The Skeptical Hypnotist

Hypnosis Helps Victims Of Citigroup Layoffs

The news today that rocked the financial markets was about the massive layoffs scheduled by Citigroup that stated that 50,000 jobs would be eliminated. This is going to be a great hardship for many families. And one of the things they can consider to help them with this difficult situation was reported in the Wall Street Journal last week. The WSJ reported that hypnotists are helping clients affected by the current economy, market swings, and unemployment by using hypnosis to change attitudes. The attitude that we take firmly will enable us to take the necessary steps to focus on the tasks at hand without the worry that might freeze and prevent the very behaviors that are required in this special time.

Here’s how it works.

While in a trance state, we humans become more open to suggestion. We can eliminate uncomfortable responses to situations. We can view things in a new and more rewarding perspective. When we are able to either eliminate or manage stress we can take back control.

What the stress response does.

Stress is the response that is programed into us for our own protection. It is known as the fight or flight response. This is our instinctive response to danger. You know, the response that all living creatures have. Take for exampe the possum. When in danger, what does the possum do? It plays dead. That’s why the phrase playin’ possum came about. We humans are a little more advanced than the possum, but it appears not much. We have the ability to do a bunch of different things. Responses to danger that we take depends on the situation at hand. But our flight or fight response kicks in with either running or fighting. Or we can play dead. Freeze in our tracks, just like our friend the possum. So afraid to take action that we take no action at all, (or so we think). But that inaction is a choice and actually an action in response to danger none the less.

Why the fight or flight response ends up freezing us?

The fight or flight response has a physical component. Our bodies respond in a predictable way. Our muscles tense up in preparation for running or fighting. Our digestion slows down or stops, again in response to running or fighting, and our breathing becomes very shallow, again in order to help us better run or fight. Now if that muscle tightening that we experience becomes too intense, we actually don’t do anything, like that possum. Surely those of us that would’ve responded that way during prehistoric times would have been weeded out of the gene pool. But these days that stress response is not a response to such a dire attack. We experience stress from financial difficulties, relationship problems, everyday situations that are uncomfortable for us. It’s not life or death, but our bodies respond as if it is.

How Hypnosis Helps With The Citigroup Layoffs

Working with a hypnotist, the affected Citigroup workers are able to release the tension, stress and anxiety of being suddenly thrust out into the current job market. When we are free of unnecessary stress, we can take action that will satisfy the needs wants and desires that are responsible for that stress in the first place. Seeing things in their true perspective. Being able to distance yourself forom the unhealty thoughts that are causing distress and preventing the actions necessary to procure a new job, career, postion, business opportunity. It opens the client up to the new possibilities that are out there.

Group Hypnosis Seminar For These Trying Times

I’ll be giving a group seminar on how to use hypnosis to effectively take back control in this seemingly trying business and economic climate in December. If you would like to be notified of this rewarding program, fill in the form on the right. I take your privacy seriously and would never sell or rent the information to anyone or any group. You can also learn how to do Self Hypnosis to focus your mind by enrolling in my free self hypnosis mini course.

Hypnosis for weight loss?

Is it possible to use hypnosis to lose weight?

Absolutely yes

How would you use hypnosis for weight loss?

In my office in NYC I use Hypnosis to help people take back control over their habits and behaviors. I help them eliminate old unhealthy habits by teaching them how to replace those old habits with new healthier behaviors and then I work with them so that these new behaviors then become their conditioned habitual responses. And when this takes place losing weight becomes the natural response to healthier behaviors

You see, it is our habits, our unthinking, unconscious patterns, that get us into the most trouble. If we condition ourselves to walk into our home everyday at the end of the workday, and drop our packages on the floor, and run into the kitchen for a “treat” of some kind of non-essential food (unhealthy food) and then plop ourselves on the couch in front of the TV, then every day we will feel compelled to do this same unhealthy activity. In fact, if we omit this activity from our normal everyday list of things to do, we will feel out of sorts. We will feel off balance. Things will not seem right. If we complete our day of work with a trip to the gym, or the yoga class, or the meditation circle, we can create this same kind of conditioned response with a healthier behavior. And when we don’t follow through with this new healthier behavior, we will get those same feelings of being out of sorts, off balance, or not feeling right. And those uncomfortable feelings will propel us to stay on track with a healthier behavior rather than an unhealthy behavior.

How can hypnosis help me with developing good habits?

Hypnotic trance is a state where we become more suggestible. We tend to believe and accept whatever suggestions are placed into the subconscious mind when we are in hypnotic trance. In my office, I suggest to my clients that they will start to behave differently. I suggest that they will start to behave in the way that they have agreed to behave during our brief pre-session interview. I link the old behaviors to an extremely unpleasant feeling or experience so they will be motivated to stop doing that unhealthy behavior. Then I have my clients practice the new behavior and link it to an extremely pleasant feeling or experience so they are motivated to follow through with the new healthier behavior.

Why does this hypnosis process work?

Now the reason this works, is that we tend to move away from things that feel bad and move toward things that make us feel good. You’ve heard of the metaphor of the donkey being coaxed in two ways. With a carrot and a stick. Basically this is providing my clients with their own carrot and stick. Nudging them along a path that will lead them to the healthier choices that are required for them to lower their current weight and keep them able to maintain that weight for as long as they want to maintain that healthy lifestyle. This is a lifestyle change, not a remedial quick fix like a short term diet that, because it is so restrictive, is impossible to maintain. When you change your lifestyle and it becomes habitual, its becomes as easy as brushing your teeth every morning, or washing your hands at specific times. And because habits are so very powerful, we make them our powerful allies in our program of weight loss.

In Summary

This then becomes one of the very powerful ways that hypnosis is effective at helping my clients become thinner, healthier and happier. Hypnosis is also a very pleasant experience for people so they have fun, and feel extremely relaxed and more capable. Just a by product of this rewarding way of making changes permanently.

How To get Started Now With Hypnosis For Weight Loss

You can get started by doing self hypnosis. An easy a quick way to learn self hypnosis is with my free 5 day self hypnosis course. You can sign up for it by clicking on this link for self hypnosis for weight loss. You will find a sign up box in the upper right hand corner. Just fill in your name and email, and you will get delivered to your email box the best information on self hypnosis you can find anywhere. It is similar to the self hypnosis instructions that I provided as the author of the new book, “Real World Hypnosis: Insider Tips from Leading Hypnotists”, and you get it for free.

Losing weight is an involved process

There are a number of things that should be addressed and changed in order to lose weight. No great new information for you there. But did you know that by using hypnosis you could make that process easier and more pleasurable. You can make it an automatic unthinking process that when you stay with it, will bring you down to a much more attractive and desirable weight. In the next few moments I’ll show you one of the ways I do this.

You’ve been on diets before, struggled to maintain a restrictive diet. And what happens? When someone, even you, tells you that you can’t eat a certain food, that food becomes even more desirable. You start to crave that particular food, not because you want it, but because you can’t have it. These restrictive programs also have another downside. When you restrict your food intake your body, through a survival mechanism, thinks there is a famine and starts to slow down your metabolism to conserve your energy stores. Just the opposite of what you want to happen if you are trying to lose weight. So diets don’t work. It’s just that simple. And if you’ve ever been on a diet you probably found this to be true. You gained all the weight back as soon as you stopped eating in that restrictive manner.

So, how can hypnosis make this different?

When you are hypnotized, one of the things that an experienced and well-trained hypnotist will be able to do is to change your response to food and eating. We all are born with the proper behavior toward food that we want to have. That behavior is to eat when hungry and stop when full. Have you ever noticed how an infant eats? An infant eats until it is full, and then stops. It spits out the nipple and will refuse to eat, because it doesn’t need the food anymore. It has supplied itself with the necessary nutrients it requires to take care of its needs for the next couple of hours.

You were born with that same ability. As a well-trained hypnotist, I create the states that are necessary for my clients to make changes in their responses and reactions to foods…even the thoughts of food. And by doing just this simple process my clients start to see food and eating differently. They are no longer controlled by food. They are satisfied with a small amount of food. They regain control over the simple task of supplying nutrients to their body, and that feels good.

This is just one of the methods I use in helping my clients regain control over food, and lose weight.

In Summary

So if you want to effectively use hypnosis to help you to lose weight, one of the things you need is to create the state where food is just another object that we use to supply life, like breathing, and drinking water.

If you would like to get a free mini-course to learn how you can use self-hypnosis to lose weight, just sign up for my mini-course in the box on the right.

Marc Carlin

The NYC Hypnotist

Have you ever gone to sleep at night thinking that you were going to get a fresh start tomorrow morning? And then when you wake up in the morning, you decide that you really don’t want to eat a healthy breakfast, or take a sweaty walk, or follow that exercise program?

Well, what happened during the night to have that change occur? I don’t know! I really don’t, I can only speculate on what the reasons are, because we all have differing reasons for not following through on the promises we make to ourselves. What I can tell you is that it doesn’t have to be that way.

How do I know this? Because if you look at some of the other things that you do in your life, that you are consistent with, you find that you have a strategy in place to get them done. And that strategy doesn’t allow you to question whether or not you will do that particular activity or not. It will just get done, come hell or high water! That is what we call conditioning.

How can we condition ourselves for change with losing weight? We have to start with a change in our attitude. And that change has to be from where you are at this very moment in time. Not where the next person is, but from where you are

Find out how you can start this attitude shift and make it permanent by reserving your spot for the free teleseminar I’m hosting with 2X Oprah guest author, Victoria Moran. We’re having our little Q & A on Tuesday evening at 8PM EDT. Everyone is invited, but because there is limited space availability on the phone lines, it’s probably better for you if you reserve your spot right now. Go to:

http://www.hypnoticstate.com/Forums/Victoria-Moran.html

Don’t miss out on this fabulous and informative evening. Be sure to ask your own most pressing questions regarding weight loss, spiritual living, or any other life issues you might be experiencing, and I’ll make sure that we answer them.

Marc Carlin

The NYC Hypnotist

(516) 747-7699

I am by nature somewhat skeptical. I usually don’t take things at face value. In order for me to do so, the info probably has to be coming from a reliable source. That is the nature of my skepticism.

So, when I went to my very first hypnosis training, I went with an open mind, but I needed to get some kind of information that would allow me to understand what hypnosis was. I needed to experience hypnotic trance for myself, and find out what it was all about.

I was quite amazed at that first training. The things I witnessed went far past what I was expecting. I saw a grown medical doctor spontaneously act like a 5 year old child. I saw sad dull exteriors become shining smiling faces. I saw smokers become non smokers and food cravings disappear. I saw the power of hypnosis in action.

Skepticism will not keep you from being hypnotized, nor will it prevent you from getting the results you see a hypnotist for. It might slow down the process, just a little bit. It shouldn’t even extend the length of your first hypnotic session. All you really need is a sincere desire to change. If you want to be a non smoker, then you need to have a sincere desire to stop smoking. And who wouldn’t want to stop smoking these days? If you want to lose weight, you only need a sincere desire to lose weight.

Follow my directions and I’ll lead you there.

Marc Carlin

Consulting Hypnotist
HypnoticState.com
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