Rita Black: Ho, ho, ho. Happy holidays to you and our thin thinking family. The holidays promise so much connection, comfort, warm and snugly memories. But sometimes the holidays can go south. Maybe we feel lonely because we’re not with anyone, or maybe because there are just so many people around and emotions are close to the surface. Or our healthy resolve is met with mountains of unexpected food temptations. Let’s face it, the holidays and binges for some of us can go together like Rudolph and Santa Slay. But this holiday, I am going to give you some top of mind tips to prevent holiday binges. And then we’re gonna settle in for a nice holiday hypnosis session. Sound good? WeLL get in your cozy recliner and come on in.

Rita Black: Did you know that our struggle with wave doesn’t start with the food on your plate or get fixed in the gym? 80% of our weight struggle is mental. That’s right. The key to unlocking long-term weight release and management begins in your mind. Hi there, I’m Rita Black. I’m a clinical hypnotherapist weight loss expert, bestselling author, and the creator of the Shift Weight Mastery Process. And not only have I helped thousands of people over the past 20 years achieve long-term weight mastery, I am also a former weight struggler, carb addict and binge eater. And after two decades of failed diets and fad weight loss programs, I lost 40 pounds with the help of hypnosis. Not only did I release all that weight, I have kept it off for 25 years. Enter the Thin Thinking Podcast where you too will learn how to remove the mental roadblocks that keep you struggling. I’ll give you the thin thinking tools, skills, and insights to help you develop the mindset you need, not only to achieve your ideal weight, but to stay there long term and live your best life. Sound good? Let’s get started.

Rita Black: Hello. Hello. Hello and welcome friends. It’s the countdown to the holidays, and we are dropping this episode just a few days early so you can be prepared. And my hope is to prevent some holiday binge or emotional eating. Speaking of prevention, I am recording this a bit earlier because on December 23rd, I believe maybe the day after this drops, I will be having surgery to remove my ovaries and fallopian tubes. Is that TMI? I didn’t not want to mention it because as you know, I kind of give you the 411 on me and sometimes TMI. But yes, this holiday I am going under the knife and you know, it’s nothing, nothing big.

Rita Black: I mean, it’s big. It’s surgery, but it’s preventative. There is nothing wrong with me. I’m healthy as a horse. But some of you know this, but many of you don’t. My amazing mother and her mother both passed due to ovarian cancer. So I should have done this procedure a long time ago. And in fact, I was scheduled years ago in the month of March of 2020. But you all know what happened then, right? Just a little thing called the International Global Pandemic. And then we were in lockdown and my life got really busy. I was getting my kids launched. I was starting really to rub up my online process. I started my podcast. My husband retired, and then my HMO Kaiser Permanente, which there, you know, is a good side and a bad side, everything. But my HMO kept moving my surgery.

Rita Black: So frustrating because with, you know, some health plans, they will say, oh, you need surgery, let’s schedule that six months in advance. And you know, here’s your date, not with mine. No. They’re like, well, we can get you in next week. How’s that? And, you know, to a woman with a busy schedule and a lot going on, I can’t rule like that. I was like, I have clients and students and people, and frankly, I am sorry, but I have to mentally prepare. This is surgery. Okay? I sound like a diva, but you know, don’t rush me. So finally, I say to them, to the scheduler, to the poor scheduler, I should say, and her name’s Veronica. I said, Veronica, please, please. She’s like, I know, I’m so sorry. I can’t, you know, give you something ahead of time. And I was like, yes, you can.

Rita Black: I bet there’s one day that you can find where I can nail that in. Nobody else wants that day, or, you know, just, there’s gotta be something. Let’s create some magic. We manifest it. I was like, come on Veronica, we can manifest this. And she was like, oh, yes, I have the date December 23rd. And at first I thought, you have got to be kidding me. It’s the holidays, it’s the day before New Year’s, not New Year’s Eve, before Christmas Eve. But then I thought, you know, that’s kind of a great time. I won’t be teaching or serving my community. And you know, at least the first three or four days after that, my kids are gonna be home and can dote on me totally. And I can just sit and recover and well, okay, let’s do it. Deal.

Rita Black: So I will be saying goodbye to my ovaries and I will be saying hello to prevention, peace of mind that I’m doing what I can to, along with living a very healthy lifestyle, to live to my goal of a hundred plus years. So I can dance at my son’s 60th birthday party since I had him when I was 40. So, just as I will be practicing prevention with my surgery this holiday, I wanna give you some solid steps, 10 solid tips to prevent a holiday binge. Because binges, any time of year are a bummer. But a binge during the holiday is even a bigger one because it can disconnect you from yourself in the magic of the holidays, which as we know isn’t found in food, but in the power of being present in your body and senses in the moment. So here are my top 10 prevention, binge prevention tips before I take you through a nice holiday hypnosis session to just slide us into a powerful, healthy holiday.

Rita Black: Now, you’ve probably heard me mention all of these. I don’t think any of them are new, but this is hopefully a quick top of mind refresher that can cut through all the other holiday noise that all the supermarkets and the magazines and everybody who wants you to feast on those feast de feasts holiday things are visions of sugar plums. I wanna cut through all that to the best way to manage binging. And the best way is prevention. My some of you know, I had a health teacher, health ed teacher in high school. His name was Mr. Stacy. Sorry, Mr. Stacy. And when he talked to us about birth control, he was like, kids, hope is not a method. Hope is not a method. And and that applies to the area of weight management as well. Hope is not a method the hope and fears of all the years.

Rita Black: Yes, we can sing that, but I hope I don’t binge is not going to do it for you. Sorry, you’ve probably hoped you haven’t, won’t binge before. And guess what? Yeah, binged. So let’s prevent and not hope, and let’s just take some powerful action steps to prevent emotional or binge eating over the holidays.

Rita Black: Alright, so tip number one, take time each morning to create how you wanna feel that night going to bed. Now this is a couple. This, this does a couple of things, and if you haven’t heard me talk about this, this is sort of like a little before you wake up morning or get out of bed, morning meditation. Even more important during the holidays when we’re rushed around and hopping outta bed and, you know, shopping and responding and reacting to a lot of things, this is maybe one of the most mindful things you’ll do in the morning. Take a breath and just really imagine having a healthy day and going to bed, feeling light and connected to yourself. This helps your brain focus on that. And if you feel the feeling, it really engages your reticular activation system, which is gonna help you sort through all the other nonsense thrown your way and say, Nope, nope, no thank you. I wanna go to bed feeling a light and connected to myself. So tip number one, just take a little time to feel the feeling of how you want to go to bed tonight, every single day of the holiday season.

Rita Black: Two, think through your vulnerable moments. Think through your vulnerable moments. So this can be done in the same sort of meditation. After you think through how you wanna feel, think through your day, think through where you’re gonna be vulnerable. If you’re going to a party that day, maybe you wanna think through people offering you drinks or you know, holiday peppermint cheesecake or whatever’s gonna be thrown at you. Or maybe if you’re like me, some of my vulnerable times are cleaning up after me cooking for everybody or, and there’s, you know, maybe something left out on the counter or oh, I’ll just have an extra bite of that pie, right? The, that could be a vulnerable time. Think that through. What are you going to do? How are you gonna behave? And practice it in your mind, what you want, the outcome you want, so that you’re preparing your mind ahead of time for the outcome. You will do so much better, and you will show up for yourself so much more if you’ve thought it through ahead of time. So think through your vulnerable moments and you know, if you’re like, I’m not sure what my vulnerable moments are, think about last holiday and where you succumbeded or think about just in general where you end up succumbing. Is it peer pressure? Is it moments alone? Is it you forget to eat all day and then you come home and you overeat because you allowed yourself to get too hungry? Think about those things and just taking that little extra time to show up for yourself, it’s so wonderful.

Rita Black: Okay, three, move your body and stay connected. So I know a lot of you live in really cold climates and maybe going out for a jog or a bike ride at this time of year is not going to be feasible, but we can dance, right? We can turn on Spotify or Alexa or any of your various devices or even what we like to do at my house. We do have a record player and we put on the Partridge Family Holiday album. Yes, I still have it. And you cannot have it. David Cassidy singing the holiday songs Rocking Around the Christmas tree. Yes, I still have that. So maybe it’s on Spotify, but I don’t know. Anyway, I digress. So you can dance, you can sing, you can run around at your house. I have a lot of my clients will do walking videos and things like that inside your home. But I like to dance to the Nutcracker Suite if I’m not dancing to the Partridge Family. So pretend you’re a ballerina and get out there in the middle of your living room and dance, the dance of the sugar plum ferry.

Rita Black: Alright, now, number four, take brain breaks. Because our brains are overstimulated and during the holidays it’s gonna be overstimulated on steroids. And that’s when we overeat overdrink because we are not stopping and taking care of ourselves and giving ourselves brain breaks. So what do you mean by this, Rita? Well, every couple of hours do a reset. You know, go sit on a chair and close your eyes go outside and walk around. Go you know, lay on your bed. That’s my favorite. And shut your eyes and just, you’ll fill your central nervous system buzzing and just allow yourself to decompress and it will give you more wherewithal. I, I mean, even take a nap. You know, I had, I have an Alexa, and sometimes she really bothers me. I mean, she’s awesome, sometimes I can say, Alexa, play the news. Alexa play, you know, my favorite tunes while I’m cooking or a podcast or something. And she’ll do it. But every once in a while she gets a little sassy, you know, and I’ll say, Alexa, shut down. And she won’t. Alexa shut down. And she won’t, she’ll keep playing the music, playing the news. I’m like, Alexa, shut down. She doesn’t. So I have to unplug her. So unplug yourself. Just like Alexa, you know, sometimes we won’t shut down. We just, you know, refuse to stop just like a toddler, you know, at night I’m not gonna go to bed. We’ll refuse to do it, and then we’ll pay the price. We’ll overeat, we’ll be overwhelmed and will get depleted and not feel good. So please take care of yourself and take brain breaks. And because you need them you’re, you know, if your computer’s acting up, what do you do? You turn it off, you turn it back on and voila, it seems to work.

Rita Black: Alright, five, practice stimulus control. Those of you who have worked for me know what this skill is, but just keep the crap off your counters and please you know, out of your house if you can. But put it in your cupboards. Put it and don’t open it. I mean, if it’s open, if your family opens it fine, have them put it somewhere where you’re just not gonna have to have a relationship with it. An open packaged is a lot louder in your brain than a closed and sealed one. And a closed and sealed one in the bottom of your trash bin outside is even more quiet. So really just pay attention. You know, a large percentage of weight management is stimulus control. I hate to say it. And at the holidays, people do a pretty bad job of stimulus control. They don’t take care of themselves that way. It makes me so sad and mad. I’m like, you could have prevented this just by asserting yourself, by creating boundaries. You know, ask people, the people will do what you ask them to. If you ask them in a way where you are empowering the situation. You know, you don’t have to say, well keep this crap away because you know, I’m gonna eat it. Just say, you know what? This the peppermint bark sitting on on the sink. It’s a stimulus issue for me. I just see it. I get a little overwhelmed. Can I just remove it so I don’t have to see it? Please, okay. You know, and just ask powerfully and, and, and try to create a win-win. Say, where can I put it that it’s gonna work for you other than on the counter? I want to, you know, make sure you can reach it, but I just don’t want it. Or can you put it please somewhere where it’s really easily accessible for you? I don’t want you to have to worry about it, but I just don’t wanna have to see it.

Rita Black: Okay? here’s one that you may or may not know, but no naked carbs. Do you know what a naked carb is? I know a lot of you do, but a naked carb is a, especially a refined carb eaten on an empty stomach or without any other, like protein or fat with it because naked carbs hit your bloodstream, spike your blood sugar, drop it, and you usually feel hungrier than before you ate the carb. It also can turn on your carb zombie. If it’s a trigger food, like eating candy on an empty stomach, it’s gonna then open up, it’s gonna be like a gateway drug to eating more. So just if you can do one behavior, avoid eating carbs on an empty stomach or by themselves wrap it up in a little close. Like if you’re gonna, even if you’re going to eat an apple, an apple can make you hungry sometimes. So wrap your apple with a little peanut butter or a, a little slice of cheese and it will help stabilize you. So no naked carbs. Eat your candy after dinner. Eat desserts with a meal or with a protein. Or make sure, sometimes you can have a nice protein based dessert. Like I like to make a apple in the microwave for a couple of minutes. Bake it really fast, put cinnamon on it, and then put a big gallop of Greek yogurt on top of it. So delicious dessert. And it’s got protein and fruit and it can be like a snack or a meal in and of itself.

Rita Black: Keep drinking alcohol to a minimum. I, we did a whole podcast with Colleen a couple of episodes ago. She gets into the whole, you know, thing about like managing social drinking, but you know, if you’re, you know this, if you drink a lot, typically you’re going to eat a lot more. So set a minimum, you know, create that boundary in your brain and you know, have a nice alternative drink. Instead. I really like a little diet to with bitters in it and lime. And so it, it looks like an a cocktail. It tastes like a cocktail, but it’s not a cocktail. It, you know, and it’s very satisfying.

Rita Black: Number eight, breathe many times during the course of your day. And what I mean by that is take a deep breath and pause. Take a breath. We call it the shift breath. Pause and be mindful. It’s just a mindfulness breath brings you into the present moment. And then ask yourself, what do I need right now? Do I need a break? Do I need to get away from my friends and family and go hide in a room and, and decompress myself? Do I need to eat something? Just keep tuning into yourself and do this also before you eat. Sit down to a meal. You know, we often dive into our food before, you know, without much mindfulness. And it’s all gone before we even get present to it. So sit down, take a breath, be present, and then eat. You know, another great time to take a deep breath is when you open the fridge just to see what’s in there. And you’re about to reach for something and you aren’t hungry. And you take a breath and it’s like, am I hungry? No, I’m not. Okay. I can shut the refrigerator. So another great time to take a deep breath.

Rita Black: Nine, have a mantra. I love mantras ’cause they’re kind of like self-hypnosis. You can just say them to yourself all the time. I am healthy through the holidays. That’s one of my favorite. I’m healthy through the holidays. It helps me remind me myself, who I am. And you know, it’s a great reminder. I’m healthy through the holidays. You, you can pick one for yourself, but I’m going to stick with that one. No, starting over January 1st, okay, this is like a no-brainer, but I have to say it because you might feel the pull of this because it’s a habit. It is a habit for your brain to say, if you get off track, we’ll start over January 1st. I want you to understand it’s a habit in your subconscious mind, and it needs to be broken. So do not, I repeat, do not allow that part of your brain to win, because then you’re gonna reinforce that habit and you’re just gonna have to break it next year. So break it this year. Be mindful. Say, no, I’m not starting, I’m starting today. I’m, I am sticking with, you know, just start the next meal. Make it a healthy one. You go off, you eat a bunch of fudge. Okay, great. Forgive yourself, love yourself. And say, okay, next meal, back to being healthy. And, you know, otherwise it’s just gonna keep reinforcing itself. Now what if you binge? Well, forgive yourself. Forgive yourself while you’re binging. I forgive myself. I’m overeating right now and I am forgiving myself. And then talk to the part of you that is binging. You know, there’s a part of you that’s kind of like tuned out and then there’s a part of you that’s binging. And if you can be present in a, a binge, if you can kind of say, okay, I’m binging without beating yourself up. ’cause Usually a couple of things are happening in the binge part of you is binging, and then part of you is either checking out or is beating yourself up. So if you start a conversation with the part of you that’s binging often that part of you will slow down and kind of stop it. Not all the time, but it’s a really good tactic.

Rita Black: So here’s what it might sound like. It’s like you’re eating, let’s say you’re eating through some Almond Rocha and say, Hey, happy holidays. Part of me that’s binging. I noticed that you are having to eat a bunch of almond Rocha. And you know, you don’t have to be mean about it. Just like I noticed you’re having to eat a bunch of almond Rocha. I’m curious, like what’s going on? And you know, that part of you may or may not say like, I’m feeling really stressed, or these looked really good, or I just needed a break. And it’s like, oh, okay, great. I’m curious though, how many more almond rochas do we need to eat before we feel like they’ve done their job? And when you ask your binging part of yourself that question, often it will have an answer like four, two zero, the rest of them. But, you know, by engaging that part of you, it’s kind of like talking to a tam trimming child. If you are just telling that child to shut up or ignoring them all together, they’re just gonna keep tantruming until, you know, they want you to pay attention to them. And if you say, Hey, what’s going on? What’s, what are you feeling?

Rita Black: What’s what, what are we doing here? You know, and they feel heard and they feel seen, and they can say to you, I’m, I’m mad, I’m sad, whatever. They will begin to calm down. So try it out and let me know how that works. Okay, great. Now, I hope that little quick trip down the binge prevention lane helped you.

Rita Black: Now we’re gonna head into a nice relaxing holiday hypnosis. So let me prepare you a little bit. If you’ve never listened to a hypnosis session before, here are some things. If you haven’t been through a hypnosis session before, this will be a light hypnosis session. You won’t be going that deep. But please do not drive during a hypnosis session. I, I think that’s probably pretty obvious or operate any heavy machinery. I know I always feel strange like that you’re gonna be out in the farm plowing the fields with your tractor while doing hypnosis, but you know what I mean? Like, no you know, heavy machinery, gardening equipment saws or, or, you know, even blenders, please just find yourself a quiet place please. And, and lay down or sit, sit down or sit up if you are, if you tend to fall asleep or go deep during hypnosis sessions, maybe you wanna sit up a little bit, but just somewhere you will not be disturbed for the next 15 minutes or so. Like I said, it’s a, it’s a light hypnosis. It’s not gonna go too deep. But if you do go deep and lose the sound of my voice you know, in the beginning or during the session, just know that your subconscious mind is getting the value. So don’t get stressed out about it. That’s, that’s the last thing I want you to do, and really listen to me with your 100% open and loving. And successor is like, yes, I want a warm and healthy holiday season. And just stay open-minded. Your conscious mind may wander during the session and be thinking about like, did I, did I get that presence for Aunt Melody? You know, and that kind of stuff. And if you do, find yourself doing it, which you probably will just guide yourself back to the sound of my voice. Okay?

Rita Black: So just begin by taking a nice deep breath in. And as you exhale, close your eyes and just begin by allowing each and every breath to carry you deeper and deeper relaxed. Allowing all the sounds within the room and outside the room to focus you more fully and completely upon my voice, allowing all my words, building one upon the other to go with you as you drift and dream. And let’s begin now by you allowing your awareness to just settle gradually on your breath, traveling in and traveling out. You don’t need to try to breathe. Your breath just breathes itself naturally for you. And take another deep breath in now into your body and send a wave of relaxation from the top of your head all the way down to your feet and out of each and every toe. And again, take a deep, deep breath into your body as you just begin to relax more and more, as relaxation flows up and down and in and out and all around you. And as you relax even deeper, now you can just choose to relax more and more deeper and deeper now into a very peaceful, very relaxed,

Rita Black: Very comfortable position. You may even choose to become as comfortable as you want. And as I count now from 10 down to one, just imagine yourself on a staircase of relaxation. And with each number down, you descend even more deeply into relaxation twice as deep as the number before. So starting with that top step 10, taking that first step down, nine, deeper and deeper, relaxing and letting go of all the stress of the season. Eight, even deeper, knowing you have everything within you to have a happy and healthy holiday. Seven, even deeper opening your mind to connecting with yourself and your self care. Six, even deeper now, relaxing even further down to five. And now for deeper and deeper drifting and dreaming. Three, deeper and deeper, two way down now, and one. And at the next step, the bottom of the step, stepping off to the bottom, now down to zero, you see in front of you. Now at the bottom of the stairs, a door to your subconscious mind, go ahead and put your hand on the handle of the door and open the door. And as you push, you find the door opens easily for you.

Rita Black: And as you open that door, you step into a really beautiful place of peace and tranquility of your own imagining. And it may take you a little time to get a sense of this place, but wherever it is, it’s a place out in nature that means relaxation to you. So maybe it’s a relaxing beach scenario, or a mountain meadow, or a wonderful forest, peaceful and serene.

Rita Black: And as you come into the center of this place, we’d like to call it your subconscious mind, your place of your imagination, where you can create change at a very rapid pace. Just allow yourself to be relaxed in this wonderful setting with nature all around you. And imagine yourself walking around with lightness and ease in your own natural light and healthy body. And as you take a moment, just notice that at the edge of this place of nature is a mirror, just a full length mirror. And as you take a moment to notice that in here, in this wonderful, tranquil setting of your own choosing, you can see a mirror, just a full length mirror where you can imagine yourself standing in the mirror and you can see yourself at the end of the holiday season, in the new year, looking happy, healthy, lighter, having released weight and stuck with your weight release goals. So seeing yourself at the end of the season, in the new year, with confidence in your eyes, a look of feeling really happy and connected to yourself because you made healthy choices over the holidays, you made light choices over the holidays. So as you get a sense of that, you at the end of the holiday season that you, that feels proud of their choices, confident, just take a nice deep breath and bring this image inside you as an internal blueprint.

Rita Black: Good. And now take another deep breath and bring yourself in your imagination inside your body. So just for a moment, I’m gonna ask you to see yourself from the inside out, from the top of your head, all the way down to the tips of your toes, as if you are in the inside of yourself. On the inside, you’re imagining you’re in your body. And you can see and notice that there’s some areas of your body, even your memories, all that you have ever experienced are lit up with tiny lights, maybe like holiday tree lights, twinkling with different colors. And you can probably see that some lights are burned out, they no longer work. And of course you know that some light needs to be replaced. So let the lights begin in your head with the light that represents your thoughts. So just in your mind, let’s look at the lights. And the first light you look at represents your thoughts. And notice what color this light is good. And now, deeper inside your brain is a light that represents your self-talk and thoughts and even memories about yourself. What color is that one? And your throat has a light that is related to the way that you communicate with yourself and other people. So notice that color

Rita Black: And your heart has a light related to your feelings and emotions. What is the color of that light? There are lights all over your body, some bright, some dim, some heavy with darkness. And maybe it’s time now for you really to take notice of these lights, to pay attention to yourself, to your health and wellbeing this holiday season, staying connected to the light within you. Because these lights are the signals in those areas of your body or mind, that light the way for you to enjoy staying connected and making healthy light decisions for food and exercise this holiday season.

Rita Black: But maybe you haven’t realized yet that some lights may need your attention. So why don’t you test the lights one by one while you pay attention to the color of each light and what each color means to you. And especially notice whether the lights are bright or dim or even the place inside you or the light has gone out. And if you’re ready in whatever way that you see with your inner eyes, begin now to make sure that all the light inside you is on. Taking one light at a time is good enough for you to notice any areas of your body or your mind, or even your memories that have dimmer lights than others, or lights that are completely out. So just take this moment to notice. Pay attention to yourself. And imagine you are traveling inside of your own body towards any of the lights that need to be replaced. As you look around, you might notice a light out somewhere inside that is preventing you from choosing to feel good about yourself. So go ahead and adjust that light now. Allow that light to be bright. Filling up the dark places with light is the self-loving choice.

Rita Black: And now how about the light that represents your self-advocacy? Asking for what you need, creating boundaries, allowing yourself to say no thank you. When you really don’t want something, or to ask for what you need in support and help, go ahead and adjust that light and brighten it now. And while you take a good look around, don’t even think about it. It’s not important to remember that you have resources, you have everything that you need to make a change into lightness of movement and ease. Go ahead and find that light for movement and exercise and turn that up bright. Connecting to yourself with moving your body every day lovingly through the holiday season. And now your task is to listen carefully to what is revealed to you about strengthening your intention to be healthy each and every day of this holiday season. So go ahead and find that light that represents healthy food choices, and saying no to the foods that trigger you or make you feel off center. Go ahead and lighten that light up now. And while you’re at it, you’re lightening up your body for your long and healthy life. After all, this is your life

Rita Black: Good. And as you scan your body, again, take another look at the light inside you, and if there are any other lights that need to be replaced. And now ask your subconscious mind, is it safe for you to turn on all the light you need to walk around in the new year in your own natural light and healthy body? And then ask your subconscious mind to start with just one light at a time. Just like one pound at a time, as good enough to slowly but surely return to filling up with the lightness of self care as you place yourself into the next year, a future where the light is on you and in you to see yourself walking around in your own natural and healthy body, naturally light moving with lightness and ease.

Rita Black: And when you’re ready, allow yourself to feel what it’s light to be. Moving with freedom to lightness and ease. What clothes are you wearing now that you gave yourself the gift that keeps on giving? All the light you need to feel good about yourself is a good thing. After all, this is your life and you can walk lightly through it. One light at a time is good enough. Just like some part of you already knows this image is that new blueprint light enough to be your reality. And because most people know that to see something they want to create out in your everyday life is to visualize yourself walking around in your own natural, ideal weight healthy body. Now moving with lightness and ease. Notice how being light fills to your body. And every time you turn on the light, anytime anywhere lights up your intention to take in only that amount.

Rita Black: That feels light. That’s right. Each and every time you turn on a light, anytime, anywhere, a clear image of yourself already walking around in your own natural, healthy, ideal weight body appears in your mind almost as if you couldn’t even help it at all. And now, as I count forward from one to five, just allow yourself to come back 20% each way. One feeling good, ready to step through your holidays with lightness. Two, staying connected to yourself on a deep, deep level. Your true intention and desire to end this year, feeling healthy and well and light. Three, knowing you have everything you need and within you here today to see this through four, ready and willing to take good care of yourself each and every day through this holiday season and into the new year in Five Eyes Open, coming back, ready to get on with your day. Or if this is a time of sleep, heading off into a peaceful slumber. Welcome back.

Rita Black: I hope you enjoyed that session, and come back and I, you know, take care of yourself, drink some water, and really take care of yourself today and have a healthy holiday. Just take care of yourself every day of the holiday. Just show up for yourself first. And everything else, I swear, will fall into place. I’m not saying to be selfish, I’m just being saying to show up for you and stay connected so that you can be present and people will enjoy being with you, and you’ll be more of service to people because you’re feeling aligned with yourself. So take care. Have a safe, warm, connected holiday. I wish you, your family, your friends, your community, a harmonious, lovely great weather, , no bad weather reports you know, and and really joyful holiday season.

Rita Black: And I promise I will be back next week with some New Year’s goodness. But in the meantime, have an amazing week. And remember that the key and probably the only key to unlocking the door of the weight struggle is inside you. So keep listening and find it happy. Happy holidays by friends. I’ll see you next week.

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