Mind-Body Exercises to Lose Weight Quickly – part 2

If you’ve read my previous post in this series:

Mind-Body Exercises to Lose Weight Quickly

Then hopefully you have taken the time to:

1. Take Complete Responsibility
2. Forgive Yourself Completely
3. Establish Your New Intent &
   
4. Create an Action Plan

This can be done as a part of a simple meditation, and these steps are important… your progress will be much faster and easier when you choose to take these steps… so if you haven’t already, then I encourage you to do it now!

Once you have an action plan in place, and you have begun to take steps on it… you will occasionally notice there can be a significant pull to fall back into your old behavior…

How do you handle these temptations?

Let’s start with a simple understanding of human compulsion and human motivation.

Another important factor to mention is unconsciousness.

When we are aware of our drive toward pleasure and our movement away from pain, then we can be honest with ourselves about what motivates us.

When those desires are unconscious, we have not yet become aware of them… and thus we can neither be honest about them nor bring them under control…

We are at their mercy!

More and more people are taking the time to be aware of their motivation by pleasure and pain… the personal development field brings up this concept frequently.

The more you bring it into conscious awareness, the more you can enjoy it and direct it as you see fit!

There is another level of this to be aware of, though.

The craving and aversion mentioned in the video are still typically entirely unconscious.

Most of us aren’t aware of how we cling to pleasure and things we enjoy, and how that actually reduces the enjoyment and can create suffering.

Most of us aren’t consciously aware of how we resist and tighten up around pain… and how this magnifies and lengthens the effect of the pain… (how many people still feel bad about something that happened years earlier… it is rare to see someone who can relax completely around those painful memories… let the feelings flow… let the pain go…)

When we bring Craving & Aversion into our conscious awareness… we can begin to truly relax… this awareness meditation should gradually be brought into every aspect of  your life!

When we start to relax our aversions… when we release our craving to let our pleasure flow…

We Can Truly Be Free!

We must practice though… we must begin to notice these unconscious habits in our daily life.

Your habits around eating and exercising are no different.  If you have aversion to a certain exercise, it is almost impossible to do that exercise consistently.  If you have craving for a certain type of food, it is almost impossible to be around it without eating it.

When I quit smoking, for a while, I had to avoid my friends who smoked.  I also avoided going into gas stations… knowing that wall of cigarettes would be staring down at me.

So how do we translate this into an exercise to lose weight quickly?

Again, to oversimplify, there are two approaches to a solution.  The quick way is to work around it.  The more powerful way is to work through it….

Craving/Aversion Exercise to Lose Weight Quickly 1:

The Simple Workaround

1. Bring your cravings and aversions around food and exercise into conscious awareness (pay close attention to what comes up when you think about them or experience them).
2. Find an exercise that you have no aversion to (one you will truly enjoy).
3. Find a way to do that exercise consistently so you can lose weight (if you enjoy walking, it shouldn’t be too hard to walk every day).
4. Find a way to avoid the foods you have cravings for.
5. Remove the craved foods from your house.
6. Replace them with foods you enjoy, but don’t crave… if you crave twinkies and like bananas… then replace the twinkies with bananas (note:  this obviously isn’t a complete diet outline… there are plenty of resources for nutritional information out there… you still want to eat a balanced diet… you just want to avoid foods that you ‘crave’).
7. Continue performing the exercises you enjoy, and eating the foods you enjoy, while avoiding exercises for which you have aversion, and foods that you crave (note:  even the word ‘exercise’ causes aversion for some… you can use a different word… you can just call it ’something fun I like to do’ or ‘me time’… or whatever works best for you)
8. After spending some time doing this (a few months usually), you will begin to notice that your old cravings and aversions are somewhat diminished

This gives you the easiest method for getting results.  This can be an incredibly efficient mind-body exercise to quickly lose weight.

Using variations of this method, I have lost up to 50 lbs, quit smoking, and become much more consistent at many things I consider to be positive habits.

The only shortcoming of this method, is it only changes you at the level of habit… you might describe it as building a better robot… and though on some level it can be very rewarding, it doesn’t help you to permanently overcome the cycles of craving and aversion.

In my next post, I will outline the true seekers method… paying attention to and working through cravings and aversions…

This is real personal development…

Working through craving and aversion in one area of your life will loosen its grip in all areas of your life… the more you practice, the more you will see the craving, the aversion, and ultimately

The Suffering Will Melt Away!

See you soon…

Keep smiling,

Ben

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