Now I’ve finished reading this, I’m feeling a lot sunnier and more apt to get back on plan with this. Weirdly, one thing that’s held me back on this is that I find visualisation quite difficult because I’m quite kinaesthetic. But reading the above book has helped me with that, and I’ve learned a little tip, too, from my life coach – if you’re having trouble visualising, look upwards while you do it. It really works. I’ve also found that, as a kinaesthetic, it really helps me to feel the feeling before I try to visualise anything. It’s quite extraordinary – during the Dictator/Wild Child/Watcher visualisation exercise, I feel the Wild Child’s feelings of helplessness, and my face immediately changes expression, and before I know it, I can see the starving little Wild Child in my mind’s eye.

Another thing that’s stymied me is the reward system. I just can’t get my head around it, and every time I think I’ll start a win I get tied up in trying to think of rewards and then I fall flat on my face and don’t do the win. The book says it’s absolutely essential, but I’m not sure about that. I think I’ll try and do it without for a while and see how I get on. So I’ll be accessing the Watcher state on the bus for the next few days, and making thick descriptions of my treasure box memories, anchoring them to my middle left finger – my NLP anchor of choice.

I’m also experimentally combining some of the exercises and techniques from Paul McKenna’s I Can Make You Thin, to help fasttrack the reformatting of my own self-image.