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March’s Theme is Health and Weight Loss

    We are eating more junk and getting less exercise. Obesity is the globes newest epidemic. It’s a Fat World.  Fat for Life? Six million kids are seriously overweight.  Does any of this sound familiar? These are some of the topics from Newsweek for several years running now. Maybe it took some people by surprise that this would be posted on the front of a magazine and stated as an epidemic but if you’ve been taking a look around at the people in your community, or on TV, or the people you see when you travel, it won’t be much of a surprise to see this epidemic displayed all over regarding our size, weight and health. I help a lot of people with a lot of different problems. They come to me mainly to change habits, thought patterns and behaviors. Weight Loss is actually one of the most common issues in which people seek help from hypnotherapy. Since around the year 2000 I have been regularly helping clients with weight loss issues. I got into hypnotherapy because I enjoy helping people and I like to see quick successful results. That is what was so attractive to me about hypnosis. I had seen, and then confirmed through my work, that people could make rapid change, seemingly miraculous changes. This got my attention. Going into college looking for a degree in psychology, I knew I wanted to help people from a young age. I saw the traditional methods in psychology weren’t as successful and eventful as I had hoped. Hypnotherapy fit the description as the tool I wanted to use to help people become a success. I wanted to see profound and obvious change in people. Here is the interesting twist regarding weight loss: It’s been recorded that I have helped people quit smoking within one hour. I am seriously talking about someone who smoked two packs a day for forty years. In one hour of hypnotherapy I had gotten him to quit. That is only one story, but over and over again, I am able to witness miraculous change when a client seeks my help; changing a habit so ingrained that the client had tried everything else to quit but to no avail. Imagine my delight when in one hour I could help someone quit smoking a habit that had been so ingrained that they have tried so many other ways to stop without success. In the next hour, I had a weight loss client that made little to no progress. This was very discouraging to me especially with the success rate that I have had. This was so disturbing that I have been on a decade journey of understanding this epidemic that Newsweek has identified. There are so many other news sources, books, and magazines that have been printing this for years.

For March I’ve decided to address health and weight loss as a theme. Over the years in private practice, weight loss has been one of the most common areas for which folks seek my help. What has been interesting (and aggravating) is I can help someone stop smoking in one session and then, in the next session, see little progress with a weight-loss client. This was discouraging to me since I got involved with Hypnosis due to its ability to rapidly effect change.

I went on a personal mission starting in 2009 to debunk the weight-loss myths and to find the truth. Soon I learned that common sense in eating habits is very uncommon, and that the diet industry is making billions of dollars while

February’s Theme is Love vs Fear

“Passion is to kiss or to hug and to prove that actions speak louder than words.” I chose this quote for a few different reasons. The first was because I was on a mission a few years back that led me to try and help define what passion really is because it is a word I use a lot in my line of expertise. I am passionate about what I do for a living. I feel passion and compassion throughout the facets of my life. So I thought it would be a good idea to delve into that a little bit and see what passion truly is in a relationship. I have to admit that I have learned a lot about that word these past few years. I also picked this quote because I live by the motto actions speak louder than words. It is a saying that helped me both professionally and personally. A lot of times people will open up their mouths and say things with either good or bad intentions and you always have a choice. You can choose to build someone up or break them down with your words and actions. I am not here to say I have hard feelings for people that have said things that have never come to fruition. A lot of times in my business experience, people will say “Oh, we should write a book.“ And in the past, I would get excited with the possibility but then it would never be followed through. The helium gets let out of the balloon and then you realize its not going to happen. I used to take those things personally and I would come down off this emotional roller-coaster and if you hang on every word that someone says then you end up getting disappointed. After realizing what was happening, I decided to trust their actions instead of their words. I wanted to see the proof behind the things of which they spoke. Because that is what true intention is. That is when you know what a person is like.

February’s Theme is Love vs Fear

Being able to reflect on your life and putting your best-foot-forward is often difficult at times. I hope the next few minutes I can bring you some encouragement. We are in the month of February and I am writing about love. As we embark onto today’s love quote, keep in mind that love is the ultimate goal. Love of yourselves. Love of the people in your lives. Today’s quote is: “Brilliance requires patience and virtue to rise above ignorance. Success requires optimism and effort to prevail over average. True love requires tender passion and faithful devotion to triumph beyond a feigned heart.”