Free You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever by Marisa Peer Page B

smallest events and it accepts without reasoning whatever we tell it.
    If your subconscious believes that your metabolic system is functioning successfully then it will. However, if it has accepted a suggestion that you come from a fat family and are helpless to do anything about it, then notwithstanding the fact that you were born with a normal weight and metabolism you are much more likely to remain overweight.
    These suggestions caused by negative beliefs, which you may not be consciously aware of, form blocks in your mind. By changing your belief system as you work your way through this book and repeating your new affirmations, as well as playing your audio content, you can and will overcome them.
    Our subconscious presides over all our actions, whatever they are. This is what we call imagination; contrary to accepted opinion, imagination always makes us act, even against our will. It is a rule of the mind that your imagination always beats your willpower, in a battle between willpower and imagination the imagination will always win without exception. One of the rules of the mind is that imagination is far more powerful than knowledge and that emotion is more powerful than logic when dealing with our own minds and those of other people. For example, if I asked you to stand on a small narrow coffee table you could do it easily. If I asked you to walk a plank of wood placed a few inches off the ground, you would walk along it effortlessly because you would imagine it to be easy. You would see yourself walking across without difficulty. Now, I want you to imagine walking that same plank of wood while it is placed between two very high buildings, within two steps you would begin to tremble and you would be very likely to fall off. Imagine the coffee table is now the window ledge on the top floor of a sky scraper; can you stand on it easily? You could stand on that amount of space when it was a table because your imagination told you it was okay. Now your imagination is telling you that you could fall, you could die, this is dangerous and crazy and your same imagination will stop you doing it.
    So why is it that you would not fall off the plank nearer the ground? When the plank was on the ground you believed that you could do it. When the plank was placed between the high buildings you imagined that you could not do it, even if you were offered a lot of money, because your imagination sees you falling. In the scenario with the high buildings your will is powerless against you imagination. If you have been on many diets and had no long-term success your imagination will now see any diet failing to work for you. It is the rule of the mind that your imagination will always win.
    The aim of my programme is to train your imagination so that you will win. Your imagination is like an untamed horse, it is immensely powerful but you have to train it to go where you want it to go. Your imagination and your ability to see yourself as slimmer, to believe you can become and stay a lighter weight and to be indifferent to food is more powerful than any outdated data that says it can’t be done. Modern science has now proven that the way you think can physically change your body. Changing your thinking can and does change your body.

The Power of Your Mind
    I know you don’t just want to hear this, to believe it you need to see it and experience it for yourself. The following test will do that for you. Many of my clients find this very useful because it gives them absolute proof that our thoughts affect our bodies. Once you have that proof you can never again say, ‘I can’t help it, it’s just the way I am’. The truth is it’s the way you think not the way you are and the following test will really change your thinking which in turn will change your body.
    You need someone to help you do this. First, make a fist and make one arm as strong and rigid as you can. Hold that arm out in front of you at shoulder height and get your helper to