Hello Dear One!

Ok!  Gather round as THIS information will literally change your life if you use it.

For a LONG time I’ve done research on addiction (the drivers, how it operates, what softens/stops behavior) due to my own wrestles with emotional eating.

Lately I’ve been using daily tools to really CHANGE my relationship with, and use of, both alcohol and food for emotional purposes.

One MAJOR game changing nugget I’ve stumbled upon is a technique called DISENCHANTMENT.

 

Disenchantment is the action and practice of UPDATING your reward center with NEW information as to what this behavior ACTUALLY does for you.  NOW.

Humans are logical creatures.

As much as we might beat ourselves up for doing things that seem senseless or are harmful – they HAVE served us at one time or another.

And if they’re not currently serving us AND we’re still participating with them, it means we simply haven’t updated their status in our reward center.

Straightforward yes?

YES.

How to do this?

MAKE A LIST.

Make a list of the PRO’s and CON’s of this behavior.

Everything,

Then RATE each item on a scale of 1-10 how much pleasure/benefit that aspect gives you on your list of PRO’s.

Then rate each item from 1-10 for how HARMFUL/detrimental each item is on you CON list.

Take THAT in.

READ IT AGAIN.

And again.

 

What I found was that my CON list was FAR longer for both drinking alcohol and using food for emotional reasons (even though there were some pretty high points on my PRO list).

Seeing the list of CON’s and the ACTUAL impact of these behaviors was QUITE eye opening and sobering to me.

And what it did was BREAK THE SPELL on the mindless, self propelled drive to lunge at the thing that I, after the fact, regret – because I was looking at the REGRET FIRST.

This is such effective stuff.

Most of us aim to rely on WILL POWER to simply STOP the thing that we no longer want to do (but keep doing).

However that’s not an actual cure when we’re still fixated on all the BENEFITS that this behavior at one time held for us.

Check it out.

Actually go through this practice and DIGEST what the CURRENT REALITY is with this behavior and pattern.

UPDATE the information in your reward center by looking at what it’s actually doing for you (bloating, crappy sleep, feel gross the next day, weight gain, inflammation/puffiness, retain water, feel ashamed/regretful, can’t attain goal…).

And keep putting your attention on that.

Again.

And again.

And again.

Until it’s what you think of MOST when you get triggered to do a deep dive into a pattern that no longer serves.

Hope that was useful!

And if you’d like to disengage your BODY from the wiring of NEEDING sugar in addition to no longer be spellbound to overeat it – please consider getting your body INTO a Fat Burning mode where you’ll have less hunger and be craving FREE.

Check out Fat Burning PRO (self study or with one on one coaching) for a simpler approach to sustainable weight loss and improved HEALTH.

To getting you clearer on how the body works, and how to make it work for you.

xox, M