melts down fat. Not directly, of course, but for the purpose of our
NLP learning let’s pretend it does. In reality, your fat deposits are
broken down by your body to gain energy for the processing of the
celery.
What is your favourite aspect of celery? If you hate the taste, then
use a different vegetable for this example, possibly a carrot or piece
of lettuce. Picture the celery being nicely broken down and literally
turning old fat deposits into pure water. Concentrate on the taste.
Say words like “mmm delicious!” and really mean them. Act like it is
the most delicious piece of food you have eaten in your entire life.
Tell other people how great it tastes. Even if you don’t quite believe
yourself, put on the performance of a lifetime.
Your body will react by genuinely starting to like celery. This is the exact method I used on olives,
which I used to hate but now very much enjoy. The more times you put on this act, and the more emo-
tion you put behind your act, the faster this will work.
How Does This NLP Technique Work?
These NLP processes essentially work by tricking your brain into reconfiguring its reaction to certain
foods. You are literally telling your brain that it is wrong; it’s giving the wrong signals. Your brain will
react by correcting these problems in your favour. So as soon as you take your bite of celery:
- Your frontal lobes (prefrontal cortex) gives the conscious signal to your body to act like you
are enjoying the celery like it’s the best thing on earth. - Your insula immediately tells you that is this is boring, distasteful old celery. It replays the
same old taste sensations that you’re used to.
3. But what’s this?! Your temporal lobes and parietal lobes are behaving oddly. They
seem to be creating reflex signals that indicate great enjoyment. How strange! - Since you have requested information on how to act when eating an enjoyable food, the
amygdala is giving out faint emotions of pleasure, to tell the other active brain parts what
emotions to simulate. The more you get into the act, the stronger the sensation will become. - The hippocampus matches this feeling with pleasurable eating, and it matches the current
sensory input with that of eating celery. It confirms you are eating celery. - Your insula stands confused but corrected, and processes this pleasurable information and
builds new pathways to link directly to the other corresponding parts of the brain.
While there are millions of other things going on in your brain, these are the points we’re interested
in. This will not automatically and permanently change your perception of celery. You’ve only built one
new pathway, compared to all the other thousands of times you’ve eaten celery and reacted naturally.
Therefore, the more times you repeat this act, the stronger the effect will be and the easier and more
natural the response will become.