Jun 28 2013

Need Motivation in Pursuit of a Higher Certification?

Vol. 71, December 2008- Need Motivation in Pursuit of a Higher Certification?

Many times as we continue through life there are times when it becomes evident that it could be helpful to go for a higher level of certification in order to better do our jobs, move up to a higher level or perhaps even change our careers. In so doing there are many things that are required of us in becoming successful. It is one thing to attend classes and read material. It is quite another to be able to retain that material and pass the required test in order to gain the new certifications. This becomes even more difficult if you have a job to do already. Add a family to the equation and one wonders how anyone gets through it, but many do. Continue reading

Jun 28 2013

Trouble Losing Weight: 9 Triggers to Fat Gain and How To Stop Them

Trouble Losing Weight: 9 Triggers to Fat Gain and How To Stop Them – Vol. 206, June 27, 2013

Jon Gabriel of the Gabriel Code is the one person who magnificently put together a simple list of all of the complexities of weight loss that I have echoed over the past 11 years I have been involved in the world of hypnotism. Jon Gabriel has put together a simple to understand list of 9 fat triggers and what we can do to overcome them. He took off 220 pounds and kept it off for 2 ½ years with life style changes. It isn’t all in your head and it isn’t all in your genetics. It has everything to do with your biochemistry and the body-mind connection.

1. Chronic Dieting
Decreasing the amount of food you take in puts you into “starvation mode” which creates many cravings for junk food. Melbourne University research shows that cutting down calories produces 20% more of the appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin forcing you to overeat after the diet ends. This is what makes people put on more weight then than what they had before they started the diet.

2. Lifestyle Stress
Stress causes fat regardless if it is from your job or personal life bombarding you with emotional, physical or mental or subconscious stress, your body reacts to it in the same way releasing a chemical called cortisol into your body causing you to gain weight. This activates the “fat trigger” to keep us alive. Todays constant stressors don’t allow our body to normalize because it can’t tell the difference between a life-or-death situation any longer.

3. Emotional Trauma
If you are not careful your thoughts can turn to fat. Self-defeating emotions, like powerlessness, insecurity, and not being able to say “no” to people result in stress which causes the release of cortisol, which as mentioned above triggers fat to be formed.

4. Inadequate Nutrition
Inadequate nutrition causes insulin resistance impairing your digestion pushing your body into nutritional famine. When your body is lacking the appropriate nutrition to carry on its normal functioning, your body will continue to tell you to feed it till you give it the appropriate nutrition to satisfy its needs. Insulin resistance causes extreme highs and lows in your blood sugar levels giving you strong sugar cravings and hunger pangs more often than if your sugar levels were stable.
The three main nutrients missing are:
Omega-3 fatty acids
Protein
Live foods

5. Poor Digestion
If the food you put into your body isn’t digested correctly giving you incomplete nutrition you will be under-nourished, dehydrated and lacking in friendly bacteria and digestive enzymes. This is due to the over processed and highly cooked foods we consume. The lack of nutrition puts you into fat storage mode.
This can be serious causing not only obesity but diabetes, and heart disease.

6. Toxicity
Your body is exposed to toxins every day making you fat. If you live in a city you are exposed to many more toxins in your environment. Toxins come from medication, alcohol, tobacco products, and pesticides found in non-organic produce and manufactured grain products. When you body can’t eliminate these toxins your body stores them in your fat cells. The layer of fat then becomes a buffer between the toxins and your body. This is why weight loss in some people creates illness.

7.  Limiting Beliefs
One of the most common limiting beliefs is thinking that because you have an overweight family member that it runs in your family’s genetics. When you think this way you are eliminating personal responsibility while rejecting the possibility of becoming a thinner person.

Some people believe that they are unworthy of being thin because diets and exercise never worked for them.

Your beliefs are your reality so if you don’t believe you can lose the weight on the conscious and unconscious levels you will not.

8. Harmful Medications
Studies have shown that there are over 50 common medications that make people gain weight including: antidepressants, insulin, cortisol, steroids, hormone replacement, and birth control pills. Sometimes ;you can gain up to 10 pounds a month according to the research that Mr. Gabriel has done.

If you make positive changes in your life style like meditating, doing self-hypnosis, adapting mind-body practices, getting a bit more activity in every day, eating nutritious life giving foods, and by all means reducing the stressors in your life no matter where they come from, you can most likely dump the drugs while becoming healthier in the process.

9. Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea disturbs your sleep as you stop breathing sometimes hundreds of times during the night. Your body is left starving for oxygen. Exhaustion is the end result which not only puts you in a bad mood, but triggers fat production in your body.
Lack of sleep also lowers the production of leptin a chemical which keeps you from feeling satiated after you eat while increasing the amount of ghrelin – your appetite-stimulating hormone forcing you to over eat.

Now you can better understand why the methods that the diet doctors preach don’t work. It isn’t about eating in a certain manner or undergoing some invasive surgical procedure such as liposuction, gastric bypass surgery or getting a lap band and all will be great in your life.These methods don’t work in the long term because weight loss is a much more complex matter than merely what and how much one eats and if or how one exercises. I give you this information because there are many hypnotists out there as well who would like you to think that changing your habits or just releasing your old stories will do the job as well. This is a step in the right direction, but far from a complete understanding of what it really takes to rectify this huge problem.

 

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Jun 20 2013

Let Us Set The Monkeys Free – Become “Recovered” – Vol.90 July, 2010 –

Written by Donna N.

At a recent conference on addictions that Suzanne and I attended, I noticed that all of the prominent speakers that had substance abuse issues acknowledged that they had  referred to themselves as “in recovery”. My question to you is: would you rather be “in recovery” or “recovered”? My question to the prominent speakers is: Are they truly free of addiction??

Personally having been in recovery and now recovered, I can honestly say that I prefer being “recovered”.

When I was in recovery, I was still considered an addict with all the “addict” behavior associated with the label, however I was not using or abusing drugs. I went to meetings and was identifying as an “addict”, albeit in recovery. This only sent the damaging message to my unconscious mind that I was still an addict with an addiction problem. Having sent this message to my unconscious mind each time I went to a twelve step meeting and hearing others identify as addicts in recovery at these meetings convinced me that I was indeed an “addict” which did give me the unconscious excuses I believe for my addict behaviors. Continue reading

Jun 20 2013

6 Ways to Make Someone Like You

6 Ways to Make Someone Like You – Vol. 205, June 20, 2013

How would you like your life to become both happier and more productive? With these six principles in Dale Carnegie’s Win Friends And Influence People you will find very simple and useful ways to get people to like you.

Principle 1: Become genuinely interested in other people. Think about a time when you were going through a difficult time. Didn’t it feel great when someone demonstrated that they truly cared about you? If you have someone in your life that is going through a difficult time, be there and be supportive. You will find that through your interest in others, others will be interested in you.

Principle 2: Smile. Have you ever noticed that when you smile at someone you will most often get a smile back in return. Why? Because a smile tells the person that you are glad to see them. When this happens it brings happiness to both of you. No one wants to be around sour, snarly people. So do your best to be appreciative of those who are in you life by smiling at them. This will bring your relationships to a whole other level. To the clerks in the stores who have to deal with all sorts of unhappy people, your smile can bring the sunshine in.

Principle 3: Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. Think about how you feel when someone calls you by something other than you name?  Does it bother you at all? If so, remember that. Ask how the person would like to be addressed and then call them by that name. This shows that you both respect and care for them allowing for a better relationship to form.

Principle 4: Be a good listener. I am sure that you have been involved in conversations where you could notice the person with whom you are speaking is barely paying you any mind. Maybe they asked a question and then they started to walk away while you were in mid-sentence. Or maybe you asked a question and the answer you received had nothing to do with the question. How did these situations make you feel?  Marginalized most likely. The best way to keep this from happening to you is to ask questions of the person that are truly interesting to you. This will make you a great conversationalist and with this skill you can accomplish much.

Principle 5: Talk in terms of the other person’s interests. This will gain you the other persons attention. By being aligned with that person’s interests you can develop deeper connections bringing you both mutual benefits.

Principle 6: Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely, from the heart. this being one of the strongest components of human nature. The end result is to be instantly liked by this person. If there is someone in your life that plays an important role for you, by all means let them know it often and sincerely. No one likes to be taken for granted and no one can read your mind.

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Jun 13 2013

Sudden Loss: How to Cope

Sudden Loss: How to Cope – Vol. 204 – June 13, 2013

I went to church on Sunday as I usually do. It is a very small congregation comprised of a very close knit group who keep things running. I had gotten some very good news right before going over to the church and got dressed up to celebrate.

Sitting in my usual pew, in the second row, waiting for the service to begin, I heard one of the gentleman congregants telling the choir in the back of the church, far away from where I was sitting, of what sounded like a bad dream. I heard him tell the story of how just this morning the church got the news of a member’s untimely passing. She had just had knee replacement surgery a few days ago. She was in rehab where she got sepsis, passing away quickly from that blood infection. Apparently her daughter and husband were there with her when she passed away.

The thing that you need to know about this particular woman was that she was so happy to be a part of our church, just having become a member recently. She was finding all sorts of ways to help out from cleaning the kitchen to handling some of the finances. Her great amount of energy and enthusiasm, as great as they were paled in comparison to her cheerful and down to earth manner.

Two things went through my mind as I heard the news. One, was the horror of realizing that someone I cared about seemed to be a victim to our broken medical system. I agreed with the female congregant who asked: How could a woman who wasn’t even lame, capable of walking, be lead to have this surgery and a few days later be dead? The other thought that I had was how grateful I was to have known this woman, having volunteered with her at the church a few times. How, lucky I am for all the great relationships that I have in my life and knowing that this is what truly matters to me in my life.

I would like to have you think about all the people in your life and the meaning that they bring to you.

I would like you to think about the last time you let them know that they held a special place in your heart.

I would like you to think about the last time someone let you know that you held a special place in their heart and how that made you feel.

I would like you to think about how you can be more open and present to those who you care for and most especially those who care for you.

We Americans spend so much time worrying about the past hurts and future problems we have a hard time recognizing what truly matters in life. It isn’t the money, and it isn’t the crap that you feel you have to have in your life. It is the loving connections you have with those who allow you to be who you are as you allow them to be who they are, just enjoying those quiet moments together. A great life is one that is made up of meaningful moments with those you love. Remember that for that is the most healing message I can share with you as an outcome of this most recent tragic event.

 

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Jun 06 2013

Do You Want the Tortoise or The Hare Method?

Vol. 82 November 2009- Permanent Change-Do You Want the Tortoise or The Hare Method?

More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year according to a new government study and 32,000 actually are successful.

What is worse is that this data was compiled by a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration based on a survey of 46,190 people aged 18 and older.  In past years the survey had  been given to people who reported major depression but as of 2008 it was added to all questionnaires.

It was found that amongst people with a substance abuse disorder, 11% had considered suicide, compared to 3% for people without such disorders. Continue reading

Jun 06 2013

Do feel Like You Are A Fake? The Imposture Syndrome

Do feel Like You Are A Fake? The Imposture Syndrome  – Vol. 203, June 6, 2013

One of the more interesting things that I have learned since entering the practice of hypnosis, is how the “imposture syndrome” permeates the minds of some of the most successful people I work with. The good news is that it is a fairly easy issue to clear with hypnotic technique.

First I would like to speak to why it is that this particular issue arises in some of the most successful people on the planet. Then I will give you a case study from a past client to demonstrate the manner in which the clearing occurred.

When you were very little your well meaning parents and teachers may have given you very high standards upon which to work from. In so doing, it may have felt that no matter how good your grades were, they were never good enough to please these persons of authority in your life. So, you continued to work ever harder to please them with better grades and being a pleasing person. Still in your mind you never felt you lived up to those standards. Interestingly enough, what you did accomplish was most likely some high power, well paying position as a result of all your hard work and pleasing personality.

A second type of situation could be at work as was true in my past client’s case. He was a very successful sales manager and yet he thought of himself as a failure. He had two kids in college and one in prep school during the time that we worked together, all of this quite an expense to be able to keep up. However, he couldn’t see this as success. Why? Because when he was a small boy, his father the judge who was well respected in the town that he grew up in, came home and physically beat up his sons as well as verbally abusing them. It was like his father was two different people. He had his well respected professional persona and the very strict and harmful personal persona. The client realized during our work together that if he couldn’t trust his well respected father, than how could he respect himself and give himself credit for that which he accomplished? With this understanding he was able to realize that he wasn’t his father, while giving himself the credit he deserved for doing very well in his life, including a successful career and a loving family. By owning his own achievements he was able to let go of the “imposture syndrome” that had been sucking any sense of fulfillment out of his life until then.

The truth of the matter is that people can be harder on themselves than anybody else. With a deeper understanding and respect of the younger you, for all that you went through allowing for the success that you achieved, you too, can let go of the feeling that you are “faking it” through life. You will be able to give yourself the credit you are due. The result, is feeling proud of your accomplishments allowing yourself to shine more fully, living with the confidence and appreciation that you deserve going forward.

 

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