Spiritual Weight Loss Viana Stibal
Spiritual Weight Loss Viana Stibal
Spiritual Weight Loss Viana Stibal
Spiritual
Weight
Loss
HowtoTransformYourBody,ReverseAging,andAchieve
OptimalHealth
Contents
Appendix A: Where Science Meets Spirit: The Formula for Miracles ............... 122
Introduction: How an MIT-Trained Engineer Experienced a Miracle .......................................................122
Chapter 1: Is There a Formula for Miracles? ...........................................................................................134
The Power of Human Consciousness .....................................................................................................136
The Computer Metaphor for Understanding Healing and Miracles .........................................................138
We Can Learn How to Harness the Full Power of Our Minds .................................................................140
The Truth about the Law of Attraction .....................................................................................................142
Practical Miracles for Everyday Use ........................................................................................................142
WhyYouWillActuallyUsetheToolsinThisBook
The heart and soul of the Theta*Genix approach can be summed up in the
following four questions and answers:
Q Whatisthebestnutritionandeatingprogramfor
youtouse?
A It'stheoneyouactuallyuse!
There are thousands of different diets, weight loss programs, and nutritional
guidelines out there, and some of them are actually effective and will work for
you. However, if your nutrition and eating program is not convenient, affordable,
tasty, and simple, you won't stick with it. Similarly, if you feel hungry all the time,
or are always craving the foods you don't get to eat, you won't stick with it. And
even the best diet or nutritional program in the world will do nothing for you if it
doesn't become part of your lifestyle!
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Q Whatisthebestbodycleansingsystemforyouto
use?
A It'stheoneyouactuallyuse!
If you are health conscious or have been involved with alternative or holistic
medicine, you know that cleansing the body of toxins and impurities is critical to
healing injury and disease, reversing aging, and maintaining great health and
energy levels.
However, if you are like me, you know that many of the cleansing programs and
products on the market make you miserable when you use them, and are often
expensive. I don't know how many different cleanses and fasts Ive tried and
either didn't finish, or never repeated because they made me so miserable.
As with the eating and nutrition, Theta*Genix suggests cleansing products and
programs that are gentle and easy compared to what you may have experienced
before. The goal is to find a cleansing regimen that becomes part of your
lifestyle, and that you use regularly because it simple and pleasant and makes
you look and feel better. After all, even the best cleanse in the world will do
nothing for you if you don't actually use it!
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Q Whatisthebestemotionalclearingtechniquefor
youtouse?
A It'stheoneyouactuallyuse!
However, if emotional clearing takes too long, or is too expensive, or too difficult,
you won't do it. Theta*Genix solves this problem by offering simple, fast, and
incredibly powerful emotional clearing that usually only takes a few hours to
permanently eliminate subconscious emotional blocks to releasing weight and
getting super healthy.
Q Whatisthebestformofexerciseforyoutodo?
A It'stheoneyouactuallydo!
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Of course there are a virtually endless number of different kinds of exercise, and
many people are overwhelmed by everything they think they need to learn and
do to start an effective exercise program. The real truth is that while there is
always room for optimization, the most important thing is not what kind of
exercise you do, or how long you do it, when you do it, or how often you do
it...the most important thing is that you do it!
This program will suggest different kinds of exercise and provide state-of-the-art
information on how and when you can exercise to get maximum results.
However, most of this information is just for optimization. The really important
thing for you to do is to simply find some form of exercise you actually enjoy, to
ensure you will make it part of your lifestyle and hence keep doing it not just
because you know it is good for you, but because you like it!
TheComponentsoftheTheta*GenixProgram
The program detailed in this e-book is called Theta*Genix because it includes
the use of ThetaHealing and Isagenix Nutritional Cleansing. I have tried zillions of
different diets, nutritional supplements, cleanses, and emotional clearing
modalities, and these are the two things that provided me with profound,
immediate, and permanent results.
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However, the Theta*Genix program is far more than the sum of its parts, and
also includes a great deal of vital information about biochemistry, food planning,
meal preparation, metabolism optimization, acid-alkaline balance, and other
topics to create an incredibly powerful synergistic system to burn fat, release
toxicity, and improve health, appearance, energy, and vitality. Even if you have
used ThetaHealing, and/or the Isagenix system, and/or other diet, nutrition, or
exercise programs before without great results, dont despair! You can still
expect to get amazing results out of this program because of the powerful
synergies involved.
Emotional Clearing
Body Cleansing
Nutrition and Eating Program
Exercise
While you will obtain the quickest and best results by using all four components
of the program in synergy, remember our guiding principle is to find a way to
gradually and gently apply the program which fits best into your lifestyle. Hence,
all of the program components are optional.
However, the more aspects of the program you are willing to engage, the faster
you will get results. Similarly, the more aggressively you apply the program, the
faster you will get the results you want. So if there are certain aspects of the
program you don't want to do, it probably just means it will take you longer to get
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the results you want. And that is perfectly fine! If you apply the Theta*Genix
program in a way you enjoy and that fits your lifestyle, you will make consistent,
effortless progress, and before you know it you'll have the body of your dreams!
As you apply this program and start getting results, dont be surprised if you
experience a shift of attitude regarding the elements of the program you didn't
like before. It's common for people who disliked exercising prior to starting the
program to begin to enjoy exercise as they get into better shape, or that people
who never wanted to do cleanses before are suddenly interested in improving
their health by cleansing out toxicity. This is because as you start to get good
results, your body chemistry will be changing. As a result, its likely that you will
naturally and effortless begin to crave healthier foods, enjoy exercise, and notice
an increasing desire to cleanse your mind and body of toxins, poisons, and
emotional garbage!
BrentsStory
Until I learned the secrets presented in this program, I struggled with my weight
my entire life. In fact, I was put on my first diet by my doctor when I was four
years old!
Even when I was young and extremely active, I always carried a lot of extra
weight. When I was in college, I was regularly playing basketball, lifting weights,
and practicing two different martial arts, which meant I spent an average of about
two hours a day engaged in intense exercise. However, I still had a spare tire
and was probably about 25 pounds overweight.
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When I experienced a major health crisis in my 20s and was disabled for several
years, I was no longer able to exercise like I did before, and I gained a lot of
weight. (For the curious, the details of my story are available in my book Where
Science Meets Spirit: The Formula for Miracles, available at my Web site
www.TheFormulaForMiracles.com. See Appendix A for more information and a
sample chapter from this book.) At my heaviest I weighed close to 300 pounds,
was technically obese, had all the symptoms of Type-2 diabetes, and was
headed for cancer and a heart attack.
I then went through a major emotional meltdown in the spring of 2007 when I
experienced several traumas all at once. First, a dishonest and vengeful
neighbor set me up for a lawsuit which wiped out my savings and damaged my
business. Then, my girlfriend (whom I was considering proposing to) dumped me
and told me she had been in love with someone else the whole time we were
dating, just ahead of a romantic two week vacation in Hawaii we had planned
together. And three days after that, my father died. (And just to add insult to
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I gave up drinking soda, started eating a lot of salads, and began to work out like
a demon, often doing 2-3 hour workouts, six days per week. I kept up this routine
of intense dieting and exercise for about 4 months, and during this time I lost
about 12 pounds. So, I got some results, but nothing like what I really needed.
After Images
However, after losing about 50 pounds on the cleansing program (and about 60
pounds total since I started my routine of diet and exercise), I hit a plateau, and it
was clear that what I was doing wasn't going to take me any further. So I began
to study a lot of material from the world of bodybuilding, because bodybuilders
are experts on lowering body fat and increasing lean muscle mass.
Despite the fact that about half of the material I read contradicted the other half, I
made some changes to how and when I ate, and I made some tweaks to my
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During this time I tried a lot of different supplements and approaches, and found
some things worked really well and others didn't. This book contains the best of
the best techniques, insights, and recommendations for products that have
worked well for me and my clients.
LegalandCopyrightNotice
This book presents a highly effective holistic approach to weight loss, improving
your health and transforming your body. This book is intellectual property that is
copyrighted. It has taken years of work, research, and experimentation to
develop, and it is both illegal and unethical to copy or redistribute it without
permission. By purchasing it, you have the right to read this book, to print out a
copy for yourself, and to make a backup copy. You do not have the right to
distribute it, edit it, sell it, or otherwise copy or share it with others.
However, if you find the material valuable, you can be compensated for sharing
this material with others through the affiliate marketing program on my Web site.
(Basically, any time you refer somebody to purchase this book, you will get a
commission!)
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Overview
The following chapter explores important facts you need to know about how the
body really works. It is not necessary for you to understand this to benefit from
the Theta*Genix program, but most people find that they are more strongly
motivated to follow the program when they understand the science behind it and
learn exactly what is happening within the body when you eat different types and
amounts of food.
The next four chapters provide a detailed exploration of the four components of
the program: emotional clearing, cleansing, nutrition and eating, and exercise.
The last chapter of this e-book provides a step-by-step process for gently
integrating the various aspects of Theta*Genix into your life.
Theta*Genix is all about a permanent shift in your lifestyle. And the lifestyle
shifts should be enjoyable and be things you do because you like them and you
feel better day to day!
Of course, when you get started with the program, you'll be doing things that
might be a little different than you have done before, and those changes need to
be fueled by your passion and desire to transform. But I know that if you didn't
have a desire to transform, you wouldn't be reading this right now! However, after
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using the program for a while and getting great results, it is natural to expect that
this passionate desire to transform may fade. That's why this program is all about
lifestyle transformation by the time your burning desire fades, these new
behaviors and ways of thinking will have become part of your lifestyle, and you
won't need to exert any effort to maintain the results you've gotten. Better energy,
better health, improved mental clarity, more enjoyment of life, no food cravings,
no hunger, and improved quality of life will show up naturally and effortlessly
and you will look great too!
MythConceptionsandOptimizations
Throughout this book you will find tips and insights labeled as myth-conceptions
and optimizations.
Myth-conceptions are just that myths are perpetuated in our culture, telling us
things that are actually misconceptions (in other words, not true!) Pay particular
attention to these, because you need to be willing to give up some of what you
think you know to be truth about dieting, exercise, and health in order to
transform your lifestyle, health, and body.
Optimizations are included as ways you can extend and apply the Theta*Genix
program to achieve optimal results. However, they are not recommended for
those new to the program, because I don't want to make things too complicated
or too difficult remember, this is all about gradual, gentle, and permanent
lifestyle transformation! But I think it is important to include the optimizations for
those who have been using the program for a while and are really serious about
achieving optimal results, or are looking for tips and insight to help them break
through a plateau.
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Chapter2:SecretsofHowtheBodyReallyWorks
When I had my major health crisis and got into alternative medicine, I was told
over and over that diet soda is bad for you. Just about every book I read and
every doctor or practitioner I worked with told me I should quit drinking diet soda
to improve my health. However, I didn't actually quit until I learned about the
specific effects diet soda has on the body: namely, that aspartame (aka
Nutrasweet) is an excitotoxin which causes neurons in the brain to swell up
and explode. Did you know that drinking a single diet soda suppresses your
immune system by over 50% for the next 8 hours? (Wow! You can imagine how
it devastates the immune system to be continuously drinking diet sodas.) After
learning these things, it was much easier for me to quit drinking diet soda,
because knowing exactly what was going to be happening in my body after
drinking a diet soda gave me the motivation to quit the habit forever.
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TheDangersofOurModernSociety
All of your life you have been confused by conflicting messages, many of which
are not based on truth, from parties who have interests other than your health. In
particular, food conglomerates have tremendous wealth and political power, and
use this wealth and power to continue the status quo of feeding all of us food
that is often unhealthy and toxic.
The simple truth is the food industry and medical establishment have created a
nightmare scenario where they are getting rich off of you being overweight, sick,
and prematurely aging.
Food companies essentially bribe politicians to pass laws that let them increase
their profits by making the food we eat increasingly more dangerous and more
toxic, at the same time that the nutritional content of our food is ever-diminishing.
I don't want to over-dramatize this fact, or turn this book into some long political
discourse, so I will only present a few illuminating facts here that are merely the
tip of the iceberg on the damage being done to your health by modern
agribusiness and food processing companies.
Did you know that a serving of spinach in the 1950s had 50 times as many
nutrients in it as a serving of spinach today? That's right: you'd have to eat
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Did you know that in the 1990s there was legislation passed that allows
producers of beef to use 10 times more antibiotics on their cows?
Did you know over 50% of Americans are projected to get type 2 diabetes
at some point in their life, and this number is increasing every year?
Did you know a healthy diet should consist of approximately 80% alkaline
and 20% acidic foods and drinks, but the typical person living in the
Western world eats a diet thats exactly the opposite - approximately 80%
acidic and 20% alkaline - making our bodies dangerously acidic and toxic?
Did you know that obesity and most parasites, bacterial infections, viral
infections, and many serious diseases including cancer and diabetes
cannot exist in a body that has the proper acid-alkaline balance?
The medical establishment and drug companies are partners in making you sick
and unhealthy so they can sell you expensive drugs you will need to take for the
rest of your life. Compounding this problem are the many diet gurus out to sell
you the latest book, magic fat burning pill, or exercise contraption. And none of
these people or companies not the drug companies, not your doctors, not the
diet gurus, not the makers of the latest home exercise machine none of them
wants you to be healthy and lean, because if you were, they'd stop making
money from you!
Fortunately, there are simple things you can do to reverse the toxic effects of the
modern Western diet, reverse the effects of aging, cleanse your body, release
excess body fat, and get into the best shape of your life.
The foundation for the Theta*Genix program is a basic understanding of how the
body really operates, what really happens inside your body when you eat
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Metabolism,WeightLoss,andHunger
The first topic we will address is metabolism, hunger, and the truth about how
and why the body adds fat and burns fat.
MYTHCONCEPTION: Youshouldbehungryallthetimetoloseweight
However, there is also a good deal of scientific evidence that being hungry is not
a good way to lose weight! To understand exactly how and why being hungry
actually works against your goal of weight loss, we need to explore metabolism
and how the body takes in and uses energy.
This section provides an oversimplified model of how the body works in terms of
calories, and how this results in weight gain or weight loss. But please be aware
that this model is greatly oversimplified, and the truth of how your body works is
more complicated than a simple matter of counting calories in and calories out!
However, we need to start somewhere, and this simple model will serve as the
basis for everything discussed in more detail later in this chapter. We will borrow
a term from physics and call the information in this section the standard model of
calorie counting of calories, food, exercise, and weight management, aka the
standard model.
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The standard model has a basis in fact. Your body has a certain amount of
energy it burns everyday to keep itself functioning. In order to provide the body
with this energy, you need to eat food (or drink beverages) that provide this
energy.
So, when you eat food, the amount of energy contained in that food is the
number of calories in the food. (Technically, the calories contained in food are
actually measurements of kilo-calories, where each kilo-calorie contains a
thousand calories, but in this e-book we will stick to the common usage of the
term calorie.)
Similarly, when you exercise, the amount of energy used during the exercise is
also measured in calories.
Each day, your body burns a certain number of calories, which consist of the
combination of your basal metabolic rate (or BMR) that is, the number of
calories your body will burn even if you do no activity plus the amount of energy
you burn doing exercise and other activities.
Similarly, each day your body takes in a certain number of calories from the
foods you eat and the beverages you drink.
The standard model for determining whether you will gain weight or lose weight
on any given day is given by the following formula:
For example, if your BMR is 2000 calories/day and you do 200 calories worth of
exercise, your Calories Out is 2200 for that day.
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If you consume 2200 calories worth of food and drinks that day, you will have 0
net calories, meaning no weight gain or weight loss.
By contrast, if you consume 2500 calories worth of food and drinks that day, you
have +300 net calories, which will be stored by your body for future use (probably
as fat.)
Or, if you instead consume only 1700 calories worth of food and drinks that day,
you will have -600 net calories, which means your body must burn 600 stored
calories (probably as some combination of muscle and fat).
Each pound of fat in the body stores about 3500 calories worth of energy, and
each pound of muscle in the body stores about 600 calories worth of energy. So
if your body burns 2200 calories per day, and you only consume 1700, then over
the course of a week you will run a calorie deficit of 4200 calories, which is
approximately one pound worth of fat calories and one pound worth of muscle
calories. Assuming for the moment that the body burns fat and muscle equally,
you would lose two pounds during this week. (The exact way that the body
balances how much fat and muscle it burns to make up a calorie deficit is
critically important and will be explored below in more detail.)
Most diets and weight reduction programs apply this standard model and use
calorie deprivation diets and increased exercise to increase the calorie debt you
run each day, causing the body to burn up its stores of fat and muscle to lose
weight.
Of course, it is true that you must be burning more energy than you are taking in
through food and drinks in order to get the body to burn fat and lose weight.
However, there are many factors described below that make real-life weight loss
more complicated than the standard model presumes.
TheLimitsoftheStandardModelofCalorieCounting
While there is truth underlying the standard model of counting calories, the
details of how things actually work inside your body are a lot more complicated!
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The following is a short list of ways in which the standard model of counting
calories breaks down:
First and foremost, the amount of calories listed in a foods nutritional information
is not always the same as the amount of energy it produces in your body.
Second, whether or not eating a certain food causes the body to store its energy
as fat depends on many factors, including how much you are eating, what other
foods you are eating at the same time, the level of glycogen stores in your body,
your body's insulin response, the time of day, and proximity to exercise.
There is a feedback effect between your diet and your basal metabolic rate (in
other words, your metabolism changes based on what, how much, and when you
eat.)
Let's explore each of these points below, in more detail, which explain why
traditional calorie deficit diets don't work.
When you look at the nutritional label of a food product, you will see that every
food has a certain number of calories. For example, you may look on the label on
a loaf of bread and find that a piece of bread has 144 calories in it.
The number of calories is usually broken down among the 3 major types of
macro-nutrients in our food: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.
Proteins are the building blocks of the body, used to create new tissues,
hormones and enzymes. The largest sources of protein are meats, though there
are also proteins present in most dairy products, and in some other foods such
as bread, beans, and brown rice.
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Carbohydrates are the body's source of energy. Carbohydrates are broken down
by the digestive system into glucose, which enters the blood stream and is stored
in the muscles, the liver, or as fat to later supply energy to the body. (The term
carb loading refers to eating foods dense in carbohydrates to fill the muscles
with glycogen.)
Fats are the third type of macro-nutrient, and dietary fats are necessary to
produce many hormones in the body, which are the control signals which
control all the biochemical processes in your body. A body in proper hormonal
balance will be healthy, so eating enough of the right dietary fats is critically
important to health, reversal of aging, and weight loss. Fats also make you feel
full and slow the release of glucose into your blood stream when you eat
carbohydrates.
There is also fiber, which is the part of food that passes through the body largely
undigested. Fiber has many important benefits to the body, including satisfying
hunger. Eating fiber with carbohydrates lowers the amount of active
carbohydrates because the fiber offsets the insulin response created in the body
by the carbohydrates (more information on this is presented below.)
So, back to our hypothetical piece of bread, you might look at the nutritional
information and see that it lists the following:
But how exactly does the manufacturer of this piece of bread know that there are
144 calories in the bread? The way this is done has nothing to do with your
digestive system. Instead, it is determined by how much heat the bread gives off
when it is burned in a bomb calorometer!
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Because your body's digestive system is a lot different from a bomb calorometer,
the calories listed on nutritional labels are at best a rough estimate of how much
energy a food will provide inside your body. So, the standard model of calorie
counting starts to break down as soon as we start counting calories!
In general, if your goal is weight loss, optimal health, and/or reversal of aging,
you will want to eat food that is as fresh and unrefined as possible. Food that is
highly refined (like just about all packaged food bought at grocery stores, and
some restaurant food) will pretty much always cause you to gain more weight
than the same number of calories from food that is natural and unprocessed.
Beyond the fact that the amount of energy a food produces in your body is not
Breakdown #2: Whether or not eating a certain food causes the body to store
its energy as fat depends on many factors
always the same as the nutritional label suggests, there are many factors beyond
the number of calories that determine how eating a certain food will affect you.
How much you eat, and when you eat it, has a powerful and obvious effect on
how food affects your body chemistry and whether or not you gain or lose weight.
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For example, if your BMR is 2500 calories/day, but you eat only once a day and
consume all 2500 calories in one meal, you will probably gain weight, because by
eating all at once you are encouraging your body to store these calories as fat.
By contrast, if you eat the same amount (2500 calories), but divided into 5 meals
per day at 500 calories per meal, you will probably lose weight (or at least gain
less weight!), even though the amount of calories and the type of foods are the
same.
Similarly, the other foods you eat at the same time have a big effect on how
foods affect your body chemistry. For example, if you eat a sugary snack away
from other foods, it will likely promote more weight gain than that same snack
and same number of calories eaten in the presence of protein, fiber, and fat
which blunt the insulin response created by the sugary snack. (More information
is provided below in the section on the critical role of insulin in weight gain and
weight loss.)
Time of day also has an impact on how food will affect your body chemistry. It's
commonly known that bigger meals should be eaten earlier in the day, and that a
500 calorie meal eaten right before you go to sleep at night will promote more
weight gain than that same 500 calorie meal eaten first thing in the morning. (In
fact, eating as early as possible after waking up in the morning tends to speed up
your metabolism.)
Other factors that determine how foods affect you (in particular for how eating
carbohydrates affects you) include the level of glycogen stores in your body at
the time you are eating, as well as whether or not you are eating before or after
exercise. (The details of how all this fits together are presented later in this book.)
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Breakdown #3: There is a feedback effect between what and how much you
eat, and your basal metabolic rate
One reason that traditional diets do not work over the long term is that they
ignore the feedback effect that lowering caloric intake has on the metabolism.
What this means is that your body's BMR is affected by your daily calorie deficit
or calorie surplus.
For example, let's say your daily metabolic requirement (BMR) is 2200 calories
per day. And let's say that you want to lose 10 pounds of fat, which is the
equivalent of 35,000 calories. If the standard model of metabolism and weight
loss was accurate, you would simply need to lower your daily calorie intake to
1850 calories per day for 100 days, which would create a 350 calorie per day
deficit for 100 days, or burn 35,000 calories total, which is the equivalent of 10
pounds of fat.
However, it doesn't work this way! What happens is that when you consistently
eat fewer calories than your body is burning, your body will lower its metabolism
and burn fewer calories in order to survive. Remember that your body is
designed to survive periods of food deprivation and starvation, and so when you
give it consistently fewer calories than you are burning, the body assumes it is
starving, and knows that it must lower its metabolic requirement in order to
survive. After all, if you consistently eat fewer calories than you are burning, then
unless the body lowers its metabolic requirements, at some point you are going
to die!
So, in order to survive, the body uses a combination of burning lean muscle
mass and adjusting hormone levels (in particular leptin and thyroid hormone),
and over time the body lowers its metabolism so that the number of calories it
burns each day matches the number of calories you are eating. And because
each pound of lean muscle mass in your body burns on average 25-50 calories
MYTHCONCEPTION: Youneedtoeatlessfood(calorierestrict)tolose
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per day, it is a simple matter for the body to lower its metabolism by burning up
lean muscle mass to make up a calorie deficit. In our example, when your body
burns up 14 pounds of lean muscle mass, it will lower its daily metabolic
requirement from 2200 down to 1850 calories per day to matches the amount
you are eating. From your body's perspective, it has done its job perfectly,
because your daily metabolic requirement has been lowered to match the
amount you are eating, hence ensuring your survival! But if you are trying to lose
weight, this is exactly what you dont want, because your diet has lowered your
BMR and you won't be losing any fat. Even worse, if you go back to eating 2200
calories per day like you did, you will start gaining weight!
This is a critically important concept that bears repeating. Traditional diets restrict
calories every day, creating a calorie deficit. The body responds to this calorie
deficit by burning a combination of fat and muscle, so you will lose weight at first.
However, over time the body will adjust its hormone levels and burn up its lean
muscle mass to lower its metabolism to match the number of calories you are
eating, which in turn will stop the weight loss. Thus, the more weight you lose on
a calorie restriction diet, the larger the proportion of lean muscle mass you will be
losing.
Making matters worse, after this happens your BMR has been lowered, so if you
go back to eating normally again, you will end up gaining back more weight than
you lost on the diet!
More specifically, when you are first on a calorie restriction diet, your body will
temporarily burn sugar and fat in order to make up the calorie deficit. However,
over time the mitochondria in the cells (the place where energy is actually
burned) shut down, and your metabolism is reset to a lower level. At the same
time, your production of cortisols (stress hormones) increases. When you begin
eating more again, you quickly gain back the weight - and more! - because of
your lowered metabolism and altered hormone levels.
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In addition, low calorie diets often cause deficiencies in vitamins, minerals, fatty
acids, and proteins, causing even more muscle loss, lower energy, and
decreased immune system function.
Is it possible to eat in a way that burns body fat while minimizing the loss of lean
muscle and without lowering the metabolism? Yes, it is! An easy way to do this is
explained in a later chapter of this book on nutrition and meal planning.
TheCriticalRoleofInsulininWeightLossandWeightGain
The standard model of calorie counting tells you that you simply need to count
calories, eat less, and exercise more in order to create a calorie deficit that will
enable you to burn up unwanted excess body fat. However, weve now seen the
many ways in which the standard model fails, including why traditional diets do
not work long term in the long term and how these diets can actually cause
weight gain and even serious damage to your health and well being.
So what is the secret to healthy, permanent weight loss? The most important
factor is the hormone known as insulin.
MYTHCONCEPTION: Eatingtoomanycaloriescausesweightgainand
obesity
Biochemistry explains why traditional calorie restriction diets do not work and
there is plenty of supporting real-world evidence!
Did you know that, since 1960, the daily average caloric intake in Western
countries has decreased by approximately 35%?
And did you know that during the same period obesity has jumped by 400%?
The solution to this paradox is found in the role of insulin in the body.
Insulin is a magical hormone that transports glycogen (a simple sugar) from the
blood stream into cells, where it is used to produce energy.
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To understand the critically important role insulin serves in the human body, let's
explore the process by which foods we eat are converted into energy and used
by the cells of the body.
When you eat carbohydrates, your digestive system uses special molecules
known as enzymes that break down the carbohydrates into a form of sugar called
glycogen. Glycogen is then absorbed from the intestines into the blood stream,
where it is circulated to every cell in the body. Insulin is a hormone produced by
the pancreas which transports glycogen from your blood stream into the cells of
your body. Inside each cell, there is an organelle known as the mitochondria that
combines oxygen and glycogen to produce ATP in a process known as aerobic
respiration. ATP is the chemical form of energy used within the body to power its
chemical reactions.
The disease known as diabetes occurs when there is a problem with the body's
production and use of insulin. Type 1, also known as insulin dependent or
childhood diabetes, is a genetic defect where the diabetic person lacks the
capability to create insulin, and these people must regularly inject themselves
with insulin in order to survive. Type 2, also known as insulin resistant or adult
onset diabetes, is a chronic condition where insulin is produced but does not
properly function in the body to transport glycogen into the cells.
Whether you gain weight or lose weight is primarily affected by how much insulin
is in your bloodstream, and when.
Hyper-insulinism is the condition of having too much insulin secreted into the
bloodstream, and it is directly linked to weight gain and obesity. Hyper-insulinism
is typically triggered by eating too many of the wrong kinds of carbohydrates.
When insulin levels are high, the body tends to create new stores of body fat and
gain weight. And when insulin levels are low, the body tends to burn body fat and
lose weight. When there is more glycogen in the blood stream than the body can
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use, insulin levels will be high, and the glycogen will either be stored in the
muscles and/or the liver, or converted into fat stores.
The secret to permanent, healthy weight loss is to eat in a way the keeps insulin
levels low most of the time, to encourage fat burning.
At the same time, the body must be supplied with sufficient minerals, enzymes,
vitamins, amino acids, and essential fatty acids to ensure proper functioning and
to keep it out of starvation mode. However, because insulin is also an important
anabolic (or growth-enabling) hormone, it is not wise to try to keep insulin levels
suppressed all the time. There are various factors that influence whether the
glycogen is stored or converted into fat that are discussed in more detail in the
later chapter on strategic eating.
An important concept which has a powerful impact on how the foods you eat
cause either weight gain or weight loss is the glycemic index, or GI. All
carbohydrates have a glycemic index, which is a measure of the strength of the
insulin response on the body created by eating that food.
In general, foods with a high glycemic index are those that cause a larger insulin
response, and low glycemic index foods are those that cause a lesser insulin
response. By definition, table sugar has a GI of 100.
High glycemic index carbs cause a stronger insulin response; examples are table
sugar and white rice.
Low glycemic index carbs cause a weaker insulin response; examples are brown
rice and whole grain breads.
And be warned that the conventional wisdom about glycemic indexes of foods is
wrong!
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MYTHCONCEPTION: HighGIcarbohydratesareabsorbedquicklyand
causeafastpeakininsulinresponse,whereaslowGI
carbohydratesareabsorbedmoreslowlyandcausea
slower,moregradualpeakininsulinresponse.
Most nutritionists and books on dieting and nutrition spread the myth that GI is all
about how quickly the insulin response occurs. The more precise truth is that the
GI measures how much of an insulin response is created for a given number of
calories. So, for the same number of calories, a high GI food will create a greater
insulin response in the body than a low GI food.
Carbohydrates can also be grouped into simple carbohydrates, which are simple
sugar molecules that are quickly digested and absorbed into the blood stream,
and complex carbohydrates, which are more complicated molecules that take
more time for the body to digest and absorb into the blood stream. There is
probably a lot of misconception about carbohydrates and glycemic index
because simple carbohydrates typically, but not always, have a high glycemic
index, whereas complex carbohydrates typically, but not always, have a low
glycemic index. A good example that defies conventional wisdom is white rice
cakes, which are complex carbohydrates but have a glycemic index of around
120 higher than table sugar!
HowandWhytheBodyBurnsFat
In order to maximize fat loss and keep healthy and lean for life, it is important to
understand the factors that influence how and when the body burns fat, versus
when the body stores fat, or when it burns muscle.
The first factor which determines whether the body is storing energy or burning
energy is whether or not the body is burning more energy than it is taking in. The
standard model of calorie counting provides a simple (though not always
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accurate) model for this. For purposes of this discussion, we will take the two
different scenarios and analyze them separately:
Scenario#1:EnergyDeficit
When the body is burning more energy than it is taking in, it must make up the
deficit somehow. There are two different modes the body can be in, and which
mode it is in determines how it makes up a calorie deficit:
There are a variety of complex biochemical factors which influence how much
and what the body burns to meet an energy deficit. This book will focus on the
most important factors that are under our control, and leave the sophisticated
biochemistry to the textbooks!
The body's preferred energy source is glycogen, which is a form of sugar that is
absorbed into the blood stream when the body digests carbohydrates. Besides
the glycogen in the blood stream, the body can also store glycogen in the
muscles and the liver.
When there is an energy deficit and glycogen is available, the body will burn it
first, until its glycogen stores run out. When the body has run out of glycogen
stores, it is said to be in a glycogen depleted state. Athletes who exhaust the
body's store of glycogen during intense exercise call it hitting the wall.
Typically the body will not burn significant amounts of muscle or fat until the
glycogen stores are depleted. Once this occurs, the body begins to burn a
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mixture of fat stores and lean muscle tissue to make up the energy deficit. It is
effectively impossible for the body to be burning only muscle or only fat it is
always some mixture of muscle and fat. But there are several factors that
determine how much muscle versus how much fat the body burns:
Minerals and Enzymes if the body does not have a sufficient supply of
vital enzymes and minerals, the chemical reactions which burn fat and
transport the stored toxins out of the body do not function.
Water the body requires water to burn fat and to flush toxins stored in fat
out of the body. Dehydration increases muscle and sugar burning and
decreases fat burning.
Starvation Mode if the body has been regularly deprived of calories, it
will enter starvation mode in attempt to survive as long as possible, which
locks down fat stores and causes more muscle to be burned.
Toxicity if the body requires fat to store excess toxicity, then it will not
want to release dangerous amounts of toxins in the blood stream, causing
it to burn less fat and more muscle.
Stress if the body is under great stress, and in particular if it is not
getting enough sleep, levels of stress hormones (cortisols) increase,
locking down fat stores and causing the body to burn less fat and more
muscle.
BCAAs branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) are the molecules that
muscles are made from. When the body burns muscle tissue, it releases
BCAAs into the blood stream, which creates a feedback effect causing the
body to recognize that it is already burning up muscle, and hence to burn
more fat and less muscle. This effect can be leveraged in our favor to
encourage fat burning by taking BCAAs during cleanses, fasts, and before
exercising on an empty stomach to maximize fat loss and minimize
muscle loss.
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The Theta*Genix system aims to maximize fat burning and minimize loss of lean
muscle tissue by addressing all of these factors as follows:
Scenario#2:EnergySurplus
When your body is taking in more energy than it is burning, it needs to do
something with the extra energy. There are three primary ways that your body
can store this energy:
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Your body will store fat most readily when its glycogen stores are full, and you
eat large amounts of carbohydrates and fat. When this occurs the insulin
response causes the extra energy to be stored as body fat, causing you to gain
weight. Hence, the Theta*Genix strategic eating program minimizes the
situations where you eat lots of carbohydrates and fat together, especially when
your body is in a glycogen-filled state.
Similarly, when your body digests more protein than it can use at any given time
(which for most people is somewhere between 20-45 grams of protein every
three hours), the excess energy tends to be stored as fat. Hence, the
Theta*Genix strategic eating program avoids taking in excessive amounts of
protein at one time by eating smaller, more frequent meals.
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Chapter3:EmotionalClearing
It's ironic that the most dangerous and most common mistake people make when
embarking upon a health or weight-loss program has nothing to do with diet or
exercise!
MYTHCONCEPTION: Themostcommonmistakepeoplemakewhentrying
toloseweightorgethealthyisimproperdietand
exercise.
Instead, the most dangerous and most common mistake people make when
embarking upon a health or weight-loss program is a lack of proper emotional
clearing!
Have you ever wondered why every time you try to embark upon a new diet or
exercise program, something comes up that sabotages your progress?
Have you ever wondered why some people can eat all the wrong things and stay
healthy and thin, while others gain weight just by looking at the dessert tray?
The answer is the same: it's all about subconscious belief systems!
The reason that this chapter on emotional clearing comes before the chapters on
the other three components of the Theta*Genix program (cleansing, diet, and
exercise) is because without proper emotional clearing, the other components
will not work very well! While emotional clearing alone doesnt always cause an
immediate loss of body fat, it can greatly facilitate a permanent and enjoyable
lifestyle transformation to weight release and improved health by:
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The Law of Attraction works to bring us life experiences that fit our belief
systems. For example, if you hold the subconscious program rich people are
greedy, then you will tend to attract experiences with rich people where they act
greedily. Similarly, if you hold the subconscious program rich people are
generous, then you will tend to attract experiences with rich people where they
act compassionately.
In terms of weight loss and health, if you hold the program I deserve to be
overweight, then it will be difficult for you to get slim, because you are fighting
your own subconscious belief systems that make it very difficult perhaps
impossible to become something that you do not believe you deserve to be.
Similarly, if you are a woman and hold the program If I am thin and beautiful I
will get too much attention from men, then your subconscious will sabotage your
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progress at weight loss because it is trying to protect you from what it perceives
to be a potentially dangerous situation.
Get the Law of Attraction working for you instead of against you by doing
emotional clearing!
Because this book focuses on practical techniques for weight loss, health,
cleansing, and reversal of aging, we will not engage in a lengthy discussion of
spirituality and metaphysics here. For those interested in learning more, I
recommend my book Where Science Meets Spirit: The Formula for Miracles,
which goes into great detail to explain exactly how it is that miraculous instant
healings are possible, and how our subconsciously held belief systems create
and control our health, our wealth, and even our relationships.
The book also provides a detailed explanation of a quick and simple process for
changing these belief systems called ThetaHealing. ThetaHealing is a technique
developed by Vianna Stibal in 1994 to instantly heal a life-threatening cancer in
her body. It works by using a conscious theta brainwave to work directly with the
subconscious mind to debug the faulty subconscious programs that attract
disease, injury, poverty, dysfunctional relationships, and other destructive
experiences.
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under the Sun, and then experienced a miraculous instant healing in my first
session of ThetaHealing. I was transformed by this experience, and have been a
full-time ThetaHealing practitioner, instructor, and author ever since. During my
quest to heal myself I tried nearly all of the alternative and holistic healing
modalities available, and in my experience, nothing is even close to the power
and effictiveness of ThetaHealing. Hence, it is my preferred modality for doing
emotional clearing.
In order for you to get the most out of this book, it is helpful (but not strictly
necessary) to have a basic understanding of how emotional clearing works. To
give you an immediate introduction to this material, Appendix A of this book
includes the introduction and first two chapters of Where Science Meets Spirit:
The Formula for Miracles.
In order to clear your blocks to weight loss and improved health, the first thing
you need is a way to identify the blocks you have. After all, if I want to know what
you consciously believe about something, I can just ask you. But what can I do if
I want to know what you subconsciously believe about something?
Fortunately, there is a simple and easy to learn technique to do exactly this, and
it is called muscle testing.
You can use the technique of muscle testing to bypass your conscious mind and
directly access the subconscious to determine what subconsciously held belief
systems you are holding. Muscle testing is fast and easy to learn, and a great
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way to learn it is from the DVD Secrets of Muscle Testing. This DVD provides an
in-depth explanation of how muscle testing, in addition to tutorial demonstrations
of four different methods of muscle testing works, and a ton of information of
trouble shooting muscle testing so that you can get it to work for just about
anyone. In addition, Appendix B of this book contains excerpts from the muscle
testing chapter from Where Science Meets Spirit: The Formula for Miracles.
Because muscle testing is so fast and easy to learn, it is expected that you will
use the information in Appendix B and/or the Secrets of Muscle Testing DVD to
learn to muscle test yourself and find out exactly what subconscious belief
systems you are holding that are blocking your progress. Each of the sections
below will contain a section called Programs to Check which lists common
limiting belief systems that you can muscle test on yourself, and then you can
work with a ThetaHealing practitioner (or another healing or emotional clearing
modality) to clear them out of your subconscious mind.
Aquicknoteonlanguage:WeightLossvsReleasingExcessFat
Before delving into the details of how to best use emotional clearing, we need to
change our language in how we talk about excess fat. Instead of talking about
weight loss, we should talk about releasing excess fat. Why?
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out what we've lost to get it back and when you lose weight, you dont want
your subconscious to be trying to get it back!
Second, what most of us are really after is not necessarily weighing less, but
rather achieving an ideal body composition through releasing excess fat and/or
adding lean muscle mass. In fact, lowering your weight by burning up lean
muscle mass is not a good thing! Instead, what you really want is to achieve an
ideal body composition, which most experts estimate to be approximately 15%
body fat for males and 20% body fat for females.
Up to this point in this book, I've used the phrase weight loss because that is
the term in common usage that people understand. However, from here forward
we will substitute the preferred term weight release or (even better!) excess
body fat release, so that we can begin to harness the power of your
subconscious mind to facilitate achieving your health, weight, and body
transformation goals!
The rest of this chapter contains several lists of common belief systems
associated with blocks to weight release and optimal health. You should use
muscle testing to check to ensure you do not have these blocks in your
subconsciousand if you do, use emotional clearing to release them!
Following each program is the recommended answer your body should have
when you muscle test it. For example, when you muscle test the statement It is
safe for my body to release excess fat, you want your muscle test result to be
TRUE (or strong.) By contrast, if you muscle test the program It is dangerous for
me to be my ideal weight, you want your muscle test result to be FALSE (or
weak.)
It is remarkable that your entire reality including your health and body
composition is ruled by your subconscious belief systems. Your subconscious
is always trying to keep you safe, based on your belief systems, so you will
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subconsciously sabotage any changes you make in your life if you have
subconscious beliefs that say those changes are not safe.
Second, your subconscious belief systems act like software codes that create
your life, in the same way that the software on your computer creates the
programs that run on it. If you dont have any software installed on your computer
to play Solitaire, then you cant play Solitaire on your computer. If you wish to
play Solitaire, you first need to install Solitaire software on your computer.
To get started with using muscle testing to check your subconscious belief
systems to identify blocks to weight release and optimal health, use muscle
testing to check the following programs:
I know the difference between weight loss and weight release (TRUE.)
It is safe for my body to release excess fat (TRUE.)
I know how to maintain my ideal weight (TRUE.)
I know what it feels like to maintain my ideal weight (TRUE.)
It is dangerous for me to be my ideal weight (FALSE.)
If you get the wrong answer, you'll want to use emotional clearing to reprogram
your subconscious mind to eliminate these blocks!
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EmotionalEating
In addition to the many physical reasons you may carry excess fat, there are also
important emotional reasons. (In fact, those who have studied metaphysics or
energy healing know that these emotional reasons are usually the underlying
causes that manifest through the physical reasons like excess acidity, allergies,
poor genetics, etc.)
Emotional eating is one of the most powerful and most important core reasons
why so many people carry excess body fat. There are many different reasons
why we eat emotionally, and they are often simply a way the body tries to
medicate itself and balance its brain chemistry with food.
What exactly is emotional eating? In a nutshell, it's eating not because you are
hungry, but because eating provides emotional and physical benefits beyond
nutrition.
Some common programs you should check for emotional eating issues include:
The five most common reasons you may eat emotionally are:
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It is a habit
Tired: When you get tired, one of the mechanisms your body uses to keep you
alert and awake is to become hungry. However, eating when you are tired is
dangerous, because your body's mechanisms that signal when you are full and
should stop eating are impaired when you are very tired. The solution is to take a
cat nap or walk around the block...or, even better, do emotional clearing on the
reasons that you are tired in the first place!
Programs to Check:
I know the difference between being tired and being hungry (TRUE.)
I know how to have energy without needing to eat sugar (TRUE.)
I know how to have energy without needing to drink coffee (TRUE.)
I know how to relax (TRUE.)
I know what it feels like to relax (TRUE.)
I know how to get restful sleep (TRUE.)
I know what it feels like to get restful sleep (TRUE.)
Stressed: When you are stressed, your body craves carbohydrates specifically,
high glycemic index carbohydrates such as sugars and processed snacks to
make you feel temporarily calm. In addition, chronic levels of high stress increase
the production of cortisols (stress hormones), which lock down your body's fat
stores and make it more difficult for you to burn fat. It is also very common for us
to use eating to process intense emotions, which may be either negative
emotions (such as fear, anger, jealously, etc.) or positive emotions (such as joy,
gratitude, etc.)
Emotional clearing can eliminate the underlying reasons why you feel the need to
turn to food when you are stressed or dealing with powerful emotions. In fact,
high levels of stress, fear, anger, and other negative emotions are one of the
primary reasons people turn to emotional clearing techniques such as
ThetaHealing.
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ThetaHealing truly can transform your experience of day to day life, allowing you
to process stress, anger, fear, and life's difficulties (big and small) with grace and
ease. I am confident that once you have experienced the amazing changes in
your life from emotional clearing, you'll never want to go back to living without it
again!
Programs to Check:
Programs to Check:
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I know how to live without the habit of eating when I'm bored (TRUE.)
I know what it feels like to live without the habit of eating when I'm bored
(TRUE.)
I know how to process boredom with grace and ease (TRUE.)
I know what it feels like to process boredom with grace and ease (TRUE.)
It's safe for me to live in the present (TRUE.)
I am addicted to distractions (FALSE.)
I have to be thinking all the time (FALSE.)
Thirsty: Sometimes when you are hungry you are not actually hungry, but rather
thirsty, as the body uses hunger when it is dehydrated to get you to consume
water in the form of food. Staying well hydrated will not only keep you healthier
but also reduce hunger.
It is truly amazing how easy it is to confuse thirst with hunger! If you feel hungry,
think about how much you have eaten recently. If it doesnt make sense that you
would be hungry already, then you are almost certainly not hungry but thirsty! So
the next time you feel the urge to have a snack, drink some water instead, and in
5 or 10 minutes you may notice that the hungry feeling is gone entirely!
Programs to Check:
Habit: We all sometimes fall into patterns of eating certain things or at certain
times not because we need to eat, but because it is a habit. Clear the belief
systems underlying these habits with ThetaHealing (or a similar modality) and
watch your life transform!
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After doing your emotional clearing, replace your old eating habits with healthier
habits like meditation, exercise, or reading a book. As with everything contained
in this book, don't try to change your habits all at once; it will be much easier to
do, and you will get much better long term results, if you only try to change your
habits one at a time. Every two weeks you might pick an old habit to change; for
example, you might start with your habit of snacking on popcorn while watching
movies at home, and instead find something else tasty and easy to prepare that
serves as a suitable replacement (personally, I like to nuke some broccoli and
eat it with a lot of cayenne pepper sauce and a little bit of low fat ranch dressing
it's a great TV snack!)
Programs to Check:
FearofIntimacy
The single most common emotional reason that we carry excess fat is an
underlying subconscious fear of intimacy. By adding excess fat, you can make
yourself less attractive to potential romantic partners, eliminating the threat that
you will be betrayed, abandoned, or otherwise hurt by letting someone get close
to you. Victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault also commonly add a lot of
excess fat for the same reason: fat serves to protect from the danger of being
intimate (physically and/or emotionally) with other people.
As long as you have powerful belief systems that tell you that it is dangerous to
be attractive, or thin, or healthy, you will sabotage your ability to do the things
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you know you need to do to get healthy and in great shape. This sabotage may
happen either knowingly or unknowingly. For example, you may knowingly
sabotage your progress by choosing to eat donuts late at night, or by choosing to
never exercise, or by ordering some new diet program or supplement and then
never using it.
However, unconscious sabotage can be even more powerful and difficult to work
with, as you cant overcome it with willpower alone. For example, you may
commit yourself to a new exercise program, only to suffer an injury that prevents
you from working out. Or you may invest in a personal trainer or a gym
membership, and then suddenly lose your job or need to move out of town. And
the only way to ensure that you don't keep sabotaging your progress is to clear
the underlying subconscious belief systems that tell you it is dangerous or unsafe
or uncomfortable to be healthy, lean, and attractive!
Programs to Check:
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I know what it feels like to be safe and intimate at the same time (TRUE.)
It is safe for me to be beautiful/handsome (TRUE.)
It is safe for me to be attractive (TRUE.)
I know how to process sexual attention from (men/women) with grace and
ease (TRUE.)
I know what it feels like to process sexual attention from (men/women)
with grace and ease (TRUE.)
I know how to say no (TRUE.)
I know what it feels like to say no (TRUE.)
FoodAllergiesandSensitivities
You may be wondering why the section on food allergies and sensitivities is in
the chapter on emotional clearing and that is an excellent question! While it is
true that food allergies and sensitivities are a physical phenomena, in my
experience the fastest and easiest way to eliminate them is with a powerful
emotional clearing technique like ThetaHealing.
Of course, you could also go and have medical tests and blood panels done to
determine what foods you are allergic to, and then avoid eating them for the rest
of your life...but wouldn't you rather just use ThetaHealing to heal the allergies
and never have to worry about them again?
Food allergies and sensitivities are a powerful hidden enemy in your quest to
release excess fat and achieve your ideal body composition. Mild food allergies
are also known as food sensitivities. When you eat foods that you are allergic or
sensitive to, your body's immune systems reacts to and fights the food you eat as
if it were a dangerous pathogen (like a bacterial or viral infection), and this
causes inflammation in the digestive system. This inflammation makes it more
difficult to absorb nutrition from food, and contributes to weight gain.
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sensitivities, which cause low levels of inflammation that many people are not
even aware of. In fact, we are rarely aware that we are mildly allergic to the foods
we eat, because the symptoms are much subtler than a serious food allergy. (For
example, those who are allergic to peanuts can die from eating them.) Even
worse, most of us have spent our entire lives eating foods we are allergic to,
leaving our guts in a state of chronic inflammation and reaction that seems
normal and healthy!
World class athletes have now caught on to the importance of avoiding foods that
they are allergic to, and there are now simple blood tests available that will tell
you what foods you are allergic to, and how allergic you are (mild, medium, or
severely allergic.) Once elite athletes find out what foods they are allergic to, they
avoid them, and find that their athletic performance increases!
I had one of these blood panels done a few years ago, called the ALCAT
(http//www.alcat.com/), which measures your body's reaction to 100 different
foods and food additives. Fortunately, because you have access to ThetaHealing
and other emotional clearing techniques, you don't necessarily have to avoid the
foods you are allergic to for the rest of your life...instead your can clear these
allergies with ThetaHealing!
I know it can work, because before I had my ALCAT done, I had already cleared
my food sensitivities to wheat, sugar, and dairy in a ThetaHealing session. And
when I got my ALCAT results back, I had absolutely zero reaction to wheat,
sugar and diary! In fact, my doctor was so surprised that he told me that we must
have had my blood type wrong, because he said there was no chance that an O+
blood type could have no allergy whatsoever to wheat, sugar or dairy! So he did
another blood test and had my blood typed...and guess what the results were:
my blood was in fact O+! ThetaHealing had completely eliminated my food
allergies to wheat, sugar, and diary, as proved by the ALCAT. (And after that, he
booked a Theta Healing appointment for himself!)
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The simplest way to muscle test if you are sensitive to a given food is to muscle
test
Note that we use the phrasing offended by or allergic to, because the body
does not always understand what it is allergic to. (This is because if the body is
allergic to something, it means that the body does not recognize what it is).
However, the body does understand what it is offended by, and hence we use
the muscle test phrasing I am offended by or allergic to <food X.>
When the muscle test result says TRUE that it is offended by or allergic to a
certain food, I usually work with the following subconscious belief systems:
After that, usually all it takes is a simple belief change on the program I am
offended by or allergic to <food X> followed by a physical healing, and it will
usually be gone forever. (If you are confused by what this means, dont worry,
properly trained ThetaHealing practitioners know how to do all of these things.)
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A note on wheat and wheat gluten: just about everyone is allergic to wheat
products, especially those with blood type O. However, to be thorough, when I
work with my ThetaHealing clients on food allergies and sensitivities, I also like to
clear allergies to wheat gluten, which is the part of the wheat that most of us are
actually allergic to. (Wheat gluten acts like a glue, or gum, in the intestines, and
is generally a bad food.)
Lastly, do not think that just because you are not allergic to something that it is
good for you! There are reasons beyond food allergies that foods like wheat are
bad for you, and should generally be avoided even if you are not allergic. For
example, most people are not allergic to cyanide either, but its not something
you should ever eat!
EmotionalClearingtoSupportCleansing,Nutrition,and
Exercise
In addition to releasing the need to eat emotionally, clearing fears of intimacy,
and releasing food allergies and sensitivities, emotional clearing and healing can
be extremely effective in empowering and facilitating the other things you need to
do to get healthy, release excess fat, and get into great shape.
Personally, I would recommend you do emotional clearing around all three of the
other major components of the Theta*Genix program: cleansing, nutrition and
eating, and exercise. For example, if you've had difficult or traumatic experiences
with cleansing, you'll want clear your negative belief systems about cleansing
before you do any cleanses. Or if you've had bad experiences with diets, you
need to do some emotional clearing around diets. And the same goes for
exercise.
Emotional clearing is best done one on one with a skilled practitioner who can
zero in on exactly what your belief systems are to get maximum results.
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However, the lists of beliefs presented in this chapter can serve as useful
guidelines to help you get the most out of your Theta*Genix program:
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GeneticProgramsforAgingandDying
There are several factors that all contribute to what we call the aging process:
Poor diet
Stress
Lack of exercise
Toxicity
Genetic Programs
It may seem too incredible to be true, but you can actually use ThetaHealing to
release some of the subconscious belief systems that cause you to grow older
and weaker. In fact, this is one of the exercises done in the Basics of Theta
Healing training class, which I teach regularly in the Los Angeles area. (I am also
available to travel if you'd like to host a seminar in your area!)
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fact, many people believe that the human body is designed to stay young and
healthy for several hundred years! (If you read the story of Noah's Arc from the
Bible, you will find that Noah built the Arc when he was in his 600s!) Be warned,
though, that it is common for people to go into a healing crisis after the youth
and vitality chromosome is reactivated, which causes the body to detoxify and is
sometimes associated with a few days of fatigue, headaches, and mild nausea.
Commitment
Last but not least, the one intangible component that can make or break a fitness
or weight release program is commitment. No matter how much great information
you have on nutritional and dieting, and no matter how great your cleansing
products and nutritional supplements are, and no matter how great your personal
trainer is, there is no substitute for your commitment to achieving your goals.
Most diet and exercise programs simply tell you You need to be committed to
this program or it won't work. They are correct, but they are doing you a great
disservice by not offering a way to increase your commitment.
When you have trouble committing to something, there are nearly always limiting
subconscious belief systems that are creating your lack of commitment. By using
powerful emotional clearing techniques such as ThetaHealing, you can eliminate
the underlying belief systems sabotaging your commitment, and afterwards you
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will get much better results from whatever products, programs, and methods you
are using!
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