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A Powerful Technique For Working Through Past Emotional Trauma

Weight Loss Coaching Call – A Powerful Technique For Working Through Past Emotional Trauma

Each month in my private Gabriel Method Support Group membership, I host Live “Q and A” sessions where members can call in and speak to me directly.

During these calls members are welcomed to ask me all sorts of questions relating to their weight loss journeys. Often times I get callers who call-in to talk about what tools they can use to overcome emotional traumas, limiting beliefs, stress.

Our bodies use fat to protect us against perceived danger. Financial worries, career stress, and marital problems are a just a few common triggers that can confuse our bodies into feeling “unsafe.” When our body feels unsafe, our body can sometimes use weight as a form of protection.

As a result, I’m always learning, refining and perfecting tools that can help my clients reduce stress and fear and work through emotional trauma.In this segment I help Linda work through a past emotional trauma using a really powerful visualization technique I created called “Recreating The Past”.

This specific technique is one that you can use as well at home. It’s extremely powerful and effective. If you suffer from emotional trauma, practicing this visualization technique will make losing weight so much easier and sustainable.

Also to help you go deeper I’m also sharing on this page one of my most popular visualization in my Support Group member’s area called “Safe Strong and Protected”. Just listen to this visualization first thing in the morning or anytime you like and while listening, incorporate some of the principles I explain to Linda in the video above.

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If you enjoyed watching this video and would like to speak with me directly, I’m hosting a live call in day next month in my support group. If you call in, we can work through your specific traumatic experiences together.

Also, right now we’re offering a FREE 30-DAY TRIAL for our support group.

During this FREE 30-day trial not only will you be able to speak with me on my Ask Jon show, but you’ll also be able to get group coaching from our highly trained Gabriel Method certified coaches, as well as access to 50 of my best visualizations and many other amazing resources. Find out all about it here….

Enjoy the Safe, Strong and Protected visualization!


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Meditation for Stress-Reduction and Happiness

Meditation as a Stress-Reduction Tool and a Happiness Technique

“Quite simply, I define meditation as a stress-relieving tool. It’s something to help you get back to the most amazing version of you.” – Emily Fletcher, founder of zivaMIND.

I recently interviewed Emily Fletcher, founder and meditation teacher of zivaMIND, and I wanted to share a really powerful concept I learned from her. As Emily says…

“I don’t think that nature intended us to be sick, tired, and stressed all the time.”

It so simple, but it’s true. Stress is just a survival mechanism designed to keep us either from being eaten by a predator or to survive starving in a famine. But the problem is, we’re stressed out all the time.

Certainly, nature never intended us to be worried about mortgage payments, our boss, deadlines, and traffic jams. But we are, and it confuses our brain and nervous system and causes our bodies to go into fat storage mode. It also causes ravenous junk food cravings.

It’s a vicious cycle of more worry, more stress, more weight gain, decreased health, decreased creativity and decreased ability to focus – all leading to more stress and worry.

So what do you do to break this vicious cycle? One of the best ways is with meditation. I know in my own life meditation is a lifesaver when it comes to managing stress. I consider it to be one of my most important practices. And one of the best teachers of meditation I know is Emily Fletcher.

In my interview with Emily, she really gets to the heart of how meditation can be used not only as a stress reducing tool but also as skill and practice that can create happiness. The more we meditate the more we can start to bring that happiness into our lives now.

Watch the interview with Emily to discover:

  • How you don’t need to quiet your mind to meditate – “I’ve tried meditating, I can’t stop my mind from thinking.” (3:15)
    Emily discusses the common misconception that we need to quiet the mind in order to be better meditators, but in fact you can still have a powerful meditation practice without “mastering” your mind.
  • The difference between mindfulness meditation and Vedic meditation (4:36)
    Here Emily talks about how she uses Vedic meditation vs. mindfulness meditation in her teachings. And how mindfulness practices induces a more ‘wakeful restfulness’ state of being to help reduce stress and help you get in touch with your own bliss.
  • Meditation and the adaptation energy (11:40)
    Emily discusses how meditation can give us this ability to plug into a limitless source of what she calls ‘adaptation energy’ to help us handle the demands and expectations of our day to day lives.
  • A guided visualization called ‘Come to Your Senses’ by Emily Fletcher (19:11)
    Here Emily leads you through a gentle guided visualization that will bring awareness to all five of your senses to get your mind and your body into a peaceful, relaxed state.

Emily is offering a special opportunity to the Gabriel Method community through her website “zivaMIND”. For those interested in learning from Emily an extremely simple and practical way to meditate, click here to learn more >>.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how you use meditation in your day to day life to help reduce stress and increase happiness. Please join the conversation by commenting below.

About Emily Fletcher:

Emily Fletcher is an amazing meditation teacher known for her work at Google, Summit Series, Barclays Bank and Viacom. She’s a regular on Huffington Post Live and recently, taught at The Gabriel Method retreat at the Omega Institute and the GATE, the Global Alliance of Transformation Entertainment with Eckhart Tolle.

Emily began her extensive training in Rishikesh, India under world-renowned meditation instructors. Emily was inspired to become a meditation teacher after experiencing the profound physical and mental benefits it provided her during her ten-year career on Broadway. As you’re listening today, you can learn more about Emily and her online meditation program at zivaMIND.com

 

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How To Use Visualization To Create Your Ideal Body & Lose That Excess Weight

How To Use Visualization To Create Your Ideal Body & Lose That Excess Weight

I have a quick question for you, and curious to see if you know the answer…

What do Albert Einstein, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and Jim Carey all have in common?

The Answer?

They all use visualization to help them be super successful in their lives and careers. Visualization is a creative tool we can all tap into to maximize the power of our minds and nowhere is visualization more powerful than in fitness.

Many olympic athletes use visualization before races and big competitions.

I personally used visualization to lose over 200 pounds back in 2002, and I’ve been the same weight ever since.

As many of you know I was once over 400 pounds. After I had decided to quit dieting once and for all, I turned to visualization to try creating sustainable and permanent results in weight loss.

During this time, I had a very definite image of my ideal body after losing the weight.

I wanted to be a 183 pounds and totally fit. I used to imagine this every night as I was going to sleep.

Two and a half years later I became that exact image. I know that visualization really contributed to my success and that was over 12 years ago.

Over the years I’ve been making visualizations for people to use daily, and also leading
visualizations for people in my Support Group.

I have led guided visualizations for tens of thousands of people all over the world at this point, and over a million people have listened to my popular evening visualization.

And now, so many people that have been on the dieting roller coaster for years are now finally losing weight and keeping it off sustainably by adding this simple, mind-body approach to their day. Visualization complements any fitness program because you’re tapping into the power of your mind and channelling it into your weight loss effort.

Visualization the way we practice it at The Gabriel Method, is a form of meditation and there have been many studies that demonstrate that meditation helps you reduce the stress hormones that can cause weight gain.

So at the very least visualization works because it reduces stress.

And at the very most, you’re actually tapping into an enormous power that we all have inside us to transform our bodies.

So if you haven’t done any visualization before I can teach you a real quick visualization that you can do with me and it only takes a couple of minutes. It’s a great practice to have as a way to start your day first thing the morning.

The basic concept of visualization is to relax your body by imagining either the white light going through your body or you can just imagine any part of your body relaxing.

Once you’ve relaxed a little bit, then you create an opportunity for your mind to go into a state of consciousness researchers call the ‘alpha’ and ‘theta’ states. This is the state of mind where you are much more relaxed, and it is much easier to focus and use the power of your mind for conscious creation.

Once you’re in that state, now it’s time to make a visual image of how you’d like to look – your ideal body. If you’re interested to experience this for yourself, and if you’re willing to try something new, I’ll take you through a quick visualization.

To do so, watch the video on this page, and if you like, you can fast forward to minute 3:20. This is where I start to take you through a visualization experience.

If you like this visualization, leave me a comment on this page and share your experience.

Also if you’d like to get FREE instant access to over 50 weight loss visualizations I’ve created, plus have the opportunity to speak with me and my coaches live, you can do so by taking a free month trial of our Support Group.

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