Can Hypnosis Really Relieve Your Pain ? The truth is hypnosis can help people deal with: Hypnosis is especially helpful if you are doing things that you do not want to do (your subconscious mind is ruling over your conscious mind). Hypnosis is a proven technique that allows people to reprogram their subconscious to change unwanted behaviors. If you are overweight you may be tired of everyone telling you that losing weight is just about eating less food and or consuming fewer calories. Sometimes it seems that our bodies have found a way to turn a plate of lettuce into a pound of fat! If you or your friend is overweight and you’d like to see if such programming is affecting weight loss efforts take the following questionnaire: Do you find that no matter how much you starve yourself the weight just doesn’t fall off as quickly as it should?   Do you find yourself eating less than your more slender friends and still don’t lose weight?  Do you find your food cravings going way up even as the pounds begin to fall off?  Do you become tired and lethargic when dieting?  Do you gain back all the weight you’ve lost from a diet with alarming speed? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions you probably have some subconscious metabolic programming to hold weight on your body instead of burning it up for energy as it should. Now here’s the good news! First, we must look at the likely causes of this programming. The metabolism of food is the intricate process by which nutrients from food are consumed and utilized by the body. It is a complex process in which several factors are involved.  Through hypnotic imagery we can turn up the production of thyroxin, the primary metabolic hormone produced by the thyroid gland. There may be medical reasons for thyroid dysfunction, which is why we suggest a full physical examination and possible testing of your thyroid function before proceeding with a course of hypnotherapy. Another key element to the body’s metabolic processes is the activity of two key pancreatic hormones: insulin and glucagons. The types of food you eat directly affect the activities of these hormones.  Glucagons, secreted after a low carb meal, help the body burn protein and fat, including the body’s own fat reserves. So how does hypnosis help you change your eating choices? The imagery of hypnosis targets these subconscious programs and changes them in a way that is both permanent and nearly effortless. In addition, it is of critical importance to address emotional eating habits. Exercise is also a key component in the activation of the metabolism. Of course, many of us have a hard time with exercise. Hypnotic suggestion can be used to increase one’s motivation toward physical activity as well as increase strength and endurance. One of the innovative processes we use can take you back to what you enjoyed doing physically as a child. We use the power of hypnosis to bring back the excitement you experienced as a child at play. An experience of being rejected, humiliated or injured on the playground in a team sport, for example, can lead one to shut down the desire to play outside. One of the more common sources of metabolic programming is genetic.  Changing these genetic codes within our DNA may be difficult for even the most skilled practitioners. However, with hypnosis we can persuade the metabolism to override these DNA programs and help us let go of fat.  This is the time to utilize specific hypnotic suggestions geared to override DNA programming. Another common theme among those who struggle with weight loss is that the subconscious mind may be afraid to lose weight because if one’s weight problems disappear than one might actually have to face other scarier issues. One valuable technique that can be used here is a journey to the future self to discover how to successfully fulfill one’s life purpose. Many  have gained weight to silence their own unmet sexual needs within an unfulfilling marriage.  If you are not aware of such subconscious programming it could be deeply buried in the subconscious mind, and still be affecting your metabolism. Your hypnotherapist can help you discover and heal these problems. I lost 30 pounds in three months. I’m not an expert, but I do speak from experience. Most of this, I learned on my own or through close friends and family members. Much more information about how hypnosis can help you improve your life is available hereFree WP Autoposter Plugins

Hypnosis Works for Weight Loss By C. Devin Hastings Novel and Effective Weight Reduction Technique Does Not Require Pills, Patches, Supplements or Surgery and Can Easily Prevent Holiday Weight Gain. Holiday weight gain is a problem for millions of Americans. Researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) found that a large percentage of Americans who gain weight during the winter holiday season do not lose the extra weight. In fact, the weight accumulates over the years. NICHD Director Duane Alexander, M.D. who noticed this troublesome trend states: “These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the diseases associated with it.” Devin Hastings, a researcher and international speaker on diabetes and the mind states: “During the holiday season, many people with diabetes face very tough challenges. Harmful eating habits and weight gain are dangerous and difficult problems for them. Because of this, I looked for safe answers that could help my diabetic and overweight clients.” Devin’s research “led me to surprising clinical weight loss findings that can help not only diabetics but anyone who struggles with weight loss.” As a result of his research and client successes, Devin created a very informative website for those who are dealing with obesity and weight loss challenges. This website, www.Weight-Loss-Answers.com (or www.WLA4U.com) contains information that has helped many of his clients to lose weight successfully and permanently. “Safe, sustainable weight loss is an inside job. Diet pills, weight loss programs or even weight loss surgery can not do what really needs to be done”, says Devin who, 9 years ago, lost over 40 pounds using the method studied and validated by Harold B. Crasilneck, Ph.D. and James A. Hall, M.D. What safe weight loss method did doctors Crasilneck and Hall confirm as effective? They found that: “Hypnotherapy can often help in treating obesity, an observation that is one of the most clinically confirmed in all the literature on hypnosis.”(1) This statement is made more credible because these doctors did two important things: First, they conducted their own studies and second they conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of a large number of other reliable hypnosis weight loss studies. Although this evidence is extremely compelling Devin cautions: “Hypnosis is not a magic wand. Although some of my clients have easily lost a lot of weight in a very short period of time, most of the incredible changes I have seen my clients make are accomplished over time and with commitment.” Is there other believable evidence that hypnosis can help people with diabetes and weight loss problems? Yes. In the July 2001 issue of Scientific American it states: “A 1996 National Institutes of Health technology assessment panel judged hypnosis to be an effective intervention for alleviating pain from cancer and other chronic conditions. Voluminous clinical studies also indicate that hypnosis can reduce the acute pain experienced by patients undergoing burn-wound debridement, children enduring bone marrow aspirations and women in labor. A meta-analysis published in a recent special issue of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, for example, found that hypnotic suggestions relieved the pain of 75 percent of 933 subjects participating in 27 different experiments. The pain-relieving effect of hypnosis is often substantial, and in a few cases the degree of relief matches or exceeds that provided by morphine.” (2) If severe pain can be controlled by hypnosis then one can imagine weight loss cravings also being controlled by hypnosis. Also, given the dubious safety and effectiveness of diet pills and the hazards of invasive and often ineffective surgery, one must wonder why, if hypnosis is so obviously effective for pain management, why isn’t it used before drastic and very expensive steps for weight loss are taken? And, since hypnosis has been proven to have the ability to match or exceed the power of morphine then one must wonder how much better hypnosis is than diet pills and diet patches. Who has used hypnosis to change their lives for the better? A number of people. Internet research has revealed the following well-known people have benefited from the use of hypnosis: –Sondra Ray, author of The Only Diet There Is and several other best sellers. –Tom Mankiewicz, the super talent who wrote “Superman the Movie” –Beau Upchurch, a power-house pitcher for the Dodgers baseball team. Devin Hastings also states: ” I can absolutely assure you of 2 things: (1) Someone will change their life for the better now because they have just discovered that intelligent and accomplished people have successfully used hypnosis. (2) It is far easier and cheaper to hypnotically prevent weight gain than it is to lose weight.” Hypnosis has been proven to help anyone use the power of their mind in a positive, life changing manner. This fact is clinically confirmed and, interestingly some of society’s most successful have used hypnosis. As a self-improvement method, hypnosis is worth serious investigation—especially during the holiday season which is a time of great stress, weight gain, short tempers and holiday blues. References: (1) Chapter 11, Hypnosis in the Treatment of Nutritional and Dietary Problems. Clinical Hypnosis: Principles and Applications by Harold B. Crasilneck, Ph.D. and James A. Hall., M.D. (2) July 2001 Scientific American: The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis written by Michael R. Nash. Devin Hastings is the president of the Minnesota Institute of Advanced Communication Skills. He is an international speaker and has written 4 books on the power of the mind. His latest book is: “21st Century Medicine: Clinical Evidence for the Healing Power of the Mind”.Wordpress Autoblogging Software