Exercise does not always mean aerobic body movements to build stamina and muscular tone. In fact there are many different types of exercise. Most TV ads and workout videos emphasize overall body fitness. But did you know that there are simple exercises which can shape individual parts of your body which may need work? Face up to the facts and learn about a new type of exercise.

That’s right. It is time for you to face fitness with some interesting facial exercises to help you maintain a good facial feature and get rid of double chin. Double chin is something that is often unsightly to others, and getting rid of it can be critical in maintaining relationships and for photo shoots. Double chin is also the one thing that can’t be removed surgically, leaving the only other available recourse to get rid of it being a few interesting exercises geared towards improving facial quality.

Many people do not realize that the face has a good deal of muscles, and a few nifty exercises can help accommodate those muscles and bring them to the tone of a really outstanding facial expression. A double chin can be thought of as a muscular inequality in regards to the rest of your face, therefore there exists a few good exercises that can help remove it. Like any exercise regimen, it is not something that will happen overnight. No. It is something that you will have to work on for a bit of time.

There are probably a number of exercises that can help to get rid of double chin, but two of the most common ones are going to be discussed here. Afterward, there will be a short bit about breathing techniques in relation to these exercises. If you follow through on what is about to be discussed, you shouldn’t have much of a problem working those plump muscles in that face of yours. If you want good facial tone, then you need to put those muscles to hard work. And here’s how you can do that.

Let’s start with sitting erect in a chair with a slight backward tilt to the head. Now squeeze your lips together, and thrust your jaw out while strongly pulling with your fingers on the loose skin at the base of your neck below your Adam’s Apple. Hold this for a count of four, relax for the same count and repeat.

While the previous exercise is convenient to do anytime you are seated. However, the second exercise requires you to lie on your back on the floor. Press your chin against your chest by lifting the back of your head off the floor. Hold this position for a few seconds, and carefully relax by lowering your head. You should plan to repeat this motion a handful of times for each exercise session.

If possible, plan to exercise a few times each waking hour of the day, every day, in a systematic way. No important goal can be reached without application and dedication. You will not get concrete results unless you are fully engaged in doing these strength and tone building exercises targeted at removing your unpleasant double chin.

Breathing is often overlooked in practicing exercises of any kind. Without properly timing your breathing to the pattern of your double chin exercises, you will not get efficient results. Work diligently, and with your goal in mind at all times, and your unsightly double chin will fade away.

Jen Hopkins has worked in the anti wrinkle skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about non surgical face lift, and facial exercises. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.

- Jen Hopkins

Insomnia is a very common symptom of stress and depression. Whether you have a hard time falling asleep, or you fall asleep promptly and then awaken later and are unable to fall back to sleep, you have a sleep disturbance.

THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF INSOMNIA

PSYCHO-REACTIVE INSOMNIA: Psycho-reactive Insomnia is generally caused by tension. The person’s mind is keeping them awake with worry. The worry can become compounded when the Insomnia suffer begins to worry about falling asleep. Some people worry that they may become ill or die from lack of sleep.

ENDOGENOUS INSOMNIA: This is often caused by a discomfort within the body ranging from indigestion to pain.

EXOGENOUS INSOMNIA: This is caused by non-physical disturbances such as noise or loud neighbors. This is the easiest type of insomnia to overcome.

FUNCTIONAL INSOMNIA: This is caused by a functional problem in the subject’s sleep-wakefulness center in the brain.

Many insomnia sufferers develop an irrational fear of getting into bed because they expect to lie awake. This type of expectation can cause insomnia all by itself

HERE ARE THE FACTS

1. No person ever became ill from lack of sleep. The body and mind will get at least the minimum amount of sleep that it needs, no matter what. If you lose some sleep one night, the next night you will get some additional sleep to make up the loss.

2. Our internal clock brings about a valley of fatigue in cycles. Every four to six hours you will experience your maximum fatigue, and this is when it’s easiest to fall asleep. After that you will experience a renewed feeling of energy and it will become difficult to fall asleep.

3. Many people are sure that they haven’t slept a wink, but research labs have proven that we all sleep during the night. Sometimes you think that you’ve been lying awake thinking, but actually you have been sleeping lightly and dreaming.

4. Trying to fall asleep: There is a law of nature called The Law of Reversed Effect. It says that if you try to do something, you will get the opposite. And the harder you try, the more you will get the opposite. So, trying to fall asleep will insure that you will remain awake. Do not “try” to fall asleep.

5. Alcohol will put you to sleep: This may be true; as alcohol is a depressant. However, as soon as the booze wears off, you will awaken abruptly and it will be harder than ever to fall asleep.

6. Sleeping pills can help: During sleep it is the dream phase in which you get your rest. Sleeping pills suppress the dream phase of sleep (REM sleep). That is why one generally awakens more tired than before going to sleep after using pills.

EFFECTING A CURE

1. figure out what time you feel most tired in the evening. From then on, every evening at least an hour before that time, take a bath that is slightly warmer than body temperature for 20 minutes. A shower won’t have the intended effect.

2. Have a warm beverage, preferably not coffee or tea because of the caffeine which will wake you up. It’s best to drink warm milk if you can tolerate it.

3. Stop thinking about any problems that you have. Do not think about what you need to do tomorrow. If you are worried about forgetting what you have to do tomorrow, write it down.

4. Avoid stimulating thoughts and television shows. If you must read, then read something that is uninspiring.

5. Reserve your bed for sleep. Read and watch television only from a chair or couch.

6. Get into bed at least 20 minutes before your valley of fatigue. Once in bed, if worries begin to pop into your mind, repeat several times to yourself, “I’ll think about it tomorrow.” This will help to eliminate excessive thinking. Do not try to make your mind blank and don’t try to fall asleep. Just allow yourself to rest.

7. For Endogenous Insomnia, you should eliminate the discomfort to the best of your ability.

8. For Exogenous Insomnia, make the room as quiet as possible. If your partner watches TV, you can move to another room. Running a fan motor can also help induce sleep, as it will tend to cover up outside noises. The monotonous drone of the fan generally proves to be very relaxing.

HYPNOSIS FOR INSOMNIA - PSYCHO-REACTIVE AND FUNCTIONAL INSOMNIA

Practice hypnosis for sleep disturbances daily. Anxiety exacerbates and can even cause a sleep disorder. Self-hypnosis can help you to quickly eliminate stress. Post-hypnotic suggestions for coping, and to instill the expectation of sleep can help. “I fall asleep promptly, and sleep soundly and restfully all through the night.”

(c) 2006 By Alan B. Densky. This document may be re-printed as long as it is not altered and the author’s name and clickable web address are retained.

Alan B. Densky, CH. is certified by the National Guild Of Hypnotists, and he is an NLP Practitioner. Mr. Densky is the developer of the Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis Technology, which received a US Patent because of its effectiveness. The technology has been perfected for diet control hypnosis and for smoke cessation hypnosis.

Visit the Neuro-VISION site and download one of the FREE Hypnotic Power Relaxation Programs. Or subscribe to one or more of the world-class hypnosis newsletters.

- Alan B. Densky, CH

If you are feeling stressed or depressed, you may also be suffering from insomnia. Whether you have a hard time falling asleep, or you fall asleep promptly and then awaken later and are unable to fall back to sleep, you have a sleep disturbance.

THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF INSOMNIA

PSYCHO-REACTIVE INSOMNIA: This is caused by tension. Worry is the most common reason that the person seems to be stuck in the “awake” mode. In addition, they may begin to worry about getting to sleep because they have to awaken in the morning. Insomnia sufferers often worry that they may become ill or die from lack of sleep.

ENDOGENOUS INSOMNIA: This is generally caused by a discomfort within the body ranging from indigestion to pain.

EXOGENOUS INSOMNIA: This is caused by non-physical disturbances such as noise or a TV that is too loud. This is the easiest type of insomnia to overcome.

FUNCTIONAL INSOMNIA: This is caused by a functional problem in the subject’s sleep-wakefulness center in the brain.

Many sleep disturbance sufferers develop an irrational fear of getting into bed because they expect to lie awake. This negative type of expectation can cause insomnia all by itself

HERE ARE THE FACTS

1. Nobody has ever died from or become ill from lack of sleep. The body and mind will get at least the minimum amount of sleep that it needs, no matter what. If you don’t get enough sleep one night the next night you will get enough sleep to make up the loss.

2. Our internal clock brings about a valley of fatigue in cycles. Every four to six hours you will experience your maximum fatigue, and this is when it’s easiest to fall asleep. After that you will experience a renewed feeling of energy and it will become difficult to fall asleep.

3. Even if you are positive that you haven’t slept at all, research labs have proven that we all sleep during the night. Sometimes you think that you’ve been lying awake thinking, but actually you have been sleeping lightly and dreaming.

4. Trying to fall asleep: There is a law of nature called The Law of Reversed Effect. It says that if you try to do something, you will get the opposite. And the harder you try, the more you will get the opposite. So, trying to fall asleep will insure that you will remain awake. Do not “try” to fall asleep.

5. Alcohol will put you to sleep: This may be true; as alcohol is a depressant. However, as soon as the booze wears off, you will awaken abruptly and it will be much harder to fall asleep.

6. Sleeping pills can help: It is the dream phase of sleep in which you get your rest. Sleeping pills suppress the dream phase of sleep (REM sleep). That is why one generally awakens more tired than before going to sleep after using pills.

EFFECTING A CURE

1. figure out what time you feel most fatigued in the evening. From then on, every evening at least an hour before that time, take a bath that is slightly warmer than body temperature for 20 minutes. A shower won’t have the intended effect.

2. Have a warm beverage, preferably not coffee or tea because of the caffeine which will wake you up. Warm milk is the best if you can tolerate it.

3. Discontinue thoughts of problems that you have. Do not think about what you need to do tomorrow. If you are worried about forgetting what you have to do tomorrow, write it down.

4. Refrain from stimulating thoughts and TV. If you must read, then read something that is uninteresting.

5. Reserve your bed for sleep. Read and watch television only from a chair or couch.

6. Get into bed at least 20 minutes before your valley of fatigue. Once in bed, if worries begin to pop into your mind, repeat several times to yourself, “I’ll think about it tomorrow.” This will help to eliminate excessive thinking. Do not try to make your mind blank and don’t try to fall asleep. Just allow yourself to rest.

7. For Endogenous Insomnia, you should eliminate the discomfort to the best of your ability.

8. For Exogenous Insomnia, make the room as quiet as possible. If your partner listens to loud music, you can move to another room. Running a fan motor can also help induce sleep, as it will tend to cover up outside noises. The monotonous drone of the fan generally proves to be very relaxing.

HYPNOSIS FOR INSOMNIA - PSYCHO-REACTIVE AND FUNCTIONAL INSOMNIA

Practice self-hypnosis for insomnia every day. Stress exacerbates and can even cause a sleep disorder. Self-hypnosis can help you to quickly eliminate stress. Post-hypnotic suggestions for coping, and to instill the expectation of sleep can help. “I fall asleep promptly, and sleep soundly and restfully all through the night.”

(c) 2006 By Alan B. Densky. This document may be re-printed as long as it is not altered and the author’s name and clickable web address are retained.

Alan B. Densky, CH. is certified by the National Guild Of Hypnotists, and he is an NLP Practitioner. Mr. Densky is the developer of the Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis Technology, which received a US Patent because of its effectiveness. The technology has been perfected for appetite suppression hypnosis and for smoke cessation hypnosis.

Visit the Neuro-VISION site and download one of the FREE Hypnotic Power Relaxation Programs. Or subscribe to one or more of the world-class hypnosis newsletters.

- Alan B. Densky, CH

Eastern places such like India and China practice more of the alternative systems of treatment, many of which are based on the belief that several energy systems course through human body. When any of these systems is affected or invaded, an imbalance is created and the person falls prey to maladies and illnesses.

Western countries only confirmed the existence of energy systems a couple of decades ago and coined the term ‘biofield’ in 1990s for these. Scientists from University of California and Stanford University, who were working on subtle energy physics and sympathetic resonance to improve chemical, electrical and acoustic processes, realized almost by accident the potential biological benefits. The technique of using non-invasive biofield was named Sympathetic Resonance Technology, or SRT.

SRT used in the q-link blocks harmful or negative energy emanating from electromagnetic fields (EMF). EMF is known to create stress that disrupts our immune system and causes stress-related health problems. It is emitted by electronic gadgets that surround us, such as computers, mobile phones and TVs.

The qlink pendant reduces the effect of EMF and allows the body to function normally. It also has an induction loop, made of 25 meters of copper wire tightly wound, that is designed to generate optimum energy field. A tuning board alongside protects the cell from outside interruptions. The pendant contains a special resonating cell programmed to the optimum energy frequencies of human body.

Without using all these technical terms, one can describe the q-link as a pendant that helps your body to cope with stress and function better.These three components in the qlink pendant work in concert to act as a ‘tuning fork’ to the human body by aligning its energy fields into balance.

Q-link offers benefits to you by canceling out the negative effect caused on your body’s natural energy balance by the harmful electromagnetic fields. Many athletes, sportsmen, actors and other high performers have attested to the benefits such as increased concentration, higher energy level, improved spots performance, deeper sleep and fewer headaches. Trying out the qlink can turn out to be one of the best decisions you have ever made. You will soon notice a definite improvement.

Scientists from University of California and Stanford University, who were working on subtle energy physics and sympathetic resonance to improve chemical, electrical and acoustic processes, realized almost by accident the potential biological benefits. SRT used in the Q-link blocks harmful or negative energy emanating from electromagnetic fields (EMF). The Qlink pendant reduces the effect of EMF and allows the body to function normally. The pendant contains a special resonating cell programmed to the optimum energy frequencies of human body. Many athletes, sportsmen, actors and other high performers have attested to the benefits such as increased concentration, higher energy level, improved spots performance, deeper sleep and fewer headaches.

- Robert Harrison

Americans spend thousands of dollars a year on pricey plastic surgeries to gain artificial beauty. This is a sad waste, because with a little work, one can improve their looks naturally and with no cost. This is because just as working gives one a taught, fit body, one can work the tissues and muscles in the facial area to hold the face more attractively.

It’s the combination of exercises in CFF that gives you the build you want; a powerful, elegant and balanced look to the face and neck.With shaving you are exfoliating off dead skin cells. Great for the condition of the skin and making it look fresh and revitalized.

In the past, I have tried many techniques for facial beauty that just didn’t cut it. Take isometrics for example. It involves awkwardly zapping your face with electricity with a little gadget. It had to be done daily for an hour to make a difference, which is quite inconvenient. While isometrics did help with wrinkles, dark circles, and puffy eyes, it did nothing for complexion. This is a crucial element of beauty that isometrics completely misses.

I also tried several other facial exercise programs. Each had their problems, which ranged from taking too long to not addressing the whole face and neck area. I wanted something natural, effective, and practical, and most programs out there were simply not cutting it.

What gives me the right evaluate facial procedures? Well, for years I have had interest and experience in the beauty/fitness arena. From being a runaway and photographer model to owning my own clothing company, I have learned a lot about appearance. From teaching yoga and aerobics, I have gained many insights on fitness.

In today’s society, looks are becoming increasingly more important for men. It is no longer just the women who have to make an extra effort to tidy up. Men’s appearance can influence everything from his relationship prospects to his job.

While unnatural, many surgical procedures are quite effective initially. People can look flawless. Yet, as aging occurs the gains fade and distortions return. This creates a never ending cycle of procedures over time. That’s more money down the drain to be drugged up and prodded with needles.

One final note on skin care that must not be overlooked is the sun. Sun is the leading damager of skin. Therefore, it is very important to use sunscreen and always lean towards sunless tanners over hours by the pool.

Jen Hopkins has worked in the anti wrinkle skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about non surgical facelift, and face exercise. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.

- Jen Hopkins

States across the country have prohibited smoking in public areas. Numerous professional companies have mandated smoking cessation, and are sanctioning employees who choose to smoke while working. Smokers stand out in the cold, wind or rain, and smoke away as quickly as possible so that they can go back to their jobs.

In some areas, smoking is as negatively perceived as taking illegal drugs. Because they recognize not only these but other stop smoking benefits, numerous smokers are making a strong effort to find ways to stop smoking.

There are three components to a smoking habit:

1. Smoking for relaxation and pleasure is about 45 percent of the reason that people continue to smoke.

2. People smoke because they have created an unconscious association between an activity or environment and a cigarette. Then, every time they get into that environment, they get a craving. For example, if a person associates watching television with smoking, they will become conditioned to smoke while watching TV. Then, every time that individual watches television, he or she will want a cigarette.. This makes up about 45% of the habit.

3. People smoke because they develop a physical addiction to Nicotine. This makes up about 10% of the habit. If a person stops smoking, the body actually metabolizes all of the Nicotine in as little as three days!

Numerous strategies are designed to help individuals learn ways to quit smoking. Probably the cheapest way to stop smoking, covered through most insurance agencies, is the nicotine patch. These patches, which are easy to apply, are worn for 24 hours and can be concealed beneath a person’s clothing. The problem with these patches, however, is that patches are not very useful. Since patches only address the physiological addiction, which is responsible merely ten percent of the smoking habit, they offer only about a ten percent success rate.

The same level of success is experienced by persons who use nicotine gum or lozenges. Less than one in ten clients who trial these strategies succeeds with these techniques to quit smoking for at least six months. Furthermore, these items can result in many adverse effects. Nicotine gum or lozenges, can be bothersome to an individual’s mouth tissue and lips, while numerous users suffer skin rashes under the patch. Again, these products only deal with the physical dependence, which only includes about 10 percent of the problem.

A different alternative is the development of counseling and smoking cessation sessions. These programs include cognitive therapy together with extensive information about the adverse outcomes of smoking. These methods are three hundred percent as effective as nicotine replacement methods; these strategies work for about one in five persons.

several smokers have utilized laser treatment programs to help quit smoking. This treatment is often reimbursed by insurance, although it is new. Research studies held by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), however, reveal that these treatments are no more successful than placebo. (Placebo is the result that happens when people think they are taking a treatment, but in reality are not.)

Another of the ways to quit smoking appears to be a little more successful than these previous techniques. During one research study, smokers received shots to assist them stop smoking by removing the pleasurable effects of the nicotine rush. This method, in the preliminary phases of testing for benefit, thus far seems to work for fifteen percent of the persons who attempted it.

Hypnosis is another way of helping people to stop smoking. Hypnosis deals with helping the subconscious mind to instantly substitute other behaviors to create calm and peace, as opposed to the cigarette habit. It also can be employed to remove or “extinguish” conditioned behaviors such as the connection noted between cigarettes and behaviors in the above example, so the smoker no longer has the desire to smoke when in the environments that previously trigger it.

Men appear to have better results with stop smoking hypnosis than female patients do. One benefit resulting from self hypnosis stop smoking, however, is that, as opposed to individuals use nicotine replacement as strategies to stop smoking, there are no undesirable side effects.

One other benefit of hypnotherapy is that it is effective against the 90 percent facet of the dependence that is psychological, instead of the other strategies that only treat the ten percent element of the dependence that is physical. Therefore, hypnosis results in a significantly higher treatment success than the previously discussed methods of stop smoking treatments. Traditional hypnotherapy methods can yield a 35% likelihood of success, while Ericksonian hypnotherapy can yield a 50% or greater treatment success.

A more recent, revolutionary, and significantly more useful approach that encourages clients to kick a smoking dependency is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. This strategy is far more effective than established styles of quit smoking hypnosis as it does not rely on post-hypnotic suggestions at all. Most people, especially people who are critical thinkers, are resistant to post-hypnotic suggestions. Through the use of NLP, the person’s unconscious mind is trained to use the identical thought patterns that result in the psychological dependence on cigarettes, to eliminate it!

A well thought out NLP stop smoking strategy created by a certified NLP Therapist can produce a positive outcome rate of as high as 70% or greater.

Summary: The majority of smoking cessation programs try to use nicotine replacement strategies as ways to stop smoking. Other strategies, such as smoking cessation and counseling approaches, attempt to assist the mind learn ways to quit smoking.

Although hypnotherapy works much better than other programs, particularly with male patients, experts do not consider it to be the most successful way to stop smoking. NLP, which deals with the mental components of nicotine addiction, actually aids clients to redirect their mental patterns and assist them stop most effectively.

Since 90 percent of a person’s problem with cigarettes is psychological in nature, these strategies are significantly more effective than merely giving the person nicotine and dealing with the ten percent element of the habit that is physical.

Conclusion: A number of smoking cessation sessions, including nicotine replacement treatments and counseling can be found. These courses often have a success rate of less than 20%. Unlike these programs, hypnotherapy results in a much greater rate of effectiveness. NLP is even more beneficial in aiding clients to effectively overcome the psychological nature of their dependency and experience much more success in their goal of becoming smoke-free.

Alan B. Densky, CH is the developer of the best way to quit cigarettes with hypnosis. He offers an effective Stop Smokeless Tobacco program based on those same methods. Learn more at his Neuro-VISION hypnosis site where you can enjoy Free hypnotherapy videos and articles.

- Alan B. Densky, CH

One of the best ways to get a young and healthy outward appearance is through performing a fitness routine with your face. Facial muscles are not attached to bone (unlike skeletal muscles), but are actually attached to your skin. When we get older, these muscles lose some of their tone and elasticity, which allows the skin to start to sag and become wrinkled.

One way to maintain a healthful and young looking face is by doing face exercises. By allocating as little as ten minutes a day to regular face exercises, skin tone can be maintained and wrinkles resisted. These face exercises can be done at anytime during the day and don’t require any special equipment or going to a gym.

Both old people and young people can enjoy facial exercises; age doesn’t matter, your face is always going to get certain wrinkles and you can do these exercises even if you’re very young. They make discoloration (and puffiness) go down and make the face have a good tone and glow.

Facial exercises are not just for older people, but should be considered by younger people as well. Doing regular exercises can help reduce puffiness and discoloration around the eyes and provide the face with tone and general over all healthy glow.

One of the best ways to keep your face from getting wrinkles is by going through certain facial exercises every day. It doesn’t take much time; in ten minutes a day, you can perform the exercises that will keep your skin maintained. You can perform these anywhere and anytime you desire.

You can exercise your facial muscles in groups or separately. Before beginning, get the skin wet with oil or by hydrating it. To strengthen muscles surrounding the eyes, some very uncomplicated exercises can be done. Close the eye about half way and keep it that way for a second. Do not overdo the motion or squint. Do about fifty of these every day.

To improve the muscles around the mouth requires a little stretching. You gently insert your fingers at the corners of your mouth and pull. The key to this exercise is not to stretch your mouth out, but to constrict the facial muscles around the mouth, creating a small amount of tension against the fingers. Only extend your mouth about a quarter of an inch.

Neck muscles can lose a great deal of tone over time. To tighten those muscles, tilt your head back slightly, somewhere between twenty and thirty degrees. During the process of tilting you head back, press your tongue against the roof of your mouth. You should feel tension just under your chin and in your neck muscles. To complete the exercise, tilt your chin back down leaving your tongue against the top of your mouth. Repeat this motion twenty to thirty times each day and you will see tighter tone in your neck muscles.

Taking care of your face is important. As we age, we can take on a haggard look as wrinkles and sagging appear. If you want to avoid these signs of aging, you can add these facial exercises plus others to your daily schedule.

Jen Hopkins has worked in the anti wrinkle skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about face exercises, and facial exercise. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.

- Jen Hopkins

Weight loss is a reduction of bodily fluids, fat, adipose tissues and lean mass inducing a decrease of body weight. Appetite is a desire to eat and drink for pleasure. It is significantly different from hunger, because hunger is only felt if your body doesn’t have sufficient reserves to sustain itself and therefore calls for food.

Appetite is frequently mistaken for hunger, but they are two different feelings with different factors. Hunger is a physical signal that your body is in need of food and it would prove unhealthy to try to fight it. Appetite, though, is essentially caused by emotional factors and doesn’t respond to any physiological need.

Indeed, stimulating the mouth is a source of pleasure and comfort, which explains why some people enjoy chewing gum for instance. Similarly, this is why some people like to have a cigarette in their mouths, or why people can feel hungry without actually needing to eat.

This pleasure and comfort might be sought after unconsciously by your mind when facing a stressful situation, which is the reason why stress and anxiety can frequently create the desire to eat. Our mind also usually unconsciously associates two actions together, so that every time you perform one of these actions your mind creates the desire to perform the other simultaneously. This is why you can have the desire to eat when around friends, sitting at a table or watching TV. Weight gain is also a common side effect of several drugs.

Even a little appetite problem can be critically disabling and a possible health threat. It cannot only make you increasingly anxious about your physical appearance, but it may also endanger your health on the long term. Excessive appetite can cause obesity, respiratory difficulties, musculoskeletal problems, high blood pressure, and cholesterol and potentially lethal diseases like cancer, diabetes and gallbladder disease.

Being able to control your appetite would make it possible to easily get back in shape and get significantly healthier. You would not have to worry continually about dieting anymore, nor about the nutritional value of what you eat. You will be able to choose what you eat, when you want to.

Many different drugs claiming to help control appetite or lose weight have been offered on the market over the past few years. Many of those miracle drugs will in the best of cases solely have a placebo effect. Others have had better results but often also were taken out of the market because of their dangerous side effects. Many of these drugs have a chemical structure similar to that of amphetamines and present analogous dangers. There are nonetheless natural methods to achieve weight loss which, do not present any adverse effects, like weight loss through hypnotherapy.

A lot of people will tell you that solely diet or exercise are effective ways of losing weight. This is true to a certain extent, however it is hardly possible for an active person to keep a diet or find the time to exercise and it is even harder to find the motivation to do so. Moreover, neither exercise nor dieting will treat the psychological factors that increase appetite. This means they won’t decrease your appetite, and that you’ll have to suffer from this desire to eat all the time, without being able to satisfy it.

This is why hypnosis for weight loss has seduced a lot of people who were trying to lose weight. Weight loss through hypnosis will work on a psychological level and will help you lose your unnecessary cravings. But hypnotherapy weight loss is also able to give you the motivation you need to go out and exercise. Using suggestion, weight loss hypnosis will help you find this motivation quickly and simply!

Weight loss hypnosis allows you to reduce your unnecessary cravings in order to lose weight. This means it will be a lot simpler to lose weight because weight loss through hypnosis will eliminate the cravings for unnecessary nourishment. With hypnotism for weight loss, your unconscious mind will be reprogrammed to follow the eating behavior of a naturally thin person. Put differently, weight loss hypnosis will use the power of your unconscious to alter your eating habits.

Weight loss hypnosis sessions can get rid of the unconscious associations, which can create appetite, and will induce appetite reduction. Self hypnosis weight loss, like all methods, which use hypnosis, will also make you much more relaxed. Weight loss through hypnosis can hence quickly deliver you from any urge to eat that might be triggered by anxiety.

To summarize: Although appetite is frequently mistaken for hunger, it does not respond to a physiological need for food but is strongly dependent on our emotional state. As such, weight loss hypnosis is a lot more effective than diets that only focus on physiological factors. And unlike medication, it is free of adverse effects. Weight loss through hypnosis is a safe, efficient and effortless method to gain control over your appetite and lose weight.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping clients with appetite suppression and weight loss since 1978. Visit his hypnosis & NLP website to watch his Free hypnosis videos, or learn about his effective weight loss through hypnosis programs or his Patented video self hypnosis weight loss programs.

- Alan B. Densky, CH

Now more than ever, scientific investigations are confirming the fundamental role of stress in triggering or aggravating various psychological and somatic disorders. A headline from a 1983 Time Magazine labeled stress “The Epidemic of the Eighties.” It also claimed that stress is a critical health problem. Indeed there is very little doubt that our world has become more and more complex and stressful over the last two decades since that article was published.

Numerous surveys show that most adults feel that they are under a great deal of stress. Researchers in the field estimate that 75 to 90 percent of the visits to primary care physicians are for stress related issues.

Most adults say that their job is the primary reason of their stress. And stress levels have also increased in children and the senior population for reasons including: Peer pressures that often push people to everything from smoking to alcoholism and drug abuse; the loss of family and religious values and ties; increased crime rates; fear for personal security; and last but not least social isolation and loneliness.

Stress can be responsible for conditions such as diabetes, ulcers, low back and neck pain, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. This is due to the augmented sympathetic nervous system activity along with the release of cortisol, adrenaline, and other hormones. Chronic stress is often associated with lower immune system resistance. Stress can cause anxiety, depression, and its different impacts on one’s organs.

”Stress” is defined as follows by the American Heritage Dictionary: “To subject to physical or mental pressure, tension, or strain”

The following is the definition of “tension” from the same dictionary: “Mental, emotional, or nervous strain”

The following definition is given for “anxiety”: “A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties”

And it defines “depression” as follows: “The condition of feeling sad or despondent”

”Clinical depression” is defined as follows: “A psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, anhedonia, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death.”

We can nonetheless be sure that our mind is the main source of our experience of stress, anxiety and depression. We could also say that, what we think about, and our attitudes and the way we view our experiences strongly influence what we feel. That way, if we can learn how to change our thoughts, attitudes, and points of view, then we can eliminate our feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression and replace them with a more positive state of being.

People have always sought out methods that would allow them to dissipate stress. With the pharmaceutical industry there seems to be a pill for everything. And to that end the industry has designed a wide array of anxiolytics from Valium to Xanax. If you choose to use drugs for relief, please be sure to pay attention to the fine print and learn about the side effects, which commonly are, among others, addiction and dependency. Indeed these types of drugs try to treat the symptoms, instead of the cause. So when one stops taking them, the symptoms can return.

A more intelligent method to eliminate tension, stress, anxiety, and depression is to work on its actual cause, which as I said above, is generally our thought processes. Now, here is some good news. The essence of hypnosis is relaxation. The AMA recognized hypnosis in 1958 as an effective way to treat stress or stress related symptoms. Moreover unlike pills, there are totally no undesirable side effects.

Hypnosis is the Alpha level of consciousness. It’s the daydream like temporary psychological state which we feel as we are just about to fall asleep at night. And we feel it once again when we awaken again. There are hundreds of different ways we can guide ourselves into this relaxed mood, from progressive relaxation to visual imagery to listening to hypnosis CD’s.

Once in the hypnotic state, we are able to interact with our unconscious mind, which is the seat of our feelings. And one can more easily accept new points of view and ideas that will help us to get rid of anxiety, or even avoid it completely.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP, which is a modern sort of hypnotherapy, has numerous excellent techniques for releasing stress. Maybe the technique that works best is called the “swish” pattern - or the “flash” pattern. After using the “flash” pattern, your unconscious will automatically use bad, stress producing mental images, as triggers for relaxation producing mental images. In other words, your stressors will now cause relaxation!

TO SUM UP Tension, stress, anxiety, and depression can be triggered by our thoughts. So by changing our attitude and the way we feel about our situation and what we’ve experienced, we can get rid of these feelings at the source. Hypnosis and NLP are natural tools that make it possible to change our attitude and point of view to easily get rid of the main cause of these negative feelings.

Alan B. Densky is an NGH certified hypnotherapist. He offers a complete line of stress reduction NLP CDs, and advanced stress management CDs through his Neuro-VISION hypnosis website. You can visit his video hypnosis blog, and download a free MP3.

- Alan B. Densky, CH

There are two mental states that must be appeased before a person will voluntarily stop smoking. These elements are called “Desire,” and “Decision.”

DESIRE: A want, crave or a wish for

DECISION: Making up of one’s mind / a verdict or judgment

In order to stop smoking, a person must have a DESIRE to stop. You probably want to stop smoking, at least some part of you does, or you wouldn’t be reading this article.

In addition, in order to stop smoking, a smoker must DECIDE to give up the addiction. Since you haven’t broken your smoking habit, it simply means that you have not DECIDED to break the smoking habit yet.

So what you need is to feel a strong motivation to make a “DECISION” to break the smoking habit.

MOTIVATION, we all want it. The foundation of each of our motivations is what we accept as true. Think about it, if you didn’t have a belief that you could get hurt if you jumped from a tall building, then you would not experience motivation to be wary. If you did not believe that the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you wouldn’t feel motivated to eat.

When it comes to giving up an addiction to smoking cigarettes, people who are addicted to smoking cigarettes need to feel a tremendous amount of motivation to make the DECISION to quit. Motivation is based on the ideas that we believe. So you will need to DECIDE exactly what thoughts would motivate you if you believed them. Because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will stop smoking.

Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and self-hypnosis for motivation, it is a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you think. However, you don’t believe the ideas that will motivate you to stop smoking at this point, or you would have already stopped smoking cigarettes.

For the purpose of this discussion, we need to define a few words.

DOUBT: Uncertain/distrustful/dubious - “maybe it’s this way, and maybe it is not.”

BELIEF: Trust/faith/tenet - A state of mind free of all doubt. In other words, belief means, “this is the way that it is.”

HIGHLY VALUED CRITERIA: What is most important to you, as an individual humanbeing.

When you believe that if you continue to smoke your highly valued criterion will be in jeopardy, you will feel the motivation that you need to stop smoking. We call this is a negative motivator, because it is a belief that motivates by providing you with terrible sensations. Negative motivators are great for getting you to make decisions.

When you believe that if you do break the smoking habit, that which is most important to you will become enhanced, then you will also feel the motivation that you require to stop smoking. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by promising good sensations if you break the smoking habit.

The first task is for you to DECIDE what the most important things in your life are. Your most highly valued criteria are usually things that you cannot see. For example: Money would not be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can provide would be highly valued criteria. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper.

Next you need to conclude what you will need to believe to feel motivated to stop smoking. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with belief. Things don’t have to be logical for you to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So do not worry about logic!

The format for your negative motivator beliefs will be: “I believe that if I continue to smoke, something bad will happen to my most highly valued criteria.”

Make sure that you frame your motivators in the positive. In other words, always state what you want or what will happen. Never state what will not happen. Eliminate the “not” word from the beliefs.

In this example we will say that your children’s health is your most highly valued criteria.

WRONG: “I believe that if I continue to smoke, I won’t be doing my kid’s health any good.”

CORRECT: “I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will make my children sick.”

Next, create a list of positive motivators. “I believe that if I stop smoking: (something very important will be enhanced).”

WRONG: “I believe that if I stop smoking, I won’t give my kids cancer.”

CORRECT: “I believe that if I stop smoking, my children will be safer because I’ll eliminate their contact with the dangers of my secondhand smoke.”

The next step is to change the computer codes in your brain to make yourself actually believe these motivational ideas. Now for a shocker: Your beliefs have nothing to do with or what is real. Instead, your beliefs have everything to do with what your perception of reality is. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that you see things.

Our belief systems are located in our unconscious mind. The uncouscious mind is like a computer. Computers do not reason. What goes in controls what comes out. To demonstrate, I want you to think of anything that you already believe without the slightest bit of doubt. Make it a belief that makes you feel good.

For instance, it’s easy for most people to believe that they love their children. If that is true for you, make a mental image that makes you feel that feeling of love.

I’m going to ask some questions, and there aren’t any right or wrong answers.

Is your mental image a moving picture, or a still?

Is it in color, or in black and white?

Is it close or far?

Is it focused or fuzzy?

Is it normally bright, overly bright, or dim?

Is there a border on it?

Is it borderless?

Is it a panorama?

It does not matter what your answers are, write them down on a piece of paper. These are the computer codes that your subconscious uses to indicate your feelings of belief. In this case they are the codes for positive belief, because you have chosen a belief that gives you an excellent feeling. You have just calibrated your positive belief.

Every positive belief picture is bright and focused. If yours aren’t, then you probably do not really have total belief. An element of doubt is probably present. So find another belief to calibrate.

If you think of something that you are unsure of, and you make a mental image of it, one or more of these computer codes (which we call submodalities) will probably be different. Similarly, if you have a belief that gives you a bad feeling, (a negative belief): one or more of those codes or submodalities will be different.

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming we call these particular computer codes visual submodalities.

Now you will need to calibrate a negative belief. So repeat the same exact process, but do so using an idea that you already believe, that makes you feel terrible.

Once you’ve calibrated your positive and negative beliefs, it is a simple affair to manipulate what you believe so you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to quit smoking.

So, to summarize, using the above example: “I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my children’s health.”

1. Sense how motivated you feel to stop smoking.

2. Make a mental image that illustrates the above belief.

3. Adjust the codes (visual submodalities) of the image to match the mental codes from your calibrated negative belief image.

4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your mental image) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, go up to the right. This will make you quickly memorize the belief.

5. Now become aware of how motivated you feel to stop smoking. Do you feel more motivated? Do you feel less motivated? Or are your feelings the same?

Using this proceedure you can make yourself believe almost anything by making a picture in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental image so that it matches your calibrated belief images.

And if you have a belief that is holding you back, you can use the same technique to change that belief to doubt by changing one or two of the submodalities and memorizing it that way.

Now that you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to quit, you will stop smoking. A DECISION to quit means: I’m quitting no matter what. If you are similar to most, you will not want it to feel the pain and you do not have to. Because there are several hypnotic techniques that can greatly reduce, or even completely eliminate all of the discomforts of withdrawal from the smoking addiction. And you can read about them in my library of unique hypnosis articles.

(c) 2007 By Alan B. Densky, CH. This document may be re-printed as long as it is not altered and the author’s name and clickable web address are retained.

Alan B. Densky, CH. offers NLP CD’s for smoke cessation. He is the developer of the Neuro-VISION(r) Video quit smoking hypnosis technology. It received a United States Patent because of its uniqueness and effectiveness. Mr. Densky can be reached through his Neuro-VISION web site.

- Alan B. Densky, CH