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BURN THE FAT INNER CIRCLE NEWSLETTER
November 3rd, 2006
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Brain science proves that positive thinking and
goal setting literally creates your life experience
By Tom venuto
Last night on a special edition of CNN's Larry King Live,
Mr. King interviewed a panel of "mind experts" about how the
thoughts you think literally turn into the events you
experience, the material things you possess... AND even
the health of your body.
For years, "positive thinking" and goal-setting were
often lumped by critics into a category of "new age"
or "pollyana" fluff.
Panel experts Bob Proctor, John Assaraf and others explained
that recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and brain research
now reveal why goal setting, the "law of attraction" and
"positive thinking" all work.
Scientists have even identified specific parts of the brain,
such as the reticular activating system (RAS), which works
with the visual parts of our brain to call to our conscious
attention things that are important to reaching our goals and
to filter out those things that are unimportant. The RAS is
activated by "programming" goals into our non-conscious minds
We are discovering that our brain is cybernetic in nature, which
means that it is literally like a computer, waiting for a program
to be installed, and it will carry out all programming we give it.
Here's the kicker - this mechanism is completely netural and
impartial - it will carry out any instructions you give it. Your mind
is like the soil - it will grow whatever is planted in it - a bountiful
harvest or poisonous weeds.
Unfortunately, many of us are still running programs we picked up
from others as children when our non-conscious minds were totally
open and impressionable, or which we developed over the years as
a result of repetition of our own negative thinking.
As it turns out, our own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the
primary ways that our "mental computer" is programmed on a sub-conscious
level, which is the level of identify, beliefs, habits and automatic
behavior.
To change your results, you must literally overwrite old negative
programming and install positive new programming.
This can be achived through such techniques as written goal setting,
positive self-talk (affirmations), and mental imagery (visualization).
In the 1970's the Soviets and East Germans were the first to formally
use structured mental rehearsal and at that time, they dominated in
several olympic sports. Today, virtually all elite athletes use visualization
extensively, as we now know that the brain cannot differentiate between
real practice and practice that is vividly imagined.
If you are getting more of the same negative results in your life - such
as the same health problems, or the same body fat continues to return even
after you lose it, then you can rest assured that it is because you are
non-consciously running old negative programs and re-inforcing them with
negative thought patterns.
You can begin the positive mental reprogramming process by writing down
your goals, changing your internal dialogue and taking a few minutes
to relax, quiet your mind and perform a session of visualization or
mental rehearsal every day.
These methods, repeated often enough, will begin to program the non-
conscious portion of the mind, which is the same part of the mind that
controls your heart beat, digestion and new cell production, all without
you having to think about it consciously.
In the last decade, neuroscientists discovered you have the capacity to
create an almost infinite number of new neural connections in your brain
when you run new thought patterns.
The Old neural pathways are like the grooves in a record, and if you are
struggling with your health related behaviors or behaviors in any other
area of your life, you have been playing the "old records" over and over
again.
If you were to carve a new groove into that record, it would never play
the same way again. the old pattern would weaken and the new one would take
over.
Psychologists estimate that it takes 21 to 30 days to establish a new
pattern in your brain. During this time, the focus on sticking with
your practice and repeating your new thought patterns is critical.
Is this easy? For most people, no it's not. In fact, controlling your
thinking and keeping it constructive may be one of the most difficult
challenges you have ever faced. Fortunately, writing goals and reading
affirmations can help get you started.
You can also make it easier on yourself by simply accepting that negative
thoughts and self criticisms will pop up from time to time. Just observe
them, without mulling over them or adding to them, and change the polarity
of the thought by quickly repeating one of your positive affirmations.
This begins to cut the new "groove" in your mental records.
So is there something to this whole "positive thinking" thing?
The philosophers and theologians have been saying yes for the entire span
of recorded history: "As you think, so shall you be." Variations on this
proverb can be found in every spiritual and philosophical tradition.
But... if you are the left-brained, "prove-it-to-me" type, you dont have
to go on faith anymore. Scientists are beginning to prove more and more
convincingly that thoughts are powerful things. (Even Larry King seemed
impressed with what his panel of "mind mentors" had to say last night).
Your mind is a powerful force.
How soon are you going to begin your mental training right alongside your
physical training? When are you going to learn how to harness this power
that YOU ALREADY POSESS?
Guess what? You are already using this force every day because you cannot
turn it off. Whatever you are thinking and picturing in your mind
repeatedly on a daily basis is on it's way to you already, so it's simply
a matter of HOW you are using it, not WHETHER you are using it.
What do you say to yourself every day? Do you say, "I am becoming leaner,
healthier and more muscular every day?"... or do you say "I am a fat
person -
Ive tried everything, nothing ever works?"
Most remarkable is the fact that you can think yourself thin and healthy
or you can think yourself obese and ill. Not necessarily in the literal sense
that you can think and do nothing else and expect results, but in the
sense that those new neural pathways that you create in your brain by changing
your thoughts, will in turn create new behaviors that will move you physically
toward whatever you have been thinking about and focusing on.
Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto,
Inner Circle founder & CEO
PS This process of ***scientific*** goal setting and mental reconditioning
through emotionally charged mental imagery (visualization) and internal
mental dialogue (affirmations) is the very first thing I have always taught my
clients and the first thing I wrote about in my book, Burn The Fat, Feed The
Muscle (www.burnthefat.com). Why? Because you have to change on the inside (the
mind) before you can change on the outside (the body)
Inside the Inner Circle, there have been many discussions about the
incredible power of the mind to change your body and your health. One
of our Inner Circle moderators and contributors has burned more than 100
pounds of fat using these methods.
You can become a part of our community, join the discussions and learn
www.burnthefatinnercircle.com">more at www.burnthefatinnercircle.com
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Scott "Old Navy" Hults, starts bodybuilding at age 62
(audio interview - streaming audio and MP3 download)
His buddies told him, "You'd better slow down, you aren't
so young anymore." But Scott Hults thought different. At
age 62 he started bodybuilding and since then has won 22
trophies and awards and proves to us all that age is
nothing but a number.
http://www.burnthefatinnercircle.com/members/173.cfm
10 ways to get in better shape every time you travel
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Eating on the road is a challenge for many people, and some
people believe that it is "impossible" to stay in shape while
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and with some advanced planning, the right mindset and the
use of some take-it-with-you portable foods, they actually
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