Manage Stress using Hypnosis

Manage Stress using Hypnosis

 

Stress is our physical, mental, and chemical response to demands in our lives. The demands can be positive of negative. It can be getting married or getting divorced; getting hired or getting fired. We can’t change the demands in our lives, but we can change the way we respond to them. Many people manage stress by eating. But there are other ways to manage stress besides eating. There are breathing exercises, yoga, and meditation. Hypnosis uses relaxation techniques, guided imagery, direct suggestions, and anchors to manage stress.

 

An anchor is an external stimulant that produces an internal response. The classic anchor is the touch your finger to thumb external stimulant which produces an internal response of relaxation; which is the opposite of stress. Here’s how to do it:

 

Positive Anchor for Stress

 

Imagine you are at your calm, relaxing place. This is the place where you feel so calm, so relaxed, so still, so serene. Now describe your calm place to yourself, fully associate into it, in first person. Seeing what you see through your eyes, hearing what you hear through your ears, and feeling what you feel in your body. You’re there, in first person, fully associated.  

 

Now amplify the sights, sounds, and feelings. Make the sights bigger, brighter, in 3D. Make the sounds clearer, more soothing. Make the feelings more relaxing.

 

And as you feel so calm, so relaxed, so still, so serene… touch your index finger and thumb of your dominant hand and say to yourself “relax”. See, hear, and feel your calm place. (Repeat 3 times)

 

Now let’s rehearse. How do you know when you are stressed? Is it something you see, hear, or feel? Go through a scenario where you have an increased level of stress and see, hear, and feel the images, sounds, and feelings. Now touch your index finger and thumb of your dominant hand and say “relax”.  See, hear, and feel your calm place instead. (Repeat 3 times) No stress now, right. Good.

 

Whenever you need to feel relaxed, touch your index finger and thumb of your dominant hand, and you will feel as relaxed as if you were at your calm, relaxing place.

 

This technique, when done in the hypnotic state, is supercharged.

 

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist.

Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce.

Certified in Clinical Hypnotism by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches

Self-Hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526

Email info@HypnosisByTony.com

For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com

 

 

 

Become Motivated to Exercise using Hypnosis

Become Motivated to Exercise using Hypnosis

How can hypnosis help you to become motivated to exercise? First of all, I’m a firm believer in exercise. No matter what kind of job we have, we don’t work as hard as in say, colonial days. I go to the Maple Syrup Festival at the Audubon Bird Sanctuary every year and they show how people in colonial days made maple syrup. We just don’t work that hard anymore. So we need to exercise more in this day and age.

Exercise has so many benefits. It helps manage stress, anxiety, depression. It boosts your immune system and helps you to sleep better. It produces endorphins which make you feel good, like you want to take on the world. Take note of how you feel before you exercise, and how you feel when you’re finished. I remember watching Jack LaLanne on TV when I was a kid. Remember his exercise program.

Through hypnosis, you can motivate yourself to exercise by being constantly reminded of the benefits of regular exercise. You can make exercise a regular habit, like brushing your teeth. You feel good when you brush your teeth, you feel bad when you don’t. You feel good when you exercise, you feel bad when you don’t. We like to move towards things that make us feel good.

While in hypnosis, you can see an image of “another you” who is motivated to exercise because of all the benefits it produces. You can then merge into that “other you”. You can project your thoughts into the future, seeing yourself in the future enjoying the benefits of exercise and seeing how your body has changed after only a few months of regular exercise. What you see and think about your subconscious mind will want to do and become.

You can motivate yourself with words like you do with things that you are motivated to do, associating exercise with something else that you like to do; all by tapping into the power of your subconscious mind. 

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist. Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce.

Certified in Clinical Hypnotism by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches         self-hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526

Email info@HypnosisByTony.com

For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com

 

How My Dog Lost 5 Pounds in 5 Months

How My Dog Lost 5 Pounds in 5 Months

I have a Dachshund, you know, a wiener dog. They look like hot dogs. Because of their long backs, they are prone to back problems. So it’s important that they don’t get overweight. Five months ago the Vet said my dog was 29 pounds and needed to go down to 25 pounds. Now my dog weighs 24 pounds! He lost 5 pounds in 5 months. That’s great for a dog.

So what did I do differently to help my dog lose weight. No, I didn’t use hypnosis. Unfortunately, you can’t hypnotize a dogJ What changes did I do in my dog’s eating habits. Well, first I cut all his portions in half. He used to get 1 cup of dry dog food for breakfast and 1 cup of dry dog food and ¼ can of wet dog food mixed in for dinner. He used to get baby carrots for treats. I now cut all the baby carrots in half. I cut his breakfast to ½ cup of dry food and added some shredded wheat cereal in his breakfast. I cut his dinner to ½ cup of dry food with 1 tablespoon of pumpkin puree mixed in instead of the ¼ can of wet dog food. I didn’t want him to feel hungry so I now give him ½ a can of unsalted cut green beans before his dinner. I used to walk him for 1 lap around the block. Now we do 2 laps.

So what can we learn from this: To lose weight, cut your portions in half. Eat less. Add more fiber and vegetables to your diet to increase your metabolism and to not feel hungry. Exercise more.

Through hypnosis and by tapping into the power of your subconscious mind, you can do this. Now if I can just get my dog to eat slowerJ

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist.
Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce. Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches self hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526
Email info@HypnosisByTony.com
For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com

Control Food Cravings with Hypnosis

How to Control Food Cravings with Hypnosis

What is a craving food? A craving food is a food you eat even though you’re not hungry, or a food you continue to eat even though you’re full. A food you have a craving for that you eat in secret, or would go buy in the middle of the night if it wasn’t in the house. A food that’s keeping you from attaining your goal weight.

In hypnosis, you are at a heightened state of awareness and your senses are amplified. The first thing to do to control food cravings is to become more attracted to healthy foods instead by seeing healthy foods like fruits and vegetables in your mind big, bright, and colorful. In 3D. With plenty of texture. Imagine that you have a brightness knob. Turn the knob and make these foods even brighter than they already are. Let yourself be more attracted to the colorful foods in the produce aisle of the supermarket. That’s right. Be attracted to colorful produce. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple foods. When you’re in the parking lot in the grocery store, close your eyes and see these foods big, bright, and colorful. In 3D. With plenty of texture. Make them brighter by using a brightness knob. Make them appealing for you. See them in your mind big and bright and colorful. In 3D, with plenty of texture. Delicious.

On the other hand, your problem foods, see a picture of them in your mind’s eye, in color. Then drain the color away from the picture. Make it a black and white picture. See if you can put a frame or border around the picture. View this picture of your problem food through a piece of Plexiglas, so it’s distorted, warped. Now finally push the picture further and further away, further and further away, further and further away, until it’s the size of a postage stamp. When you do this continually by doing your self hypnosis, you’ll find that this creates an indifference towards your problem foods.

Now see your problem food again. This time, see your problem food painted on a piece of sandpaper. See a picture of your problem food on a piece of sandpaper. See that problem food in black and white on that piece of sandpaper. Imagine your problem food in your mouth along with sand. Imagine that gritty sand in your mouth. Just like when you get sand in your mouth at the beach. Associate your problem food with having sand in your mouth. That gritty taste.

And there are many more techniques you can use while in hypnosis to create negative associations with problem foods.

Through hypnosis, you can create positive associations with healthy foods and negative associations with problem foods.

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist. Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce. Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches self hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526
Email info@HypnosisByTony.com
For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com

Increase Your Metabolism with Hypnosis

Increase Your Metabolism with Hypnosis

Through hypnosis and by tapping into the power of your subconscious mind, you can accept the following suggestions to increase your metabolism.

In order for you to increase your metabolism, you need to eat a big breakfast, and then 5 small meals during the course of the day. A small snack a couple of hours after breakfast, a small lunch, a small snack a couple of hours after lunch, a small dinner, and a small snack a couple of hours after dinner. Remember, skipping meals actually slows your metabolism. If you skip meals, you’ll become ravenous and overeat. People who practice yoga are called yogis. Yogis eat little and often. So remember to eat like a yogi, eating little and often.

Another way to increase your metabolism is to build muscle. Your body burns 50 calories a day to burn each pound of muscle, and only 2 calories a day to burn each pound of fat. So the more muscle you have, the more calories your body will burn automatically, just to maintain that muscle. The best way to build muscle is to do weight bearing exercises. If you can’t lift weights, then you can always walk. People have tremendous success building muscle and losing weight by simply walking everyday. In order to increase your metabolism, you need to eat more fiber. More fruits, vegetables, and bran. A high fiber diet will increase your metabolism.

A good visual representation or guided imagery to help your subconscious mind increase your metabolism is to think about a fireplace. Imagine you can hear the sound of a crackling log in a fireplace. And as you hear the sound of a crackling log in a fireplace, and you smell the aroma of the flames, and you feel the warmth of the fire, this helps you to see a fireplace in your mind’s eye. Imagine adding small amounts of kindling to keep the log burning. Imagine using a bellows to add oxygen to the fire to keep it burning. That’s how your metabolism works. Eating small amounts of food, just like adding small amounts of kindling to a fireplace, will allow your metabolism to burn up food and fat like a fireplace burns up an old log. Every so often when you’re eating stop and take deep breaths, just like using a bellows on a fire, to allow your metabolism to continuously burn up food. Visualize yourself burning up food and fat like a fireplace burns up and old log. When you sit down to eat say to yourself “I burn up food and fat like a fireplace burns up an old log” and create a visual representation of a fireplace burning up an old log and you adding kindling and oxygen to the fire. That’s the way your metabolism works.

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist. Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce. Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches self hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526
Email info@HypnosisByTony.com 

For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com

Change the Way you Eat using Hypnosis

Change the Way you Eat using Hypnosis

Once you’ve identified what your unhealthy eating habit is- why you eat- the next step is to change the way you eat. Most of us eat mindlessly. We eat fast while we’re doing something else like watching TV. We are unaware of eating. Through hypnosis you can eat mindfully instead of mindlessly. Eating mindfully means to be fully aware of the eating experience. Now to lose weight, you must eat less. But you must still feel satisfied or else you’ll binge. By eating mindfully you can eat less and still feel satisfied.

Through hypnosis you can eat mindfully and cut your portions in half. Whatever you normally eat, you can cut it in half. Using smaller plates, you can have half the plate with vegetables, a quarter of your plate with lean protein, and a quarter of your plate with grains. And you can have fruit for dessert. Through hypnosis you can cut your portions in half and eat little and often.

Through hypnosis you can become more mindful of your food. You can make the eating experience pleasurable. When you’re at home, you can set the table using nice fancy plates. Smaller plates, but nice plates. Flowers on the table and a nice tablecloth. Make the eating experience enjoyable. Focus only on eating. No TV. No reading. Become aware only of eating. If you’re with your family and friends you can enjoy conversation with them. When you sit down to eat, you can visualize a fireplace. You can visualize your body burning up food and fat like a fireplace burns up an old log. You can say to yourself “my body burns up food and fat like a fireplace burns up an old log.” You can have an attitude of gratitude for your food, being grateful for all that it took to get your food to your table. And you can use all your senses. You can look at the color of your food, the shape of your food. You can hear the sound of your food when you’re chewing it. You can feel the texture of your food in your mouth. You can smell the aroma of your food and taste the flavor of your food. Every so often you can put down your fork or spoon and take some deep breaths, imagining you’re using a bellows to add oxygen to a fire to keep it burning.

I was watching my dog eat once, and he inhales his food. Remember, we’re not dogs. We can enjoy our food and eat slowly. Using hypnosis you can eat mindfully. When you eat mindfully, you’ll be more aware of when you’re almost full and stop. You’ll be able to eat less and enjoy it more.

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist. Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce. Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches self hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526
Email info@HypnosisByTony.com

For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com

How Can You Change Unhealthy Eating Habits with Hypnosis

How Can You Change Unhealthy Eating Habits with Hypnosis

There’s been a lot in the news about obesity in this country. The cover of Newsweek magazine had a picture of a baby holding French fries. The caption read: When I grow up I’m going to be 300 pounds. Help!

Hypnosis is a great tool to use to lose weight. This will be a 6 part series on how to use hypnosis to lose weight. Today we’ll talk about how hypnosis can change unhealthy eating habits; or change why we eat.

We all eat for other reasons besides hunger. We eat because of anger, boredom, celebration, companionship, sadness, stress, other people, time of day. We eat for emotional reasons. Just knowing this and why you eat is the first step in changing your eating habits. Through hypnosis you can discover why you eat and take control so that you eat only when hungry and stop when just about full.

Through hypnosis you become more aware of your body. You become aware of when you’re truly hungry. You recall a time when you were very hungry and a time when you were stuffed. Then you can program your subconscious mind to never wait until you’re very hungry to eat and to never continue to eat until you’re stuffed. You learn to listen to the inner wisdom of your subconscious mind.

When doing your reinforcement at home, you give yourself positive auto suggestions like “I control food, food does not control me” or “I eat when I’m hungry and stop when I’m almost full.” Why does your subconscious mind accept these suggestions. Because you remind yourself of your motivation to lose weight and eat healthy. Any goal can be accomplished when you are constantly reminded of your motivation.

Through repetition and reinforcement, you begin to notice changes in why you eat.
Next time we’ll talk about how hypnosis can help you to change the way you eat.

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist. Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce. Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches self hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526
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What is Hypnosis

What is Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a wonderful modality to improve your life. But what is hypnosis. Hypnosis is the state between wakefulness and sleep where the mind is especially alert and open to positive suggestions. The suggestions must be positive in nature. You must want the change in your life. A hypnotist can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do. But a hypnotist can empower you to make yourself produce positive change in your life.

Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state. We all go into hypnosis. Have you ever read a book and been so engrossed in the book that you may hear road work outside, or someone may be talking to you, but it doesn’t bother you. You’re totally engrossed in the book. Have you ever been to the movies and you’re focused on the screen and have an emotional response to the movie.

Have you ever been in a boring meeting and your mind drifts to a more exciting place. Have you ever driven from point A to point B. Something’s on your mind and when you get to point B, you think to yourself “How did I get here so fast.” That’s an example of your conscious mind thinking about one thing and your subconscious mind being on autopilot. Like when we were kids and tried to tie our shoes or ride a bike. Consciously it was very difficult. But now we can tie our shoes with our eyes closed or get right on a bike and ride it. Our subconscious minds are on autopilot. That’s how hypnosis works to produce positive changes in our lives. It happens automatically.

What do you experience in a hypnosis session. You will experience a deep feeling of relaxation. Maybe the best relaxation you’ve ever felt. Your body will feel either very heavy or very light. You will hear everything. You will remember everything. You will see everything. You will hear other sounds, think other thoughts. If you do yoga or meditation, it’s very similar to meditation. In meditation your brain waves decrease, your breathing rate decreases, your heart rate decreases, your blood pressure decreases, and your stress hormones decrease. It’s the same with being in hypnosis. Doesn’t that sound good.

Who can be hypnotized. Well first of all, all hypnosis is self hypnosis. The hypnotist doesn’t really hypnotize you. The hypnotist is your coach. The hypnotist guides you to hypnotize yourself. So if you have a good imagination, are intelligent, and can concentrate, you can be guided to place yourself in hypnosis.

Now I’d like to dispel the 3 most common myths about hypnosis that have developed because of TV, movies, and stage hypnotism. The 3 most common myths about hypnosis are: 1. That you’ll lose control in hypnosis. 2. That you’ll reveal secrets in hypnosis and 3. That you could get stuck in hypnosis. These are all myths.

You don’t lose control in hypnosis. You’re in control. All hypnosis is self hypnosis. Your awareness increases in hypnosis. You’re not unconscious. You’re not asleep, you’re not awake, you’re in that in between state. You hear everything, you remember everything, you see everything.

You won’t reveal secrets in hypnosis. You’re not going to say anything in hypnosis that you wouldn’t say when not in hypnosis.

You can’t get stuck in hypnosis. No matter how deeply you go into hypnosis, you can always come out of hypnosis. Now if you were having a hypnosis session and you were in a deep state of hypnosis and the hypnotist left the room, what would happen to you. Well, since your awareness increases in hypnosis and you hear everything, you would hear the hypnotist leave the room, open your eyes, and wonder what happened. So you can’t get stuck in hypnosis.

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist. Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce. Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches self hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526
Email info@HypnosisByTony.com  
For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com