The four cornerstones of effective weight management
or increasing muscle mass are
1. cardiovascular exercise
2. resistance training
3. proper nutrition
4. positive mindset
Think of these cornerstones as the legs of a table or chair, leaving out
just one of the above will lead to a much less stable foundation. As such,
Keri provides a balance of the following services to each client:
- initial lifestyle consultations – to determine current routine,
health and exercise history, likes and dislikes, and to figure out basal
metabolic rate and isocaloric needs
- customized personal training sessions and programs – tailored
to suit each client’s individual needs. Modalities include Pilates,
Plyometrics, KickBoxing, Weight Lifting, Interval Training, & Yoga
- Nutritional analysis, guidelines and support
- Behavioral therapy – aimed at getting at the route of your self
sabotaging habits and belief patterns and then creating a new reality.
The doorway to success in behavioral therapy is the Unconscious Mind.
Your Unconscious Mind not only holds information that is outside your
consciousness, but it also manages sensations and body functions. A moment
before reading this sentence, you probably were not aware of the feeling
of your feet against the floor, or your back against the chair. You have
sensations coming to your body all the time, but you remain unaware of
most of them.
In addition to managing all these sensations, your Unconscious Mind keeps
your heart beating, your blood circulating, your digestion working, and
your lymph system operating and makes your eyes blink without your conscious
awareness. It is exciting to know that your Unconscious Mind manages all
of that with perfect precision. A prime concept that we are going to explore
is that your Unconscious Mind can communicate with every cell in the body.
Until the mid-1980s, people could plausibly say, "Hypnosis
is just in your Mind! It's not real." But recently, due to the
pioneering work of Dr Deepak Chopra, scientists have begun to realize
the full extent of the Mind/Body connection. Not only does information
from the Mind affect the body, but there is now scientific evidence that
your mental processes, mental states, and mental behaviors affect all
the cells in your body all the time. Information is carried within the
body in the form of electrical impulses that pass through nerve cells,
or neurons. Between any two neurons,
there is a gap, or synapse. In order for impulses to travel along a
continuous path of nerve cells, something has to carry the impulses
across the gaps. This essential task is performed by neuro-transmitters,
which are chemicals that conduct electrical impulses across the synapses
between nerve cells.
When neuro-transmitters were first discovered, scientists thought they
were found only in the brain. Later, it was discovered that
neuro-transmitters actually connect all neurons in the body, forming vast
networks of 'electrical circuits'. More recently, quantum physics and
quantum biology tell us that neuro-transmitters bathe every cell in the
human body.
This new knowledge is the key to the Mind/Body connection.
The Unconscious Mind not only manages sensations, movements and body functions,
but it also actually sends information that travels to and affects billions
of individual cells throughout the body, giving us health or dis-ease
according to our Unconscious beliefs. Chopra describes this as your immune
system constantly eavesdropping on your internal dialogue.
From the point of view of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, your
immune system is also eavesdropping on the pictures that you hold in your
head the sounds that you remember or pay attention to the feelings that
you have and the concepts that your mind considers. Through the conductivity
of the neuro-transmitters that surround all cells, your immune system,
behavior, and thought processes are constantly affected by the activity
of your Unconscious Mind.
There are many things we are conscious of, but the operation and health
of the body is optimally a function of our Unconscious. Hypnosis allows
us to begin reaching the Unconscious Mind and utilizing the Mind/Body
connection.
This is the beginning of our ability to manifest a number of wonderful
things.
An excerpt from Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide:
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