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How to Lose 30 Lbs in 90 Days


The Body is a Metaphor

Our physical well being is a reflection of our emotional and spiritual well being. Our physical appearance is a creation of mind that is an indication of what is going on inside of us. If the island you can see is the physical aspect of who you are then the ocean all around you represents your emotional and spiritual aspects. As you sit on the island beach looking out over the horizon you are consciously oblivious to that other world beneath the waves. This is how it is with each one of us as we go about our daily activities oblivious to the forces within, that control everything we think, say and do.

Inner Conflict Sabotages our Efforts to Change

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If you are over weight then chances are you don’t feel good about it. If you do feel good about being overweight then you are not overweight and you should stop reading this article. Feeling bad about any aspect of yourself is an indication of inner conflict and you are sabotaging every effort you exert to make the changes you know you want. The secret to making any change is in overcoming the dynamic of mind that resists change.

Knowing what you want and feeling what you want are two very separate experiences, the dynamic of which, many people fail to understand. Though everybody realises at some stage in their lives that there are times when they cannot get themselves to do what they want to do, they still keep trying anyway. How many people do you know who have tried to lose weight by cutting down on the amount they eat and exercising more only to keep failing miserably? How many times have you given up on diets and exercise regimes that you simply could not stick to? Every time you fail at something you lose a little more self confidence which makes it harder the next time you try.

If you feel overweight then you are thinking about yourself in a certain way. The way you are thinking about yourself is definitely not the way slim people think about themselves. Here already evident is the dynamic between thought and feeling. The feeling creates the atmosphere for the kind of thinking that it generates and the thinking creates more of these same feelings until you are trapped inside a cycle of thoughts and feelings that attract people and circumstances to create even more of the same thoughts and feelings. The thinking directs your energy and that is why you find yourself thinking more frequently and more intensely about food than someone who does not feel as you do about yourself. The point here is the importance of the interaction between thought and feeling that many people fail to realise.

Change Your Mind if You Want to Change

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In order to make any change in your life you must first create the change in your mind. The mind commands and the body obeys. The only trouble with this is the mind is sending conflicting commands so no change ever occurs. Your first and most important task is to create in your mind the change that you want for yourself.

To lose weight you will need to change the thoughts and feelings you have toward yourself to thoughts and feelings you would have about yourself if you were thinner.

So how do you change your mind? The answer is very simple and lies in a feeling called Hypnosis.

Hypnosis is the Key

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Hypnosis is a feeling everyone naturally experiences but few know how to achieve deliberately. It is unfortunate that most people associate hypnosis with the antics of stage hypnotists and so never take the feeling seriously as a means to make lasting changes in their lives. Hypnosis is a feeling anyone can learn to achieve deliberately and for that reason I created an audio that does just that. By regularly playing the audio you eventually learn to experience the feeling of hypnosis and in becoming familiar with the feeling your mind automatically learns how to get it back every time you choose to experience the feeling.

In order to lose weight the first step is to teach yourself how to achieve the feeling of hypnosis. Once you can do that you are in a position to change the thoughts and feelings you feel toward yourself to the the thoughts and feelings of a thinner human being. You then wake up every morning feeling so appreciative of being you because you start noticing changes immediately. You realise how powerful your mind is and for the first time in a very long time you start to say what you really think and you start to do what you say. In other words your mind and heart start to work as one. So when you say that will not longer eat certain kinds of bread, or that you will never again use oil to cook then you know you won’t. Doubt will no longer exist.

It becomes easy then to follow my final instructions for you to lose the weight you want in the time frame you choose. I suggest 30lbs in 90 days but that is not a hard and fast rule. You choose but it is important that the mindset is correct before you begin.

Download the audio “Introduction to Hypnosis” and put it on your iPod or MP3 player. You could burn it to CD if you wish. Play the audio “Introduction to Hypnosis” every day for at least 2 weeks before following my final instructions. Some people play it every night in bed before falling asleep others find time during the day or even before getting up in the morning. Do what suits you but it is a very crucial element for success in this method.

Final Instructions to Losing 30lbs in 90 Days:

Part 1

  1. For a period of 3 days eat only meat and fish. No bread, no rice no vegetables, no pasta , no sugar, no alcohol, no cereals, no chocolate, no salt, and definitely no oil or butter.
  2. Eat a small bowl of porridge in the morning for breakfast and change to a sugar substitute like Splenda if you need to sweeten it.
  3. If you get peckish you can eat slices of ham or chicken. You can also eat fat free cottage cheese and fat free yoghurt whenever you feel hungry.
  4. To cook meat I suggest you slice onions and use these slices of onions as a bed to fry the meat on but no oil.
  5. Drink plenty of water but no fizzy or sugar based drinks.
  6. You can also eat boiled eggs but no salt.

Part 2

Having eaten as I have suggested above for three days. You will notice some major changes physically, emotionally and mentally. Your thoughts and feelings are in line with your desires and your life takes on a whole new meaning. What started off as losing weight becomes much more than that and you feel great. You realise how easy it is to lose weight and to stop eating and drinking those things that prevented you from feeling as good as you feel from not putting them in your body for three days. You are now ready to embark on a completely new style of life. Certain foods and drinks now simply repulse you and you know you will never eat or drink them again. Following is a plan you now find easy to follow and you continue to play the audio throughout the 90 days program.

For the 90 days you eat three meals a day. You have a choice of porridge or eggs in the morning. Meat or fish for lunch and again meat, eggs or fish for dinner. You can eat as much sliced ham, chicken and cottage cheese or yoghurt in between meals but will find yourself doing less of that as time goes on. Weigh yourself at the end of every week and take your measurements to see the progress you are making. It is very important to maintain this high protein diet for at least 50 days. After that you can start introducing vegetables, and fruit into your diet. Wholemeal brown bread can also be introduced but never more than 2 slices of wholemeal brown bread per day.

You will find that you have more energy for exercise and I highly recommend some easy Yoga type stretches and postures in the morning followed by a few minutes of meditation or silent sitting.

Walking is the best exercise and I highly recommend a daily routine of walking brusquely for between 30 minutes to an hour.

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The Middle Way

There is no need to overdo anything. You are now finding the “middle way” advocated by Buddha. You are now experiencing a life of moderation and you feel happier and more alive than you have ever been.

This is a 90 day journey that prepares you for the more important journey of your life without all that extra baggage, physically represented by the weight you are carrying and emotionally by the heavy heart you carry around full of regret, past failures and apathy. Having taken the time to purify yourself physically you have also triggered an emotional and spiritual response that propels you positively into the rest of a very bright future for yourself and everyone you touch.

Bon Voyage!

Clinical Hypnotherapy Books


Following is a list of books that I highly recommend to people involved in Hypnotherapy whether they are involved as practitioners or clients. Each of these books will enrich the hypnotherapy process and help you get the most from your special inner journey.

Hypnotherapy by Dave Elman

This is a practical and very comprehensive guide for the practitioner of hypnoanalysis. The author is probably the most influential practitioner and teacher in the history of modern hypnotherapy.The book is useful for people undergoing hypnotherapy because it gives a good understanding of what hypnosis is and what they can expect in therapy.It contains numerous case studies so the process can be explored as it is applied to a wide range of conditions.

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Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D Yalom

This book explains psychotherapy in a way that makes the process accessible to anyone. This is a book that grips you from the first pages. The book contains a series of case histories and Yalom allows the reader to travel with him on his journey with his clients.  We know what he is thinking, what is happening, what he wants to happen and on the rare occasion where it went wrong.  This wonderful book tells us it is ok to care!

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Shift Happens by Robert Holden

Written in a clear and easy to read style this book is inspirational! It is full of wisdom and ways to unlock negativity and fears and open the door to happiness, joy and success. Robert Holden draws on real life stories, allowing you to read how others changed their lives and created a new happier, more joyful new reality. This book is a joy, in itself, to read!

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As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

This classical self help book written over a hundred years ago is as relevant today as ever it was. Many of the modern self help books are based on the teachings of James Allen. The book teaches the power of thought and how we use it to create our reality.

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The Power by Rhonda Byrne

This is a life changing book that explains the power of love. Each one of us has the choice to think what we want but we seldom exercise this choice. We spend most of the day on auto pilot reacting in the same way to people and events that occur oblivious to the fact that we are creating our feelings and our circumstances. Our thoughts affect how we feel and when we feel bad we tend to think more bad thoughts and create even more bad feeling and this situation continues until we think good thoughts to lift our mood. Our feelings attract into our lives people and circumstances that reflect how we feel and that is why it is in our interests to exercise the power of choice to create happiness and always be connected to universal power of love.

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The Power (Audio Book) by Rhonda Byrne

The audio book version read by the author is quite a moving experience because the background music helps the reader feel the messages being given.

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The Power (Audio Book) by Rhonda Byrne

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The Power (Audio Book) by Rhonda Byrne


You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

Louise Hay cured herself of cancer using the principles she outlines in this inspirational book. She very simply explains the relationship between mind and body and how the mindset has the power to create illness or health. The book also gives a list of illnesses with their corresponding root causes. Louise also provides affirmations to counteract each illness or disease she lists.

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The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

Prominent scientists, authors and philosophers reveal the universal law of attraction to create what you want in your life.The Secret is based on the principles outlined in books like As A Man thinketh by James Allen and though this knowledge has always been available to us few people actually use it in their lives and that is the reason for much of the conflict , pain and suffering we see in the world today.This book has brought these age old principles back into the world’s awareness once more and at a time in our planet’s history when we need it most.

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Cutting the Ties that Bind by Phyllis Krystal

We are all bound by invisible chains and ties that bind us and block us from being who we really are. The ties were created in childhood, from family, environment, culture, fears or reactions to events that took place a long time ago. Phyllis Krystal is a psychotherapist who has taught people all over Europe practical visualisation techniques that untangle our deepest bonds to everyone and anything that holds us back from reconnecting with our higher consciousness and  attaining our freedom.

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Instant Self-Hypnosis: How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open by Forbes Robbins Blair

This book shows you step-by-step exactly how to enter the state of hypnosis as your read. It teaches you how to give yourself suggestions and make them work. The book also shows you how to create a program for self-improvement and how to use your inner source of wisdom during your normal waking life. The author’s writing style is very inviting and makes you feel very comfortable. It doesn’t matter whether you are a professional or a beginner, this book is for everyone. And yes, you can hypnotize yourself for success, happiness and all good things with its guidance. And with your eyes open there are several advantages. First of all, it is easy to stay focused. You are reading and imagining at the same time, so your mind does not wander around as much as with traditional creative visualization. Also, the author is a professional hypnotist and has carefully designed the techniques, for maximum effectiveness.

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Awareness by Anthony deMello

This best-selling book by one of the most gifted spiritual guides of the twentieth century is now established as a modern spiritual classic. Its anecdotes, stories, practical guidelines and exercises use humour, compassion and insight to  the importance of awareness in truly understanding ourselves and the world we live in. The book addresses issues that are relevant to everyone today and these issues include change, happiness, suffering, loss and direction is also given on coping with anger and fear.

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A Holistic Approach to Stress and the Human Condition


Stress & The Human Condition
In this article I seek to raise awareness about stress as the underlying cause for many of the problems faced by almost every human being today and how we can individually dispel stress from our lives and collectively bring balance back into the world.
Before I talk about stress I want to talk about the human condition from the mind,body spirit perspective. If you see yourself as a brain and feel that neuroscience adequately explains the human condition or if you subscribe to the notion that you are a physical entity or that you are your thoughts then this article is not for you.
The human being is much more than his mind, his thoughts or his body. The human being is a complex of various aspects which I broadly label as physical,emotional,intellectual and spiritual. For any human being to feel fulfilled and be fully expressed then all aspects need to be allowed expression. In today’s world not all aspects are given the same status. Intelligence has been given special status and as a result the physical,emotion and spiritual aspects of our being have been relegated to positions of lesser and in some cases no importance.
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The World places its Trust in Intelligence
The world today reflects society’s obsession with intelligence and though the evidence continues to point toward
a more balanced human expression the intellect continues to be hailed as God. There have never been more advances in medicine and still there have never been more people suffering with physical ill health.  More people than ever before are suffering from psychosomatic illnesses and disease.
The family unit, which was once the foundation and blueprint for all our relationships, is under more strain now than ever before. People are choosing to leave relationships rather than seeing difficulties in relationships as the means by which we grow and develop emotionally and spiritually.
There is a marked rise in the feeling of apathy among people who  are faced on a daily basis with images that no longer shock or touch our numbed emotions. We are like those inhabitants of Easter Island who had to have watched as they cut the last tree down and condemned their once rich society to oblivion. We too are standing by in a trance like state busying ourselves with routines that merely serve to distract us from our own contribution to the destruction of ourselves and our world.
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Emotional & Spiritual Aspects are needed to Restore Balance
Stress, seen against the backdrop of the human condition I have described, takes on a more relevant meaning and one we can collectively claim responsibility for. Stress seen in these terms is an enormous problem that we each face everyday of our lives and it is so great a problem now that we are emotionally and spiritually unable to deal with it without some help.
The idea of taking responsibility for the destructive conditions we have collectively created for ourselves is a particularly hard pill to swallow but unless we can accept this responsibility for our part in this mess nothing will change. Our parents and their parents and their parents before them contributed to the notion that the way forward for humanity was to place all our trust in the intellect believing that man’s intelligence would get us happiness and even still as our world crumbles around us there those who still maintain that man’s intelligence will save the day.
The world is in the mess it is in today because we believed and continue  to believe that our emotional
and spiritual aspects are inferior to our intellect and we  fail to nurture all aspects of ourselves in equal proportions.
As parents and teachers we continue to support an  education system that is geared toward developing the intellect and preparing our children to make a living. As a result of this blatant disregard for the development of all aspects of the individual our children’s emotional intelligence is lacking. Without the necessary emotional and spiritual strength our children are ever increasingly  turning to alcohol and drugs at a far earlier age to cope with the stresses of today’s life. These are the same children who are the future leaders of the world and the cycle continues.
Having gone to such lengths to explain the gravity of the problem facing us today I will now go on to explain the remedy because by each drop taking responsibility for its place in the ocean the tides naturally behave as they should. By each of us taking responsibility and acting in the now we can change everything.
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Intellect
The intellect is as important as any other aspect of the human being no more or no less. Your intellect is a tool for you to use when appropriate. If you are not master in the house of your own mind then your mind behaves like a spoilt child who always wants his way. By taking charge and using the power of your mind as a tool rather than  allowing yourself to be led by the nose by thoughts that are creating how you feel you are acting as opposed to reacting.
By dwelling on sad thoughts you will eventually make yourself feel sad. Sadness can easily become a habit if you allow your thoughts to lead you. Deliberately choosing to remember happy memories and dwelling on thoughts that make you feel happy is the way to dis-create sadness. Wouldn’t it be more intelligent to dwell on happy thoughts  if you wish to feel happier?
We know more about the laws that govern the universe than we do about the laws that govern our own happiness. One of the basic laws of thought is that our thought affects our feeling and we attract into our world everything and everyone to attract more of these same feelings. So the happier you feel the more happiness you attract and the more happy thoughts you think to create even more happy feelings and the cycle continues until we start thinking the opposite.
The universe wants to give you everything you desire and the way the universe gauges what you want is by watching your thoughts and listening to your feelings. You have free will so why don’t you exercise it instead of allowing your mind to think what it likes or has grown used to thinking? It is you and you alone responsible for the way you feel and only you can change how you feel according to the law as I have described.
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Body
Our bodies are a physical manifestation of how we feel about ourselves. If you feel good about yourself your body will tell that story by your state of health. The way you hold yourself, the way you stand and walk are messages being sent out about you and how you feel . Your physical aspect is constantly broadcasting your state of being to the world and the signals being broadcast are being received by people and circumstances on the same frequency as you.
Your body is constantly talking in a language subconsciously understood by everyone around you.  By feeding your body balanced healthy food and drink  it respond positively by looking and feeling well. If you abuse your body then it will look abused.  Another law that is repeatedly ignored is the
connection between mind and body. When the mind commands and the body obeys so no matter how balanced your diet or how much you exercise if you see your self as unattractive, over weight, then that is what you will get.
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Emotions
Many of us have been taught that it is weak to show our emotions. Hysteria has been associated withTriste women who express emotions and men who show any emotion are seen as wimps. People feel uncomfortable around the expression of emotions. Everything is done to prevent someone from expressing emotion and not because of our concern for the upset person but more because of how uncomfortable we are made to feel.
We learn at a very early age what is socially acceptable and that is one of the main reasons why we bury feelings and develop neuroses that account for almost all of the psychosomatic illnesses in our world today. Dis-ease is    our inability  to maintain a state of inner balance for more than 50% of our waking life.
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Spiritual
"That"

"That"

We are in perfect health when mind and body are in harmony and this is the most conducive condition for a human being to look within and find the answers to all of our questions. When we put the thinker of our thoughts, the I we  think we are, under scrutiny we create space between our thoughts.

Eventually we experience the indescribable. There are no words to describe “that” as it is beyond knowledge, and the emotions. It is the experience of “that”  which all religion and which all the sacred ancient texts points to. When you can raise your conscious awareness high enough and for long enough each day of your life then you are using the laws of your nature to create your happiness, dispelling stress not just for yourself but for all of humanity enabling yourself to be in a space to ask the most important question of all “Who am I?”

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Self-Hypnosis is a very effective way to learn how to direct our thoughts. By learning how to choose the thoughts to dwell upon we in effect are deciding how we want to feel. The feelings we create will in turn attract to us all the people and circumstances to create more of these feelings. I have created a very powerful audio file that you can download from our website to teach yourself the art of Self-Hypnosis.

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The audio is called    How to Hypnotise Yourself it is in MP3 format and can be burnt to CD or copied to your iPod or MP3 player. Regularly playing the audio allows you to reclaim your freedom to choose what to think and feel.

>>> Click this link to download “How to Hypnotise Yourself” <<<

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