Can You Speak To Your Subconscious and Lose Weight?
Many people swear to this method but in order for it to work you must actually believe that it will. You may not believe it in the beginning and you may feel silly but after a few tries it gets easier and you may find that you actually like it.
Some of the most brilliant and successful people I know find that they get their best results by speaking aloud to their subconscious!
Certainly, you must do this when you are in a room alone, or people will think you’ve lost your mind. But try it! It’s free! And it may help you. It has helped a lot of people.
The first thing in the morning, after you’re up and around and have weighed yourself and written for five minutes in your note book—if you’re making that psychological test of your own ideas, your own subconscious, actually—stand up very straight, your hands at your side. And say aloud:
”I am not fat! I am thin! I have allowed fat to accumulate on my body, but it does not belong there. I am a thin, well-formed human being, and I shall do all in my power to stay that way—to regain the appearance that I know is mine.”
Say that several times. After the first day, omit the first sentence—and after that never again use the word “not” to your subconscious.
Never plant a negative thought in your subconscious mind! A negative thought is bad for the subconscious, no matter what the thought may be. Never give the subconscious any ideas about failure, unhappiness or ugliness. Only by thinking success can you become successful. Only by giving to the subconscious mind ideas of what you want to be can you become that way.
That may sound oversimplified to you and in a way it is. For certainly these thoughts on success must be followed by actions to make you successful. But the thoughts must come first, or the actions cannot follow.
Over 30 years ago, Emile Coué of Nantes, France, had what was, at that time, a novel idea. He suggested that you put thirty knots in a piece of string. And that, twice a day, at morning and at night, you take the string and repeat thirty times, once each time you fingered one of the knots, “Every day in every way I’m getting better and better.”
The idea worked beautifully for some people—and not at all for others. So Coué and his theory faded out of sight. Why? Well, for one reason, he had nothing to sell, so there wasn’t any promotional work back of him.
If he’d had something to sell, and had been given a big advertising build-up, his theory might still be around. For another reason, he offered no follow-up ideas. Now, saying “Every day in every way I’m getting better and better,” is planting a very fine idea in the subconscious. But unless you go on from there, the idea fades into nothingness.
If everyone said that simple sentence every day—and then followed up the remark by trying, conscientiously, actually to be better and better every day, M. Coué’s idea might have continued its initial spectacular success. Today, after these thirty years, we might be a different and a better people!
So remember to say your phrase every day. You can even change it a bit after a week or two but always try to fit in - I am thin.
Good Luck!
