Mind over matter with food and weight

Do you sometimes wake up having "a feeling fat day!" ?
What happens to you that day?
Do you find yourself feeling down, a little depressed, thinking everything you wear just "makes you feel fatter", do you find yourself eating more, running yourself down more, do you notice all the slimmer healthier people around you????

If you've answered yes to any of the above, then next time you feel that way, just say "STOP!" and think what do I want to feel instead? When you change your mind set to a more positive view, you will have a better day and feel much better about yourself.

Take the weight off your mind and start focusing on what your goals and outcomes are around your shape and weight, make them positive and acheiveable ~ this is the first step you need to take to begin to believe in yourself and lose the weight which is on your mind.

A 6 week programme with SlimQuest will help you to begin this journey towards changing your mind and changing your weight in a supportive way. What you find is that as your weight changes in a positive way, then so too does your energy levels and your confidence.
So how would that be . . . ?
To look good. . . feel good . . . and have more energy?

Look forward to hearing from you soon,

Best wishes
Lori
www.slimquest.co.uk

Recommended Read for Conquering Fear . . . . .

Well if you haven't as yet had the pleasure of reading this little gem, then I would highly recommend this book to everyone really!

We all have times in our lives when things can get on top of us ~ we maybe highly successful in one part of our lives and then be apprehensive and unsure in another area. This is quite common and it's taking our strengths that drive us towards success and using those resources and beliefs in the other areas which need some TLC.
The book which I recommend to all is "Feel the Fear and do it Anyway" by Susan Jefferies. She has a unique way of making something that can seem quite scary to appear easy to do, and the more you challenge yourself through following her tasks, then the easier you will find things getting, the less fearful you will be and the more you'll look forwards to feeling comfortable in your self in all areas of your life.

Let me know what you think about this book & whether it has changed how you see things in a positive way. . . . . Go onto Amazon via the link to start your journey forwards. www.amazon.co.uk

Best wishes,
Lori

Whats Your Paunch Type Gentleman?

An excellent article in the Times Body and Soul supplement on Saturday the 15th of May 2010 by a Doctor John Briffas who insists you lose the paunch.He describes how fat on the outside ( the paunch) presents real health risks as it is what the fat is doing on the inside called visceral fat that presents the greater risk than looking out of shape! Visceral fat reaches round your internal organs which can lead to chronic health problems. Dr Briffas recommends a low carb diet to decrease the waist line increase energy and feelings of well being so which paunch type are you? The pod? The button buster? The when-are-you due? Or the blob? With hypnosis it makes the process of realigning your eating habits so much easier with some well defined goals and outcomes and a plan of action you could soon say goodbye to the paunch and hello to your toes!!

Check out the article at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

NCH Help for Heroes

http://www.hypnotherapists.org.uk/1233/hypnotherapy-helps-homecoming-heroes/

Visit the above link to the National Council for Hypnotherapy website for further information about their Help for Heroes campaign to help support home coming service men & women.
There are many Qualified & Experienced Hypnotherapists Nationwide who offer their first session free as part of this campaign.
We are also on this register & find that many people really benefit from discovering more about how Hypnosis can help find balance & alignment once more.

Post Traumatic Stress is sadly a common side effect of war situations & coming to terms with mental & physical scars can make life a struggle. Cognitive Hypnotherapy & NLP techniques can help to heal these wounds & make life more manageable.

If you know anyone who may be in need of our services or other Hypnotherapists, then please pass on this link. http://www.hypnotherapists.org.uk/1233/hypnotherapy-helps-homecoming-heroes/

Best Wishes
Lori

Getting Results

Some may say that there are no hard and fast rules in making changes in your life,I would suggest that the single biggest factor which holds most folks back is fear- fear that a change may be worse than that which is being experienced at this moment in time.Mostly we fear change because of our parental social and cultural conditioning - conditioning which inhibits the natural and inner wisdom which we all posses and potentially stifle any change before it has a chance to take place. Big fears are usually made up of lots of little fears which over time accumulate and if not dealt with properly can prevent us from reaching our true potential.
Time line therapy is an excellent way of dealing with fears, replacing them with a much more useful strategy for life. The key is to take 100% responsibility for making that change now!
Best Wishes
Edd
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National No Smoking Day 2010

National no smoking day 2010 has come and gone once again. Lots of help is available for those smokers out there who are thinking about change and wishing to lead a healthier and wealthier lifestyle by choosing not to smoke.
Contact your local GP or pharmacist to see what is on offer from help groups to nicotine patches. As an alternative why not book an appointment on our change your smoking habit programme , its chemical free, its wonderfully relaxing, and fully supports your lifestyle change. You could seriously affect your health and wealth why wait until national no smoking day day 2011 make a positive change now !!! A 20 a day habit can cost £42.00 per week;in real terms a smoker has to earn £61.00 per week before tax to be able to afford a 20 a day habit or a staggering £3726 per year!

The Holographic Brain

I picked up a book this week off the bookshelf off my "unread pile" called Imagery and healing by Jeanne Achterberg: a fascinating look at shamanism and modern medicine.It really gets to the heart of what is understood about shamanic practices and the relationship with western modern medical practices. An area of neuroscience which I had looked at at whilst studying for my masters degree is discussed which is that of the holographic brain. A fascinating subject, in particular in relation to hypnosis. The holographic model begins to resolve some of the brain behaviour paradoxes those that relate too the storage of memory and its retrieval. That,if the brain indeed operates like that of a hologram it is unnecessary to have leg to process leg information it is only necessary to have once had a leg or even thought about having a leg. The brain sets up patterns of storage. Similarly in the context of body boundaries: where do I begin and end? According to the holographic model we have a choice, so say for instance I decided to hug my wife from over 100 mile away my holographic brain begins to recreate what I have experienced about this event; the physical sensations, the emotions, and the symbols I have idiosyncratically adopted all of which are stored without reference to time and space . The image if strong enough will recreate the whole situation in my being. Karl Pribram who proposed the holographic model suggests that "imagery and feelings are like ghosts -but they are ghosts which inhabit my own and my patients subjective worlds they are our constant companions and I want to explain them" suggesting that words and behaviour are not enough to explain without recourse to a map IE an image of some sort. He goes on to say that when images are regarded in the holographic manner their omnipotent influence on physical function logically follows and that the image the behaviour and the physiological associations are a unified aspect of the same phenomenon. That is the the extant to which change can take place in the body and mind depends upon how much activity there is at the neural junctures and how many patterns are activated or in other words the belief system. If you do not believe that you have the ability to consciously effect mental and physical change with the imagination then you never even try! Healing requires work both physical and mental ; it does not happen accidentally. So lets just say for example a person was feeling stressed and anxious ; it would make sense to form an image of the body being relaxed and calm , and the precise body functions that would be required to bring that about so to attending to the breath, breathing deeply releasing tension in the muscles, remembering a time when they were completely calm and relaxed activates the neural patterns that are required to bring this about. This is where hypnosis and timeline therapy can be immensly helpful in allowing the mind to remember that it has all the resources required within to effect change in a postitive and meaningful way.
Best Wishes
Edd