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

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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.

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 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.

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http://www.international-medical-health-writers

Workbook Day 4 - How Long?

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
....General George S. Patton

Yesterday you took a look at your personal history in making changes. I hope you took the time to work with your time-line and visited your subconscious library. This is a valuable technique, one that will be used frequently in our work. As you work with different areas of focus I will make suggestions for additional ways to enhance the subconscious mind programming. I also call these "containments." When managing sugar addiction or eating disorders you might have several different containments. For example, shopping is an important one, workplace eating, weekend eating, etc. You get the idea. You can image them as inner mind books related to the focus, or containers, or even specific paths with street signs naming the focus.
Here you are in the focus/containment of change.

I would like to suggest that you keep an ongoing list of times when you made a change, as well as the motivator behind that change. You might make some notes on the emotional crayons both for and against. The more awareness you bring to yourself and your actions, the more successful you will be in your current and future endeavors. Don't just focus on large changes. Notice the small changes as well. Since you will have more of these, you will build resilience even faster. Every change is important and can be applied to new possibilities on the time-line.

Sometimes the enormity of the challenge ahead frightens us. This is especially true in managing sugar addiction and eating disorders. You can't imagine being able to succeed. I am often asked the question, "How long does this take?" When you are working on lifestyle changes you must think about working on them forever. In the beginning, this thought is very depressing to many people. I often see the face change, or if I am discussing this in written form, the words create the often down trodden mood.

Yesterday I was having lunch with a business friend. Our eyes met over our salads......."I’m so tired of eating foods that are good for me! I really miss the days when I didn't know any better, and ate whatever I wanted." I asked Carol if she felt better physically now or then. "Of course I feel better now, but how I enjoyed that food!" You can see from this short conversation an interesting truth and this is often the basis of many addictions. You know something is not good for us, yet you crave it and even miss it. Actually it is part of the grieving process. As you look back into our memory bank, you can see other times when this truth presented itself.

MIND EXERCISE:

Take a moment to access your alpha state. Remember it is right at the end of your belly breath. After reading this, close your eyes and tilt them up. Go into your subconscious mind library and look for times when you stopped certain behaviors that were not in your best interest. Notice the emotions surrounding these changes. Make some notes regarding these discoveries: _______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

Each time you bring up images from the past with connecting information, it's a good idea to add some extra value through the planting of emotionalized affirmations. While it only takes a moment, the changes can be life-enhancing. Image affirmations as multiplying as they enter your subconscious mind. Notice they enter many different library books on your shelves, as if they knew where they were needed.
• I am aware of my subconscious mind memory bank.
• I welcome challenges.
• I have met many challenges in the past and succeeded.
• My memory bank is filled with success pictures.

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

Sugar addicted people, as well as those with other eating disorders have lots of questions. Most of these were answered earlier in the book, but sometimes you find ourselves asking them again, as if they were new and no one ever told us the answer. There are many reasons for this needed repetition. Parts of us don't want to know the truth. You are tied to the problem and can't seem to undo the knot. Sometimes you don't want to untie the knot and prefer to stay in the question as if it had no answer.

How much food does your body really need? Why am I hungry soon after eating? Why do I have less hunger if I don't eat at all? Why can't I stop eating certain foods once I start eating them?

The Inner Coach work helps us to place the questions and answers hypnotically right down into the subconscious mind library. Here you will get used to them and be able to accept them with less efforting.
Some facts up for review today include the realization that the body is made up of the lean body mass and fat. The lean body mass is made up of muscles and bone, acting as the engine of the car. It needs gas to run. The amount needed depends on it’s size, total body weight and amount of aerobic exercise. When you are eating sufficiently and in the right balance for your genetic wallpaper you will burn fat. Burning fat is very different from burning sugar for energy. It feels good and looks good. Even if you are not looking to lose weight, you want to stay in the fat burning mode for optimal health reasons including the management of reactive hypoglycemia and optimum brain function.

I see many clients in my practice who exercise strenuously and who do not eat sufficient nutrition to cover these activities. In many cases, the body will store fat, even on a low fat, low calorie diet if the individual is over-exercising in relation to intake. Another scenario is the person who is eating far too many high carbohydrate foods, high glycemic foods and not a sufficient amount of protein, low carbohydrates and fat . There balance is usually way off. In both of these cases, the person may cause an over production of insulin. So, instead of feeling healthy, focused and full of energy, this person might have insatiable hunger, cravings, fatigue, poor concentration, perhaps finding it very difficult to manage body weight. Often as not, motivation is off as well.

While one does not have to measure food, it is important to eyeball your intake and read your body sensations for low level changes. The body scanner and other awareness techniques will help you to become highly proficient at this most important task.

MIND EXERCISE.

As you receive additional information and especially if you have resistance to change that is now opening somewhat, you will want to return to that book in your subconscious library. You might be surprised to notice that you are now able to be more committed to making food changes. Take a moment to enter your alpha state and after reading this close your eyes and tilt them up. You will find your book already in front of you on your mind screen. In fact, it is opened to the page you need. Pick up your mind pen and begin to write. "A positive change I am ready to make now concerning my nutritional intake is:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

The following affirmation plants will enhance the etching of these new programs. Observe as they enter even more books on the shelves of your subconscious library, as if they knew where they were needed.
• 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.....

Mind review time! Look back to the past few days and notice if you have been working with the body scanning and observing your breath. Do you have the "B" reminding you? A good idea is to get into the discipline of sitting for 5-10 minutes, at least twice a day, practicing rhythmic breathing at the alpha state. I like to do this either the first thing in the morning, or upon arrival at work. Do what works best for you. I also like to have a short session before lunch, thereby putting my thought processes and work down mentally and emotionally before eating and then another session before starting work again I always have one before leaving the office. This helps to build a containment between work and home. I know this may sound like a lot of work, but remember you are on the quest for optimum body and brain functioning. This is the CHALLENGE! The more you practice, the better you get and the closer you come to your highest level of functioning.

MIND EXERCISE.

Most people are caught up in auto-pilot life, moving from one stressful moment to the next. If the food is not in order, this journey is worsened. Your work is to wake up and to change in small increments. This is at the heart of body scanning. The body sensations can perform all kinds of wake-up calls including not only the lowest levels of stress, but waking you up to the possibilities of building stress. This is why it is so important that you build body scanning skills early in this program. They are at the very heart of interactive self-hypnosis work.

This is a good moment to ask your subconscious mind to assist you in building these skills. Enter your alpha brain wave state and become internally quiet utilizing whatever imagery you enjoy. After reading this tilt your eyes up and begin. "As I look at my day and evening, the times when I choose to practice body scanning and alpha breathing are presented to me." Notice the times and scenarios being shown to you by your inner librarian. Keep in mind that there will be exercises that border on sounding ridiculous. Pay no attention to that arrival of judgment. It will keep you from going forward in new ways, and so, ready to plant living affirmations now.

• 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 breathe watching television.
• I am aware of my breath.

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

Inward Ho! - Locating Life Balance

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

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

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

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

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

MIND EXERCISE.

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

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

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

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

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

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

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

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

MIND EXERCISE:

You already know where the mind book is located that relates to daily changes in food intake. Take a quiet moment for yourself and visit the library of the mind. Take the book off the shelf and open to your already in process change work. With mind pen in hand make a new entry. " A positive change I will make today concerning my nutritional intake is:
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

Now reinforce this mind etching with some affirmation plants. Here are some you might enjoy. Or ask your inner librarian to bring you some personalized ones. Remember they don't have to be complicated to work. It is important to color them emotionally. You might want to return to your emotional crayon area and pick some crayons you haven't used in awhile.

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

MINDBODY WORK.....

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

MIND EXERCISE.

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

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

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

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

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

NOTE TO NEW READERS:

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


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

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

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

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

Day Two - Hurry Up Disease

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

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

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

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

MIND EXERCISE:

Just as if you had a picture in your wallet of your judgmental emotional state holding it's little crayon, go ahead and describe it , just as if it were a little child wearing a tee shirt with the word "JUDGMENT" on the front. Listen carefully so you can hear the mind and verbal chatter. Notice it is separate from you and that you are the observer. This is a powerful exercise in disassociation. When something is separate from you the act of control is easier. The emotional child is outside of you where it can be contained and educated. _____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

Inner pictures with affirmation direction enhance new mind programs. Remember to tilt your eyes up 20 degrees and place your inner movie screen up and out before planting. It also helps to see a detailed picture with the accompanying words. In this exercise notice the building of the earlier blueprint. The inner mind is being directed to join this work together. This will enhance outcomes.

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

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

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

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

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

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

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

MIND EXERCISE:

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

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

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

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

MINDBODY WORK.....

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

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

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

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

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

MIND EXERCISE:

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

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

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

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

A NOTE TO NEW READERS:

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


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

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

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Day One - BluePrints

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

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

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

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

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

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

MIND EXERCISE:

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

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

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

NUTRITIONAL INSIGHTS:

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

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

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

MIND EXERCISE:

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

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

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

MINDBODY WORK.....

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

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

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

MIND EXERCISE:

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

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

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

A NOTE TO NEW READERS:

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


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

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

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

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