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			<title>Lose Weight!</title>
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			<description>*How to Loose Weight | Kevin Glinister* 
 
Kevin Glenister, owner of Brightstream Research discusses how to lose weight with NLP Trainer Michael...</description>
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Kevin Glenister, owner of Brightstream Research discusses how to lose weight with NLP Trainer Michael Beale<br />
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			<title>Tony Alexander on hypnosis and cancer care</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 11:47:38 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Tony Alexander, is a therapist and trainer. He practices hypnotherapy in the Lakelands daycare hospice in Corby, in Northamptonshire. He speaks to...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Tony Alexander, is a therapist and trainer. He practices hypnotherapy in the Lakelands daycare hospice in Corby, in Northamptonshire. He speaks to NLP trainer Michael Beale.<br />
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			<title>Anita Kozlowski on smoking and addiction</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:30:32 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>*Anita Kozlowski and NLP Trainer Michael Beale discus smoking and other addictions* 
 
 
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<i>Anita Kozlowski, MA is the founder of the Live with Power Institute and Live with Power NLP&#8482; seminar group in Edmonton, Alberta, an internationally licensed NLP&#8482; trainer, business consultant, results coach and speaker. </i><br />
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			<title>Wii Fit</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 02:19:03 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>*Wii Fit by Nintento* 
 
The day the Wii Fit was released in the UK my daughter rang me up and told me that they were available and in stock. So (as...</description>
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The day the Wii Fit was released in the UK my daughter rang me up and told me that they were available and in stock. So (as I need some encouragement to get a bit fitter) I dutifully bought one. And I'm incredibly impressed - its far better than I ever imagined. <br />
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Have a read of the Amazon reviews  in our experts store (although be aware you may be able to buy it for ?69 in Argos - if they've stock left.<br />
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			<title>Health - Garner Thomson Podcast (Founder of the Society of Medical NLP)</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:42:54 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[*Health - Garner Thomson* 
 
*Garner Thomson discusses health and what it means to be healthy and introduces his book ' Magic in Practice', April...]]></description>
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<b>Garner Thomson discusses health and what it means to be healthy and introduces his book ' Magic in Practice', April 2008.</b><br />
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<i>Garner is is an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and founder and training director of the Society of Medical NLP and is creator of the medical NLP programme taught to doctors, allied health professionals and medical students since 1996.</i><br />
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			<title>Health - Dr Peta Stapleton Podcast</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:51:08 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[*Dr Peta Stapleton discusses health and what it means to be healthy and introduces her book "Your Mind Power - Strategies for Behaviour Changes"* 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><b>Dr Peta Stapleton discusses health and what it means to be healthy and introduces her book &quot;Your Mind Power - Strategies for Behaviour Changes&quot;</b><br />
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<i>Dr Peta Stapleton has 14 years experience as a registered Psychologist in the State of Queensland, Australia and has completed a Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma of Professional Psychology and Doctor of Philosophy.  She divides her time between lecturing for the School of Health, Griffith University, coordinating psychological research trials into new therapies, and private practice, specialising in addictions and eating disorders.</i><br />
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<b>Michael </b>: Good morning Peta.<br />
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<b>Peta</b> : Good morning.<br />
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<b>Michael</b> : Delighted to speak with you this morning. To kick it off, can you give a brief introduction about yourself and give our listeners some background to what you do and also some of the experience that you have that gives you the credibility to talk about health.<br />
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<b>Peta </b>: Sure. I guess my official title is Dr Peta Stapleton, I'm a registered and qualified psychologist here in Australia, and have been for about fifteen years. My official job is as one of the lecturers in medicine at Griffith University which is one of the universities here in Queensland.<br />
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My specialty areas I guess, as far as health goes, is that for fifteen years I've worked in the areas of eating disorders, addiction, obesity - and in line with being a psychologist, I'm a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Time-line Therapy and EFT, or the Emotional Freedom Technique. <br />
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And I'm also a member of The Health College of the Australian Psychological Society, which I guess sums up that most of my work clinically is in the health area.<br />
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<b>Michael </b>: What do you understand as 'health'? <br />
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<b>Peta </b>: I guess for me, because I'm in the area of particularly physical health, with eating issues and obesity, health for me is all encompassing - it's not just about health as in physical health, so how you eat, you eating habits, your physical exercise. <br />
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But to me it's also your connection with your mind, so it's very much about how healthy things are in between your ears - how your looking after yourself in many ways. Listening to your own body and your own needs is very high up on my list of importance - and my understanding and definition of what health is. <br />
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So it might be that it's not only resting when you need to rest eating what your body wants to eat, drinking good water. but for me health extends into lifestyle things like finding happiness in life, or in your job or your career - it might be meditation or relaxation, it might be spending time with your family or any daily activity that suits you. <br />
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so health for me goes well beyond what we might do physically, with our bodies and what we feed ourselves, but also stretching into that area of emotionally how sound we are as well.<br />
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<b>Michael</b> : And building on that - What do you think are some of the characteristics of a healthy person?<br />
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<b>Peta</b> : For me it would encompass some of those ideas that you'd have somebody that listens to their own body physically. So they would obviously look after their nutritional needs, drink good water and make sure that those needs are being met.<br />
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But also finding some physical activity that suits them - it might not be that they join a gym to get their activity everyday, but it might be that they're into yoga, or love walking down the beach with kids in the pram, that kind of thing.<br />
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But then again, the characteristics of a healthy person would be someone that listens to themselves emotionally. So if they need to rest they do, if they need to take time off work they do - that kind of thing, because it's also maintaining that health in their mind and in their body, as all one unit, not two separate entities.  <br />
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<b>Michael </b>: And why do you think that the subject of health is particularly important today? <br />
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<b>Peta </b>: I think because the world is changing and we're seeing a lot of that world-wide. Certainly here as well as where you are. <br />
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The obesity crisis is probably the biggest one that we're facing here in Australia, I know in the UK as well - our children as old as five or six years of age are being effected with their diet, and because that's such an obvious effect that you see in children, I think that's why the importance is increasing, certainly lots of educational programs over here are targeting schools, and things like that.<br />
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Stress is increasing in our lives, and we're eating what we're really not designed to eat, because of convenience foods - and I just think the importance is growing because its fuelled by all of those different things that are happening at the moment. <br />
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<b>Michael </b>: If you were going to lecture, or if you were lecturing to a group of young people - what would you suggest might be some of the key aspects of being and staying healthy? <br />
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<b>Peta</b> : For me I guess it would be knowing that we connect with everybody that we meet. Everywhere that we go in our lives, at some level we're effecting somebody else - whether we're just driving our car, or going for a walk, or going to work, that kind of thing. <br />
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So it's not only that kind of energy connection, but our habits and behaviours effect different things that are out there in the world as well, so I guess I'll be saying to a group of young men and women is :'Be aware of what it is you're doing to yourself- What are your habits?' What sort of behaviours are you doing?'<br />
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And I guess understanding where that feeds in and connects with the environment as well. So, to me 'healthy' means starting with your mind, so will power seems to be the biggest thing for people when they're looking after their health, but also listening to themselves, beginning by changing their attitudes and then their behaviours and habits, because all of that does effect the world that we live in and the world outside of us. <br />
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<b>Michael</b> : You talked about will power and listening - what do you actually mean by 'will power'?<br />
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<b>Peta </b>: We're finding that a lot of programmes that we run over here, particularly for kids and adolescents, that the biggest struggle that they have with maintaining healthy eating habits, exercise programmes, is that aspect of will power - that they just find that they can't do it anymore, because they forget to make the shift at mind level.<br />
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So they might persevere through something out of sheer determination and grit, but after a while old habits replace those ones, they go back to their own patterns. So that will power wains and they're back at square one where they started, because they forgot to make the changes that they needed to at that mental, or mind level.<br />
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So to me will power is something that we try to teach people to overcome because it can only last a certain amount of time.<br />
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<b>Michael</b> : We may cover this again when we talk about your book, but really top level, what are some of the things that if you're talking or advising people about will power - what are some of the top level things that you would get them to think about or get them to do?<br />
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<b>Peta </b>: Let's talk in relation to health just to make it easier. I guess the first thing that I would say to people is 'be aware what your thoughts are'. If you're tackling an exercise program to get healthier, what are your thoughts about having a go at that or maintaining that as a change of lifestyle?<br />
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If people find that some of those thoughts may be negative, what one needs to be aware of is those negative thoughts are going to affect their will power or their determination in sticking with that - so that would be, number one for me to be really aware of those thoughts, and then any feelings that are going on in their bodies, that kind of thing. <br />
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<b>Michael </b>:OK, so what you're saying, as a starting point, is being aware of what your thoughts are and how you feel?<br />
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<b>Peta </b>: Absolutely.<br />
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<b>Michael </b>: What I'd like you to do is really introduce your book and say a little bit about what it's about.<br />
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<b>Peta</b> : the book title is called 'Your Mind Power: Strategies For Behaviour Change'. What we did is we invited ten different authors from Australia and America to write a chapter each for us, and they're all based around a change strategy for behaviour. So each chapter had to have a practical skill in it, so anyone reading the book would be able to read that one chapter and apply something straight away. <br />
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Each chapter was based on Neuro-Linguistic therapy or some energy therapy. <br />
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<b>Michael</b> :And who is the book aimed at?<br />
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<b>Peta </b>: Michael, it was originally written for university students - we really wanted to expose, maybe undergraduates to a wider set of skills outside of traditional therapies - but we are marketing the book now to the wider public. It's an introductory book to any of those Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or change strategies. <br />
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So much more general now - as so far as just being able to pick something up and getting a start at it.<br />
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<b>Michael</b> :Why do you think it's important?<br />
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<b>Peta</b> :I guess from my perspective and my many years in private practice, behaviours, attitudes, any of those personal thoughts really need to be changed at a deeper level than just that conscious level - so I'm really talking about words like 'the subconcious', 'the unconscious' and to me, I guess that's why this book needed to be out there just for the general public or even for some of our students at university level, so they can get an understanding that to get a more permanent change in their behaviours or patterns in life they  really need to target them at a much deeper level. <br />
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<b>Michael </b>: And from your point of view, in editing the book, what are some of the key messages that came out to you?<br />
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<b>Peta</b> : The key things for me is, number one, that each chapter has a key skill in it. So if it really appealed, readers could just pick any chapter at random, read it, and be able to do something then and there. <br />
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Most of the chapters contained case studies or examples, so they're like real life stories that they could read and how it could be applied. <br />
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Every chapter is written by somebody different, so there's almost a sense of freshness because everyones' style differs, so the book's not written by the same author. <br />
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They do stand alone as chapters, you could just read one chapter at a time or skip and read in different orders.<br />
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And all of the skills to me, are applicable to all areas of life, so there might be a chapter on attracting more abundance in your life - not only could you do that in attracting more wealth or money, but it could be in happiness or health - and a chapter on dealing with pain may be used in different ways as well.<br />
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So really we're applicable across a good deal of life situations.<br />
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<b>Michael</b> : And could you remind our listeners to who some of the authors of the chapters are?<br />
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<b>Peta </b>: Some of them that might be familiar are from America, San Fransisco, Tim and Christine Halburn, who have worked quite closely with lots of different leaders in Neuro-Linguistic Progamming, as well as Connirae Andreas  who is the wife of Steve Andreas, they're based in the States as well. <br />
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So they're a couple of the primary authors that people would know straight away, as well as some of the leaders here in Australia of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, including Chris Collinwood and his wife Jules, and some of the leaders in EFT the Emotional Freedom techniques - Steve Wells and David Lake.<br />
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So they're some of the contributors to the book. <br />
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<b>Michael </b>:Now, what specifically would you like people to do differently after reading the book?<br />
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<b>Peta</b>: For me, number one is apply the skills. They're so quick, they have such a long lasting effect that you could use the book with somebody, you could read it, if you had a therapist or a support person, or you could just work through it on your own. <br />
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It really has such an ability to change so much in peoples lives, that I would say, number one, read a chapter and then do the practical skills. that's mentioned.<br />
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<b>Michael</b> : Anything else that you'd like people to take from the book? you've said the importance of actually applying the stuff - so are there any other top-line messages that you'd like people to go away with, or think about, or do, or whatever?<br />
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<b>Peta</b> : Mainly Michael, my aim is for people to read the book and hopefully ignite  peoples' interest in the whole field of energy, psychology and  go further with this and really explore what it's got to offer. <br />
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<b>Michael</b> : Now before I ask for your contact details and specific details of where people can get the book - is there anything that you'd like to emphasise, or anything that you think is important in the subject of health that we haven't been able to cover? Are there any other pointers that you'd like to leave? Or as I say, anything you'd like to emphasise?<br />
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<b>Peta </b>:I guess for me, the whole field of NLP has had such an impact, and particularly in the area of health. And health for me is not only moving towards more positive health, but also moving towards overcoming health problems that people have had, but also this book and the whole field is really such an amazing way to overcome any of the health problems that people might have had, and really move to a freer life and fulfil everything that they wanted to do.<br />
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So for me I probably couldn't talk more highly about the field as well as how much impact it could have in so many ways, in this whole area of health that we're talking about today. <br />
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<b>Michael </b>:And where can people get hold of the book?<br />
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<b>Peta</b> : The book is available direct from the publisher, and that is Hybrid Publishers, so <a href="http://www.hybridpublishers.com.au" target="_blank">HYBRID PUBLISHERS</a> they do international delivery, quick and fast. <br />
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So direct form the publishers there. And the book can also be viewed online, there's a section that's available free of charge.<br />
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<b>Michael </b>: Have have we mentioned its' title?<br />
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<b>Peta </b>: We have, I'll say it again. It's 'Your mind Power: Strategies For Behaviour Change'.<br />
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<b>Michael</b> :OK, is there anything else you're doing that you'd like to bring to people attention?<br />
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<b>Peta</b> : I'm involved directly as I've said in the whole health field, as so far as obesity, we have many programs happening over here that have just launched in America and the UK is to follow after that.<br />
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The company is called Slim Minds - people are happy to look on the website <a href="http://www.slimminds.com" target="_blank">Slim Minds</a> they'll see the different areas that I do work in myself, as well as the impact that we're having in the one area of obesity. <br />
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<b>Michael </b>: And if you could give everyone yor contact details if they do want to contact you. <br />
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<b>Peta</b> : Sure, I'm available directly on email, so <a href="mailto:peta@slimminds.com">peta@slimminds.com</a> and there's other contact details there if people would like to write to us or even give us a call, so by all means skypes the way to go when we're internation, so I'd love to hear from any of our listeners out there.<br />
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<b>Michael</b> : Excellent, thank you very much indeed for you time. <br />
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			<title>Loosing weight / Weight loss</title>
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<b>1. Don't 'lose weight'</b><br />
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I may have named this article poorly, but I figured it would be easier to recognise. 'Losing weight' is the popular way of describing something, which is not about losing weight itself - as most people care to lose their body fat percentage or something along those lines. Often is the case that people will go to the gym arduously for a while, and become discouraged when they realise that they've actually gained weight despite their efforts.<br />
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The truth is, that fat itself doesn't actually weigh that much - in fact in submerging a person in water and weighing them we can work out a persons body fat because fat is lighter than water. <br />
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To lose body fat, you'll often inadvertently gain muscle, and muscle is heavier than fat - so all in all, you're weight won't be a particularly good indicator of your body fat. <br />
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Body fat isn't the easiest thing in the world to test, where as weight is - which I suppose is one of the reasons why it has over time become so popular to weight ourselves as an indication of health and fitness - but unless you happen to have a bio-electrical impedence test lying around the place, or some underwater scales in your swimming pool - I'd say just to go by how you look and feel.<br />
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<b>2. Gain muscle</b><br />
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People tend to think that to lose weight it's a matter of hitting aerobic exercises, like running, swimming, aerobics - as it is true that a higher percentage of fat is burned through low intensity exercise. This is also STUPID. Don't do it. <br />
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While you're doing a low intensity exercise, a higher percentage of the energy used comes from your fat stores as opposed to your carbohydrate stores - this is an unhelpful fact to cling to in trying to lose body fat because low intensity exercise uses a lower total energy. You use more fat from high intensity exercises, just as you use more from your carbohydrate stores.<br />
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The reason I also suggest to gain muscle is that doing exercise itself isn't where the most fat can be burned, rather in gaining muscle mass our resting metabolism rises, and the energy that our body uses even at rest increases - which accumilates to a much greater loss of fat then the participation of exercise itself.<br />
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<b>3. Know what you're eating.</b><br />
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I cook most of my own food, and I use very basic ingreients. You'd be surprised what goes into foods in order to make them taste better, last longer, stay in a nicer shape. Like mayonaise for example - do you actually know what mayoniase is?<br />
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Mayonaise is the prime example of what I mean - people put it on salad when they're trying to be healthy - but in doing so they sacrifice any health benefits from the salad. <br />
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Mayonaise, and all sauces, gain their texture from hydrogenated fat - which is the worst fat that you can put into your body. It's odd that people substitute one form of fat with another, and wonder why their body isn't changing!.<br />
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In the same sense, its worth learning the effects of what you're eating, everything you're eating. <br />
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<b>4. Stabalise your blood sugar</b><br />
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Some people associate the low feelings of having not eaten for a while, or having eaten too little as part of a successful diet - it ISN'T. <br />
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That feeling means that your blood sugar has taken a dive, and that also means that so is your metabolism, which means that you'll be burning less fat in this state. <br />
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It's useless, don't do it.<br />
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Over recent years there's been a fad called the GI diet. Essentially GI (Glycemic Index) is a way of measuring how quickly various foods get into your system and how much they have an impact on your blood sugar levels. Making sure that you eat a food of low GI means that you'll feel less of an energy drain as the day goes on, and you'll lose more fat as a result of your consistent metabolism.<br />
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A big part of this is eating a breakfast, and eating consistently throughout the day. Porridge, for example has a tremendously low GI, and makes an excellent breakfast. <br />
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<b>5. Cut out stimulents and sweets (and alcohol.)</b><br />
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Stimulants such as caffeine, and the other chemicals of a similiar nature that you find in evil drinks, like Torreine, etc etc, raise your blood sugar level also, only to drop it worse than it had been before. <br />
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Alcohol is just bad for you. Alcohol has a huge energy density, and isn't easily utilised by the body. I know there's this stupid belief going around that small amounts are good for you - as far as I've seen that's based on one study, and only applies to over 45 year olds. If you're trying to lose weight, stay away from booze.<br />
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<b>6. It's not about FAT</b><br />
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People look at fat content in food as it's the only thing that causes physical fattening, it isn't at all. <br />
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Fat, as a physical stubstance that you find in food, is 9 calories per gram, where as protein and carbohydrate is only 4 calories per gram. this means that fat should be avoided because of it's calorie density - not because it's fat.<br />
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Excess calories are converted into fat - if you eat 500 calories of fat, or 500 calories of carbs, it's still 500 calories that your body has to deal with. <br />
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Fat is not the enemy itself. Vitamins A,D,E and K are fat soluble, and useless without it. <br />
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Omega 3, that everyone has been going on about for the last couple of years, is a form of fat. Just a healthier one than others. <br />
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It's about understanding that there is a difference in quality of fats. A lot of the time it just takes common sense.<br />
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If a big mac had the same amount as fat as a fish, which is the healthier? The fish. It's not just about numbers.<br />
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<b>7. It's not all about CALORIES either</b><br />
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Counting Calories is just wrong as well. As I say, it's not all about numbers. Calories are seen as a bad thing in general, but all it is, is a measure of energy - and energy is a good thing right? <br />
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<b>8. Think WHEN  as well as WHAT</b><br />
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If I was to do a personal diet plan for somebody, the first thing that I would do is rearrange the time that they eat without changing what they eat. Why? Well:<br />
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Firslty, it's hard to have a diet and take things out of it. People crave things for various reasons, and it's not so disastrous letting people eat what they like - It's a big change to make.<br />
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In changing when a person eats, you effect their metabolism, the effectiveness of the exercise they do, the amount of muscle they can put one. <br />
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For example - I personally eat chocolate, and probably will until the day I die. This is because it's GI is so high that it gets into the blood really quickly - before and after training this can be very effective in two ways. Firstly it means that I can get more energy to do exercise with (if I eat it an hour before exercise.) or I can maximse glycogen recovery by eating chocolate a half-hour after exercise, which means you recover quicker, feel less negative effects of training and progress quicker.<br />
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The same applies for protein. Protein should be eaten with half an hour after muscle building exercises to have greatest impact. <br />
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Eating a large breakfast jump-starts the metabolism for the day, and makes you less likely to eat so many snacks (snacks, by which I mean typical snacks, like crisps and chocolate are just awful.) <br />
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Snacking on fruit can be used to maintain blood sugar, which in turn stabalises metabolism, focus, energy levels - and the level at which you burn fat. <br />
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Ok, that'll do for starters. <br />
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If there are any questions of things I haven't explained properly, please give me a chance to go into this more. It's a very difficult system to explain, but at the same time very simple when you understand it - it's very common sensical. <br />
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love you lots<br />
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-Liam.<br />
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Meditation can be a very useful skill and practice for anyone involved in any activity or role which needs focus...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><b>Meditation - A simple technique</b><br />
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Meditation can be a very useful skill and practice for anyone involved in any activity or role which needs focus and clarity. It can significantly reduce 'excess' stress. <br />
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There are four basic components necessary to successful meditation:<br />
<ul><li>A quiet environment</li>
</ul><ul><li>A mental device, usually a sound, word or phrase repeated silently to help break the train of distracting thoughts</li>
</ul><ul><li>A passive attitude. Adopt a 'let it happen' attitude. Distracting thoughts will happen but do not worry about them. Also don't worry about how well you are performing the technique. A passive attitude is probably the most important element in successful meditation.</li>
</ul><ul><li>A comfortable position, (not lying down - sleep is not meditation) with a straight back that encourages good breathing</li>
</ul><br />
<b>The most straightforward meditation / relaxation technique (of many) is as follows:</b><br />
<ul><li>Sit quietly in a comfortable position</li>
</ul><ul><li>Close your eyes</li>
</ul><ul><li>Deeply relax all your muscles, beginning at your feet and progressing to your face. Keep them relaxed</li>
</ul><ul><li>Breathe through your nose. Become aware of your breathing. As you breathe out say the word 'one' silently to yourself. For example, breathe in ...out, 'one'; in....out, 'one' etc. Breathe easily and naturally.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Continue for 10 to 20 minutes. You may open your eyes to check the time , but do not use an alarm.</li>
</ul><ul><li>When you finish sit quietly for several moments, at first with your eyes closed and later with your eyes opened. Do not stand up for a few moments</li>
</ul><b>BE COMFORTABLE WHATEVER STATE OF RELAXATION YOU DO OR DO NOT ACHIEVE,</b> with practice relaxation will come easily. It is recommended that you practice once or twice a day, but not within 2-hours of any meal as the digestive processes seem to interfere with meditation<br />
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Slightly adapted from an approach by Peter Honey in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/085292903X?tag=ppibusingrowtand&amp;camp=1406&amp;creative=6394&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=085292903X&amp;adid=15Y8CEM1JAB56EZR7KX6&amp;" target="_blank">Increase your people skills</a><br />
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Anyone anything to add?</div>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:47:47 GMT</pubDate>
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"Those that say it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it"......Chinese Proverb 
 
Its about art and science...]]></description>
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<div align="center"><i>&quot;Those that say it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it&quot;......Chinese Proverb</i></div><br />
Its about art and science of language in healing and health. And a lot more.<br />
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I'm extracting a small section in chapter 3 that I found particularly interesting. It's is about individuals that handle stress and challenge particularly well and you can use to get an indication of how effective you are at handling stress and challenge.<br />
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Simply give yourself a score from 1 (a little) to 5 (a lot) to the following questions for six seperate topics. It will give you an idea of your own possible strengths and weaknesses.<br />
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<b>Social Support and Connectness</b><br />
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Question - How much support do you get from your familly and friends?<br />
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<b>A sense of control</b><br />
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Question - How much control do you have in your life?<br />
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<b>Predictability</b><br />
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Question - How well do you cope with unexpected events?<br />
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<b>Expectation of improvement</b><br />
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Question - How much do you expect your situation to improve?<br />
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<b>Meaning purpose and spirituality</b><br />
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Question - Two questions, score the second! What do you find helps when you have a problem or challenge? How much does this help?<br />
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<b>Dissipation</b><br />
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How much downtime do you allow yourself. With particular regard to things like light aerobics workouts, yoga, meditation martial arts - and which you genuinly enjoy?<br />
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If you haven't yet got the scores you want there are many, many NLP approaches to help you enjoyably improve them.<br />
<br />
..............<br />
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I'm adding this because I think its one of the most important NLP books published recently. If you're interested in the topic its well worth buying. The above is just one example from the book. It's particularly relevent to any one in the medical community.<br />
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<a href="http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?t=ppibusingrowtand&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1905140193&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" target="_blank"><br />
Magic in Practice by Garner Thomson with Dr Khalid Khan</a><br />
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<b>Book content includes:</b><br />
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<b>Part 1 - Rationale</b><br />
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Chapter 1<br />
Towards Healing and Health: A solution orientated approach<br />
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Chapter 2<br />
Stress and Allostatic Load:  The hidden factor in all disease<br />
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Chapter 3<br />
Avoiding compassion fatigue:  the dark side of empathy<br />
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Chapter 4<br />
Words that harm, Words that heal:  Neurolinguistics in the consultation process<br />
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Chapter 5<br />
Structure, process and change:  The building blocks of experience<br />
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Chapter 6<br />
Taming the runaway brain: Three thinking tools<br />
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<b>Part 11 - Realisation</b><br />
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Chapter 7 (Engagement)<br />
The rules of engagement:  Managing first impression<br />
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Chapter 8 (Alignement)<br />
The uninterrupter story: Beyong the 18th Second<br />
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Chapter 9<br />
The clinical questioning matrix: eliciting quality data<br />
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<b>Part 111 - Reorientation</b><br />
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Chapter 10<br />
Accessing ptient resources<br />
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Chapter 11<br />
The symptom as a solution:  When the body speaks<br />
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Chapter 12<br />
A different kind of reason: Entering the patients world<br />
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Chapter 13<br />
Getting to where you want to go:  Directions, outcomes and goals<br />
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Chapter 14<br />
Thinking in time: Temporal language, permanent change<br />
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Chapter 15<br />
Medical NLP algorithms of change: Steps to transformation<br />
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Chapter 16<br />
Hypnosis in healing and health: Language and infuence<br />
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Chapter 17<br />
From 'functional' to 'functioning': Restructuring dyssfunctional states<br />
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Chapter 18<br />
Repatterning and future pacing:  Making and maintaining change<br />
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Chapter 19<br />
Communicating for life: The way forward<br />
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<b>Appendix A - The relaxation response<br />
Appendix B - Crosslateral excercises<br />
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Resources, refernces, glossary</b></div>

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