North Star Mental Fitness Blog

Don't Risk Your Unconscious Mind Deleting Your Weight Loss!

Understanding the workings of the mind is necessary for permanent changes in life, including lasting weight loss.  If a person has a weight problem, you can bet the unconscious mind and maybe even the conscious mind have programmed the person for being overweight. 

Our minds operate on two levels.  There is a conscious and unconscious mind.  Perhaps you've heard of the iceberg analogy.  The conscious mind is smaller and above the water line.  The unconscious mind is much larger and below the surface of the water.  John Pateros  wrote about this analogy in Process Coaching and Wholesness Work.

For lasting success, changes in the conscious mind (new habits, eating properly, exercising and thinking for successful weight loss) must be accepted and activated also in the unconscious mind.

Why Resolutions and Will Power Fail

Resolutions, affirmations, visualizations, determination, programs and will power often fail.  I think I know the answer why.  That is why I am a Life and Mental Fitness Coach with a mental fitness program.   

I know people fail because their unconscious mind is not receptive to new ideas, new programs, new affirmations or visualizations.  It is not enough to try to make the changes in your life by applying any program with a successful track record.  If your unconscious mind rejects or deletes the program, you will fail.

At this time of year, many people try to lose weight, so I am going to explain why some very successful weight loss programs don't work for many people.  The unconscious mind can prevent any program for self-help and self-development from being successful.  I am using weight loss only for an example.

New Year's Resolutions

New Year's Resolutions are often False Starts for the Upcoming Year.  I read 86% of people fail to keep their Resolutions through the month of February.

Karen Lynch in her blog on Resolutions, wrote that New Year's Resolutions are "a January thing".  New Year's resolutions have lost "credibility" for her.

Making New Year's resolutions shows peoples wish for positive changes in their lives.  Dave Schoof accumulated a group of wonderful resources for making New Year's Resolutions become successful.  He shared his collection of resources in his blog, How to Create New Year's Resolutions That Stick.

Do you know how to make your New Year's Resolutions stick?

President Ford and the Team

President Ford, our 38th president died, leaving a legacy of athletic, political and patriotic accomplishments.  He made controversial decisions such as pardoning President Nixon, because of his convictions to heal and unite our country.

This decision killed his chance of being elected in the next election, in spite of his distinguished record of 25 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and being a past vice president. 

I believe his taking a stand by pardoning President Nixon was a natural extension of his athletic career and his understanding of the importance of the team. 

Did he think of the the country as a team?  Did he think of our country as a team in disarray, divided, and on the verge of defeat?  Did he as many coaches do, choose to unite the team rather than address divisive issues of individual team members?

Are You Showing up?

"Showing up" was the title of a recent post by Steve Pavlina.  Steve shared Woody Allen's quote "80% of success is showing up".  Steve elaborated this concept by rightfully concluding, "While merely showing up won't guarantee success, it's certainly is a prerequisite".

Living in abstraction or daydreaming will never generate success.  Turning abstract goals and dreams into a process of "showing up" is necessary for self-fulfillment and development.  Abstract goals must find expression in concrete, active behavior.  "Showing up" on a regular basis will result in 80% success according to Steve.  Steve provided many examples of how to "show up" and enrich your life.

Identifying when it is necessary to "show up" and make major changes in one's life is a major problem for most people.  Helping people realize their need to "show up" is a major problem facing most mental fitness experts and self-help gurus.

The North Star Mental Fitness Program

I am Dr. Hal Sommerschield, Life and Mental Fitness Coach. Welcome to the North Star Mental Fitness Blog.  Have fun and enjoy your discoveries, while exploring my blog.

I want to inspire and empower you to be stronger than your crises, fears, anxieties, disappointments, problems and failed dreams.  The solution for any of your life concerns are within the grasp of your choices and the formation of your team.  We want you to find and live your life defining choices.

I will be blogging about mental fitness and the ingredients of mental fitness for ordinary people, who want more satisfaction and mental strength in their lives with less effort.  If you have ever tackled a job without sufficient knowledge and the right tools, you know how difficult a job can be.  With knowledge and the right tools, the same job can be completed with less effort, while increasing your satisfaction. 

Now there are tools for managing life.  Now you can have an instructive manual for your life!

I want you to have the 15 tools or procedures for making life decisions!  We all know the importance of tools. Fox example, once you know how to use a screwdriver, you can use the tool for any application needing a screw to hold something together.  There are all kind of tools and each tool makes a job easier.

Once your know how to apply the 15 choices (really tools and procedures for making life decisions), you can use these choices for solving any or all of your life problems and for reaching any or all your goals and dreams. 

Rest assured, you will not have to learn how to use the tools alone.   I want to be part of your team for your success. I will teach and coach you to be strong enought to live the life of your choosing. 

Team Commitment Creates Success

Winning Teams always don't wear uniforms on Sundays.  Winning teams aren't limited to the world of sports.  I recently read two very inspiring real-life stories of unbelievable teams.

Both teams had coaches with hearts full of undying love and minds full of determination strength and confidence to accomplish the team's goals, even if the team goals were seen by others as impossible to achieve.  In fact, these coaches led their teams to achieve successes far beyond the imagination of most mortal souls.

Both teams had players who were debilitated by medical conditions.  One player had been diagnosed with leukemia.  The other player had been born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, resulting in brain damage.  "He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life," said the doctors at the birth of this child.

Both players had the will to live, to overcome their medical circumstances and to achieve their goals in life.  By themselves they would have failed.  With their teams they accomplished unbelievable feats. 

Christmas

Christmas blues are experienced by many.  A time of joy, love and happiness is experienced by many as sadness rejection and emptiness.

There are many people suffering from depression precipitated by painful childhoods reenacted in adult relationships.  For many the loss of relationships, health, and employment brings sadness rather than joy.  For many the joy of Christmas is out of sync with the pain of reality in their everyday lives.

Christmas can be a time of rebirth in your life.

Claude Mariottini, Professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Seminary wrote about Christmas. He wrote:  "Christmas reveals the full extent of God's love for us. God was touched by our needs; He could not see us suffering alone so, He came to give us help, comfort, and peace".

Are you suffering alone?

Pursuit of Happiness

Pursuing happiness has been studied by researchers.  Do you know what is the greatest barrier to happiness?

Always Sick At Christmas Is a Signal

Sick at Christmas not only is the manifestation of the life motive "I want you to take care of me" or the life motive "I don't want to take care of me".  In yesterday's blog I wrote about eliminating her physical symptoms at Christmas time by changing her life motive or by applying The Big Choice.

With The North Star Mental Fitness Program there are 15 strategies for reducing, replacing or turning her physical symptoms into happiness and good health.

Today, I want you to consider her physical symptoms and illness as a signal rather than a problem.