Struggling with associations

[kevinkalis]

Sorry if the title is a bit ambiguous but I don't really have a better way to put it.

I'm trying to use NLP to stop myself from binge eating and one of the techniques is to create a feeling of repulsion towards a certain kind of food. My problem is that I just can't visualize and recreate that feeling.

Does anyone have any tips on how I can do this as I'm convinced NLP can help me with the binge eating, I just can't seem to put it into practice.

[skip]

NLP can easily help with this.

However I wouldnt go about it by using aversion.

What would you prefer to do besides binge when the urge to binge occurrs?

I would tie something constructive to the urge, instead of trying to make yourself sick or uncomfortable. Who wants to feel like that?

skip

[Terry]

but that leads me to another conclusion, that being that you lack the ability to apply the technique you ask about. Any Hypnotic technique such as NLP demands not only knowledge, but also skill based on experience in order to function as desired. You seem to lack both in depth knowledge, and the understanding that would come with experience, so my question to you would be, "am I correct"? If so, either gain experience or consult a skilled practitioner. No idea who put you up to the idea of negative suggestions, but I would ask them how on earth they manage to conjure up the belief that something you love can suddenly become disgusting to you? Or why you must visualize this?
Online training is not something the best of us do, since we have too much respect for our art, so locate a local who is experienced, or travel to where one is, it is worth your time and money considering the seriousness of the problem.

[Poodle]

really bad idea to use an aversion to any food and also to cigarettes to stop smoking, etc. These aversions usually fail quickly.

I suggest you go back to Skip's post where he wrote: WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER BE DOING? When you figure it out, you will be ahead of the 'game'.

Perhaps Connie would like to join in here. She lost a heck of a lot of weight and she did not use aversions.

Be well~Pood

[Poodle]

Have you actually studied NLP in person? If so, send a quick e to your trainer. At least s/he knows you. Also, go back to more of the beginning of your studies and work on TOTE. Everything in life is a strategy and yours is lacking a proper exit.
Be well~Pood

[Merlin]

Sorry if the title is a bit ambiguous but I don't really have a better way to put it.

I'm trying to use NLP to stop myself from binge eating and one of the techniques is to create a feeling of repulsion towards a certain kind of food. My problem is that I just can't visualize and recreate that feeling.

Does anyone have any tips on how I can do this as I'm convinced NLP can help me with the binge eating, I just can't seem to put it into practice.
With NLP, multiple methods are often used.
So don't be afraid to try another method.

[Connie]

I have lost a lot of weight. :) Here's a pic of me.

http://www.loseweightseattle.com/Faces.jpg

When you change how you feel about yourself and your life, you change everything, how you think, and what you do behaviorally. Decide how you'd rather feel, and feeling that, you would not engage in binge behavior. Something positive, desirable. Good. Not aversion. I have an aversion to aversion. I like people to feel good and move towards positive emotions and states of mind/body (like healthy, like happy, like full of life and energy, like satisfaction...). When you feel good, you make different and better decisions.

[MrDigital]

I would suggest seeking assistance so you can explore the current benefits you are getting from your behaviour/s

E.g Break down the process and 'look at' what you do rather than 'through' the lenses you currently use.. In order to evaluate and see things from a different perspective.

I have worked with people who self harm that never considered they they did so because the benefit they get from cutting themselves (which most people cringe at) was a sense of relaxation... They tend to say words to the effect of 'holy FxxK I never for a minute realised I got these kind of benefits' and the process of change becomes ever more a reality to them after years of doing it...

For your own ways of 'looking at' things differently rather than through the familiar and in the meantime considering seeking a guide. Give this a whirl...

When feeling a binge coming on and before you do STOP and freeze frame your self and say the following:

What am I feeling right now?
On a scale 1-10 with 10 being Very Strong jot down the label you ascribe and the appropriate number as you gauge it..

What will this binge do to me?
Consider the ways in which you are feeling etc...
Scribble down some notes...

Then:

What will this do for me?
Same as above...

What am I feeling right now?
On a scale 1-10 with 10 being Very Strong jot down the label you ascribe and the appropriate number as you gauge it..

Notice any news of difference!

'To me' is more PRESENT oriented and 'for me' more looking at the FUTURE...

You may find some cool things in there that will allow you to explore further some of the things that have held this all together for you whilst working out the best plan for yourself...

And Congratulations to you for finding a way to do what you do whilst now looking for better ways in which you can get similarly different results...

The comfort will be in knowing you can achieve this and you already do...

You've climbed the biggest hurdle and I wish you well.

wayne