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Self Hypnosis for Health

What is Self-Hypnosis?

Self-hypnosis is one of the most powerful tools of positive self-transformation through inducing a relaxed but concentrated state of mind. Similar to day-dreaming, this state of mind is characterized by relaxed and focused concentration. Though it may sound foreign to some people, we experience a state of natural hypnosis on quite a frequent basis. Whenever we experience a state of joy, calm and relaxed concentration while doing something or any activity where we lose track of time, most probably we are in the state of natural hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy

During this natural state of calm, relaxed and yet sharp alertness, our subconscious mind tends to be susceptible to new ideas and life-changing positive habits which we would like to introduce to our lives. Hypnotherapy is a way to help inducing this state of relaxed consciousness, such as through listening to CDs. A professional practitioner will guide you through the easy-to-follow process, as recorded in these CDs that will lead you to achieve a positive transformation in your life. Once in this state, we are more able to change unproductive or unhelpful thought patterns into new positive patterns.

Normally, our existing “mental cabinets” are mixed bags of positive as well as negative thoughts which we have learned and picked up since we were young. While our positive habits, learned attitudes and beliefs tend to empower us, the negative habits or beliefs tend to drain us of our energies and hinder us from achieving our true potentials.

Hypnotherapy normally includes the following steps:

1. Relaxation

In this initial stage, you will need to find a quiet place whereby you can stretch out, feel at ease and relaxed. One of the best methods to introduce greater degree of relaxation is through practice of deep and slow breathing for a few minutes. This is normally done through closing your eyes, in order that you will not be distracted by your surroundings. The process is accompanied by a slow and soothing music in order to introduce greater level of relaxation to the mind. After practicing this exercise, we will normally find that our “monkey” mind is more or less tamed and that various thoughts that normally race through our minds settled.

2. Introducing Imagery into Our Inner Landscapes

With our minds quieted down, we will be asked to form a nice and relaxing imagery in our inner mental landscapes. You can choose a place where you find relaxing. This can be a place that you have been before or alternatively, you can conjure up an ideal place. Open up all your senses in this place and soak yourself in the beautiful and soothing surroundings. Hypnotherapy is effective as our mind does not know the difference between images that it generates from the event in our normal waking reality. By giving our mind good doses of positive supportive images during this relaxed state, our bodies will respond positively as well.

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2011
11/17
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Got Indigestion? Here’s 3 Steps to Overcoming It

There is a health condition that affects a huge number of Americans which often flies under the radar. It is estimated by some people that anywhere up to 90 percent of Americans have previously suffered from or regularly suffer from indigestion. For this reason there are many remedies for indigestion available.

Anyone who has not suffered from indigestion, and it seems that is not so many of us, might be wondering what all the fuss is about. Surely it’s not that big a deal?

But anyone who has repeatedly suffered from poor digestion will tell you that yes, it can be that big a deal. In fact anyone who suffers regularly may well tell you that it is one of the more unpleasant conditions they suffer from, if not the most unpleasant.

The first thing to say is that indigestion can result from various medical conditions, and for this reason anyone who has started suffering from it should consult their doctor. However poor digestion can also result from a number of other factors including eating habits, and what you eat. So assuming your doctor has eliminated the possibility of any serious underlying medical condition what should you do about it?

Here’s 3 simple tips to remedying indigestion.

1. Watch, and Record, What You Eat

Bad digestion is often a result of eating something that doesn’t agree with your digestive system. So become a sleuth and track down exactly what it is that doesn’t agree with you.

Keep a food diary. Update it every day with a summary of what you ate, and particularly importantly, indicate in your diary whether or not you suffered bad digestion that day.

After you’ve spent some time working on your diary go back through it and try to identify foods which you ate on days when you suffered. In particular look for foods which you ate on those days and only on those days. There may be a few, but chances are that one or more of them could be the cause of the problem.

Then eliminate one of these foods from your diet, and see if it makes any difference. But only eliminate one at a time, any more and you confuse the issue. Follow this process until you’ve tracked down one or more foods that cause the problem.

2. Eat More Carefully

In the past eating was a serious business, and a meal was a sitdown affair. Nowadays so many people eat on the run. They eat in the car, they eat on the bus or they eat at work. Or maybe they eat at home, but the next game is starting soon so they gobble it down.

Whilst chewing 30 times on every mouthful is overly tedious, the message is good. Eat slowly and carefully and don’t gobble. Try and return to the days when eating was a sitdown affair over which time was spent.

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2011
11/01
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