JAMES COLQUHOUN: Hi, it's James here from "Food Matters."
And welcome to this FMTV special "Visualization
with John Gabriel."
John will be taking us through some awesome visualizations
for abundance, for healing, and also for weight loss.
John, great chatting with you.
JOHN GABRIEL: Awesome.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Tell me a little bit
about why visualization is so important for you
and why it's been such a big part
of your work and transformation.
JOHN GABRIEL: It's been a huge part.
Visualization to me is the missing link
in health, success, and weight loss.
Because it's really getting your mind and body to work together.
It's using your mind in a highly programmable and focused state
to achieve specific targeted results.
And also it does many other things.
It reduces stress.
And as, you know, that stress and all the stress hormones
cause weight gain.
They cause health problems.
They cause clarity problems.
So you're not as successful.
So it reduces stress, gets your mind and body to work together.
Gets your mind very focused.
To me, it's a little bit like setting the dials
on an automatic pilot in a plane.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Yeah.
JOHN GABRIEL: You know, like you got the dials right
when you have a vision of how you want to be.
But your health, your weight, whatever goals you have,
you create the vision first in a highly focused way.
And it's like setting the dials.
And the rest of the day follows suit.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: And I've had that
feeling doing your visualizations
and doing the ones that you will be doing in this program.
And you have that sense that you're
being pulled to this vision.
And it's not you having to work and struggle
to create the better health or the healing.
It's like you're allowing those forces to work naturally.
JOHN GABRIEL: Yeah.
You know, our minds are so powerful.
I mean for me, when I weighed 400 pounds,
I had a visual image of how I wanted
to look with stomach muscles, 186 pounds,
I mean really healthy.
And 2 and 1/2 years later, I became exactly that image.
I looked exactly the way I imagined myself looking.
And I don't think that's a coincidence.
And you look at other people.
You know, Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was a bodybuilder,
he used to imagine himself up on stage.
And when he was an actor, he used
to imagine himself being successful in acting.
And then, there's a story about Jim Carrey.
I don't know if you know the story about Jim.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: No.
JOHN GABRIEL: Amazing story.
So Jim Carrey used to use visualization
for success in his career.
And so he wrote himself a check for $3 million.
No.
He wrote himself a check for $10 million dollars.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Yeah.
JOHN GABRIEL: They did three years in advance
for acting services rendered.
And then, he would imagine himself
being a successful actor.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Yeah, wow.
JOHN GABRIEL: Exactly three years later, he
got a check for $10 million for the movie "Dumb and Dumber."
JAMES COLQUHOUN: No way.
JOHN GABRIEL: Yeah.
And he said he would get on the top of my Mulholland Drive
and imagine him being a successful actor and everything
flowing.
And I just think that it's untapped, uncharted territory.
And to go in that direction of using your mind
to create your reality, your health, your abundance,
your weight, all these things is to me the secret.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Yeah.
So during the visualizations, you know,
I notice sometimes your eyes are flickering a little bit.
Freaked me out a little bit.
Tell me about that.
JOHN GABRIEL: Well, you know, the way I do visualizations,
it's a meditation.
And I've been doing it a long time.
So what happens is when I'm doing a visualization,
I'm actually going into a very deep state of meditation.
And I'm guiding you into that state of meditation.
Your brain is much more powerful in that state.
You're in the alpha and the theta stage.
And in that theta state, the amplitude of your brainwaves
is much higher.
And your brainwaves become in tune and very synchronous.
And that makes you much more focused.
So much more powerful.
But when you're in the theta state,
your eyes flutter because it's called
REM, rapid eye movements.
You've heard of that when you're dreaming.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Sure.
Yeah.
JOHN GABRIEL: So that's the theta state.
So actually when I'm doing my visualization,
I'm actually getting into the theta state.
I don't know I'm doing it.
But I noticed it when I'm doing visualizations.
And it's the REM.
But I'm guiding you into a deep visualization,
a deep meditative state and then making suggestions.
So when you combine the meditative state
with the visualization, that's when
you're really getting the maximum benefit
of your visions.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: And then the suggestion,
which is the visualization and guided, that's
sort of almost like the subclinical hypnosis.
JOHN GABRIEL: Absolutely.
You're in a much more suggestible sense.
Hypnotherapist have found out for years now
that when you're in that state, you're much more suggestible.
But you can do it yourself.
There's no magic to it.
You just have to get into that state.
And you have to create the suggestions.
And you can create the suggestions with a vision.
And a vision is a much more effective way
to communicate to your body.
Because your body doesn't understand English.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Sure.
Yeah.
Or French or German or Italian.
JOHN GABRIEL: Or anything, right?
So it's almost like when you try to communicate with your body,
it's like trying to communicate with someone that
doesn't speak your language.
So if you just landed in China and you
have to go to the bathroom, you can ask 1,000 people
where the bathroom is.
They won't understand, right?
But if you see the vision of the men's room,
you're going to know where it is.
Right?
So vision, its symbol is the way you
speak to somebody else who doesn't speak your language.
And your body doesn't speak your language.
So if you say to your body, I want to be thin.
I want to be healthy.
Your animal brain isn't getting that.
But when you make a vision--
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Because you're only speaking to here.
JOHN GABRIEL: Right, exactly.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: You're only speaking that cerebral cortex.
JOHN GABRIEL: Right.
And that's not the part of you that's
in charge of your health.
The part of you that's in charge your health
is your animal brain, your hypothalamus, right.
Which is the same part of your brain
that we've had since we were mice 300 million years ago.
But when you make a vision of your body bursting
with health and vitality and the weight
melting off of you and all these different things,
it's almost like you're using symbols
to communicate with the subconscious of your body.
And you create this dialogue with your body.
And I remember when I was losing weight,
it's almost like I had this vision dialogue.
Like I would imagine myself being really, really fit.
And my body would send a vision back of what to eat
and how to exercise and all these different things.
And so we had this vision dialogue.
We had this kind of symbolic dialogue.
So you're creating a dialogue with your body using vision.
And I think that's powerful
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Great.
So going through the visualizations,
you know, I found all of them fantastic,
most particularly intrigued about some of the processes
where you talk about how your body is
vibrating at a certain level.
And you're attracting the foods and the environment
and, I guess, the people in your life
that are also vibrating on that level.
So when you're vibrating on that level,
there's certain foods that vibrate on that level,
like the greens.
And, you know, at "Food Matters,"
we talk a lot about those types of foods.
But how do you help people with cravings?
Because people might say, well, I
can imagine vibrating at that level.
And I can imagine eating those foods.
But I can more easily imagine myself
a whole block of chocolate.
JOHN GABRIEL: But what we're really doing here
is we're changing our vibration.
I mean, that's really what health is.
And if you look at quantum physics,
it's really tells us that we're vibration.
The whole world is vibration.
We're not really physical.
This thing is physical.
We see physical because our eyes and ears and feelings
tell us physical.
But it's all vibration.
And when you are bringing the higher vibration,
visualizations, and meditations and you're
eating higher vibrations, you're changing your vibration.
And when you start to change your vibration, what
you find is that as you vibrate at a higher frequency,
you crave higher frequency food.
So what are higher frequency foods?
The foods with life force in them, the greens
that are absorbing sunlight.
That's how there's life on Earth is sun comes into plant.
And then, the plant converts it into food.
That's how there's food and life on Earth.
So you start to crave sunlight and life force vitality type
foods more and more.
And cravings go away naturally on their own.
We do have visualization techniques
that we use for eliminating specific cravings, which
I can explain to you, again using symbols.
So what you want to do if you had,
let's say, you're changing a vibration.
And you're craving healthier foods.
But there's still something that you
want to eliminate that's not going away.
It's a pizza or like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
with Wonder Bread.
Or whatever it is, it's just hanging on.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: The fluffy white bread.
That's what we visualize, isn't it?
We normally visualize the opposite.
Like I can imagine eating and feeling.
But you say you're turning that off first
of all the visualization.
But how do you work specifically on a craving like that?
JOHN GABRIEL: There is a technique that you can do,
where you create a negative image in your mind, which
creates a negative association.
So when you're doing your visualization,
if there's a specific food you really
want to eliminate from your system and just be repulsed by,
you can imagine a negative event.
So imagine you're taking a bite of this Wonder Bread sandwich.
And all of a sudden, you take a bite
and you realize there's worms in it.
You know?
If you've never had that experience where
you've taken a bite of something, there's worms in it.
You spit it out.
It's gross.
You never want to touch it again.
When you do that and when you're in that deep state,
your body doesn't know the difference
between a real or imaginary experience.
So your body actually thinks it's.
Or if it's chocolate cake you want
to get rid of, if you take a bite of the chocolate cake,
and you imagine that it's not really chocolate cake.
But it's dirt or something even worse.
And you spit it out.
You create an instant negative association.
So you can use visualization to do that.
But what we find is that that's sort of like a last ditch
effort that you may have to do.
But you probably won't have to do that.
Because you're changing your vibration in all the ways
that you're suggesting.
Like adding super greens and doing visualizations,
reducing stress, doing these visualizations,
you will not be attracted to those foods.
Because I can tell you now 12 years down the road
after having lost my weight, I am not attracted those foods.
More and more, the idea of eating low vibration junk foods
is so remote that I never have to worry about those things.
So start by changing your vibration.
And then, if you really have to eliminate something,
you can use that.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: You can use those techniques.
JOHN GABRIEL: Exactly,
JAMES COLQUHOUN: So with visualizations,
just to finish this thread here, when should people practice it?
I've heard sometimes first thing in the morning,
and then I've heard going to sleep at night.
We did this filming now, and it was just after lunch.
And I loved it then.
I mean, is there a better time?
JOHN GABRIEL: Any time's good for visualization.
And you can't do visualization wrong.
That's the other thing that I wanted to say.
When you're listening to a visualization,
if your mind wanders, that's OK.
If you can't imagine the light or your body,
whatever I suggest, it's all OK.
You just want to show up for the visualization.
Best times are right as you're going
to sleep at night, even if you're just doing it yourself,
you imagine.
The next day, and you imagine the weight melting off
of you or the health or whatever you want to imagine.
First thing in the morning, so it's like bookends.
As soon as you go to sleep, as soon as you wake up.
In the afternoon when your blood sugar is low, take a break.
Have a healthy snack.
And listen to a visualization.
Perfect time to do it.
Because you're reducing stress then.
And then, the rest of the day is going to flow much better.
And then, pretty much anytime you want a break.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Great.
And for how low should people practice this process
to get the best results?
Like if they wanted to attract more abundance into their life,
is it a seven day, 21 day?
Or is it for life but less frequent?
JOHN GABRIEL: I like forming the habit
of using visualization in your life just like you do anything.
Just like you brush your teeth or do other things.
You think of all the things you do to sustain yourself.
One thing about visualization is as you get better and better,
it takes less time.
So what may have taken me 20 minutes before,
I can do in like 30 seconds.
I can imagine the success or the health or whatever.
But it's part of my maintenance.
I visualize every morning.
I do a meditation every morning.
And at the end, I do a visualization.
And the visualization could be a couple of minutes long.
But I see it as a maintenance thing that you do for life.
You get better and better at it.
And you become more and more successful.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: Great.
John, it's always a pleasure talking to you, especially
about visualization.
JOHN GABRIEL: It's exciting.
JAMES COLQUHOUN: And so make sure
you check out the "Visualization with John Gabriel" program.
Plus also, there's other great Gabriel Method Content on FMTV.
And make sure to check out John's books and all
of his work.
Thanks so much.
JOHN GABRIEL: Awesome.
My pleasure.
Thanks.
Take care.