Contrary to dieting advice, many of us feel the need to eat an extra
pudding or snack after a meal, or to eat unhealthy food more often than
we should, especially around Christmas time.
In this situation, very often in the New Year, many people consider
dieting advice and decide to give up puddings or other unhealthy food.
That commitment usually lasts a few days or weeks at best, and then
we’re back eating puddings again, maybe even more than before.
Here’s an alternative approach to dieting advice: Instead of telling
yourself that you’ll never do it again, make a pact with yourself that
says you can have it if you want it, but you must release first.
You see, all habit patterns are locked in by patterns of feeling.
Particular feelings pop up in our awareness, and we try to cover them
over by taking a certain action, such as overeating. When you release,
you let go of the underlying reason or motivation for that habit.
If you get the urge for some pie, for example, and you simply tell
yourself that you can’t have it, you end up in a push-pull situation.
You feel deprived and can even start to obsess over that missed piece
of pie. You hold the desire for pie in mind, building up inner
pressure.
In the end you eat the piece of pie anyway, or a couple of days later
you give in and end up eating two pieces of pie instead of the original
one. Traditionally
dieting advice does little to counteract this tendency, which is why diets rarely work.
The Sedona Method’s
dieting advice, however, makes things
much easier. It states that you should first release whatever feeling is
giving you the craving for the piece of pie. Then if you still want it,
you can have it.
This creates the space to get into releasing around the habit, and you’ll soon notice the habit drop away.
The process of releasing involves first welcoming and accepting the
feeling you’re experiencing right now. Next, welcome wanting to change
that feeling. Then, welcome the feeling that it’s part of you and who
you are. Finally open up inside and let it to. You may have to do this a
few times to get the feeling to shift.
Not only does this Sedona Method
dieting advice make
it easier to physically lose the weight, but it eliminates the negative
feelings and cravings that usually come up when following most other
dieting advice.
Sedona Method teacher,
Hale Dwoskin, knows an actress who was trying to lose weight so that she could get the roles she wanted.
When they first met, she’d been attempting to lose twenty pounds for
over twenty years, but was never able to get down to the size she
wanted.
She tried all the dieting advice she could find. She exercised every
moment she could. In fact, she ran such a lot that she damaged her knees
and wasn’t able to run anymore meaning that she had to find an
alternative aerobic exercise.
Eventually she tried attending a Sedona Method live seminar. Her
instructor suggested she did what I described above, allow herself to
eat whatever she wanted providing she released first. This was what led
to her breakthrough.
Around two days afterwards, she went to a restaurant and ordered the
first hot fudge sundae she’d had for years. Not only did it taste great,
but she could do it guilt-free, because she was eating whatever she
wanted, but only after releasing.
When she released the feelings that made her want to eat, she ate far
less with no effort. In fact, she lost five pounds in just five days.
After about six months, she’d lost the twenty pounds she wanted.
That was many years ago now, but she’s still maintaining her ideal weight.
If she can do it, not to mention the thousands of other people who’ve
used dieting advice from the Sedona Method effectively, then you can
too.
Dieting Advice
Instead of attempting to change your habit, sign a mental contract
with yourself stating that the next time you want to reach for a pudding
or unhealthy snack, you can, but only if you still want to after you
release.
Following this simple
dieting advice, the habit of overeating will
easily fall away. This may happen gradually, or it could happen right
away.
Thousands of people have already lost weight this way. Experiment
with it by yourself and you’ll soon find that it’s the best dieting
advice you ever received.
