At The End Of A Long Day, The Food That Gets Eaten Is Usually Whatever Sits Nearest Your Hand
This page calls it the “Reach Reflex”: the quick, automatic reach for the closest, easiest food, in a few ordinary moments every day. Clean Eating For Life is the self-hypnosis track by Dr. Steve G. Jones that turns those moments around, one meal at a time.
By Dr. Steve G. Jones, Ed.D.
Self-hypnosis MP3, about 40 minutes
Most People Know What Eating Well Looks Like, So Why Is It So Hard At Seven In The Evening?
Dr. Steve G. Jones, Ed.D. Licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist, practicing hypnotherapy and NLP since the 1980s.
Ask almost anyone to write a shopping list for eating well and they’ll manage it in a minute: vegetables, fruit, beans, whole grains and plenty of water. The trouble usually starts later, in moments that last only a few seconds.
The front door closes after a long day, the fridge looks empty, and the quickest thing in the cupboard gets eaten standing up. A packet gets opened at the desk in the afternoon and is empty before anyone noticed. Dinner is eaten in front of a screen and barely remembered an hour later. And the strict new plan that started on Monday is often gone by Wednesday, with “I’ll start again next week” in its place.
The usual advice for this sounds like:
“You just need more willpower.”
“Cut out everything you enjoy.”
“Learn more about nutrition.”
None of it reaches the moment where the choice really gets made.
When eating well keeps slipping, people tend to blame themselves:
Weak willpower
A sweet tooth
Not knowing enough about food
Too little time to cook
Very often the choice is made before any thinking starts. A tired, hungry hand reaches for whatever food is closest and quickest, and by the time the mind catches up, the packet is already open.
This page calls it the “Reach Reflex”. Think of rain running down a hillside, always following the easiest way down. At the end of a long day the Reach Reflex works the same way, and in most kitchens the easiest path leads straight to a packet.
Willpower means pushing against that slope every evening, which is why so many strict plans run out of strength by the middle of the week.
What turns it around is something you already have, which this page calls your “One-Breath Choice”: the moment between the urge and the reach, where one slow breath hands the choice back to you. The track works with it in two ways:
It changes what sits nearest, so that in your kitchen the easy choice is the good choice.
It gives each everyday food moment one simple new response, and goes quiet while you rehearse it in deep relaxation, so the new habit is ready when the moment comes.
Dr. Jones once got his own life back on track, from $80,000 of credit card debt, by reprogramming his mind and putting systems in place. Further down you’ll see how Clean Eating For Life brings that same pairing into your kitchen.
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Now picture an evening with the slope on your side. You come in hungry, pour a glass of water and reach for the crunchy vegetables already washed and waiting at the front of the fridge. The simple meal you planned at the weekend is half made, because you cooked a little extra last time. You eat it at the table, slowly, and you finish when you feel comfortably satisfied.
Left in place, the Reach Reflex tends to dig in deeper:
1A packet opened once in the afternoon becomes the afternoon habit.
2Meals eaten in front of a screen get finished without being tasted.
3One unplanned meal turns into “I’ve blown it”, and the fresh start moves to Monday.
4And after enough strict starts and quiet stops, eating well begins to feel like a punishment.
A Hypnotist Who Once Had To Put His Own Life Back Together
Dr. Steve G. Jones, Clinical Hypnotherapist
Today Dr. Steve G. Jones is a licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist and a self-made multimillionaire who coaches top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs. His start in life was a hard one. He lost his mother at an early age and grew up with his father, who battled alcohol abuse.
Later, career detours and failed business ventures left him $80,000 in credit card debt, with financial institutions and collection agencies beating down on his door. After he was evicted from his own place he lived out of his office, and he was about to lose that too.
His life did turn around, and the way it turned around has a lot in common with what helps people eat well. First, though, three popular rules about food that keep a lot of people stuck.
Three Popular Rules About Eating Well That Make It Harder Than It Needs To Be
You’ll hear all three from well-meaning friends, and every one of them leaves the Reach Reflex in charge.
“Eating well takes willpower.”
Willpower gets tested hardest when the nearest food is the one you meant to skip. Change what sits nearest, and the same automatic reach starts working for you.
What the track says about your kitchen
“You keep a bowl of fresh fruit out on the counter, where you see it every time you walk in.” And a little later: “So in your home, the easy choice is the good choice.”
The track adds vegetables washed, cut and placed at the front of the fridge at eye level, and the packets moved up to a high shelf at the back of the cupboard, or simply left at the shop.
“Clean eating means giving up everything you enjoy.”
Strict rules tend to last until the first slip, and then they take the whole plan down with them. The track keeps clean eating simple and relaxed. Most of what you eat looks much the way it grew, half your plate is vegetables or salad, water is your everyday drink, and you season with herbs, spices, lemon and garlic. Every food change is one your doctor approves of.
There are no forbidden foods on this track
“There is room in your life for a slice of birthday cake with the people you love. You enjoy it fully, and your next meal is real food again.”
“If you slip, you’ve blown it, so start again on Monday.”
This rule does the most damage, because it turns one unplanned meal into a lost day, and sometimes a lost week.
What one study found about kindness after a slip
In a study published in 2007, people who were strict about their eating were asked to eat a doughnut. Those who were then encouraged to go easy on themselves about it ate less afterwards than those who weren’t.
The track gives you one sentence for that moment: “My next meal is a fresh start.” One meal is only one meal, and there is no need to wait for Monday.
Why The Closest Food Wins Before You’ve Decided Anything
Most eating decisions happen in a few ordinary moments each day, when you’re hungry or busy with something else, and in those moments the closest and easiest food has a head start.
The Reach Reflex
The quick, automatic reach for whatever food is closest and easiest, which takes over in a few everyday moments when you’re hungry, tired or distracted.
What a study at the US National Institutes of Health found
In a study published in 2019, twenty adults lived at the National Institutes of Health for four weeks and ate as much or as little as they liked. For two weeks their meals were ultra-processed, and for two weeks they were made from whole foods, with the same calories, sugar, salt, fat and fiber on offer. On the ultra-processed meals they ate about 500 more calories a day, and they ate faster.
It shows up in the same handful of moments:
Walking in hungry. At the end of the day the kitchen door opens, and the quickest thing in sight gets eaten standing up.
The afternoon urge. Tiredness or stress can feel a lot like hunger, and the packet in the drawer is right there.
The meal in front of a screen. The plate empties while the mind is somewhere else.
The hungry shop. No list and an empty stomach, and the basket fills with whatever catches the eye.
Put The Slope On Your Side
Your One-Breath Choice
The moment between the urge and the reach. One slow breath and one quiet question, “Am I hungry, or am I tired, bored or upset?”, and the choice is yours again.
Instead of pushing against the slope every evening, the track moves fresh food to where your hand already reaches, and gives you a one-breath pause for the moments the Reach Reflex still gets there first. Each moment gets its own small step:
Walking in hungry: a glass of water first, then something fresh, then the simple meal you planned.
The urge to snack: one slow breath and the quiet question, then fresh food when your body is hungry, and what the feeling really needs when it isn’t.
The meal itself: at the table with the screen off, your fork down between bites, and a pause halfway to ask your body how full it feels.
The shop: after you’ve eaten, with your list in your hand, and fresh food into the basket first.
Each step is small enough for the most tiring day, and the track rehearses them with you while you’re deeply relaxed.
Walk Into Your Kitchen In Your Mind And Watch Where Your Hand Goes
It takes seven seconds, and it shows you where your own Reach Reflex is waiting.
Picture yourself walking into your kitchen at the end of a long day, tired and hungry. Press start, and for seven seconds let your hand reach for the first food it finds.
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What did your hand find? Tap whatever turned up:
Whatever turns up says nothing about you or your health. It’s only a game.
Where the hand goes depends a great deal on how a kitchen is arranged, and most kitchens are arranged by accident.
How An Ordinary Kitchen Ends Up Working Against You
The snacks live at eye level. The packets sit on the counter or at the front of the cupboard, where a tired hand finds them first.
The fresh food is out of sight. Vegetables bought with good intentions sit unwashed in the bottom drawer, so eating them means work.
There’s no plan for the week. At seven in the evening no meal has been decided, so the quickest one wins.
Meals get eaten anywhere but the table. At the desk, on the sofa or on the move, the food hardly gets noticed.
What a Cochrane review found about distance
When Cochrane reviewers brought together twelve studies on where food is placed, moving food further away tended to cut how much of it people ate. They rated the evidence as low certainty, and concluded that changing where food sits could help people change what they eat.
The track gives each of these a simple fix of its own, from the fruit bowl on the counter to one set time a week for planning a few simple meals.
The Two Things That Put Steve’s Life Back On Track Belong In Your Kitchen Too
At his lowest point, living out of an office he was about to lose, Steve discovered a way to reprogram his mind to attract everything he needed, and to create systems that put his life back on track.
He used a combination of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques and a specific framework for happiness and success, and from it he developed the Dream Life Mastery Program.
Clean Eating For Life pairs the same two things for food. While you relax, the suggestions change how you respond in each food moment, and they come with a few everyday systems: a fruit bowl on the counter, vegetables washed and ready, one set time a week to plan a handful of meals and write the list, and a little extra cooked for the busy days.
Today Steve manages 22 training certification programs in hypnosis and NLP, and at one time he had 30,000 students enrolled in his programs.
Evicted and living out of his officeA reprogrammed mindSystems that put his life back on track
A Farmhouse Garden, Ten Flat Stones And A Willow Basket That Is Yours To Fill
The track runs for about 40 minutes with music, and it moves through two stages. Between them, they’re designed to build six everyday habits:
Fresh food within easy reachA fruit bowl on the counter and washed vegetables at the front of the fridge, so the easy choice is the good choice.
Water first when you walk in hungryA glass of water, then something fresh, then the simple meal you planned.
One breath before a snack“Am I hungry, or am I tired, bored or upset?” Then you give yourself what you really need.
A simple plan and a short listA handful of meals planned once a week, and the shopping done after you’ve eaten.
Meals you really tasteAt the table with the screen off, fork down between bites, finished when you’re comfortably satisfied.
A fresh start at the next mealOne meal is only one meal, so there’s no need to wait for Monday.
Deep relaxation in a kitchen garden
Steve begins with three slow breaths together, then takes you through the gate of a kitchen garden beside an old farmhouse, early on a summer morning. There are lettuces and beans in neat rows, dew on every leaf, bees among the flowers and a ripe strawberry still cool from the night. Ten flat stones lead you down to a spring, and you relax more deeply with each one.
Could any relaxing audio do this part? Plenty of recordings can help you unwind. Here the relaxation carries the idea the whole track is built on: the garden grows from the simple, good things it is given each day, and beside the spring an empty willow basket waits for you to choose what goes into it.
This first stage is the induction, the part of a hypnosis session that takes you into deep relaxation.
Every food moment, one new response
First Steve asks you to remember a time you looked after yourself well, perhaps a meal you were proud of or a promise to yourself that you kept. You have done it before, and you can do it again, one meal at a time.
Then he takes the everyday food moments one by one and gives each a simple new response. Twice he goes quiet for twenty seconds while you see yourself using it, first in your kitchen at the end of a long day and then at the table:
The old momentThe new one
“There’s nothing in the fridge.”Vegetables washed and waiting at the front, at eye level.
“I’ll just have a bit of this.”“Am I hungry, or am I tired, bored or upset?”
Dinner in front of the screenAt the table, fork down between bites.
“I’ve blown it, I’ll start on Monday.”“My next meal is a fresh start.”
This second stage is the suggestions, and the silent pauses are where you rehearse each new habit in your mind.
Make Fresh, Real Food Your Easy Choice With Clean Eating For Life
It’s called Clean Eating For Life.
This self-hypnosis track by Dr. Steve G. Jones is designed to make fresh, real food your natural choice, so that you plan it, shop for it, eat it slowly and enjoy it, one meal at a time. Every food change on the track is one your doctor approves of.
Turns the Reach Reflex aroundYour kitchen set up so the nearest food is fresh food.
Rehearses every stepSilent pauses to see yourself in each food moment before it comes.
Keeps it relaxedNo forbidden foods, and a fresh start at every meal.
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The track ends by bringing you back to full alertness, full of natural energy and ready to continue your day, so it suits a quiet break in the daytime as well as the evening.
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Six Months From Now, What Will You Find In Your Fridge?
Near the end of the track, Steve asks you to picture your life six months from now. You open your fridge and it’s full of fresh, colorful food. Your shopping list almost writes itself, your meals are simple and delicious, and you notice how comfortable you feel after you eat.
Turning the Reach Reflex around could give you:
Evenings when you walk in hungry and the first thing you reach for is fresh.
Meals you actually taste, eaten at the table and finished when you’re comfortably satisfied.
A relaxed way of eating, with room for birthday cake and no more Monday restarts.
Dr. Jones coaches top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs. Clean Eating For Life puts his approach to self-hypnosis into an MP3 you can play at home, for one payment of $29.95.
Spread over the 21 days he suggests staying with one track, that comes to about $1.43 a day.
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Clean Eating For Life is a single self-hypnosis audio track, about 40 minutes long, sold on its own at one price.
Give The New Habits 21 Days Of Daily Listening
Habits grow from repetition, so give the new ones a steady run. Listen every day, and stay with this one track for 21 days before you move on to another.
Day 1Download the MP3, find a quiet place where nothing will disturb you, put on your headphones and press play.
The next dayTake the first step you chose on the track: a bowl of fruit on the counter, a short shopping list, or one meal at the table with the screen off.
Every dayListen again, and once a week, on a day you choose, plan a handful of simple meals and write the list.
Day 21Keep the track for the days when the old reach comes back, and let the next meal be a fresh start.
Clean Eating For Life
Make fresh, real food your natural choice, one meal at a time.
From Checkout To Your First Fruit Bowl On The Counter
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If you’re still unsure, that’s understandable. Most of us were taught that eating well comes down to willpower and strict rules.
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Next Time You Walk In Hungry, What Will Be Nearest Your Hand?
It’s easy to carry on as before. The quickest thing in the cupboard wins at the end of the day, the afternoon packet becomes a habit, and every slip pushes the fresh start back to Monday.
Meanwhile the Reach Reflex keeps taking the easiest path, and the gap between what you know about food and what ends up on your plate stays as wide as ever.
Or you can start today. Put on your headphones, press play and let the track put the slope on your side while you relax.
Tomorrow there’s a bowl of fruit on the counter. When you walk in hungry you pour a glass of water and reach for something fresh, and you eat your meal at the table, slowly, enjoying every bite.
It’s this page’s name for the quick, automatic reach for whatever food is closest and easiest, in the moments when you’re hungry, tired or distracted: walking in after a long day, the afternoon urge to snack, a meal in front of a screen, a shop with no list. Like rain running downhill, it always takes the easiest path.
And the One-Breath Choice?
It’s the moment between the urge and the reach. On the track, Steve gives you one slow breath and one quiet question for it, “Am I hungry, or am I tired, bored or upset?”, so the choice is yours again.
Is this a diet, and does it promise weight loss?
No. There are no meal plans, calorie counts or forbidden foods, and the track makes no promises about your weight or your health. It helps you build the everyday habits of choosing, planning and enjoying fresh, real food. Every food change on the track is one your doctor approves of, and for anything to do with weight, a health condition, an allergy or a special diet, your doctor or a registered dietitian is the right person to ask.
How is it different from End Addiction to Binge Eating?
End Addiction to Binge Eating works on the hard feelings that can lead to a binge. Clean Eating For Life is about everyday eating: what goes in your basket, what sits nearest in your kitchen, and how a meal is eaten.
How long is the track, and where should I listen?
About 40 minutes, with music. Listen somewhere quiet where nothing will disturb you, and never while driving. The track ends by bringing you back to full alertness, ready to continue your day.
Is it right for everyone?
If you have, or have had, an eating disorder, please talk to your doctor before listening. This track is not a treatment for it. Self-hypnosis also isn’t suitable for anyone with severe depression, psychosis, a dissociative or seizure disorder, or a drug or alcohol problem.
How fast will I see results?
Everyone is different. Many people feel calm and relaxed from the very first listen, and the new habits build each time you play it. That is why Steve suggests listening every day for a minimum of two weeks, and longer if you like.
Does your program cater specifically to me?
Yes. The program is built on broad human psychology, with techniques, tips and methods that people have used for thousands of years, so it suits adults of any age. Whether you're 21 or 61, it is never too early or too late to start building better habits.
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Make Fresh, Real Food Your Natural Choice One Meal At A Time
The Reach Reflex always takes the easiest path, so changing what you eat starts with changing what’s easiest. The track does that with you, one small step and one slow breath at a time.
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The food that gets eaten is usually the food nearest your hand.
The Reach Reflex is the automatic reach for the closest, easiest food when you’re hungry, tired or distracted.
Clean Eating For Life sets up your kitchen so the nearest food is fresh, and rehearses a one-breath pause for every food moment while you relax.
One MP3 for $29.95, delivered within five minutes, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
