Hi there, it's Mike Geary from http://TruthAboutAbs.com &
http://BusyManFitness.com
I talked about this powerful secret to achieving almost anything you
desire in life a few months back, but just today, my friend Tom Venuto
sent an email and did an amazing job explaining the exact methods on how
to use this secret to successfully attain your goals... whether these
goals pertain to your dream body or anything else for that matter.
Tom's incredible article is below. For those of you that don't know of
Tom yet, he's the author of the most popular fitness ebook in the
history of the internet (according to Clickbank. com) - Burn the Fat, Feed
the Muscle.
Check out Tom's site at http://LoseFatAndBuildMuscle.com/
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Metaphysics & Brain science merge and prove that
positive thinking and goal setting literally
create your body and your entire life experience
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Last week on a special edition of CNN's Larry King Live, Mr. King
interviewed a panel of "mind experts" about how the thoughts you think
literally turn into the events you experience, the material things you
possess... AND even the health of your body.
For years, "positive thinking" and goal-setting were often criticized
as "pollyanna" and "the law of attraction" was relegated into the
category of "new age" fluff
On last week's show, panel experts Bob Proctor, John Assaraf and others
who were featured in the movie 'The Secret' explained that recent
breakthroughs in neuroscience along with understanding mental laws, reveals
why goal setting, the "law of attraction" and "positive thinking" all
work, regardless of whether you look at them from a metaphysical or a
scientific perspective.
Scientists have even identified specific parts of the brain, such as
the reticular activating system (RAS), which works with the visual parts
of our brain to call our conscious attention to things that are
important to reaching our goals and to filter out those things that are
unimportant.
The RAS is activated by "programming" goals into our sub-conscious
minds. Our sub concscious mind is the "power center" and THIS is the
mechanism that explains why goal setting and positive thinking are now being
accepted as scientific methods for change.
We are discovering that our brain is cybernetic in nature, which means
that it is literally like a computer, waiting for a program to be
installed.
Here's the kicker - the subconcsious is completely neutral and
impartial - it will carry out any instructions you give it.
Unfortunately, many of us are still running negative programs we picked
up from others as children when our non-conscious minds were totally
open and impressionable, or which we developed over the years as a
result of repetition of our own negative thinking.
As it turns out, our own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the
primary ways that our "mental computer" is programmed on a sub-conscious
level, which is the level of beliefs, habits and automatic behavior.
To change your results, you must overwrite old negative programming and
install positive new programming into your subconscious.
This can be achived through such techniques as written goal setting,
positive self-talk (affirmations), and mental imagery (visualization).
In the 1970's, the Soviets and East Germans were the first to formally
use structured mental rehearsal, and at that time, they dominated in
several olympic sports. Today, virtually all elite athletes use
visualization extensively, as we now know that the brain cannot differentiate
between real practice and practice that is vividly imagined.
If you are getting more of the same negative results in your life -
such as the same health problems, or the same body fat continues to return
even after you lose it, then you have probably been un-consciously
running old negative programs and re-inforcing them with negative thought
patterns.
You can begin the positive mental reprogramming process by writing down
your goals, changing your internal dialogue and taking a few minutes
to relax, quiet your mind and perform a session of visualization or
mental rehearsal every day (seeing yourself in your "mind's eye" not as you
currently are, but as you ideally would like to be).
These methods, repeated often enough, will begin to program the
non-conscious portion of the mind, which is the same part of the mind that
controls your heart beat, digestion and new cell production, all on
"automatic pilot."
In the last decade, neuroscientists discovered that you have the
capacity to create an almost infinite number of new neural connections in
your brain when you run new thought patterns.
The Old neural pathways are like grooves in a record, and if you are
struggling with your health related behaviors or behaviors in any other
area of your life, you have been playing the "old records" over and over
again.
If you were to carve a new groove into that record, it would never play
the same way again. the old pattern would weaken and the new one would
take over. Brand new, positive thoughts, feelings and images begin to
create new
neural patterns.
Psychologists estimate that it takes 21 to 30 days to establish a new
pattern in your brain. During this time, the focus on sticking with your
practice and repeating your new thought patterns is critical.
Is this easy? For most people, no it's not. In fact, controlling your
thinking and keeping it constructive may be one of the most difficult
challenges you have ever faced. Fortunately, writing goals and reading
affirmations can help get you started.
You can take some of the pressure off yourself by simply accepting that
negative thoughts and self criticisms will pop up from time to time.
Just observe them, without mulling over them or adding to them, and
change the polarity of the thought by quickly repeating one of your
positive affirmations or by changing your mental pictures.
So is there something to this whole "positive thinking" thing?
The philosophers and theologians have been saying yes for the entire
span of recorded history: "As you think, so shall you be." Variations on
this proverb can be found in every spiritual and philosophical
tradition.
But... if you are the left-brained, "prove-it-to-me" type, you dont
have to go on faith anymore. Scientists are beginning to prove more and
more convincingly that thoughts are powerful things. Even Larry King
seemed impressed with what his panel of "mind mentors" had to say. In fact,
I just found out that larry will be airing part two of this "Power of
positive thinking" show next week.
So how soon are you going to begin your mental training right alongside
your physical training? When are you going to learn how to harness
this power locked up inside your mind?
Guess what? You're already using this force every day because you
cannot turn it off. Whatever you are thinking and picturing in your mind
repeatedly on a daily basis is on it's way to you already, so it's simply
a matter of HOW you are using it, not IF you are using it.
What do you say to yourself every day? Do you say, "I am becoming
leaner, healthier and more muscular every day?"... or do you say "I am a fat
person - Ive tried everything, nothing ever works?"
The fact is - you can think yourself thin and healthy or you can think
yourself obese and ill. Maybe not in the literal sense...but most
certainly as the critical part in the chain of causation...
You see, there's a lot of talk these days in the personal improvement
world about law of attraction, manifesting, intention, visualization and
of course, positive thinking
Without understanding that there is an orderly, scientific basis
underneath all of this, many people will simply remain skeptics, while on the
opposite extreme, others may get the idea that you can sit around
meditating and visualizing, then expect a mystical "law of attraction" to
kick in and then "poof!" a great body materializes out of thin air...
along with the perfect relationship, a nice bank account and career
success.
What really happens is "Positive thinking" and related methods quite
literally re-program your brain, which in turn creates new behaviors that
move you physically toward whatever you have been thinking about and
focusing on.
So success is achieved through positive thinking + positive doing...
attraction + action. There are two sides to the coin. Without paying
attention to both, you may continue to struggle... often against nothing
but yourself.
If you want to transform your body or any other aspect of your life,
then you have to change on the inside (the mind) first and then
everything else will follow.
Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
Author, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle
http://LoseFatAndBuildMuscle.com/
PS This process of *scientific* goal setting and mental reconditioning
through emotionally charged mental imagery (visualization) and internal
mental dialogue (affirmations) is the very first thing I have always
taught my clients and the first thing I wrote about in my book, Burn The
Fat, Feed The Muscle You can learn all of these techniques in detail
in chapter 1. Learn more about the psychology of body transormation
inside the Burn The Fat ebook:
http://LoseFatAndBuildMuscle.com/
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Thank you Tom for your insights and sharing this enlightening article.
I couldn't have said it all better myself. I think the most important
point to take from all of this is that no matter what your goals,
dreams, and aspirations are in life, everything starts first with your
mindset. Nothing is achieved without first attaining the proper mindset for
success.
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Mike Geary
Fitness/Lifestyle Coach
Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)
Certified Nutrition Specialist
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