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Do What You Love or Love What You Do

Do What You Love or Love What You Do

"Thank God it's Friday" is a well worn phrase indicating satisfaction and joy at reaching the end of one's work week. While it certainly applies to many, as joyful an expression as it is, it's also sad in a way because it represents the feelings of someone who doesn't really love their work. So…how much do you love your job?
   
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Vets & Families Dealing With Loss and Stress and PTSD

Vets Deal With Stress and PTSD – Hypnosis Can Help

On Memorial Day we are reminded that many of our Vets and their familes are dealing with the grief and stress from loss as well as PTSD. This is a time for all of us to provide whatever support we can for the famlies of our Fallen Heroes as well as those returning Heroes who suffer daily from PTSD. 

Does Gastric Bypass Hypnosis Surgery Work?

Does Gastric Bypass Hypnosis Surgery Work?

 
When dieting fails, people often consider gastric bypass surgery as a way to succeed in losing weight. Because of the cost and the risk involved in undergoing gastric bypass surgery, many people who find themselves at their weight loss wit's end, also consider a “virtual gastric bypass surgery”, also called gastric bypass hypnosis surgery.  In gastric bypass hypnosis surgery, the client is put into a relaxed and comfortable hypnotized state. Then through suggestion the client “imagines” the gastric lap band being surgically inserted and tightened. 
 
Following the session, the client's unconscious mind believes there is a gastric band around the stomach making the client feel full after just a few bites, the same as if a lap band had actually been surgically implanted. 
   

Hypnosis Works for Weight Loss – Here’s Why

Hypnosis Works for Weight Loss – Here's Why

People are always asking me if hypnosis works for things like weight loss or to quit smoking or to relieve stress along with a wide variety of circumstances and the answer is almost always "yes." The reason my answer is almost always yes is because all of your emotions and most of your behaviors are either controlled entirely or greatly influenced by your unconscious mind and the unconscious mind is where hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming works effectively to create the lasting positive changes people are wanting. 

Let's take weight loss as an example. Eating is very much an unconscious behavior. People eat for a variety of reasons, the least of which normally is healthy nutrition. People eat when they're stressed, bored, depressed, celebrating, tired, anxious, being social and from time to time to nourish their body. All these reasons, except healthy eating, are controlled by the unconscious part of your mind.

Positive Stress vs Negative Stress – Do I Want Either?

Positive Stress vs Negative Stress – Do I Want Either?

Positive stress, also known as Eustress is the excitement felt by people when they are confronted by a demanding situation, which they think they can handle. People intentionally create Eustress through sports, gambling, business, watching scary movies and riding roller coasters. Eustress is created by the subconscious mind. Negative stress (distress) is also created by the subconscious mind and can sometimes be very appropriate and useful… for example… in an emergency situation.  

   

Science Confirms Hypnotherapy Works

For many years hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been rooted in science with a growing body of anecdotal and evidence based results being reported in a wide variety of publications. While the American Medical Association (AMA) currently has no official position on the effectiveness of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, in 1958, the AMA reported hypnotherapy has a recognized place in the medical arsenal and that it’s a useful technique in the treatment of certain illnesses and emotional conditions. In short, they were acknowledging that hypnotherapy works. Additionally, the American Psychology Association (APA) website has declared that most clinicians now agree hypnotherapy can be a powerful, effective therapeutic technique for a wide variety of conditions. Even the Mayo Clinic agrees that hypnotherapy works.