Stroke Awareness Day: May 8th

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High blood pressure and hypertension causes 62% of all strokes but almost half of all people with high blood pressure don’t realise they suffer from the condition and are thus at greater risk for stroke. A new and unique programme, Hypnotension, aims to help anyone lower their blood pressure naturally and cut their risk of stroke in half.

80% of all strokes are preventable and controlling blood pressure is a key to cutting the risk of stroke. The Hypnotension programme was developed for those with high blood pressure in mind. The programme carefully determines the individual needs of each client and a treatment is devised for that client that provides the most effective method of controlling high blood pressure.

Anyone working within the Hypnotherapy programme deals with a Certified Hypnotherapy Practitioner who helps the client deal with the emotional and lifestyle factors that contribute to high blood pressure. Progress is carefully monitored to ensure the best and most effective treatment possible.

Over 90% of high blood pressure cases have no clear medical cause so doctors are only able to treat the symptoms rather than the underlying causes. Emotional and lifestyle factors exist that doctors simply don’t have the time or the resources to identify and create a unique plan of treatment for.

The Hypnotension programme puts the patient back in control by identifying and addressing the lifestyle factors that contribute to hypertension. The programme uses cognitive techniques and behavioural coaching to make high blood pressure a thing of the past. Factors addressed in the Hypnotension programme include:

The emotional ‘X-Factors’ that create hypertension

How much salt a client eats

How much exercise a client does

How much alcohol a client drinks

How overweight a client is

The Hypnotension programme is an important new tool in the fight against hypertension and stroke. Considering that a reduction of just 2.5/1.4mmHg using the Hypnotension programme would lead to a 12-15% reduction in the risk of stroke and a 9-10% reduction in the risk of heart disease it’s easy to see why so many are evaluating and using this programme.

Visit the Hypnotension website to learn more, read case studies and to find your nearest Certified Hypnotension Practitioner.

Thursday, 8th March 2012 is International Women’s Day - a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.  International Women’s Day honours the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women’s success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed.

In honour of International Women’s Day, I’m celebrating the efforts of a woman who has been instrumental in helping thousands of other women feel more comfortable standing in their own power and reclaiming their ability to have an easier, more comfortable birth. I’m also highlighting inequities still to be redressed – a woman’s right to give birth where she chooses and the right for a midwife to attend and assist at a home birth.

The woman I’m celebrating  is Marie Mongan, founder of HypnoBirthing – The Mongan Method.

Mongan, the recent winner of One World Birth’s Birth Hero Award, put together a full antenatal program in the 1980s, developing the knowledge that led to her own successful use of self hypnosis during childbirth over 50 years ago.  It aims to educate couples on the finer details of labour and birth that are sadly still not common knowledge. This ante natal education, in addition to many techniques for relaxation and overcoming fear has enabled its female participants to take back control of their birth experience, so often devolved to caregivers. It has also empowered quite a few fathers-to-be by encouraging them to be an advocate and support for their partner, rather than an ignored bystander!

Mongan’s course opened my eyes to the fact that medical opinion was just that – opinion. I don’t think I would have dared to challenge that opinion without taking the HypnoBirthing course, and feeling the confidence to stand up for what I believed was best for me and my baby. Although circumstances changed, I was able to ask questions in order to make my own decisions based on all available information, rather than have decisions made for me. It shouldn’t be underestimated how many women have no idea about what is going on with their body during labour and as a result give up their power to others to make decisions for them.

In today’s society, the threat of potential litigation is eroding a woman’s right to choose how and where to give birth. What should be a natural experience (when both mother and baby are in good health) is now being turned into a medical one. There will always be a need for medical assistance to help save lives for those in a high risk category …however, should women with pregnancies assessed as low risk be forced into the same routine?

A woman has a primal urge to give birth where she feels safest. For some that could be a high tech labour ward with operating theatre nearby… for others it may be the familiar surroundings of her bedroom, with just her birth companion and a couple of midwives for assistance should she need them.

Several countries have made it legally very difficult for a woman to choose home birth – legislation preventing  midwives from obtaining insurance cover is spreading, highlighted recently in the court case against Hungarian gynaecologist/midwife Ágnes Geréb. There is a  petition to grant full clemency to Ágnes Geréb which you can sign here.

“Hungary has legalized home birth, yet midwives who attended home births before legalization have been harshly imprisoned. On February 10th, 2012, the Budapest Appeal Court announced the verdict in the case of Dr. Ágnes Geréb (an OB/Gyn as well as a midwife) and four other Hungarian midwives. The terms of Ágnes Geréb’s sentence of two-year imprisonment were tightened, a ban on practicing doubled to ten years.”

Surely in an era where women have the right to vote, they should also have the right to choose how and where to give birth?

I am a specialist Hypnotension practitioner.

The Hypnotension™ programme tackles the lifestyle factors that are known to cause the most common form of high blood pressure. It uses proven cognitive techniques and behavioural coaching to help clients get control and reduce their blood pressure naturally.

The benefits of using the Hypnotension™ programme are huge.

Think about this…even if worst case you only managed a reduction of 2.5/1.4mmHg, by using the Hypnotension™ program, it would still slash your risk of dying from a stroke by 12-14% and heart disease by 9-10%.

There are some serious side effects of using the Hypnotension™ program too -

like losing weight, feeling more relaxed, eating healthily, getting rid of guilt and enjoying your life more.

High blood pressure can affect anyone at any age, so regular medical check-ups are important.

While blood pressure is vital to life, high blood pressure can be a threat to it. Today, one in three adults in the UK is affected by high blood pressure and half of those people are unaware of it. Over 90% of these have no clear medical cause, which means doctors can only work to manage the symptoms, rather than addressing the underlying issue(s).

The Hypnotension™ program can help over 90% of people diagnosed with hypertension to get it under control and even significantly reduce it.

Hypnotension comes to Newport, South Wales.

Congratulations to Carolyn Arnold, who qualified recently as a Certified Hypnotension Practitioner

Carolyn will be serving clients with high blood pressure (Hypertension) from her practice in Newport, UK

The Hypnotension™ Programme looks at a variety of lifestyle factors to establish which is likely to be causing or maintaining high blood pressure (Hypertension). These lifestyle factors are then targeted using specific cognitive and hypnotherapeutic techniques to help reduce the clients blood pressure towards more normal levels.

For more information, visit the Hypnotension website

Last year, I lost 40 lbs working with Carolyn Arnold and I’ve kept it off.

Since I was 4 years old, I’ve been an emotional eater. I used to eat when I was sad or anxious to comfort myself. I used to eat when I was happy to celebrate. Pretty much if I was feeling an emotion, there was a food to go with it.

The worst part was my nightly anxiety snack. Every night around 8 p.m., I’d have to have a bowl of ice cream or a bag of microwave popcorn.  It was the thing to quell my anxiousness and help me sleep.

I am an intelligent woman. I know that the extra 200 calories a night was what kept my weight on. And yet I couldn’t stop. It was like I was four years old again.  I was frustrated.

I had a few sessions with Carolyn. In one of the sessions, she regressed me to a young age. We encountered the memory, the moment that started this whole problem.  While under hypnosis, she helped me let go of that feeling of vulnerability.

That night I didn’t need a snack. I didn’t even think about a snack! I didn’t miss it. It was just suddenly bedtime.  The next night was the same thing. No snack required.

It’s been 15 months since we worked together, and in that entire time, I haven’t done any emotional eating. I enjoy my food, but it isn’t required to comfort me. I don’t find myself standing in front of the cupboard wanting to eat something to make the anxiety go away.

I didn’t expect that I would be able to be hypnotized, and I certainly didn’t think that the key was one locked away in my memory.  Carolyn’s hypnosis broke the link between comfort and eating. I highly recommend her.

Bridget Pilloud of IntuitiveBridge.com

What if you could get the results of a gastric band without the surgery? HypnoSlimmer is working to help overweight people by offering an extremely effective method to shed weight.

Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis is very popular in the Spain and now is beginning to be the weight loss method of choice here in the UK.

Here are the benefits of Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis

• No Hospital stay

• No Anaesthesia

• No Risk of Infection

• No Recovery Time

• No complications from Surgery

• Natural Holistic Approach

• All the Health Benefits of an similar weight loss to the real surgery

Hypnosis is now the most successful way to shed weight without the use of dangerous drugs and costly surgery. The only side effect is a slimmer, trimmer you.

HypnoSlimmer, a national weight control company, is offering 20% off one to one courses and Gastric band hypno-surgery for January.  All HypnoSlimmer consultants are offering eligible clients the Gastric band session at a fantastic discount to get 2012 off to a flying healthy start.

“We work with clients all the time and see some wonderful results,” says Jeremy Cobb, Sales Director of the HypnoSlimmer organisation, “but the people who can benefit the most from the hypnotic gastric band are those who have a BMI of over 30, and we find most of those are considering the real surgery first. We think this is the wrong way around; surgery is expensive and risky.  We want people to consider the lower risk, lower cost techniques first.  So, for them, we are offering 20% discount in  January as part of the overall HypnoSlimmer system. This will make it a very attractive offer, and certainly one worth considering.”

“I am really excited about this offer,” says Brian Glenn the founder of the system. “I developed this system whilst working with people suffering from Anorexia over 15 years ago,  and I think this is every bit as rewarding.  I am really pleased that my techniques are still helping people in real need.”

DIETS MAKE YOU FAT!

Just the mere word ‘diet’ implies something you do temporarily. You diet against your normal eating patterns which are controlled by your subconscious mind. You may lose weight, but it is usually only temporary. As soon as you stop dieting, your old eating habits and beliefs return again and your body goes back to what it was doing before the diet, often leaving you bigger than you were before you actually started the diet.

Most traditional dieting systems will programme your mind to think about food all the time, counting calories, planning meals, avoiding certain foods. As far as we are concerned, this approach is totally wrong. No wonder you end up being bigger than before you actually started the diet.

THE SKIRT FITS

How many of you have a piece of favourite clothing languishing in the wardrobe that doesn’t fit you? You can’t throw it away, you love it too much, but it doesn’t fit you anymore. It is the one you measure yourself by; you are thin and beautiful when you wear it. Yet it has not really fit you in years.

Well for one lady the solution was Hypnotherapy with Hypnoslimmer. Through this system she is off diets for life! Sound too good to be true?

Julie Caveill of Cardiff was convinced after 2 weeks of the course that it wasn’t working for her, but everything changed by the end of the treatment. She emailed her consultant:

“My shape is changing dramatically, and i am so pleased with the programme.I am doing fantastic and feeling amazing…Sincerely happy that I am beating the demon of binging… I lost 5lb on holiday, this has never before happened to me, I usually come back 7lb heavier so over the moon…My clothes are falling off me!”

Julie was seeing Carolyn Arnold, one of the many nationwide HypnoSlimmer consultants. Carolyn was delighted with the result, of course. “I am always so pleased to see the changes in my clients; it is wonderful to see them finally stop the yoyo dieting, eat what they like, and still lose weight!

We use a combination of modern clinical hypnosis, NLP,  and mind technology to safely and effectively re – program your subconscious mind in a safe and natural way; allowing you to reduce your shape and size to a level that you have always wanted. With our unique and proven system, you can eat anything you want, and free yourself from the chains of calorie counting and weighing scales!

“Obviously we are very pleased for Julie and all our clients,” says Jeremy, “but to be honest this is not an unusual case; we see this all the time with our clientele.  We all became hypnotherapists in order to make these kinds of changes. This is why we all agreed to the January offer, it just made sense to help those who needed it the most.

Carolyn is holding a free information evening about HypnoSlimmer on Thursday, 5th January at 6:30pm at the Riverfront Theatre in Newport. She can be contacted on 0292 125 1254. Spaces are limited so please reserve your free seat in advance.

More information on HypnoSlimmer on their website www.hypnoslimmer.co.uk where you can also find the details of all of the national therapists using this system.

A Happy 2012 to all of you, may this be your best year ever!

Want to

• lose weight for good
• stop smoking
• get your hypertension under control
• boost your self-esteem
• increase your chances of pregnancy
• reduce stress
• conquer your fears and phobias?

The January Sale is now on, 20% off bookings made before 31st January 2012.

This includes 1 to 1 sessions and courses so grab yourself a bargain and make this a New Year, New You.

If you’re booking online, use the code NY2012 at checkout – I’ll discount it automatically if you’re paying “manually”!

Designed for those with a BMI over 30, Gastric Band Hypnotherapy is a safe, risk free and cost effective alternative to traditional Gastric Band Surgery.

The course of 5 sessions helps you to overcome emotional eating and rediscover your body’s natural hunger signals, helping you to stop eating when you’re full.

This is combined with a virtual gastric band surgery, where your subconscious mind believes you have had a gastric band fitted. For some people this can be realistic enough for them to feel the bruising from a cannula, even though they have not set foot in a real hospital!

Hypnotherapy for gastric band surgery is currently being used in the UK and Europe to help thousands of people to regain control of their eating habits in a safe and natural way.

Freedom from thinking about food all of the time

Eat whatever you want and still lose weight

Experience the unique Hypno Gastric Band

No calorie counting, low carb, or low fat

Feel happy about the way you look

Powerful motivation to exercise

No need to diet any more

Overcome cravings

Become the size you want to be by following this four week course.

Courses can be held on a 1-1 basis, or as part of a group.

If you have a BMI of 30 or more, take a look at our virtual gastric band surgery option.

During the course you will learn to

• eliminate unneccessary and unwanted snacking between meals
• reduce the volume of food you eat without feeling hungry
• identify your body’s true hunger signals
• eat what you want!
• speed up your metabolism
• be more confident about yourself and your appearance

***New! Now you can boost your results by listening to the Hypnotic Exercise CD. Available as an extra only from your HypnoSlimmer consultant ***

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