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	<title>NZ Hypnotherapy Resource Centre &#187; Weight Loss</title>
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		<title>Weight Loss Hypnosis CD&#8217;S</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you like to use hypnosis for weight loss but don&#8217;t have time to go to a hypnotherapist in person. Perhaps you prefer to experience the benefits from your own home. There are hundreds of hypnosis for weight loss programs on the web&#8230;&#8230; Buy a Great Hypnosis Weight Loss Product From a Trusted Website!! Working ...]]></description>
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<p>Would you like to use hypnosis for weight loss but don&#8217;t have time to go to a hypnotherapist in person. Perhaps you prefer to experience the benefits from your own home. There are hundreds of  hypnosis for weight loss programs on the web&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Buy a Great Hypnosis Weight Loss Product From a Trusted Website!!</h3>
<p>Working as a full time hypnotherapist   I am always buying  hypnotic products to learn new techniques for my own office, sometimes on behalf of clients, as well as for my own personal development.  I have a good idea of what a person should be looking for and what to avoid.   Below are the internet sites which I regularly have purchased from. There are some good reasons why you should consider these sites.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.hypnosis-weightloss.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/128px-Padlock-gold.svg_.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-257" style="margin: 2px;" title="Padlock.svg" src="http://www.hypnosis-weightloss.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/128px-Padlock-gold.svg_.png" alt="" width="52" height="52" /></a>The  security of your payment online</strong> These are professional organisations. There are people at the other end on their sites who will quickly help you with any problem.  I have dealt with all of them before with no problems in regards to payment, and all, returning inquiries promptly. With one quickly refunding money after a mistakenly bought the same product twice. <strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.hypnosis-weightloss.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/notes.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-258" style="margin: 2px;" title="notes" src="http://www.hypnosis-weightloss.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/notes.jpg" alt="" width="59" height="59" /></a>A high Quality product</strong>. Unfortunately it is all to easy to put together a voice recording and sell it on the internet as a weight loss hypnosis product. The hypnosis tracks below are professionally recorded. No static in the back ground, no poor quality. And this is important because to get the most out of hypnosis you want to listen to the hypnosis tracks regularly and to do this you have to enjoy what you are listening too <strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.hypnosis-weightloss.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/research2.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-260 alignleft" style="margin: 2px;" title="research hypnosis" src="http://www.hypnosis-weightloss.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/research2-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="59" height="59" /></a>The right information. </strong>You want more than some basic words telling you to lose weight. These tracks have been researched. What you are listening to is a combination of science and hypnosis blended into one.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">HYPNOSIS PRODUCT REVIEWS</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">The Hypnosis Network</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.hypnosisnetwork.com/hypnosis/weight_loss.php?ref=103" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.hypnosisnetwork.com/images/toolbox/weight_loss/468x60_hn_ewl_stay_on_track.gif" alt="Enjoying Weight Loss - lose weight with hypnosis" width="468" height="60" /></a></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">The products from this site are all produced by either psychologists or hold a PHD in a related field. Their weight loss products have been praised by the media, reviewed by magazines and are backed by a 1 year satisfaction guarantee.</p>
<p><strong>The Good</strong>.The products success is researched and documented. Filled with testimonials. Backed by a fully trained psychologist and a satisfaction guarantee.</p>
<p><strong>The Bad</strong>.  The background sounds a little  lackluster.  Need to wait for international delivery.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">.</h3>
<h3>Hypnosis Downloads</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/weight-loss#3759"><img class="alignnone" style="border: 0pt none;" src="  http://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/images/HD-4-v3.gif" border="0" alt="Weight loss  hypnotherapy" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
<p>Buying from hypnosis downloads.com allows you to begin downloading immediately.   With over 19 hypnosis tracks for weight loss there are plenty of options that would suit each individuals needs. Or to save money they currently have a ten pack of hypnosis tracks at a discounted rate.</p>
<p><strong>The Good:</strong> Instantly download and start today. Can mix and match tracks to create a custom  product. Backed by a satisfaction guarantee.</p>
<p><strong>The Bad</strong>: Introductions before each hypnosis tracks can be annoying. Doesn&#8217;t have the same testimonial backing as the  hypnosis network.</p>
<h3>Wendi</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=187776&amp;u=447550&amp;m=23371&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.shareasale.com/image/wendi logo2.jpg" border="0" alt="Wendi.com" /></a></p>
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		<title>5 Essentials To Keeping the Weight Off.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 5 problem areas you will want covered when using hypnosis for weight loss. These are recurring themes that I have experienced with hundreds of clients. Read below and see which ones you identify with, then choose a hypnosis program, or talk to a hypnotherapist about what would meet your needs. I Must Eat ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are 5  problem areas you will want covered when using hypnosis for weight loss.  These are recurring themes that  I have experienced with hundreds of clients.  Read below and see which ones you identify with, then choose a hypnosis program, or talk to a hypnotherapist about what would meet your needs.</p>
<h4><strong>I Must Eat Everything On My Plate! My Food is my Reward!<br />
</strong></h4>
<p>Simple but strong motivating beliefs learned from childhood can continue to influence  peoples eating habits as adults. Eating out of politeness for parents, family or friends.  Believing because you or your family have always been overweight,that you can&#8217;t lose weight. Thinking food as a reward. Use hypnosis so limiting beliefs can  go and you are back in control.</p>
<h4><strong>I Ate A Biscuit. That is it my Diet Is Over!<br />
</strong></h4>
<p>Personality traits or self criticism or perfectionism tend to create a lot of guilt and anxiety which in turn fuels emotional eating or hopelessness.  It is often referred to as an all or nothing attitude, &#8216;because I had that one biscuit my diet is over&#8217;. &#8216;Because I didn&#8217;t exercise today I will give up&#8217;.  &#8216;I&#8217;m not good enough because I can&#8217;t keep to this eating plan&#8217;. Use hypnosis to creating a balance lifestyle and foo exercise and thinking.</p>
<h4>I am stressed! Where is that food.</h4>
<p>There is only one feeling associated with food and that is a rumbling feeling in your stomach. If you are eating at other times it is about something else. Look for hypnosis programs that look to  create a clear distinction between the feeling of hunger and other emotions.  Get this type of behavior sorted and you are half way there.</p>
<h4>My Stomach is Fat, my Legs are Thick like Tree trunks, and I can See a Double Chin.</h4>
<p>Self appreciation translates directly into motivation.  When you feel down about yourself your motivation to look after your self is also down. Use hypnosis to feel good about who you are today.</p>
<h4>I&#8217;ll start again tomorrow, after Xmas, my birthday, this chocolate.</h4>
<p>To create a new lifestyle of healthy habits takes time. This requires I mind frame of ongoing persistence. Taking satisfaction in small changes each week rather than from the scales . Hypnosis can help make this an enjoyable experience rather than one where it feels like you are missing out.</p>
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		<title>Weight Loss Through Hypnosis: Why Emotions Are Bad For The Waist Line?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put your hand near a hot stove element and what do you do? Move away from it.  Have a headache, you reach for the panadol. It is easy to identify how we react to physical pain, more difficult to notice how react to emotional discomfort. However it works in a very similar way. We enjoy ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Put your hand near a hot stove element and what do you do? Move away from it.  Have a headache, you reach for the panadol. It is easy to identify how we react to physical pain, more difficult to notice how react to emotional discomfort. However it works in a very similar way.</p>
<p>We enjoy feeling happy, relaxed and at peace of mind. When we feel stress, anxiety,  anger, or sadness, bored it’s uncomfortable and so  we want to move away from the discomfort.</p>
<p>In an ideal world we would act to neutralise the source of our discomfit, but often we can’t, or we have developed a habit of distracting from our emotions or feelings whenever we notice them instead of resolving the source of the discomfort. Food is one means people  use to distract.  Termed as an emotional crutch by some, I prefer to think of it as simple a way of distracting from what is happening or being felt at the moment. Let’s remember not every one who is overweight does this, but many people do without realizing what they are doing it.</p>
<p>Lets look at some examples I  come across regular at my offices at Lifestyle Hypnosis where people feel an uncomfortable feeling and look to distract from it and eat.</p>
<ul class="arrow_list">
<li>Being around  particular people that annoy or  frustrate them( usually Family,  Boy/Girl friends, ex partners)</li>
<li>In particular places that stress them. Work or Home.</li>
<li>Stressed/Anxious.  Worries, bout money  work, family or the future.</li>
<li>Boredom. Not enough challenges ion ones life.</li>
<li>Loneliness. Lack close trusting relationships with other people</li>
<li>Sadness. Messing something in your life, a person or an experience.</li>
<li>Guilt of what a person has done in the past. Regrets on how life has been lived.</li>
<li>Helplessness A person who feels trapped in the situation they find themselves.</li>
</ul>
<ul></ul>
<p>If a person consistently uses food to distract from any of the above then they create an  additional problem in the form of frustration of being overweight or out of control. They then enter an upward spiral of feeling the initial discomfit, eating to distract from that, frustrated that there eating, and around they go.</p>
<p>With hypnosis we break this cycle of distraction, and take the energy out of the emotion so you no longer feel compelled to move away from it. The results are often very dramatic with a reduction of food intake in as little as 2-3 sessions.</p>
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		<title>How Low Self Esteem Affects Your Motivation To Exercise and Eat Healthy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of a person you don’t like&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..  Perhaps they are rude arrogant, drain your energy or  are just plain unlikable. Now imagine that same person constantly asking you to help them. Everyday coming over to your house wanting to chat or do something with them.  How much effort does it take to help them out?  ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="pullquote_left">Think of  Self Esteem as an internal measurement how high much a person likes being themselves and the value they place upon that.</span>Think of a person you don’t like&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..  Perhaps they are rude arrogant, drain your energy or  are just plain unlikable. Now imagine that same person constantly asking you to help them. Everyday coming over to your house wanting to chat or do something with them.  How much effort does it take to help them out?  How reluctant are you to open the door when you hear them knock on the door again?</p>
<p>Now think of a person in your life you truly appreciate. A person you love and cherish. Often it is a family member a good friend, your own children perhaps.  How you just feel good around them and appreciate them in your life. Now imaging this person needing some help. Notice how easy it is. It is  natural to help out the people you love and appreciate. You just do it.</p>
<p><span class="pullquote_right">Like someone, it is easy to help them.<br />
Don’t like someone it takes will power and effort.</span></p>
<p>If you don’t like who you are(low self esteem) it is like hanging out all day with that person you dislike. Your motivation plummets.  It takes effort and energy to do anything positive.</p>
<p>If you feel great about who you are. Then your energy levels are high,  and exercising and eating healthy becomes easy.</p>
<p>So the trick is to find ways to think and feel great about who you are at right now. And by doing that the energy and motivation materilizes to do what has to be done to lose weight and exercise.</p>
<h4>What about those positive affirmations I have been doing why don’t they work??</h4>
<p>It is great to have a positive attitude, however simple saying over and over again I am positive I can do this, strikes a problem when inside you feel the opposite inside. It is kind of like lying to yourself. And we all know where lying gets us. So what you want is something better than affirmations and it comes in the form of hypnosis.</p>
<p>What you want is a feeling inside of you to grow and be nurtured. A feeling inside you that you are as likable and lovable as the important people in your life. That you are worth as much as anyone else around you. And while you can use affirmations, it is whole lot easier to use hypnosis as a means to increase the internal self esteem within you. Because after all, what you think about yourself is only a thought,  and if you have a thought, why not have the best possible one  about yourself you can.</p>
<p>Using hypnosis you can help feel great now. Allowing you be motivated, keep exercising and eat healthy.</p>
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		<title>7 Signs Its Time To Use Hypnotherapy For Weight Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it that time again? You’ve noticed the scales creeping upwards, or those pants just don’t seem as comfortable anymore, and you are wondering how to go about losing  those extra few kilos. Perhaps you think about dieting, ‘but what is the point, the weight always comes back’, or exercise, ‘but the mornings always seem ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it that time again? You’ve noticed the scales creeping upwards, or those pants just don’t seem as comfortable anymore, and you are wondering how to go about losing  those extra few kilos. Perhaps you think about dieting, ‘but what is the point, the weight always comes back’, or exercise, ‘but the mornings always seem to cold’.  Perhaps it is time to use something else.</p>
<p>Using <strong>hypnotherapy for weight loss</strong> makes the whole process of creating a healthier lifestyle so much easier, by aligning thoughts, feelings and emotions together so you can find it easy to follow  a healthy diet.  It has nothing to do with increasing your willpower, instead food just seems to lose its appeal and healthy eating becomes a natural decisions to make . You eat less food at dinner time. Not because you force yourself to eat less, but because you just now seem satisfied on less.</p>
<p>Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss aligns plans, goals, feelings and emotions to help you move forward. If you can relate to any of the points below thenhypnotherapy for weight loss is for you.</p>
<h2>7 Signs Hypnosis for Weight Loss is the Right Choice For You</h2>
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<li>You have been on a number of diets before and the weight just won’t   come off. Or it comes off and comes right back on. You would consider   yourself a Yo-Yo dieter up and down, up and down.</li>
<li>When you get depressed upset or emotional you find yourself eating.   Perhaps you are bored, anger or lonely, and you found self heading for   the fridge.</li>
<li>The chocolate, lollies or ice cream is like a strong feeling of  ‘I   just have to have it, I need it’, like a craving or addiction, that food   just keeps calling for you.</li>
<li>You find it hard or uncomfortable to turn food down, when offered to you by friends or family.</li>
<li>You constantly eat and snack and yet you never feel full.</li>
<li>The weight came on quickly once you stopped smoking, or stopped some other busy activity like work.</li>
<li> You suffer an inner contest of wills. Good verses  bad, little angel  versus the little devil. I shouldn’t  eat this, I  have to have it.  I  have to exercise, I could stay in bed another  minute.</li>
</ul>
<p>Hypnotherapy for weight loss works with feelings and emotions  So instead of  feeling  a contest of wills, craving or a need to continually snack instead, those feelings simple are not there and the need to eat more at dinner, or to eat certain foods can be reduced  which makes it easy to eat healthy, and make healthy decisions and in doing so,  lose weight.</p>
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		<title>The Magic of Hypnosis For Weight Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a hypnosis stage show, you may be wondering how weight loss through hypnosis may work, especially after seeing people performing some very unusual kind of behaviours.  People dancing around, singing, behaving like they are a washing machine etc. Now in a therapy room using weight loss hypnosis techniques you are ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have ever seen a hypnosis stage show, you may be wondering how weight loss through hypnosis may work, especially after seeing people performing some very unusual kind of behaviours.  People dancing around, singing, behaving like they are a washing machine etc.</p>
<p>Now in a therapy room using weight loss hypnosis techniques you are probably not interested in any of the above. But there are some aspects to a stage hypnotists bag of tricks you’ll want your hypnotherapist to include in your session.</p>
<p>What a stage hypnotist is able to do, is rapidly induce que controlled behavior. You see a red light while driving you apply the break. The phone rings you answer. I throw a ball, your hand goes out and catches it. There is the stimulus the red light. There is the reaction, putting your foot on the brake. There is the stimulus the ringing of the telephone, and there is the reaction, picking up the phone. There is no need to consciously make the decision to take action.</p>
<p>A hypnotist on stage is using a similar process, just speeding up the time it takes to learn the reflex response. When I say the word sleep, your eyes close. When I say lion, you roar like a lion. When I click my fingers you act like a washing machine, etc</p>
<p>When it comes to weight loss for hypnosis a hypnotherapist should be including some cue controlled reactions.<br />
When I see  chocolate it makes me feel disgusted. When I open the fridge door, I look for healthy foods. When I serve my portions I put half as much on the plate. The type of behaviours you want to develop are discussed with  the hypnotherapist.</p>
<p>For some people these cue controlled behaviors incorporated into their hypnosis sessions works very well and changes in eating habits may occur very rapidly. For others the effects are more subtle.   But remember this is only one small aspect to hypnotherapy for weightless. If it works for you great, you are going to get off to a flying start.  There are many other techniques to help you lose weight through hypnosis, and your hypnotherapist will be able to find the best tools that work for you.</p>
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		<title>Hypnosis for Exercise. Where Did My Motivation Go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to walk each morning.   And I really want to eat healthy, but I never quite seem to manage it. I just can&#8217;t seem to get motivated&#8230;&#8230;.. Diets and exercise regimes imply a start and end. A  sense of having to work at it to stay there which in turn  requires motivation. Unfortunately motivation ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I want to walk each morning.   And I really want to eat healthy, but I never quite seem to manage it. I just can&#8217;t seem to get motivated&#8230;&#8230;..<br />
Diets and exercise regimes imply a start and end. A  sense of having to work at it to stay there which in turn  requires motivation. Unfortunately motivation tends to end at the first little slip up along  the way. And who can blame you, no one wants to be counting calories for the rest of their lives. No one wants to feel like they are depriving themselves.</p>
<p>So you want to stay motivated. Motivation comes in two forms, internal and external.</p>
<p>External motivation is anything happening in the external world that drives you towards losing weight. Life events such as planning to have a baby and increasing the chances of fertility, looking for Mr or Miss right, the big wedding day or an overseas holiday are all external motivators. Because the motivation is tied to an event, once the event passes so too does the motivation and old eating habits tend to return and with this comes the weight.</p>
<p>Internal motivation, is when we take action for the benefit of ourselves. This motivation can be divided into goal directed motivation and anxiety directed motivation. Anxiety driven weight loss occurs when a person steps on the scales, finds their weight has jumped, and panics. In this scenario people take action so as to move away from discomfort.</p>
<p>Anxiety driven behavior can produce an initial surge of activity, with crash diets and exercise regimes, however as the weight begins to come off, the anxiety lessens, and as it was the anxiety which was the motivator once it is no longer there the person is back eating the old foods, and the exercise program is a distant memory.<br />
However goal directed motivation tied to the value, belief and worth of who you are is different than anxiety driven motivation. If your sense of self worth increases, your sense of appreciate of yourself rises with it. And as your sense of appreciation rises it is easier to spend more time looking out for yourself and ensure you eat right.  If you have had children or a pet or someone in your life you love you look after them, it isn’t a struggle it doesn&#8217;t require motivation, you simple take action because you value and appreciate them. The same applies to you.</p>
<p>You also probably know of or met someone who really is a slob, who you just  feel has a low value of themselves to get that way. Well it is all by degrees. The reflection of that person is really no different than the reflection of yourself in the weight you are right now.</p>
<p>Self worth is a learned process, formed by previous life experiences.  We are not usually consciously aware of our own sense of value. Hypnosis is one method to change any old and outdated misconceptions of ourselves that may still be lurking in the back of minds. Beliefs or ideals that quietly sit there directing our behavior. “Why bother, It isn’t worth the hassle”. “You’re not worth the hassle”. “”Never worked before, Will never work again”. “You are just not pretty, why bother trying”.</p>
<p>If you lack motivation, and give up too quickly, if the diet is always tomorrow and the exercise always next week, then perhaps it is time to appreciate yourself a whole lot more. With hypnotherapy it can become a whole lot easier to perceive yourself differently from both a conscious and subconscious perspective. When you appreciate something you remain motivated to look after it, and with this comes a better healthier looking you.</p>
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