I will make you slim!

With Christmas looming upon us I thought it would be rather festive to write about something that's very dear to many people's hearts: food. Not only is food an essential part to our survival, but we are so lucky to have many varieties to choose from. Most of us can categorize ourselves into one of the two sorts: you either eat to live, or live to eat. If you can associate yourself with the latter type you may experience some of the problems I am going to talk about. I class people who overeat into three types: you are either the boredom eater, the emotional eater or the binge eater. Then you do get the occasional one or two who claim that they aren't any of these types, and that they just like the sensation of food in their mouth. Now, although I can understand how one can enjoy the sensation of say, chocolate in their mouth, there is a big difference between enjoying the taste of chocolate to demolishing a whole 250g Cadbury's Dairy Milk in one sitting, and consequently feeling a tremendous amount of guilt afterwards. You probably end up questioning yourself: "Why did I have to eat all of that? How greedy of me. Now I feel sick and I can't move, all because I love the taste of chocolate!"
Familiar feeling? I thought so. Well, just to let you know, you are not alone. In fact, chocolate 'addiction' is very common. And overeating anything in general is also, very common.
The reason many people suffer with their weight is because they become 'addicted' to certain foods. But it's not only the food itself they are 'addicted' to, it's also the feelings associated with that particular type of food that they become 'addicted' to. Overeating can therefore turn into a bad habit and it's very difficult to break that cycle because your subconsious mind has been programmed to overeat. How many times for example,have you consciously wanted to stop eating in excess, but still continue to bolt food down your mouth? That's your subconscious mind at work; once its taken on board a habit, it's very difficult to consciously break.
If you are overweight, you have probably struggled with your weight all your life. You have probably tried every diet going and failed miserably, everytime. Because the fact of the matter is, you know as well as I do that diets simply don't work!
So, where are we going with all of this? Well, as I mentioned earlier your subconscious mind has been PROGRAMMED by way of HABIT. You have become addicted to food because you have reinforced a habit of overeating so many times that your subconscious mind has accepted that overeating is a necessity to your being. Your subconscious mind has no idea what is a good or bad habit. So when you reinforce something over and over your subconscious mind assumes that's what you want and it's going to stick!
So, what is needed here is something that can bypass the subconscious mind, to reprogram old, negative beliefs about food and to get your subconscious mind to start agreeing with your conscious mind. And that very special, almost magical tool, is hypnotherapy. If you want to lose weight and you are ready to stop overeating once and for all, you should almost certainly get in touch.

I will make you slim!

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Confidence

We are all born with confidence. Children are naturally confident, self-expressive and curious. A child will playfully pull a cat's tail or loudly ask questions without fear of judgement in public places. Children will run around like wild animals in the supermarket causing their parents havoc without a care in the world! Children have bountiful amounts of confidence for they were born with it.

From the first time a child becomes conscious up until the age of around six years old, they absorb influences and suggestions into their subconsious mind like a sponge, and this establishes their self esteem and habits. For example if a mother runs away from a spider, screaming in front of her child, the child will learn that behaviour and accept that a spider is something to be fearful of. Equally if someone tells a child it cannot sing, for example, they will accept that as a fact, without question.

From about the age of six years old children develop what hypnotherapists call a 'critical faculty'- this is the 'gatekeeper', if you like, which decides which conscious decisions are going to be accepted in the subconscious mind.

Unfortunately the 'gatekeeper' does not do a very good job at keeping the negative influences and suggestions out of the subconscious mind, which means knocks and setbacks in life have a detrimental effect on confidence levels. People judge, criticise and comdemn which can sometimes result in people losing their confidence all together.

As so many problems are a result of a lack of self confidence (notably over-eating, anxiety, stress and nervousness), in hypnotherapy, confidence boosting is something that needs to be worked on first of all.

Hypnotherapy helps to boost self confidence as it gets past the 'gatekeeper' and into the subconscious mind to put an end to, or change the negative way in which the person talks to themselves. Hypnotherapy helps to remove any negative beliefs which can hinder spiritual and mental growth so that they can finally accept themselves and exude the confidence that was always there anyway.

Harley Street Hypnotherapist Speaks Out at Soho House

Clinical hypnotherapist Sarah Dales is a qualified specialist in smoking cessation, weight and stress management and opened her clinic in a bid to satisfy her passion in helping people to tackle the UK's biggest health issues.

Her next challenge is to give a talk on hypnotherapy at the elite members club Soho House, whose members include Jude Law, J-Lo and Madonna.

Sarah said: "Over the years hypnosis has picked up a variety of weird associations from stage hypnotherapists, the media and superstition. This is a great shame because in reality, hypnosis is the single most effective tool for change and it is a natural state that has been studied scientifically and is based on many years of clinical research by famous psychologists such as Dr. Sigmund Freud and Dr. Carl Jung, and more recently by Dr Milton Erikson and Dr John Kappas. I in fact had Hypnotherapy to stop smoking when I worked for a big bank in the city and I was so impressed by the results I decided to re-train as a hypnotherapist."

Since her training with Harley Street based hypnotherapist Brian Jacobs, (who trained alongside Paul McKenna), Sarah successfully treats clients for an array of different problems -primarily smoking cessation, weight and stress management, but also lots of other issues including low confidence levels, public speaking and fears and phobias.

Sarah enjoys giving hypnotherapy talks to educate people about how many conscious decisions are influenced by the subconscious mind and how hypnotherapy can relieve stress and also change or get rid of unwanted behaviour.  Her next speaking event will be at Soho House on Wednesday 26th October where she will perform a live group hypnotherapy session to its members to enhance confidence and general wellbeing whilst diminishing any stress or anxiety.

Asking Sarah what her long term goals are, she replied:  "We need to start looking for a new way to solve a lot of health issues and hypnotherapy has been proven to work in so many cases, particularly smoking cessation, weight and stress management. In the UK alone, each year over 100,000 people die from smoking related diseases, over 60% of adults are overweight and according to HSE Stress Statistics, stress is believed to trigger 70% of visits to doctors and a staggering 85% of illnesses. In light of the latter statistic I am working with my GP and its practice so that more doctors refer their patients to hypnotherapists, especially those suffering from stress.  If this is a success it would be fantastic to see the NHS introducing hypnotherapy all over the country. Not only would this lighten the work load of GP's, but it would also save the NHS a lot of money and ultimately get these statistics down.  I also want to continue giving talks all over the UK to help organisations tackle stress in the workplace and also help individuals understand how hypnotherapy works so that it encourages them, and their family and friends, to use hypnotherapy to improve absolutely any area of their life!"

About S. M. Dales Hypnotherapy Centre:

Sarah Dales – Clinical Hypnotherapist – 07584 658 555/info@sarahdales.co.uk
Sarah Dales is a clinical hypnotherapist at S.M. Dales Hypnotherapy Centre (www.sarahdales.co.uk) within the acclaimed Lewis Clinic, which has been established for over eighteen years. Sarah has a Diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy and is a qualified specialist in smoking cessation, stress and weight management. Sarah is registered on the General Hypnotherapy Register and is also a member of the National Guild of Hypnotherapists.

If you are an organisation who would like Sarah to give a talk on hypnotherapy please contact her on 07584 658 555. 

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Thank you!!

Thank you MiaLuella for your great comment. The Charity smoking cessation day went extremely well - all five of the people who visited my clinic on Sunday still haven't smoked and they are so thankful for the therapy! In fact, they could not believe that just one session would be enough, but it was!

Much love, Sarah x

S.M. Dales Hypnotherapy Centre

Many people go through their lives accepting negative behaviour patterns and habits they ultimately want to change.  Be it quitting smoking, over-eating or maybe just wanting to gain more confidence in their lives.  They spend most of their adult life wishing they could change a certain type of behaviour but they fail to change that behaviour on numerous occasions because they simply think they don't have enough willpower.

I am a clinical hypnotherapist based at Harley Street and I used to smoke.  But with the aid of just one hypnotherapy session I packed the habit in for good.  And now I love saying that I used to smoke!  It brings a huge smile to my face.  I have finally become the person I wanted to be: a non-smoker.  I smoked for fifteen years and I always wanted to stop smoking. But I would convince myself that smoking wasn't THAT bad.  I mean, everyone else was smoking and I felt safe, so what's the problem?   Even my Father died of lung cancer thirteen years previously but I still continued to smoke.  I used to say.....  I'll give up when I have kids....  Yeah right.  Who was I trying to kid.

So you get the picture.  I continued to smoke. And I really liked to smoke.  Even though I knew that if I continued to smoke it would eventually kill me.  (God forbid, just like my Dad who sadly died a terribly painful death because of smoking and I would not wish that kind of suffering upon anyone.)  And to me smoking was like this:  I absolutely loved smoking and I absolutely hated smoking at the same time.  A clear juxtaposition I know, but if you ask any smoker who wants to give up smoking they will say exactly the same thing.

To explain my apparent irrational behaviour I am going to take the words  'love' and 'hate' and use them as metaphors.  The 'love' is my subconscious mind.  And boy did my subconscious mind love cigarettes!   After a meal?  Absolutely!  With a drink?  You've got it!  And if I were ever to lose or forget my cigarettes, well...  it was like I had lost the love of my life! 

Conversely, the other part of my mind, let's call it the 'hate' for cigarettes (otherwise known as the conscious or  analytical, rational part of my mind) detested cigarettes. I absolutely hated the smell and the taste.  My conscious mind knew that smoking might kill me one day if I continued to smoke.  It knew that I wanted to give up smoking but that love and that urge for cigarettes kept pulling me in another direction. Two parts of the mind at polar opposites.  Fighting to win the game.  It was almost like survival of the fittest.  But the love for cigarettes gave in every time.  It was the easily teased, the easily convinced, very vunerable part of the mind that gave in to that next drag of my beloved cigarette.

The reason it was so difficult for me to give up smoking was because my subconscious mind had taken a habit on board which provided an 'urge' or a 'trigger'. That 'urge' or 'trigger' would occur when a situation arose in which I asscosciated smoking with.  So be it with an alcoholic drink, after a meal, in a stressful situation, or perhaps when somebody else would light up  - these were the times when the  urge would occur and I would crave cigarettes.  Hypnotherapy changed all that for me.  It broke away the urges and triggers which made me want to smoke a cigarette.   The emotional longing, love and apparent addiction to cigarettes had vanished.  Diminished.  Hypnotherapy made my subconscious mind come into agreement with my conscious mind and the love/hate polar opposites had made peace and the war was finally over.

My passion for helping people to quit smoking has risen so much I have decided to hold discounted smoking cessation sessions at my clinic at Harley Street on 21st August 2011, with all proceeds going to Cancer Research.  If you are interested please contact me on 07584 658 555 or at my clinic on 020 7205 2225.

Sarah Dales is the Director at S.M. Dales Hypnotherapy Centre. No. 1 Harley Street, who specialise in hypnotherapy for all types of problems including smoking cessation, weight loss, confidence issues, phobias and much more.  Please visit Sarah's website for more details at  http://www.sarahdales.co.uk/