Quick health fixes leave long term health problems

This week a BBC article reported that the number of surgical ‘Man Boob’ reductions had fallen by 20% in 2012. What are the implications of this? It could mean that more people are opting for the natural route to improve physical appearance. It could also be that more people cannot afford what is undoubtedly a costly procedure. Maybe it’s that people are becoming more comfortable with the look. Personally I don’t know which, it may be a combination of all three, but I don’t think that’s the most important implication to consider.

In a book call ‘Secrets of the Millionaire Mind’ by T. Harv Eker, he covers an idea that everyone has a predetermined setting on a financial thermostat. The idea is that everyone, as a result of their programming, has a subconscious idea of exactly how much money they should have.

A great example is in lottery winners. It’s almost a cliché, people win the lottery and then in a matter of years they have spent all their money and return back to the financial situation which they are comfortable with. The other end of the scale is in self-made millionaires. They accrue a great deal of wealth and then a sudden market crash or media exposé loses them everything. But in a short period of time they manage to make the money back.

This principle can be applied to the human body and cosmetic procedures. The reason that someone ends up with a physique that they do not like is because they have been programmed to think and act like someone with that physique. Maybe as a child they were told by their parents, ‘People who are fit have no social life’, or ‘enjoy life while you can, you might get hit by a bus tomorrow’, or ‘Fit people have a naturally fast metabolisms’. These sorts of ideas in childhood will produce the thoughts of a person who thinks differently to fit people. As a result they will act differently and the physique that they don’t want will develop.

Then comes the surgery, because the person has never changed their underlying mind set to health they feel the only way out is to go under the knife. It works, they look and feel great, the symptom is cured but the problems are still there. After a few years of the same lifestyle they are used to living they lose their newly acquired body and return to what they are used to being.

What personal training should offer addresses the client's subconscious programming; social support, education, one to one lifestyle coaching and motivation to change. This should all come alongside the basic nutrition and fitness sessions.

You can go to a personal trainer with a short term goal, hit your target and then leave but investing long term will give you the resources to be exactly how you want to be for the rest of your life.

So I think that it is good that these operations are on the decline, because with the right coaching, the unnecessary risk of the procedure is avoided and the problem is gone for life.



Sources

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21199952


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