INSPIRED DIRECTIONS – Journeys For Your Mind 

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1. Listen well to others and more importantly to yourself. Tune in to what you body is telling you. Your body is your barometer and reacts to everything you think, hear and feel.

2. Express yourself, openly and honestly to yourself and others. Holding onto to the things you want to say (and feel you can’t) choke you and fester within your body.

3. Smile easily and often, a smile has an amazing reaction on your immune system as it releases positive endorphins, uplifting you instantly.

4. Positive thoughts and emotions influence your body in a positive healthy way and will strengthen your immune system. Negative ones strongly affect your immune system in an unhealthy way weakening it.

5. Communicate with others in a responsible way. Be responsible for what you say and how you say it. Respect their view, whether you agree with it or not. They are entitled to their opinion based on their own experiences and ideas, in the same way you are entitled to yours. Be generous with your spirit, share and expand with others.

6. Listen to what you are saying to yourself and to others about your life, weight, money, goals etc. Do you talk about what you want for your life or do you focus on what you don’t want, attracting more of that. Remember whatever you focus on most is what you attract more of. (“I hate being fat”, only focuses on being fat. “I eat healthy for my slimmer healthier body” focuses on being healthy and slimmer and you subconscious works on whatever you focus on)

7. Your mind will always agree with you! Therefore ensure what you are thinking and saying is what you want your mind to focus on. If you focus on how hard your life is or how depressed you feel you will feel it even more. Thinking in positive terms will propel you in a more positive direction.

8. Appreciate what you already have in your life and all the wonderful aspects of life. The more frequently you acknowledge beauty around you and feel grateful to be able to experience it, the more wonderful things you attract and notice in your life.

9. Forgive yourself for anything you may have done in the past and release it. Forgive others, let go of past hurts and give yourself permission to move forward to happiness and success.

10. Set goals for yourself, dream big and trust the universal power to bring opportunities to you to move you to your desired life.

Copyright 2008   Kathryn Sturtridge Lotus Coaching

A study of various psychological helping intervention modalities by Dr. Alfred A. Barrious, revealed the following recovery and therapy effectiveness rates.

1. Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions. Cost approx $90,000

2. Behavioural Therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions. Cost approx $3300

3. Hypnotherapy: 93% recovery after 6 sessions. Cost approx $900

Costs are evaluated in US currency at a very low hourly charge of $150.

Source: American Health Magazine

Imagine you are standing naked in front of the mirror, in the privacy of your bedroom.

What are you saying to your mirror image about your body?

Are you saying how fat your body is or focusing on those areas you hate?

Are you feeling distaste or embarrassment about your body?

Now imagine a small child. Imagine telling her you hate certain parts of her, you find her distasteful and ugly. You are embarrassed by her. What would her response be?

Will she take this information as encouragement to do better or will this message make her feel damaged and not good enough, looking for more information to validate what is wrong with her?

Your subconscious mind is like that small child. Feed your mind with criticism and negative messages and your mind will provide you with what you are focusing on, a fat, ugly distasteful body.

On the other hand, encourage your mind (and body) with positive messages and instructions. When you feel love and gratitude for your body (as it is now) and focus on it being healthier, slimmer and lovely, your mind responds to this encouragement therefore finding ways to achieve this for you.

As you continue to focus on what’s wrong with your body, you will continue to create more of this. Only by loving and accepting yourself now, as you are, can you move forward towards your ideal body weight and size.

You’re not giving up, you’re accepting yourself right now and focusing on what you want for yourself.

This will instruct your mind with the correct messages and your body naturally responds.

Try it ... start being kinder to yourself and your body.

Look for and acknowledge any improvements no matter how small they may be. Positive acknowledgement feels good and your subconscious mind will respond in positive ways.

THINK SLIM to BE SLIM