Jon Gabriel tells us in his book, The Gabriel Method, that it only took him about two years to lose all of the over 200 pounds of excess weight that he had been lugging around with him for so many years. The best part about it is that he did not have to do much to make it happen and insists that it is attainable for anyone, without any need for diets or struggling to tame uncontrollable cravings.

The primary focus of The Gabriel Method is to teach you how to turn off your FAT Switch. The FAT Switch that Jon Gabriel refers to is the Famine and Temperature switch - a part of our primitive brain that controls our body fat according to whether it interprets you need, or do not need, to store fat in your body. when your FAT switch is activated, your body becomes very efficient at storing fat. As a consequence, you become lethargic, sedentary and have uncontrollable cravings for food all the time.

According to Jon Gabriel, your success in losing weight is guaranteed if you make sure to do at least the following three things without fail every day:

1. Never go a single day without adding the essential nutrients that your body is starving for. This will help your body relax and think that there is plenty of food around, so there is no need to store it in the form of fat, because a lack of proper nutrients in the body is also considered by your primitive brain as a form of starvation. In the Gabriel Method, this is referred to as "Nutritional Famine".
2. Listen to Jon Gabriel's evening visualization CD or spend at least 10 minutes a day practicing the visualization techniques covered in The Gabriel Method book. Gabriel gives a lot of importance to visualization. According to his story in the book, he would visualize the body he wanted to have. This turned out to be the body he now has. Visualization is a powerful tool which helps you to meditate on what it is you really want. This makes it that much easier to achieve it. Also, your primitive brain understands the language of images and is more likely to receive the message that your desire is to be thin and will act accordingly. After purchasing the book, you can visit the official Gabriel Method site where you can download Jon Gabriel's visualization CD free of charge. The download instructions are in the book.
3. Start listening to your heart and body. Your heart has things that it is dying to do and experiences it is wanting to fulfill. Also, our bodies are constantly sending us signals and it is up to us to interpret them so as to give them what they truly want. We are so often trapped up in our own lives that we forget what it was that we truly wanted to do or be. Remaining true to your heart gives you a purpose in life and something to look forward to. "Some day" will always be "some day" (in the distant future) unless you start taking the necessary steps today to make it your reality.



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