Health News - New book by ‘intuitive counsellor’ claims key to a healthy lifestyle lies in our subconscious
Published: 2 March, 2011
by TOM FOOT
Psychic’s diet plan offers new weigh forward
IT was just a few months after 9/11 and the Ministry of Defence could perhaps, retrospectively, be forgiven for exploring all the options available to them.
But when secret documents emerged in 2007 revealing a covert project to recruit psychics as spies in 2002, the newspaper and television journalists reacted with a mixture of scorn and incredulity.
The BBC’s flagship Newsnight ran a feature on the State-sponsored practice known as “remote viewing”, inviting the Primrose Hill psychic and “intuitive counsellor” Jules Williams to prove the credibility of his profession.
“They asked me to come on and of course I did what I had to do because I trust myself implicitly,” he said.
“They put three cards in an envelope and asked me to tell them what was on them. There were three random images – it could have been millions of things. I absolutely nailed it. The producers were like oh ****”
The Newsnight team described Mr Williams – who has worked with the police and private investigators – as “scarily accurate”.
This apparent vindication has allowed Mr Williams to pitch himself as something of a credible psychic. He has an A-list celebrity following, has presented on Sky TV and has just published a book about the secret of leading a healthy life.
He said: “Of course people will always have their opinions about what I do and that’s fine. I think if I was waving incense around the place and saying I was some kind of guru I wouldn’t get any credence.
“I’ve worked with scientists, the police and even the MoD were starting to think: ‘Hey maybe there is something in this?’
“I think they were thinking what better weapon can there be than to be able to find things that others can’t find?”
He added: “Things are changing: 15 years ago I was the last port of call, now I am people’s first port of call.”
Mr Williams said he first noticed his intuitive powers – “a foresight of what specific issues are occurring in a person’s life, with concise glimpses of their past” – while growing up as a “young alley boy” in Wales.
He became a black belt martial arts instructor and gained spiritual healing qualifications.
Now 42 years old and living in Princess Road, he has “brought it all together” in his book, The Weigh Forward.
The book argues that our subconscious controls everything about diet and can actively make the body “hold on to weight”, often as a “protective buffer”. Many people with deep-rooted psychological problems “eat down their frustrations,” he added.
“People know what they are eating is bad, but the subconscious is overriding the intellectual decision. Most of these [other] diets and programmes have a 95 per cent fail rate. What other business would be viable with those sort of figures? Diets are not working and everyone is just getting bigger.”
Mr Williams said he has helped thousands of clients overcome their subconscious associations to food.
Joe Calzaghe, the UK’s only undefeated boxer and former BBC Sports Personality of the Year, has endorsed the book, adding: “I use the tools Jules has taught me constantly in my training and everyday life.”