Finally committing to a health & fitness goal
Like most people, I've started the last few years with a goal to lose weight, feel better, etc. I've started out strong, but I just couldn't motivate myself to really committ to something. I knew that I needed to lose weight. I knew that I just didn't feel like myself. The problem was that it wasn't THAT much weight - maybe 10-15 pounds - so I would excuse it away... "maybe if I take different lunches" "maybe if I don't keep snacks at work"... of course that didn't work at all and here I am, still at the same spot.
This year will be different though. During the holidays I had a conversation with a woman in my mom's book group who's a hypnotherapist. We were talking about her job, how it works, etc, and she said something that really hit home for me. She was talking about how many people use hynotherapy for weight loss and she said "it's really all about self-love about taking away those barriers that tell you that you're not worth the time to spend on you". Wow. Okay. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that she's right. I don't do it intentionally, but subconsciously I do put everything else first - my job, my volunteer efforts, my family - and I wasn't taking care of ME. Not that I'm some martyr, but I never looked at my own health as some thing that I "owed" myself.
This year it will be different and I'm really hoping that by using this blog and the community on this site I can make it happen and make it stick.
This year will be different though. During the holidays I had a conversation with a woman in my mom's book group who's a hypnotherapist. We were talking about her job, how it works, etc, and she said something that really hit home for me. She was talking about how many people use hynotherapy for weight loss and she said "it's really all about self-love about taking away those barriers that tell you that you're not worth the time to spend on you". Wow. Okay. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that she's right. I don't do it intentionally, but subconsciously I do put everything else first - my job, my volunteer efforts, my family - and I wasn't taking care of ME. Not that I'm some martyr, but I never looked at my own health as some thing that I "owed" myself.
This year it will be different and I'm really hoping that by using this blog and the community on this site I can make it happen and make it stick.
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Comment by Rachel Smith on January 5, 2010 at 3:14pm -
For fun I participated in a group hypnosis session at a friend's bday party last year (one of his friends is a hypno-therapist and he was giving a demonstration, NOT inducting us into a cult :). It was an amazing experience; we were told to perform various silly tasks, to make a particular gesture when a certain song came on, etc. I remember the whole thing but while "hypnotized" I didn't feel any anxiety. After it was over I fully realized what I had done, basically acted like a fool for an hour in front of 50+ people. At first I felt weird and vulnerable and embarrassed, but then I realized that these are the scary emotions that we need to overcome and I did things I wouldn't normally do (like dance) and that it was OK, I was OK. There was nothing to be afraid of in the first place. I would totally do it again.
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Comment by Stacy Campbell on January 5, 2010 at 12:46pm -
That so good to remember! Thanks for those inspirational words. Best of luck to you (and me!)
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