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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. 

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.

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. 

Building Self-Confidence is a Key to Success and Happiness

Whether it's the quiet confidence of your doctor whose advice you willingly follow to the self assured financial advisor you entrust your money to or the charismatic confidence of a public speaker, we all admire self confident people. 
 
Self-confidence is an essential element in almost every aspect of our lives affecting everything from our careers to our relationships yet many people struggle to gain it. Sad too is the fact that low self confidence can be a vicious circle as negative outcomes, the result of low self-confidence, tend to confirm a person's low self-image thereby lowering self-confidence even further. 

Is Type 2 Diabetes a Medical or Behavior Problem?

 
Type 2 Diabetes in the US is at epidemic levels and it shows no sign of abating. To make matters worse, most studies indicate that adherence to healthy Type 2 Diabetes management practices among Type 2 Diabetics is around 30%.  This means most Type 2 Diabetics are slowly killing themselves because they are unable to make the lifestyle changes necessary to prevent the catastrophic complications that accompany this disorder. 
 
The diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes means that your blood glucose levels (A1C) are consistently higher than those of a healthy individual. It doesn't indicate whether a high A1C is due to a poorly functioning pancreas or whether the patient's muscle cells have become so insulin resistant that they are no longer able to absorb enough glucose to keep up with the body's production.  Accordingly, the diagnose relates to a symptom, and not an actual cause. 

9 Hypnotherapy Based Tips to Lose Weight Permanently

When I tell people that I'm a hypnotherapist, they inevitably ask: Does it work?  When I assure them it does, they usually have a follow up question along the lines of “could it help me lose weight, quit smoking, feel better about myself or some other personal issue they are dealing with.”  In most cases, I am pleased to tell them that yes, hypnotherapy can be an effective tool for creating that change in their life. 
 
Hypnosis predates carbohydrate and calorie counting by a few hundred years yet this well proven attention-focusing technique has yet to be embraced wholeheartedly by the medical community as an effective weight loss tool.  This, despite the fact that hypnosis prestigious hospitals in the U.S. now use and teach hypnosis, such as Stanford University School of Medicine in San Francisco, the Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Since the American Medical Association sanctioned the use of hypnosis, many insurance companies cover hypnosis for some medical and dental uses, including major surgeries. 

Happiness Now Hypnosis Joins the Give An Hour Program

Provides Free Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Conditions to Combat Veterans

 

Happiness Now Hypnosis is pleased to announce that we have been selected as an Alternative Provider for Give an Hour and will be providing free Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming services to combat veterans in the Detroit Metro and Ann Arbor Metro, Michigan area who are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and related conditions.