| Have you ever imagined how visualization can play an | | | | taking in the benefits received. |
| important part in gaining weight and maintaining a | | | | When you begin your relaxation sessions, make sure |
| healthy lifestyle? Gaining muscle can be difficult for | | | | you won't be disturbed - lock the door, take the |
| many people who don't use their minds to help in the | | | | phone off the hook and loosen all clothing. Now find a |
| process. | | | | comfortable position, whether it is lying down or |
| Visualization is a powerful technique that can help you | | | | sitting in a comfortable chair. |
| make lasting lifestyle changes. Just by "day | | | | Sitting may be preferable as you may fall asleep if |
| dreaming", you can significantly improve your chances | | | | you become too comfortable. You want to be |
| in achieving your goals. | | | | conscious and not asleep in order to tap into your |
| Visualization is a great weight gain tool and its as | | | | sub-conscious mind. |
| simple as visualizing your body as you want your | | | | Try to exhale all the air from your lungs completely |
| body to look like. This mental image of yourself is | | | | and then breathing in through the nose. Take ten |
| then transferred to your subconscious mind, which in | | | | seconds to fill the lungs with air (not to capacity, but |
| turn starts to work on your body, shaping it in | | | | comfortable) hold for ten seconds and then exhale |
| accordance with your mental image. | | | | slowly through the nose for another ten seconds. |
| This means that if you program your subconscious | | | | Each one of these breathing cycles should last for 30 |
| with a mental image of yourself as a more muscular | | | | seconds, complete five cycles and after each cycle |
| person, through persistence your mind will accept this | | | | you will be feeling more and more relaxed. |
| and aid your body to conform to this mental image. | | | | Having reaching this calm relaxed state, start your |
| Once your mind is programmed with the proper | | | | visualizations. Put together images that power your |
| mental images, it will start to work in assisting you to | | | | emotions. Make them alive and colourful. Make the |
| gain muscle. I can't stress enough how important it is | | | | scenes as real as possible and imagine yourself as |
| for you to believe in your visualization goals. | | | | muscular and toned as possible. |
| You have to let go of your past failures and refuse | | | | Picture yourself ten weeks from now on the beach, |
| to entertain any negative images that come into | | | | walking briskly and confidently to your favourite spot, |
| your mind. | | | | your breathing is normal and relaxed. You smile to |
| If you can visualize your body at its perfect | | | | yourself; you could keep walking like this for miles |
| proportions, the subconscious mind will work to make | | | | without feeling fatigued. |
| it become a reality. It will then begin to positively | | | | You lay your towel out and begin to take your |
| reinforce your body into aiding the metabolism and | | | | clothes off revealing a muscular, toned, well |
| eating habits. | | | | conditioned body. You have just bought a brand new |
| Programming your mind into believing that you can | | | | swimming suit which just weeks before would have |
| gain weight, and to visualize yourself with your | | | | been lying in your closet waiting to be used. |
| perfect proportions is of the greatest importance. | | | | Glancing around you notice the beach is busy, you |
| Try to think of a different image of yourself, then let | | | | catch the eye of someone of the opposite sex, they |
| your subconscious do the work for you. If you think | | | | smile at you and you smile back. You walk |
| of your body as being out of shape all the time, then | | | | confidently to the water and swim a couple of |
| the subconscious mind will find ways to make it so. | | | | hundred yards with no problem or fatigue. |
| The sub-conscious looks after all of all your vital | | | | Or try this: |
| functions, it is the cause of all your good and bad | | | | Visualize your family and friends complimenting you |
| habits, and also regulates the muscles of the body | | | | about how good your body looks. Try to view the |
| (The muscles are controlled by the sub-conscious) | | | | scene as it is happening this instant - in the present, |
| and body-fat composition on the body. | | | | not in the future. |
| Try to visualize your body as lean and as muscular as | | | | Using these visualizations you can construct in your |
| you would like, and your mind will work on that | | | | mind any scene that desire. See yourself exercising, |
| image. The mind can be a great partner in gaining | | | | socializing, in the company of friends. |
| muscle. | | | | Try and hear people complimenting you about your |
| Relaxation | | | | new muscular body, and watch their admiring glances. |
| Relaxation the best way to reach the sub-conscious | | | | Make the mental image as real as possible. |
| and will slow down the mind, turn off the exterior | | | | * Remember set a goal for your ideal weight. |
| world so as to tune in to one's inner self. The best | | | | * You must want to gain weight. |
| times for these sessions are in the morning and late | | | | * Visualize yourself at your ideal weight. |
| at night right, just before going to sleep. | | | | * Use positive images at every opportunity. |
| Perform two sessions, one in the afternoon (Primary) | | | | Now that you are armed with this information |
| and the other before going to sleep (Secondary) but | | | | practice these sessions on a daily basis and over a |
| once a day is quite sufficient. Sessions usually last 20 | | | | period of ten weeks you'll be on your way to |
| minutes, which isn't time consuming especially when | | | | become a happier, leaner and more muscular person. |