In this episode learn how to change your story about yourself.  How changing your self-concept will automatically get you to start doing what you need to, even though you haven’t been doing it. Plus you’ll learn the neuroscience behind it. 

Get practical steps you can implement now to change your experience of yourself and past negative behavior.  Drop your “past-self” and move through life as your “future-self”  - the version of you who has already accomplished your big dream, whether that’s releasing the weight or total self-acceptance. 

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How to change your negative story about yourself
• 4 Steps to building new self-concept
• The neuroscience behind why this actually works

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Links:
Neuroscience research by Dr. Moran Cerf PhD 
Karin Title, Confidante Advisor

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Continuing from Part 1 -  Ep. 12 Meditate to Release Weight this is Part 2 - A body scan meditation for relaxation and connection to yourself.

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Links: 

1. Rena Chadwick Rena helps you maintain a healthy mind, body, and spirit by integrating the practice of movement, music and mindfulness into your daily life. @renasmethod website: https://www.renasmethod.com/

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If you need motivation to meditate, this is for you. Find out the latest research on how meditation is for so much more than calming anxiety. It’s a performance tool to enhance you mentally, psychologically and physically. In part 1 or 2, learn how you can use meditation to help you stop overeating so that you can finally reach your weight loss goal. 

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How a mindfulness practice can help you stop overeating and develop mental mastery
• The physical impacts mediation has on your body
• Why women who meditate have more body acceptance

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Links: 

1. Meditation and telomeres by Dr. Joe Dispenza on Impact Theory: https://youtu.be/RL3ZcEx8cHs
2. Job-related stress: https://mindworks.org/blog/meditation-on-the-job/
3. University of North Carolina: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651211/
4. Rena Chadwick Rena helps you maintain a healthy mind, body, and spirit by integrating the practice of movement, music and mindfulness into your daily life. @renasmethod website: https://www.renasmethod.com/

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How can you avoid eating yourself through this pandemic? Now that we’re all in quarantine, there’s a host of new challenges around managing our mental health, working from home and getting enough exercise. COVID-19 doesn’t have to be “the COVID-19” like the “freshman 15.” Learn how to re-frame what’s happening to support, rather than hinder your weight loss goals. 

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Where you should focus your attention and energy so that you don’t get sucked into a pit of despair
• How to work from home without overeating
• The neuroscience behind movement that will make you rethink your next workout (and get you to do it)

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Links: 

1. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 
2. Mad Fit Workouts on Youtube 
3. Stanford psychologist, Kelly McGonigal

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This is for you if you’re starting to feel wobbly on your weight loss journey. If the scale didn’t go down today and it’s affecting your state of mind. We all need a pep talk every now and then. 

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Why even when you’re down, you’re still doing it right
• How to coach yourself through the tough times
• Why it’s worth the struggle

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How do you square the body acceptance/body positivity movement with your weight loss goals?

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Where body positivity came from
• How self-love and body-love can be mutually exclusive
• What we can learn and discard from diet culture

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This is the most common mind trap we fall into when it comes to weight loss. Either we’re all in or all out and there’s very little room for in between. Either we’re eating exactly on plan and working out or we go off our plan even a little, feel guilty and then eventually quit completely. 

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Why black & white thinking is derailing your weight loss
• The 3 thought errors of black & white thinking: Perfectionism, Catastrophizing. Past-focused or future focused
• How to get out this thought pattern for good

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If you are currently on a weight loss journey there are four phases to losing weight permanently that you should know about. Whether you can identify it or not, you’re in one of them right now. 

In the episode you'll learn:

• How to identify which phase you’re in 
• How knowing the 4 phases of weight loss will lead to sustainable weight loss 
• How to get out of diet mentality and into lifestyle mentality (and still lose weight)
• End the vicious dieting shame cycle permanently

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In this episode you'll learn: 

• Why every result you currently have is based on your thoughts
• How to tell yourself a new story
• How to use the Mindful Inquiry Model to get out of confusion and overwhelm
• How to use the Mindful Inquiry Model to get the result you want 

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In this episode you'll learn: 

• Why you overeat when everything in your life is going great
• How natural and concentrated pleasures help and hinder your weight loss 
• How natural pleasures can reduce your cravings and overeating

For the full transcript visit: mindfulshape.com
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