Is this getting old for you?  For me too.  Sorry.  Can’t figure out another way to test the setup and fix the problems.

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test jan 31 at 9:20

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‘My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating’: Joan Rivers undergoes ANOTHER cosmetic surgery operation on reality TV show.

Hmmmm. Hypnosis is used for gastric bypass weight loss. I wonder if....

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2091455/Joan-Rivers-undergoes-ANOTHER-cosmetic-procedure-reality-TV-show.html#ixzz1kUBowO3A

Something to consider.

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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

                                            –Henry Ellis

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Managing an Attack of the "I-Don't-Wanna's"

The “I-don’t-wannas” is a state of mind and body that my old friend Fran turned me onto. You know. The “I-don’t-wanna’s” is that state that you wake up in and just don’t want to do anything. The days when you want to pull the covers over your head and let the world pass you by.

The ‘I-dont-wannas’ usually come on without warning. You may not even be able to figure out what triggered an attack. When under attack, however, my experience has been that you have to give in to it as soon as you notice it or as soon thereafter as you can manage.

It’s been awhile since I wrote about the “I-don’t-wannas,”  but since I’m just coming out of an attack myself, I thought it would be good to write about.

Every year I forget to remember that I go into the “I-don’t-wannas” sometime around the holidays, usually the day after. It usually lasts until late January but can last as long as until early March. I’m sharing this phenomenon with you in case you experience it as well. I notice that many clients, as well as friends and family, go in and out of the “I-don’t-wannas” also and when it hits, it’s always a surprise and it’s always impossible to fight off successfully.

When we’re in it, we usually just can’t figure out what’s wrong. The simplest tasks seem daunting and undo-able. Forget those tasks that require creativity, problem-solving and energy. That just isn’t going to happen, until the IDW’s pass.

What seems to be most important is to recognize the state and accept it. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to really fight my way through it. At some point, the only option is to give in, climb back into bed if you can, and abandon as many tasks as possible until it passes.

I’ve also found that it WON’T pass if I DON’T give into it. It is in these times I have to really surrender to God, the Divine Energy, the Wisdom of my Body. I sleep, read, watch dumb-ole-TV, listen to music as long as I feel like it, play and sing IF I feel like it.

I let the phone go into voicemail as much as is humanly possible without tumbling the house of cards that my life always feels like (especially during this time period). I hibernate. I even eat sugar and other junk if compelled to do that.

It is only after a true and thorough surrender that my energy begins to return and I can begin to come out of hibernation. I’ve learned not to beat myself up or drive myself through these periods. Like taking care of young kids: it has more energy than I do.

I often find that this is also a time for regrouping, dumping the trash, finding the time-sucks that I can eliminate. I find that it’s best if I let myself return to the flow of life s-l-o-w-l-y. It is truly a time of faith: faith in that the Divine Energy knows best. Faith in the fact that the sky won’t fall and nobody will die if I retreat for awhile. That, in itself, is a profound and useful insight.

So, if you have ever experienced an “Attack-of-the-I-Don’t-Wannas,” or are going through one now, I hope my explanation will help you to navigate it with the least amount of pain and distress.

Please share YOUR experience with the IDW’s. Did they flatten you? Did they mystify you? Did they scare you? Did you feel 1000% defeated? Tell me about your IDW’s. And remember, most of all, they pass AFTER you give in but not before. Don’t waste precious energy fighting it. Give in. Take what your mind/brain/body/spirit needs and it will pass. I promise.

Here’s to your success…

Susan French

Clinical Hypnotherapist

http://www.hypno4success.com

888-333-3688

Contact me:  susanfrench2010@gmail.com

taken from RealAge.com

The easiest way to get your mind off that hot fudge sundae is to picture this instead: a white sandy beach in Tahiti.

Or a scene from your favorite movie. Or a slow dance with your honey under a starry sky. Just picture something — anything — delightfully pleasant that isn’t food related. Research suggests that doing so can help stop a craving, fast.

Just Imagine . . .
In a recent study, college students were asked to vividly picture themselves engaged in a well-loved activity every time a food craving came up and to maintain the alternate image until the craving faded. Compared with control groups using other craving-quelling techniques like distraction or mentally challenging tasks, the daydreamers experienced a much more dramatic nosedive in both the strength and vividness of their food cravings. Researchers suspect that because the students employed their senses — like sight, sound, and smell — when imaging the enjoyable activity, it took the edge off their food urges and made the craved item seem less real. (Related:Find out how your TV remote can help you crush cravings for junk food.)

Click here to read the rest Kill Cravings  http://bit.ly/u8y9AB

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Here’s to YOUR success…

Susan French

http://www.hypno4success.com/programs/lose-weight/

All questions and comments welcome

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Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.

                                     – David Brent

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How many more days did you say there were before [insert preferred Holiday

Life changes constantly.  Sometimes it’s hard to keep up.  Other times, you are the statue!

What can I say?  Keep on truckin.’

In keeping with  the Time-Suck Pie philosophy of daily living, there are exactly 25 days until Christmas.  That’s counting from today and stopping Christmas Eve, when we hope that everything is done that needs to be done.  There are 4 weekends, if you’re a nine-to-fiver.

As for me, I prefer to count the number of days until the holidays are officially over, which is January 2nd.  Then it’s my birthday, January 3rd.  That is my official,” holiday’s are over. Time to count my “poor little money” as an ex-BF’s mother used to say.

Happy “Before the Holidays.”  Try to remember that no matter what, Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) comes and goes each year, right on schedule.  It doesn’t matter if gifts are bought and wrapped or you’re sitting on the floor sucking on your thumb.

The holiday comes for one day and then it’s over until next year.  That thought is the only thing that keeps me sane: no matter what, ready or not, it comes and then it’s over.  You don’t die or go to jail for everything that ISN”T done.  Fuggeddaboudit!

Stay warm.  Stay well. Stay sane.  Don’t drink and drive.

Count your blessings

Here’s to your success…

Susan French, M.A., Cht.

http://www.hypno4success.com

888-333-3688

What1?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Hypnosis and weight-loss are words that go together like salt & pepper, Mutt & Jeff, Cagney & Lacey.  Well, not entirely.  But a lot.  Right there next to hypnosis and quitting smoking.

How does hypnosis work?  Think about it this way:  positive suggestion changes your self-talk.  Positive self-talk changes your behavior.  What is a hypnosis suggestion anyhow?  It’s really a replacement for the self-limiting and self-limiting self-talk that persuades you that you “can’t.”  For instance, if your self-talk is negative (i.e., I’m a loser; I’ll never succeed at XYZ), you follow that direction.  If your self-talk changes to positive (i.e., this is easy; I’ve succeeded before, I can succeed this time, if others can do it, I can do it too, etc.) your behavior changes to be in alignment with this new view.

A note for you hardcore NLP-ers: “self-talk” can be in any modality.  You can see yourself as a failure or a success.  You can hear yourself mocking your failures or encouraging your successes.  You can feel the feeling of failure or the feeling of success.  For the sake if this discussion, “self-talk” applies to any modality.

With that idea in mind, let’s see how it applies to physical hunger for food.  If your self-talk is “I’m full” your body responds by feeling “full,” then you eat less.  If your self-talk is “I can’t live without my chocolate fix,” you can’t live without your chocolate fix.

Interestingly, the process is thought to be: thought/idea >>>emotion/response>>>behavior/action.  If you “think” you are comfortable, your body will supply the oppoid neurochemicals to block pain.  If you think/imagine you’re swimming, the exact same areas in your brain lights up as if you are really swimming.  This is an established and proven fact through the use of functional MRI studies.

  Think about what this means in terms of our behavior and responses.  If you think the girl in the next cubicle hates you, you will filter every perception through that filter.

Your brain/body/mind/spirit will provide the behavior that will prove your belief to yourself.  So if she frowns, it won’t occur to you that she might have gas or a headache.  It will likely be interpreted as a scowl proving that she hates you.  See how it works?

The physicists of today are working feverishly on what reality really is in our entire Universe.  So, doesn’t it seem reasonable that your mind/brain/body could create such phenomena in our perceptions?

There has  been a lot of research done on the “placebo effect,” both negatively and positively.  You can “think” yourself sick and you can “think” yourself well.  (Not 100%, but significantly).  You can “think” yourself happy or depressed.  You can “think” yourself in pain or painfree.  Amazing, isn’t it?

There is a significant amount of research being done on the subject of your “thoughts’ ” ability to  bring you money, clients, wellness, a perfect mate.  Nothing has been proven scientifically but there sure are a lot of unexplained phenomena.  Believe it or not! At your own risk, too!

Back to the perception of being physically hungry or physically full.  Your brain/body/mind/spirit will provide you the necessary neurotransmitters to make that your (perceived and experienced) reality.

You might wonder then, if you ‘believe’ that you can live without food, water or oxygen, if it will remain alive?  That is a question for Stephen Hawking or  Bruce Lipton.  I’m far too impressed with the possibilities suggested by  the theories of quantum mechanics and quantum physics to give you an objective answer.  Miracles (things that happen with no known explanation) happen all the time.  I am the wrong person to ask.

           Back to physical hunger.  If you feed your body enough to survive but your ‘thoughts’ block your perceptions of being hungry, losing weight should be easy.  And it is totally easy if the suggestion for satiety that is given is accepted unconditionally by your brain/mind/body/spirit.

When a hypnotist suggests that you are completely comfortable on five hundred calories, and it is accepted into your self-talk, your body will provide whatever is needed biochemically to support that belief.  A five-hundred-calorie-a-day intake may not be the best for your body but the jury’s still out on most facts about calorie deprivation.

Let’s return to our beginning statement “Hypnosis – Perceptions of Hunger.” If you imagine and believe that you are totally full and satisfied, that is exactly what you will experience, despite all of the “reality” that defies that idea.

If you’re still with me, you should now have a reasonable sense of why and how hypnosis works to help your overweight struggles. If you want proof, talk to Stephen  Hawking or Bruce Lipton.  All I know is that it works for hundreds of people will to submit to perception-changing suggestions through hypnosis.  Yes, I love that sweet refrain in my own ears: “you are blissfully full, ecstatically satiated.”

  How about you?  Are you sick of carrying that same ten, twenty, fifty, two-hundred pounds?  Hypnosis works.  Maybe it’s time to give hypnosis a test drive.  If you think so, give me a call or send me an email.  Set up a free consultation.  I will happily answer any questions you have.

Here’s to your success…

Susan French, M.A., CHt

888-333-3688

http://www.hypno4success.com/programs/lose-weight/

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I am reposting this from an article in Psychology Today by Alison Bonds Shapiro, MBA, PhD.  Don’t miss it!

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/healing-possibility/201111/habits-mind-the-flavors-our-experience

“My friend and teacher, Frank, talked to me the other day about habits of mind and the underlying tone they give to whatever we are doing. It’s a fascinating thing to understand and notice. We don’t generally pay attention at this level. Habits of mind are subtle.

Glass of iced tea

They are like lemon juice flavoring a glass of tea. We might not see the lemon juice when we look at the glass, but it’s there and its presence changes the flavor of our experience of drinking tea. Habits of mind do exactly the same thing. They change the flavor of the moments of our lives.

When we wait in a grocery store line, there is an experience. We are upright. Our bodies are relatively still since we are not moving significant distances. We are probably warm and dry. There is a level of ambient noise – talking, cash registers, packages rustling, maybe music. There are odors – food, floor wax, other people. We may see people and equipment and windows and doors and shelves of goods. Maybe we have taken a taste of something we are about to buy and have that sensation in our mouths. That’s our experience. It’s complex, full of sensations, but it is neither good nor bad. It is simply our experience until we filter our experience through one of our habits of mind. Then it acquires a flavor…”

Great excerpt.  Don’t miss it.  http://bit.ly/v5uGcF

 

Hypnosis for Your Success

From years of experience in helping clients succeed in reaching their goals, I’ve observed that a significant amount of time is spent thinking about goals we think would make our lives better if we could only achieve them.

A huge amount of all marketing in the United States promises some form of self-improvement: quit smoking, lose weight, improve your sexual performance, sleep better, cure headaches, improve your golf game.

The difficulty, not unexpectedly, is usually found between the “dreaming” part and the “done” part of our success plans. I’ll bet you already knew that. How do you get from dreaming to done? Why is the motivation to do whatever is required to reach your goals so very strong at inception and so very, very weak, most of the time, when it comes time to take productive action.

           More importantly, how do you maintain that initial level of motivation  when you hit the obstacles and difficulties that have been in your way since the first time you decided to: lose weight, quit smoking, make more money, get better grades, exercise more, or love-the-skin-you’re-in?

          Research suggests that there are many components involved in the failure to carry out the intended actions. Sometimes people can’t figure out where to start, or how to make a plan that they can follow. Others become easily overwhelmed and give up before they experience too much fear or frustration.

          Some people decide that the effort required isn’t worth the value of the outcome. Or, more importantly, the effort doesn’t SEEM to be worth the outcome when the going gets tough. Many people have trouble delaying gratification. Others become paralyzed by the need to be perfect, or better than perfect.

          The ability to delay gratification long enough to reach a desired outcome is a life skill that needs to be developed early in life. It is considered to be a major marker of maturity. Weakness in this area will prevent you from accomplishing much of anything you want to achieve in life. That’s why it is important to be aware of how well you do in delaying gratification.

          Then there is the problem of having such meager self-worth or self-confidence that the sufferer doesn’t believe that he has what it takes to stick it out to completion and success. This is rarely true but the idea that “belief equals reality” is an important area for exploration.

          Any or all of these human weaknesses (and others) can throw so many obstacles in our paths that we give up. When we can identify the specific behavior that prevents our success, we can take the small, incremental steps required to acquire the missing skills that keep us from reaching our goals.

          It is important to identify the missing skill-set and to develop that skill-set or you’ll never get from dreaming to done. When we seek help in achieving goals, we should expect that our counselor, mentor, life coach or hypnotherapist will help us to identify the missing pieces and help us to develop them.

          The most important message here is that whenever you find yourself unable to achieve a goal, it is time to evaluate your plan of action to find that one tiny little missing skill-set that keeps you from achieving your goal. In other words: you are never a failure. You are always simply a person who doesn’t understand a step in the process.

           At least, that is the assumption I bring into my work as an hypnosis practitioner.  As the wonderfully wise author and philosopher, Maya Angelou, once suggested (I just spent two hours looking for the exact quote, so I’m paraphrasing): “…but at that time you did not know better; now that you know better, you do better.”

          Don’t give up on your dreams and goals and never call yourself a failure. Find someone who can help you see where or why you’re stuck. “When you know better, you’ll do better…”

          Hypnosis provides a wonderful format for discovery as well as for successful action. If you’re having difficulty going from “dreaming” to “done,” it might be time to try hypnosis.  Hypnosis works when all else has failed.

Here’s to your success…

Susan French

888-333-3688

End Pain Today Using Hypnosis

         Hypnosis for pain relief is one of the most under-used treatments available. While the effect of hypnosis for pain relief is still not understood, there is much clinical evidence demonstrating its effect.

          More than 25 percent of adult Americans, (ages 20 and above), reported pain lasting more than 24 hours according to National Center for Health Statistics Report, 2006.  

           A 2006 survey done by the American Pain Foundation found that fifty-nine percent of the patients could benefit from the use of hypnosis for pain relief, both from pain itself and for a number of psychological problems.

           More than three quarters of pain patients reported feeling depressed. Seventy percent said they have trouble concentrating. Seventy-five percent said their energy level was impacted. Eight-six percent reported sleep disturbance.   Six out of ten patients (60%) said they experience breakthrough pain one or more times daily, severely impacting their quality of life and overall well-being.

           In fact, pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined accordings to statistics.

          It is easy to see that many could benefit from using hypnosis for pain relief. In addition to the problems caused by the pain itself, the statistics on patients who use, abuse or die from prescription medications show that using hypnosis for pain relief would have many side benefits.

          While no one would suggest that we deny patients relief from pain, the problems involved with prescription pain medications is astronomical. Opiates are the second-most abused drug following marijuana.

          Prescription painkillers are a major contributor to the number of drug deaths. In 2007, for example, nearly 28,000 Americans died from unintentional drug poisoning, and of these, nearly 12,000 involved prescription pain relievers.  These statistics are overwhelming. Perhaps you or someone you love is included in these numbers.

          Of the available options, which treatment is best?  Hypnosis has a number of real advantages. Hypnosis for pain relief is one of the most effective alternative treatments available. Hypnosis for pain relief has been clinically proven to be a highly effective alternative to medication. Self-hypnosis is taught by most practitioners to make pain relief available 24/7, any time, any place, as needed.

          Hypnosis for pain relief is safe, natural, and self-contained. It can be used alone or in conjunction with any other treatment. Any treatment that reduces the need for opioids has already proven its worth. Hypnosis for pain relief fits those criteria.

           More and more Western mainstream physicians are prescribing hypnosis for pain relief for their patients. Some of the most well-known physicians are Drs. Mehmet Oz, Andrew Weil, Michael Roisen, and David Spiegel, to name just a few.

          If you or a loved one is one of the suffering fifty percent, perhaps it is time to consider giving hypnosis for pain relief a try. Keep the patient safe from addiction, overdose, or the disabling effects of prescription pain medication.  Call or email today for more No-Obligation information.  http://www.hypno4success.com/contact-us/email-us/

Here’s to your success…

Susan French

susanfrench2010@gmail.com

888-333-3688

http://www.hypno4success.com/programs/pain-reduction/