Accepting versus Resisting

When we are faced with an issue in our lives, for example maybe you want to lose weight, or maybe you have found yourself single and you want to change that, or perhaps you have fallen ill … our first inclination is to resist that change.

We want to push it as far away as possible and DO something to make it different than it is.

And this is called resistance. Resistance is a form of denial. You’re not happy with the situation as it is and you want to CHANGE it, FIX it, and make it not be whatever it is.

What’s wrong with that you ask? Of course if something is not working in your life, of course, you want to change it. Why not?

As a matter of fact, change is the one thing that is constant. We are always changing. Nothing is fixed. It’s all very translucent and your experience is fluid. Given that there is truth in that statement, it makes sense that if we are able to be more flexible and embrace change, the better off we will be. Read More

Hypnosis Gastric Lap Band

There’s been information in the news about how hypnosis is working to help people lose weight with the use of a sort of mental version of the Gastric Lap Band.

I’m happy to hear that this is catching on. Gastric Lap Band surgery is very expensive, it’s evasive, it takes a long time to recover from it, and sadly in many cases it has been known to reverse itself.

One of the main issues around this is that why the surgery makes your stomach physically smaller, the surgery is not a replacement for the mental and emotional aspects that cause a person to have poor eating habits in the first place, which results in eventual weight gain. Studies have shown that a high percentage of clients who get gastric bypass surgery even gain the weight back. Read More