Eradicating Unhealthy Food or Drink

This technique is excellent for helping you to banish coffee or chocolate, which I am using as examples of food and drink that play a part in sleep problems, but you can use the technique to get rid of any food or drink from your diet. Your sleep is of paramount importance and you must avoid food and drinks that hinder it.

Think of a single unhealthy or fattening food or drink that you would like to eradicate from your diet now.

Close your eyes and take a few slow, deep breaths and allow your mind to clear. Take a moment to go inside yourself and totally relax. When you are ready, imagine a plate full of the most putrid, rotting fish or maggots or something similar that is repulsive to you. It has to be something you intensely dislike.

See this picture in your mind’s eye and connect with the revolting smell of the fish. Hold back from gagging, but make this image smell very real. Take a moment to do this.

When you have a clear picture and have imagined the foul smell, bring in the food or drink you want to erase from your diet and mix it up with the rotting fish. If it is chocolate, imagine the chocolate all over the fish, making an even more disgusting smell. If it is coffee or a fizzy drink, imagine one of the fish inside a cup of coffee or a glass of pop.

Be creative with this part of the technique; the more vivid you can make this image, the more powerful it will be. Allow a few minutes to digest this disgusting image and odour, and then allow your mind to become blank. Take a few slow breaths, before slowly counting to three and opening your eyes.

Do this a number of times over the next few days. After this time, you will feel completely different about the food or drink that you mixed up with the rotting fish. You will lose any desire for that food or drink, or you even find it repulsive.

You can use this technique to systematically eradicate any other junk foods or drinks from your diet. Focus on eliminating one thing at a time and make sure you have lost of all desire for it before moving on to the next item you want to eradicate.