Here we are preparing for the time of year when we have a tendency to stuff ourselves while convincing ourselves it is ok because it is the holidays.
How many of us have experienced that bloated feeling and taken our belts out a notch or two in preparation for more unrequired food? We dread gaining that extra weight. Some people crash diet before Christmas so they can eat more. Crazy I know!
Diets work on the body not the mind.
Weight management can be a large part of a hypnotherapists work schedule so let me share some tips and techniques to help you through this period. I want you to be able to eat any foods not just those you have been told you can eat. The secret is eating less of it.

• Wait until you are genuinely hungry
• If feeling hungry between meals, test it by drinking a glass of water
• Dehydration and hunger feel the same
• If after drinking the water you still feel hungry, eat something
• Eat slowly. It takes time for your mind to register you are full
• Help yourself by placing eating utensil down between bites
• Don’t follow others bad habits at the table
• STOP eating when you feel full not when you feel stuffed
• Learn to say “no thanks I have had enough"
• Ignore the pressure of “have one more chocolate”

Some of this is obvious but we do not always pay close attention.
Our thoughts precede our action so change your thoughts and you can change your eating habits.
Here are more tips:

• Get a mental picture of how you are going to behave in relation to eating
• In that picture see an image of yourself as how you want to look in the future
• When looking at your mental picture imagine how good it feels
• When you have that good feeling touch a finger and thumb together to create a positive anchor. Open and close a few times to make it permanent
• When you feel overpowered by the temptations on offer just close your finger and thumb and look at your mental picture and feel the good feeling
• Now you have to make the right choice for you

If you have cravings or actually have a desire to stop yourself eating certain foods contact a Hypnotherapist for a discussion.
So now you can enjoy the holiday season making right choices and eating what you choose without gaining weight.
Simple when you actually think about it, isn't it?

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​Thank You Hayley Whitehouse D.Hyp CPNLP. D.M.H. Dip SMC

In 2015, a researcher from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill reviewed 35 studies on the use of hypnosis for gastrointestinal disorders including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The conclusion was that research shows unequivocally that for both adults and children with IBS, hypnosis treatment is highly efficacious in reducing bowel symptoms and can offer lasting and substantial symptom relief for a large proportion of patients who do not respond adequately to usual medical treatment approaches.[1]
In 2003, researchers from the University Hospital of South Manchester and Withington Hospital in the United Kingdom studied 204 patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). They observed that 71% of the patients responded to hypnotherapy, and 81% of those maintained their improvement over time. Hypnotherapy resulted in improvements in patient symptoms, quality of life, anxiety, and amount of medication required.[2]
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​Bruce Bonnett -HMI hypnosis.edu

Anxiety can be experienced at different levels. It can be brought on by a fear of something that happened, or what we think happened and dread happening again. While most people will experience a relatively mild form of anxiety when facing a particularly stressful situation (such as an exam or presentation), anxiety disorders are very different. An anxiety disorder can disrupt the day-to-day life of an individual.
When a person suffers from an anxiety disorder, it can sometimes lead to them avoiding certain situations because they fear it may be a trigger. This can make regular life difficult, causing the individual to miss out on many opportunities. This constant fear can begin to affect their life, preventing them from achieving potential job promotions and developing personal relationships.

Hypnotherapy can be an effective treatment in reducing feelings of anxiety. Hypnotherapy for anxiety aims to seek the root cause of the problem. It works to change the individual’s thoughts and feelings associated with it.
Hypnotherapy is becoming a more recognized method for reducing feelings of anxiety. Hypnotherapy for anxiety can help boost confidence and self-belief, while reducing feelings of fear and intense worry. It can help you develop the ability to access the calm state of mind needed to overcome the often-overwhelming emotions you are living with.
Hypnotherapy for anxiety also aims to access your unconscious. Using the power of suggestion, it works to promote positive change. These suggestions can be tailored to help you learn what triggers your anxiety and why, as well as changing the way you react towards them.
Hypnotherapy can begin to teach you how to regain a sense of control and normality. It can help you understand what triggers your anxiety and how to cope when you start to feel anxious.
​In some cases you may be requested to get a Doctor's Referral before a trained and certified hypnotherapist will begin working with you as an adjunct to mainstream therapy to ensure something more serious is not in play.
​If you feel you need help in this area, feel free to contact me to get questions answered and know that I work with people from all over the world using Skype for sessions.

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​In 1979, researchers from Guy's Hospital Medical School in London studied 18 patients who had suffered from insomnia for at least 3 months. They concluded that patients slept significantly longer with hypnosis alone than when they received a placebo. Also, significantly more patients had a normal night’s sleep when using self-hypnosis alone than when they received a placebo or Mogadon/Nitrazepam – a benzodiazepine drug.[1]
In 1989, a Ph.D. from the University of Tasmania, Australia studied 45 subjects randomly assigned to one of three groups: hypnotic relaxation; stimulus control; and placebo. The data generated by the study suggested that only hypnosis was effective in helping the subjects go to sleep more quickly.[2]
In 2006, researchers from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University studied 84 children and adolescents with sleep issues (such as insomnia, a delay in sleep onset, nighttime awakenings, and issues like pain that impedes sleep) who did hypnosis sessions and were taught self-hypnosis. 87% of the children reported that hypnosis had helped them either significantly improve or completely resolve their sleep problems.[3] 

​Thank You HMI hypnosis.edu

I think an article by Exploring the Mind at www.exploringthemind.com sums it up best. They wrote an article about a woman who had a tumor removed from her brain and how she recovered so fast that the doctors were surprised.
If you don’t know already, your unconscious mind is pretty much “at the helm” when it comes to creating your experiences and your reality.
Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn puts it best: “Top-down processes override sensory or bottom-up information. People think that sights, sounds, and touch from the outside world constitute reality. But the brain constructs what it perceives based on past experience.” Simply put your reality and the way you experience it is created by your brain and the unconscious. It’s what explains things like the placebo effect.
If the mind is so powerful to be able to act as an anesthetic during major surgeries… help patients heal faster, with less need for drugs… and able to shut down major areas of the brain at will… then the sky’s the limit when it comes to achieving your goals.
All it takes is giving yourself the right “programming” and overriding the beliefs that are creating limitation.
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Only 8% of people who make New Year Resolutions succeed. One tool that can make it easier for people to keep and succeed with their resolutions is Hypnosis. Many people are using it to eliminate negative beliefs, create positive ones and increase motivation and succeed with their resolutions.

According to the Mayo Clinic website, “Hypnosis can be used to help you gain control over undesired behaviors or to help you cope better with anxiety or pain.

It’s important to know that although you’re more open to suggestion during hypnosis, you don’t lose control over your behavior.” In fact, people experiencing hypnosis are usually aware of everything that is going on. Some examples of the spontaneous hypnotic state are similar to playing or listening to music, reading an enjoyable book or watching television. It is wildly popular with the general public for successful weight loss, quitting smoking and stress reduction.
The reason it’s so tough for people to keep their resolutions is that their subconscious programming sabotages them. Hypnosis can help you to change those negative beliefs to much more positive ones, so that it becomes easier to achieve your goals, whatever they might be.

As more and more studies show that hypnosis helps patients with many common medical problems, interest in hypnotherapy for medical issues is greater than ever before.
The use of hypnosis for medical issues is not exactly new. Back in 1958, the American Medical Association (AMA) recognized that hypnosis is a useful technique in the treatment of certain illnesses and a valid medical procedure.[1] In fact, the Wall Street Journal reported in 2003 that hypnosis “is increasingly being employed in mainstream medicine”[2] and in 2012 that “scientific evidence is mounting that hypnosis can be effective in a variety of medical situations.”[3]
A 2016 study done by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine confirms that hypnosis is indeed a real thing. The study was conducted with functional magnetic resonance imaging, a scanning method that measures blood flow in the brain. It found changes in activity in brain areas of hypnotized persons that are thought to be involved in focused attention, the monitoring and control of the body’s functioning, and the awareness and evaluation of a person’s internal and external environments.[4]
Yet, hypnosis is still underutilized for medical issues. In 2016, Pierre-Yves Rodondi, a doctor at the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Lausanne University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, said: "If hypnosis were a medication it would already be in all hospitals, but it is an approach, and thus it must overcome cultural barriers."[5]
​adopted from my friend Bruce Bonnet

​No…Hypnosis cannot make you do anything you would not already be inclined to do. As an extreme example: If it were suggested to you under hypnosis that you were to go rob a bank and then bring me all the money. Your basic concepts, your morals and values would reject the suggestions. However, if you were already predisposed to robbing banks you might go out and rob one, but you certainly would not bring me all the money you took.
In another example, years ago, I was doing a demonstration to show how powerful the subconscious mind is. I was in a room with several people, some of them were family. I had one of my family members stand up. They were put into a trance state and the suggestion was given that when they opened their eyes everyone in the room would be naked. Upon giving the direction to open their eyes, they began laughing and hiding their face. They asked why some of the people in the room had no clothes on. It was determined that they could only see people naked that were not part of the family. All family members in their eyes had on clothes.