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

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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.

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Enjoy!

-Robert Harrison, Director
Bay Area Hypnosis Center

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

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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’.

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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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Celebrities and Leading Magazines Rave About Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis
By Michele Hailey

Oprah’s O magazine published the benefits of using hypnosis for weight loss. Good Housekeeping, Reader’s Digest, Sports Illustrated, Red Book, Psychology Today, Ladies Home Journal and many more magazines continue to publish the benefits of utilizing hypnosis for personal change. Once informed about hypnosis, you will know that it is safe, natural, and very effective.

Alot of people can relate to wanting something (exercise, diet, stop smoking, etc). Most are aware that eating healthier and physical activity are the key to weight reduction and a healthy lifestyle. Yet, they still don’t do it!

Although hypnosis can stimulate fat elimination, it does not make fat magically disappear. During a hypnosis session, suggestions are presented to the unconscious mind that direct behaviors to change, which in lead to the weight loss and motivation. Imagine feeling that unhealthy foods are undesirable and you actually want to work out and be physically active. As the hypnotic suggestions implant and take hold, the body reacts and moves the metabolism into high gear.

Fergie quit biting her nails, and stopped a meth addiction with hypnosis; Samuel Jackson and Matt Damon stopped smoking with hypnosis; Jane Pauly was hypnotized on her show and explained the benefits of hypnosis.

Also, there are thousands of ordinary people out there, who with hypnosis, are making huge amounts of money, losing weight, stopping smoking, reducing stress and more. They are continually improving their self and increasing their lifestyle by using self hypnosis. With Hypnosis you’ll succeed much faster in your endeavors than without it!

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Here’s what one of our clients has to say,

“With no stress, I have lost 42lbs. The program improved my diet by eliminating the food and drink that resulted in my weight gain without my feeling deprived. I also enjoy exercise. I have such a positive attitude now that this is a new life style without feeling deprived. Thank you.”

-Bill Lamprett, Daly City

Food fads and trends come and go. But one that seems to be increasing in popularity is already thousands of years old. And that’s the raw food diet, which is defined as being based on eating unprocessed, organic, whole, vegan foods, at least 75 percent of which should be uncooked. A variety of techniques are used to prepare these foods, including sprouting seeds, grains and beans; soaking nuts and dried fruits; and blending and juicing fruits and vegetables. Dehydration is also used, because it doesn’t require much heat.

The growing number of adherents to what is sometimes called a “living foods diet” – which include celebrity devotees like Demi Moore, Bryan Adams and Woody Harrelson – believe that eating uncooked food prolongs youth and fights disease. The raw diet tends to be dense with nutrients that are easily absorbed into your blood, and contains little or no saturated fat. It is low in sodium, high in potassium and fiber. These factors are important in helping to reduce the risk of certain diseases such as heart disease and some cancers.

More importantly, temperatures above about 116 degrees F (46.6 C) destroy food’s natural enzymes, which facilitate digestion and keep our gut and arteries clean, thus boosting health and energy. How that happens is a bit controversial, with some scientists claiming that digestion depends on enzymes that the body generates and not on food enzymes. But fiber and antioxidants – of which fruits and vegetables are prime sources – influence that process. And the less cooked the fruit or vegetable is, the more antioxidants and fiber it retains.

We do know that cooking food denatures protein, which means that its molecular structure is modified, making it unusable or less usable by our bodies. When proteins are subjected to high heat during cooking, enzyme-resistant linkages are formed between the amino acid chains. The body cannot separate these amino acids and the indigestible, coagulated protein molecules become a source of toxicity.

Swiss research from the 1930s suggests that, when cooked food is ingested, the immune system sends armies of white blood cells to the digestive tract to fight what it perceives to be a threat. Absorption of un- or partially-digested proteins into the bloodstream can cause allergic reactions and toxicity of the immune system. This immune reaction is called Leukocytosis. In a nutshell, this process throws the body into shock, acting in self-defense by pumping out its own enzymes to digest the foreign substances that were ingested.

Scientists have continued to study cooked versus raw food diets. A Finnish study published in the journal Nutrition in 1992, for example, confirmed that raw vegan diets decrease toxic products in the colon. Results suggest that a raw food uncooked extreme vegan diet causes a decrease in bacterial enzymes and certain toxic products that have been implicated in colon cancer risk.

According to research performed by Dr. Bruce Ames, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of California, Berkeley, various groups of chemicals from cooked food can cause tumors. For instance, nitrosamines are created from fish, poultry or meat cooked in gas ovens and barbecues, as nitrogen oxides within gas flames interact with fat residues; hetrocyclic amines form from heating proteins and amino acids; polycyclic hydrocarbons are created by charring meat.

Conversely, researchers have found that a diet rich in raw vegetables lowers your risk of breast cancer. Eating lots of fruit reduces your risk for colon cancer, according to a study published in 1998 in the journal Epidemiology. And including fresh fruit as part of your daily diet has been associated with fewer deaths from heart attacks and related problems, by as much as 24 percent, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal in 1996.

However, there is some research to indicate that some of the phytochemicals, such as lycopene in tomatoes and carotenoids in carrots, are more easily absorbed by the body when the vegetable has been cooked. So supplementation of those nutrients might be wise. It has also been suggested that a raw foods diet could be low in iron and calcium. But a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine found although bones were lighter on a raw diet, osteoporosis wasn’t a threat. The lower bone mass that researchers discovered in raw food eaters was apparently due to their being thinner than the general population, due to their reduced caloric intake.

The study was a small one, with researchers comparing the bone health of 18 people who had been following strict raw food diets for up to 10 years with that of people who ate a more typical American diet, including refined carbohydrates, animal products and cooked foods. The groups were matched according to age, sex and socioeconomic status. To gauge bone health, the researchers looked at each person’s body weight, bone weight and mineral density, markers of bone turnover, levels of vitamin D and inflammatory markers. The raw food vegetarians in the study had lower body weights and total body fat than the other volunteers. They also had lower bone mass and bone mineral density. But the people who followed raw food diets did not have any other biological markers that typically accompany osteoporosis and had normal rates of bone turnover.

Experts suggest switching slowly from a cooked to a raw diet because of the effects of detoxification that may be experienced. These can include headaches, nausea and mild depression.

One of the ways to learn how to convert to a raw foods diet, while preparing it in an engaging manner, is to take cues from the growing number of celebrity chefs who specialize in raw, vegan menus. And one of the chefs leading the movement toward gourmet raw foods is Chad Sarno, who was called “the king of uncooked and vegan cuisine” by GQ magazine. In his book Vital Creations, Sarno writes, “Twentieth century mainstream nutritional science has intricately analyzed, dissected and removed the vitality of raw food, which is undisturbed in nature. However, now it has become our responsibility to pick up the pieces to assemble a more complete picture of food in its natural state. For all its technological brilliance, modern science is cognitively stuck in a mind-set that is woefully inadequate to the task of synthesizing nutritional wholeness in a way that many of us would like. It has done more than just leave us on our own; it has led us down a path of nutritional error, falsehood, conspiracy and fraud. The fraud revolves around one idea: the loss of the truth that our food and the soil from which it grows is a living system. When you forget that food is alive, it can easily become conventional wisdom to cook, can, salt, skin, dilute, dissect, adulterate, and/or irradiate food into an enzymatically dead substance. This depleted food is the source of almost all dietary and health problems. It has become commonplace to drown crops chemically instead of growing or feeding the soil, which is the life of the plant.”

Learn More

Living in the Raw by Rose Lee Calabro (The Book Publishing Company, 2003)
Living Cuisine by Renee Loux Underkoffler with Woody Harrelson (Avery, 2004)
Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow by Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis (Regan Books, 2005)
The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose (Regan Books, 2005)
Raw by Charlie Trotter and Roxanne Klein (Ten Speed Press, 2003)
Feel-Good Food: A Guide to Intuitive Eating by Susie Miller and Karen Knowler (The Women’s Press, 2000)
Dr. Gillian McKeith’s Living Food For Health by Gillian McKeith (Basic Health Publications, 2005)
Raw: The Uncook Book by Juliano Brotman and Erika Lenkert (Regan Books, 1999)
Vital Creations by Chad Sarno (Vital Creations, www.rawchef.org/books)

Wendy Priesnitz is the Editor of Natural Life Magazine and a journalist with over 30 years of experience. She has also authored nine books. Visit her website.