Is this the year that the new fitter healthier you….

Posted by Swalings Admin, at 2:42 pm on December 27, 2009
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……about to emerge

As smokers take their last drag, drinkers taste their final nip, chocoholics enjoy their last slice of heaven, you can taste the air of optimism.  We have good intentions to get fitter and healthier!

So what is it that goes wrong somewhere in the middle of January?

The answer is simple, its because of our old programming.

Our inner computer needs an upgrade.

When we want to change our old, conditioned patterns of behaviour in life, health fitness we first need to uninstall the old programming – then any new programming becomes more effective.

So, what types of old programming are we talking about?

Apparently our old beliefs, rules, vows or promises and values are the most important.

“Let’s use old beliefs as an example,”  “Since early childhood, each of us is conditioned with the limiting or negative beliefs of others.

“Even when they have the best of intentions, our parents, teachers, authority figures repeatedly instil in us what we can’t, must not or should not do, be or become, what we are not capable of, what is not available to us.

“It is often programming that is simply handed on from generation to generation with little basis in truth – it’s just a ‘given’, and it can relate to restriction of culture, education or qualification, socio-economic background, gender, race and so on.

“Eventually, the habitual beliefs become ingrained; modern research shows they ‘stick’ unconsciously with us at a deep level of awareness.”  As we get older, we move on from our old negativities. We educate and train ourselves, we work hard, we gain in ability and experience and we may no longer believe our old beliefs.

We may have many more new, more supportive and wholesome beliefs that more accurately reflect our reasonable expectations based on our proven abilities and our actual circumstances.

“If we have taken the advice of the modern personal growth movement, we have probably also practised positive affirmations and visualisations to confirm and reinforce our real potential with ‘I can’, ‘I will’, ‘I am able, competent, confident, talented’ and so forth.

“Yet what have we actually achieved? What we’ve done is simply to add more conditioning to the old.

“We’ve mixed it in, we’ve overwritten old programming with new.

“And the trouble with that is that the old junk is still clogging up our hard drives.

“The end result is a mess of conflict, overload, inefficiency and, eventually, possible crashing.

Before making your new resolutions, simply stop, be still for a while in a quiet space and inquire deeply within: If there was old limiting programming in there, what might that be? “Write out all the old beliefs, the childhood or later stuff that could hold you back – even if you don’t believe the old beliefs any more,”

“Wring out some of that old conditioning, free up some internal space, then ring in the new by opening freshly and writing down your plans and goals for the coming month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months – they will be more effortlessly achievable this way”.  Small steps consistantly will get you to where you need to be good luck!