Third Installment of Paul McKenna
0 Comments Published by Diet Trials January 24th, 2006 in Paul McKenna SkyOne, Week 3Last night’s show on Sky One was about learning how to control binge eating and to increase your self image and confidence in the way that you look. It is a common misconception that fat people want to be thin as that will make them happy, but who’s to say that they will be happy when they are thin. It is not just the body image that needs to change but it is the way that we think and feel about ourselves, and that comes from within.
Often people who are overweight and not happy about how they look, also have low self esteem. They then help themselves feel better by eating more, therefore suffering from emotional eating. It’s a vicious circle that I want to get out of. I wouldn’t class myself as a particularly big emotional eater but I do suffer from a poor self image. I am certainly not what Paul McKenna classes as a binge eater and I don’t have the midnight feast that some of the people had on the show.
He used a technique that has been proven to be successful in treating fears and phobias, and the same technique can be used to gain control over food. It is to do with the direction that desire travels in your body and then to reverse the cycle. For instance if you see a chocolate cake the desire starts in your stomach and moves up into your mouth. This can be represented as a clockwise circle in red, spinning inside your body. Yeh I know this all sounds a bit wierd. The theory is that this red clockwise circle of desire continues spinning, but taking control you move it out of the body. You have to sort of spin your hand around with the motion of the circle. Then to regain control and to stop the binge eating you change the circle to blue and make it spin in the opposite direction. Therefore taking the desire from your mouth back to your stomach where it all started. By spinning the blue wheel faster and faster this surpresses the desire. This is an alternative technique to the tapping one that Paul McKenna shown everyone last week.
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