Woman Uses IPOD to Lose Five Pounds - See What She Did
Thursday, January 31st, 2008GRASS VALLEY, California - Utilizing a new mp3 audio technique called eVISIONomics Michelle slips on her IPOD headphones and again steps on her bathroom scale. She is down another two pounds. The weight has been lost almost effortlessly. Each morning she plays an audio clip that takes her through creating powerful mental visualizations for changing habits that cause ongoing weight gain. Instead of lifting weights for twenty minutes a day Michelle sits down, relaxes and enters into her personal mental weight loss theatre and clearly sees herself taking different actions in a variety of situations.
I was skeptical at first says, Michelle. It almost seems like cheating. It took a few days to get the hang of it but now I feel centered and much more in control of my eating. Michelle is a member of a rapidly growing group of people applying eVISIONomics, a series of visualization techniques based on Psycho-Cybernetics, Neuro-Linguistics Programming and other powerful problem solving disciplines. The good news is that you dont need to understand all of the therapeutic mumbo-jumbo, just put on your headphones and create fun pictures in your head.
Thinks of it as Digital Remastering of the Mind or DRM says Randy Ross, one of the program founders. The visualization techniques allow you to clearly see yourself creating new patterns. If, for example, every night you walk into the kitchen at 1 AM and start grazing for food, the additional calories from this one act are enough to create weight gain of 20 lbs per year. What if at 1 AM your mind and body were programmed to crave something different? It all has to do with self image. You need to see yourself making tiny incremental steps towards doing something different. Imagine a bag full of legos. Each lego is a tiny bit of mental change. If you add one to the stack every day, within a few weeks you have a large and impressive tower of change.
eVISIONomics takes you through mental rehearsals of many common social situations such as overeating at parties, being pressured to eat something that was cooked especially for you, eating when stressed or depressed and opportunity eating such as when someone brings in the giant box of doughnuts into the office. Normally you have no resistance for these types of situations, continues Ross. However if you have ahead of time rehearsed many different possible reactions for each scenario it will feel like deja vu when the situation actually occurs. You will know exactly what to do. Each set of visualization exercises pushes you slightly out of your comfort zone. It is similar to increasing the amount of weight in a training regime. Consistent practice with slightly increasing amounts of weights leads to impressive long term gains.
The best news about eVISIONomics is that it is free. You can download the complete audio series at eVISIONomics and take the 5 lb weight loss challenge. What do you have to lose? Well, actually a lot!