You and I are not the only ones trying to lose weight. According to some studies, there are about 150 million American adults who are overweight, obese, or severely obese. Out of those, only 60 million of us are actively working on losing weight and remodeling the body, unfortunately not with much success.

People start diets and exercising, but eventually drop out of the program. The big question is: Why? Why do we drop out of the program?

There are some physical and some mental reasons why people drop out of their chosen method to adjust their bodies. One of the most potent motivators of human behavior is hunger. Hunger can cause a person to actually kill; in fact we kill animals, we kill plants to eat and satiate hunger.

Hunger is an extraordinarily powerful motivator of behavior. When we are hungry enough, long enough, we eat anything. We end up eating excess food when we are hungry because the logic of the body is “I've been going hungry for so long, I better eat up a lot...

Hypnotherapy is a form of therapy that uses hypnosis to achieve a variety of objectives. Hypnosis can be used very successfully to uncover the roots and sources of emotional difficulties and personal obstacles. Hypnosis can be used successfully to resolve conflicts between individuals, even in instances when one of them is deceased, or between different aspects of an individual's nature.

Hypnosis can be used successfully to achieve a rapid change in behavior. Finally, hypnosis can be used successfully to bring an individual's conscious awareness in contact with one's Higher Self.

Can you really achieve so much?

Naturally, anyone familiar with the topics alluded to above would be doubtful that such varied and dramatic objectives can result from a single mode of therapy. This reservation is natural when one is not familiar with hypnosis.

Although forms of hypnosis were used in ancient Egypt, over 5000 years ago, in classical Greece, at the famous Oracles, and throughout the middle...

The short answer is no. You do not need to believe in past lives to receive benefit from hypnotherapy.

As a matter of fact, that is what is awesome about hypnosis. You are enjoying a personal journey into yourself. Your experiences and beliefs will be those lived by you during your therapeutic process.

Our daily busy lives keep us at a lower consciousness level that is somewhat disconnected from our true self. Feelings like anger, hate, selfishness, or just the mere and so-called “stress” takes us through life from lesson to lesson, without leaving us much time for contemplation from a higher ground.

Most individuals believe the state of hypnosis to be a much more unconscious state where you will not have control of yourself. Contrary to this popular belief, the state of hypnosis is a higher state of consciousness that can only be described by those that have experienced it.

The truth is that even in a light or moderate state of hypnosis you can benefit greatly from the...