Lifestyle Change Made Easy - Fresh Start !

There is a first day for everything.. The Boot Camp Program had it's first day way back in 1983 when I was hired as the new Director of Staff Development at a large gero-psychiatric facility in New York. My job assignment was to educate the staff with an eye to reducing turnover while enhancing productivity & quality assurance. The administration gave me the usual set of manuals & directives, then told me to instill these into the mind of each employee.

And then I met the employees....500 of them. Over all, I found them burned out, unmotivated, addicted to all sorts of substances with bad lifestyle habits & overall, unable to manage their own emotional selves. It was like a huge dysfunctional family of sorts. Tardiness & absenteeism was high, accidents & incidents were up & turnover was heavy. In my opinion the employees had little self-respect & certainly even less respect for their workplace. So they spent a good number of their waking hours in a world that delivered little to their self-esteem & continual building that is needed for the self-image. These employees needed many things, but next to none of those things would be found in those manuals & directives that were given to me by the administration.

The Boot Camp was born out of the necessity to salvage this intolerable situation. While I could see the goals of the administration & understood their importance to the survival of the workplace & the bottom line, to me the survival of those 500 human beings was more important. I also knew intuitively that if the employees were helped with what they needed most, then the administration would benefit as well. I simply knew it was going to be a win-win situation, but intuitively I also knew it was going to be more than this. Workplace stress is very connected to personal & family stress across the board. It's connected to addictions, child & spousal abuse & a whole lot more. On the positive side, workplace wellness is connected to enhanced self-image, self-esteem, healthy relationships, prosperity, creativity & all of the good things of life. Now who wouldn't want that?

The Boot Camp Program in New York was very successful, both for employer & most importantly the employee. Over the years, I've taught this program in workshops in different parts of the world & thought it would be fun to teach it online. And so, you are cordially invited to join in. Teaching online in this format is very different than teaching in-house. In this Boot Camp will all communicate through email. The course material & self-assignments are posted on my website & are are a work in progress. You will be able to look over my shoulder & I'll look over yours. I'll be working right along with you. New members have the opportunity to work the program in some order & then to catch up with group members through the archives.

During the Online Boot Camp I'll often take you back to New York & share some insights from my workplace group. Getting to know each other is a very important part of the educational process because we are all teachers & students at the same time. As I began to get to know my New York employees, this is what I heard over & over again. "Oh what I wouldn't give for a fresh start!" Well, the good news is that fresh starts are available to us in each & every moment. While most of us don't need quite so many, they are there if we need them & there is no reason, whatsoever, not to take advantage of these wonderful opportunities.

· I am always free to choose to stop doing what I am doing.
· I am always free to choose to break old habits & patterns.
· I am always free to chose to change anything & everything.
· I am the writer, the producer & the director of my life.
· Yes, I am.

Beginning Self-Exploration...

Let's explore this a bit. Since all we have to do is to have the desire & then to act on our desire, why do we tend to ignore this gigantic opportunity? Take just a moment & let that question settle in your own subconscious mind. When you are ready, I'll give you some additional insights, but please don't rush your own personal work. As you begin to work with your own inner self, you will find that more answers coming to your own mind that will be very specific for you.

Here are some things I've noticed. Perhaps you have noticed them as well.

· Most of us have excuses living on our tongues & for those of us who are tired of the excuse-life, it is often difficult to decide what to do instead of what we are doing & then how to actually begin.

· We think about starting tomorrow, but tomorrow comes & goes & we find ourselves in the same old place.

· We might wake up with good intentions, but then "life interrupts us" & despite our intentions, we fall back into old emotional patterns, beliefs, activities, choices, as if these were the only place to go.

· Before we know it, we are at the end of the day & still "window shopping" in our mind, desiring things that we simply cannot grasp or for some reason , cannot hold on to for long, if at all.

· And so, we tend to live in the land of good intentions & excuses, spending incredible energy on defending ourselves, our positions of inactivity or perceived failure & blaming others for stepping on our toes & our dreams. Most of this constitutes garbage.

Basically, we are all the same. We all have histories & baggage, desires & dreams. If you have joined the MindBody Fitness Boot Camp you will be doing many things differently from now on. Some of those things will be obvious & other's not so obvious. You will be consciously aware of some changes, but other changes will simply happen, as if they had a life of their own. You will find yourself replacing old emotional patterns, beliefs, activities & choices. Much of this will be effortless. You will no longer just window shop in life. You will actively choose what you want & act in accordance to make it yours.

I ask you to work with a Journal & a 3 ring binder. You can certainly download the lesson areas for your own personal use. Remember that all of my material is copyrighted & so you cannot reproduce it, but certainly you can copy this for you own benefit. Go through each part & highlight areas that speak out to you. I'll be showing you how to work with these parts through a self-hypnotic tool called automatic writing. This will allow you to explore areas that interest you with your own subconscious mind inner coach. I'll also be providing you with self-development work based on each chapter & also be suggesting CD/Audio programs that can assist you in working quicker & at higher levels, should you choose to do that.

Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, President & Program Designer for Sarasota Medical & Sports Hypnosis Institute located in Sarasota, FL & online at www.hypnosis-audio.com & www.sugar-addiction.com She is the author of Sugar....the Hidden Eating Disorder & How to Lick It, Beyond Disorderly Eating...The Truth About Sugar, Bingeing & How to Stop, as well as The MindBody Fitness Boot Camp... Lifestyle Change Made Easy. She has also written & produced +350 audio CD's & mp3's. The websites include moderated discussion groups, ezines, library & a host of other educational tools for learning Interactive Self-Hypnosis. Visit the online Boot Camp & work directly with the author. Download a free mp3 each month.

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