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Did you know that eating disorder suffers who meditate everyday are able to conquer their urges to binge, purge or stave themselves 10 times faster and easier  than the people who don’t?

Did you know that meditators have dramatically better mental health? They have less anxiety, anger, depression, and fear, and they have better human relationships, more friends, and feel much more fulfilled in their lives?

The remarkable thing is that meditators are also healthier and their recoveries from eating disorders       
are stable and often permanent.                                                                                                                    

According to our research, Specialised Meditation (or Mindfulness Training) gives people certain benefits:

-       Significantly increase general happiness.

-       Marginally improve confidence.

-       Lowers the urges to binge, purge and starve yourself.

-       Sharper minds so people start thinking more logically about their behaviour.

-       Increase amount of pleasure chemicals in the brain and make people feel REALLY GOOD all the TIME.

-       Change people’s beliefs by changing their feelings and emotions.
       

Hello! Dr Irina Webster MD here and I am a creator of Specialized Meditation (Mindfulness Training) for eating disorders. I meditate regularly myself and to be honest, I can’t imagine my life without doing it.

 Meditation is a big part of my life and this is the tool that helps me to control my mind, heal my body and stay connected to my intuitive voice.

 I started meditating many years ago due to necessity. I was stressed working in the hospital and antidepressants (that was prescribed to me by my colleagues) gave me very bad side effects. I stopped the drugs all together and decided to find other methods to cope with my problems.

Being an ex-eating disorder sufferer myself, I know first-hand, that the eating disorder urges come back every time you get stressed, anxious or depressed. Intuitively I felt that drugs do not help to control binging – or starving urges because this is an emotional problem and the emotional mind is to blame.

So, I started meditation just to try. It wasn’t easy in the beginning and it took me a few months of practice until I started experiencing the special body sensations during meditation which are healing for the body and brain.

Since then I experimented with meditation a lot, trying to develop a better way to meditate that would control the eating disorder urges for good.

Specialised Meditation for eating disorders was born as a combination of Mindfulness Training with guided meditation to control the urges to binge, purge or starve oneself.

Now, for the last four years many thousands people from all over the world used Specialised Meditation to significantly improve their lives instead of being controlled by an eating disorder.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
What is Mindfulness Training?

Mindfulness Training means bringing your complete attention to the present moment without thinking of anything else (food, body image, past experiences or other fantasies).  Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control over our mind, our emotions and feelings. Mindfulness is to be aware of your mind and body.

It is not just the absence of thoughts; it is having a connection with all your feelings and emotions good or bad and accepting them.  It is recognising who you really are every single moment.

Mindfulness is active meditation. It is active because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your thoughts.

Everyone has a threshold to what they can handle being thrown at them from the world. When that threshold is exceeded, they attempt to deal with being pushed over the edge with a variety of coping mechanisms. These include anxiety, anger, depression, feeling overwhelmed, sadness, substance and food abuse, and many others: their mind becomes dysfunctional in some way.

All these dysfunctional feelings are their attempt to cope with being pushed over their personal threshold. Eating disorder sufferers have a low threshold to start with, as they are normally perfectionists and can not handle criticism. They can't simply shrug it off and forget about it; they tend to internally agonise over any negative comments until they become an obsession.  

If a person is traumatized during childhood and many ED sufferers are, their threshold ends up lower than if they where never traumatised. Susceptible people are more often bothered by things in their environment that might not bother the non-perfectionist. This means they exhibit and suffer from any negative comments or behaviour towards them more often than their peers.

But even a person with a higher threshold can be pushed over their threshold from time to time, depending on what's going on for them at the time. Although people with a higher threshold tend not to become totally absorbed or obsessed with negative comments, like eating disorder sufferers do.

So you understand what I mean about an obsession, let me tell you a little story that is absolutely true and did happed to a young girl called Jenny.

Jenny's Story

You see Jenny was a young swimmer and she was a budding champion holding many swimming titles for her age and even a couple from above her age: she was good. Then one day while training in the gym to strengthen her muscles she tripped over a weight and broke her ankle badly requiring an operation to fix it.

Jenny was devastated because she had a State title swim meet in a months time and she had to pullout. It took her over 3 months to get back to swimming. Of course Jenny over that time could do no training or exercise and put on quite a few pounds (kilos).

When she returned to start swimming her coach said on seeing her, that she was a bit overweight and would have to do something about it. To the coach this was just an observation but to Jenny it was a huge deal, as it came from a person in authority who she respected.

Jenny started going on a diet as the words her coach had said kept going around and around in her                Jenny
young mind and eventually she lost her weight and was swimming fast again. This may seem a good place to end the story and I wish it was; but unfortunately Jenny had programmed her subconscious mind and now believed that eating meant getting fat and not being able to swim fast: so she stopped eating.

Jenny then developed a full blown case of anorexia that she could not stop and soon she was too weak to swim and had to give it up. So a promising career and a possible Olympic champion was lost to anorexia all through the careless words of her coach.

Jenny battled her anorexia for over 10 years, in and out of hospital clinics and years of therapy which simply did not work. It was only when Jenny started doing mindfulness training meditation and attacked the anorexia where it lived, in the subconscious mind that she was finally able to beat the anorexia.

What Actually Happened to Jenny.

You see what happened to Jenny was she built a set of faulty self beliefs (obsession) based on what her coach said and food. She built these using child logic e.g. food = getting fat = swimming slower = not feeling good, the remedy: stop eating.

You see self belief is very powerful and can change who you are by programming our brain, and like Jenny it can be as simple as being told she had to lose weight.

Mindfulness Training clears the mind from former conditioning.

Jenny programmed herself into her anorexia by her feelings and emotions. She had a choice of thinking positive or negative but because she was a perfectionist she perceived things only one way, negative: this then ultimately led to her anorexia.

The simple answer is it allows us to reach a state of relaxation where we can access the subconscious mind and hence allows us to change the way it functions. You see the subconscious mind is really in control of everything you know, do and say, in fact it is the real you.

All your hopes and fears live in the subconscious mind, it is home to all your feelings and emotions whether good or bad and the scary thing is you have no logical control over the subconscious mind. To get a bit technical the medical name for it is the Limbic system.

Who is the real you?

You are in fact a combination of two parts: a conscious part (logical and decision making) and a subconscious part (feelings, emotions and senses).

Your conscious part decides what you are going to wear tonight, If you want a soft drink or a fruit juice, decides how to talk to your boss or teacher, make judgements, you basic everyday things.

Your subconscious part makes you feel a certain way, creates certain emotions -makes you happy or unhappy, sad or angry, loveable or unlovable, upset or excited, confident or shy. plus in runs all your automatic functions. 

But and here is a big but: when it comes to the final result: the subconscious will always win out over the logical you. This happens because the subconscious is the much bigger part of the brain.

Conscious part of the brain – takes 5%-10% of all brain capacity

Subconscious part of the brain – takes 90%- 95% of all brain capacity

Eating disorders live in the subconscious part of your mind, because eating disorders are all about feelings, emotions and senses. That’s why it doesn’t matter how hard you logically try to stop your binging, purging or starving behaviours – you can’t.

This happens because you try to work through the conscious (logical) mind only, so you can tell yourself everyday for the next 10 years you are going to stop, but you never will.

To really stop eating disorder behaviours you should work on the subconscious level of your brain where the feelings come from.  Your subconscious mind also contains all our self-beliefs which play huge role in eating disorder behaviours. 

Where do self beliefs come from?

We have thousands of these sub-conscious self-beliefs that govern all areas of our lives but where do self-beliefs come

The Key to the Brain

 from?

They are mostly developed in us at a very young age. The key is they are then cemented in the subconscious mind and make up our personality. It’s interesting to note that, unlike adults, children spend the majority of their waking time in the alpha state (more on this later).

Most of our adult behaviours are based on “programming” we picked up before the age of 5 or 6. Studies have shown that small children receive over 400 negative messages a day,                                         
(“don’t be naughty”,   “you’re too noisy”, “stop being so messy”) compared with only about 20 positive ones. Is it surprising  
that low self-esteem or negative self-image is so common?

 But here is the crunch: When it comes to getting results, your self-belief (programming) will always win out over your conscious desire: period!
 
This means that no matter how much you consciously think that you want to give up smoking (for example), no matter how desperate you feel about it, or how certain you are that it’s “the right thing for you”, if you have an underlying self-belief (program) that is stopping you from giving up, then it won’t happen.
Jenny had an underlying self belief that if she ate she would not be able to swim fast, so she did not eat.

What is the secret of Mindfulness Training?

For a person to be able to change her/his feelings, emotions, self-beliefs and senses the person must be in an Alpha state (or even in Theta state). Alpha state is the state of brain activity where you can access the subconscious mind.
 
Here is a brief description of the different brain waves.
 
 Beta (15 – 40 cycles per second) = Conscious (thinking, rationalizing)

 Alpha (9 – 14 cycles per second) = Sub-conscious (relaxation, super learning, relaxed focus, light trance, increased serontonin production and other pleasure brain chemicals).

Associated with: pre-sleep, pre-waking drowsiness, meditation, access to subconscious mind.

Theta (5 – 8 cycles per second) = deep Sub-conscious (deep meditation, direct access to the subconscious mind, dreaming sleep, increased production of pleasure brain chemicals, increased learning and memory, increased creativity.)

Associated with: integrative, emotional experiences, potential change in behaviour, increased retention of learned material. Also hypnagogic imagery, trance, deep meditation, access to unconscious mind.

Delta (1.5 – 4 cycles per second) = very deep Sub-conscious (coma, dreamless sleep,
Human growth hormone released)

Associated with:  Deep, trance-like, non-physical state, loss of body awareness, access to unconscious and "collective unconscious" mind.

There is the right and wrong kind of meditation.

The right way to meditate is to be in an Alpha or Theta (or even deeper) state during meditation, but it is not all. After meditation your Alpha state should be kept as long as possible. This is a mindfulness state.

If a person is mindful, negative thoughts, obsessions or urges can’t co-exist   with the state of mindfulness. Mindfulness is when you engaged in activities but the mind is set in the meditative state all the time.

Only in this mindful state your mind can achieve its full potential.

Wrong way to meditate is just to “try” to do something that is generally called meditation (without going to the Alpha and Theta levels). Then after this so called “meditation” continue to be in a Beta state (state of normal thinking, stress, anxiety).

People who have said they tried meditation and it didn’t work did meditation the wrong way. That’s why they didn’t get any positive results.

Jenny found a solution: Mindfulness Training Meditation.

But luckily Jenny found out about using mindfulness training meditation in the correct way so was able to finally change the way she thought, felt and reacted to her emotions.

 You see unless you can use the same kind of process that got you to where you are today: emotions, feelings and pictures you will not affect the subconscious mind and you will stay suffering. Positive mindfulness training can reverse the negative input that has led to your anorexia or bulimia eating disorder.

Here is the reason why!

The importance of emotions, feelings and pictures.

You may ask why pictures are so important to freeing yourself from your eating disorder? Well it is the fact that we turn all our thoughts into pictures. If you think about something in the past you will recall it as a set of pictures and emotions not a set of words. Try this yourself, if I say Cat what do you see in your mind the word Cat or a picture of a Cat, you see a picture.

Try this little test.

Here is a little test to prove to you what I am saying is true and I am even going to trick your mind right here right now.

Visualize the statue of liberty

OK: Now whatever you do, DO NOT THINK of the Statue of Liberty hopping up and down on one leg juggling its torch.

HEY, I said don't think of that!

Do you see what happened not only did you think of the Statue of Liberty but now you can't get it out of your head. And I even told you in advance I was going to trick your mind.

The power of pictures.

This is the power of pictures and animation on your mind, and luckily this was a silly picture of the Statue of Liberty, imagine how powerful negative thoughts played over and over in the sufferers mind must be like.

So any meditation that is any good must have all the above elements, emotions, feelings, visualization (pictures) and participation (mindfulness training).

This is because you have to get into the right kind of brain wave state to get maximum benefits.

Here is a brief description of the different brain waves.
 
Beta (15 – 40 cycles per second) = Conscious (thinking, rationalizing)

Alpha (9 – 14 cycles per second) = Sub-conscious (relaxation, super-learning, relaxed focus, light trance, increased

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 serotonin production and other pleasure brain chemicals).

Theta (5 – 8 cycles per second) = deep Sub-conscious (deep meditation, direct access to the subconscious mind, dreaming sleep, increased production of pleasure brain chemicals, increased learning and memory, increased creativity.)

Associated with: integrative, emotional experiences, potential change in behaviour, increased retention of learned material. Also hypnagogic imagery, trance, deep meditation, access to unconscious   Rewire your brain
mind.

Delta (1.5 – 4 cycles per second) = very deep Sub-conscious (coma, dreamless sleep,
Human growth hormone released)

Associated with:  Deep, trance-like, non-physical state, loss of body awareness, access to unconscious and "collective unconscious" mind.

 What kind of meditation is right for me

 Before you go running out the door to get some meditation CDs, one has to be a bit careful of what you get and what problem you have to deal with. It will be totally useless getting just any CD unless it is tailored made for the problem you have or your loved one has.

A common meditation CD will not work and is a waste of your money: it has to be mindfulness training for it to work on eating disorders. Plus there is a difference between anorexia and bulimia and each has to be treated a little different when it comes to reprogramming the brain.

For this reason we put together a special meditation CD one for Anorexia and a different one for Bulimia. These are not the same information and music with the word Anorexia changed to Bulimia; like most of the so called eating disorder CDs out there.

Our CDs are individually made for each problem and specially mixed with the correct kind of alpha music to reach the subconscious mind. They also have individual emotion, feelings, visualization and mental participation (mindfulness training) for anorexia and bulimia.

To top the range off, we have a special nighttime CD that actually works by affecting your subconscious mind at the Theta brain wave level while you are sleeping and reprograms the way you are thinking at the deepest level. This is a powerful way of treating your eating disorder as you are asleep with no distractions. Again it is a very special mix one for anorexia and bulimia.                                              CD set

So you have the choice of daytime treatment and nighttime treatment or all 3 of them.

Here is what our Mindfulness Training Meditation CDs consist of!
Anorexia Mindfulness Training CDs
 

Bulimia Mindfulness Training CDs