4. Decide what you’ll do to prevent relapses in your program—and to meet them head-on if they occur. To accomplish this step, you’ll need to deliberate and make contracts with yourself. Much of what you have done in your dieting past has been correct. Repeating your past dieting successes will bring you even closer to victory this time.
5. The fifth and final step is to write a clear, concise success statement. Then, once you’ve written it, read it aloud to yourself three or more times each day, including once just after waking up in the morning and once right before going to bed at night. As you read your success statement, see, feel, and believe you have already reached your weight-loss goal, visualizing yourself from head to toe in top shape and full of energy, mentally and physically. Read the statement with feeling, and feel great when you say it.
Here’s an example of what a goal statement might look like:
I weigh 135 [or your goal weight], and I look and feel great. I love showing off my tight body. People congratulate me daily on my achievement. I reached my goal by following every step of the Maximize your Metabolism program.
Read this statement out loud to yourself at least three times a day. Memorize it. This is one of the most important psychological tools you can use to train your subconscious mind to help you reach your goals.
Each time you read your success statement, you are sending subliminal suggestions to your subconscious, suggestions which it must eventually heed. The more often you repeat your affirmation in a positive, emotional state, the faster it will sink into your subconscious. And remember: your subconscious mind reacts best to these suggestions when they are drenched in desire-supporting emotions and any other imagery from the five senses that you can provide.
I’ve personally found that those who see their affirmation often throughout the day, every day without fail, are the ones who attain success the fastest, and with the least effort. But you might say…”hey I’ve got a life to live, I can’t be spending all my time reading an affirmation – I need to be living my life and earning a living.” And I completely agree…
So here’s the challenge – if you see or read your affirmation a few times each day it’ll only take a few minutes out of your day, but will probably only get you a few small results, and to top that off, most folks stop reading their affirmation after a few days or a few weeks. However, if you could find a way to set this on autopilot … then increase it’s frequency 10 fold, you wouldn’t get 10 times faster results, rather, you would get 10×10 more results because the process of programming your mind is exponential.
The software program which I spoke about earlier will automatically flash your affirmation on the screen of your computer more than 28,000 for each 8 hour work day - that’s about 1 time every second !!!
Your conscious mind will barely see the flash, however your subconscious mind WILL pick it up, because your subconscious mind picks everything up and stores it – and your subconscious mind is what makes change in your life possible!