Jolly Needs

One of the supreme ironies of Western culture is that people who suffer from one of the most common causes of unhappiness — overweight — are perceived as being jolly and happy. Yet it is evident that overweight people are in fact among the unhappiest people alive. This has been demonstrated in virtually every major research or poll on the subject.

But the myth persists. And it sometimes invades the subconscious realm where, if it is not identified and changed, it will make any significant or permanent weight control impossible.

Here, in highly simplified form, is how it usually works:

"Fat people are always jolly and happy." (This is the major premise in what will here be a syllogism, which is the epitome of the deductive process. Deduction is the only logic available to the subconscious mind. In this case the premise is false, but the subconscious mind would have to be able to reason inductively to know that. It cannot.)

"I want to be happy." (A good logician would be unhappy with the formulation of this, the minor premise, but stated this way it is more accurately representative of the subconscious process.)

"Therefore I want to be one of the fat people." (This is a perfectly logical conclusion to the logic of the syllogism but it is of course logically false — technically — because the major premise is false. But, again, the subconscious would need inductive reasoning to work that out correctly.)

So here you have a situation in which the subconscious mind has decided that happiness — or being jolly, which is basically just the outward expression of happiness — is dependent upon being fat. In other words, fat equals happy.

If you determine through ideomotor questioning that the "jolly factor" is relevant to your situation, you will have to formulate and apply suggestions to change it.

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