On a daily basis, we are continuously controlled by the thoughts and images that flow through our mind. Most of our thoughts repeat themselves and that’s why for the most part our lives stay the same and change feels so difficult. It’s because we are not getting any new input.

My concept of hypnosis is to guide a person within, beyond the limited, reactive, automatic thoughts, to a more creative intelligence in a deeper part of the mind that allows us to create new behaviors and responses to our environment.

Instead of listening to the reactive, auto-pilot mind in the subconscious, we can create new positive beliefs about ourselves and our potential.

To do that, we have to bypass old programs and connect to our greater resources and intelligence.

The hypnotic state allows us to implant new thoughts and images into the subconscious mind. Each suggestion is like a seed, which can be watered with intention, emotion and repetition.

We’ve all heard that we are only using 10% of our mental potential. Hypnosis helps us to tap into and activate a higher potential within ourselves so we can end self-sabotage and achieve our heart’s desires and greater destiny.

Some people say they can’t be hypnotized but we are all influenced by words and images. Advertisers understand this and that’s why they spend millions to get their images in front of us.

They know that even if we try to ignore them, the repetitive images and messages will penetrate into the subconscious when they are delivered with emotional associations. Hence, all products are associated with feel-good images, and like it or not, they influence our subconscious and create desire.

To change our eating patterns, we simply have to use the same technique as advertisers. We have to associate healthy, nutritious foods that sustain us with pleasurable associations, like looking and feeling our best, and harmful foods with the actual pain that they cause—the physical, mental and emotional pain they create in our lives.

Unfortunately, we often sabotage ourselves by associating harmful foods with pleasure by focusing on the brief taste sensation and social connection, and associate pain with healthy food by thinking in terms of dieting.

We have to associate healthy food with feel good images and junk food with feel bad images.

We are being hypnotized all day long, by the media, advertising and the thoughts in our mind – voices from the past—perhaps parents, siblings, etc.

It’s amazing how suggestible we all are. Someone could have made a remark to you, back when you were in the 4th grade, and it could stick in your mind 50 years later. We are susceptible to suggestion and it influences our destiny.

Hypnosis is used to take advantage of this fact and re-program the mind to create new positive, more productive images that are aligned with your life goals.

The mind is like a computer. It runs on programming. It doesn’t stop to decide if the programming makes sense. The subconscious keeps feeding us the same program (internal pictures), unless we consciously install a new program.

We are using our imagination all the time. We may think it’s random that we go home and plop ourselves down on the sofa and reach for a can of soda and a bag of chips, but before we ever do that, we make a mental picture of doing that exact thing, and if we get a feel-good response internally, we go ahead and do it.

Hypnosis can re-program us to take a completely different action, like coming home from work, putting on some jogging clothes and going for a walk or jumping on a trampoline.

Someone may believe they are too tired to exercise, but when the images of movement are associated with pleasure we become driven to move and exercise, and doing so becomes automatic.

My role is to help a person discover their own hidden potential which is often clouded by limiting beliefs about themselves.

In the 22 years I’ve been teaching weight loss, in over 75 hospitals, I’ve seen people achieve things they never thought possible. I’ve seen 300 lb. people who could barely walk up a flight of stairs, lose 100+ lbs. and run a marathon.

People who couldn’t go a day without chips, soda, or fast food eliminate them completely. Molly Everett, who was featured recently on ABC-TV Nightline after successfully going through my Gastric Bypass Hypnosis program and losing 100 lbs., came to me for hypnosis for the first time about 8 years ago, and never ate chocolate again after that first session.

The good news is that our thoughts and actions can change and when they do, they become the new normal. Any behavior repeated over time and reinforced with reward can become second nature.

We are driven by our perceptions of pleasure and pain. People come to see me and say they could never give up a certain food. But that’s because their whole mentality and language pattern conveys the idea of “giving up something” and feeling deprived.

Rather than “dieting” we can change internal images so we naturally prefer the foods that nourish and sustain life and are turned off to foods that drain us and make us sick mentally, physically and emotionally.

Dieting is a psychologically temporary situation. The minute you go on the diet, your only thought is of when you are going to get off the diet. We have to stay away from this whole mentality. Dieting leads to deprivation.

The key to success with hypnosis is linking positive feeling to new, productive behaviors. Random thoughts are generally harmless, but it’s those that we repeat coupled with strong emotion that create our destiny.

With hypnosis, we are building a new neural pathway, breaking old habits and creating new, positive responses.

Our subconscious reactions are like a stimulus-response mechanism. A trigger in the environment happens, like passing a fast food restaurant or being offered a cupcake. The trigger could be an emotion—feeling bored, happy or upset. This trigger is like a bell going off. The thought of food comes in and you respond with overeating, binging, snacking and emotional eating.

After hypnosis, the bells still go off—you may get upset or feel bored. The thought of food may come in, but the response is blocked. The hypnosis gives you an opportunity to make a new choice. You remember, “Oh, I don’t want to eat that food. That was the old me.” We train ourselves to not want bad foods because we connect to the fact that they ultimately make us feel bad.

The old program says:
Finish everything on your plate.
Eat when you are upset or bored.
You must eat to please people.

The new program becomes:
I eat only when I am physically hungry.
My relationships don’t depend on what I put in my mouth.
I can handle all my emotions.

The problem and the solution are both in the subconscious.

When we relax and focus, the subconscious mind becomes more available to suggestion.

We go in and out of a light state of hypnosis throughout the day and don’t even realize it – when we are driving and miss our exit, or get lost in a movie or a book. Hypnosis is a natural state that we can all achieve. It’s also a powerful state that is used for anesthesia and by athletes all over the world.

Hypnosis helps you to become aware of your internal dialogue and keep it aligned with what you consciously desire, helping you to live a happier, more fulfilling life.

You can do it!
In Health and Happiness,
Rena

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Anne shares her weight loss hypnosis story. She lost 40 lbs. after hypnosis with me and has maintained that weight loss for five years.

P.S. “I really like listening to Rena’s affirmation CD while I’m riding my stationary bike for knee rehab. I’m not minding exercise after all!”

Jennifer Oja
British Columbia, Canada

(Reprinted) By MATT GUTMAN and ELIZABETH STUART March 23, 2012
Imagine having the sensation that your stomach is surgically constricted to a fraction of its original size, making your appetite tiny, and your weight loss huge — no surgery, no magic pills. According to hypnotherapists, you can achieve that for just a fraction of the cost of real bariatric surgery, by undergoing so called gastric bypass hypnosis.

The idea of losing weight through hypnosis has been around for decades, but now some hypnotherapists are offering “gastric bypass hypnosis,” also called “lap band hypnosis.” This “procedure” is done to “reprogram” the minds of patients to believe their stomachs are actually smaller, making them incapable of eating large meals without feeling uncomfortably full.

Every year, more than 200,000 Americans undergo painful and expensive surgical procedures to have portions of their stomachs removed, repositioned or constricted. These procedures can cost up to $35,000 dollars, but gastric bypass hypnotherapists claim their hypnosis sessions can provide similar weight loss results for a lot less money: about $1,200 dollars.

Watch the full story on “Nightline” tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT

Certified hypnotherapist Rena Greenberg said she has worked with over 100,000 patients in the past 20 years and is adamant that hypnosis helps stop her clients from obsessing over food. Her “virtual” procedure includes three hypnosis sessions, her therapeutic CDs and a weight-loss juice she invented called “Slender Cider.”

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Fifty-year-old Clarissa DeLong from Orlando, Fla., decided to try Greenberg’s procedure after many failed attempts at dieting through much of her adult life. During a hypnotherapy session, Greenberg verbally walked DeLong through the gastric bypass procedure.

“You’re aware the incision’s being made and you feel sensation, as your liver is being moved over,” she told DeLong. “You can feel that it’s time to put that band on your belly.”

When DeLong met Greenberg, she weighed 340 pounds and said she has had a life-long addiction to sugar. She said the virtual procedure helped re-program her brain to believe that her stomach had shrunken and her appetite for sugar was obliterated. She is hoping this mindset will help her get down to her goal weight of 200 pounds.

“It was almost surreal, that hollowness, and it was almost like dreaming,” DeLong said after the session. “It’s funny and it’s hard to describe.”

DeLong said her wake-up call to start losing weight was when six insurance companies turned her down for health care coverage, forcing her to pay a $1,200 premium and accept that she was considered morbidly obese.

“I never really considered myself in that category until I saw it in black and white,” DeLong said. “I knew I had to figure out a plan that was going to be a lifetime plan because I wanted to be around for my son.”

Greenberg says DeLong will be successful as long as she continues to reaffirm her hypnosis daily, reminding her brain that it no longer desires unhealthy foods.

“The old program is ‘Mmm, chocolate, give me more,’ you know, and there’s never enough. And the new program is, you know, ‘That chocolate, it might taste good but I don’t care about it because the new me is not interested in that,’” she said.

After seeing three of her siblings go through actual gastric bypass surgery, Molly Everett knew surgery was not the answer for her. In addition to the cost being prohibitive, she says two of her three siblings who had the procedure gained the weight back.

So the 58-year-old teacher from Bushnell, Fla., went through Greenberg’s gastric bypass hypnosis program, and said she was able to quit all sugars and starches, cold turkey, after a few sessions.
“I had the procedure done at the end of June and since then — I was 300 pounds then — this morning I was 224, so that’s 76 pounds that I’ve lost since then,” Everett said, referring to the hypnosis procedure.

“In July I was using a cane and I had a knee brace,” she said, adding that she could not have walked three miles at the time.

By December, she was able to not only walk but run and now, she has lost 100 pounds. “Now I can run three miles,” she said.

Woman Drops 130 Lbs Post-Radical Surgery Watch Video

Surgery: Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Watch Video

400-Pound Teen Opts for Gastric Bypass Watch Video

This promise of an inexpensive, re-programming of the brain to eliminate sugar cravings could appeal to many of the 60 million Americans who are classified as obese. To the skeptics of gastric bypass hypnosis, Greenberg said, “Many of us underestimate the real power of the mind — what we’re capable of.”

Dr. David Treen, a leading bariatric surgeon in New Orleans, performs a radical stomach surgery known as sleeve gastrectomy, which removes 85 percent of the stomach and a hormone called Ghrelin, which stimulates appetite.

Treen said he thought long term success with hypnosis seems “unrealistic.”

“The reality is that there are no studies which demonstrate that kind of weight loss with hypnosis alone,” he said.

Undaunted by skepticism, DeLong has lost 23 pounds in eight weeks with the hypnosis sessions and exercise, and she plans to continue her transformation.

“It is extreme but it’s a lifestyle choice and I’m confident it’s going to work,” she said.