Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Mental Causes of Obesity

a light switch to suit your needs. And we’ll be talking about that soon enough. But the easier you believe it is for you to lose weight, the easier it becomes. You can use the power of beliefs to your advantage. In a little while, I’ll give you a set of highly effective tools to address mental starvation and mental obesity, but first, let’s turn our attention to the most important nonphysical cause of obesity there is: emotional obesity.

NOTES 1. See S. Talbott, The Cortisol Connection (Alameda, CA: Hunter House Publishers, 2002). 2. See C. Ryff, “Study: Good Health Goes Beyond Diet and Exer- cise,” University of Wisconsin–Madison Website (August 12, 2004): http:// www.news.wisc.edu/10034.

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