The Power of Positive Visualization is a sub book contained within The Aspen Diet by Robert Lawrence. One of the best seling self help authors of all time wrote the following forward to the book. Even if you have no weight to lose you will want to read the Power of Positive Visualization sub book within the Aspen Diet on how to properly apply the motivating power of visualization to any area of your life.
Forward By Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
When I read this book, 'Permanent Weight Loss with the Aspen Diet by Robert Lawrence, an extraordinary wise statement by Andre Maurois comes to mind. It is this: 'Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.' And I also thought of a comment by that genius and wizard Thomas A. Edison as related to me by his widow: "The only reason we have the body is to carry the brain around.' That is to say that the brain is of primary importance, for within the brain structure operates the mind. And it is with the mind that we think, decide and regulate the body and control our lives.
Actually this book dealing as it does with the power of creative thought can not only affect diet and, therefore, produce a better physical condition, but the principle of thought conditioning that it teaches can lead on to success in other aspects of life as well.
The book teaches the techniques of imaging and visualization relating them primarily to diet. That these principles can have a profound effect if practiced as outlined here there can be no doubt whatsoever. In fact, the teaching of visualization of Robert Lawrence's book is so well conceived and expressed that any reader of the book or listener to the tapes is bound to develop a mental change that will surely result in a new physical well-being, and beyond that a new life generally.
There is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely like that which we habitually imagine or image ourselves as being. The long and persistently held mental picture strongly tends to reproduce itself as fact. Anyone deeply desiring to achieve permanent weight loss and who definitely pictures the weight desired will, by following the teachings of this book, surely attain the desired goal.
Following one of my lectures, a woman obviously obese demanded to know "if the positive thinking principles which I taught could help her attain her weight goal." 'What is your goal?' I asked. "Oh, I don't know exactly, but I would like to be slender." 'How slender?' I demanded. Again a vague answer.
I asked her to state a definite weight figure and the exact date she wished to attain it. I then told her to visualize herself as of that weight and to picture achievement on the date, and if she did this strongly she would attain it. Up to that time she had failed in every attempted diet effort. With this positive image and visualization of success, she had the power not hitherto possessed. She attained the imaged weight by the specified date! Had Robert Lawrence's book been available at that time I would certainly have recommended it to her. I now recommend it to you. Its principles work.
A couplet by Goethe occurs to me: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Dr. Norman Vincent Peale authored, The Power of Positive Thinking.
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98% OF ALL DIETERS PUT BACK EVERY POUND THEY LOSE!
Current clinical estimates are that 98% of all dieters who actually do lose weight regain every lost pound within one year. Adding insult to injury, it has also been found that in each cycle of weight loss and regain, the dieter usually adds a few pounds to lose the next time.
Not surprisingly, it has been estimated that 98% of all current dieters are not using any modern form of mind training simultaneously with their calorie/carbohydrate diets and exercise programs. In this lacking, not only are most dieters denying themselves the most important tool of weight loss, but they are also denying themselves the ONLY tool by which they can ever really attain PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS.
The Mind Training for Dieters presented in the Aspen Diet is beyond the power of the antiquated 50's mind technologies of positive thinking or hypnosis.
Researched, tested and proven in the Beverly Hills of the Rockies, (Aspen, Colorado), The Aspen Diet is a natural dieting mind training system derived from the latest discoveries of the leading Brain Research Laboratories and Biofeedback Centers in the United States.
THE ASPEN DIET IS TRULY THE LAST DIET BOOK YOU'LL EVER NEED BECAUSE...
It produces PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS through techniques which directly address the CAUSES of being overweight rather than just dealing with the symptoms of having fat on the body. It produces PERMANENT weight loss through;
NEW techniques which:
1. Change your current negative eating habits, binge patterns and food "addictions."
NEW techniques which:
2. Turn any positive dieting principal or procedure into natural, automatic and lifelong dietary habits requiring almost no further conscious attention or effort.
NEW techniques which:
3. Help to eliminate the weight loss conflicts between your conscious and subconscious minds. The very conflicts which are the causes that demand the body not to lose weight or regain every pound it does lose.
NEW techniques which:
4. Build new stress-free, guilt-free and worry-free attitudes toward food and one's own self-image.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOK I
INTRODUCTION
WHO SHOULD USE THE ASPEN DIET?
THE TWO BIGGEST PROBLEMS IN DIETING TODAY
HOW THE ASPEN DIET SOLVES DIETING'S BIGGEST PROBLEMCHAPTER I
HOW THE ASPEN DIET CAME ABOUT
MY FIRST TEST CASE
TESTING ON OTHERS
THE ASPEN DIET CLINIC GOAL
90% - 98% DON'T!
THE BASIS OF WEIGHT LOSS
DIETARY MIND TRAINING HAS AN INDISPENSIBLE ROLE IN SUCCESSFUL DIETING
BALANCED WEIGHT LOSS
WHAT IS YOUR REAL PROBABILITY OF DIETING SUCCESS?CHAPTER II
THOUGHT - THE BASIC BUILDING BLOCK OF MIND POWER
DO YOU REALLY RESPECT THE POWER CONTAINED IN YOUR OWN THOUGHTS?
MAN'S PAST EXPERIENCE WITH MIND POWER
BRAINWASHING
HYPNOSIS
AUTO-SUGGESTION/AUTOGENICS
BIOFEEDBACK
POSITIVE THINKING
CYBERNETIC MIND TRAINING
TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS
THE "CONTROLS" AND COMMON DENOMINATORS OF THOUGHT POWER - THE 7 KEYS
A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD THE POWER CONTAINED IN YOUR OWN THOUGHTSCHAPTER III
HOW THE ASPEN DIET WORKS
THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
HOW THE MIND PROCESSES INFORMATION
THE ACTION CIRCUIT OF THE BRAIN
YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE TO BE IN A RELAXED STATE BEFORE YOU DO THE MENTAL TECHNIQUES OF THE ASPEN DIET
VISUALIZATION TRANSFER TECHNIQUESCHAPTER IV
RESULTS
WHEN TO EXPECTRESULTS USING THE ASPEN DIET
THE RESULTS FROM USE OF THE ASPEN DIET WILL BE SPONTANEOUS
THE NATURAL PROGRESSION OF RESULTS OF THE ASPEN DIET
THE DIET THAT CONSTANTLY GETS EASIER
MIND TRAINING AND HUMAN NATURE
PROCESS AND OUTCOME
THE FIRST SIGNS OF RESULTS OCCURRING
THE CORRECT ATTITUDE FOR ASPEN DIET BEGINNERS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SPEEDS RESULTS
THE FASTEST RESULTS
RESULT PROBLEMS
SLOW PROGRESS
THE MAKE BREAK POINT
WHAT CAUSES PEOPLE TO CHANGE THEMSELVES
SUCCESS
MORE SUCCESS
90 DAYS TO A NEW YOU AND PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS
HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH THE ASPEN DIET
WHAT PHYSICAL DIET AND EXERCISE PROGRAMS DO I RECOMMEND
HOW MUCH WEIGHT WILL YOU LOSE EACH WEEK. SAFE WEIGHT LOSS
EXPERIENCING IT VS UNDERSTANDING ITCHAPTER V
COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT TAPE USAGE AND THE ASPEN DIET MIND TRAINING TECHNIQUES
CHAPTER VI
YOUR PAST DIET FAILURES: WHAT THEY ARE REALLY DOING TO YOU
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY
WE ARE ALL HUMAN
THE FEAR OF FAILING
WHERE DO FEAR AND WORRY COME FROMCHAPTER VII
FAILING YOUR WAY INTO DIETARY SUCCESS
FAILURE - THE STEPPING STONE TO GROWTH
FEEDBACK AND LEARNING
TOO MUCH FEEDBACK OR TOO LITTLE 4
PERCEIVE YOUR FAILURES AS OPPORTUNITIES
HOW TO FIND "GOLD" IN YOUR EVERY FAILURE
THE GRIND
FINDING THE "GOLD" OF YOUR PAST DIETARY FAILURE
THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
NOW WHY BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF
THE PROPER ATTITUDE FOR DEALING WITH DIETARY FAILURES
NEVER CALL
NO ONE CAN EVER MAKE YOU FAIL
BATTLES VS. WARS
EACH NEW MOMENT IS A NEW, FRESH OPPORTUNITY FOR SUCCESS
ONE MAKES HIMSELF A FAILURE SOLELY BY GIVING UP AND BELIEVING HE IS A FAILURE AND BELIEVING HE HAS NO MORE CHANCES OR OPPORTUNITIES LEFT TO SUCCEED
DARE YOU ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE OF YOUR PAST DIETING FAILURESBOOK II, THE POWER OF POSITIVE VISUALIZATION
CHAPTER I
THE POWER OF POSITIVE VISUALIZATION
THE MOST POWERFUL THOUGHTIN EXISTENCE
THE SUCCESS VISUALIZATION
THE FUNCTION AND PURPOSE OF SUCCESS VISUALIZATION
FIRM DECISION PARTICULARLY VISUALIZED DECISION) ALWAYS DIRECTS AND CAUSES THE REALIZATION OF POTENTIAL
SUCCESS VISUALIZATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
THE FABULOUS FLAW
THE VISUALIZATION PROCESS
THE SEQUENCE OF SUCCESS VISUALIZATION
FIGURE K - THE CONSCIOUS MINDCHAPTER II
STEP 1: THE SUCCESS VISUALIZATION PROCESS
DESIRE AND THE CONSCIOUS MIND
HOW TO BUILD DESIRE
DESIRE AND DIETING
DESIRE AND COMMITMENT
WILLINGNESS AND COMMITMENT
THE WILLINGNESS QUIZ
GOAL CONFLICTS AND DESIRE
THE GOAL CONFLICT DRILL
THE BENEFIT DRILLCHAPTER III
STEP 3: MAKE A VISUALIZED DECISION OF THE EXACT END GOAL AS BEING DONE
LEARNING TO THINK BACKWARDS
DETAILED VISUALIZATION
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU WILL GET
DESIRE AND WORDING
NEGATIVE VISUALIZATION
TIME IN VISUALIZATION
VISUALIZATION WORDING
THE CODE LANGUAGE OF THE BODY
COMPARATIVE WORDS
VISUALIZATION MADE EASIER
VISUALIZATION AND ACTION
SYMBOLIC VISUALIZATIONCHAPTER IV
STEP 4: MAKING THE VISUALIZATION IN A NONCRITICAL STATE OF DOUBTLESS CERTAINTY
SUBJECTIVE REALITY
DEVELOPING SUBJECTIVE CERTAINTY IN VISUALIZATIONS, THE NORMAL PROCESS
THE MOST POWERFUL COMMON DENOMINATOR OF MIND POWER
TWO VERY GOOD REASONS FORGIVING UP YOUR DOUBTS
CERTAINTY AND EXPECTANCYCHAPTER V
STEPS 3 AND 4, RELAXATION AND FOCUSED ATTENTION
RELAXATION AND FOCUSED ATTENTION
RELAXATION IS A RHEOSTAT OF MIND POWER
TYPES OF RELAXATION
THE NO-WORRY, NO-STRESS, NO-GUILT, MIND DIETCHAPTER VI
STEP 6: MAKING THE VISUALIZATION REPETITIVELY
FORGIVE AND FORGET
TRUE FORGIVING STARTS WITH SELF
CONSCIOUS THOUGHT CONTROL TRANSFORMING NEGATIVE BEHAVIORS INTO POSITIVE BEHAVIORS
DEALING WITH YOUR EXISTING BAD DIETARY HABITS
REPETITIVE SELF-IMPRESSIONING STRONGER THAN YOUR PAST
REPETITIVE AND CERTAINTY
REPETITION AND TRANSFER BETWEEN THE MINDSCHAPTER VII
MAKE SURE THE VISUALIZATION DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH ANY PREVIOUSLY HELD CONCEPTS OF SELF-IMAGE
SELF-IMAGE AND ITS HIDDEN ROLE
THE TECHNICAL REASONS WHY SELF-IMAGE IS IMPORTANT TO MIND POWER
DESIGN AND FUNCTION
FAT IS A STATE OF MIND,"WHEN YOUR MENTAL PROFILE CHANGES YOUR PHYSICAL PROFILE WILL CHANGE”
HOW TO GET FAT, STAY FAT, AND MAKE YOURSELF A FOOD NEUROTIC WHILE DOING IT
REVERSE MIND POWER
OTHER SIGNPOSTS OF LOW SELF-IMAGE
THE 3-QUESTION SELF-IMAGE QUIZ
MORE ABOUT FAT AS A STATE OF MIND
SELF-IMAGE AND THE MIND
YOUR PAST WEIGHT LOSS TAPES
THE WHAT THOUGHT PATTERN BEFORE DRILL
SOCIAL TAPES
FAMILY TAPES
NEGATIVE DIETARY HABITS
HABIT CHANGING WITHOUT WILL POWER
THE BEST TOOL
THE NATURAL PROCESS OF HABIT BUILDING
INFERIORITY AND SELF-IMAGE
YOU IMAGINATION IS THE KEY TO IMPROVING YOUR SELF-IMAGE
THE LAWS OF MIND CONCENTRATION
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR SELF-IMAGE
MORE ABOUT THE FOUR-STEP PROCESS OF BUILDING SELF-IMAGE. STEP 1: CONCENTRATING ON POSITIVE IDEAS
STEP 2: CONCENTRATION NOW MAKES THESE NEW SELF-IMAGE CONCEPTS SEEM REAL
STEPS 3 & 4: OUR NEW SELF-IMAGE BECOMES MORE POWERFUL BECAUSE OUR NEW SELF-IMAGE
CONCEPTS SEEM REAL AND WHAT WE FIND IN THE WORLD REFLECTS OUR SELF-IMAGE EXPANSION
SELF-IMAGE AND YOUR RELIGIOUS BACKGROUNDCHAPTER VIII
MAKING THE POWER OF POSITIVE VISUALIZATION WORK BETTER SUCCESS HELPERS
THE POWER OF THE SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND USING SUCCESS HELPERSCHAPTER IX
AN OVERVIEW OF THE POWER OF POSITIVE VISUALIZATION
MORE VISUALIZATION BASICS
RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OR VISUALIZATION PROCESS FACTORS THE SEVEN KEYS OF MIND POWER
VISUALIZATION SOCIALIZATIONAND SUCCESS
DANGLE YOUR OWN CARROT
MENTALLY ENGINEERING YOUR OWN FUTURE
VISUALIZATION AS ANACTIVEPROCESS
THE NATURAL SYSTEM
THE INDISPENSIBLE ROLE OF VISUALIZATION TRAINING
WHERE IS VISUALIZATION GOING
THE "POWER" IN POSITIVE VISUALIZATION OR WHY IT WORKS FOR LASTING CHANGE
LINKAGE AND THE POWER OF THE MINDBOOK III, THE CLINIC - PROBLEM SOLVING AND DRILLS
CHAPTER I
THE 30 DAY POINT
PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS
HOW TO OVERCOME ANY DIET FAILURE BINGE OR CHEATING
WHAT CAUSES DIETING FAILURES
SIX STEPS TO STRESS-FREE VICTORY OVER ANY DIETARY FAILURE
STEP I: ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT THE DIET FAILURE HAS OCCURRED
STEP II: REVITALIZE, REVIEW AND REKINDLE YOUR DIETARY GOAL THROUGH USE OF SUCCESS VISUALIZATIONS
STEP III
STEP IV
STEP V
STEP VI
BINGING-THE SEQUENCE OF A BINGE
SELF-TALK TAPES-MORE CONCRETE EVIDENCE ON THE POWER OF THOUGHT
THE CYCLE OF NEGATIVE SELF-TALK TAPES THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE, YOUR THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOU
MORE ABOUT LOCATING TRIGGERS (IRRATIONAL SELF-TALK)
SHORT CIRCUITING IRRATIONAL SELF-TALK
STRESS MANAGEMENT
STRESS COPING TECHNIQUES
THE SIX-SECOND ANTI-STRESS QUIETING RESPONSE
THE LAWRENCE METHOD
THE EXAGGERATION TECHNIQUE FOR BINGE CONTROL
THE GRADIENT METHOD OF CONTROLLING BINGES
THE INCREASE YOUR PLEASURE IN LIFE TECHNIQUE
MAKING YOURSELF HAPPY TO INCREASE YOUR PLEASURE IN LIFE
CREATING HAPPINESS
MORE PLEASURE
HYPERACTIVITY OF NEGATIVE DIETARY TAPESCHAPTER II
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN VISUALIZATION TAPE AND PERSONALIZING THE ASPEN DIET PROGRAM
WORKING AND RAPPORT
WORDING AND SIMPLICITY
TIME IN VISUALIZATION
TIMING THE VISUALIZATIONS ON YOUR LIVING VISUALIZATION TAPE
THE SPEAKING VOICE OF YOUR TAPE
WRITING YOUR VISUALIZATION SCRIPT
NON-TAPED LIVING VISUALIZATIONS
VISUALIZATIONS CAN EVEN BE USED FOR DAILY GOALS AND TASKS
COMMON TAPING QUESTIONSCHAPTER III
INDIVIDUAL DIET PROBLEMS AND THEIR VISUALIZATION SOLUTIONS
COMMON DIET PROBLEMS
ALCOHOL PROBLEM
CANNOT WASTE ANY FOOD PROBLEM
EATING BEFORE SLEEP PROBLEM
UNWILLING TO ACTUALLY DO A PHYSICAL DIET AND GO THROUGH DIETARY SACRIFICE PROBLEM
NOT WILLING TO DO YOUR TAPES PROBLEM
CHEATING OR BINGING WHEN REVERSING MIND POWER TO HELP MAKE YOURSELF FATTER
LACK OF SLEEP AT NIGHT CAUSING THE DIETER TO CONSTANTLY FALL ASLEEP DURING HIS TAPE
LOW METABOLISM CAUSED BY THYROID CONDITION
CONSISTENTLY FALLING ASLEEP DURING TAPE PROBLEM
SPOT REDUCING FOR TROUBLE SPOTS ON THE BODY
THE LONGEST YARD BREAKING PLATEAUS
BECOMING DISCOURAGED BY SLOW PROGRESS OR THE LARGE AMOUNT OF WEIGHT ONE WANTS TO LOSE
FINDING THE BEST TIME TO PLAY YOUR TAPECHAPTER IV
IN CONCLUSION
FOOD AS YOUR FRIEND
FOOD AWARENESS DRILLS
THE ROAD TO DIETARY SUCCESS
THE UNKNOWN HERO, SUPPORT YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON!
FOR MYSELF
LAST WORDS
THE DRILL SECTION
ARE YOU READY TO CHANGE YOURSELF
ARE YOU REALLY READY FOR A PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS?
THE 'GOLD' IN YOUR PAST FAILURES
THE WILLINGNESS QUIZ
THE GOAL CONFLICT DRILL
YOUR NEXT GOAL
THE BENEFIT DRILL
SELF-IMAGE DRILLS
SELF EXPANSION DRILL
SUCCESS HELPER DRILL
DIETARY STRESS LOG
DIETARY TRIGGER LOG
NEGATIVE SELF-TALK JOURNAL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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THE ASPEN DIET OFFERS ANY DIETER A UNIQUE SET OF BENEFITS:
• It shows you how to build a subconscious, weight-loss, success-directing awareness, which will arise to direct your decisions and actions naturally and automatically towards the easiest and most effective route to your ideal weight.
• The Aspen Diet shows you how to train your subconscious mind to do most of the dieting work. When properly trained, it assists you in every way possible to get your body systems, such as hunger regulation and body fat burning working with you instead of against you.
• The Aspen Diet makes weight loss on any diet system EASIER, FASTER and most importantly--PERMANENT.
• The Aspen Diet requires NO WILL POWER. Through the newly discovered process of the subconscious mind's natural ability to build, hold and change dietary habits, the use of will power and self-discipline has been overshadowed by a far greater power.
• The Aspen Diet can and should be used concurrently with any other type of calorie or carbohydrate diet. (i.e Scarsdale, Atkins, Richard Simmons, Weight Watchers, etc.)
• Easy to read, and easy to apply, The Aspen Diet fits into most any lifestyle.
As an extra benefit, the mind training techniques of The Aspen Diet can also be used to improve your relationships, health, athletic performances; or even help you reach your career goals.
MORE BENEFITS OF THE ASPEN DIET
1. It makes any logical diet used 33-70% more effective.
It makes your weight loss results lasting, through minimizing the chances of regaining lost weight due to the new attitudes, dietary habits and stronger self-image which you build.
3. It will help you find the psychological causes for your own overweight condition.
It is even effective for those people who seem to "know how to diet" but have great difficulty in turning their dietary knowledge into DAILY application and USE.
5. It will show you how to deactivate your existing negative dietary habits.
6. It can get a previously failed diet RESTARTED and WORKING again.
7. It can get your body systems, such as hunger and fat burning, working for you instead of against you.
8. It will help train you how to manage and deal with dietary stresses.
9. It becomes easier to use and maintain and will actually requires less time and conscious attention the more you use it.
10. It is the ideal tool needed for anyone stuck at an unbreakable weight plateau.
11. It will show you how to trigger that 90% of your potential science says you seldom use.
12. It will help you desensitize your past dietary failures.
13. It will help you raise your food awareness and enjoyment.
14. It will teach you how your mind works.
15. The Aspen Diet will even save you thousands of dollars over the years because you will not be eating the excess foods that are now making you overweight.
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