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What if I told you that your weight loss isn't about calories and calories out.

It's not about going to the gym.

It's not even just about the toxins and the food supply that I talk about a lot.

It could be in your mind.

It could be the blockages that you don't even know that you have, the thoughts, the negative thoughts that are circling in your brain holding you back.

I'm super excited about today's conversation.

Welcome to Accelerated Health with Sarah Banta or I cut through the noise and fast track your journey to better health.

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I will help you reach your optimal health.

So let's dive in.

So excited to have Rita Black here.

She's a renowned clinical hypnotherapist, cognitive coach, author who has helped thousands of people break free from self sabotage and those habits that create actual change.

Welcome Rita.

I was pot talking to one of my very best friends who was a smoker, always a smoker, knew it was bad for her.

She went to one hypnosis appointment.

She's like, I've never smoked again.

Yeah, and there's something that's going on in the brain.

And I always say, like, if you are focused on the fact that you're losing hair and you're staring in the mirror at that bald spot, it's just going to get bigger because you're focusing on it, right, Or you're staring in the mirror at the cellulite and you wonder why it won't go away, It's because your thoughts are making it stay there.

So this is a really interesting topic for me selfishly and super excited to share your knowledge.

So welcome.

Well, well, thank you so much for having me on.

I'm always excited to talk about hypnosis and the power of the mind.

So why don't we start with your background and why are you so passionate about hypnosis.

Well, so, Sarah, I started as a client.

I like your friend was a smoker.

I don't know how heavy of a smoker your friend was, but I was a pack and a half a day smoker, and I smoked.

For a long time.

And I also struggled with my weight up and down the scale forty pounds for four many years.

So I was a weight struggler, a smoker, and just really struggling with myself, you know, and I knew the thing about it.

I'm sure your friend knew.

You know, smoking's bad for you, and you know it's expensive.

And there's every single reason for me to stop, including my husband begging me every day, my parents wanting me to.

You know, everybody was like stop, but I couldn't.

I tried many times, same thing with my weight.

I struggled up and down the scale forty pounds.

I knew everything.

And you know, most of my students and clients know everything that there is to know about weight loss.

You know, they can lose weight, but they gain it back and then they lose some more again.

You know.

I say there's a well traveled road between ten to fifteen pounds.

A lot of people travel on and I was one of them.

I recently climbed up Mountain Near in Seattle, because I'm originally from Seattle.

I live in Los Angeles now, but I was up there with my family and it was it was hilarious because mount very Near is you know, very tall mountain, but there's probably about half a mile to a mile of Ashphult Road between the parking lot and then the real trail that leads to up the mountain.

And I kind of joked to that that well, ash.

Faulted road was the you know ten pounds we lose perpetually, again.

And again and again.

Well that was me.

So what happened was I had a friend like you who quit smoking with hypnosis, and I was very leary.

This was many, many years ago.

I've been a clinical hypnotherapist now for over twenty years, and so I gosh, so that was almost thirty years ago that I went to a hypnotherap.

Very skeptical.

I had that probably what a lot of your listeners thought of, like some guy in a polyester suit with a mustache, kind of creepy, you know, that was going to have authority over me and control my mind, et cetera, et cetera.

And I was lucky enough to have a really smart tapped in guy who not only helped me become a non smoker in one session, but explain to me how.

The mind works.

You know, don't you love it when you meet somebody who they love what they do so much.

They're not just you know, they're not just helping you, but they're helping you understand.

They're giving you context as well.

So he explained to me what I'm going to explain to you and your listeners to those who don't know about hypnosis.

But you know, we have a powerful mind, and most of us are pretty smart people.

We know consciously I should stop smoking.

I know how to lose weight.

Why am I struggling so much with myself?

Well, only twelve percent of our mind, And I'll see if I can make this a little closer.

Twelve percent of our mind is the like what we would call the critical analytical willpower part of the mind.

That's the part of the mind that knows how to lose weight.

That's the part of the mind that knows I should quit smoking, has read all the studies, knows how bad it is for you.

The other eighty eight percent wants things to say the same.

That's the subconscious mind, and that's the part of the mind where and we're going to talk about this a little more.

Our identity is we have many, many identities.

But typically when I was a smoker, right, and so I live in Los Angeles, I do all these different things.

I'm a dog owner, I'm a WiFi, am a mother, and one of those things, well, I wasn't a smoker when I would smoke prior to having children.

But the point I'm making is all of us have multiple identities and they swirl together in our subconscious mind and they create our idea of ourselves.

So a lot of us.

Are trapped in these little mini identities that kind of hold us in a world.

So I was in the world of smoking, and I was a smoker.

So when I tried not to smoke, I was actually fighting against an identity that was in my subconscious mind.

So because my mind was like, but I'm a smoker, why would I stop.

So one of the things that clicked the fastest for me was becoming a non smoker.

So it was actually stepping into a new identity and being this and what this is what we would call it cognitive reframe.

We're reframing how we see ourselves in the world that we live.

So with weight struggle, it's the same we see ourselves as a weight struggler.

I struggled with my weight.

Like I said, my mother was a Berkeley trained nutritionist who was a very very smart woman and knew everything micro nutrients, phytochemicals, compounds of food.

Was eighty pounds overweight, could not lose weight to save her life.

That struggled immensely.

She was an emotional leader, et cetera, et cetera.

So I knew it wasn't just about weight, knowing knowledge, it was it was something that was holding me back.

So when I became a non smoker in this one session, it wasn't magic, it wasn't voodoo, but my mind got aligned.

So what happens is like from birth intour in our twenties, everything our parents, teachers, like experiences get.

Imprinted on our subconscious mind.

And then our mind does this amazing thing, which is it develops this thing called a critical filter.

And this critical filter kind of acts as a buffer or barrier to our subconstries.

Because we have millions of bits of information coming out our brain even more so, you know in the digital era, and our brain needs some way to filter out the information that it doesn't really need, all the nonsense, and it will.

So what it does is this thing.

It will just align with what it knows to be true.

So that's why people get into these uh, you know worlds.

And then they're just reinforcing that the worlds they live in, rather than their minds staying really open to everything coming their way.

They the brain does it to be expedient and efficient.

Uh, but it can work against us.

And so when we struggle with weight, so we have this weight struggler identity, but also we have beliefs like it's hard for me, I can't do it.

You know you were mentioning looking at the bald spot.

It just keept keeps getting reinforced more and more and more, and our mind is collecting evidence all the time.

See this, this is why you struggle.

See you have no discipline.

See you are lazy.

See you are a sugar addict.

You know it's it, and see your genetics work against you.

See.

And then and then we have habits, which are just patterns of behavior that get repeated over and over again, despite consciously like, for instance, you know, I don't want to snack after dinner tonight.

I'm not going to snack after dinner tonight.

I'm not going to snack after dinner TI tonight.

And then we snack after dinner tonight.

Does that sound familiar to anybody?

Yeah, oh my god.

And not only snack after dinner, but snack in a pattern like you know, I eat this, then I eat that, and then I eat that.

So it's it.

It has a it has a beginning, middle, and an end.

And this happens not because you lack will power, or you lack discipline, or or wherewith all.

It's simply because the more powerful part of your mind at one point said this works for me.

It relaxes me.

It's a reward, and so it it.

It is driving you via dopamine, like we want that thing.

We want that thing, and it will be a compelling pattern that needs to be fulfilled even though you're trying not to do it.

It doesn't care, It doesn't care about the outcome.

It doesn't care about how you feel at night when you go to bed your stuffed, or you wake up the next morning and you go.

Why did I do that?

And you're so mad at yourself.

It's really not you.

It's how the mind is designed.

So what we really.

Need to do is to learn to work with our mind versus against it.

And you know that's what I help people and with.

Is not not this whole idea of you know, eat this, eat that.

It's more get to the root of this so that you can clear the way to apply the knowledge you already have about weight management, because, like I said, most people who struggle with their weight are incredibly disciplined, and they know a lot about weight management.

They could write their own New York Times bestselling weight loss book.

You know, it's not from lack of information.

It is really from the part of their mind, the part of our mind that wants to lose weight.

The other part could care less about that, and it's just driving the same behavior over and over again, and we get into oh, go ahead, sorry, yeah, I want to stop you for two points or questions.

One is why if we know, if our brain knows that it's not good for us, why is it keeping us in that spot?

Is it a survival mechanism?

Is it a comfort zone?

Is it a.

Just I feel safe here, even though it's not good for me.

It's all of those things I'll explain.

I'm gonna I'm gonna flip the page, but I just want you guys to see this.

And there is a protection mechanism.

So there's also when we're stressed, when we're feeling emotional, the brain will drive us to eat, you know, psychologically as a comfort because those carbi foods do have some sort of a calming effect, right, and it knows that.

But I'm going to get into a little more a pattern that is, you know what I see the primary epidemic of brain patterns that once you can break through this one particular brain pattern which I call the weight struggle cycle.

And this is, you know, this is a very good question.

That you ask.

It's like why do we keep doing it?

It's the actual weight struggle cycle is a habit itself.

It's a pattern, just like night eating can be a pattern.

The weight struggle cycle has a pattern of hedonic points in it that the brain goes se Because the brain is really weird.

It will go you know, it will.

Well, let me explain the weight struggle cycle really quickly, and then we can look at how to break through it.

So here's the weight struggle cycle.

I'll just use this as an example.

I or Mary, let's call Mary.

Mary is our atypical or our typical dieter, and or you know somebody who's struggling with her weight.

She's maybe got to the end of the summer and it's like, I'm overweight, I ate too much, I traveled whatever, I've gained twenty five pounds.

I've got to lose weight.

So she goes into weight loss mode.

Right now, Like I said, we all know how to lose weight, so our brain will go into this being good on a diet mode, right and we'll pull it together and we know how to chicken and broccoli, hit the gym, be good, be good, And that's a high.

That is an actual high, because what's happened is we've gotten out of a chaotic brain mode.

Because feeling bad about ourselves is chaotic.

We're self abusing and it's very painful.

So the transition from that into I'm good and I am being on a plan is pleasurable, right it It hits all these reward center places in the brain.

So the brain's like, aha, going on a diet gets me out of that pain.

Let's do that, right, So we've done step one of the weight struggle cycle.

The problem is.

Being good isn't really a skill, and it really isn't a way of living.

It's a reaction to pain, right, So what will happen is we'll travel that well oiled road to ten pounds.

And what will happen is we'll get out of some of the pain because we'll have lost some weight.

Oh I've lost some weight.

Oh, you know, I feel better.

And so what happens at that point is we begin to lose focus and because the pain has dissipated, but then also now the pain of being on a restrictive plan that doesn't really that's not really a lifestyle that allows us to kind of live our life.

But we're just being good.

The brain is now starting to look around for other things, you know, an escape plan.

And because this is the second part of the weight struggle cycle is what will usually happen is a struggle point will come up.

And a struggle point is a subconscious patterned behavior that you know, yours are you know, mine might be different than my neighbors, that might be different from so everybody's is different, but there's a lot of similar ones, like social events, like night eating, like emotional eating, but they could be very varied, you know.

But the way it comes up is one of those struggle points will come up.

We'll go to a party, we'll go out Friday night, it's been a tough week, and we'll overeat.

We'll eat, you know, something that we didn't want to eat.

My pizza.

I didn't want to eat pizza.

I ate a brownie.

I didn't want to eat a brownie.

So what happens in our brain is this very interesting dance.

So we'll feel bad, right like, oh, I did something that was not on my diet.

I feel bad now, and we don't like to feel bad.

So our brain does this little trick.

And I call that like voice that talks to us like, you blew it?

You know you, why did you do it?

You were doing so good blah blah blah.

I call that the inner critic.

And then, because there's all these different parts of us that exist in our minds, so we have this inner critic that's always beating us up, perfectionist, et cetera.

Then we have our wonderful inner rebel who wants to, you know, kind of escape the pain, and it's smart and knows how to do it.

It will say, hey, let's just start again tomorrow.

We'll be perfect tomorrow.

And so tonight, guess what we.

Get to do?

Eat anything we want.

And so what you see is like this really amazing.

I mean, you can see how amazing our brain is.

It takes us from a point of pain to making a promise that completely gives us relief, and the back of the brain is saying, oh see, this works for us.

This gets us out of the pain, and then it gets us into more pleasure because now we're going to proceed to eat more pizza or more brownies or what have you.

Okay, So you can see that this becomes an addictive cycle that the brain pulls us into.

And to the degree we promised to be good, because we'll really promised to be good, like I will never eat sugar again, I am never going to I am going to be so I'm gonna be on my plan.

To the degree we promised to be good gives us license to be bad.

Right, So real quick, I want to stop you there for a second.

I had doctor an A.

Lumpke come on about the dope in her book with the dope and mean nation, and she described it as this teeter totter.

So the further you go up, the further you need to go down.

So the pain and pleasure is an equilibrium.

So what you're saying is the higher we go in being good gives us license to dive down into being bad versus.

Just staying stable, correct.

And this is all the way the brain work.

It's so fascinating that the human brain wants to allow this versus, Hey, just put me on a good, good road of optimal living.

Why isn't it just that easy?

Well, I think, you know, prior to the sixties and the diet culture really holding on, I think we probably had a much more balanced approach to weight management.

But I think what happened is in you know, I grew up in the seventies.

I'm sixty one, there was this real feeling that the diets were an external thing outside of us, that when we're not feeling good about us internally, it's we don't believe in ourselves.

Why would I believe in myself because I've struggled for so long.

So we give this belief to this external structure outside of ourselves that is going to help us pull it together.

And I think that culture of that because you know, then we went I remember, you know the seventies, eighties, the nineties.

You know, there was a different diet book every weekend that you would go and you know, binge eat while you're reading the diet book, right.

Or the magazines that have the diet fat on there with recipes for cakes and cookies all on the same same magazine.

It's just and you know, they're sitting in boardrooms.

And I'm sure you've had these guests on too.

You know they're sitting in boardrooms, you know, thinking of ultra formulated food, you know, combinations that are just going to get us to buy into these products that addict our brain, just like you know drugs.

So so we'll dive into this hedonic experience, you know this very and we'll go into what I call hyperdrive eating, which is where we're eating and just because we know we're going to.

Be good, we'll be eating foods we don't even.

Really necessarily like, but it's just like, well, this is a carbon I won't be eating this on Monday, so let me have that too.

So it's kind of under the radar eating and it's just you know, hyperdrive.

And again, this isn't I think we look at ourselves with such disdain because this behavior happens.

But you know, the large part of how I work with people is just to have compassion for the fact that this isn't you know, your fault.

It is how this crazy brain operates, and you can start to so so then we'll get you know, we'll get to Monday, and we'll have you know, gained back some of the way.

You know, will feel horrible, and you know the cycle.

So let me go on another diet and blah blah blah.

So the brain, because it doesn't see the pain, it only sees the oh, let me go on a diet that's going to get me out of this, and then it sees that it will.

It has gotten habituated into this cycle, So how do we break free?

So I just thought it's okay, Sarah, I would go through like three mind shifts that your listeners can start to step into.

You know, that don't necessarily require our hypnosis, but it's just a way of using your mind more effectively.

One in a subconscious mind, I should say.

So, we've been talking about identity, and so we have this weight struggler identity, and like I said, it's kind of a world we live in.

We're always fighting against ourselves.

We think about our weight, we think about a food good part of the day.

How do I get out of it?

And we become kind of a victim of this whole world that we live in.

So instead of fighting against that, because every time we go on a diet, because we see ourselves as a struggler, it's already game over because we don't have any belief in ourselves, we don't have any respect for ourselves.

So the likelihood that we are going to give up on ourselves very very quickly when the going gets tough, it's kind of almost one hundred percent.

So how do we we shift this?

Will we begin to shift this by seeing ourselves differently, stepping into a different identity.

And the brain is actually really good at this because you know, I don't know if any of your listeners like have become mothers or gotten married.

Like marriage is such an easy one because it's a split second.

You go from being a single person to a married person and you're in a new identity, right, so you step into a new world of being a married person the brain's like, oh, I am a married person now, and this has new rules and boundaries and benefits and and all these things.

And oh, okay, I get it.

Now I'm being married.

I'm not doing married, I'm being married.

Right.

So it's a new identity.

And so the way I focus because obviously smoker of a non smoker.

That's why it can be one session.

It's easy.

I mean, it's not easy.

You need want to quit smoking, and but whats is it's such a shift in thinking.

And because you don't need nicotine in order to live, you know, you can leave that session and be an non smoker.

And because especially nowadays, smoking is so marginalized, you can't.

It's you know, in the old days, it was you know, you had to sit with people as they were smoking in front of you at breakfast or whatever.

But now you know, nobody smokes indoors anymore, and so they v ape indoors, but they don't smoke indoors.

But the point I'm making is with weight management, it's it's what where we focus people is on becoming an apprentice of weight mastery or a learner.

And when you step into a learner student identity, what you're doing is the main thing.

And I'm sure this is you will agree with me, Sarah, is that it's you know, because I know you work in the world of like you have to kind of adjust to things.

You have to see how you feel and then you adjust and you see how you go.

So with weight management, in that addictive cycle, there's no learning.

There's only good and bad, right, There's no like, oh that didn't work for me, How could I do that better the next time?

You know?

And what happens is when people start to step into that and if they eat that pizza pizza, instead of being like you blew it, you're a jerk, You're like, oh wow, wait a minute, I just ate that pizza.

I didn't want to be eating, Like what did I learn about that?

Like, oh, maybe I was too hungry before I went out.

Maybe I didn't you know, like how can I do better next time?

But also what happens is when you eat the brownie or eat the pizza, you aren't a jerk.

You know what I mean.

You're you have a perspective and you have respect for yourself because you're like, Okay, I'm going to advocate for myself here.

I like myself.

You know, we have a term loving yourself down the scale because you know, if you start from a place of hate, like you know, I'm a weight struggler, and I just don't want to be a weight struggler, So let me lose some weight so I don't hate myself so much so I can love myself, which is usually how we kind of approach it.

You kind of got to own and love yourself at the beginning of the journey.

And that's why the student shift because you can immediately you can immediately have respect for yourself because it's a more powerful identity.

I hope that makes sense.

So the next piece is inter communication, and this is so huge.

I'm running.

I do these live thirty day processes a couple of times a year, and it's so funny because right now we're in the middle of one and I see how people communicate with themselves, even in our Facebook group.

You know, they'll be like, I did this wrong, and I am always coming and going.

Now let's take a step back and let's look at this.

So we have a very very powerful let me do this.

I can't I can't flip off and talk at the same time.

I'm not that talented, but no, so we have a very powerful inner critic that is really that also drives this weight struggle cycle very very much so, and a rebel.

So the critic and the rebel sort of drive our behavior.

And you know, I joke because you know, if I went to work on Wednesday and it didn't go well for me, if I did made a mistake or I did something wrong, and I was like, you know what, guys, I'm just going to come back on Monday, and I promise I'll be perfect on Monday, you know that isn't going to fly right.

So everybody here is masterful in probably multiple areas of their life.

But if you just think of one area of your life that you've kind of feel good about yourself, you know that driving a car, I mean, it could be as simple as cooking an egg whatever.

You know, there was probably a time where you had to spend a lot of time self correcting, or you had to kind of go okay, you know, or you had somebody else you were working with, somebody but you had you showed up for yourself in that moment and said, at work, that didn't work well for us, how can we make this better?

And you built what we would call resilience, right, we would resilience to stay in that moment, in that feeling and work through it and you get to the other side and then you get.

A sense of capability and confidence.

Right.

So what we really need and so what I have and what all of you guys can start doing today is in the area of weight management.

You can start to bring that powerful what I would call your inner coach, the part of you that coaches you through those tough moments in life, and start to apply them to those moments where you want to start over again or you say I blew it and start to notice.

You know, we call it separating yourself out from that thought.

That thought is just a thought, but we listen to it like it's real, right, that critic it's just a thought pattern that is perpetuated itself, and it's not very interesting because it pretty much says the same things at the same times in the same places.

So that's good news for you because you can go, oh, wait a minute, that's just a thought pattern.

I don't need to choose that thought pattern.

I can now come in and coach myself in this moment.

Right, So that is using your brain way more effectively, so you can see that these are just our brain when we're engaging a new identity, we're using our imagination, we're doing a cognitive reframe.

So these are things that are getting underneath that surface of that conscious mind to the deeper root of what's going on.

So the last thing I'll share with you.

Guys, because I know we are short on time, is the So we're working on identity, we are working on communication, and then we are working on our focus.

And this comes back to what we were talking about earlier, Sarah, which is this idea of when we are struggling with weight, we are in pain a lot of the time.

Not just pain.

Because we're like, we feel overweight, but we also are in psychological pain because we don't understand why.

We feel like we're a victim of ourselves.

We actually think we're insane, you know, because we're like, I know what I should be doing, Why am I.

Not doing it?

I must be insane.

I mean I certainly came to that conclusion myself.

Yeah, So.

What we'll do, and again, this is the brain trying to do its best job.

It will say, let's get out of this pain, and then that's when we become very vulnerable to external solutions outside of us.

You know.

I had a woman who, you know, very a respected woman in the community right in and she said, I left my credit card in the car.

This is a student that I had many many years ago.

But she was like, I left my credit card in the car because I don't want But if you told me that I could.

Because I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on weight loss things, I've done everything.

And if you told me that I could eat a pail of dirt and water, you know, eat dirt and water for a month and lose twenty pounds, you know, I do it, right.

And I was like, yeah, I understand.

So we become incredibly vulnerable to external solutions, but we go on them and they're not sustainable for the most part.

You know, we go on the most ridiculous things, you know, but in the moment, we're like, this is going to get me out of that pain.

So I'll do it, you know, because I don't know any other answers.

Let me do this, and I don't believe in myself, so I must have to believe this thing outside myself.

So what we want to start to do is again, use our brain more power.

Our brain is very very well equipped for long term transformation, but we just don't engage it enough.

I'm sure you've heard of the reticular activation system, and what happens is there's this term called the pain pushes until the vision pulls.

And the idea is that we need When I was struggling forty pounds above the scale, and I don't know, I don't think I've told you.

I've kept forty pounds off for thirty years, so I've had long term sustain weight management.

And it isn't because I've been good for thirty years and I haven't been, but I developed myself and so that is what the weight mastery journey.

And I have many, many students who have had long term weight journeys.

And so the example I was going to give is, when I was struggling forty pounds up the scale, I created a vision of me not at being thin, at forty pounds down the scale.

I created a vision of me having had long term but like five years out in the future, having maintained my weight five years.

And I started to get very curious about that person, like who is that Rita.

You know, what does she do, like how does she wake up in the morning, how does she manage the people in her environment who want to bring crap into the house?

How does she eat out?

And it was it was interesting because it wasn't like she was being good, but she was, and that Rita was living her life enjoying the foods that she was eating.

She wasn't being.

Restricted or deprived.

She had created a way of eating that she loved that allowed her to live at her ideal weight, you know, a way of moving her body that she loved that allowed her ideal weight.

And once I got that, that helped my brains are to move in the right direction because I I and believed in it, Like I was like, Okay, I'm not there today, but I'm moving a little closer and a little closer and a little closer.

And the brain has a very good way of focusing you when you have it engages a higher level purpose part of the brain.

It engages the reticular activation system, so you're engaging and it's also engaging your imagination, which is the subconscious mind.

So it engages a creativity within you that allows this not to be a deprivation but more of creation.

You're creating this way of living that allows you to be at your ideally.

Oh my goodness.

If the mind is so powerful in both positive and negative ways.

I love the fact that you know you're envisioning yourself in the future because we can be so zero in on today this hour, Like what is the scale safe right now versus four hours from now?

And it's a way of some people feeling in control in a life that they're out of control.

But how you're talking and how the mind works is not just about weight loss.

I mean you could apply this to anything and the way we see ourselves and we're our biggest critics, and just getting out of that trap of the self sabotage and the negative thinking and loving yourself.

And you know, you think back to elementary school when self esteem coaches would come into the class and tell you to love yourself, and it was like, wait, I don't understand.

I mean, it's something that we've been trying and they've been trying to teach us every year of our life, and we still have a hard time doing it.

But it seems like it should be the default, not something that we have to work for.

I know, I look at my dogs sometimes and I think, do you are you speak to yourself with an inner critic?

Oh?

Yeah, They're laying on their backs in the middle of the day, just sunbathing, super happy.

It's like, I want that life.

What what are they thinking?

Oh my god, no, Rita.

This is so fascinating.

And I am very in tune with my own body.

And I can just say if I focus on brain fog, gosh, my brain's hurting right now.

It will get worse.

If I feel like my metabolism is slow, I feel it slow down.

If I literally can say, okay, speed up your metabolism and I feel my heart rate go up, that's how powerful the mind is away from the supplements and the food that I talk about, you know, I think the mind is the is the most powerful tool that we have, both good and bad.

And that need for dopamine what And you know, I was just listening to a sermon actually, and you don't have to be a Christian or religious at all, but in the sermon they were talking about dopamine and do yes, I am very cool.

It's in the spiritual world, it's in the religious world, it's in the atheist world.

I mean we we are driven by dopamine.

Our behaviors are driven by dopamine.

Whether it's drugs, gambling, pornography, food, you name.

It, it's mind management.

This is the new era.

It is learning to manage your mind.

You know, I listen to a lot of inspirational people.

It sounds like you do too, And you know, like, for instance, I was just listening to Tony Robbins the other day because I'm going to go see him in Anaheim.

And next week.

I'm super excited.

But you know he is.

He's very big on your morning routine and in my process, we do morning meditation because when you wake up, you have the most tool power for the day and you can guide yourself in the morning through a very powerful day.

And I'm sure you you know, talk to your listeners about this as well.

But I'm just reinforcing what.

You're saying, which is we are in this era where we understand so much more, but and yet we can feel so bad because we're like, why am I not doing this?

Why am I not?

And it really isn't your fault.

But but bit by bit you start to get these insights, and bit by bit you can start to work with yourself more powerfully and uh, and learn to manage your mind.

I started my practice well before iPhone came out, you know, And I and I have literally seen a difference in people's brains since we've really, you know, doubled down on the digital era.

And you know, I'm not here to say yay or nay about iPhones.

I certainly use mine, but we have to understand overstimulation of our brain is impacting us.

So anytime you can slow your brain down, take a breath, come back to your body, which you were talking about, like coming into yourself and thinking, oh I need to do this, Oh I need to do that, coming back to center.

It just instead of like this idea of being good being bad, it's like, what is my brain doing right now?

And how can I bring it back to where I need?

Guide it back to the outcome I want to create.

And it's all within our capability.

But it's just a matter of having the patience to break through these habitual dopomagenic circles that we dig ourselves into unwittingly.

Yeah.

I love Tony Robbins and I actually was thinking about going to that, but it was just yesterday I was talking to a girlfriend who said, my life is out of my control right now.

I'm in reaction mode, and I said, can you just try one thing when you wake up, keep your eyes closed and for three minutes, all for only three minutes, imagine what you want your day to look like and walk through your day, and it will change your day.

And it's so powerful because you look just like you're saying.

You look for the things you are focused on.

Right when you're pregnant, you see a thousand pregnant women in every day.

Try you buy a new blue car, you see a thousand blue cars on the road.

It's what you're focused on.

And so when you focused on how you envision your day, how you envision your body, how you envision your workout, how you envision what you're going to eat during the day, whatever it is it's important to you, it will go that way.

And being more cognizant, there's a reason that every religion praise before they eat so that they don't do the mindless eating that they actually are saying, Okay, body, it's time to rest and digest and actually appreciate the food.

And I always look at my plate going nourish my body.

I don't look at it and oh, these are calories, they're going to make me gain weight or they're not.

Good for me.

But to appreciate what it is, it's so powerful.

So oh my gosh, Rita, we could go on and on.

I love the work that you're doing.

How can people work with you and find you?

Probably the first step.

I do have a free master class and it has some weight loss hypnosis in it where we introduce you to your inner coach and you get to create a vision.

You can grab that at www dot shift weight matread dot com, forward slash free.

That's www dot shift weight Mastery, so like Shifting Cargo's shift weight Mastery dot com forward slash free, and I'll give you the link to so you can put it in.

Your show notes if you want.

But that's probably or that's also my website dot com shift Weightmastery dot com.

You can find me there and be happy to answer any questions.

We will definitely put the links below.

And this works so synergistically with what I talk about with the importance of detok the food, the supplements to help with depression and anxiety and focus and all the things that work with the brain so that your brain has the foundation to do the work that you're talking about.

So thank you Rita, and guys, this is this is a whole new avenue that you have not uncovered.

Whether it's weight loss or smoking or gambling or pornography or whatever it is, these tools apply.

So yeah, hypnosis can be very powerful.

So well, thank you so much for having me on, Sarah.

I look forward to having you on the Then Thinking podcast.

Yes, and thank you Rita.

Oh my goodness.

I always say the mind is more powerful than the body.

It's more powerful than the supplements, the diet, exercise.

I mean, how many of you are working out three times a day and you still have the belly thought, or you're eating nothing and the weight's coming on.

And yes, there's toxins in our food causing it, and yes the stress is causing it, but the stress is working on the mind.

So what can you do to.

Work synergistically with changing the way your brain looks at your body and achieving things like weight loss or stopping the addictive behavior.

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So those three supplements are game changers when it comes to weight loss and changing the way the brain looks at its body.

So hopefully that was helpful.

Thanks for tuning in today.

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