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Change Your Mind and Change Your Life! Provided
by Global Health & Fitness You Are As You Think: The
Power Of Your "Cognitions" Cognitive psychology is a
product of the last few decades of the last century. The central premise
of cognitive psychology is that what you think determines how
you feel. Understanding this connection will be central to your success at
fitness or anything else in your life is. However, people are sometimes
reluctant to accept this basic truth, because it requires them to
acknowledge responsibility for what they experience in their lives. Some
people prefer to believe that their feelings either precede their
thoughts, or exist independently of them. Yet the truth is that our
feelings, good or bad, are the products of our own thoughts. It's impossible to have a
feeling about something until we first become aware of it. This means we
have to think about it before we feel it. For example, if your mate gets
upset with you for some reason during the middle of the day, but you don't
find out about it until later in the day, at what point do you have a bad
feeling about the event? No matter how upset he or she
was with you all day long, you had no feeling about it because you
didn't think about it. Many people suffer needlessly because they have
this relationship backwards. If you believe that your
feelings come before your thoughts--that your feelings come out of
nowhere and land in your head like a flock of stray birds--then you place
yourself at the mercy of whatever feelings happen to be "descending
on you" at the moment. Taking Responsibility
Gives You Power To gain the power you need to
make positive changes in your life, you can't afford to see yourself as a
powerless victim of external factors. This denies you the responsibility
for your own experience, and prevents you from enjoying the power that is
rightfully yours. To use that power, you need
to understand how it works in connection with your beliefs. It isn't that believing
actually makes things happen--though sometimes it does. But when you
believe something strongly, the "how to" of achieving it comes
to you virtually without effort. What you need to know and do somehow
flows magically into your awareness. In other words, the power of
your belief becomes a magnet for the precise solutions you need. The
stronger the belief, the better solutions you attract. This phenomenon is
at the core of our human creative process. Once we are fully focused on
what we want to create, and then believe we can create it, our results are
virtually assured! What Is Your Stage Of Fitness
Consciousness? With anything you do in life,
psychologist Abraham Maslow tells us there are four distinct stages of
consciousness you can be at: Stage One: Unconscious
Incompetence. This is where we are when we aren't reaching our goals and
don't know where to look for the problem, or may not even know that there
is a problem. An incredible number of people are at this stage concerning
weight loss and fitness. Stage Two: Conscious
Incompetence. At this stage we have become fully aware that what we're
doing isn't working, and we know we need to be doing something else, even
if we're not sure what it is. This is where most people are when they
start working with this success system. Stage Three: Conscious
Competence. After the first 3-4 weeks of Success Exercises, you will have
identified your problem beliefs and attitudes and very consciously will
have begun to replace them with self-supporting ones. You are now solidly
on your way to... Stage Four:
Unconscious Competence. This is your ultimate destination. At this stage
of development, you now automatically and effortlessly do the things that
keep you fit and at your ideal weight. You may or may not get there in 7
weeks, but you will be unstoppably on your way if you stay with the
program. If the task of changing your
beliefs seems a bit overwhelming, keep this in mind: Every single belief
you have right now was put into your mind with your own
cooperation. In other words, you're already a "seasoned pro" at
creating beliefs. However conscious or unconscious the process may have
been, you played a central role in the adoption of all of your current
beliefs. And it is you who keeps them
alive today and lets them run your life by not challenging their validity.
Not a single one of your beliefs can survive without your constant
support. You are the only one who can keep your beliefs alive, and you
are the only one who can replace them. |
