Through years we become conditioned to a certain internal “weight set point” Once this is done we don’t have to think about day-to-day food intake and activities we need to do to maintain our internal image. This is exactly how we form our habits. Once any habit is ingrained in our brain we function automatically without thought to maintain that internal image. If you don’t like your current weight, you must break your old patterns and old conditioning at non-conscious level or face pain of yoyo syndrome. Your internal mental system operates exactly like mechanism that keeps airplanes, missiles or boats on course once they have set their coordinates into system.

The outer body is only an expression of internal image. If you want to see permanent changes on outside, you must re-train mental image on inside first. The most recent research suggests that it takes about 30 days of everyday mental training to “re-train” brain if you want long lasting and permanent weight loss. By doing a few simple visualization exercises seeing yourself at your perfect weight, you start to recondition your internal image and you begin to erase old image.

The more you do this faster you’ll see results. The good news is that you can’t get a brain hernia if you overdo it.

POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS

Another simple technique you can use is a written positive affirmation. For example, declare:

·I now weigh xxxx. ·My body fat is xxxxx. ·I feel and look great ·I am at my ideal and perfect weight now

If you repeat reading this and really seeing it on screen of your mind for at least 30 days, you’ll have a far superior chance of keeping to your ideal weight. You can also cut out photos of body type you like and paste your picture to it and review it as frequently as possible.

The reason for using present tense affirmations is simple. The non-conscious side of your brain does not know difference between an actual event and a lie or an imagined one and, it also does not understand future. Once it is conditioned through repetition and real life or imagined experiences, it will immediately make outside match up with internal image.

Transhumanists embrace these techniques and many more as a desirable progression toward utilizing technology as a tool for human improvement. They envision a time when we can eliminate disease, enhance memory, develop superior senses, and create physical bodies resistant to aging.

This build-a-better-human view isn't universally accepted, but it's important to look at how our ideas of "improvement" have changed over years. Eyeglasses were once viewed as an unnecessary and unwelcome manipulation of our God-given eyesight. The current hot topics such as stem- cell research will one day elicit same yawns with which we greet news of eyebrow lifts or fertility drug-induced twins.

What does it mean to go beyond human? As long as humans are in charge, is it possible to do anything that might be considered beyond realm of human potential? Is there a need for ethical controls or legal restrictions if advances in science are seen as desired result of natural human achievement? Is all fair in love and war--and science? We love ethical debates about nature of nature. Instead of focusing on a particular new-fangled technique, we'd do well to frame our rejection or acceptance of transhumanism in terms of bigger picture--is technology a natural part of human evolution? Do we have a responsibility to use science as a tool to improve human experience- including human body? I'm always open to improving, and that goes for my definition of excellence. If we can develop superhuman brains and bodies, can we also look forward to tremendous gains in creativity and compassion? Transhumanists get us thinking about potential for humanity over long haul. Now that's excellent.