easy to you. The pictures are clear and you may even see the list of plans in the white circle. Maybe you can't read them from where you are sitting, so just reach forward and take the organized plan list in your hand and place it on your lap.

When you are finished with this exercise, pick up the list and read it. Do this exercise even if you have a strong belief about your ability to carry out the organized plans to reach your goals. You can all use all the determination you can muster. This is a great opportunity to build strength in this self-development department.

As you see your belief in the white circle, what stands out? ________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

I've added these affirmation plants in my letter to you. They play out like little television programs. Remember to allow your subconscious mind to fill in the details.

• My beliefs are clear.
• I can see my plans developing.
• I enjoy doing this work for myself.

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

Workbook Day 7 - Hammer & Nails

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.".......Demsthenes

Yesterday you started to approach the powerful mind states of persistence and consistency. Most of us would certainly welcome these mind states, but few of us have any idea how to do so. On the surface whatever doing might be necessary seems far too big to tackle and so most simply put the general equation aside. You are not going to do that.

This work begins in the same way as your other tools. This is not a complicated process, but one that takes diligence. You will become aware of the little moments when you can effect a change of some sort. You might remember your earlier subconscious mind change work when I asked you to notice small changes that you had made and told you of their importance. Here they are again.

There are many opportunities to build persistence and consistency. These opportunities are in the moments, but before anything can change, you must be aware and then you can acknowledge the power state of choice. What you are learning here could be called the anatomy and physiology of change. Just as your body has an anatomy and a physiology, so do many things and change is one of those things. As you begin to look into change and into the moments, you will become a creative thinker and one who runs the race to perfection.

MIND EXERCISE.

Take a moment to prepare yourself for inner work. Always be certain you will not be disturbed and have your journal handy. Remember that writing ideas that may float up will etch them further into both your conscious and subconscious mind. Once you are ready continue to read along.

Some people have trouble with persisting, because they don't have sufficient desire. If you find yourself weak in the persistence department, look with your trusty magnifying glass at what it is you are having difficulty with and then ask yourself,

• "Do I really desire this?"
• "How much to I desire this?"
• "Do all parts of me really desire this?"
• "Can I feel the desire in my gut?"

Many times you think you want something, when the reality is that you don't really care that much. Once you know that you really want whatever it is, you can utilize organized planning and the power of visualization and suggestion to motivate ourselves, even through tremendous difficulties. More about this later.
Look into your mind memory bank and retrieve instances when you truly desired something, those times when NO ONE could possibly stop you. While you are looking, be sure to notice the "little desires." They can be utilized to fire other desires. Make notes of those now:___________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

This is a powerful time to add some affirmation plants. Notice if any emotional visitor arrives telling you not to stop to do this, perhaps telling you that you can do this later, or it is better to read ahead and then come back. Keep an eye out for these emotional states. They are usually related to procrastination and immediate gratification. You want to learn to catch and diminish these. Go ahead now and tilt up your eyes locating your inner movie screen.

• I recognize persistence and congratulate myself on practicing this skill.
• I am aware of many times when I persisted.
• I review my memory bank and applaud my pictures of consistency and persistence.
• I recognize desire.
• I can feel desire in my mind/body whenever I choose to!

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

Earlier in the book you learned about keeping food logs. I would like you to review your food logs every day. At that time go back and look at previous ones. Can you begin to see changes emerging?
In the beginning many of you thought you could never make changes. You were actually prisoners of your food choices and could not imagine that you could change. As you began to follow your personalized food plans and incorporated small daily changes, everything started to fall into place. Perhaps if you were having difficulty getting to sleep, or sleeping through the night, you have noticed a change in the quality of sleep, maybe even your dream quality. In the near future I will show you how to utilize your dream states to access information, as well as to place information aimed at your personalized goals.

MIND EXERCISE.

While you have gone back and noticed your changes in the food logs, it would be helpful to etch these further into your subconscious mind programs. Go ahead and make notes about what you found in the food logs. _____________________________
____________________________________________________________________

You have learned to view your emotions as children wearing tee shirts. You know that some work in your behalf and others get in the way of goals. Enter your alpha state and notice that all of your emotions are sitting down and understanding the importance of your daily work. The emotions will pick up tools and help to plant the following affirmations. Notice that the unhelpful emotions are helping as well as they learn to change towards the goals.

• I care for myself at high levels.
• I am aware of my food and drink intake.
• I enjoy keeping my food logs.
• My awareness is expanding....

MINDBODY WORK.....

Today you are going to explore some mind expansion techniques that will help you to develop persistence. This is a deep exercise so wait for a quiet time. In the future, once your mind is trained, you will be able to do exercises such as this anywhere even while in the process of talking. However, while you are learning and reprogramming your mind bank, it is a good idea to do this quietly.

MIND EXERCISE.

Focus on your breath and work with your fingertips on your lower abdomen. Allow the breath to become regular and rhythmic. Once your breath is in place allow your movie screen to position itself behind your closed eyes. Place the rhythm of your breath at the bottom of the screen, like peaceful waves. Above the waves place your desired goal picture. Make it full colored and see the goal as completed. Encircle the goal picture in white. Go into your mind bank , taking out one of the desire memories you found earlier on and remove the feelings of desire from that memory. While focusing on the circled desire, infuse it with the feelings you have just removed. Really feel it, as you continue to focus on the circle of desire. Say to yourself, or out loud, "This is what I want, or this is what I need." Practice this exercise with this goal desire frequently. You will soon begin to notice your ability to persist has greatly improved.

It's a good idea to work with one desire at a time. Once you become more proficient at this exercise, you will be able to work with additional goals. The mind works best when the goal is very clear and concise. That is one reason why you circle it in white. This white circle is saying to our brain, "Pay strict attention to this as it is very important.,"

Take this moment a bit further and plant the following affirmations, or ones that choose to arise in your own mind at this time.

• I see my desires clearly.
• I work with my desires frequently.
• I practice infusing my desires throughout the day.
• I can feel my ability to persist improving.
• I'm on my way!

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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Workbook Day 6 - Ostrich Syndrome

"Many receive advice. Only the wise profit from it."....Syrus

Walk into any bookstore and you know there is no shortage of books, magazines, tapes, etc. written for the express purpose of helping us to make lifestyle changes. It is important to read and learn. It is also important to apply what you have read and learned into your action steps.

Why do so many people hang on to unhealthy lifestyles? Is it difficult to make a lifestyle change? Indeed not, but most people have not developed goal setting and planning into their life work. They have failed to develop and apply self-discipline, persistence and perseverance in their life skills. They stay in procrastination, head in the sand, even though their life is on a dangerous course. The belief is, "If I can't see it, it can't see me." Dangerous belief!

This morning I was working with a woman who had a very obvious co-dependent relationship with her daughter. I asked her if she had ever read any material on this subject, especially on rescuing and enabling? "Oh, I have a library full of books of those subjects!" I asked her about her "action plan" and she looked at me completely mystified. Despite all that reading, she had not put one idea into an action plan in helping her in this most important relationship which was key in managing her high levels of stress and distress.

MIND EXERCISE.

Take some time with this and make certain you have your journal handy. Travel to alpha and relax deeply in the chair before you read the rest of this paragraph. OK....ready....

• In what areas of your life do you need to develop an action plan?
• In what areas do you need to practice persistence and perseverance?
• In what areas are you looking for a quick fix?


And now look your inner library and find those entries of when you were self-disciplined, persisted and persevered through obstacles. Make some notes about these areas of interest
This is a very important area to plant some living affirmations. Be sure to bring in some powerful emotional crayons and color them deeply.

• I recognize persistence and congratulate myself on practicing this skill.
• I am aware of many times when I persisted.
• I review my memory bank and applaud my pictures of persistence and perseverance.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

Few people take the time to notice their daily food intake. All of my students, whether they are looking to manage sugar addiction, eating disorder, lose weight, gain weight, or are looking for optimum mind/body functioning are keenly aware of their food intakes, as well as their hunger types and corresponding emotional states. This is not a lot of work for those who are looking to function at a high level. Not one of them can afford to ignore this most vital information. that moves them ahead of the pack. If you want to be successful at anything, you must do success-orientated steps over and over. You might notice yourself passing those who tired out on the way. Many people talk but few follow through. Ask yourself now which you will be?

My students are well aware of even minute changes in their body sensations, energy levels, hunger states and emotional states. The first order of business after noticing these changes is to review their last few meals and snacks. They also keep an eye on water consumption and any other drinks or substances that have been ingested. Some of these might include chewing gum, breath mints, diet beverages, and including those with sugar, artificial sweeteners, or caffeine. Keep in mind that food and drink are chemicals and experienced by the body as such. For those with a family or personal history of reactive hypoglycemia or the Profactors for hyperinsulinemia, even the frequenting of breath mints can be enough to interfere with the functioning of the mind and body.

There is a very strong correlation between stress reaction and food intake. Feelings of reactive hypoglycemia are very much the same as "feeling stressed" or "feeling anxious or fearful." Remember to keep your food logs, especially for a few weeks until your awareness kicks in. You tend to operate on high auto-pilot with food and drink intake. It often takes people at least a few weeks to start waking up to this important issue.

MIND EXERCISE.

Return to the library of the mind and find your book. You already know the routine and the book I'm talking about. But this time I want you to open the area that will point out to you the small things you do that keep you sitting on the side of the road while other's pass you by. These are the things, however small, that act out in big ways and keep you from reaching your goals and recovery. There are probably many of them, so do request the book that has all of them.

Writing helps to seal the commitment to change. Go ahead now and make some notes about things you need to change that will help you to be a winner instead of a side the road sitter:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

Notice there are affirmations on the table for you. These are connected to winning, so go ahead and begin your planting.
• I care for myself at high levels.
• I am aware of my food and drink intake.
• I enjoy keeping my food logs.
• My awareness is expanding....

MINDBODY WORK.....

It is absolutely vital to continue working with breath awareness. I was working with a student this morning who told me that she didn't have time to do all this work. Actually she was quite angry with the process. Remember my opening words today on persistence and perseverance. Well, she certainly needs work in this area. The truth of the matter is that it doesn't really take all that much time and even if it did, I want you to ask yourself who is more important than you and your goals?

Awareness of the breath and rhythmic breathing are part of our moment to moment life. Keep a reminder on your desk, in your car, etc. which will trigger your relaxed rhythmic breathing. You are breathing anyway, so why not do it in a fashion that benefits the functioning of your mind and certainly your body?

MIND EXERCISE.

As you continue to work with body scanner practice, notice that your ability to concentrate on your work has improved. Your brain noise seems to be lessening. If you look at your thought processes like cabs passing you on the street, you might say that the traffic is a bit more manageable. This is the body scanner in action.
This particular exercise teaches the brain to function, with flow and flexibility. After awhile you will notice how easy it is to move from one task to another and immediately be able to focus very deeply. This is flexibility in action and your gift from body scanning and awareness breathing. . It is one of the most vital skills for developing a fully functioning brain process. If you are looking to improve your focus, creativity, goal setting, accelerate your learning, or just release stress, you are on your way.

Those who pass the side of the road sitters find new places to practice these tools. They know the value and smile inwardly as they pass those who don't get it. Take a moment now to meet up with your Inner Coach and ask to be directed towards additional places for you to practice. There are plenty of moments during the day for this if you just stay in awareness and desire to be a winner. As your Inner Coach helps you out with this winning strategy, make some notes to further etch the programs into your subconscious mind___________________________________________________________________

Take an additional self-development moment and plant these images.

• I enjoy my breathing exercises.
• I practice rhythmic breathing ongoing throughout the day.
• I remember to breathe from my alpha level.
• I breathe at my desk.
• I breathe in my car.
• I am aware of my breath.
• I am developing persistence and perseverance.
• I recognize their presence, and I welcome them !

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

Workbook Day 5 - MindOPENING!

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today,
because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.".......James Michener

There certainly are sufficient book, articles, CD's, plans, etc. showing us how to manage our lifestyle changes. Many of us have quite a collection of these sitting on our shelves. I know people who listen to programs all day long in the car, week after week, month after month and year after year. New Year's Resolutions are made, often automatically because they are the same year after year. One of the goals of this program and reinforced by the desires of your Inner Coach is to move dreams into end goal pictures. Goals that are achieved!

Here you are going to move through procrastination, while developing persistence, patience with ourselves and other and yes, patience with our goals. Sometimes in our desire to hurry up, you miss the all important communication with the subconscious mind librarian who is holding the goal. Goals are alive and have tremendous insight into what is needed, but also how to make them even better than consciously imagined.
While your goal in this program is to manage sugar addiction and eating disorders, the goals hold more ideas for recovery and moving forward than you know in your own thought processes. Our conscious mind is small compared to the vast subconscious mind. Your addiction is a key to emotional management and even high realms of creativity. As you work daily, spoon feeding your mind suggestions and allowing the mind to open and respond, you will be gifted with breakthrough thinking and Eureka's!

Many of us are completely out of touch with ourselves and our goals. You think you know what you want, but are hard pressed to describe it in any end-goal state. The subconscious mind needs more than this. It needs accurate description of what you want and prefers goals to be colored with high powered emotional crayons.

Today you are going to focus on goal setting and the act of moving forward. As basic as this may sounds, you must decide what you want and get very specific. Do take the time to do all of these exercises. I suggest to my students that they schedule 5 hours in the near future to work in these directions. This is not a lot of time when you come to realize that you are planning your road map for our future. Many people have taken a day off work to design the first stages of their plan.

MIND EXERCISE.

I suggest that you always enter your alpha brain wave state for all Inner Coach work. This will allow you to move out of conscious judgment and into the realm of creative thought.
Your first exercise is called "limitless wishing." Take a clean sheet of paper for each category of goals. My categories include:

• Mind and Body
• Relationship with Self
• Relationship with Significant Other
• Relationships with Others
• Work
• Prosperity
• Home
• Spirituality
• Future

You may add any categories that are important to you. Making certain you will not be disturbed, place one of these pages before you. Read through this exercise first, imaging yourself doing this before actually doing it. You might want to read this into a recorder if you are not working with my audio programs.

Close your eyes, placing your finger tips on your lower abdomen and allow your breath to be present. Ride the wave of the breath for a minute or so. Observe a man coming down the road dressed in long flowing gown. Of course if you prefer to have a woman image, that is perfectly fine. Notice some specifics the person. Here I will work with a male image. He has a white beard and a friendly gaze. He is holding something in his hands and as he gets closer you notice it is an old brass lamp. He offers it to you and reminds you to use it wisely.

Take it in your hands and feel the cool, smooth brass. Admire it. Find a place to sit down, continuing to ride your breath. Now, rub the lamp gently and as you do ask for your goals in the category before you to become clear. Put the lamp down, open your eyes and start to write a list of what you desire. Do not worry about sentences or form of any type. Do not judge any of your goals. Even if they are totally unrealistic, continue to write. If nothing comes return to your breath and image yourself writing. Open your eyes and put pen to paper. When you have finished, continue to ride your breath, seeing if one or two more goals appear.
Now, take another category, ride your breathe for a few minutes, pick up the lamp, rub it and ask for answers to this group. Once you complete this list, go on to the next until you have finished. At this point it is good just to sit quietly riding the breath and thanking the lamp for it's help.

Go back to the first list, reading it through. Find the three goals that appeal most to you and highlight those. Do the same with each sheet. When you have finished this part of the exercise, take another piece of paper beginning with your first highlighted goal just as if it were a living photograph that you were describing to a close friend. Describe it in some detail. Exactly what does it look like. How would it feel to have this goal. Try to be as specific as possible. Do this for each highlighted goal.

Now it is time to allow this information to percolate in the subconscious mind percolation system. Put your papers away for another time.

While the papers are away, there is still some mind work to do. Look inwards and locate some insights that you learned about yourself from this limitless wishing exercise. If nothing is forthcoming, ask the subconscious librarian to show these to you. Some free thoughts may float up now, or they may appear later, but they will come.
Self-goal insights: ___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

It's always a good idea to plant affirmations following these experiences. The subconscious books are already on the table and so here are a few for you to utilize. Be sure to emotionalize them and set them in action.

• I enjoy goal setting.
• I focus well on what I would like to achieve.
• My goals come easily to me.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

The more frequently you review this material, the easier it becomes to make changes. You will begin to notice that you are making some changes even without trying. It appears to be easier to change. Why is this?
Your subconscious mind has recorded all suggestions and is now busy helping you in ways that are outside consciousness. You will begin noticing that you are aware of many more things about your eating than before. You know that you do not have to measure your food. No one walks through life carrying a scale. It is important however to eyeball your intake and read your body sensations for low level changes in relation to what you are eating. In the past you never thought like this. You ate and that was that.

Now you have an internal system observing for this for you and reporting back to you when necessary. The body scanner and other awareness techniques help you to become highly proficient at this most important task. You are actively managing your sugar addiction, eating disorder and reactive hypoglycemia, but you can do an even better job. Remember that your interest is not being mediocre, but it success at high levels. You know that this success will carry over to other goal areas of your life and they are eager for you to improve even more.

MIND EXERCISE.

While these exercises appear to be the same on the surface they are not. Each time you do these, you are actually beginning from a different place in time. The openings to the subconscious mind are different and fired by new conscious knowledge. Just as each breath you take is different from the one before, the same holds true for entering the mind on a suggestion.

With an air of positive expectation, enter your alpha brain wave state with a favorite image or method, tilt your eyes up, request your change book and begin writing with your mind pen. Notice that today your Inner Coach is also making some entries to help you further along.

A positive change about my nutritional intake written by my Inner Coach tells me _____________________________________________________________________


Notice your Inner Coach has also left some affirmations next to the book for planting and also a not reminding you that simple statements lead to big success in managing addictions and eating disorders:

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

MINDBODY WORK.....

You are working well with your practice of body scanning and going to the alpha state riding your breath during the day. You have set up a good discipline for your banking practice. More than likely you are noticing some subtle changes in your physical being. This is because your subconscious mind is opening stress points all by itself. It is also keeping your auto-breath at the healthy alpha state level more frequently during the day.

Begin to notice this. Simply check in with your mind and body during the day just as if each major body group had it's own cell phone. If you find your body signaling tension, you know what to do. Place your fingers on the lower abdomen, allowing them to ride up and down. This only takes 1/200th of a second and your body physiology changes immediately. The more you check in with your mind and body, the better your performance. This is the Inner Coach CHALLENGE! The more you practice, the better you get and the closer you come to high level functioning

MIND EXERCISE.

While these exercises take very little time, do not underestimate their power. These are major mind programs and connected to high level health and optimum performance. With this in mind rethink the times you are practicing rhythmic alpha breathing. Notice how you can make these choices even better than before.

• New ways to practice enter my conscious mind.
• I'm awake to my body sensations and ask them to open.
• As I open body sensations I receive insights to emotions and goals.

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