Hypnosis for Weight Loss

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Hypnosis for Weight Loss

• Laurie Finkelstein, CH
• President, NGHWA
• www.PositiveCentral.com

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Todays Agenda

• Hypnosis Overview
• Self-Hypnosis techniques
• Group Hypnosis Experience

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Laurie Finkelstein, CH Certified Clinical
Hypnotherapist ACE Certified Personal
Trainer 425-881-7082 LaurieF_at_PositiveCentral.com
President National Guild of Hypnotists,
Washington State Chapter
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• Private sessions
• Group classes
• Audio CDs (some for multi-tasking!)
• Wellness Events

PositiveCentral E-News Invitations to special
events, film screenings, networking events with
positive people.
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Register forHypnosis Support for Weight Loss
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Related Resources
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Hypnosis isProven Effective

• Manage daily stress
• Improve focus
• Balance energy levels
• Improve motivation
• Release unproductive habits
• Create healthy habits

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Common Myths

• Ill be unconscious
• I wont be in control
• Ill get an unwanted suggestion
• I might reveal a secret
• I might look silly
• I cant be hypnotized

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Diet Exercise

• Any program will work IFour mind is in alignment
  with our choices
• No program will work UNLESS our mind is in
  alignment with our choices!

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• Conscious Subconscious

Conscious
Subconscious
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Subconscious

• Records complex processes
• Functions without conscious awareness

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Changing Habits

• Subconscious mind holds the key
• Hypnosis accesses the subconscious

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Brain Wave Patterns
The Trance State
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Trance is a Natural State
Between sleep waking
Daydreaming
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Main Pillars of Hypnosis

• Direct Suggestion
• Parts Therapy
• Mental Rehearsal

Note 1 and 2 require a trained
Hypnotherapist. Mental Rehearsal can be practiced
with Self-Hypnosis.
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Direct SuggestionHypnotic SuggestionsBypass
the Conscious Mind

• From now on, you will
• Every time you think of _____,
• you will.
• While you sleep, your body will

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Parts Therapy

• One part of me wants to eat sensibly
• Another part of me always overeats

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Mental Rehearsal

• Used by Olympic Athletes
• Incorporates all 5 Senses
• Utilizes SELF-HYPNOSIS

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• TIP Emotional states
• trigger physiological effects

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The average person

• 60,000 thoughts
• 90 habitual
• Hypnosis can reprogram
• habitual thought patterns

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7 Steps of Self-Hypnosis

• Relax the body
• Imagine a special place
• Deepening
• Mental rehearsal Imagine your Ideal
• Enhancing with Emotion
• Releasing with Gratitude
• Returning to present space time

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Guided GroupHypnotic Experience
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Practice on your own withThe 7 Steps of
Self-Hypnosis

• A direct, efficient,
• powerful tool to learn
• and experience the benefits of hypnosis in a
• do-it-yourself format.

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Another toolAwakening Fitness CD

• The ability to multi-task
• while listening is indeed helpful
• because time is precious and
• of limited quantity.
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• It was a catalyst in jump starting
• a total fitness program for myself
• one with a mind,
• body and spirit approach.
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Private Sessions Available
Laurie Finkelstein, CH Certified Clinical
Hypnotherapist ACE Certified Personal
Trainer 425-881-7082 LaurieF_at_PositiveCentral.com
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