This document discusses how people can connect with their "Inner Helper" for strength and guidance. It describes how Drew visualized his Inner Helper as a merry-go-round while struggling with his weight, which helped motivate him to stay committed to his program. The document suggests people may imagine their Inner Helper in different ways, such as a person they admire or their own inner strength, and that connecting with an Inner Helper can help provide helpful messages or suggestions.

1. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• People discover their Inner Helper when they turn inward, looking for inner
strength.
• Your Inner Helper is responsive to self-suggestions.
• People imagine their Inner Helper in different ways.

2. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• You may be able to visualize an Inner Helper, or sense it's presence, by the way
you feel and think.
• A person who is important in your life can be part of our Inner Helper imagery.
• An Inner Helper may show up in a night dream or daydream.
• Drew had this experience with his Inner Helper.

3. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• Drew was losing interest in attending his weight-control program.
• He closed his eyes.
• He suggested to his inner mind that he needed help.
• To his surprise, he saw himself on a merry-go-round.
• His horse was going around and around.

4. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• He was enjoying the music.
• He knew the image meant, "I go around and around, about my weight."
• He saw himself "Going up" and "Going down."
• He knew that "going up and down" was also about his battle with his weight.
• He waited.

5. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• Then suddenly he saw the brass ring.
• He reached out and grabbed it.
• He thought he heard the bell ring.
• His Inner Helper was telling him he could get the brass ring,
• He could succeed.

6. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• Inner Helper was telling him to stay on the horse, keep on track.
• Inner Helper was saying, "Stay with the program."
• Drew was really surprised at his creativity.
• Your Inner Helper imagery also may surprise you.

7. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• People connect with Inner Helper imagery in different ways.
• Some people connect with the image of a person they admire, someone
whose advice they remember, someone who was important in their life.
• Some people connect with their own sense of inner strength, determination,
and resiliency.
• You don't always know how you will connect with your Inner Helper.

8. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• The higher centers of the brain respond to an inward search.
• When you turn inward, looking for inner strength, you are giving yourself a
suggestion to access the Inner Helper part of the mind.
• What might an Inner Helper be like for you?

9. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• People may imagine that an Inner Helper looks like a character from a TV
show, a movie or book.
• Maybe an Inner Helper comes through as a message, suggesting an action
you can take.
• Since you are working on weight management, an Inner Helper might help you
imagine healthy food choices without a picture or message.

10. Picturing Your Inner Helper
• Go to the next slide if you want to listen to the audio guide about connecting
to imagery or messages from your Inner Helper.

11. Picturing Your Inner Helper