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EFT – More than a Placebo for Healing

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Placebo’s are fantastic tools to establish belief that allows the body to heal naturally.  The body is the only place that healing can take place. The idea of medicine is to treat a symptom that the body is having but medicine is unable to heal. It is the body alone that has this ability. The body has proven that it can resist all types of medicine and can build a tolerance or even develop more symptoms as a result of using medicine. The best medicine is a placebo but in order for a placebo to work it needs to be able to establish a belief to remove the obstacle that is stopping the body from healing on its own.

From our personal studies with Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) we have found that belief is not necessary for the process to work. We have had clients that did not believe that it would help use EFT and were shocked by the results. Clients have removed and prevented Migraines, cravings for food and tobacco, and have been able to resolve negative emotions that they have kept for years.  EFT can be used on anything and everything as well which makes it a very valuable resource as well.  If you can not identify the emotion then work on the physical representation of it instead. Remember that a key to emotions are to recognize that they are also linked to a physical representation so if you can not change the emotion change the representation.

In addition to not needing a belief in the technique we have found that the mental process of going through the process can also create change. We have found that to go through the mental process a belief has to be installed first which could mean that the mental process is a placebo effect. This does not change the reality that the process still works though.

You can easily learn EFT in a few minutes to do the process.  For people that want to explore EFT on a deeper level a 1 or 2 hour workshop can teach them many skills to use. The actual technique takes only a couple minutes and can provide you with some real benefits. There are many shortcuts now as well but I would always recommend you learn the complete process first then play with the shortcuts to see what works for you.

You can contact us for more information on EFT training at 661-771-2001 or reserve a place in our October workshop scheduled for the the 28th from 6:30pm-8:30pm.

Mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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Following your Self Improvement Worksheet

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Have you ever wished that your life could be a lot better and more fulfilling than the one you are in right now? With a self improvement worksheet you can put your plans in gear and to turn them into reality.
Here are some of the things you have to plan out in your worksheet for a smooth sailing journey towards your self improvement goal.

Get Up Early!

To be able to accomplish this and still avoid losing any precious sleep, you can go to bed just a half hour earlier to get up a half hour earlier than you usually do. The body likes a routine and take the time to develop a winning routine.

What this got to do with self improvement?

For different people the answer can vary slightly. To start with you need to fully awaken yourself and get rid of early morning sluggishness.

After you are completely alert step outside of your house and watch the sunrise. Nothing like the view of a fresh morning to set you out on your self improvement destination.

This simple but immensely satisfying act will lift your spirits and help with self improvement.

If you are unable to do this, take a brisk walk, jog or run depending upon what you prefer and what you are physically capable of.

Eat Breakfast!

To start your day out on the right foot and stay in keeping with your self improvement plan this is practically a necessity. You need the energy this will provide you with to accomplish your daily tasks.

If you are overly pressed for time you might try oatmeal, hard boiled egg, or even a few pieces of fresh fruit would do.

Any of these are better alternatives than skipping breakfast.

Smile A Lot!

When you go places, smile more at other people, even if you find it a bit difficult at first. Just curve your lips up a bit as you make eye contact with another human being.

An Effective Goal is Written!

This is the primary purpose of your self improvement worksheet.

This is extremely helpful and essential because there will be times when your self improvement goals will make you uncomfortable and you may lose site of them.

When this happens, you need to have them written down to keep yourself on track and accountable. Posting your goals on the refrigerator, bulletin board, or in your planner ensures that you will be reminded of them on a daily basis.

Review them on a Regular Basis.

You must review your self improvement goals in order to stay on track. Check out your worksheet on the schedule you set. Reviewing them causes you to commit to their achievement.

According to studies, only 1% of the population actually understands how to effectively set goals. This is the reason why so many New Year’s resolutions are not followed.

And this is also why people keep failing at the very same goal. The desire to improve yourself is genuine, but the process you go about while seeking this desire is faulty. Then how can you achieve the self improvement results you want?

The positive results of achieving any goal are unforgettable. An individual’s failure to achieve is not because they are incompetent but because they simply do not know the process of success.

Have an effective self improvement worksheet. Follow what is written, be patient and celebrate your success to come.

Mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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Time Management for Life

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

There are different books and seminars that can help you gather some self improvement guide. All these sources are against the negative factors in your life.

Work, meetings, deadlines, appointments, telephone calls, shopping, taking the dogs out etc. – all these are things most people have to accomplish daily.

Most of the times, on the waiting list there are other things like: family, friends and even ourselves at times.

Sometimes we discover too late that the points mentioned on the waiting lists are, in fact, the most important and, unfortunately, sometimes, we don’t realize this at all, so we find ourselves wondering for what reason are we so unhappy.

Everyone knows that time is more valuable than money – time means, first of all, life and, more than that, it means our lives. Think about it, our lives always break down to an amount of time spent.

That is way we have the obligation not to surrender in stressful situations and to go on fighting for the joy of living.

Let us not forget also that bad time management can produce tremendous health problems, both at the physical and mental level.

But there is good news! Time can be domesticated – we can make it a friend and obey us. First step in implementing this process is to identify the elements that rob your time. Normally, they are divided into two groups:

1)  The external factors (unexpected phone calls, very long phone conversations, unplanned visits, the policy of open doors, not sufficiently trained personnel, frequent meetings, interruptions caused by colleagues, friends and family etc.)

2)  The internal factors – related strictly to our own persons (priorities and objectives that change, the lack of a daily working plan, lack of self imposed deadlines, the tendency to take care of too many things at the same time, disorder, lateness in resolving the conflicts, incapacity of saying no, lack of decision, tiredness).

By reading the above enumeration, you probably recalled all the similar situations that you went through. Now, all you have to do is to find a way to eliminate them (keep an open mind here :-) ), so that you can be the mater of your own time again.

Here are a few ways in which you can do that:

Get used to writing everything down. It is useful, especially if you have a bad memory or are very busy. Otherwise you might fail to remember to go to important meetings, to make important phone calls, to answer messages you promised you would answer. Writing things down also allow you to see the appointment and feel it when writing it and most people will also say it internally when writing which means you use 3 major senses to remember the event for recall.

You can also write down great ideas and inspirations that occur to you in the most unexpected moments. Get used to bringing your creativity into reality by writing your ideas down. Dream journals by your bed can assist you in also giving yourself permission to go back to sleep after writing your thought down. Allowing your mind to be more focused the next day to manage your time better.

Make a list of priorities. It takes you very little time to draw it and you can even do it while you’re having your morning coffee. Write down, the things you need to do that day, in the order of their importance and urgency. Franklin has a great time management system and there are many ways to develop your own that works for you. Be creative and explore the many options from sticky pads to day-timers to outlook and other programs.

Learn to say no. One big mistake that a lot of us make is that we put other people’s problems in front of ours. Nevertheless, by helping them in a bad moment for us, we give rise to frustration, stress and we find ourselves unable to respect previous engagements. You are not doing anyone any favors if you make promises you can not keep in the end. Enjoy your new freedom to take control and say no. It builds self esteem and allows you to enjoy the time that you have.

Another drill in time management is to take a piece of paper and every 15 minutes write down what you are doing. Go back at the end of the day and notice certain patterns or maybe times that you lost focus and got distracted. These will be your key points to actually create more time by eliminating the time that you have wasted during the day so you can do something that you value more.

Mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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Unlock your Self Improvement Power Today!

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

When we look at a certain object, a painting for example – we won’t be able to appreciate what’s in it, what is painted and what else goes with it  if the painting is just an inch away from our face. But if we try to take a look at it a little further away, we’ll have a clearer vision of the whole art work.

We reach a point in our life when we are ready for change and and the ability to embrace a whole bunch of information that will help us unlock our self improvement power. Until then, something can be staring at us right under our nose but we don’t see it.  The only time we think of unlocking our self improvement power is when everything has gotten worse. Take the frog principle for example –

Try placing Frog A in a pot of boiling water. What happens? He twerps! He jumps off! Why? Because he is not able to tolerate the sudden change in his environment – the water’s temperature.

Then try Frog B: place him in a luke warm water, then turn the gas stove on. Wait til the water reaches a certain boiling point. Frog B then thinks “Ooh… it’s a bit warm in here”.

People are like Frog B in general. Today, Anna thinks Carl hates her. Tomorrow, Patrick walks up to her and tells her he hates her. Anna stays the same and doesn’t mind what her friends says. The next day, she learned that Kim and John also abhors her. Anna doesn’t realize at once the importance and the need for self improvement until the entire community hates her.

We learn our lessons when we experience pain. We finally see the warning signs and signals when things get rough and tough.

When do we realize that we need to change diets? When none of our jeans and shirts would fit us.

When do we stop eating candies and chocolates? When all of our teeth has fallen off.

When do we realize that we need to stop smoking? When our lungs have gone bad.

When do we pray and ask for help? When we realize that we’re gonna die tomorrow.

The only time most of us ever learn about unlocking our self improvement power is when the whole world is crashing and falling apart. We think and feel this way because it is not easy to change. But change becomes more painful when we ignore it.

Change will happen, like it or hate it. At one point or another, we are all going to experience different turning points in our life – and we are all going to eventually unlock our self improvement power not because the world says so, not because our friends are nagging us, but because we realized its for our own good.

Happy people don’t just accept change, they embrace it. Now, you don’t have to feel a tremendous heat before realizing the need for self improvement.  Unlocking your self improvement power means unlocking yourself the cage of thought that is “its just the way I am”. It is such a poor excuse for people who fear and resist change. Most of us program our minds like computers.

Jenny repeatedly tells everyone that she doesn’t have the guts to be around groups of people. She heard her mom, her dad, her sister, her teacher tell the same things about her to other people. Over the years, that is what Jen believes. She believes its her story. And what happens? Every time a great crowd would develop over their house, in school, and in the community – she tends to step back, shy away and lock herself up in a room. Jenny didn’t only believe in her story, she lived it.

Jenny has to realize that she is not what she is in her story. Instead of having her story continually pushed in her face for everyone to remember, she has to have the spirit and show people “I am an important person and I should be treated accordingly!”

Self improvement may not be everybody’s favorite word, but if we look at things with a different point of view, we might have greater chances of enjoying the whole process instead of counting the days until we change. Three sessions in a week at the gym would result to a healthier life, reading books instead of looking at movies will shape up a more profound knowledge, going out with friends and peers will help you take a step back from work and unwind.  And just when you are enjoying the whole process of unlocking your self improvement power, you’ll realize that you’re beginning to take things light and become happy.  After a while you won’t even be able to remember what it was like to be the way you were before no matter how hard you try.

Mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO IMPROVE YOUR SELF?

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Sometimes, when all our doubts, fears and insecurities wrap ourselves up, we always come up with the idea of “I wish I was somebody else.”  More often than not, we think and believe that someone or rather, most people are better than us.- when in reality, the fact is, most people are more scared than us.

You spot a totally eye-catching girl sitting by herself at a party, casually sipping on a glass of Asti Spumanti. You think to yourself, “she looks so perfectly calm and confident.” But if you could read thru her transparent mind, you would see a bunch of clouds of thoughts and you might just be amazed that she’s thinking “are people talking about why I am seated here alone?… Why don’t guys find me attractive? …I don’t like my ankles, they look too skinny… I wish I was as intelligent as my best friend.”

We look at a young business entrepreneur and say “Wooh… what else could he ask for?” He stares at himself at the mirror and murmur to himself, “I hate my big eyes… I wonder why my friends won’t talk to me… I hope mom and dad would still work things out.”

Isn’t it funny? We look at other people, envy them for looking so outrageously perfect and wish we could trade places with them, while they look at us and thinks of the same thing. We are insecure of other people who themselves are insecure of us. We suffer from low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence and lose hope in self improvement because we are enveloped in quiet desperation.

Sometimes, you notice that you have an irritating habit like biting off your finger nails, having a foul mouth, and you – of all people, is the last to know.

I have a friend who never gets tired of talking. And in most conversations, she is the only one who seems to be interested in the things she has to say. So all of our other friends tend to avoid the circles whenever she’s  around, and she doesn’t notices how badly she became socially handicapped – gradually affecting the people in her environment.

One key to self improvement is to LISTEN and TALK to a trusted friend. Find someone who you find comfort in opening up with even the most gentle topics you want to discuss. Ask questions like “do you think I am ill-mannered?”,  “Do I always sound so argumentative?”,  “Do I talk too loud?”,  “Does my breath smell?”,  “Do I ever bore you when were together?”.  In this way, the other person will obviously know that you are interested in the process of self improvement. Lend her your ears for comments and criticisms and don’t give her answers like “Don’t exaggerate! That’s just the way I am!”  Open up your mind and heart as well. And in return, you may want to help your friend with constructive criticism that will also help her improve her self.

One of Whitney Houston’s songs says “Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.” True enough. In order to love others, you must love yourself too. Remember, you cannot give what you do not have.

Before telling other people some ways on how to improve themselves, let them see that you yourself is a representation and a product of self improvement. Self improvement makes us better people, we then inspire other people, and then the rest of the world will follow.

Stop thinking of yourselves as second-rate beings. Forget the repetitive thought of “If only I was richer… if only I was thinner” and so on.  Accepting your true self is the first step to self improvement. We need to stop comparing ourselves to others only to find out at the end that we’ve got  10 more reasons to envy them.

We all have our insecurities. Nobody is perfect. We always wish we had better things, better features, better body parts, etc. But life need not to be perfect for people to be happy about themselves.Self improvement and loving yourself is not a matter of shouting to the whole world that you are perfect and you are the best. It’s the virtue of acceptance and contentment. When we begin to improve ourselves, we then begin to feel contented and happy.

Mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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Setting Up Your Stop Smoking Program in Self Talk and Positive Reflections

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Smoking is a nasty habit. Not only does your mate kiss an ashtray, your insides start to turn black gradually and the arteries will harden. Smoking is something we want to avoid at all costs. Therefore, we have to learn how to set up our stop smoking program through self-talk and positive reflections.

Self-talk is an effective self-therapy strategy that trains the conscious and unconscious mind to either cease or start doing something. Self-talk enables you to adjust your behaviors for the better.

Self-talk involves cognitions, which you will learn to endorse and identify your maladaptive and to challenge your illogical thinking. In addition, you learn to challenge irrational emotions and thoughts. You learn to challenge your attitudes. This will help you to readapt your lifestyle so that you can succeed.

Self-talk allows you to readapt your behaviors. You learn to identify with you by relying on feedback.

Your maladaptive manners you will learn to identify by recognizing consequences that emerge from your decisions.

Self-talk guides you to self-control. Self-talk will encourage to master your senses and take control of your life by saying, I feel better when I do not smoke and tobacco is not my commander, rather I am the master of my will to do or not to do something that could cause me harm.

Self-talk involves positive use of feelings. When you learn to identify your feelings it intensifies you will to accept these feelings. You have a deeper awareness and learn to take responsibility of your actions.

Self-talk gives you new insight. You gain encouragement by understanding the underneath reasons behind your actions. The dynamics and assumptions you gain insight of will help you explore your subconscious mind by finding new cognitions and motivation. Your behaviors you will review, as well as you attitudes, beliefs, feelings, etc.

As you move along likely, you will find causes behind why you smoke. This will help you by allowing you to accept. Once you accept you will find willpower to stop.

Using affirmatives, self-talk and at times role-play you can adjust your life by making new changes. Changes you will see in a new light. Rather than think of changes as a burden you will feel a boost in development to new adaptive abilities, skills, cognitions, behaviors, etc. you will find it easier to deal with friends, family or other folks around you.

Once you see ways to make changes. Start reinforcing these changes by self-talking your way through the processes. Use positive underpinning choices regarding your behavioral patterns. You will see your cognitions in view.

Using rein forcers move to challenge resistance. Use resistance in a way that you can conquer the impediments to improve and change effectively.

Now start to resolve the problems within your relationships. Start building a level functioning coalition and move to reconcile the ruptures. Contend with your dependency to rely on tobacco and then discover and determine these disturbances.

You will not find it easy at first to stop smoking. Yet if you work at it and continue positive self-talk in time you will find it easier to stop. The first step is discovering the cause, move to effect and challenge the obstacles so that you can remove them.

Once you complete your therapy start moving along with your objectives, and begin implementing new ideas so that you can find ways to remove these nasty habits. Take time to gain structure in your life and then remove any inconsistencies when they come along. Challenge your issues and set goals. Set goals to stop smoking. Give yourself a timeline to stop. Creating a plan to make it happen

mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine
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Stay Healthier with Positive Thinking and Self Talk

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

All of us need to feel healthy and happy in our daily lives in order to feel content with our selves. Positive thinking and self-talk will help us become content and help keep us in a better and healthy future.

If you like your intimate self, then odds will be that you do not need to work to impenetrable lengths at becoming a more appealing and choice personality. People who are well off in their own skin are not the clan who seek to develop or adjust their personalities.

We need to exercise each and every day in order to stay healthy.  By exercising we can improve your self-esteem, confidence, help prevent diseases, and it helps to keep our weight in control as well.

I know you’ve probably been on a million diets and nothing works or tried every exercise program that comes out. You are still 10 pounds over weight and you have no energy to do anything. The cloths you grew out of are still hanging in the closet that hasn’t been worn all winter because they are too small.  Start now and think positive telling yourself that we can get back into those cloths or you will succeed at this new exercise program you want to get started with.

Make some goals like how much weight you want and will lose in the next 6 months.  Tell yourself that in six months you’ll drop a size in cloths.  Don’t think negative and say you’ll never see the day come.

By positive thinking and self-talk, you can do anything you want to do with a little hard work and changes in your life style. Create a list of goals is the first step and don’t look back once you’ve started working on them.  Keep pushing yourself to reach the end of the rainbow.

Start an exercise program today and set a certain time aside just for you. Don’t let yourself tell you that you don’t have time this is negative thinking. Tell yourself that you can find time to do for yourself.

Watch what you’re eating. For sure, don’t let your inner self say that it isn’t possible you already failed twice or more times.  You can do it just watch how much and what you eat.  Be sure to get all the vitamins in that you need in order to exercise and stay healthy.

Think positive and tell yourself that you’re going to eat right so you can do your exercise program. Staying healthy is a way of life and gives you the happiness you deserve.

Stay healthy by stop smoking. Tell yourself that you don’t need cigarettes to be happy and content.  I know your inner feeling are thinking positive because it wants a cigarette but don’t listen stop smoking to be healthier and it will save you money for that new outfit you’ve been wanting.
Positive thinking and self-talk can do a lot for you and your health.  It can help prevent many diseases like cancer, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and help to prevent many other thinks as well.

Depression can be caused from not thinking positive. Your mind will tell you that you have no energy, to stay in bed all day or the house cleaning can wait until tomorrow.  Don’t let depression take over your life.  Stay in touch with yourself and use your self-power in thinking positive. It is much the same effect as is had when a bosom buddy* gives us a sincere compliment about some manner of our character; not fastidious are we content to hear this, but we become more responsive of this gratifying eminence and it helps us to make an unconscious completion to put it forward more.

mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine
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Subliminal Discoveries through Positive Self Talk Practices

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Maybe we don’t come to know about that subliminal parts of learning just then, but the thing we have embedded in the mind this way will remain with us. Our witty minds are actively working to methodize all these perceptions in a way, which makes us more knowledgeable and well rounded due to our letters. Thus, every item that is learned by our brain at a subliminal self or positive self-talk is recorded by it and all this recording and activity of our brain develops our personality.

Those who believe in learning also believe that the Self Talk can have lots and many effects on us. Self-Talk has a power of changing and enhancing our personalities. Personality of a person is a mix of his or her emotions, beliefs, views and perceptions. All these factors collectively generate the attitude of that person as well as the behavior. Now as the perceptions are an important part of making up our personality, the subliminal perceptions can also be as effective in shaping our personality as the subconscious or conscious ones.

A person who watches a movie for example will learn something at the subconscious level. The movie’s message will be understood by the person in a known manner. But the colors used in the movie, the sound tracks, the graphics used as well as the cinematography may have some subliminal effect on that person.

There may be a huge part of the learning from that movie which may be subliminal in nature. The people who believe and advocate the Self Talk concept believe that many changes that occur in a person after viewing any such movie or viewing a natural scene or some thing of the sort are due to the subliminally learned perceptions. If done by proper planning, the Self Talk practices can help people improve themselves as a person.
In the current era, the advertisers have used more than one option to promote the products, which help you in subliminal learning. The advocates of Self Talk believe that people can improve their personalities by listening to some special sequences of sounds and music as well as many such techniques. The advertisers are making all the efforts they can to make the public believe that the stuff, which is said to improve your personality by Self Talk, is a good one. Although the other school of thought does not believe in it, still, the sales of the products related to Self Talk and improvement in your personality by using them are great.

Whether these instruments are actually impressive enough to be able to improve our personality or not is a debatable question. Some people think that their experience with the related stuff was not worth it and they have just lost money to the deceptive advertisers. The others think that the CDs and the Soft wares they have bought and used for Self Talk purpose are very effective. They are good to listen to and are effective enough to bring a positive change in the personality of the user in very few days. Some people claim that the Self Talk aids have helped them control their mood swings.

Whenever we talk about any thing there always are good or bad things attached to it. There may not be as much advantages of Self Talk as the advertisers claim. Nevertheless, there may be few good effects this type of learning can create in a personality.
What suits us the best is to make best use of what learning aids are available. This you can do only by following all the instructions closely which have been given to you for using that particular Self Talk equipment. By doing so, your chances of getting the best out of this experience will be more.

mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine
www.docmagi.com

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Success with Positive Thinking and Self Talk

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

We all want to succeed in the world whether it is in health or life in general. Without positive thinking and self-talk, we won’t be able to get ahead and succeed in anything.

Negative thinking will get us nowhere in life. We need to learn to stop listening to our subconscious before it has a chance to take over and rule us.

Our subconscious picks up negative thoughts from things it has heard and embeds it into our brain.  If someone has told you that you can’t do something, or you fail once why try again. These are just a couple of things that we have all heard one time or another.

Changing our way of thinking isn’t easy to do; so we have to think positive and tell yourself with self-talk that we can change. Keep repeating it so you can overpower the negative thoughts and change them.

Changing your thinking to be positive will take a while because our subconscious is always in the way with negative thoughts that no way are going to help us change how we think if we let them. Telling yourself that you’re going to change on how you feel about yourself or your job by repeating it repeatedly will over rule and win.

Think positive and you can use self-talk to get you anywhere you want to go in the future to success. Success is a lot of work for most of us and when you keep telling yourself that you can succeed you will go ahead and meet your dream before long.

Writing will help us succeed in the future by making and setting goals. Writing will relieve stress that keeps us from doing many things in our lives.  Stress will take over and control us just as our subconscious will.

Relieve some unwanted stress with the goals you have for the future by writing them down. Thinking negative thoughts cause stress and stress runs our bodies down causing depression. Don’t let stress and negative thoughts take control.

Start today on relieving stress and thinking positive to success. There is success out there for all of us when we tell ourselves we can get to the pot of gold at the end by making changes in our lives.

To relieve the stress we have to make changes. If your goal is to lose weight, you have to relieve the stress by not think negative things and change your diet. You want to change your thinking and diet so that it harmonizes. Exercise to lose weight is making changes in our lives by telling ourselves that we will find the time to exercise three times a week to help get rid of unwanted weight. Exercise will help to relieve stress by taking time for you to reach the goal of losing weight. When you make these changes that is thinking positive that you will succeed.

Success is all in the positive thinking and self talk that we can change the way we think and do things. We can relieve stress that is cause from the changes in order to succeed.

Now work with me:
I want to lose weight. I am willing to put forth the effort to lose five pounds in the next couple of weeks. I plan to exercise, diet and use self-talk to start thinking positive and to lose the weight I desire to lose. I will not fail, since I am confident that I can lose this weight in a timely manner. I do not expect more from me than I can manage.

mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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Suggestibility in Positive and Self-Talk

Friday, January 8th, 2010

How to apply positive self-talk and to employ the process of suggestibility to overcome fear of flying

Why should we want to overcome fear of flying, specifically?

While there are lots of fears experienced by a wide variety of people, probably one of the most common today is the fear of flying. It may not have a debilitating effect on everybody, but for a culture that relies so much on air travel it can be especially problematic for many people.

Some people who would rely most heavily on plane travel are of course those who fly most frequently, such as people who need to travel by plane for business purposes, or those who have family spread out over a wide area and the means with which to keep in frequent touch with them.

These people, however, likely spend so much time flying that they have been able to overcome whatever timidity may have experienced. Instead, it is the people who find themselves by necessity compelled to board a plane, perhaps to visit a relative in an emergency or to travel due to a recent relocation, who are most likely to find themselves suddenly forced to confront their fear. While it may be possible to book an alternative route, this is often cost-prohibitive, especially if travel is required over water. In such cases, it becomes especially necessary to confront the fear.

All right, so how do I employ positive self-talk techniques to help me overcome my fear of flying?

Because the process of employing positive self-talk techniques is really just the process of initiating a program of self-conditioning, many of the techniques used to employ the process are very similar to those used when a subject wishes to engage in self-hypnosis.

Bearing this in mind, subjects will be able to understand why in this instance it can be very helpful to employ the use of recorded tapes or CDs to help in training the mind to overcome the fear of flying. Tapes should obviously not be purchased pre-recorded but instead should be recorded in the subject’s own voice, thereby increasing the comfort level even of those people most resistant to the idea of suggestibility, since recognizing their own voice speaking to them is likely to lower their level of mistrust significantly. If tapes are unavailable or the subject is uncomfortable when using them, start speaking to one directly – the “old-fashioned” way! – Also works.

What should these tapes say?

It is important that subjects use the tapes not to stress what is currently the case, such as their fear of flying, but instead to stress what they want to be the case in the future. For that reason, they should be certain that the statements on the tapes reflect the reality that they want to take place. Some suggestions are:

I am proud that I can now do something I used to be afraid of
I do not have to be nervous or tense about the prospect of flying. I find it easy to relax.

It is lucky that I can use air travel to get where I need to go so quickly. This excites rather than alarms me.

My ability to overcome my fear of flying will give me greater self-confidence in all areas of my life. It will give me an increased sense of self-control.

I will manifest faith and confidence when I am on the plane.

Instead of worrying about my fear, I will adopt the ability to take control of it. I am in control of my fear and I will overcome it.

mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine
www.docmagi.com

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