1. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• Self-suggestion is a method of changing behavior based on positive thinking.
• Emile Coué was a French pharmacist, who created the idea of self-suggestion
over one hundred years ago.
• The idea is that you can influence your own behavior through self-suggestion.
• The Inner Helper program presents self-suggestion for weight management,
based on concentration.

2. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• This first unit of Inner Helper is an experience in self-suggestion for managing
weight.
• After reading the slides, you can listen to a podcast,
• The podcast is a guide to using concentration and imagination, based on self-
hypnosis techniques, to create suggestions that will work for you to manage
weight.
• Each of 34 slide units in the Inner Helper program has a podcast to help you
create self-suggestions.
• Unit has only slides that explain why people gain weight.

3. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• Getting Started (Units 1-8) is about experimenting with self- suggestion to make
it easier to plan meals, shop for food, deal with the refrigerator and scale and
keep track of your progress.
• Training your Brain with Self Suggestion (Units 9-13) is about discovering the
“Inner Helper” function of the mind and about ways to make use of and limit
self criticism.
• Challenges (14-25) is about exercise and techniques to cope with impulse-
eating and overeating.

4. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• Emotions (Units 26-29) is about how your emotions affect eating and about
how to use self-suggestion for stress, anger and boredom.
• Maintenance (Units 30-34) explains why losing weight is a lifetime challenge,
why vanity can be a tool, how to make use of setting an ideal weight, and how
to forgive yourself for slip-ups on your voyage to good health.

5. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• Self-suggestion, using concentration is easy to learn.
• Each unit will begin with a text.
• Information and some suggestions are presented on the slides.
• The texts on the slides are background for an audio guide at the end of the
unit.
• Each audio guide is an experience in using self-suggestion using
concentration.

6. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• At the end of the slide presentation, or at any other time, you press an icon to
listen to the audio guide.
• Each audio guide will suggest you concentrate by closing your eyes or
focusing on a picture on the last slide.
• As you concentrate, you listen to ideas and use your imagination to develop
your own suggestions for weight management challenges.

7. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• You will suggest positive thinking.
• You will suggest strengthening self-esteem.
• You concentrate on what you want for your health.
• You create personal suggestions for actions that you are ready to take, to help
manage weight.
• You use imagination about what you would like to do and how you would like
to be.

8. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• You let yourself imagine how you would like to respond to to the weight
management challenge being presented.
• You only give yourself safe, realistic suggestions that fit who you are.
• You pay attention to your hands, and pick a yes and no finger. As you give
yourself suggestions, you can check your fingers.

9. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• You ask your “yes” or “no” finger to signal you whether your self-
suggestions for some future action are safe and realistic?
• As you concentrate, you imagine taking future actions linked to your self-
suggestions, when you’re ready.
• You use self-suggestion to make a bridge from imagining to action.

10. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• Imagining is a powerful form of self-suggestion.
• You can begin to use the power of your imagination by searching your
memory for an experience of success.

11. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• Everyone has had some success in their life.
• You suggest remembering a success in order to begin thinking positively about
yourself.
• You suggest remembering how it feels when you succeed.

12. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• Can you imagine making a healthy food choice today or tomorrow?
• That would be a good example of how to use your imagination as a form of
self-suggestion.
• If you can do that, be pleased with yourself.

13. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• You’ll get more practice using your imagination for self-suggestions as you
listen to the audio guides.
• Some people close their eyes to concentrate during the listening part of the
unit.
• Closing your eyes helps you see more clearly images you suggest to yourself.

14. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• If you prefer, you can keep your eyes open as you listen to the audio guide.
• You can concentrate on the picture on the last slide in order to focus attention
in a way that suits you best.
• As you concentrate, you can let yourself imagine what to do in a weight
management situation that challenges you.

15. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• Maybe you’ll rehearse future actions in your imagination.
• Maybe you’ll imagine and rehearse how you can train your brain to plan
instead of reacting impulsively.
• The self-suggestion method begins with what you let yourself imagine.

16. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• At the end of each audio guide you will be asked to review and remember
what was useful to you.
• You will be asked to ignore what does not suit you.
• You will review your self-suggestions.
• You will be asked to plan an action linked to your self-suggestions as soon as
you are ready to do so.

17. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• When you finish listening, you will always be asked to open your eyes if
they’ve been closed.
• You will be asked to become fully aware of what is going on around you.
• You will be directed to focus on your surroundings.
• Please be sure to follow these directions in each unit, so you reorient to your
normal state of awareness.

18. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• It is most helpful to begin by doing the units in order, moving through them at
your own pace.
• The program is most effective when you leave time between sessions.
• Each slide unit describes a way to use self-suggestion.
• Each audio guide gives you practice in self-suggestion.
• Some units present new techniques; other units review techniques you’ve
learned in earlier sections.

19. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• You will always be in control.
• You can adopt suggestions you get or ignore them.
• Each audio unit gives you time to develop your own suggestions and decide
how to link them to action.
• Remember, at the end of each audio presentation you will always be given
suggestions to return your attention to your present surroundings.

20. Explaining Self-Suggestion
• You can return to a unit at any time by pressing the unit title in the Table of
Contents on the left side of your screen.
• You can revisit a unit to review a behavior that worked for you. Self-suggestion
works with repetition.
• Press the audio guide icon whenever you want to listen to the audio part.
• The first audio guide begins with the next slide.
• Enjoy the program.

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