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Think And Be Slim

by Paul Hurley

121 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1201; ISBN 1-4120-3374-8; US$24.62, C$30.77, EUR20.00, £13.86

Use the power of your brain to get the body of your dreams! No effort required! Simply use the exercises and principles contained in this book and get ready for results you never dreamed possible!

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About the Book

This book has been written for anyone who wants to achieve his or her health fitness goals. Whilst it has chapters dealing with both exercise and nutrition, it is NOT a diet or exercise book. The subject of this book is how to program your brain to achieve your goals. Every action and subsequent result begins with a thought. By changing the way you think, you change the way you act, the results you get and ultimately the way you feel about yourself and your life. We all behave according to our internal programming, much of it installed early in our childhood. Such programming determines our beliefs, habits and self-identity. This book will explain methods by which you can discard negative, limiting programs and replace them with positive, empowering ones that have been used by others to achieve incredible results.

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About the Author

Paul Hurley (BSc Sports Science) has many year's experience in the field of exercise, physique transformation and personal change. He is the developer of Ideal Exercise™, a unique and innovative approach to physique transformation. Ideal Exercise™ Combines NLP, Time Line Therapy™ and Hypnosis with the most up-to-date Sports Science techniques to achieve maximum results in minimum time. You can visit his site @ www.paulhurley.net

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Excerpts

Quit the Blame Game

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James

'I'm fat because my parents are fat. It's totally genetic'

'I've tried every diet out there. Nothing works for me'

'If I didn't have to look after the kids, I'd have much more time to go to the gym'.

Blame, blame, blame. Blame your parents. Blame your kids. Blame your environment. In fact blame anyone and everyone else. Whatever you do, don't take responsibility for any unproductive things you do, any bad results you get or negative feelings you have. This would appear to be very poor advice to give anyone, yet we are all guilty of playing the blame game from time to time. Some play it much more often than others and it is these people who suffer the most in life. In terms of losing weight, getting fit and improving your health, it is a habit that you must change in order to change. This chapter will explain how to make this vital transformation in the way you think and act on a daily basis.

There are widely accepted to be 3 theories of self-determinism that, independently or in combination, explain the nature of man. Simply put, many people believe that the results in their lives are greatly influenced, even controlled, by the following 3 social maps.

Genetic determinism states that it's because of what you have biologically inherited from your parents. Those flabby inner thighs of yours were passed onto you at birth by your mother. Your father has a beer-belly so obviously that's why you have one too. Its interesting to observe that people are often all too willing to blame their parents for what they don't have but rarely credit their parents with what they do have. For instance, I've yet to hear a self-made millionaire refer to the money-making genes he inherited at birth. It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Yet you hear overweight people play the genetics card all the time!

Psychic determinism again lays the blame at the feet of your parents. This time it has more to do with the huge influence they had on you during the many years in which they raised you. Every time they hurt your feelings, it affected you in such a profound (change word) way that it's still causing you pain in your life today. When they compared your report cards to those of your other classmates, it made you fearful of both failure and comparison to others. So you never apply for new job openings for fear of failing yet again. The list goes on and on. Whatever you haven't achieved in life is your parents' fault, not yours. Forget about all the great things they taught you, the money they spent on you and all the love they gave you. They really messed you up, didn't they? Get real! If your childhood is over, then its time to start acting like an adult.

Environmental determinism is perhaps the most commonly accepted social map, simply because there are so many people to blame! Forget your parents. If you don't have what you want in your life, you can blame your spouse, your environmental situation, your job, your boss, or your kids. You can even choose that neighbour next door who plays the worst music you've ever heard. There are so many people to choose from! Pick at least 3 and make sure to take out all your personal frustrations on them on a daily basis. Just don't expect to have any friends or expect to get what you want from life.

Do you accept that the results you get in life are not only influenced, but determined, by the 3 social maps above? Do you recognise any of your current belief patterns in any of the above examples? Do you believe that there is perhaps a better, more productive way to think outside of these maps? I believe there is and will shortly explain it in detail. First, I want to help you increase your understanding of the Blame Game and its paralysing and devastating effect I can have on your potential and overall happiness.

It is important to first of all understand why we instinctively blame anyone or anything when something goes wrong. The main reason is to avoid pain, the pain of taking responsibility for your thoughts, actions and results in life. It's so much easier to blame your parents for you being fat, rather than accept that you are that way because you eat way too much food! And if you never got the law degree you always dreamed about, you can always blame dad for not having encouraged you enough as a kid. In no way did it have anything to do with you being so damn lazy, right!? And of course, you'd go to the gym every day if it wasn't for those pesky kids of yours. Sure you would!

This is where the negative traits of the conscious mind hold you back in life. The main culprit is the rational part of the conscious mind, which serves to excuse what you do and to also justify your past actions. The rational part is there to protect you from the pain of realising that you're totally responsible for any bad results in your life, not anyone or anything else. Believing that its doing a great job, it will fill your thoughts with dozens of 'escape clauses', reasons for you not getting what you want in life. And so begins the Blame Game. 'It was because of him, it was because of her, it was because of that'. While the intention of the rational part of the conscious mind is absolutely well-meaning, its influence can wreak total havoc in your life. It is therefore essential to equip your brain with a set of beliefs and patterns that will liberate you, freeing you to achieve things that were never possible when you were acting under the influence of the rational part of the conscious mind.

The first step is to realise that taking responsibility for both your results and actions is the first step to getting what you want out of life. If you continue to blame others, you are essentially relinquishing control of your destiny. You are giving them the power to control your life and will remain a prisoner until you reclaim that control back into your life. So while you may have instinctively blamed others in the past to avoid the short-term pain of accepting responsibility, you now release that doing so will only cause you long-term pain in the future. Get out of the boot of the car and into the driving seat! It's your life and you, and only you, are the one in control. It's a simple choice of self-imprisonment versus self-empowerment. Which one are you going to choose?

So how do we apply this new way of thinking to weight-loss? Well the first thing is to erase the notion that your parents are responsible for the way you look. While you may have genetically inherited physical traits from both your father and mother, e.g. long legs, the fact of the matter is that your muscle tone and especially your level of bodyfat is almost totally in your control. Think of it this way. If it wasn't in your control, why would you even try in the first place? The same applies to the influence of your environment on the physical condition. While it may sound perfectly rational (that magic word yet again!) to attribute your failure to lose weight on the stress caused by your kids, your job and/or your current relationship, is that really the reason?

Deep-down, people know that they are responsible for the way they look. When they fail, however, the rational part of the conscious mind pops up with a ready-made excuse that you can adopt so that you don't feel bad about yourself. Smile and thank the rational part for its good intentions but doesn't listen or accept a single word it utters! If you do, you are handing that control back and you can kiss the opportunity to lose weight a permanent goodbye.

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