“What is the most resilient parasite? An idea”. – Cobb
A quote from the movie Inception
I have received several comments from readers of “The Real Inception” that what I am writing about is fiction or fantasy and trying to capitalize on the movie’s popularity. This post is to clarify what I have been accomplishing as a St. Petersburg Hypnotist
My last blog post was about the movie, Inception and addressing the idea of implanting an idea. If you haven’t seen the movie, one nugget of the plot is that an idea can be so powerful that it alters your beliefs and behaviors.
I have been in the business of “inception ” (advanced transformational hypnosis) for 10 years, as an addictions counselor and as a practicing Hypnotherapist.
Through interviewing I know what the client tells me they want to achieve or desire. So they have provided the idea. The role of the Hypnotherapist during the session is as a guide to help clients achieve those goals. It is true that ideas get implanted in the subconscious mind during a hypnotic process for Stopping Smoking, Weight Loss, Addictions Recovery, Anxiety, PTSD, Stress Reduction, etc…
Hypnosis is the art of the practitioner’s skills and techniques, and understanding the science of the mind and human behavior. This is why personal sessions with a certified Hypnotherapist delivers better results than Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and canned recordings of self hypnosis suggestions.
Personal sessions are customized to the best way the client’s subconscious mind receives new information. A skilled hypnotherapist help guide you into deep levels of hypnotic trance (there are six levels of trance), using language patterns (NLP), and visualization that is most suitable to your current accepted beliefs and the ideas suggested are the ideas you wish to be implanted. When the suggestion is presented and adopted by the client as their idea that is when the permanent transformation takes place. The work is completed in 4-6 sessions
My “Inception” Model for Change
Targeted Idea → Changes your Thoughts → Changes your Beliefs → Changes your Attitude → Changes your Emotions → Changes your Behavior → Changes your Actions
I hope this post clarifies fact from fiction. We are not talking shared dreams or an IMF team to steal someones thoughts or implant an idea for corporate espionage. We are talking the real life work of hypnotists and hypnotherapists around the world.
Have you have seen the movie “Inception”? If so, I have a question for you.
What would it mean to you to experience the science of “Inception” in real life?
If you believed it was possible, would you use it to have the life you only dream of?
Imagine what would happen if you could plant the seed of an idea deep in your subconscious mind.
An idea that would change you and your life forever.
An idea, that once planted deep in your subconscious mind, will change those limiting beliefs at your very core.
Which idea would you choose?
Would you choose to have money and wealth? Or live your life with passion and purpose? Or just to be comfortable and happy with yourself?
Would you choose to implant extraordinary Self Confidence? Self Esteem? Supercharged Motivation?
Imagine having access to implanting any idea in the world, what idea would that be?
If there was a way to change what you believe about yourself at the deepest level, what would you want to do, change, or achieve in your life?
Well, here is your invitation to experience “Inception” of an idea for real. This is what I do for a living. I am a Personal Coach and Certified Hypnotherapist in St. Petersburg, FL. It’s my passion to help people make remarkable personal transformations.
I help clients, everyday, to go deep into their subconscious mind, to a much greater depth in their subconscious mind than they have been able to go on their own. I guide clients through a process of dissolving erroneous limiting beliefs, fear, anger and guilt that are holding them back and guide them to re-connecting with their deepest values, passions, and purpose.
“Reality is the limitations of one’s own mind” ~ Larry Akers, 1977
I just finished my special report on 7 Steps To Your Best Weight. You can get the report downloaded instantly when you sign up in the right hand corner of this site. The report includes tips that are both healthful, sound, and powerful in helping you reach your best weight.
One of the most powerful parts of the report talks about the way we are able to change our behaviors. Most people try to reach a goal, like losing weight, by limiting a behavior (less food, no sweets, etc). That’s a short term solution, and the reason you won’t lose weight permanently.
I decided to give you an excerpt from the report, and if you’re interested in reading the entire report, please sign up in the little box on the right hand corner. You’ll get a link to opt-in and after you confirm your request, you’ll return to the website. There will be a link to view the report right away.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts about the report. As promised, here’s an excerpt.
Excerpt from my Free Report
“7 Steps to Your Best Weight”
Stop Diet Deprivation
When you are trying you to lose weight, the word “diet” triggers feelings of being deprived of something you want. You have to sacrifice while family, friends, and co-workers are enjoying foods you have to give up. Have you ever heard the joke, “Diet has the word ‘die’ in it”? The joke has some truth in it because most people feel deprived or like they’re ‘dying’ just to lose some pounds.
A bigger problem is that feelings of deprivation actually make those ‘forbidden’ foods even more desirable. By depriving yourself of certain foods, you’ll find yourself wanting those foods even more than before you began your diet. Deprivation sets you up to fail in your weight loss goals.
Another problem with feeling deprived and making sacrifices is that it creates anxiety. Suddenly, a lunch out with friends becomes a situation to worry about. Anxiety is triggered in your mind and your body responds to the stress.
Unfortunately, feelings of stress trigger your need to be comforted and consoled. This can lead to comfort eating and continued weight gain.
Let’s take the word diet out of your weight loss. It’s important to change your perspective about dieting. A diet means deprivation and gives us a sense of
something temporary. Understand that this is a long term, life-changing process. It’s a permanent shift in the way you think about your weight loss goals.
Ways to Stop Feeling Deprived
Fortunately, there are a few steps you can use to stop the feelings of deprivation. It is a matter of changing your mindset and making small, lifestyle changes.
1. Think long-term lifestyle change and not short-term “diet” thinking. This is not about sacrificing for a quick fix. You want a happier and healthier life – a permanent and long term solution.
2. Find your reason “why” for your weight loss goals. Your ‘why’ will motivate you when you run into small obstacles or doubts.
3. Reward yourself when you achieve small measurable goals along your way to your ultimate weight loss lifestyle. Ideally, your rewards should be non-food related and connect to your bigger reason for losing weight.
4. Stay connected with your support network. Think about people who truly support your weight loss journey. Your support group can be family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, or an online support group. Make sure you stay in touch whenever you need an encouraging word or when you want to shout your latest success.
5. Eat small meals about every 3 hours. This way you won’t feel deprived or that you have to sacrifice to lose weight.
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I’ve been sharing about how to identify limiting beliefs. In my last post, I asked you to examine your overall views about the world and to determine the secondary gains in your beliefs.
What’s the Payoff?
It can be difficult to admit the payoff in a limiting belief. As an example, let’s say you started your road to personal growth: you decided to become a nurse and went back to school part time while you worked a full time job. As you get closer to graduation, you find yourself increasingly irritated with the work load, and the doubts of changing your life multiply tenfold. You start saying, “I’m not smart enough to finish this degree. I shouldn’t have started college – I’m too old. Why did I think I could be a nurse?”
Your negative belief is stopping you from reaching your goals. Why would you want to hang on to a belief that you’re not smart? Maybe, in the past, your parents offered help so the ‘failure’ didn’t seem so bad; in fact, maybe it felt even better. In between the thoughts of failure, you had someone telling you that it wasn’t your fault or giving you money or a place to crash until you got yourself together. This isn’t easy to admit, but it’s definitely understandable why this would feel like a great payoff. It’s easier, and humans tend to follow things with less obstacles. It’s not a reward you’re going to shout to friends, but it gives you feelings of comfort or stability.
What’s Your View of the World?
When you look at your general mindset of the world, question how you came to believe what you do. Did a particular belief come from your parents, friends, teachers, or the media? Let’s say that your family always made comments that ‘rich people’ were greedy and had no class. Maybe there’s a specific belief that started from a specific incident. What’s the event that sticks in your head?
I remember my parents thinking that ‘rich people’ were crooks who were rich by inheritance not genuine hard work. How else can you explain how some people make so much money when they were struggling, working 60+ hours a week and never having savings, a nicer house, or new cars? My limiting belief stemmed from my parents’ belief about money: people can’t make a living just by doing something they love. In order to pursue a career I loved, I had to reframe this underlying belief.
Reframe Your Belief With A Realistic Shift
Now’s the time to reframe your belief by looking at the reality of the belief. Go through the steps of examining the source of the belief, understanding your secondary gains, and looking for realistic examples of the new belief. The nursing student could think about her past. Is it true she’s not smart enough when she’s been successful in her other courses? Is it true that there’s an age limit on learning? No, of course not. She could be 35 years old woman with a degree or 35 years old without a degree. Age does not have to be her limiting belief.
Can you find examples of other people who have achieved what you’d like to? Open your mind to possibilities and see that plenty of other people have finished their degree at 24 or 54 years of age — or even a 94 year old earning a master’s degree.
This step is beyond thinking positive about your new belief. It’s a psychological shift in your thinking by realizing your limiting belief is not really true.
A New Payoff
Remember the part about every belief providing a payoff. Even the negative beliefs will give you something that you need, and that’s one of the reasons it’s so hard to change your beliefs. In the example of the struggling nursing student, she needs to get the feelings of stability and comfort in a new way. Instead of letting family ‘save’ her from the difficulties of school, she could concentrate on how to feel stable and comforted in her new beliefs about her self and her new career.
If she finds a mentor, talks to a school counselor, and remembers that she loves to help people, she will find renewed strength in pursuing her path. Then she’ll need to attach feelings of stability and comfort to her new career — she will have a career she loves, she can move into a better home, and she will be able to pay her own bills. She is strong enough to be her own stability and comfort, rather than the temporary fix from her parents that only reduce her own control and self esteem.
Future Progress
Rejoice in each step of the process. Approach it by knowing that you will uncover any part of yourself and will strengthen yourself. Watch your progress and if the limiting belief rears its ugly voice, then reframe it and remind yourself that the payoff will happen with your new belief. Open your eyes to opportunities and instances that support your new belief. And before too much time has passed, you will find this positive belief playing in your head time and time again. It will fade to your subconscious — something you won’t have to actively think about — and became a part of your belief system.
I welcome your comments about your journey, your new beliefs, and opportunities you’ve had in changing your limiting beliefs.
When you want to make changes in your life, it’s helpful to find support – whether that’s a professional counselor, coach, or hypnotherapist. It’s important to find the right person to help you reach your dreams. I’m happy to introduce you to friend and coach Barbara Wainwright, president and co-founder of Fowler Wainwright International Institute of Professional Coaching. My thanks to Barbara for being today’s guest blogger!
Life Coaching – Live the Life You LOVE.
And LOVE the life you Live. Why not? What’s stopping you? Do you hear the voice of your mother when you think about your dream life or your life of adventure? “You better not do that? You’ll ruin your life. It’s too risky. What are you thinking? What about your education? How dare you cross me! You’ll never hear the last of this!” Wow…that would enough to stop anyone in their tracks.
With Fowler Wainwright International’s Professional Coaching System, our Certified Professional Coaches can help you to recognize where your motivation is coming from. FWI Certified Professional Coaches encourage you to look within, to listen to your own voice, then to speak up and begin taking action steps toward your dreams. As coaches, we know you have all the answers within you. Sometimes “life” gets in the way of us really taking the time to listen to our own voice.
FWI’s Certified Professional Coaches are trained to help you identify limiting beliefs and to help you to develop a strategy for success. FWI CPCs are also trained to create a vision statement for you to listen to daily. The vision statement will remind you of where you want to go and the steps you need to take to get there. Your coach will be there to encourage you and motivate you to continue in your quest to live the live you LOVE.
Don’t wait. Take charge of your life. Now. If you are feeling a resistance to those words, stop. Take a deep breath. Quiet your mind. Ask. “What is getting in the way of me living a life that I LOVE?”
You know the answer. Now what are you going to do about it? A Certified Professional Coach can make all the difference in whether yousucceed in stepping out of your comfort zone or stay right where you are for another 10 years. So, how about it? What’s it gonna be? What have you got to lose? Step up to the new you. You CAN do it easily and naturally with genuine motivation from within. Start. Now.
Barbara Wainwright is the president and co-founder of Fowler Wainwright International Institute of Professional Coaching. FWI has trained and certified over 1,700 coaches since 2008.
For more information, please visit http://www.FowlerWainwright.com and http://www.BestOfCoaching.com
In my last post, I talked about how to identify limiting beliefs. You may run into an obstacle in reaching your dreams unless you identify any limiting beliefs. In this post, we’ll delve deeper into your beliefs.
As discussed in the last post, when you state your goal, what immediately pops into your head? If it’s something negative, that’s your limiting belief and something you need to analyze. Your limiting beliefs may exist as passing thoughts or feelings. You may be saying negative thoughts to yourself or as even feeling negative reactions to what others say to you.
Examine your overall beliefs about the world.
Do you have a positive mindset? Do you consider yourself an optimist or a pessimist? What has influenced your beliefs? Where did you get this belief? Parents? Teachers? Society? Media? Obviously, many of our beliefs are handed down from family and friends. These beliefs are so ingrained that you may not recognize their impact. They become accepted as fact and influence your approach to any goal.
For example, do your family members struggle with their weight? Do they frequently say things like “Well, the Smiths have always been a hefty bunch” when explaining their weight loss issues. I’m not addressing genetics or heredity; simply, look at the general mindset of the group. This negative mindset easily influences your own weight loss trials. If you’re unable to lose weight, your mind can explain that the family has always been heavy, instead of a more positive statement.
In fact, look at circumstances where things do go wrong or not as you expect. What is your typical reaction? Do you blame others for your problems? Do you think “It’s not my fault”, “This always happens to me”, or “Why did I think this time would be better”? These are your subconscious beliefs, and it’s important to recognize your approach to the world, events, relationships, and yourself.
Negative subconscious beliefs color your journey to success with a negative mindset.
Once you identify where the belief originated, ask yourself, what is the underlying benefit from believing this? You are gaining something from continuing to accept the belief and behavior associated with it. There is a payoff, even if the belief is negative.
For example, let’s say you are organized at home or at school. But at work, you frequently find yourself disorganized. You become frustrated during projects because you can’t find necessary paperwork or contact names. You may think, “At home, I know where everything is. It’s very organized there, but here, I can’t find anything.” You may even have set a goal to be more organized at work. But by being disorganized, you are receiving a benefit.
What’s your secondary gain?
Yes, negative beliefs give you some kind of benefit. Using the above example, maybe the payoff is that people don’t give you projects because you’re known for your disorganization; it saves you from additional work that you may not want to do. Maybe your disorganization interferes from even starting projects, which are given to co-workers; again, giving you a payoff of not doing a project.
You have a good reason for wanting the payoff.
It may not be comfortable to think about the payoff. After all, why wouldn’t you want to do your best at your job? Why wouldn’t you want the additional work? The payoff might be that projects are given to others, or perhaps you get extra help that your boss doesn’t give to more organized staff members.
What’s underneath the payoff? Maybe you’re in a job that you dislike, doing work that you dislike, or feeling that you’re not capable of doing the work. Instead of addressing the bigger problem of being in a job you hate or addressing your feelings of inadequacy, you sabotage yourself by being disorganized and not starting a project at hand.
Analyze the underlying fear of your subconscious beliefs.
Dig deep and realize that your negative belief is not the genuine issue. Start asking yourself what you’re afraid of? What’s hiding underneath the belief? Conversely, do you believe you have the talent, ability, passion, and determination to succeed?
Continuing with the above example, let’s say you realize it is truly the job you want to change, rather than a problem with your organizational skills. What’s stopping you from searching for another job? What’s stopping you from finding the job of your dreams?
Instead of letting the negative, subconscious belief sabotage your goal, address the underlying fear and payoff. Once you’re aware of your fears and the secondary gains, you can create a new belief or mindset.
Create a new belief.
Think of logical reasons to change. Think about the payoff for your new, positive belief. Think about what your life would look like, if you eliminated this old, limiting belief. Would you get promoted? Would you find your dream job?
In my next post, I’ll give you some ideas in creating your new belief and in strengthening its power in your life.
If you’d like to share your limiting beliefs and secondary gains, I’d love to hear about them. You may need to do a little soul-searching to uncover the underlying benefit, your fears, and the bigger issue. But once you do, you’re on your way to changing the limiting belief.
In my last post on stepping out of your comfort zone, I shared that sometimes, we stay in the same rut and routines of life because we think we don’t have the ability to pursue our dreams. If you can dig a little deeper and become more aware, you will recognize your existing talents, interests, and abilities.
What happens if you’re reaching your dreams but still run into obstacles? What if those obstacles are within you? Today’s post is on identifying your limiting beliefs.
Limiting beliefs are the negative thoughts running through your head, and they stop you from pursuing, believing, or taking action toward your goals.
The National Science Foundation estimated that people have 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts on a typical day. Can you imagine if the majority of those thoughts were negative? That’s a lot of negativity to overcome in reaching your dreams. Is your self talk saying you can’t do something?
Identify Your Limiting Beliefs
Think of a goal that you are in the process of setting. It doesn’t matter what the goal is, but choose something that you sincerely want to pursue.
Now, make a statement that shows you have already achieved the goal. You want the statement to be specific, as if you are living the dream right now. For example, you could say:
“I am a fantastic designer.”
“I am irresistible to women.”
“I have superior negotiating skills.”
After you make the statement, pay attention to your thoughts and feelings. Take note of your mental response? Did any of these thoughts pop into your head?
Yeah, who am I fooling?
I’ll never be a ________.
I’m not very good at __________.
That’s impossible.
These are your hidden beliefs that stop you from reaching your dreams. Limiting beliefs play in your head like a old tape recorder, playing the same old song over and over again. You know the lyrics so well that you don’t wonder how you learned the song. It becomes part of your belief system.
Have you set a goal only to stumble? You may consciously set a goal to be a designer, engineer, or the winner of America’s Got Talent. If you’re not conscious of your limiting beliefs, you’ll find yourself combating those negative thoughts unconsciously.
Can you imagine being told you’re a horrible person with no talent? You may be saying it to yourself in thousands of thoughts every single day.
Become aware of your thoughts and feelings when you set a goal. Identifying limiting beliefs is an important step in reaching your dreams.
In the next post, I’ll talk about how to change limiting beliefs. The first step is becoming aware of your daily thoughts and recognize your limiting beliefs.
How often do you leave your ‘comfort zone’? You’ve probably read about comfort zones – they’re often in personal development books and seminars. And for good reason because people tend to stay where it’s comfortable, even if ‘comfortable’ doesn’t make you happy. The fear of the unknown is seen as far riskier than staying in a place where you may be unhappy but know what the issues are.
We all have those comfort zones – areas of life that we stay in and often get stuck in because we don’t want to venture out too far. We stay in the same horrible job because we’ve adapted to the disorganization or in-fighting. We take the same route to work because it’s the fastest, shortest, or well known route.
While you’re staying in your comfort zone, you could be missing out on the unknown path. What if your new job was the perfect fit? What if you took a new route to work and found a new favorite restaurant hidden on a side street? If you want to reach your dreams, you need to stretch, learn, grow, and explore new areas. Often times, this path takes us to uncomfortable areas, but ones that will expand our mind to see new possibilities.
In today’s post, I want to explore a different approach to leaving your comfort zone. Your comfort zone may not be the big, frightening unknown entity that you’re imagining. Stretching into a new area of life may include activities or skills that you already do without realizing. How can that be? Let me share a couple stories with you.
My sister-in-law is a very organized person. An organizational guru. She has lists for everything; she takes endless notes. She can put her hand on any piece of paper you ask her for, and her closets are organized by season and purpose. Her skill at organization has helped her professionally, though I could see her in different careers where that skill set is absolutely necessary for success. The best part is that not only is she talented in this area, she enjoys it.
Last year, she decided to trade a long career in retail to something new and better suited in this economy. She decided to go to college and after weighing some options, decided on medical billing. She soon realized how a skill (and talent) that she did almost second nature would fit this new career. She excelled in the program and will graduate this week as the Valedictorian. My sister-in-law worked very hard and with many obstacles, and she made the top of the class!
While college was out of her comfort zone, she already had the skills needed for success. Those organizational skills were there all along. Going to college turned into a career that will let her shine with the talents she shared on everything in her life.
It’s amazing what turns life can take when we not only venture out of our comfort zones, but when we can recognize our underused, hidden talents and skills.
Here’s another story about my teenage son. He’s thirteen and been playing guitar since January 2009. Once he learned how to make the first notes on the instrument, he’s barely put it down. We knew he had an ‘ear’ for music, but even at that, he’s amazed us with how quickly he learns and plays songs. Besides music class and an after-school guitar club, he’s basically taught himself new songs by just strumming until he hears the right note.
Last July, my wife and I bought him an electric guitar. He took the same approach to learning new songs on the electric guitar. We’d give him suggestions of classic rock songs, and he’d listen to them on YouTube. We’d hear him playing (quieter than you may imagine) in his bedroom … strumming note after note, song after song, until he got the tune right. Often, I’d walk in and see him hanging upside down off his bed, watching TV, and playing a song. He’d run through his ‘repertoire’ which included different styles and genres. He’d play The Beatles and switch to Sweet Home Alabama without missing a note or breaking a sweat. And even though I’m his dad and quite proud (or biased), I know he’s talented and passionate about music and playing guitar.
Fast forward to his school’s talent show this year. My son said he wasn’t going to enter because he couldn’t find classmates to play with – he wanted a band. When I asked why he couldn’t play his collection of songs, he said it wasn’t a complete song but various songs all in one. I explained that his ability to switch from style and genre was something special … and something that he did while hanging off his bed.
With that information, he tweaked his songs and auditioned for the talent show. When the teacher asked what he was going to play, he said a few songs in a montage. When he finished, the music teacher corrected his original introduction and said, “That should be called Guitar’s Greatest Hits”.
My son played in the talent show — an area out of his comfort zone as it was his first time playing in front of 300 people. He was nervous, but once he started, he was caught up in the music and played over four minutes of solo guitar to an applauding, screaming crowd.
Do you see where I’m headed with this story? My son hadn’t seen his skills as anything but him messing around with his guitar. He thought the talent show was beyond something he could do. And just like my sister-in-law’s college attendance, the talent show itself was out of his comfort level. But he already had the skills and talent necessary for success.
Look For Your Hidden or Unrecognized Skills
Of course, some of the obstacles in leaving our comfort zone require moving past limiting beliefs. Before that task, I’d like you to look for skills you currently have but aren’t recognizing. Take a look at your daily or weekly activities, skills, and loves. Try to do this as objectively as possible.
If you can’t think of a ‘hidden’ skill or talent right away, make short notes during your week about your activities. After a couple weeks, you should be able to pick out a pattern. What are you doing on a regular basis that you didn’t recognize as a talent or skill? What skills or activities do you love?
When you reach for success and plan to leave your comfort zone, look at the list of skills or talents you have right now. Is leaving your comfort zone a little easier than you imagined?
I’d like to share the link to my son’s video at his talent show. So many things changed in his life because he left his comfort zone. His adventure was a bit easier once he recognized he had some of the necessary skills.
Find your underused talents and skills to leave your comfort zone. The journey may be easier than you think.
And I’d love to hear what goals you’re striving for, so leave me a note and mention what hidden talents you’ve discovered about yourself.
No matter how many pounds you want to lose, you’ve probably searched for the best ways to lose weight. There are millions of books and sites spouting weight loss success secrets. You’ve probably tried a few of them with the hope that the latest weight loss program will be the last diet you’ll ever need.
If you cannot lose weight, it’s probably not because of the specific diet you chose. Sure, some weight loss programs are more comfortable to follow (and some are definitely healthier), but many times, the problem in your diet starts before you ever begin your diet plan.
Have you picked a diet program that limits certain foods? When you say, “I’m starting a diet”, does your mind wander to all the foods you can’t eat? You may start to limit your activities to socialize because you’ll be ‘dieting’. Does diet mean deprivation to you?
For many people, diet means deprivation, which then becomes a negative foundation when you want to lose weight. Losing weight is like many other goals: it needs to start with a positive mindset, measurable goals, and specific actions.
Here are the best ways to lose weight, no matter what diet program you start.
1. Change your weight loss mindset. Think about your long term health, not about the short-term behavior associated with ‘dieting’. You will be more successful if your mindset is on positive reasons rather than the negative feelings of deprivation that can occur with the word ‘diet’.
2. Write down your reason for losing weight. It doesn’t matter if your goal is ‘to enjoy a healthier lifestyle’ or ‘get into a skinny dress for my high school reunion’. Either of these reasons will keep you focused. Talk to successful people in any field, and part of their success lies in the reasons they chose their path. What is your ‘why’?
3. Set a reasonable and non-food related reward when you reach each step in your weight loss journey. Set small, measurable, and reasonable goals to reach your ultimate healthy lifestyle. These rewards will keep you positive, happy, and focused on reaching the next goal.
4. Connect with others who will support your weight loss goals. Find other people dedicated to a healthier lifestyle: co-workers, family, friends, support groups, or online friends.
5. Rev up your metabolism with small meals. Eat every three hours, so you won’t feel deprived. Eating small meals every three hours will help you feel satisfied.
Losing weight can seem like an uphill battle at times. Often times, feelings of deprivation start as soon as the words “I’m dieting” leave your lips. Your thoughts turn to feeling negatively, such as the latest diet cannot help you lose weight, or you’re pumping yourself up to overcome the feelings of loss.
To find the best way to lose weight: choose a healthy, weight loss plan and follow these five tips. You’ll lose weight easily.
I have been a counselor for many years. During that time, I have been trained in many facets of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and approaches to drug and alcohol addictions.
Over the past ten years, I have always felt there had to be a better way to reach my clients on a much deeper level than only using talk therapy. On average, the success rate for addiction recovery is about 2%.
For the majority of people searching for addiction treatment and recovery, it takes approximately seven treatment episodes before a person understands their addiction has to be treated daily and stop the roller coast ride of recovery and relapse.
Those could be discouraging statistics, except there are more successful ways to treat addictions.
Over the years, I have added coaching with clients I felt were most at risk of leaving addictions treatment. The additional support worked for some, but not for everyone. I continued to search for ways to help more of my clients succeed. I felt a vital piece was still missing in my approach.
Three years ago, I found the missing piece – hypnotherapy. I became certified as a Hypnotist and Hypnotherapist. Through a combined approach, my clients are able to make changes at the subconscious level of their mind. The subconscious level holds your limiting beliefs, negative emotions, and habits — potential barriers to you living your dreams.
Using hypnosis, a client can change their perspective of their past experiences, letting go of negative emotions that sabotage their happiness and changing the habits that imprison them.
Coaching allows a client to enhance their conscious choices and improve performance now, leading to achieving their dream in the “now” and in the future.
In a survey comparing the effectiveness of various forms of psychotherapy, researchers concluded that hypnotherapy had a higher rate of recovery in a shorter amount of time.
Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions.
Behavior Therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions.
Hypnotherapy: 93% recovery after 6 sessions.
Source: Alfred A. Barrios, PhD, in Psychotherapy Magazine, v7n1, and in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice, Spring 1970
By combining coaching and hypnosis, clients can find the most successful model to true change.
In Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis, clients can be helped within 6 sessions with a 93% recovery.
Here are the basics for successful hypnotherapy and hypnosis sessions:
You and I enter into a collaborative partnership.
You commit to changing, on the conscious level and the subconscious level. Coaching addresses the actions you will need to take now, in the present. Hypnosis allows you to let go of the barriers to your success.
You commit to regular sessions and have the support you need with weekly face to face meetings. In between appointments, I’m available to talk to you on the phone or in emails. You are never alone.
With a coach helping you reach your goals, you will expand your thinking and open yourself up to greater possibilities and the life you desire by inspiring you to get in touch with the person you dream of becoming.
Coaching and hypnosis are effective tools for addictions recovery. I’m dedicated to helping you overcome your addictions and reaching your goals. My personal and professional satisfaction is providing the tools you need to take steps toward lasting and positive life changes.
Your first step to reaching your goals: Focus on what matters to you and the momentum to take action now!
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