Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Part II: Nonphysical Stresses that Activate the FAT Programs

emotional obesity that confuse your body into thinking you need to be fat. Consider this: • When you’re a habitually-positive thinker, the stress of the daily grind doesn’t affect you as much—so you generate fewer mental starvation signals. • You’re nourishing yourself with positive emotions and your life is more fun—so you generate fewer emotional starva- tion signals. • You feel more connected to the world, and your life has more purpose and meaning—so you generate fewer spiri- tual starvation signals. • You feel safer, you have less fear, and life becomes less threatening. You open up to the world and feel more in control. You also feel less angry and less inclined to use fat as a shield or as a weapon—you no longer suffer from emo- tional obesity . • You’re less likely to give power to negative beliefs that hold you back—so you don’t have mental obesity . Below are a few very useful techniques for creating the habit of thinking positively. The more you practice them, the more automatic positive thinking will become. Not only will you enable your body to lose weight, you’ll also be transforming your mind into a positive energy generator. This energy will then influence and power every other aspect of your life as well.

Techniques for Lightening Your Load Radiating Love

Love is the ultimate positive emotion to lighten your energy. It makes your life smoother, easier, more satisfying, more mean- ingful, and more enjoyable.

Technique: Sit alone quietly and use this imagery: imag- ine the feeling of a gentle, loving kiss of sunlight around your heart. 1 Feel this loving kiss of light bathe your heart

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