When I was morbidly obese, I spent years trying to lose weight by dieting.
But no matter how hard I tried, I just kept gaining weight.
I was over 400 pounds, frustrated with myself, and completely at a loss for a solution.
To my surprise, visualization worked stunningly well.
I just wasnt as hungry.
I started to crave healthier foods, and I started to become more active.
I had more energy and less appetite.
In fact I lost the first 75 pounds without doing any exercise at all.
That was over 10 years ago, and Im still the exact same weight.
My body still wants to be thin, and its simply not an effort.
Here are some of ways visualization helped me achieve the body and life I always wanted.
I visualized my ideal body.
I targeted my weight problem through visualization by creating a vivid image of my ideal body.
I imagined myself thin and fit, with defined stomach muscles and tight skin.
However, I didn’t care how unrealistic this image of myself seemed.
I wanted to ensure that I had a clear vision of where I was headed.
Eventually I became the exact image I visualized.
As it turns out, picturing clear, vivid images is the perfect way to communicate to your brain.
I used visualization to help reduce stress.
One thing obesity studies have clearly established is thatstress can driveweight gain.
Visualization helped me work through my emotional issues.
When I reached my heaviest weight, I was working alongside an extremely angry, aggressive business partner.
While he wasnt a physically violent person, he triggered past memories of being abused as a child.
I would imagine being engulfed in a column of light that was impenetrable.
It created a safe barrier around me that others could enter only with my permission.
Once I felt safe, the fat began to melt away very quickly.
Visualization helped me eliminated my junk food cravings.
Once I figured out how suggestible my brain was during visualization, I tried an experiment.
I pictured what would happen if I put these sugar granules which were ground glass in my mouth.
Worse, they would cut up my mouth and destroy my insides.
After just a few days, I didn’t want sweets or anything with sugar in it.
I’ve since taught this method to other people, and they’ve found it equally effective.
One woman wanted to control her chocolate cravings.
During visualization, she imaged that chocolate was in fact stinky, foul mud.
Within two weeks, she no longer craved chocolate.
I activated the Get Thin or Get Eaten adaptation using visualization.
Way back in our evolutionary past, certain adaptive behaviors helped us survive.
This adaptation still exists within all of us we just need to activate it.
The problem is there aren’t too many tigers out there chasing us anymore.
But it’s possible for you to activate this primal survival response with visualization.
I discovered the power of using visualization to activate the Get Thin Or Get Eaten Adaptation by accident.
One day while I was riding my bike a dog started chasing me, barking ferociously.
Before I knew it I was at an all out sprint with this canine snapping at my heel.
I escaped, and then discovered over the next two weeks the weight just melted off my body.
This worked really well and my weight loss continued to accelerate.
