CRE - CREATIVE LEARNING EXERCISE
CRE 61: OGR - OBESITY GENTLY Resolved … MIND & BODY REFRAMED!
DRAFT 25 – JANUARY 2014 – EXTENSIVE USA testing
It’s SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE … SO Let’s DO IT ANYWAY!
nOTE: THE TEXT IS DELIBERATELY REPETITIVE TO FACILITATE LEARNING RETENTION
Copyright: RGAB23/2014
Three videos and two audios freely available on: www.crelearning.com
DRAFT 23 – SEPTEMBER 2014 – EXTENSIVE USA TESTING
Section Page No.
1. INTRODUCTION 3
2. DANGERS 4
3. CAUSES 5
4. MEDITATE FOR SELF CONTROL 6
5. CONTROL HELGA - FREUD 6
6. LOVE FOOD 7
7. FEEL GOOD NOW - WITHOUT 8
8. CONCLUSIONS 9
9. REINFORCEMENT 10
Exhibits:
A Meditation 12
B HELGA – FREUD NEGATIVE 14
C Food 16
D FGN – Without eating !!! 18
E Wikipedia & References 23
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. STUDY THE BASIC TEXT 1-9
2. STUDY THE EXHIBITS A - D
3. PLAY AUDIOS WITH THE TEXT
4. PRACTICE AND REINFORCE THE LEARNING WITH THREE VIDEOS!
This CRE/OGR is based on many research and published sources including the most inspiring work of Nicole Kellerman of The US Superior Weight Loss School (www.nicholekellerman.com).
1. IntrODuction
First get rid of your illusions by reading the ¨NHS 10 Weight Loss Myths¨ which you will find on the last page of Exhibit E. Ready? Now recognize that in 2014, obesity is a leadingpreventable cause of worldwide death for both children and adults. Is it the most seriouspublic healthproblem of the 21stcentury? Obesity is still a symbol of wealth and fertility, in some parts of the world (Wikipedia Exhibit E).
Obesity is a major health risk for Alzheimer – see the Harvard Medical School Report in Exhibit E. It is epidemic in both developed and developing countries. In the USA with such a powerful food industry, obesity is about 50%. It may add about 30% to health care costs, and it is much more dangerous to the world health population than cigarettes or drugs.
Perhaps obesity of a parent is unconscious ¨child abuse¨ ? No never!! Well, perhaps acceptance of obesity communicates an unhealthy lifestyle values to the children that we love? Not verbal communication, but through our powerful ¨body language”? Children follow so many parent values. Look around in other families … in 2014 obesity is epidemic!
Can we now take this OGR (Obesity Gently Resolved) opportunity to control our weight, and avoid both preventable sickness, abuse and disability? The key to success may be our ability to meditate, relax and laugh, so that our mind and body can be reframed. Perhaps our success can communicate hope to others, both children and adults?
Why bother? Why do it? At this time, we don’t care about diabetes, cardiac arrest or cancer. Well perhaps we do? Why not feel slim, active and energetic … and humorous? Not just for ourselves … but for someone else … for family or children or others who care about us. Doing it for others, motivates our success. The impossible becomes possible!
Obesity is often measured by BMI: weight kg/height cm² = normal 19 - 25
TABLE
Below 19 underweight
19 - 25 normal range
26 – 30 overweight
Over 30 obese
But obesity can be more simply measured as: waist cm/height cm = normal .35 - .50. It only takes a minute. Do it now and record your score … and a target.
TABLE
Below .35 underweight
.35 - .50 normal range
.51 - .58 overweight
Over .58 obese
There are slightly different standards men/women.
Are we ready to begin? OGR involves four steps:
a. Learn to meditate, relax and laugh
b. Control HELGA – Freud negative reaction
c. Love our food.
d. FGN - Feel good now – without eating!!!
We control our weight NOT for ourselves … but for our loved ones. If we are parents we control our ¨body language¨ to our children.
We need to recognize that so many solutions to obesity problems have only limited success. Diet systems work well for three months and then may fade away. Highly expensive complex surgery works well for a year and then so often fades away.
Hence our need for OGR without medication or surgery, which can achieve mind and body reframing, for a lifetime! Perhaps mind and body reframing, is also a powerful reinforcement of complex health care for chronic disease e.g. arthritis, depression, diabetes etc.?
Diet information is helpful but the key obesity issue is not information but motivation … long term lifetime motivation!! (Wikipedia, Spiegel & Proust in Exhibit E - later).
2. DANGERS OF OBESITY
Obesity increases the likelihood ofvarious diseases, particularlyheart disease,type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types ofcancer, andosteoarthritis etc. etc. etc.!
So let us gently achieve a healthy lifestyle with fun now! Sometimes, we may fail a bit, but using our four steps well, we can soon recover control and achieve success!
So we adopt OGR to control our weight NOT for ourselves … but for all the adults and children we come in contact with ….with our body language we can give them a good example to follow.
3. CAUSES OF OBESITY
Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessivefood energyintake, lack of physical activity, andgenetic susceptibility, although a few cases are caused primarily bygenes,endocrinedisorders, medicationsor psychiatric illness-
Evidence to support the view that some obese people eat little yet gain weight due to a slow metabolism is limited; on average obese people have a greater energy expenditure than their thin counterparts due to the energy required to maintain an increased body mass. Carrying around 150 kg is not the best exercise for our mind and body.
But what causes overweight? Can we blame our parents? It must be both psychological and physical. Perhaps conscious and sub-conscious stress, stimulates our neuro-transmitters (Dopamine and Serotonin) and our hormones (Insulin). And all that gives us an overwhelming desire to eat as an escape. So we need an alternative!
We need to recognize real and pseudo hunger and thirst and to act accordingly. We must learn how ¨pseudo¨ hunger is induced by: stress, depression, thirst, exhaustion etc. We must identify ¨real¨ hunger and respond accordingly with food. Quite a challenge!
So for efficient and effective weight control, we need both conscious and sub-conscious care, humour, exercise and a healthy diet with enough fruit, vegetables, vitamins and oils etc. and reduced energy-dense food and drinks, high in fat and sugars. We need to be efficient (doing things right) and effective (doing the right things). Which is more important? You decide.
The thing is clear. The influence of obese parents on their children is so powerful. They don’t mean it, but is this unconscious child abuse? It Is all communicated not by words, but by body language? Are we doing the same harm to other children? Surely not … or perhaps we are?
So perhaps we need to control our weight with OGR, not just for ourselves … but for others … ? Well here are the four steps: meditate, HELGA, food and FGN.
Diet information is helpful (Wikipedia Exhibit E), but the key obesity issue is not information but motivation … long term lifetime motivation!!
4. MediTATE for self control
Step 1. – meditate and achieve control of mind and body.
To change in mind and body, we must be able to relax, laugh and feel free. Meditation can help us.
Sometimes we may feel a bit too stressed or lacking in confidence to relax and laugh. But laughter can give us strength to resolve impossible problems. So learning a simple meditation relaxation exercise can help us.
Relaxation helps us to laugh at the world and at ourselves, and gives us the strength to motivate our learning.
Relaxation so gently helps us to reframe (change) both mind and body. We begin to change those old old negatives (¨It’ impossible! I just can’t do it!! I tried before!! It did not last. I feel helpless. I am helpless!!! etc. etc.etc. ¨) … into new new positives (¨It may seem impossible … so let’s do it anyway!!!¨).
With meditation we take mind and body control. At first it takes about five minutes, but with practice, we can do it in one minute. (Study later Exhibit A).
Control our weight NOT for ourselves … but for others we care for and who care for us.
Diet information is helpful, but the key obesity issue is not information but motivation … long term lifetime motivation!! (Wikipedia, Spiegel & Proust in Exhibit E - later).
5. Control HELGA – freud negative REACTION
Step 2. HELGA!
Deep inside, we all have a HELGA! A Freud negative reaction! A sub-conscious self-saboteur, who gives us negative reactions to our new ideas and problems. Perhaps she works for the greatly publicized food industry, selling energy-dense food and drinks, which are high in fat and sugars?
She keeps telling us: ¨It’s impossible! We tried it before. We just can’t do it!¨
Our HELGA’s Freud negative reaction, comes from our own sub-conscious spirit which appears without warning to discourage us over and over, with lack of real confidence.
For OGR we must find a way to control HELGA and tell her to shut up, because! we don’t need her negative advice. We are in control! (Study later in Exhibit B).
We can control our weight NOT for ourselves … but for children and others.
6. Love AND RESPECT OUR food
Step 3 Food!
We need some new habits. Study the food. Eat slowly and enjoy it. Remember what we taste. Try new things. Eliminate distractions while eating (reading, computer, portable, TV etc.). Get into the new habit of slow lovely eating in which we ENJOY every bit of it.
P.S. Bonus: we can laugh and give ourselves a glass of French wine … or a local alternative with the meal … if it helps us to change … OK?
We can eat out in places where they serve us small not huge portions, of increased fiber with fruit and vegetables, and reduced energy-dense food and drinks, with high in fat and sugars. We all know what to eat … and what NOT to eat!!!
We must release ourselves from the duty to ¨FINISH UP the whole plate¨ (It came from our Mother all those years ago, but is not needed any more!!!).
We can at last be free … to leave it for Nature to consume. And with self-service we can take ONLY as much as we need. A new way of eating well and enjoying every bit. (Study later in Exhibit C).
Control our weight NOT for ourselves … but for others.
7. FGN – FEEL GOOD NOW … WITHOUT EATING!!!
Step 4 FGN
With OGR we need to plan FGN – Feel Good Now - without eating!! So often when we don’t FGN … we eat!!
So now with OGR, is the time to find new ways to FGN and be in food control. Say it now please … FGN – without eating!! … five times … !! Well done. Time to change.
The FGN concept was developed by Nicole Kellerman in The Superior Weight Loss School!
Now with OGR, we deliberately and instinctively, find other joys in life … without having to eat! We diagnose ¨pseudo hunger¨ and we don’t feed it. We recognize thirst and hunger separately and we don’t mix them up. We use 30 new alternatives to FGN without eating?
In the first trial with OGR, we use three alternatives each day in the next 28 days. (Study later in Exhibit D).
So we control our weight NOT for ourselves … but for our body language communication … and it’s powerful negative or positive effect … on the health of others.
8. CONCLUSIONS
That completes the structure of our OGR - Obesity Gently Resolved!. The practical OGR routines are explained in the Exhibits A – D which we study next.
What to conclude from this brief OGR introduction:
1. OGR can give us the power to achieve mind and body reframed. Let’s practice it for
the first 28 days, to see how inspires us.
2. Today, let’s measure our waist and height. Let’s take a photograph now and at the
end of 28 days, to record progress.
3. Adopt a brave new powerful routine. For just two minutes, each morning and night,
we communicate with our mind and body in a very special way. Be brave. We look at
ourselves naked in the mirror. Move the body. We close our eyes and imagine what we want to look like. This communicates deeply into the subconscious mind, and helps to OGR work for us!! Take photo on day 1 and day 28!
4. For the 28 days of OGR, we practice the four steps regularly with the two audios. No
diet/exercise restrictions needed. We act instinctively. And no more ¨finishing up¨
anything on the plate!! We leave it uneaten to Nature!!
5. We use the audios (on www.crelearning.com) with active mind and body (moving all
the time) to reinforce our learning.
6. We meditate well to reinforce the practice of completing our four step program many times.
7. We put up ¨Reminder Sheets¨ around the house to reinforce us.
8. We keep a diary of progress and very personal feelings. We study the results at the end of 28 days.
9. We help someone else with our experience to achieve what they want.
10. We make a long term plan for the future. So please send us your new ideas which may help others.