Imagining what will be

As we begin our healthy living challenge for this round I want you to really focus and believe that you can follow through on every challenge and fulfill every rule so that you can obtain an optimum result. 

In the book Visualization for weight loss Jon Gabriel shares the following strategies for obtaining your optimal health through visualization

STEP 1: MAKE AFFIRMATIONS

You can use an affirmation to make any desired change you’d like, whether it’s to change a habit, belief, or food choice; break an addiction; or anything else. Just make sure that the words you use in your affirmation focus on the positive and take place in the present (not future) tense:

-I love to eat fresh fruit and vegetables and I feel energized when I do

-My clothes fit well and I feel healthy and attractive in them

-I enjoy my daily exercise and look forward to this time I set aside each day

STEP 2: MELT THE WEIGHT OFF

There are lots of ways you can imagine weight melting off your body, but I like this imagery a lot. See the excess weight being transformed into life force energy and being stored in your body as a much purer form of energy than fat. You’re storing it as invisible, healing life force energy.

STEP 3: CREATE YOUR IDEAL SELF

Now that the fat is melting away and becoming energy, turn your inner attention to your ideal self. Picture your desired body shape, and imagine what it feels like to be sitting inside that perfect shape. Feel your skin tight, muscles toned, belly flat, and a lightness of being.

STEP 4: ENVISION COMING DAYS AND MONTHS

After you’ve imagined scenes from your day-to-day life, turn your attention toward the future. Picture scenarios that you want to happen. See yourself becoming fitter, healthier, calmer, more confident, and more desirable. You may want to envision more success in business, more loving relationships, or healthier boundaries.

STEP 5: MAGNETIZE YOUR FUTURE

As you see yourself months and years down the road, in your perfect, ideal shape and body, imagine that this future version of you becomes a magnet that’s pulling you toward the direction of total success.

STEP 6: BRING IT BACK TO YOUR BODY AND GET RECHARGED

Finally, bring that bright image of your future self back to your body and imagine that super-successful future self becomes you right now, as you’re sitting there. Feel the new you that you’ve just created charging every cell of your body with success.

That’s it ladies! To earn the weekly bonus points I want you to spend some time visualizing the healthy result you each desire in detail. If you have time write it out. And make sure and share it with your partner. We can obtain our health goals and really picturing the end result will help us have the determination to get there.