Hypnoband therapy

There has been a flurry of activity regarding a Tv programme that showed the power of the mind in being able to reduce the size of your stomach just as if you had actually had a gastric band. This idea has been around for a long time, but has been promoted by the media. It works if you want it to, but it is important to note that if you have emotional problems, then they have to be dealt with first, and then you are ready to make positive changes in the way you think, then it will work well for you.

Nothing is 100% guaranteed, but for the majority of people it can work. What you must be prepared to do is to change your eating habits and lifestyle. Just like a real gastric band, it does not solve all your problems with food.

I like my clients to become empowered by their own behavioural changes, so they no longer need someone to tell them what to eat and when to eat. You take charge of the discipline of your own life.

I won't tell you what to eat, or how much to eat, not give you any diets to follow or weigh you. That is for a slimming club to do with you, but I like to believe that you will take charge of your own life and have no need to be weighed by someone else. For many years slimming clubs have wielded that discipline, I used to run my own slimming club so I know how afraid people are of the scales when someone else weighs them. How much nice will it be for you to take action and take charge of your own life. Through hypnosis you will learn how to do this, eating less and increasing your metabolic rate ?

Toxic people

Have you ever thought of some people being toxic? you may feel as if you are being poisoned by their attitude, and they leave you with an unpleasant feeling, or maybe being drained by them.

Sadly some people can have a really negative effect on us, and it can take time to re-charge ourselves once we have been in their company. What do you do about it, especially if it is a relative, close friend or even a boss? In the case of relatives or friends, it may be that you can distance yourself from them a little, or just see them for short periods of time. With a boss it may be more difficult unless you quit your job, as you may have to see your boss each day. What are the usual causes of people being toxic towards you?

Being negative about everything you do or achieve

Finding more faults with you than positive attributes

Intuitively knowing they don't share your successes, and they look positively miffed when you are successful

Only really showing support when you are going through rough patches (this may be because it makes them feel better about their own lives)

You need to de-toxify yourself! You can't take medicine or drink lots of water, as it will not make these people go away or diminish their effect on you.

What you can do is this:

Have a more positive belief about yourself

Surround yourself with positive people who you know genuinely care about you and encourage you

Build an imaginary glass screen around yourself when you are in their company. never allow their negativity get through this screen. Keep it all outside of you, so that you never internalise their negativity.

Sometimes, if possible, it is better to cast these people adrift and concentrate on the positive people in your life