16 WEEKS TO TOTAL TRANSFORMATION
If you’re really motivated—or would like additional guidance—you can follow my 16 Weeks to Total Transformation Program. The idea is that for 16 weeks, you’ll incorporate visualization into your life regularly in an effort to combat stress and change bad habits. You’ll also work to change what you eat so you are as supported as possible in your efforts for weight loss.
Virtually every beneficial aspect of visualization that we’ve talked about in this book is incorporated into this 16-week transformational experience. Don’t worry if you’re doing everything right or if the program is working. The more you visualize, the more it will work. Eventually you’ll get to a place where you’ll know for sure that it’s working because you’ll find that you’re simply less hungry, crave healthier foods, have more energy, and your clothes are getting looser.
You’ll also find after a while that your mind will become very calm while you’re listening, and your body will feel energized and relaxed. At that point you’ll start to feel tremendous after your visualizations. Then you’re hooked! It will no longer be an effort or a chore to practice visualization. You’ll look forward to it as soon as you get up and you may even want to stay in that calm, relaxed, pleasurable, meditative state for a while after the visualization is over. I sometimes sit and visualize and then meditate for long periods of time in the morning. Not because I think I should, but simply because it feels so amazing and I know that I’m reaping so many positive benefits. But I started, exactly as I’m asking you to start, by simply listening to a seven- to ten-minute visualization first thing in the morning, every morning. So let’s just get into the program.
Do Your Visualizations
Every night—or as often as you can—listen to the evening visualization. And every morning try the visualizations below. I’ve set up a week-by-week plan for you to follow, but feel free to mix and match the weekly visualizations as needed. If you want to address emotional trauma right off the bat, for example, start there. Or maybe you really want to target specific food addictions. While it doesn’t matter which order (or even which visualization) you listen in, it is important to have the week’s worth of repetition. This will help reinforce the new neural pathways. And remember, there’s no wrong way to do these. As long as you’re visualizing your perfect life and body daily, on a daily basis, you’ll be reaping the benefits.
Week 1: Believe Your Body Wants to Be Thin
Week 4: Feel Safe, Strong, and Protected
Week 5: Become Genetically Thin
Week 6: Improve Your Digestion
Week 8: Activate the “Get Thin” Programs with Movement
Week 9: Reverse Leptin and Insulin Resistance
Week 13: Eliminate Cravings and Addictions
Week 14: Create Vibrant, Elastic Skin
Week 16: Become Your Full Potential
All of these visualizations are in Appendix B, and I’ve also recorded three of them for you. To access these free bonus audio tracks, please visit www.TheGabrielMethod.com/visualization-bonus.
Reinforce Your Visualizations
Whenever you think of it during the day, reinforce whatever visualization you listened to that morning by doing a quick version of it. For example, if the visualization prompts you to imagine the weight melting off your body, then during the day as you’re walking to work, or sitting at your desk, just imagine for a second the same image of the weight melting off your body. If your morning visualization prompts you to imagine a column of light protecting your body, then, whenever you happen to think of it, imagine that column of light covering your body and you feeling safe and protected by it. Literally a second or two is all it takes to reinforce. The reason is, when you create the image during your visualization it becomes like a program that you can activate at will. SMART Mode is the programming mode you are in when you make the visual image. With the program in place, you can recall it anytime you like during the day and still get the same tremendous benefit.
Add Real Foods
As you’re going through this process, remember to add as much real food as possible per my suggestions in Chapter 14. The more real food you eat, the more nourished you’ll be and the more energy you’ll have. You’ll also crave less junk food and feel satiated sooner, and this will make the process much easier. Don’t turn this into a rigid, restrictive diet, because as we know, that’s not sustainable. Just keep the focus on adding—adding, adding, adding—add real, fresh, live, and organic salads, fruits, nuts, seeds, sprouts, fermented and cultured veggies, grass-fed animal protein, and wild-caught fish. Add lots of omega-3s, too. Try to add one real food each day.
Then give yourself plenty of time for the visualizations to kick in. Soon you’ll get to a place where all you crave is real food and your body starts to naturally reject dead, processed, highly chemical-laden man-made foods. Read labels carefully but know as a general rule, the best labels are no labels. A head of lettuce or a filet of wild-caught salmon have no labels or list of ingredients. They just are what they are—perfect the way nature created them.
By the time you finish these 16 weeks, you will have laid the groundwork for permanent, sustainable weight loss. Your mind and body will be working in perfect synchronicity. You’ll feel protected and strong, you won’t be as hungry, and your body will be letting go of weight. Your brain will be rewired to be resilient to stress, you’ll be more socially connected, and you’ll have resolved past traumatic issues. Your chemistry will reset so that you’re more sensitive to fat-burning hormones. You’ll have activated the genetic expression of your thin genes. You’ll be attracting success, abundance, and love. Most important, you’ll have positive momentum surging through your life and redirecting your future. You’ll feel as if you have a new sense of control over the destiny of your life.
The visualization methods in this book are about weight loss, but they’re also about so much more. I used visualization to stop migraines, stop smoking, increase my business, and address numerous other issues. This is a creative tool that you can use to improve your overall health and solve any and all of your problems. What’s important is to learn the skill, and to practice it daily.
I still practice visualization and meditation every morning, and I find it to be one of the most pleasurable, powerful, enjoyable experiences in my life. It takes me to a place where I’m filled with joy, peace, light, and love and where I feel thoroughly energized with life force energy. My hope is that you’ll do the same, and you’ll be inspired to practice visualization on a daily basis, joining me and hundreds of thousands of people around the world who have used the Gabriel Method to achieve success.
So I invite you to begin this journey with me by first taking the 16-week visualization for weight loss challenge, and then go on to apply visualization to any and all areas of your life. The results may be so great that you get to the same place that I have: A few years down the road, you’ll look at your life and realize that the weight you had to lose—the weight that was once such a painful and frustrating part of your life—has actually become a blessing in disguise. Because in finding a solution to your weight issues, you were introduced to a part of yourself that you didn’t even know you had. You’ve tapped into your creative essence in a way you could not possibly have imagined, and you’ve used that creative power to transform not only your body but your entire life as well. I’m holding that vision for you … Let’s hold that vision together and make it happen!