Reprogramming the Overweight Mind (Now Part of the Hardcover Book)

Burris, Kelly

ISBN 10: 096442410X ISBN 13: 9780964424104

Publisher: Illumine Studios, 2004

Synopsis

This title has been updated and is now a part of the hardcover book "Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious." The Missing Ingredient in All Other Weight Loss Programs (Now Includes the Emotional Checklist)

This powerful clinically proven Interactive Audio CD will guide you through the process of how to recognize, access and change the subconscious programming that is at the root of your emotionally driven eating behavior. The CD includes "The Heart of MIND/FITNESS", a 23 page booklet that you will use to put your subconscious on paper and begin the process of positive, empowering, change. This new version also now includes an Adobe Acrobat file called "The Emotional Checklist" which was use during the clinical studies and is used to help you understand where you are emotionally right now. The Emotional Checklist also includes "the "Behavior Control Checklist" and the "Relationship Satisfaction Scale". You can save this file to disk and type directly into it or print it out and write on it. Either way you will have an effective way of monitoring your emotional state. The recommended use for the Emotional Checklist is to fill it out before you start and then fill out another one every week for thirty days.

Another title by Kelly Burris called "Programming Your Fit Mind" completes the ultimate Mind-Body equation by getting to the very core of what motivates you as a human being

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Kelly Burris

Kelly Burris has spent the last 20 years in the development and refinement of the clinically proven process known as MIND/FITNESS. The difference between what Kelly does and what everyone else does is that Kelly does not tell you what to do; he guides you through the process of how to permanently get it done.

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POWER OF THE WORD

The following is an actual excerpt from side one of THE OVERWEIGHT MIND

Hello, Im Kelly Burris! Welcome to the world of Burris MIND/FITNESS. I'm glad you have decided to join me in this simple, clinically proven program that will teach you the most effective way to insure permanent weight loss.

First I would like to start out by explaining why all other weight loss programs you have tried are only short term and why MIND/FITNESS is the most effective way to insure permanent weight loss.

If you look at all other weight loss programs you will notice one similarity: they treat your eating behavior or eating habits as the only reason you are overweight. True! Treating your eating habits or behavior with diets and medication will help you win short term weight battles, but you will not win the war. The reason all of these programs are only short term, is because your eating behavior is simply a symptom of your weight problem.

The best explanation for this is a response I received from the director of program support at a large medical weight loss corporation. "The mind is dulled, befuddled and numbed by a host of medications while the root of the problem remains in active force. Your program frees the soul to say I can change my mind about myself. I can be in control".

The source of your weight problem is emotionally driven, eating behavior programs which originate from within your subconscious mind; this is why MIND/FITNESS is based on the reality that all behavior is emotionally driven.

By using external methods such as dieting or medication for your weight loss goal, you only temporarily displace your subconscious eating behavior programs, which only results in short term weight loss. Once you discontinue the use of the externally imposed diets or medications, youre emotionally driven eating behavior immediately returns and takes control. The result of this is a return of all the weight you just lost.

As stated by the doctor who was head of the clinical studies on MIND/FITNESS. "In order for your weight loss to be truly effective (long term) it must originate internally. Success has to come from within not from without". In other words, you can not permanently wish, diet, or medicate unwanted weight away. Until you change your emotionally driven, subconscious eating programs through the process of MIND/FITNESS, your chances of permanent weight control are between zero and three percent.

MIND/FITNESS opens the door to positive empowering change. It gives you the flexibility to access and change your emotionally driven, subconscious eating programs, until you are completely satisfied with your RESULTS! AND!!... Through the consistent use of MIND/FITNESS you will achieve permanent results .

Now that you understand that your weight problem is determined by your emotionally driven subconscious programming... listen closely.

From the moment of birth, your first emotional experiences establish your subconscious perceptions of the world. There is not a moment of the day or night that you are not affected by your emotions. More often than not it is your programmed emotional states, not logic, that control your eating behavior.

Therefore, in order to apply the process of MIND/FITNESS you must first understand how your subconscious mind works.

Your subconscious mind flawlessly records everything you have ever seen, felt, smelled, heard or tasted. Unfortunately, it is not capable of interpreting the true meaning of the information it records. It simply takes the information it accumulates, and organizes it into individual programs that determine how you will respond to recurring circumstances in your daily life.

Once your subconscious mind has taken certain information and formed it into a program, it will devote its considerable power to the continuation of that programmed behavior or habit, regardless of the consequences.

There are two subconscious components that activate an emotional state which in turn determines your eating behavior: 1) You must talk to yourself (which usually begins with a question) and 2) By asking yourself a question, your subconscious mind will always give you an answer which in turn produces a correlating picture. It is from this subconscious picture that your emotional state is determined and in turn decides your eating behavior.

A good example of this process is when people are overweight, they constantly ask themselves negative questions like... Why am I so fat, how did I get so fat, or why can't I lose this weight?

By asking yourself these types of negative questions, your subconscious mind will produce negative answers such as.... You are fat because you over eat or you overeat because you are stressed and for each of these negative answers, the subconscious mind will produce a correlating picture of you as a fat person.

The mind now interprets these subconscious pictures as how you should look and devotes its tremendous power toward maintaining this body image. So you see, for every thought there is a correlating subconscious picture which determines your emotional response.

Through the process of Mind/Fitness, you will learn how to access, change and control these two subconscious components.

Unlike your conscious mind, your subconscious mind is always active; it never sleeps. An example of this is when you see an actor on TV and ask yourself... what is that persons name?

For the life of you, you can not think of their name and then maybe an hour or two later or even the next day, their picture and name pop into your mind. The reason for this is that your subconscious mind was continuously working on the actors name, even though you had consciously given up.

If the subconscious does not already have a stored answer for a question, it will search through all of its available information until it formulates one. This is why you need to ask yourself any question you think may move you toward your weight goal because the subconscious will always find an answer.

It is estimated that your subconscious mind generates over 60 thousand thoughts per day. We refer to this thought process as talking to our self.

The reason your subconscious mind is capable of generating over 60 thousand thoughts per day is because your inner voice continuously speaks to you at a rate of one thousand to twelve hundred words per minute. You can only speak, however, at about two to three hundred words per minute.

This means your inner voice runs at a rate of about four times faster than you can speak and produces a correlating picture for each of these thoughts. In other words, if your mind was the world, your conscious mind might take up the space of LA or New York but your subconscious mind would take up the space and activity of rest of the world.

Now that you have a better understanding of how your subconscious mind works and the power and control it has over your emotional state and behavior, I will now explain how your existing subconscious eating programs originated and why they remain so solidly locked in place.

During the first part of your life you had no control, as your parents did the majority of your thinking for you and, in doing so, created the greatest part of your subconscious programming. This is especially true in your eating behavior programming.

Your parents meant well, but unfortunately lacked the knowledge and the skills to instruct you on how to eat properly. They simply followed what their parents had taught them.

Does this sound familiar to you? You are not going to leave the table until you have finished everything on your plate. Do you realize there are children in the world who are starving and would give anything for your mea?. Or If you do not finish everything on your plate, there will be no dessert. It was these types of repetitive statements that programmed you to associate food with fear and guilt.

What was really ironic was, when you grudgingly did manage to finish everything on your plate and were completely stuffed, you always managed to find room for your ultimate reward.... a well deserved dessert. With the consistent use of fear and guilt to control your behavior, eventually these two emotional states turned into anger, which also triggers emotional eating.

Now, as an adult, your worse eating behavior is perpetuated by the emotional states of fear, guilt and anger. The presence of these three emotional states also indicates the absence of your most positive and powerful emotional state...love.

Your parents used the reward of a dessert to control or program most of your emotional states. They knew that with the promise of something sweet, they could stop your anger, stop your crying, eliminate your boredom, stop your pain. Make you... sit up, roll over... wait a minute the last two were for the dog, but now that I think about it, he was controlled by food too!

Anyway, as a child you were unknowingly programmed to use eating as an outlet for practically all of your emotional states...

As an adult, you still emotionally respond to food... exactly as you were programmed to do as a child. Your childhood programs still control why you eat, when you eat, what you eat, and how much you eat.

Now that you know where and how your poor eating programs originated, I will explain why you keep repeating them over and over, and what you must do to replace them with positive new programs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Illumine Studios
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 096442410X
• ISBN 13: 9780964424104
• Binding: Audio CD