When the new recruits show up for their first week of Boot
Camp, there’s a whole range of set up steps their ordered to complete. One of
the big ones is:
Clear the decks for action.
1.)
And if this sounds crazy to them, We DON’T CARE! *
We have them go through their entire house, room by room,
and rearrange all of their furniture. They often need some help doing this but
wither they do or do not, they must take each room, and turn the whole thing
around.
The head of their bed’s against one wall, they move it to
another, same deal with every piece of furniture in every room of their house
Once this task is complete, they are required to answer our
prompts before we let them move to the next step in our process.
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* “WE
DON’T CARE!”
That’s what I to say to all my campers right out of the gate,
because though after week three, I do back off on them a bit, up until that
time as I often say to them:
“YOU’RE IN THE ARMY NOW!”
And that
means they follow orders. But rearranging furniture threw a lot of them and I
got quite an ear full. So now I’m cutting the campers a little slack by letting
them in on all the why’s and wherefores.
Boot Campers
will never be ordered to do anything unless there’s a very good reason for it.
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| Reprogram Your Brain! |
The entire Boot
Camp program from start to finish has nothing to do with diets they’ll never
stick too or starving themselves in the process.
It’s all
about reprogramming that computer they keep between their ears.
All habits,
good or bad, are all about your brain computer programming and that programming
takes your conscious mind completely out of the loop.
It’s 100%
controlled by your prefrontal cortex and on that score, binge eating and
substance abuse, all of your actions / reactions are done without you ever
thinking about it.
There’s a
million examples in your everyday life, from automatically reaching for the
salt & pepper, even before tasting your food, to wetting your toothbrush
before you put on the paste, to parting your hair on the left or the right...ALL
AUTOMATIC.
All you have
to do is consciously vary any of those steps, in this case, making you walk
around your furniture in a slightly different way so you won’t bump into to it.
Or maybe NOT
wetting your toothbrush first, or forcing yourself to take a bite of your food
before you season it.
Just making
the slightest little change:
Will send
quite a little jolt to that computer of yours and actually stimulate what they
call “neutral
growth” in that region of your brain.
There’s study
after study that all show some actual physical growth in that part of your
brain. That knocked me out but it true. It’s just like a weight lifter doing resistance
exercises.
Just a couple
weeks on something new, and you can actually see physical differences in your
brain. The brain is not a muscle, but it acts exactly like a muscle if it’s
properly programmed.
Ten times out
of ten, once into the full 90 day Boot camp program, if they take an actual
physical measurement, it’s right there:
THE BRAIN HAS ACTUALLY GOTTEN BIGGER.
I’m not
speaking to you figuratively here, that’s exactly how it works...Measurable
brain growth and not nine times out of ten...TEN TIMES
OUT OF TEN!
Ask any body
builder and they’ll all tell you the key to building new muscles is to:
“Mix It Up.”
You do NOT
do the exact same exercise regiment every day...You vary it.
That’s
exactly how your brain works. The more you challenge that brain of yours with
new programming, the easier it gets to make real changes in your life.
Everything,
mind and spirit residing in that body of yours is connected.
And that is
the logic behind having our campers rearrange their furniture.
Now that
example of programming is just one of the little things we put campers through.
There’s programming that one hell of a lot more intense during that first
critical 32 days that no Camper could ever possibly miss.
Rearranging
furniture is not anywhere near as obvious, BUT, though we’re kind of sneaking
up on them when they’re not looking, even with that little tack, THEY ARE BEING PROGRAMMED.
Baby Steps.
Jim Brown
Jim Brown Boot Camp-Binge Eating /
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