Change eating patterns

These techniques based on Dr. Goldman's book: Success for the Diet Dropout: Proven Strategies for Women Who Want to Stop Hating Their Bodies

You will learn

• The magic of the Food Meditation and how it can change the way you think of eating!
• How to stop chocolate cravings in 30 seconds
• How to be less hungry with one daily 5 minute technique
• How to look ten pounds lighter in seconds
• What's really making you fat
• How the "Body Talk" technique can help reduce cravings!
• How to respond to the natural cues of your body’s need for nutrition. You’ll enjoy food more and yet be satisfied with less.

Boost Body Image

Along with this body make over, you will:

• Change your eating patterns without dieting, (see above)
• Emerge as a graceful swan and shed the ugly duckling feeling
• Let your body find its own natural size and finally feel comfortable in your own skin

Job/Sales/Sports Performance

Many people suffer from performance anxiety. When pressure to achieve is compounded by a situation where one can be watched or judged, it can play havoc with emotions. Exceptionally talented people are particularly susceptible. The expectation to perform at high levels puts a great deal of pressure on them.
Like jell-O set in a mold, many people feel stuck in this pattern. You can reason with yourself, but if the anxiety has roots that are too deep, the only way to overcome it is with techniques that reach deeper levels of the unconscious
Hypnosis has a way of reducing the emotional impact and instill confidence. It can also help to reduce the internal pressure to perform and refocus your attention on enjoying the activity.

Self-hypnosis

Self-hypnosis teaches you to be relaxed through post-hypnotic suggestions. This is achieved regardless of time, place, or situation. In addition, the hypnotic state itself is deeply relaxing. When you practice self-hypnosis on a regular basis, your body will maintain this calm throughout the day. A relaxed person is healthier physically, mentally, and emotionally. A relaxed person can be more productive and successful because they are more in control.

Improve Relationships

Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, we get stuck in less than useful ways of relating to other people. What do you need in order to get satisfaction and joy from your relationship? Better communication, more trust, less fear, more openness? With hypnosis and NLP you will learn to create more of these essentials.
This isn't relationships counseling in the traditional form. The models of NLP and hypnosis allow me to help you to simplify and change the ways that you think and feel about issues. Now your relationship can flourish. In addition, I can help you change habituated ways of behaving or responding to the other person.

Self-Understanding and Practical Help

You will come to understand how your own thought processes, and/or those of your partner, are unwittingly contributing to or maintaining the problem. Then you’ll learn how to think and relate to each other in more beneficial ways. Remarkable and rapid progress can be made to improve your relationship.

Confidence

Did you ever notice how some people seem to have confidence in everything they do? What do they have that you don’t? Would you like to know their secret? I will teach you the techniques of the self-assured. In addition, with hypnotherapy I will help you free yourself from limiting patterns of defeat. Once you remove many of the unhelpful self-doubting thoughts from the unconscious level, you will develop new an empowering ones. You will emerge more capable and self-assured.

Smoking

Have you tried to quit only to start up again because you were a nervous wreck without cigarettes? If you could eliminate or significantly reduce the cravings and anxiety, could you be a non-smoker permanently? Hypnosis is clinically proven to keep you calm even from the first moment that you become a non-smoker. You’ll be delightfully surprised at how quickly the cravings disappear too. Because this is a natural process, you’ll never need willpower to achieve success as a non-smoker.

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Test Taking Anxiety

Does anxiety stop you from doing well on exams? Do you study the material, think you know the information but still do poorly? Do you ‘go blank’ when you try to answer questions? Whether it’s a life changing test like the Bar exam or Real Estate test, or an ordinary classroom test, hypnosis will help you concentrate, improve memory recall, and succeed.

Stress

Because stress is part of life, many people think they must put up with it. In truth, it is the balance of stress that helps you be at your best. The hypnotic state automatically reduces your stress thereby giving you better balance. You will choose those stresses that offer you rewards and let go of those that don’t. In addition, the powerful hypnotic suggestions will help you feel in charge of your life like never before.

Phobias

Fears and phobias are often irrational. We know spiders (or other things) can’t hurt us yet some continue to panic at the mere thought of them. Sometimes there is a reality base for the concern as with fear of heights or flying, yet your reaction is out of proportion to the situation.

You can try to talk yourself out of the phobia but it doesn’t work. That’s because the fear is lodged in the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind has a very different type of logic. (Think of illogic of dreams). This is where hypnosis becomes the most effective tool. Hypnosis has a way of digging out the weed by the root so it never grows back again. You’ll be free to enjoy your life unhampered by these stifling limitations.

Some common phobias:

• Public speaking
• Flying
• Spiders (arachnophobia)
• Heights
• Elevators
• Snakes
• Dental phobia
• Social phobia
• Needles
• Vomit (emetophobia)
• Frogs
• Bees
• Wasps
• Dogs and cats
• Hospitals
• Doctors
• Riding horses
• Failure
• Driving and interviews

Occasionally someone will come up with one we haven't dealt with, but the good news is that the phobia-cure techniques are equally effective with all of them.

Public speaking anxiety

Would you like to have the ease of speaking in front of groups as you do when talking to your best friend? Many people suffer from performance anxiety. When pressure to achieve is compounded by a situation where one can be watched or judged, it can play havoc with emotions. I will help you to reprogram these debilitating thought patterns . You will have a sense of control over your emotions. In addition, you will present yourself to your audience with confidence as if you’ve been public speaking for many years. Whether you want to climb the career ladder or just pass a public speaking class, hypnotherapy and NLP will get you there.

Panic attacks

Panic attacks are fear of the fear. Many people experience panic attacks just once, or very infrequently. Yet they find themselves in a constant state of dread. They either mentally repeat the memory of that situation, and/or image it will happen again. (the fear of the fear). This excessive worry that the situation is going to repeat itself is sometimes referred to as negative anticipation, pre-anxiety, or a pre-anxiety attack.

The good news is that this condition is treatable with NLP/hypnotherapy. I will work with you both consciously by talking to you to find out what exactly is going on in your neurology, and unconsciously (hypnosis) to help you to change the patterns easily.

During the treatment, NLP techniques are used to help you to repattern this 'fear of the fear' thought process and to help guide your thinking in more useful directions. This is a way of consciously training your imagination to be under your control - rather than the other way round!.

Hypnotherapeutic techniques such as suggestion both direct and indirect, metaphor and a host of other hypnotic interventions are used to help you to re-pattern, or recondition the response at a more unconscious level.

Both approaches have been proven to be successful. When combined, the treatment is often powerful and rapid.

Panic/Anxiety Attack Symptoms

These can include hyperventilation (too much oxygen caused by breathing too rapidly) which in turn can lead to dizziness, tightness in the chest and shortness of breath. Panic almost invariably initiates an adrenal response which can cause sweating, feeling hot and disorientation.
Other symptoms can include chest pains, heart palpitations, weakness, tiredness and numbness.

Because some of the symptoms are the same, people believe they are having a heart attack when they first experience panic. Only your doctor can determine if it is not a heart attack. Many cardiologists send patients to hypnotherapists when they rule out the possibility of heart attack. Their diagnosis is panic attack.

Self Improvement

Improve yourself in any personal area-Whether we go through life with ease or with great difficulty is, in part, based upon how we think and perceive our experiences of living. Hypnotherapy gives you access to the beliefs which are formed by these experiences. These attitudes ‘live’ below the level of awareness. Hypnosis helps you reach these deeper levels and lets you change them. Anything that has to do with the power of the mind can be changed.

Improve Motivation

We all have things we don’t like to do but need to get done. How do the highly successful people manage to get through the mundane, the unappealing and the outright misery of things we hate. Research has provided us with the difference in the thinking of highly successful people and those that just get by in life. You will learn the secrets of the victorious and become triumphant in your own right.

Memory Improvement

Hypnotherapy will help you

• Relax so that you can remember anything under pressure
• Overcome anxiety and pressure.
• Give you access to your “memory bank” using recall tools.

Healing and Pain Management

The hypnotic state, in and of itself, automatically reduces pain. and facilitates healing. When brain waves slow down, (called alpha or theta states), your mind-body focuses all its energy on this process without distraction. In addition, with the power of suggestion, the healer within is guided to its natural healing. The suggestion or guided imagery process also helps to remove blocks which have prevented healing.

Hypnosis a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care

Complementary therapies, while not given the attention that more traditional cancer therapies may receive, are perhaps equally important while undergoing treatment for certain types of cancer. Patients diagnosed with difficult to treat malignancies will often use these types of therapies in conjunction with traditional surgical, chemotherapeutic, or radiology techniques to form a more comprehensive and effective treatment regimen. Among the most important and effective alternative therapies utilized by those diagnosed with cancer is hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy has been used for many years in clinical settings. Hypnotherapy’s role in cancer management however, is relatively new and indications are that its utilization has not been fully maximized yet. Effective cancer treatment often depends on the patient’s ability to not only defeat the cancer through treatments but also to maintain their health and mental spirit throughout the painful side effects of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.

Often, the symptoms and effects of the cancer itself on the body are negligible compared to the pain and other side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. This is where acupuncture has been said to be most effective. Cancers such as mesothelioma, which are often unable to be removed by surgical means, are often treated with some combination of chemotherapy and radiation. While these potent therapies can be effective in eliminating some of the tumor mass and growth, they also profoundly affect the health of the surrounding tissue. Symptoms of these effects including fever, nausea, and general pain have been dramatically reduced through the utilization of hypnosis. Patients, who are able to withstand these symptoms and recover quickly, will often be able to be more aggressively treated, increasing the efficacy of the treatment regimen as a whole. Some specific hypnotherapy techniques utilized in pain management include altering the neurophysical configuration of pain, control of anticipatory anxiety, and targeted imagery.

Hypnotherapy techniques may not be appropriate for all patient’s pain and individual symptoms but it’s certainly worth exploring as it can do very little harm in experimenting with integrative therapies. The goal with alternative therapies, as with traditional mesothelioma treatments, is always to increase the effectiveness of treatment as a whole. If hypnotherapy can assist in any way in helping patients recover or manage symptoms of chemotherapy or radiation, then it will have contributed to the treatment regimens overall efficacy and should certainly be utilized.

References

Erickson MH: Hypnosis in painful terminal illness, in Haley J (ed): Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy: Selected Papers of Milton Erickson, MD. New York, Crune & Stratton, 1967.

Sunnen, Gerard M.D. , Hypnotic Approaches in the Cancer Patient Ozonics International, LLC