A New Perspective: Get Rid of the Illusion

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A New Perspective: Get Rid of the Illusion

 

Imagine a dead animal at the side of the road crawling with thousands of white

maggots. The image of maggot-ridden road kill will effectively stop you from

eating a hamburger or anything else you were thinking of munching on.

 

Yuck power can shock you back to reality. Overeating greasy, salty,

chemical-laden food is not normal.

 

TV advertisers have associated toxic food with fun and enjoyment. We are told

that we deserve it.

Meanwhile, the followers of this golden message are riddled with disease from

the effect of this modern-day diet. Even in the face of illness, we still

associate salt,sugar and fat-filled foods with a pleasure that we deserve.

 

As a cure for emptiness, the pleasure of food can become drug-like in how it

affects our thinking. It becomes distorted. We become obsessed with pleasure.

 

Like an addict, we become fixed on that pleasure and forget the harmful effects.

Pleasure becomes our god — a god who trades moments of comfort for control of

our lives. We dance to its urges like puppets on a string. It’s a dance of

death.

Pimples, embarrassing gas, obesity, bloating and disease are signs on the road

to oblivion. It is time to turn around.

 

Stuck on Replay

 

The closer we are to receiving pleasure, the more we think of it. We remember

the pleasure and we want it again. We remember the enjoyment, and forget the

negative effects.

 

When we want pleasure, we replay the best part of the experience. We build

anticipation by remembering the pleasure over and over again, like listening to

a favorite song without playing the rest of the tape.

 

We rarely play the tape to the end. Who wants to see all the images of

depression, sickness, obesity, guilt and all the other fun stuff that goes with

indulgence?

 

When a drug addict thinks about a drug, he remembers the rush. Reliving the

experience of pleasure builds anticipation. As he focuses on the rush, the more

the anticipation increases the desire for pleasure. He ignores the loss of money

and health, the pain of withdrawals, jail and all the negative consequences

associated with drugs.

 

Drug addicts and alcoholics have pleasure-centered thinking. If they forced

themselves to look at the entire picture, they would not be using drugs.

 

We do the same with food. We become fixed on the pleasure.

 

Instead, we need to force ourselves to look at the consequences of

overindulging: greasy skin, pimples, cavities, rolls of ugly fat, and

disease-rotted flesh from a body overloaded with food additives. Go ahead, have

another piece of cake.

 

What Do You Really Want

 

Do you really want to eat junk food? An honest answer is ‘no’.

 

But you have come to believe that 30 seconds of taste is really what you want.

But that is a lie.

 

Infatuation is to love an image. Addiction is to love an illusion. It is an

illusion to think that a chocolate bar will satisfy you when, immediately

afterward, you will feel unsatisfied.

 

Get rid of the illusion.

 

It is 30 seconds of high-calorie, health-destroying taste pleasure that you

don't need. If you think of the reasons why you hate chocolate bars, you will

not eat them.

 

We try to fight the battle of compulsive eating during the moments just before

eating, but that is the least effective time to fight. You need to fight the

battle when you are walking, sitting or waiting in line.

 

Ask yourself, what do you really want? Do you really want to be a chocolate

eater? You need to go over the reasons for quitting chocolate again and again

until it enters the subconscious. If you do this mental work, the next time you

are offered a chocolate bar you will say " NO " without thinking. If you ask

yourself why you said no, you would answer, " I just don't like them. "

 

Revulsion Power

 

Remember the restaurant vegetable soup with the 4-inch long hair hanging off it?

And what about the pizza? The black thing with legs didn't taste like an

anchovy! Although bugs are naturally crunchy and high in protein, finding one in

your food takes all the fun out of eating.

 

The interesting thing about the effect of revulsion is that it can be created

and amplified to the point of nausea at will. Try it a few times. The first time

you may have to think intently of the road kill or a hair in your soup, but

after a few tries you will be able to create the effect of nausea at will.

 

The nausea effect is a powerful tool to help you stop overeating.

 

It will shut off the pleasure tape and give you time to refocus on what you

really want. It will cause you to jump out of the obsession cycle and give you a

chance to look at the importance of your goals.

 

You can use the revulsion technique to stop overeating. Cultivate the feeling of

revulsion and say to yourself " I don't feel like having any more food. " Leave

the food area and get moving.

 

No battle of will, no fighting obsession, just one second of feeling nausea and

off you go. Why wrestle with your thoughts when a simple technique will work?

Feeling good about being disciplined will far outweigh the few seconds of

feeling bad.

 

Here is an example of using revulsion. The church had decided to have donuts and

coffee after the service. Dozens of donuts of every type were being laid out.

During the service, I started thinking of the chocolate-covered ones with gooey

cream filling.

 

Halfway through the service, I wanted a donut. I can't remember the sermon, but

I sure remembered which tray the chocolate donuts were on. It became a battle of

will. Emotions were escalating. Now I really wanted a donut. " Hey, I'll try the

revulsion thing. I'll just do it and hopeit works.

 

Donuts . . . toxic oil, white flour, salt, sugar, no nutrition; it’s probably

been in a five-gallon bucket for five months before they made it. Donuts give me

headaches and make me feel awful. " Then I created a feeling of revulsion and

thought of the donut. I did it twice, then listened to the sermon. I never ate

one donut. I was amazed that it was so easy.

 

 

Creating revulsion is simple.

 

After a while, you will be able to create the feeling of revulsion quickly and

easily. Practice using it. Open the refrigerator door, create revulsion then do

something else.

 

Use it when you are battling the munchies or getting past the bakery section of

the grocery store.

 

Use it several times a day, for two or three days and it will become a powerful

tool in controlling compulsive eating.

 

Revulsion can work on bad habits. Repeat the habit, then create the revulsion.

It works on obsessive love. Create the repulsion as strong as possible, then

visualize the person you are obsessed with. It works on depression caused by

loss. For example, you were to buy an amazing house but the deal fell through.

You can become depressed for days because you lost something special to you or

erase the desire from your mind by thinking about the house, ridden with

termites, with a leaky roof caving in. The feeling of loss will evaporate as you

visualize the dilapidated house while creating a feeling of revulsion and

thinking of all the negatives about the house. Becoming thankful that you didn't

buy it is to put the loss behind you.

 

When to Use Repulsion

 

When you are not hungry and you are thinking about food.

 

When you are overeating.

 

While visualizing the foods you are trying to quit.

 

To help deal with loss.

 

 

 

Exceptionally-Revolting Thoughts:

 

Donuts: Fat, salt, white flour and sugar. The hole is the most nutritious part.

 

French fries: Sponges dripping with 14-day-old grease.

 

Cereal: Styrofoam with artificial flavor.

 

Margarine: Spreadable plastic.

 

White bread: Great for colon cancer.

 

Bacon: Pig fat to human fat.

 

Coke: Teeth-dissolving and stomach-dissolving fluid.

 

Milk: A glass of animal fat sucked from a cow udder. (50% of its calories are

fat.)

 

 

Use revulsion to reaffirm your desire to eat healthier.

 

Imagine yourself in the chair watching TV and gorging on junk food. See yourself

getting fatter and fatter. You are getting sick. A tumor is developing. Your

arteries are clogging with fat and sticky cholesterol. You have diabetes from

eating too much sugar. Your colon has a tumor bulging from it, and you need a

colostomy.

 

Imagine a fat, wrinkled, sick person on his deathbed. It is you. After that, be

thankful that you have made the decision to eat nutritiously. Feel good about

what you have accomplished. Imagine yourself eating healthy and feeling great.

 

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