Hurricane Irene causes damage like this (Image by Elnias)

Fear is an emotional response that has been programmed inside of each of us and is meant as a mechanism for survival.  So when fear kicks in, you can be pretty sure that you have assessed the situation and decided that a response of running or fighting is appropriate.  That’s the flight or fight response.  When running or fighting is truly necessary then no problem, you’ll have the necessary abilities to perform that task.  But what happens when the response necessary is packing and leaving?  Or making sure you have the proper supplies on hand, or boarding up your windows is necessary?  If you do not temper your fear response, and channel it to the appropriate level for the challenge you are facing, then confusion arises.  That confusion might lead you to freeze or refuse to take action.  Because a confused mind will not make a choice.  And choices at this type of emergency moment are crucial to survival.  But not only are choices crucial, but the right choices are most important.

Working with a trained hypnotist, and learning how to do self hypnosis will give you the means to be able to adjust the level of whatever fear you are experiencing.  And by using self hypnosis prior to an expected natural catastrophe, such as Hurricane Irene, you can take the time to imagine what you would like to be doing during that emergency.  Such as calmly moving to a place of safety, perhaps higher ground.  Or preparing to have bottled water on hand and knowing where to store them for easy access.  Imagining what to do in the event that a tree might fall on a power line, or on your house.  Who you will be go to if your stucture should become unsafe to stay in.  This type of mental rehearsal, done while in self hypnosis, should be done with you always imagining yourself remaining calm and confident.  Because you are always in control of your imagination, you can direct your self hypnosis to how you would like it to turn out.  We call this perfect practice.

When you take the time to rehearse your responses, they become familiar to you, allowing you to be comfortable while making important choices.  Allowing you to remain confident in your actions.  And allowing you to be on top of your game when life threatening situations arise.

You can always seek out the help of a New York City Hypnotist to help you learn how to use your mind correctly prior to an emergency.  And if you had any bad experiences from natural disasters in the past that are lingering and causing you to jump to an uncontrollable fear based response, you can work with a New York City Hypnotherapist or Hypnotist to remove that unwanted fear based response.  Freeing you to live a more comfortable life.

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You can stop nail biting and have the fingernails you want

Compulsive nail biting is not only about biting your nails, but the chewing and biting becomes so serious that it leads to bleeding , open sores that can become infected which can also lead to permanent disfigurement. These people usually also have some forms of OCD or other mental illness. This stems from an unconscious behavior that is also apparent in the common form of nail biting. Compulsive nail biting with OCD drivers are not very common. Many people who are nail biters are often unaware of when they bite their nails, so it becomes that much more difficult to put an end to the behavior.

It is thought that the cause of nail biting comes from the environment. Some think that there is a biological connection to this behavior as well. This could be a learned response passed on from parent to child, or spread around among other children.

There can be several reasons that people bite their nails. I have read conflicting reasons put forth by different psychologists.
Sometimes this is noted as a response to stress. Biting the nails acts as a way of soothing and calming the nail biter. It could be reducing stimulation.

And then on the other hand, biting your fingernails could increase your level of stimulation when you are bored. It could help to keep the person awake and aware.

Perfectionism has been claimed to be one of the reasons for nail biting as well. Trying to straighten out irregular shaped nails by biting them into shape. This causes far more problems with the way the nails end up looking than when they started out.

You can feel the freedom when you stop nail biting

With so many differing psychological reasons for nail biting, I get the feeling that psychologists really don’t know why people become nail biters. Their approach to helping nail biters also widely varies.

You can drug your self using anti depressants that are prescribed for people suffering from OCD. This is a mainstream approach for nail biters and you need to be under the treatment of a psychiatrist.

The current methods using psychotherapy revolve around re training the person to monitor and change their responses. The techniques involve habit reversal training. Using self monitoring the patient becomes aware of their behaviors, seeking to interrupt the behavior. Then there’s stimulus control which is a therapeutic way of changing a persons internal moods, and emotions.

A competing response is designed to supply the patient with an alternative to biting their nails. This approach usually is scheduled over a 3 or more month period. And usually takes over a year for the urges to fade away.

Nail biting hypnosis speeds up the process considerably. Depending upon what type of nail biting the client is experiencing, and how determined they are to stop the behavior they can stop biting their nails in the very first visit to the hypnotist. Others can take a number of sessions longer. The industry average that people see hypnotists to resolve their problem is 4 to 6 sessions. With habits residing in the subconscious mind, and with hypnosis being the premier way of communicating with your subconscious it’s no wonder that it works so much quicker.

Are you ready to solve your nail biting habit? Give me a call at 212 223-1832 and we can see what hypnosis approach is best for you.

What type of nail biting do you do? Let me know why you bite your nails and what you have done to help solve your problem. You could be helping others as well.

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This seems like a drastic measure to get fat people to maintain a healthy diet.  Let me explain. The people who go in for gastric bypass surgery are self selected as those who can’t take control over their food choices.  That’s why they got morbidly obese in the first place.  To me it makes more sense to get them into a routine of the correct diet and exercise before the surgery and then, maybe they wouldn’t even need the surgery in the first place.

Putting people on restrictive diets is a proven way of reducing weight.  The surgery just makes it real dangerous for them to slip up and eat things they shouldn’t be eating in the first place.  But these are the very people who have been having those kinds of problems with control in the first place.  Why put them at risk and then teach them to be in control of their food choices?  Why not get them to be in control of their food choices first.  And then if necessary, after they can naturally eat smaller and healthier meals, do the surgery if still warranted.  It would be safer for the patients.

Well there’s a way that you can have both without th unneccesary risk of surgery and any complications that can develop.  It’s called a virtual gastric bypass.  You visit the hypnotist skilled at performing this process and using your imagination, they guide you through the operation.  You leave “knowing” that your stomach is smaller and you can’t possibly eat large amounts of food or you will vomit the excess.  You will feel sick at the thought of eating the wrong foods.  Isn’t this the kind of reponses that you want in order to lose weight?

With hypnosis you can have those kind of responses and quickly get down to your goal weight.  Get yourself into the healthy range.  And the cost of this virtual gastric bypass is about 5% of what the actual operation would cost you.  It’s a great alternative that needs some more attention.

What do you think about Gastric Bypass Surgery?

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This is probably the most asked question of a practicing Hypnotist.  The purpose of this post is to dispel the myth around whether you can be hypnotized or not.  There is also some controversy over your ability to achieve various levels of hypnotic trance.  While I won’t be going into that topic right now, I want you to know that some recent studies have indicated that whether or not you benefit from your hypnosis session has nothing to do with the level of trance you are capable of experiencing.

Can you be hypnotized? photo by spacey

You’ve probably read or heard that hypnosis is a natural state, and it is. It is a state of trance that almost all of us are familiar with. And I could assuredly say that includes you, because if you were not able to go into this trance state that we’re discussing, you wouldn’t be able to read this post as well. So I’ll amend my last statement to everyone reading this post. Yes, and that means you. You can, and do go into hypnotic trance every day of your life. There are many misconceptions and myths surrounding hypnosis. What it is, how it affects us, and what can and cannot be accomplished using it. There are some groups that would like to keep that confusion going. That way you won’t search for the answers to your problems with tools other than what they’re selling or providing. That’s fine for them, but not so fine for you.

The Truth About Hypnosis

The truth about hypnosis and the hypnotic state is that you own it, nobody else. No one can sell you your own hypnotic state. They can’t sell you something that you already own. Your  hypnotist can show you how to use your hypnotic state for your benefit. You probably already know how to use the hypnotic state incorrectly, so they’ll probably be showing you how to use it correctly. This education and training is only a part of what a hypnotist will do working with you to improve your life. With this information you will be in a position to take back control over your behaviors. Behaviors that seem to be outside of your control so far.

How Much Does It Cost?

This is a common question, probably because most people don’t know what to ask. They are so used to comparing purchases by price that this becomes their tool for comparison. Going to see a hypnotist is comparatively inexpensive. Especially if you compare it to what your problem has been costing you in real dollars over the lifespan that your problem has existed. Many people see a hypnotist to stop smoking or for weight loss so it makes sense to compare costs to these problems. Smokers spend thousands of dollars a year on just the cost of cigarettes. There are of course other additional costs associated to smoking cigarettes, most of these are never tallied up in the total cost of smoking. But they are real costs as well. Increased insurance costs, medical expenses, housing costs, pay scale loss (being passed over for jobs), lost sales (if your income involves selling of any kind), and many, many more. There are also social costs, self-esteem loss, confidence loss, and many other emotional strains associated with smokers.

I once met a retired gentleman who wasn’t able to move into the retirement community with golf course that he had planned because he was a smoker.  After his session with me he happily went on to a joyful golf retirement.

I could easily make a case for solid monetary expenses that are being borne by the person with any behavioral problem that has been ongoing for years. Think of the added expense associated with weight problems. Aside from the cost of the excess food consumed, all the other costs are relevant. And people who are having problems with their weight usually eat more food or consume more alcohol than they need. This is an added expense. I also think that fat people are going to be the new “smokers” of the future. They’ll be ostracized and shunned, and pressured into changing. The way that smokers are today. Especially when universal health care goes into affect  and we start to understand what being out of shape is actually costing the taxpayers. Society will not look kindly on those that are costing them additional money because they are out of control with their behaviors.

When you take an accounting of what your problem truly costs you in dollars and cents, you will see that a series of sessions with a hypnotist is quite affordable in comparison. In addition to saving you money, you just start to feel the freedom and control you wanted most if not all of your life. And it’s hard to put a price on that joy. If you don’t see the benefit of spending money on your own improvement, then you’re probably better off just continuing on the way you are. The change is probably not that important to you. And your own time is probably not that valuable to you or anyone else. Not meaning to be harsh, just realistic.

Not Everyone Can Be Hypnotized

You know how some people have told you that not everyone can be hypnotized? Well that is totally untrue. But it is true that not everyone will get the benefit of being hypnotized. One of the indicators of whether you’ll get the benefit as quickly, or at all, is if you see the value in your own improvement.  Some people initially appear to be price sensitive, but after  working with a competent hypnotist can be heard to claim that their hypnotist didn’t charge enough! Now that’s what I call massive value!

So your improvement mentally, spiritually, and physically is well worth the price, time and effort. All you have to do is make the decision to change and choose a knowledgeable and caring hypnotist to work with.

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There are a number of things that should be addressed and changed in order to lose weight. No great new information for you there. But did you know that by using weight loss through hypnosis you could make that process easier and more pleasurable. You can make it an automatic unthinking process that when you stay with it, will bring you down to a much more attractive and desirable weight. In the next few moments I’ll show you one of the ways you can do this.

Change how you look in a swimsuit with weight loss through hypnosis

You’ve probably been on diets before and struggled to maintain a restrictive diet. And what happens? When someone, even you, tells you that you can’t eat a certain food, that food becomes even more desirable. You start to crave that particular food, not because you want it, but because you can’t have it. These restrictive programs also have another downside. When you restrict your food intake to too few calories your body, through a survival mechanism, thinks there is a famine and starts to slow down your metabolism to conserve your energy stores. Just the opposite of what you want to happen if you are trying to lose weight. So restrictive diets don’t work. It’s just that simple. And if you’ve ever been on a diet you probably found this to be true. You gained all the weight back as soon as you stopped eating in that restrictive manner.  Things can be different when you use weight loss through hypnosis.

So, how can weight loss through hypnosis improve this process?

When you are hypnotized, one of the things that an experienced and well-trained hypnotist will be able to do is to change your response to food and eating. We all are born with the proper behavior toward food that we want to have. That behavior is to eat when hungry and stop when full. Have you ever noticed how an infant eats? An infant eats until it is full, and then stops. It spits out the nipple and will refuse to eat, because it doesn’t need the food anymore. It has supplied itself with the necessary nutrients it requires to take care of its needs for the next couple of hours.

Regaining the tools given you at birth
You were born with that same ability. A well-trained hypnotist can create the states that are necessary for you to make changes in your responses and reactions to foods…even the thoughts of food. And by doing just this simple process you start to see food and eating differently. You are no longer controlled by food. You are satisfied with a small amount of food. You regain control over the simple task of supplying nutrients to your body, and that feels good.

This is just one of the methods that are used in helping you regain control over food, and lose weight using hypnosis for weight loss.

Develop Healthy Habits with weight loss through hypnosis

So if you want to experience weight loss through hypnosis to help you to lose weight, one of the things you need is to create the state where food is just another object that we use to supply life, like breathing, and drinking water.  You can move food out of your consciousness so that it is what it was intended to be, a natural element like air, used for sustaining life.

Can you remember what it was like just eating naturally or did you always overeat?  Let me know what your experience has been in your post below.

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With hypnosis for weight loss you'll look sexy around the poo

Since you probably already know that your relationship with food is wrong you will be glad to know that a hypnotist strives to create new relationships for you with food and eating behaviors. When food is viewed as a source of fuel, rather than a source of comfort, you start to reclaim your control and become more at peace.

A recent case study reveals that a client came into the hypnotist’s office beaming because of the changes she noticed after her previous session. She stated that in her whole life she had never felt this good. And she felt this good everywhere she went. This lady is morbidly obese, but quickly changing her attitude and relationship with food. She reported that she exercised easily, and did so without complaining or feeling she “had to” do it. When presented with food choices she made healthier ones, more easily. If she felt like eating something she knew wasn’t so healthy for her, she found just a bite would be sufficient.

The process she experienced while doing hypnosis for weight loss is common when the advanced hypnotic techniques are employed properly. A morbidly obese person is eating to satisfy an emotion, not eating to satisfy physical need to replenish food supplies. In order to change behaviors at this point, it takes more than just using your imagination to mentally rehearse new behaviors, although that’s still an important part of the process.

You'll Jump for Joy After Weight Loss through Hypnosis

What becomes the focus of the early part of the program is learning how to respond to the emotions that the person is feeling. Those emotions are trying to communicate something that this fat person needs to know. It may be stuck in the past still trying to get the attention of the person, but whether that feeling is based in reality or just made up, it still needs to be taken care of. Or it will continue to cause problems in your life.

There are a few ways that dealing with feelings is accomplished when seeing a hypnotist. There are also ways of working through your emotions on your own. One way of doing that for yourself is to start with a journal. Keep it with you at all times. Write down your feelings. Spend about 20 minutes ever day for the next week or so writing down your innermost feelings and thoughts. Starting to identify your feelings is the first step to moving them out of your unconscious decision making process.

This process is approached differently by the hypnotist using hypnosis for weight loss. It can be done in conjunction with your journaling as well. When you start to become part of the solution doing your journaling work along with the person you’ve chosen to help you it becomes a more satisfying experience for you. You can comfortably say that you truly own your goal weight.

What have you found when you took pen to paper and kept a journal for your weight loss.  Did that work for you?  Post your results below.

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