Three Counties Advanced Hypnotherapy Centres

November 2, 2009

Quick Note on Emotional Eating

Filed under: Weight Loss — Tags: , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:52 am

If you are looking to lose weight then this information will be useful to you and it is around emotional eating.

The human body has an automatic biochemical mechanism that has the ability to tell us when we are hungry and when we are full. The problem with emotional eaters is that they have trained their bodies and mind to override those signals.

Imagine it is nearing lunchtime and you are feeling the hunger signals being generated within the body. So you decide to get something to eat and a drink. As you eat and drink these the stomach begins to fill up, signals are sent informing you that you are being satisfied.  Once a level of satisfaction is reached naturally you should stop eating. That’s what is supposed to happen and irrespective of the amount left on your plate you will feel pleasantly satisfied leaving whatver is left. that is what typically people who are naturally slim do.

In the case of an emotional eater, the ‘stop signal’ is completely ignored and they carry on eating for a psychological reason rather than a physiological one. They go way beyond the point where they should really stop and feel bloated, lethargic and guilty. In fact if you are eating for psychological reasons then no amount of food is going to satify you. if you are an emotional eater you will probably be familiar with this process.

if you drive a car and the oil light comes on would the oil light go out if you topped up your fuel tank with petrol or diesel? Of course not so why do we continue to do this with food?

Why would a person want to do that?

The answer lies in ‘conditioning’ – we are taught when young that food can bring comfort. We are trained right from the time of being toddlers that food is a reward, a prize a comfort. “be good and you can have a sweet” “there there have a piece of chocolate to make your knee better” when you may have tripped.

Advanced Hypnotherpay and NLP are used in our easy weight loss sessions to deal with this in a completely different way. to find out more contact us now and find out how emotional eating and other elements come togeather with our Easy Weight Loss Sessions.

November 1, 2009

Weight Loss Hypnotherapy Studies

Filed under: General Hypnotherapy, Weight Loss — Tags: , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:00 am

Here’s some interesting studies that have been carried out on the success of Hypnotherapy as appossed to normal weight loss systems diets etc.

they are from the USA and if anyone has any more recent independant research from teh US or UK i would be gretful if you could let me know.

One of the things that you will ntice is the dates in the research and i am glad to say that things have improved dramatically in terms of process, tools and success rates.

Bolocofsky, David N.; Spinler, Dwayne; Coulthard-Morris, Linda (1985).

Effectiveness of hypnosis as an adjunct to behavioral weight management.

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41 (1), 35-41

109 17-67 year olds completed a behavioral treatment for weight management either with or without the addition of hypnosis. Results show that, at the end of the 9-week program, both interventions resulted in significant weight reduction. However, at 8-month and 2-year follow-ups, the hypnosis subjects showed significant additional weight loss, while those in the behavioral-treatment-only group exhibited little further change. More subjects who used hypnosis also achieved and maintained their personal weight goals.

Cochrane, Gordon; Friesen, J., (1986) Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Volume: 54 489-492

Investigated the effects of hypnosis in weight loss for 60 females, at least 20% overweight and not involved in other treatment….hypnosis was more effective than a control group (17 vs. .5 pounds on follow-up).

Kirsch, Irving (1996).

Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments–Another meta-reanalysis.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64 (3), 517-519.

Averaged across post treatment and follow-up assessment periods, the mean weight loss was 6.00 lbs. (2.72 kg) without hypnosis and 11.83 lbs. (5.37 kg) with hypnosis….At the last assessment period, the mean weight loss was 6.03 lbs. (2.74 kg) without hypnosis and 14.88 lbs. (6.75 kg) with hypnosis… Correlational analyses indicated that the benefits of hypnosis increased substantially over time

Should you have any comments of questions please feel free to let me know.

Thanks and keep well

Howard the Hypnotherapist

October 30, 2009

Hypnotherapy For Easy Weight Loss

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:54 am

People often ask me Why is the  Easy Weight Loss System so successful?

The simple answer is because it is completely unique to each individual client.

You know people are different even identical twins have some differences. so if this is the case how can a standard system work on everyone?

We use a fully flexible and unique methodology that combines Hypnotherapy and NLP among a number of other tools to make every session suit the person.

Different people have different weight problems, and equally those weight problems have various causes we treat everyone as an individual.

Some overeat emotionally, some make bad choices as to what to eat, some need to exercise, some picked up bad eating habits from childhood or the diet industry, some have body image problems…

We work with you and your issues.

on the basis you agree with that then let look at some common reasons why we are successful at what we do.

1) We will not try and sell you supplements and diet products.

The diet industry is continually looking to sell you product after product with new improved this and less fat, calories etc. We fundamentally disagree with this principle. Slim people don’t use those products so why should you.

2) We work out the main themes as to why you are overweight.

When you make an appointment we send you a questionnaire that starts to details your relationship with food, and the potential causes of you being over weight.  Over the years we have honed this to be really insightful and accurate. it tells us how you respond to differing situations.

This questionnaire gives us clues as to what we will be dealing with when we meet for the first and probably only time. Yes it’s all done in one session.

3) Is it a Emotional vs physiological eating pattern

Some people have never discovered he subtle difference between an emotional urge or need to eat and a physiological reason.  i have covered this element in more detail elsewhere in this blog, if you need anymore information feel free to contact me.
4) Specific advice based on your questionnaire and our discussion.

We ensure that together you and i come up with the strategies and hypnosis suggestions that are going to work for you. So for instance you have an urge to eat chocolate every evening we deal with that. if you find that you have to eat everything on your plate so that it’s clean then that’s what we deal with. and if you eat because you are bored or unhappy then we deal with that to.

5) we have to challenge our natural instincts

years ago food was scarce and only available in season. our ancestors didn’t know where the next meal was coming from and had to eat everything in  front of them as there was no certainity where or when the next meal would be available.

Today that’s just not the case. as i write this from my office in Central Milton Keynes i have within a 5 minute walk at least 15 food outlets and that’s counting all the vending machines. The supermarkets around me are open 24/7 and we can buy strawberries in January to December.

Today we don’t have to deal with the potential unavailability of food it’s quite the opposite. Lets not even get into the calorie rich foods that get churned out of the international corporations with the fancy packaging etc.

Anyway you get the picture everyone has their own reasons why they are overweight and i believe has to be treated in an individual way, in a nutshell that’s why we are successful at what we do.

Hope that helps answer some of your questions

Let em know if you need more information

Thanks

Howard the Hypnotherapist

October 27, 2009

Emotional Eating

Filed under: Weight Loss — Tags: , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:30 am

What is an emotional eater?

Under normal circumstances, a few minutes after birth, we are held by our mothers, feeling warmth, love, comfort and security. As we are being fed and gently rocked, our subconscious minds take this all in as a very nice situation to be in.

When you were young, it’s quite possible that you were rewarded with food for being good. If you hurt yourself or were upset, perhaps you were given some chocolate to ‘make you feel better’ or to “take your mind away from the trauma”.

These are all very pleasant feelings and the emotional eater attempts to recreate them as an adult by eating.

Most diets don’t deal with this issue and so people continue to eat when they are not hungry.

Most diets concentrate all their and your energy on “how much” you can or can’t eat, leaving the person feeling deprived.

A key to consistent and permanent weight loss is to ensure that you deal with your emotional eating and advanced hypnotherapy can help with this issue quickly.

If you are looking to lose weight quickly and easily in  very natural way without diets and meal plans or gunky shakes or pills off the Internet contact us today.

Was this useful?

Let me know and take care

Howard the Hypnotherapist.

October 22, 2009

Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss

Finally a weight management programme will change your life!

Using the very latest in mind/body psychology I  help clients learn how to bring more balance into their lives, creating a purpose and direction for them to move towards… Be prepared for amazing changes in your life!

I have developed this successful programme  over the  past 6 years (2003) and have helped many hundreds of people lose weight effortlessly.

Many people look at overweight people and think they are greedy have no willpower, or that their appearance is due to lack of knowledge or ignorance. Being overweight, at least significantly so, is almost never just a matter of not knowing better; it’s far more complicated than that. and in my experience people who are overweight know a lot about what they should be eating.

There are often psychological problems associated with obesity – depression, lack of confidence, low self esteem etc. Most psychological problems are resolved naturally once the weight has been lost. Often the anxiety and frustrations that cause people to over eat stem from being over weight… it’s a vicious circle.

Dieting in the UK and worldwide is a multi billion pound business. There are literally  thousands of diet books, videos, food substitutes, weight loss drugs and weight loss clubs.

The trouble is all these treatments rely on willpower, which is why they usually fail! If you have had enough of all those diets that have found that they just don’t work for you in the long term…call us now for a revolution that will change your mind…and change your behaviour so that you too will become slimmer, have greater confidence and have many more choice in what you want to do and wear etc.

A common misconception surrounding weight loss is that you need a lot of willpower to succeed. Willpower however doesn’t really exist, behaviour that gives the appearance that a person has willpower, is simply behaviour allowed by the unconscious mind because it agrees with the conscious desire.

Generally if someone succeeds in losing weight using willpower alone, as soon as the weight is lost, they resume back to their old eating patterns and re-gain all the lost weight. Another common problem when using willpower alone is that as soon as other things occupy your mind, or the main goal is removed i.e. losing weight for a special occasion or slimming for a holiday, or an crisis arises, people have a tendency to slip back into their old habits. This compounds the problem because of the added disillusionment and discouragement. Something more efficient and permanent than willpower is needed to enable clients to stick to their new healthy eating regime.

So How does Hypnosis for weight loss help?

Hypnosis bypasses willpower and changes the way the unconscious mind thinks. This allows eating healthily and smaller portion sizes becomes effortless.

This works by utilising the same psychological principles you employ when mastering a new skill. If you are not able to imagine that you are going to be successful, then you are defeated before you begin. This is what happens when people undertake diets having previously failed many times before. No amount of willpower can surmount this feeling of negative history of failed diets.

Every successful person has had to be capable of visualising himself/herself as a success long before it becomes a reality. A doctor, for example, could not undertake many years of study unless he/she was first able to ’see him/herself as a doctor. Any successful person achieves their goals by overcoming handicaps, which defeated those people who were less motivated.

Unfortunately, all negative opinions – true or not – filter into your unconscious mind, which does not question or analyse the many impressions it receives. People become so convinced that they are incapable of the strength necessary to maintain a diet that they eventually stop mentally picturing a healthy/more attractive body. Using advanced hypnosis to create a positive self image is the key that open the door to a slimmer you. Once a proper self image is generated people find they have the conviction to easily stick to a healthy eating plan.

It is the role of the Hypnotherapist/coach to determine the most suitable treatment for each individual client but the following are examples of some of the benefits clients gain from hypnotherapy:

* Removes the desire to overeat
* Forms a positive self image
* Produces stronger feelings of strength and determination
* Improves self esteem, confidence and positive thinking
* Improves stress levels
* Occasionally weight gain is caused by a past event, uncovering this can help

Sometimes hypnotherapy uncovers secondary gains (reasons to remain overweight) and replacing weight gain with something more beneficial can help.

So with Advanced Hypnotherapy there are no diets, gunky shakes or pills off the Internet. No meal plans, potions to weight or calories to count.

You just get to eat the food that you want to eat but smaller portions, much much smaller potions.

Feel free to contact me if you truly want success…i can help get to where you want to get to easily.

Thanks for takingthe time to read this

Howard the Hypnotherapist

October 16, 2009

Weight Loss Hypnotherapy

We use a unique combination of Advanced Hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), other advanced psycological tools  to help you permanently change the relationship you have with food.

This enables you to easily lose weight, stay in control and ultimately, become the size and shape you desire.

And as part of the process, will also help you to feel physically more relaxed, mentally calmer and, so much more confident within yourself. If this all sounds a little too good to be true, why not have a chat with us over the phone and find out a little more? the best way to make a decision is to put yourself in a fully informed position.

Why we are so successful at weight loss hypnotherapy?

Here’s something interesting  to think about.

Ask yourself the following: Why is it that weight is only a problem for two groups on earth: Humans the most intelligent species on the earth (that’s us!) and the animals we domesticate?

Why is it that whilst 40% of UK citizens are now classed as overweight, 99.99% of the other creatures on this planet, providing their food is available, eat as much as they want, whenever they want and are never overweight. Why is it that other creatures on this earth are not prone that never ending cycle of over eating and dieting?

The answer is really very simple.

The reason for this bizarre phenomenon is very simple – other creatures on this earth do not eat emotionally. The reason why so many people in the western world are overweight is because as a species we have learned to use food as a means to change our feelings. Indeed, most of our clients’ weight problems emanate from the fact that they eat when they are bored, lonely, miserable or any number of other emotional scenarios, NONE of which have anything to do with physical hunger.

It a sad fact that as a result of our conditioning from birth, we all have a propensity to bury our feelings in food, but if we eat because of emotional hunger, our bodies will never feel satisfied because no amount of food is going to change the way we feel – indeed ultimately, it will only end up making us feel worse.

We use Advanced Hypnotherapy and NLP  to help change your relationship with food by retraining you and your unconscious mind, that part of the mind that holds all our food related beliefs, associations and habitual patterns of behaviour.

Find out more by simply contacting us and putting yourself in a fully informed position only then can make the right decison for you.

Take care

Howard the Hypnotherapist

October 14, 2009

What Happens to Your body if you stop smoking right now?

Filed under: General Hypnotherapy, Stop Smoking — Tags: , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 8:32 am

I think one of the main reasons people think it is so hard to quit smoking or stop smoking  is because all the benefits of quitting and all the dangers of continuing seem very far away.

Well, here’s a little timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body RIGHT NOW.

* In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.
* In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal.
* In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level.
* In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase.
* In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
* In three to nine months coughs, wheezing
and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%.
* In 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half.
* In 5 years your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
* In 10 years your risk of lung cancer will have returned to that of a non-smoker.
* In 15 years your risk of heart attack
will have returned to that of a non-smoker.

I am sure you will have seen something like this before personally i think that the real benfits are obtained quicker and there are hundreds more benfits you will obtain.

As a smoker it is important to find out how to do this the easy way in all my years the easiset way i have found is hypnosis carried out by a professional hypnotherapist.

Keep well and feel free to comment on this or anything else you have on your mind.

Howard The Hypnotherapist

October 9, 2009

The wrong reason’s for stopping smoking (yes there are more than one)

If you know where you are going you are more likely to get there. The number one way you can help yourself is by knowing what you want. This is true of Stopping Smoking as it is for everything else.

If you are trying to stop smoking for the wrong reasons you are much more likely to fall at the first hurdle. One of the wrong reasons might be convenience. What I mean by this is that you decide to stop but not because you are necessarily ready or committed to stopping it is just that a convenient situation as occurred for you. Here how it work’s.

A friend or partner husband or wife who is a smoker makes the suggestion that it would be a good idea to stop together. On the face of it this seems to be a great idea because you can support each other in remaining stopped and there is this nice feeling of doing something together… a shoulder to lean on a bit of safety in numbers you get the idea.

The reality is that although both people know they should stop smoking at some point in time, usually on this occasion it usually means that one person is really ready to stop but the other is going along with it because it is convenient or they have got caught up in this being a good idea without giving it too much thought.

Then what happens is that the person who hasn’t really made up their mind to stop, will at some point try and persuades or cajoles the other into just having that one. When they succeed in getting the other to have “just one” well both of you have failed and well you might as well start again. It is a kind of collusion to smoke, just as those of us colluded to smoke the very first time when we were young. In fact we did it because our peers did it and we wanted to be part of that crowd… accepted. The above is just one example of the same influences happening again.

That is why it is vital to stop smoking for your own good reasons.

Well this is just one reason there are many wrong reasons for stopping smoking that you will need to bear in mind. The reason we have such a high level of success is because we make sure that yo are not stopping for the 8 major wrong reasons why people fail at stopping smoking.

Good stop smoking practitioners want their clients to be successful. Of course you can stop smoking together but please do it for your reasons and not for someone else’s reasons or timing.
I certainly emphasise to people who come along in pairs for stop smoking or weight loss sessions, whether their friends, spouses, or partners, that they should be there for each other to keep to their decision to quit smoking for good and not to collude together to smoke.
If you believe the time is right for you right now then contact me today and see if Advanced Hypnotherapy by an Advanced Hypnotist will help you do it easily.

October 7, 2009

10 reasons why you should think about using us.

Filed under: General Hypnotherapy, Stop Smoking — Tags: , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 10:30 am

Quit cigarettes using hypnotherapy once and for all and in only one session.
Join hundreds of other Milton Keynes and surrounding area’s people who have stopped smoking easily. The technique I use has been developed by years of pain staking trial and error and I have been doing it full time for the last 8 years from our professional offices in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. I have a success rate over 95% in people stopping smoking once and for all in Buckinghamshire.
But that’s not all here are some other unique things:
1) If after seeing me you even crave a cigarette then all you do is all me and I will destroy that craving OVER THE PHONE. Yes over the phone. It’s free and for as long after your one time session.
2) I am not part of a franchise, questionable institutes, associations or other less than credible organisation that is hear today and gone with all their fancy guarantees tomorrow. We are a member of the GHR which is an impendent and respected organisation with a very open stance and high standards.
3) I have hundreds of testimonials for you to see for your self and see on the website.
4) You can contact me via the free phone number 0800 0 19 13 66 or my landline in the central Milton Keynes Office 01908 488 260 or my mobile number if you are a client. I have invested in the business so you wont have to call a mobile number to get hold of me.
5) If what I say in the first 10 minutes does not make sense and I mean complete sense to you then there is no charge what so ever. We part friends.
6) I have a tried and tested system that work and works at least 97% of the time if you want to stop smoking the easy way.
7) You won’t need anything else like patches gums and inhalers to help you along your way. This is natural and effective advanced hypnotherapy works.
8) There will be no withdrawal symptoms and no weight gain.
9) If this is not going to be right for you as a way to stop smoking then be let you know and then it is up to you to decide how you want to progress.
10) No multiple sessions no wobbly guarantees, no extra charges, no small print just simple effective easy to understand stop smoking therapy using advanced hypnotherapy.

We are here if you want to find out if stopping smoking the easy way is going to be right for you.

Because we are based in Central Milton Keynes working from professional offices with professional reception you can feel secure that you are making the right decision.

Break the habit once and for all by starting today and calling 0800 0 19 13 66 or 01908 488 260.

Until the next time

Howard D’Silva

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