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Changing a lifelong relationship with food is no easy matter. You have a unique genetic makeup and personal experience that has defined the role of food in your life. Consider that a 40-year-old person has consumed around 100,000 meals and snacks! It's no wonder that our minds become deeply entrenched in a unique and accustomed manner of eating.
There are also unique reasons why you have difficulty managing your weight. For some people, it's simply a matter of not paying attention to weight control goals. For others, self-concept is at the root of the conflict that leads to over or under-eating. Perhaps a combination of factors, including genetics, relationships or other disturbances in the environment, is at work.
For many of us long-term weight control requires fundamental restructuring of our mental processes. We need to forge new neural linkages in our brains and disable old connections that support counterproductive modes of thinking. But how do we change ways of thinking and acting that are so ingrained in our nature?
This isn't something we can do to ourselves, like some science fiction surgeon tinkering with a robot's brain. While we can try to consciously coerce ourselves into different ways of thinking and acting for a short time, long-term change is usually elusive.
Fortunately, according to PCT, our minds have an intrinsic reorganizing system. This system can automatically rewire our brain so we achieve our desired intentions. We can't consciously control this innate process but we can learn to cultivate the conditions that promote mental change.
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