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Weight loss and self hypnosis

  • Posted on July 2, 2009 at 11:42 pm

There is a perception among some people that self hypnosis can independently be used to lose weight. This is a wrong perception, as self hypnosis is used as a tool to make changes in your subconscious mind, which will help you in losing weight fast by changing some of your bad habits that are resulting in over weight.

Over weight can result in negative emotions like anger, lack of confidence and depression. Some causes of weight gain are over eating, excessive alcohol, drugs and absolute lack of any physical activity.

Over weight can be due to different reasons like physical, psychological and genetic. The toughest to cure is genetic. A person suffering from this kind of obesity had to undergo surgery to remove extra fat from his body. Physical reason may include some disease, like it has been seen that some people gain weight dramatically after prolonged fever. Psychological reasons include the reasons related to mind.

When ever any one goes for hypnosis session, there is a prehypnosis test that every one has to go through. In this test the psychological health of the person who is undergoing hypnosis is evaluated to find out the negative feelings that may be hidden inside his subconscious mind. If these feelings do exist, then the job of the hypnotist is to help the person to get rid of these feelings.

Important thing to remember is that if a person does not want to get hypnotize, no one in the world can hypnotize him. So all these fears, that you will become some kind of slave are totally baseless. Best results come when both the hypnotist and the person undergoing hypnotism work in accord with each other. In case of self hypnosis also, you have to believe in hypnotism to get some sort of result. Having said that, you don’t have to be a believer in truest sense of the word, but at least you should not distrust the process before actually going through it.

Self hypnosis can take care of both physical and psychological problems. Self hypnosis works on subconscious mind. All the experiences that we go through in our daily lives are stored in the subconscious mind and over time these experiences takes form of habits and hidden desires. You may notice that sometimes you react almost automatically, the truth is that our subconscious mind is doing this and we don’t even know. Self hypnosis will help you in harnessing the power of subconscious mind.

Peter jones is the author of this article where he told about some important tips towards the lose weight fast .

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I’m Depressed – Are Alternative Depression Medications The Answer ?

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:36 pm

The short answer is a resounding yes! Looking at my two depressed friends who have been on anti depressant medications for a lifetime, I am now more convinced than ever that the only way out for them is a comprehensive type of treatment which combines diet, exercise, therapy and medication, preferably herbal ones. That for me is the key to alternative depression medications.

I have seen too many people’s lives thwarted and stunted under the weight of anti depressant meds and their awful side effects. What a price they have to pay as men may become impotent and women gain weight and feel sorry (and even more depressed) that their societal body image is just not what they want.

Let us look at why people are depressed and the answer lies mainly but not entirely in the chemical neurotransmitters called serotonin, endorphin and norepinephrine. Serotonin seems to be the one which can determine so much in our daily routine and how we cope with life. It will affect not only our mood but also appetite, sleep, body temperature and even muscular movements. People who suffer from depression usually have a serotonin deficiency and that has been the key to all anti depression treatment. A lack of serotonin can lead to Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) , anxiety and schizophrenia.

One of the best alternative depression medications is sunlight. If you are lucky enough to live in a sunny climate, you will be able to enjoy loads of sunlight. For those who do not, I would say that getting even ten minutes of sunlight can make all the difference to depression. It is no accident that the best possible treatment for SAD (seasonal affective disorder) which is a mild form of depression, is natural light therapy which can be in the form of special lamps for that purpose.

The second best of the alternative depression medications is exercise although it is not a medication in the strictest sense of the term. That is the best way of raising the serotonin levels in your brain and the endorphins which get activated are sometimes called the ‘happy chemicals’. Have you ever met anybody in a bad mood after exercise ? I doubt it .

Diet, while not strictly one of the alternative depression medications, is an essential element in any form of depression treatment. It is no accident that carbohydrates are called ‘comfort food’ because in fact they tend to raise the serotonin levels in the brain as opposed to proteins which tend to have the opposite effect. Go for the brown carbs rather than the white ones so brown pasta, whole wheat bread, fruit and nuts are in. The white carbohydrates tend to give you a sugar spike which can lead to mood swings.

That leaves us with medication and one of the best alternative depression medications is the herbal one because it has very few side effects and will let you regain your mood and serenity without any nasty surprises.

Discover more about alternative depression medications . Robert Locke has written extensively on Mental Health for many years.

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