Peppermint and Cayenne Red Pepper Flakes support weight loss

wThis is from my friend, Michael Lovitch, Co Founder of The Hypnosis Network

"Hello,

When you are trying to shed pounds, it is all about taking in fewer calories.

And, any little tip or trick helps, right?

There are two items that may very well be in your cupboard already...

And the best part is, these are not things that cost a ton of money – these are items you can find at pretty much ANY local store!

Time to Hit The Grocery Store

Peppermint is the first new product you need to pick up!

You can find peppermint oil at a health food store, and it isn’t costly.

Experts are now saying even just the mere smell of the oil will make you eat less.

For a quick fix, take a sniff of some oil before a meal...OR...super easy – just chew some peppermint gum throughout the day.


Experiment & Results

In one study printed in the North American Journal of Psychology in 2007 at Wheeling University in Virginia, 40 volunteers were asked to sniff peppermint every 2 hours for five days.

After that, for another 5 days, they were given a placebo to sniff.

When the researchers compared the results, during the week they sniffed peppermint, on average, they consumed 1,800 fewer calories!(1)

That would be a little over ½ a week just by sniffing peppermint.

Mint is also a mild stimulant...so it might give you that push you need to get to the gym, too
Add Spice To Your Life

The second product is even easier to find, and I bet many of you already use something like this or own it...
Next time you fill your plate, simply add Red Pepper Flakes, (also called Cayenne flakes) to your meal.
Peppers, release capsaicin which fights fat and helps reduce your appetite.

Please note: store-bought hot sauce contains capsaicin too, but can contain sugar and other non-natural ingredients. Try a jalapeno or chilies for a fresh kick of hot, tasty spice, without extra calories or sugar.


Regards,
Michael Lovitch
Co Founder
The Hypnosis Network
817-566-0050

Get healthy to lose weight!

"Why am I gaining this weight?”"

"We hear this question every day in our medical practice. And no wonder. Despite our best efforts, most women gain weight in perimenopause — especially around our waist and hips — even if we’re dieting.
Why is this happening to us? The answer lies in the remarkable links between hormonal balance and body fat.

Set aside the basic myth behind most diets — that weight control is just a matter of calorie control. That's untrue and misleading, and has made a lot of women suffer unnecessarily.

Can hormonal imbalance cause excess weight gain?

The first and most basic link is between insulin metabolism and body fat. Most of us eat the conventional low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, with lots of processed foods (pasta, breads, most snacks, beer and wine, etc.). Over time this diet commonly creates a condition known as insulin resistance. When you are insulin resistant your body converts every calorie it can into fat — even if you’re dieting. And it won't let you burn fat when you exercise.

A second basic link is between stress and body fat. Stress hormones block weight loss. This is sometimes called the "famine effect": despite adequate food, the body interprets prolonged stress as a famine, and once again, the body thinks it should store every spare calorie as fat. Which it does very effectively. Most women are under tremendous amounts of stress — much of it prolonged and without let-up — which leads to adrenal fatigue and intractable weight gain.

These two links work together. Many of us combine a high-stress life with a low-fat, high-carb diet. This creates such a powerful hormonal imbalance that weight gain is almost inevitable. Yo-yo dieting — strict dieting followed by a rebound in weight — will only exacerbate the pattern because it stresses the body and damages your metabolism.

High-carb diets also lead to cravings. Because your body can’t readily maintain optimal blood sugar and serotonin levels, you are compelled to have snacks and caffeine to make yourself feel better. But they only exacerbate your insulin resistance and adrenal exhaustion — a vicious circle — while adding body fat.

Note that artificial sweeteners are not a solution; they’re part of the problem. They may lack calorie content, but they mimic sugar so well that the body produces insulin to metabolize them — contributing to insulin resistance. They actually lower your blood sugar level, which is why most contain caffeine to compensate.

The impact of hormonal changes on weight gain:

Another factor in stubborn weight gain is estrogen loss. As the estrogen production of your ovaries falls, your body turns to secondary production sites, one of which is body fat. If your body is struggling to maintain its hormonal balance, body fat becomes more valuable. Of course, if you are stressed and on a low-fat diet, your body is struggling. This is another vicious circle.

Thyroid imbalance is another common contributor. Thyroid hormones have an intimate relationship with the other hormones in your body, including estrogen and progesterone, and an imbalance in one is often associated with an imbalance in another. Because the thyroid plays a major role in orchestrating the body’s metabolism, an underactive thyroid almost always leads to weight gain, no matter how much you diet or exercise.

Heal yourself, and lose the weight:

By thinking only of calorie control, we actually starve our bodies of the nutrients we need to maintain health, while signaling our bodies to put on weight. Neither outcome is desirable! And you end up feeling defeated by the whole process — as though willpower had anything to do with it.

Our philosophy on weight control is based on what has worked in our practice over the last 25 years. We know that you have to get healthy before you can lose weight. You can’t lose weight to get healthy. But if you will heal your body and try to balance your life, you will then find you achieve and maintain your ideal weight."

Please visit the Women's Health Network website for more information...CLICK HERE

Interconnected

We are designed to be interdependent and interconnected. There is hope for us to move from chaotic and rigid states to integration, kindness, and peace.

What happens to memory as you age?

With aging comes some mental decline. And one of the first things to go is the ability of the MTL ( medial temporal lobe ) to recall specifics.

According to Dr. Roberto Cabeza, the lead author of the Duke University study:

“Specific memories don’t last forever, but what ends up lasting are not specific details, but more general or global impressions. Past studies have shown that as normal brains age, they tend to lose the ability to recollect specifics faster than they lose the ability recall impressions. However, patients with Alzheimer’s disease tend to lose both types of memories equally, which may prove to be a tool for early diagnosis.”

Good reason to do everything you can to keep your memory sharp.

Thankfully, there ARE a few things you can do right now to slow – and sometimes even prevent – mental decline as you age:

Walk more – Part of the reason for memory decline as you age, is that the hippocampus shrinks. But a study reported at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that walking just 3 times a week for 40 minutes can expand the size of the hippocampus by almost 2 percent. This alone can have a huge effect on keeping your mind and memory “young.”

Vinpocetine – This extract from the periwinkle plant has been used in Europe for decades to treat and help prevent dementia. It’s so effective, one study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that regular supplementation with vinpocetine helped chronic cerebral dysfunction patients improve significantly and score better on numerous mental tests.

Blueberries – You’ve probably heard that these are great for your heart. But it turns out they’re also good for your brain. One Tufts University study suggests it can even help prevent the loss of short-term memory. You can eat them plain or add them to your favorite cereal or oatmeal.

Folic Acid – This is one I found surprising. It’s already well-known that folic acid is good for pregnant women. But a Dutch study found that supplementing with folic acid can improve your memory. Subjects who took 800mcg daily knocked off 5.5 years their age when it came to their performance on standardized memory tests.

Reduce Stress – This is a big one. The research is clear that higher cortisol levels caused by stress can drastically reduce memory (both short term and long term). Our recommendation of course is to use hypnosis to reduce the effects of stress on your life.

From EXPLORING THE MIND

Always Ask The Greater Question.

This is from The Silve Life System, lesson #9:

"A student in one of our classes once told the instructor, “I can’t wait to go home and start using these techniques to achieve my goal of mastering the use of a computer for data entry.”

The instructor asked, “Well, why do you want to master using a computer?” The student said that learning this skill would allow her to get a promotion at work.

“Why do you want a promotion,” asked the instructor.

“So I can get a raise” she replied.

Why do you want a raise”, the instructor asked again.

“Because I need the money to buy a larger home”.

“Why?”

“Because I want my mother and sister to move in with me”.

“Why?”

“Because it has been our dream to own a big house together and live together as a family.”

“Good,” said the instructor.

“Now you have identified what you really want. It’s a large house with your family living with you. You don’t really want to learn data-entry. What you want is the house.”

“So when you go back and practice visualization – aim for the greater goal- the house.

Let that goal manifest in any way.

Be open to different ways it could manifest – it may not come through you learning data-entry. You might get another job, in a completely unexpected field.

Be open to all possibilities”.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.


~ William Hutchinson Murray

Hypnosis promotes positive changes in adults and children.

"Children are more easily hypnotized than adults, and hypnotherapy as a method responds to the general developmental needs of children by addressing their ability for fantasy and imagination. Hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis are tools with which to assess and develop protective factors, and enhance positive adjustment."

"Hypnosis and NLP use words in a very conscious way to affect the subconscious experience and promote positive changes. There is more harm in NOT understanding how POWERFUL words are, than in avoiding hypnosis and NLP out of fear or simple innocent ignorance."

"What is hypnosis? Hypnosis can be defined as a way to focus attention and communicate ideas in an experiential way that benefits a client. Now, who wouldn’t want to learn how to do that?

Hypnosis is not a therapy and it is not a cure for anything.

Rather, hypnosis is a tool that is designed to facilitate positive changes that a person wishes to make.

There are different schools of thought regarding how direct or indirect one should be in using hypnotic techniques and communications. Some people advocate for specific philosophies, therapeutic models or approaches, but I personally don’t subscribe to anything other than what works for an individual.

The pioneering work of the late psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson is most consistent with how I have intuitively worked with children in therapy. He saw the strengths and resources people had and utilized these in his treatment. It didn’t matter what diagnosis people had, their age, their gender, their intelligence or any other such factors. He respected their individual strengths and found ways to gently introduce new ways to use those strengths in what has come to be called conversational hypnosis. More and more literature is coming out in the domains of mindfulness, relaxation, calming exercises, visualization, and others as well, but the common denominator they all share is an experience that effects positive change in the person through an experiential mechanism not easily defined.

Hypnosis is more often than not a skill that is developed over time. Yes, there are people who experience hypnosis once and make a dramatic change, but it’s not usually the case in working with children.

A person can learn to do this for themselves (self-hypnosis) or have the experience guided by someone else.

The key is in knowing what works for YOU, or your child. If a CD doesn’t work or a therapist doesn’t effect change, don’t blame it on the hypnosis. It means THAT CD didn’t work FOR YOU or that therapist didn’t connect with YOU.

That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. It means you haven’t found the right connection.

Hypnosis isn’t just about talking TO a person; it is about talking WITH a person. That can be done in story form, during a game, playing with toys, using a computer, sitting quietly in a chair or many other ways. There are all kinds of ways to engage a person in perspectives giving rise to meaningful change."

Edited from PsychCentral, Diane Yapko, MA