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If you have been to a brick and mortar book store near you recently, you would have realized that almost half of the best seller list are diet books or books that help people manage their weight. But did you know that there are million of people everyday across the country whose weight is out of control and are slipping into obesity? Does that mean that the latest diet fads do not work? Or does that mean that the people are just suffering from the side effects of a high-fat modern diet?If you have been chasing one of the latest diet regimes and have not had much success with it, it may not be your fault at all. In fact, Americans have spent millions of dollars on weight loss programs and diet books only to have them work for a while before gaining back all the weight that they have lost. If you are one of them, perhaps you should consider attending a weight loss hypnosis program.Weight loss hypnosis programs can be easily found on the Internet with cd programs which teaches self-hypnosis. If you need someone to coach you through the program, there are also a huge number of ... [more...]

Recently, a lady came to see me and she had successfully stopped smoking with me and as she had enjoyed the success after 30 years of trying and failing to stop smoking, she was so happy that she felt capable of doing anything. She brought in what looked like a shopping list of things in her life that she wanted to change!Just last week, I also got an email from someone that receives this ezine of mine, and they wanted all sorts of different things to happen in their life, and couldn't decide what to focus on. So, this month, I thought I'd give you some pointers on helping yourself to know how to know what you want. Sounds a bit confusing, let me put that more simply; "How to know what you want."In the late 1990s, and during most of the time I have ever been emloyed, I was doing jobs that I found to be unsatisfactory or that I simply did not enjoy. WHen I did my first self-hypnosis course and learned some of the main aspects of NLP, I was amazed by the resources that already existed within me and as I learned more about modern ideas ... [more...]

I'm sure you've run into the idea of "creating your own reality" in The Secret or some other New Age book.(Note now, I'm not being sarcastic or knocking down those books.)Let's look at that idea from a NLP angle.What would it mean to create your own reality?In three words, altering your MOW (Model of the World). OK, OK, so I used an acronym...Korzybsky coined the famous phrase "The map is not the territory," suggesting that human beings actually don't have access to the territory but experience it through the maps they create.For our purposes, we'll call these maps our model of the world.So creating your own reality really means altering your map. When you alter your map or add new distinctions to it, you are in fact creating your own reality.Sounds too simple? Think about it for a second...Nothing has meaning except the meaning I give it. And that meaning creates reality. So when I change the meaning, I de facto change reality. If I create a new meaning, I create a new reality.As usual, this is best understood by using an example.Let's say you see someone whispering to another person, looking at you. Then both of them start laughing.What ... [more...]

Beauty holds a golden mirror to the shimmering inner essence. It reflects true self-perception as well as the extent of one's discipline.Attractiveness indicates a sensitivity to those around us. Just as we shine our shoes, wash our cars or trim our lawns to provide "eye-candy" to passers-by, we keep our bodies in the pink of health to offer delightful icons worthy of emulation.I believe that beauty is not trivial; it is core to civilized society. Imagine everyone abandoning restraint and shuffling around in tattered clothes, drooping bellies, dishevelled hair, blackened fingernails and breath so foul only a mother could love? No one would be happy- except the mouthwash manufacturers. Those who shun beauty as superficial are probably too lazy to reach for a bar of soap or the jump rope.But, beautiful people are not necessarily supermodels with Greek-god faces and unreal proportions. That is a myth promulgated by sneaky salesmen of snakeoil creams and dangerous bust implants. Let them slather that muck on their faces 24/7. Then, I'd believe them.Beautiful people are Normal people who watch their diet, keep their bodies clean, and don tasteful, yet inexpensive clothing. They maintain an empowered lifestyle, indulge in mind-expanding books and engage in ... [more...]

Anthony Robbins is born Anthony J. Mahavick in February 29, 1960. Self-help writer, professional speaker and occasional actor are just some of the qualifications under his belt. With his best-selling books, he managed to touch and changed numerous lives, introducing the science behind the sense personal awareness. Robbins is known as a writer of topics that focuses on health and energy, overcoming fears, the power of effective persuasive communication and relationships. Through his numerous infomercials, he has become a worldwide phenomenon, promoting personal development with his audio programs and motivational seminars. He primarily makes use of neuro-linguistic programming or NLP and various hypnosis techniques in his claims of personal awareness. A good communicator, speaker, healer and life coach, Robbins combines his skills with unconventional and conventional persuasive techniques to promote personal change.With only high school education in tow, Robbins have managed to create an empire with his gift of better understanding of life and human nature in combination with his excellent communication skills. His first vocation, being in sales, was his initial practice of his inherent knowledge of persuasion. His fondness for personal growth books only helped him develop and refine is remarkable ability to promote positivity and confidence from ... [more...]