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HYPNOSIS WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAMS

During the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the U.S. Nearly 1/3 of U.S. adults are overweight and less then half of U.S. adults are at a healthy weight. After several friends and family members died due to health complications of obesity, I made a firm commitment to help individuals overcome their weight issues. As a hypnotherapist, I feel it is imperative to look at the psychological aspects of obesity as much as the physiological aspects. It takes more than sound nutrition and exercise to create a healthy lifestyle change….it takes a whole new mind set. The underlying perceptions and beliefs regarding a person’s relationships with self, body image and food all need careful self examination in order to ultimately achieve a balanced lifestyle.

Are you ready for a new approach to dealing with your weight issues?

Weight Reduction Hypnosis can help you to :

• Break past subconscious patterns that cause you to eat what you shouldn’t and stop you from eating what you should

• Regain peace and sanity around food and your body

• Gain awareness about how you relate to the concepts of weight loss, food and your body

• Work with the laws of resistance and acceptance so you can get out of your own way

• Tap into the power of your own mind to enable you to generates the results you desire.

For more additional information and applications contact:

Theresa Johnson, CHT, BCH
503-577-1817
info@theresajohnsonhypnosis.com

The North Portland Growth Place
7415 N Oatman Ave
Portland, OR 97217
www.thegrowthplace.com

IRS Tax Credits are available for Weight Loss Programs. Click here for more details.

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WEIGHT REDUCTION... A HEAVY ISSUE
It's Time to Lighten Up!!!

You may be asking yourself "Why aren’t traditional diets - even untraditional diets - working for me? Why can’t I keep the weight off once I lose it?" Through my experience as a certified hypnotherapist, I have found that the main reason why the diets have not helped you to create permanent weight loss changes is because you have not made a lifestyle change. Ok, so maybe you already understand that. Let me explain further. If a lifestyle change has not been made then your behaviors have not changed and if behaviors have not changed then your thoughts have not changed. If your thoughts have not changed then your perceptions and beliefs have not changed. Those perceptions and beliefs, I speak of, include beliefs about yourself, your body image, your self worth, and also the beliefs and perceptions about your relationship with food. The beliefs and perceptions related to the behaviors that are keeping you heavy can also be connected to a number of other issues: stress, anxiety, how you react to people, places and events around you, fears and phobias. Many of your perceptions/beliefs regarding these issues and others need to be changed on the fundamental level to create the behavioral changes necessary to eliminate the excess body fat.

Now I am sure that you have heard “if something is not working for you, change what you are doing.” Right? And surely you’ve heard “do what you’ve always done and get what you’ve always got”. Well that is exactly what is happening to most people who have been unable to lose weight effectively and keep it off. They have continued to do what they have always done and they continue to get what they’ve always gotten. Let’s make that statement even more specific “If you THINK what you’ve always THOUGHT, then you will get what you’ve always got.” It is in making the changes in that thinking process, in that belief and perception process, where hypnosis is extremely effective.

The process of hypnosis by-passes what is called the critical factor, the “line” between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. Your conscious mind is your analytical, judgmental and critical area of your brain. Although it needs to operate this way for survival purposes and decision-making, it can also trip you up, getting in the way of your own progress and improvement. The conscious mind acts upon the beliefs that have been imprinted in your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the emotional, imaginative center of our brain that also stores our long-term memories. It is estimated that 75% of our beliefs about ourselves have been imprinted into our subconscious by the age of 7. Therefore, the majority of our personality is determined by the time we are 7. (That puts a whole new twist to “acting like a child” doesn’t it.) This knowledge is useful for hypnosis age regression. In a hypnotic state an individual can mentally journey back into their past safely and objectively and look at the framework of beliefs that were established at a young age and then move forward bit by bit to review what other beliefs were established based on the original beliefs.

The subconscious mind unlike the conscious mind will accept what it hears and if it has been fed negative information for a significant amount of time, it absorbs it as fact. It is very much like the mind of a young child. It believes what it hears. The subconscious mind takes in whatever it has been given and the conscious mind acts upon it. So you can see why what you are feeding your mind is as important as what you feed your body.

If you have been thinking of yourself as fat and all you can think about it is the extra weight, then that is what you will continue to experience in life. You perceive that which you focus on through your mind’s eye. HOWEVER, if through hypnosis you were to have impressed upon your subconscious mind the thoughts of being thin, the positive aspects of being fit, healthy, balanced, and energetic we will be providing new information for your conscious mind to act upon.

Are you ready to perceive thin and to achieve thin?
Call Theresa Johnson, CHT, BCH
Board Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists
503-577-1817
for a FREE no-obligation consultation and discover how hypnosis can work for you.

Theresa Johnson HYPNOSIS
http://www.theresajohnsonhypnosis.com

Office located at
The North Portland Growth Place, 7415 N Oatman Ave, Portland, OR 97217

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