This week on Wednesday Feb 8th, Dr. Oz will be doing another show on how to lose weight with Hypnosis.  He’ll be talking with Paul McKenna again who is a Hypnotist and NLP Practitioner.  Yet, in this show they’ll be exploring the hypnosis version of the ‘gastric bypass’ which simulates weight loss surgery using only hypnosis to convince the patient that they have actually had a gastric bypass to lose the weight…read on to hear my thoughts on this procedure.

So, what’s the deal with using Hypnosis to make the client’s subconscious mind ‘think’ they’ve undergone surgery?  Is it effective?  Does it work as well as traditional Hypnotherapy methods to help a person lose weight?  Is there such a thing as a ‘traditional method’?

What is the Hypnosis version of the ‘Gastric Bypass’?

The basic concept is to convince the subconscious mind that the surgery has actually taken place when it didn’t.  There are many versions of this out there, but the concept is the same.  Often, the practitioners will play a cd with hospital sounds and smells to make the effect more real.  They will then suggest that the surgery has taken place and that you’ll now be extremely full after a small amount of food.  Is this a good idea?  Studies show that caloric restriction fails 95% of the time after more than a year.

To those who have been in the business for more than a few years, the idea of convincing the mind that surgery has occurred is nothing new, but there are some concerns with Hypnosis.  The most obvious concern is this.  Why would you want to try and convince someone of something that isn’t true?  What’s the long term effect of that?

Why would you need to lie to create good health?

If you try to convince yourself of something that you know isn’t true, do you really think it will stick long term?  What are the odds of your unconscious overcoming that falsehood at some point?  If you’re not sure, ask yourself this, “Do you still believe in Santa Clause?”

The answer is an obvious no.  In the long run you are more likely to actually breed distrust for the purveyor of the information and it will become harder to make the changes you desire because your life experience doesn’t match what you’ve been told.

In addition, you actually re-reinforce the belief that weight loss is going to be difficult, that you can’t do it on your own, and that being fit and healthy isn’t within your reach easily without something like surgery.

The fact is, Hypnosis is a powerful tool and will work great for weight loss when done right – but the media will always be drawn to a good story.   So let’s face it, fake ‘Hypno Surgery’, even if it works short term and backfires long term is a great story.  It may for work some, but I believe there are more effective Hypnosis treatments available.

So what’s the ‘Best Practice’ solution?

After 10 years of working with up to 22 clients a day, teaching at the largest convention for Hypnotists and Hypnotherapists in the world, coaching Hypnotists all over the US, Canada, etc. I have seen some brilliant hypnotists get amazing results for weight loss.   With each of them, the technique was NOT the specific that made the difference.  A highly skilled hypnotist can get the job done with a variety of techniques.  The KEY difference in these highly skilled hypnotists was their ability to customize and adjust the techniques on the fly for the client based on their individual needs and how they respond to each phase of the treatment.

Hypnosis for weight loss works amazingly well when done by a qualified practitioner who understands that 80% of the work is not the technique.  80% of creating lasting weight loss is learning to work with the client’s personality profile and a thorough and deep understanding of how they process information, cope with stress, and view themselves.  This information provides the necessary blueprint to help get the client from fat to thin and keep them there.

In my years of experience I have come to believe that good health, healthy eating and exercising habits, and ideal weight are all goals worth pursuing and attaining.  When you think about it correctly, it makes sense, and it is easy and enjoyable.  Yet, most of us have been programmed by TV and advertising to desire food that is unhealthy and will destroy our health.

My promise to clients has always been that I will never try to convince them of something that isn’t already true.  This is the foundation of trust and credibility.

The truth is, when you eat at the right times, the right foods, in the right amounts you feel amazing, your digestion is better, you sleep better, you have more energy, better mental focus, and you actually think happier thoughts.

What throws most of us off track is becoming addicted to man-made concoctions that make us sick and fat.  Pretty much anything with enough sugar, fat, and salt mixed into it, what I call the ‘Evil Trifecta’ we’ll eat and keep on eating.  But is it because we love it?  It may seem so, but the answer is a lot more scientific than that.  It’s because it throws our blood sugar off balance.  Excessive fat and sugar together is a metabolic disaster waiting to happen.  When our blood sugar get’s out of balance, our brains send a signal to our appetite center to eat MORE (in an attempt to re-stabilize blood sugar).  This, in turn, causes us to eat more of the same food which causes our blood sugar to get more out of balance, etc. until we spiral out of control.

That’s where hypnosis comes in.  Hypnosis can help you lose interest in these deadly foods and start craving healthy foods like fresh whole ripe fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and lean proteins.

Imagine being able to actually eliminate an un-healthy food from your diet?  You already know it’s unhealthy and makes you feel terrible AFTER you eat it.  So what if we could program you to experience that feeling BEFORE you eat it?  Programming your mind to notice what food feels like after you eat it, but before you put it in your mouth will permanently shift your preferences because the truth is – healthy food feels good and unhealthy food feels bad.

As you lower the fat in your diet your energy level goes up, in direct proportion, assuming you are eating sufficient calories of nutrient dense foods (that already tastes amazing).  When your energy levels rise you naturally crave and desire physical activity like a kid again.

Have you ever noticed that children don’t ever need motivation to play?  That’s your natural state, so when you remove the sludge from your diet and the mental blocks from simply enjoying a fit and healthy life-style and having fun – you will lose the weight and keep it off…but not because you have to, BECAUSE YOU WANT TO.

A solid Hypnosis program for weight loss will help you to FEEL what food really does to your body in a deep and lasting way.  It can program your mind to SEE the actual INGREDIENTS of what your are eating before you eat it.  For example, when most people think of chocolate they see it as this entity on it’s own…this magical thing called ‘Chocolate’!  What they don’t SEE and FEEL is that chocolate is 80% (on average) butter.  That’s why chocolate melts like butter, has to be stored like butter, has the consistency of butter, because it is mostly butter.  When their mouth is watering they aren’t imagining eating a huge chunk of butter.  They don’t look at a box of See’s candies and see a box of chunks of butter.  And how would they feel if, when they thought of eating chocolate, they actually vividly imagined eating that large chunk of butter?  Would they still eat it?  Probably not.

In our clinic we teach clients how to see & feel things for what they really are, not try and believe something they know isn’t true or doesn’t really exist.  This supports them being far more successful long term because what they experience validates what they have been told and reinforces the change over time.

Good health and fitness is not something that we have to lie or coerce ourselves into doing.  A comprehensive hypnosis weight loss program can help you change the habits and beliefs that have been getting in the way of you loving eating right and enjoying regular physical exercise naturally, and in a way you can really live with long term.

Use Hypnosis to gain mastery over your mind in a true way and reap the benefits for a life-time.

Robert Harrison, Director of Hypnosis at the Bay Area Hypnosis Center.

Visit www.BayAreaHypnosisCenter.com/welcome  for more information.

Listen to her testimonial and notice how she describes the changes as ‘natural’ and something she can really live with ‘long term’.

Our program helps you to make the life-style changes you can live with long term. No pills, no shakes, no pre-packaged meals, just real life-style changes you can live with. Imagine changing how you feel about certain foods, eating habits, and exercise. Bay Area Hypnosis Center’s weight loss program for losing weight can help.

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As promised, here are the 4 primary coping mechanisms for Stress as defined by Virginia Satir.

Quick reminder:  the Hypnosis Level I Beginners course (where you’ll learn how to READ people) will begin this Saturday July 31st from 9am-12pm.

For more info & to register now go here: http://bayareahypnosiscenter.com/learn-hypnosis/

We all slip into each one of these from time to time but each of us has a PRIMARY one we revert to when we are stressed and feel un-resourceful.  Try to see which one you tend to slip into the most:

Placater – The Placater is first of all concerned about how they will be perceived. Their center of attention is on themselves and particularly on their perception of how others see them.

Their response to stress is largely to avoid it. If there are any ‘uncomfortable truths’, then they will generally try to avoid talking about them (and may in fact go to extraordinary lengths to avoid any such confrontation).

Blamer – The Blamer feels powerless and uncared-for. All alone in the world, they feel that nobody will ever do anything for them.

When they feel stressed, their feelings of isolation increase further. As a result, they compensate by trying to take charge, bluffing their way out, hiding their aloneness in attempted leadership.

Computer – The Computer feels exposed when showing emotions, perhaps because they have difficulty controlling them or they may have been criticized as a child for showing emotion. Men, in particular, tend to be Computers.

To avoid having to confront emotion, when faced with stress, the Computer resorts to logic, becoming super-rational about the situation and working hard to appear super-cool on the outside (although they may be churning like mad on the inside).

Distracter – The Distracter easily becomes confused by stressful situations. Instead of taking some positive action, they are not sure what they should do and so grasp at straws.

In practice, they may well respond to the stress by shifting between the three previous types of Placater, Blamer and Computer. In doing so, they are trying in vain to find some solace in different practices.

In the next email, I’ll tell you about the Leveler (which is the ideal way of responding to stress and uncertainty)

To learn how to read people and get the professional edge over your competition make sure you register while you still can for the training this Saturday July 31st at 9am.  It’s a low-cost and fast 2 session training but the information will serve you for a life-time.

For more information & to register now go here:  http://bayareahypnosiscenter.com/learn-hypnosis/

If you have any questions about the training call:  1-800-555-5536

Enjoy!

-Robert Harrison, Director
Bay Area Hypnosis Center

www.BayAreaHypnosisCenter.com – Hypnosis for Weight Loss, Smoking Cessation & Habit Control

If you have any questions about Hypnosis or the training call:  1-800-555-5536

For more info & to register go here: http://bayareahypnosiscenter.com/learn-hypnosis/

One of the most common experiences for a new client in my office is the READ I do during the screening.  Within moments of meeting the person I begin to tell them exactly what their coping mechanisms for stress are, how specifically they process information, and how they get stuck in personal and professional endeavors.  In fact, the most common response I get besides the dropped jaw is this… “It’s like you totally know me.  I’ve never had anyone ever know that about me before.  How did you do that?”  Occasionally, I even get, “Are you a mind reader?”

Though this may seem magical at the time, I can assure you it’s the result of knowing how to READ people very quickly.  Years and years of experience help, giving a good hypnotherapist, consultant, manager, or leader an intuitive ability about people.  Profiling tools like DISC, Meyer-Briggs, Kolbe, Enneagram, etc can also be helpful.  But if you ask my clients, they will tell you I have an uncanny ability to read almost anyone in an instant or from just a few words of conversation.  I can tell them how their relationships are going and what pitfalls will or have come up along the way in moments.  I can quickly identify how people hold themselves back professionally, why they start and then stop projects, why they sabotage themselves, where they are likely to stumble along the way, how they have done it over and over again in the past, and a lot more.  It looks like mind reading – but it isn’t.  It is a teachable skill and it doesn’t take years to learn.

This builds instant rapport and trust with every client as they hear the READ and confirm it in their own mind.  If you are in management, sales, a leadership position, or want to be good at Hypnosis, you want to have these skills in your tool belt.  These skills give you what you need to know how to successfully navigate clients from start to finish and how to prevent pitfalls from occurring in the process.   The more accurately you can profile people you want to help the easier it will be to help them – plain and simple.  If you are in a management or leadership position, it will arm you with the information you need and the formula to motivate your team members, if you are in sales it will give you the essential information you need to help them make a decision and commitment with your offering (assuming it’s a good fit).  In personal relationships, if you can understand how your partner really processes information, you’ll know how to access their love strategy and give them what they want in a way they get.  That means – a better relationship.

All of this key information will allow you to help others more effectively.  In a business situation, where there is mutual self-interest, it will make it easy to dovetail outcomes so that both you and the other person is very happy and satisfied with the transaction – now and later.

In the next email I’m going to talk about the 4 major coping mechanisms for stress – the blamer, placater, computer, and distractor.  When you get stressed and anxious, you’ll always slip into on of these four coping patterns of behavior.  Doing this can cost you relationships, money, and even your job – so you’ll want to learn which one you tend to do and what you can do about it in the future.
To learn how to read people and get the professional edge over your competition make sure you register while you still can for the training on Saturday July 31st at 9am.  It’s a cheap and fast training but the information will serve you for a life-time.

For more information & to register now goto:  http://bayareahypnosiscenter.com/learn-hypnosis/
Enjoy!

-Robert Harrison, Director

www.BayAreaHypnosisCenter.com – Hypnosis for Weight Loss, Smoking Cessation & Habit Control

As director of the clinic, I’m amazed we have helped so many smokers quit over the last few years. As you may or may not know every client gets private and personal care one on one with a master hypnotherapist and smoking cessation expert until they are smoke free – no questions asked.  So that’s no small feat to see so many clients privately through to complete – but it’s well worth the effort.

Now everyone knows, but the reason we started the Bay Area Hypnosis Center from the beginning was to battle the two leading causes of preventable death in the US each year.  Smoking related  and adult obesity and diabetes relates diseases.  These are two very much needed services for the community – and we’re confident that Hypnotherapy is the best solution for both because of it’s unique power to help a person really change their habits – not just temporarily put them on pause (like many diet and drug alternatives do).

We firmly believe that if the habits don’t change it’s only a matter of time before a person goes back to what they did before.  Sheer willpower alone will only work for a period of time.  That doesn’t mean it’s going to be a walk through the park all the time either though – but it targets the real problem – repetitive and habitual limiting behaviors like smoking, over-eating, and other habits that lead to our health decline.

To learn more about hypnotherapy and how it works check out our website at www.BayAreaHypnoisCenter.com or click here to watch our short video ‘Introduction to Hypnotherapy’.

Check it out…the perfect YUMMY lunch

This is one of my favorite simple salads.  Fresh greens, japanese cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, avocado, and black beans for protein!

It will also go into detail why FAST FOOD is BAD for you.

Also, if you haven’t gotten the free Weight Loss Report – just click on the ‘LOSE WEIGHT’ tab and sign up now – it’s easy and it’s free and you’ll find it full of useful information that will change the way you think about dieting forever.

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