Unlike a diet, hypnotism for weight loss will help motivate you to naturally have a healthier diet and get more physical activity. Here, I will describe some of the diet plans you may have heard of, the keys to weight loss, and how you can achieve weight loss using hypnotherapy techniques.

The high numbers of searches for dieting tips and diet plans indicate just how many individuals are looking to lose weight. Some well-known weight loss plans are:

The Atkins diet, which is a well-known low carbohydrate diet, is centered on the limited consumption of “refined carb” foods such as sugar and white bread. By limiting carbohydrate consumption, this diet is supposed to make the body switch from burning carbohydrates for energy to burning fat (the state of ketosis).

The Ornish diet is an extremely low fat, vegetarian diet, is a totally vegetarian eating plan, and when followed correctly, a mere 10% of total calorie intake will come from fat. The Ornish diet also strongly encourages exercise and stress-management, and has been used successfully to help reverse heart disease in many individuals.

The Suddenly Slim diet program consists of taking diet pills and meal replacement shakes in hopes of increasing the body’s metabolism to burn more calories. The products include many ingredients typically found in diet pills. The Suddenly Slim program is supposed to work without more exercise or making other significant lifestyle changes, although exercise and healthier eating will increase results.

The Zone diet balances fat, carbohydrate, and protein intake, with 30% of calories coming from fat, 40% from carbohydrates, and 30% from protein. Like the Atkins diet, this diet is often considered to be “low carb.” The Zone diet pays close attention to calorie intake and physical exercise to deliver results.

The Cabbage soup diet is a component in many free online diet plans and is largely regarded as a fad diet. It consists of eating only cabbage soup for one week. Following this diet will typically lead to a few pounds of weight loss, but when you resume regular eating habits, the weight will usually come back. In addition, staying on this unbalanced free diet plan for more than one week may lead to inadequate nutrition and poor health.

There are hundreds if not thousands of diet programs all promising fast results, but what many of these popular diet plans claim is not what they really offer. They are based on meal plans that are irregular, unsustainable over a long-term period, or downright unhealthy. In fact, permanent weight loss is rarely achieved through a brief, one-time diet session.

Successful dieters will tell you that the keys to losing weight are not in fad diets or even expensive diet plans, but in portion control, selecting nutritious and filling foods, and exercising regularly. This sounds simple to do, but it can be hard to stay motivated to keep healthy habits and undo a lifetime of bad dietary habits.

We often lack the motivation to exercise and eat healthy. Hypnosis can be used to reverse our negative habits and lack of motivation. Hypnosis weight loss programs work by utilizing the power of your unconscious mind to motivate you to exercise and improve your physical health.

Even the best free diet plans fail if they are not followed through. Research shows that most diets fail because dieters simply can’t stick to them. After years of consuming oversized portions, many of us are driven to overeat and our appetites are out of control. This is where hypnotherapy for weight loss is especially effective. Hypnosis weight loss programs are excellent at helping to control food cravings and control the appetite.

For many of us, another component to weight loss is stress management. Many people overeat because of emotions. We eat in response to our feelings, such as when we are angry or sad. This emotional attachment to food can make it easy to gain weight. We can use hypnotherapy to develop better strategies for coping with stress and to quit associating food with our emotions.

It is easy to learn hypnosis by yourself with a good self-hypnosis program. There are weight loss hypnosis programs specifically developed to help you lose weight. With simple techniques from hypnotherapy CDs, you can stop fighting to lose weight and become naturally enabled to shed pounds.

Alan B. Densky, CH, a specialist since 1978, has invented a powerful tool called Neuro-VISION video lose weight NLP. Since everyone is different he offers several ways to suppress appetite and lose weight with hypnosis and NLP. Visit his Free hypnosis video repository.

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The scientific theory behind the diet focuses on the effect of carbohydrates on the body’s insulin levels. Eating too many carbs causes the body’s blood sugar levels to rise sharply, which prompts the body to release insulin, a hormone that lowers blood sugar levels by causing the sugar to be stored as fat. It is believed that by consuming the right foods, blood sugar levels may be regulated to keep insulin levels in “the zone,” a range where the body is thought to burn fat more efficiently and stop storing excessive fat.

The diet plan balances carbohydrate and protein consumption in a three to four ratio, meaning 40% of your calories will come from carbohydrates and 30% from protein (another 30% typically comes from fat). It is crucial to keep track of calories on the Zone program, with most meals not exceeding five hundred calories each and snacks no more than one hundred calories each.

Under the program, you eat five times a day (three meals and two snacks), never going more than five hours without having a snack or meal. If you sleep eight hours each night, this means having breakfast within one hour of waking, taking lunch within five hours after breakfast, a snack within five hours after your lunch, dinner within two to three hours of your snack, and a final snack just before going to sleep.

The majority of foods eaten on the Zone plan include lean cuts of meat, such as fish or chicken and other healthy sources of protein, lots of fruits and vegetables, and a limited amount of carbs. Rice, potatoes, cereals, breads, and sugar are the kinds of carb heavy foods that dieters are to avoid eating, but can enjoy once in awhile. Dieters must also stop eating pre-packaged foods and high sodium foods.

Exercise is another key aspect of the Zone diet. The program recommends moderate intensity physical exercise for thirty minutes every day, six days a week. Physical activity is supposed to raise the effectiveness of the Zone diet. Other things that are supposed to increase the effectiveness of the diet include taking vitamins and nutritional supplements.

The Zone program works well for many people trying to lose weight, but it requires a lot of dedication. The reason why this diet and most other diets fail is because many dieters give up before they are able to see improvement. Many people fight to stay on any type of diet program because of food cravings, uncontrollable appetites or eating habits, or a simple lack the motivation to lose weight. Hypnotherapy is perfect for overcoming these issues and supplying the motivation to stick to a diet such as the Zone diet plan.

Hypnosis is routinely used with dieting because it does a lot to increase the effectiveness and success rate of weight loss programs. Among the many things that hypnosis programs do is help promote positive thinking, especially to counter negative thoughts. Hypnosis is a powerful stress reducing tool as well, helping us cope with our stressful emotions and relieve tension. As a stress reducing tool, it calms the mind, helps you come up with strategies to cope with stress, and boosts your self-confidence to motivate you to lose weight.

Weight loss hypnotherapy can also be used to treat the mental obstacles that keep people from losing weight. Take for example dieters who can’t curb their cravings and appetite because they have a problem with “emotional eating.” People who are emotional eaters compulsively eat in response to their emotions, such as when they are bored or sad. Hypnosis can be used to break the associations in our unconscious minds between eating and our emotions. This way, people are freed of their compulsive eating habits and able to stay on complex diet plans such as the Zone diet program.

Motivational weight loss CDs have become a popular and successful weight loss aid to use with weight loss programs because motivation is essential to success for most people. A good hypnosis CD program works by tapping into the power of the unconscious mind to naturally train our thoughts on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. These programs help people remember their reasons for wanting to lose weight and exercise so dieters naturally feel motivated to stay with their diet program.

Hypnosis is an effective motivational tool that will help you “stay in the zone,” stay active, and experience natural appetite suppression without drugs. Through using hypnosis, we can think more positively and focus on having better health.

Alan B. Densky, CH has spent over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including weight loss CD and hypnotism to lose weight DVD. Visit his hypnotherapy CD website for Free hypnosis downloads, videos, and newsletters.

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The Ornish diet is available in two slightly different forms, a Preventative diet and a Reversal diet. The Preventative diet is perfect for people who wish to shed pounds and lower their risk for heart disease. It is also excellent for dieters trying to reduce their cholesterol levels. The Reversal diet is formulated for people already afflicted with heart disease who want to reverse the symptoms of the disease and reduce their risk for heart attacks.

Both types of the Ornish diet recommend a diet plan that is made up of 10% fat, 20% protein, and 70% complex carbohydrates. Under the plan, all meat, fish, and poultry are avoided. All seeds, nuts, oils, and fats are also not allowed. Refined carbohydrate foods such as white rice and white flour are also not allowed, but whole grain bread and pasta, beans, and legumes are permitted.

Foods allowed in restricted quantities include egg whites and nonfat dairy products such as lowfat yogurt, milk, and cheese. Most processed foods are not permitted, since any prepackaged foods with more than 2 grams of fat per serving are not allowed.

The diet lets you to eat whole grains, fruit, vegetables, and beans at every meal until you feel full. The benefit of this diet plan is that since you are allowed to consume as much as you want of allowed foods, you can feel full and satisfied all the time. This diet plan, unlike many others, is not based on unsafe “starvation” methods.

Along with the diet plan, another key aspect of the Ornish diet program is stress-management. There are many stress-relieving practices you can use, such as meditation, yoga, and hypnosis. Hypnosis is ideal for reducing anxiety and tension while promoting natural weight loss. Hypnosis works by helping your unconscious mind focus on having positive thoughts instead of negative thoughts when you begin to feel stressed. These techniques are quite effective in promoting relaxation.

While the Ornish plan is healthy and effective for most people, it can be difficult to follow because it involves many restrictions. This diet and others similar to it often fail because dieters cannot stay on them. Many people struggle with dieting because they suffer from an out-of-control appetite, irresistible cravings, compulsive overeating, or a simple lack of motivation to lose weight. These obstacles keep many hard-working dieters from maintaining their diet and achieving permanent weight loss. Hypnosis helps you overcome these obstacles, and is an effective complement to the Ornish diet approach because it offers motivation to stick to a weight loss plan.

Hypnosis works to regulate the appetite by “reprogramming” the unconscious mind to eliminate and replace bad habits with good ones. Years of unhealthy eating habits such as “emotional eating” can cause people to eat impulsively, even when they are not truly hungry. Hypnosis breaks unhealthy associations with food and our emotions to end this conditioned response and prevent emotional eating. Hypnosis can further influence dieting success by replacing the overeating response with another activity, such as exercise. This way, instead of having the urge to overeat, you will feel motivated to exercise for your health.

Hypnosis can also be used to quell the emotional anxieties that keep you from losing weight. For many people, being overweight provides a “secondary gain” in the form of a feeling of safety or emotional protection. For example, many people with low self-esteem are afraid of people not liking them, so they use their extra weight as a reason to believe that others will dislike them. Through hypnosis, we can have more positive thoughts and focus on improving our health instead of feeling overcome by such anxieties. We can use hypnotherapy to boost our self-esteem, placing value on ourselves and our own health.

Hypnotherapy offers a powerful, natural combination of stress-management, motivation, and behavior regulation to encourage weight loss and help you follow your preferred diet program. Using hypnosis with the Ornish plan is particularly effective, but hypnotherapy is great for helping people stay on any diet plan. Hypnosis promotes the success of diet plans along with natural weight loss so dieters can enjoy long-lasting results.

Alan B. Densky, CH has spent over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including diet CDs and hypnosis for losing weight DVD. Visit his hypnosis CDs website for Free hypnosis downloads, videos, and newsletters.

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One of the rules of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is that “there is a positive intention behind all behaviors.” And based on that rule, when it comes to getting rid of negative behaviors, there is an equation that we must keep in mind. I’ll let you in on the secret formula in a minute. But first, I have a riddle for you to solve.

Riddle: A preacher made his child drink lye, which burned out the child’s voice box. What was the positive intention behind this action?

If you are like 99.9% of the clients who have visited my office since 1978, you’ll say something like: “There’s no positive intention behind that behavior.” But you would be completely incorrect. To answer this riddle, you must separate the behavior from the positive intention of the behavior.

The minister’s child was cursing. And the minister believes that if his child curses, his soul will be condemned to Hell. So the answer is that the minister was burning out his child’s vocal cords so that he couldn’t curse. By doing so, he was saving his child’s soul from being damned to Hell.

The secret equation for personal change uses NLP and works as follows:

We should always respect the positive intention that motivates every behavior. If we have an impulse to employ a behavior that we don’t like, we can quickly get rid of the impulse to use that behavior. All we need to do is to find a different behavior and substitute it in its place. To be successful, the new action must be as accessible and effective at accomplishing the same secondary gain, but be more consciously acceptable to you. This is called a REFRAME.

When clients come into my office, the first thing I do is to take a thorough case history. Let’s say that they come in and ask me to help them lose weight. Conventional wisdom tells us that the two main reasons that people eat excessively are: (1) to reduce stress; (2) because eating can be a conditioned response. Case in point, if a person eats while they are watching TV, they will develop a conditioned response, and thereafter, every time they sit down to watch TV, they’ll get cravings and an urge to eat.

However, the above answer only takes into consideration the possible secondary gain received from the behavior of eating. What if they also have another behavior that is involved in the equation? Case in point: What if being chubby is also a behavior for this person? I can hear your mind churning right now as you think, “Being heavy isn’t a behavior, what are you talking about?”

Sorry but you could be 100% incorrect. Here is a classic textbook example that will illustrate the fact that being heavy can be a behavior. It can be a behavior because it can accomplish positive outcomes.

Example: A woman is deeply in love. Her partner breaks up with her, and breaks her heart. Her unconscious wants to protect her emotionally and stop her from ever having her heart broken again. So it motivates her to get heavy to keep her out of relationships. Because if she isn’t in a relationship she won’t get her heart broken again.

Everyone is totally different. And sometimes there are hidden elements at work that cause uncontrollable behaviors. These are elements that are different for each person.

Here’s another case: A woman comes into my office complaining of an uncontrollable urge to overeat at mealtime. During my case history, the woman explains to me how she has never been able to please her dad.

During an age regression, we learned that one of her early memories was of having a meal with her family. And dad was insisting in a very loud voice that she clean her plate, even though she was bursting at the seams. So she finished the food left on her plate because of fear, and her dad praised her for finishing all of the food. It was one of the only times in her life that she could recall her father telling her that she had made him happy.

Shoot forward to the present. Dad’s been dead for many years, but the unconscious program he installed is still operational. She still has an urge to finish everything on her plate, even if she is feeling stuffed to the gills, because by cleaning the plate, in her subconscious mind she is getting dad’s approval, and eliminating her own fear!

So if you are having a problem making personal changes, please remember that there is a positive intention that causes all behaviors. And the formula for success is to alternate another behavior that will accomplish the same secondary gain, but in a way that is more consciously satisfactory to you, as an individual. The most effective way to get your unconscious to assume the responsibility for making this kind of alteration for you is through an NLP 6-Step Reframe.

Alan B. Densky, CH is an NLP Practitioner. He began his professional practice of NLP & hypnosis in 1978. He offers an interactive NLP Six-Step Reframing CD on his Neuro-VISION Hypnosis website. Also available are his Free NLP research library, hypnosis & NLP newsletters and MP3 downloads.

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Appetite is often confused with hunger, but they are 2 different things with different factors. Hunger is a physical signal that your body is in need of nourishment and it would be unhealthy if you tried to fight it. Appetite, though, is mainly triggered by psychological factors and does not respond to any physical need.

Indeed, stimulation of the mouth is a source of comfort and pleasure, which is why some people enjoy chewing gum for instance. It is the same reason that might explain why people enjoy having a cigarette in their mouths, or why they can feel hungry without actually needing to eat.

This comfort and pleasure may be sought after unconsciously by the mind when experiencing a stressful situation, which is why stress and anxiety can often create the urge to eat. Our mind also frequently unconsciously creates associations between two actions, so that every time you perform any of these actions your brain creates the urge to perform the other simultaneously. Thus you can feel the urge to eat when around friends, sitting at a table or when watching television. Weight gain is also very often a side effect of many drugs.

Even a little appetite problem can be seriously disabling and a possible danger for your health. Not only can it make you more and more anxious about your physical appearance, but it may also threaten your health on the long term. Excessive appetite can be responsible for obesity, respiratory difficulties, musculoskeletal problems, high blood pressure, and cholesterol and potentially lethal diseases like diabetes, cancer and gallbladder disease.

Having control over your appetite would allow you to readily get significantly healthier and get back in shape. You wouldn

In the most basic sense, metabolism encompasses all of the physical and chemical changes that happen inside the cells of the body. Most often, however, metabolism refers to the manner in which the body gets and uses energy from what we eat, so it really does play an important function in weight loss and gain.

Not everyone has the same metabolism, and our rates actually change during our lives, so someone who blames their metabolism isn’t necessarily making excuses. Age affects metabolism, which will slow about 5% every 10 years after age 40, and by gender, as males have a tendency to burn more calories at rest than females, and by the quantity of muscle mass you have (more muscle generally means a higher metabolic rate). Our genes also influences metabolism, not to mention pregnancy, as well as whether a woman decides to breast-feed.

Regardless of all of the wild cards, the fact is that when your calorie intake exceeds your metabolism, excess energy will get housed in the body as fat. Though some of the factors affecting metabolic rate can’t be helped, thankfully, there are ways to rev up the metabolism you’re born with.

The first tenet is to consume the right foods in the correct amounts. When you miss a meal, your body switches to starvation mode, which slows metabolism to conserve calories, because it doesn’t know when it will get food again. And when the metabolism slows, so does your weight loss.

When you finally do eat after skipping a meal, instead of using the calories in the food you’ve just taken in, your body converts them to body fat to store for the next “fast.” To keep your metabolism efficient, eat 4 - 6 smaller meals during the day and try to eat close to the same times every day. Most importantly, never skip a meal.

You can also step up your metabolic rate with exercise, including both aerobic routines and weight lifting. Aerobic activities, such as biking, dancing and running, burn more calories in the short term, while weight lifting will create more muscle, which improves metabolism and burns more calories in the long term - even when you’re sitting still, muscle needs more calories to function than fat.

In fact, each pound of muscle burns 35 calories a day, while every pound of fat burns just 2 calories per day. Despite this, you may be surprised that the more weight you posses, the faster your metabolism is likely to run. Simply put, the extra weight forces your body work more to maintain its processes.

This is partially why it’s almost always easiest to lose weight when you begin dieting, and becomes more difficult as you continue because, when you are significantly overweight, your metabolism is already at an elevated rate, so that even a slight reduction in calories will lead to an immediate weight loss.

But what happens after that immediate loss, when a plateau occurs and motivation seems to go by the “weigh” side? Persistent cravings and compulsions can suddenly return, and when they do, do not neglect a valuable resource

The Greenwich Diet can be the ideal key. It’s a meal plan fashioned to change your metabolism so you feel less hunger for all the foods that make you get fat. As your metabolism increases, your body will become more effective at burning fat so you will begin to lose those unnecessary pounds more rapidly.

You should add to your protein intake, which elevates the basic metabolism by nearly 25%. This can be achieved by eating fish, whey protein, egg whites or whole eggs, skim milk, lean steak, and chicken breast. Don’t eat foods that are high in carbs like pasta and rice. Eat only fibrous complex carbs: Broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, cabbage, spinach, celery, cucumber, and onions. Additionally, you should augment your diet with two to three servings of whey protein, which is a by-product of cheese manufacturing. It acts as an energy source for someone who is dieting and exercising.

Even fruits are not advisable in excessive amounts on this diet. Because something is natural, it does not mean that it is good for you. Fruits are high in sugar, which can cause diabetes and weight gain. But vegetables high in fiber such as salad vegetables, spinach and carrots are good for you. The golden health rule - drinking water, may help you in your efforts to reduce weight. People of all ages need to drink plenty of water since it is an essential nutrient. Most often, even health conscious people ignore the need to drink adequate amounts of water.

As in any acceptable weight control program, exercise is also coupeled with the Greenwich Diet. This program is actually more of a healthy way of living than it is a diet. When you follow this program you will know what to eat and what to avoid, thus increasing your metabolism. The main factor in a successful weight loss plan is not just the diet itself, but actually FOLLOWING THE DIET! All diets do work, but very few people are able to adhere to any diet, even just for a relatively short period of time. That’s because the major problem faced by someone who needs to lose weight is that they cannot curb their appetite and eating habits.

Appetite can be suppressed by taking appetite suppressant pills. But pills can be harmful, and all of them have negative side effects. And also, once you discontinue taking the pills, you’ll pile the weight back on because you haven’t dealt with your compulsions at their source. So to take off weight, you’ll have to find a way to follow the diet. To achieve a lasting weight loss, you need to know how to condition your mind to enjoy sticking to your plan.

In 1958, the AMA authorized hypnosis as an effective method for dealing with stress related symptoms like excessive eating. You might conceive that hypnotherapy is just a trick done in a stage show in which a hypnotist is demonstrating his or her powers before the spectators. But actually hypnosis can provide the motivation to keep you moving in the direction of your weight loss goals. And it can enable you to break many of the barriers that get in the way of your weight loss.

Hypnotherapy is the perfect tool for re-educating your unconscious - the part that creates cravings and impulses. Self hypnosis CDs can give you back the inner strength to make the proper choices about what you eat.

Although hypnosis is at times referred to as a method of treatment, it can be regarded as a facilitator of a number of different treatment methods for weight loss. The hypnotic state is defined by heightened concentration, suggestibility, and relaxation. Lasting weight loss occurs with a change in lifestyle and not just a change in diet. Hypnosis for weight loss can help you lose weight more quickly and easily than you ever imagined accomplishable. Self-hypnosis for weight loss is not just about solving problems and changing habits. You can also develop new, more useful behaviors, such as increased concentration, greater self-confidence or stronger motivation.

One-way to obtain hypnotherapy weight loss help is to go to a professional hypnotist, which usually costs around $200.00 to $300.00 for a single hour. A popular substitute is to order a self hypnosis weight loss from a reputable, certified hypnotherapist. A good pre-recorded program will start out with a session that explains the misconceptions about hypnotism for weight loss, and how it actually works. Since everyone is different, it will then give several different self-hypnosis weight loss sessions, and each session will use a variety of different hypnotic techniques. Hypnotherapy weight management programs are available for as little as 25 to 30 dollars. Since CDs are more inexpensive, they can be a workable substitute to visiting a hypnotist.

Conclusion: All diets work, if you are able to adhere to them. Some diets, like the Greenwich Diet proposed by Dr. Carlon M. Colker, MD, are better than others in providing the nutrients necessary for an increased metabolism. The Greenwich Diet can be comfortable to stick with because it is more of a lifestyle than a diet. Hypnosis for weight loss can annihilate your compulsions and cravings, and give the motivation you need to keep moving in the direction of your weight loss goals. It can also help you attain your goals quickly and safely.

Alan B. Densky, CH specializes in appetite suppression. His Neuro-VISION Video Weight Loss Hypnotism has in use in hundreds of medical offices. He offers a range of hypnotherapy for losing weight including Ericksonian hypnotism weight loss cds.

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Several surveys show that most adults feel that they are subject to a lot of stress. Researchers in the field estimate that between 75 and 90 percent of all visits to primary care doctors are for stress related problems.

Most adults claim their stress is for the most part due to their job. And stress levels have also increased in children as well as the elderly population for reasons including: Peer pressures that often lead to everything from cigarette smoking to drug and alcohol abuse; the dissolution of family and religious values and ties; increased crime rates; threats to personal security; as well as social isolation and loneliness.

Stress can be responsible for conditions such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. This is due to the increased sympathetic nervous system activity as well as a flood of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress is co-morbid with weakened immune system resistance. Stress can cause anxiety, depression, and its varied effects on one’s organs.

The following definition for “stress” can be found in the American Heritage Dictionary: “To subject to physical or mental pressure, tension, or strain”

“Tension” is defined as follows: “Mental, emotional, or nervous strain”

The word “anxiety” is defined as follows: “A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties”

And it defines “depression” as follows: “The condition of feeling sad or despondent”

The following definition is given for “clinical depression”: “A psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, anhedonia, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death.”

What we can be sure of is that our thoughts are the chief source of our experience of stress, anxiety and depression. Put differently, what we think about, and our attitudes and the way we view our experiences strongly influence our feelings. So if we can learn how to modify our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, then we can eliminate our stress, anxiety, and depression and attain a more positive state of being.

People have always tried methods for eliminating stress. With the pharmaceutical industry there seems to be a drug for everything. And to that end the industry has developed a wide line of sedatives from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to use drugs for relief, please be sure to read the fine print and learn about the side effects, which usually include addiction and dependency. Unfortunately, these types of drugs try to cure the symptoms, instead of the cause. So as soon as one stops taking them, the symptoms can come back.

A smarter way of eliminating tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to treat its actual cause, which as I wrote previously, is generally our thought processes. There is the good news. The very essence of hypnosis is relaxation. The AMA recognized hypnosis in 1958 as an effective way to cure stress and stress related symptoms. But unlike drugs, there are definitely no undesirable side effects.

When you enter hypnosis, you are in the Alpha level of consciousness. It’s the daydream like temporary psychological state which we feel as we are about to fall asleep in the evening. And we feel it once again as we awaken in the morning. There are lots of different ways we can guide ourselves into this relaxed mood, from step-by-step relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD’s.

Once in a hypnotic state, we are able to interact with our unconscious mind, which is the seat of our feelings. And one can more easily accept new points of view and ideas which can help us to reduce anxiety, or even prevent anxiety from occurring in the first place.

NLP, which is a recently developed sort of hypnosis, offers different excellent techniques for eliminating stress. Perhaps the most effective technique is called the “swish” pattern - or the “flash” pattern. After using this technique, your unconscious will automatically use bad, stress producing mental images, to generate relaxing mental images. Otherwise stated, what commonly makes you feel stress will automatically trigger relaxation!

TO SUM THINGS UP Our thoughts can cause depression, anxiety and tension. So if we change our attitude and the way we resent our situation and what we’ve experienced, we can reduce these feelings at the root. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that allow us to change our attitude and point of view to rapidly reduce the root cause of these negative feelings.

(c) Copyright 2007 By Alan B. Densky, CH. All rights reserved.

Alan B. Densky is an NGH certified hypnotherapist. He offers a complete line of anxiety elimination NLP CDs, and advanced stress management CDs through his Neuro-VISION hypnotism website. You can visit his self hypnosis blog, and download a free MP3.

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