Photo by Rasmus Svinding from Pexels Feelings, attitudes, and emotions are the basis for every human difficulty. They start us on patterns of behavior and then leave us on them long after they have gone. There is hardly a person who remembers the pleasure as an infant of receiving a bottle of warm milk. It was…
Overall Statistics According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014 more than 1.9 billion adults and 41 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese. The amount of obese people has nearly doubled from 1980 to 2008. Overweight issues were associated with the countries with a high level of income, but…
Including the Thanksgiving Turkey through the Christmas Goose into the New Year’s champagne, you will probably launch yourself into six weeks of heavy eating. The tradition of stuffing ourselves with seasonal delights is ongoing. Holiday weight gain tends to be small – an average of a pound a year, according to one study. But it…
Hypnosis works on the body, says Laurie Keefer, the director of psychosocial research in gastroenterology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. It has been shown to alter pain perception and suppress the secretion of stress hormones. When people are in the extremely relaxed, focused state induced by hypnosis, they are open to therapeutic suggestion and…
The holiday season has begun and along with it the anticipation of a traditional festive diet. But if you want to protect yourself against the pounds, pushing thoughts of apple and pumpkin pies out of your mind might be counterproductive: indulging thoughts of eating a particular food may help us to eat less of the…
Stress management and anxiety are two of the main reasons for people coming for hypnotherapy. An important point to note is that many of the other individuals who come for hypnotherapy for issues such as insomnia, nail biting, stopping smoking and weight loss will report stress and anxiety as playing a part in the problem…
Last Saturday evening, after attending a one day workshop, I was reviewing messages left during the day. One of the messages was from a man who had scheduled an appointment to see me in two weeks, after I arrived back in the states after my current trip. He asked if we could meet the following day,…