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Healthy Behavior Changes?"
Ever wonder why, in spite of your
best efforts, the ice cream, pizza, and potato chips still seem to have
you in their death grip?
Instead of eating the healthy salad and heading to the gym, you end up
eating the fries and being the couch potato. You try, you work hard, you
struggle, you even curse. But you still end up doing the same old things
you swore you wouldn't do.
And as you tear out what's left of your hair, you find yourself asking
for the umpteenth time.
Why Is It So !@#$%!
Hard To Make
Healthy Behavior Changes?
Could something as simple as the way we spell a word hold a hidden clue
to why we have so much trouble making healthy behavior changes?
I had a fascinating new insight today when I reflected on the fact that
one of my overseas clients spells a few words differently than I do. We
had jokingly razzed each other several times in past about whose spelling
was "right."
But I got to thinking (as I always seem to do) about the deeper implications,
and I realized how persistently we work to maintain and even defend our
childhood programming (regardless of whether it is helpful or harmful)
with a virtual death grip -- simply because we believe it is "right."
Which made me ask myself: If we are so doggedly determined to hold on
to our learned beliefs about the "right' way to spell simple words
like color / colour and tires / tyres, just imagine how much more aggressively
we will defend (and hang on to) our personal programming that deals with
deeper / larger / more important issues.
It really doesn't matter whether we picked up a particular belief in early
childhood or yesterday at lunch. Once it's "in there," it becomes
"the truth."
Two Major Success
Barriers You Really
Need To Be Aware Of
What does this mean to us in our journey to become self-aware and to replace
our own self-sabotaging program with something healthier? It means that
we are up against two very obvious barriers to success (in addition to
all the not-so-obvious ones).
First, we're firmly convince that our beliefs are *right* -- regardless
of whether they actually are or not, and regardless of how helpful or
destructive they may turn out to be.
Second, because they are *our* beliefs, we will fight to the death (our
death, not theirs -- and sometimes literally) to defend and protect these
beliefs, no matter how helpful or destructive they may actually turn out
to be.
Bottom Line: Any learned beliefs, no matter how true or false, no matter
how helpful or harmful, once adopted will be staunchly defended. Why?
Simply because our fragile human egos can't bear to think that we made
a mistake in adopting a belief -- any belief.
As Always, The First Step
Is Increased Self-Awareness
As such, we are programmed to resist replacing any existing belief with
any new belief, no matter how dramatically that change could improve our
lives. The only way around this barrier is to be willing to take a very
conscious and objective look at any evidence that a belief is not serving
us in a healthy way.
What would this "evidence" look like? It could be the stress
we feel in the pit of our stomach, or the way our stomach hangs over our
belt. It could be found in our feelings of persistent depression or consistent
anger.
The most common evidence of unhealthy beliefs is poor self-care, which
can show up in countless ways (most of them being visible in the mirror).
But whatever the consequences our unhealthy beliefs, if we're ever going
to correct them, we'll have to first become aware that we have them, and
then understand how much damage they are doing.
The good news is that, once you're willing to do those two things, you
open the door to an experience of life that's so much healthier and more
enjoyable that, right now, you probably can't even imagine how much better
it will be!
To learn more Dr. Frank Smoots Christian based Weight Loss Program please visit
See you there!
"Dr. Frank"
Dr. Frank B. Smoot,
MA, DD
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