There is a large list of reasons why people categorize getting healthy as one of the most challenging and difficult goals to achieve. Time management is at the top of the list. So many people find it impossible to squeeze any kind of workout into their already hectic schedules. Since we are not living in the nineteenth century, and exercise is no longer a part of daily survival, we must deliberately move our bodies. For those who work at home, it is a common parental habit to tend to family matters before tending to self. Then there are also those who are simply overwhelmed by just trying to figure out what kind of program to choose. Even in a technological society, with resources at our fingers tips, many people just don’t know how to stay healthy. They are confused by an overload of information.

NPFT Master Trainer and college fitness instructor, Gene Kelly of Bellingham, Washington recalls, “The first thing my boot camp clients ask at the end of an eight week session is, “Now what do we do?”

It’s not that people can’t get fit on their own. The fundamentals never change. Eat healthy, exercise six days a week, and eat real food. Anyone who lives by this regime will be healthy. Still, we must ask the question, how many of us grow up with this lifestyle?

Author and Lecturer, Deepak Chopra, speaks of hypnosis of social conditioning in his seminars. “As soon as we raise a child we tell them what is true what is not true, what is reality, what is not. This creates a brain structure that mainly serves as an editing device.” He says, “It edits out anything that does not reinforce the hypnosis of social conditioning.”

We are, who we have been conditioned to become. Martha Stewart grew up with gardens and a mother who canned and preserved. Ivanka Trump grew up with a real estate tycoon billionaire father. Kate Hudson grew up with a famous actress for a mother. I’m sure you get the picture. This doesn’t mean we can’t recondition habits that don’t serve us. But a person must be aware of them in the first place. This should be the starting point of any fitness program: A guide to help people understand that negative habits can be replaced with good ones. If you skip this step, learning what foods to eat or what exercises to perform, will not end in a permanent lifestyle change. Our thoughts create our lives.    

“There are only two forces in the universe,” Mr. Chopra says, “One is the force of creativity, which wants to take the next quantum leap. The other is the course of inertia, which wants to hold you back, which comes from fear. Fear is the fear of the unknown, fear is holding on to the known.”

Moving forward in any new direction, taking a step out of our comfort zone means change. If we were not raised to take care of our bodies for optimum health, then I believe that when we set out to make that change, there is a fear factor. Recondition your mind before you recondition your body and it will all fall into place.

Patricia Kelly is a certified hypnotherapist and wellness writer. She is an affiliate writer for Personal Trainer Today Magazine, and author of Elements of Potential, Awakening Dormant Possibilities in an Ordinary Life. Patricia is passionate about the power of thought and writes about the ability to recondition unwanted habits. She wrote and developed the CD collection Hypnosis for Weight Loss, A Simple One Month Plan.




 

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