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I hope you enjoy Nina Simone, and this song, as much as I do. Sugar, more often than not, is a euphemism in music. This is one of my favorites. Her artistry is incredible.

In the past Letting Go of Sugar Hypnosis Hour, attended by “newbies” and “old timers” I was reminded that it is a journey, and not a destination. It is certainly not about never having sugar again, but It is about changing your relationship. Sugar happens to be a drug, which some of us have or have had a harder time with than others.

I began by explaining my own love of sugar. Sometimes people don’t hear that so I give details, “Back in the day, I would treat myself to a pound of Dilettante chocolate, way too many Snickers bars, and if you want to hear about my love of frosting and cake, pull up a chair”.

I had gone to Simply Desserts in Fremont because a new client waxed poetic about their cakes, and I wanted something very tempting for class. As soon as I walked in the door, I was nearly knocked down by the smell of sweetness and then I was in the Dreamland:picture perfect red-headed girls, a beautiful mom, wide planked wooden floors, and cakes from fairy tales. Yes, a real drug den. I left without a piece of cake. I had to go somewhere less intoxicating.

The first time Catherine came to my one of my Sugar Workshops she confessed that it was either a sugar day or not a sugar day. On a sugar day, she would eat pretty much only sugar. I would like to say she immediately took the cure after that one class, years ago, but she did not.

Catherine is a good example of determination. She came back several times. With the combination of EFT, hypnosis, counseling and her own very stubborn spirit, she changed her mind and has turned her behavior around.

My spirit soared when she said, “I just take care of myself. I eat what I want”

Next up was Patty. She said, “I can’t believe how far I have come. I used to say, “I am going to be bad and have this.” Now it makes me laugh and I cringe a bit when others say it. If I really don’t want something and I feel tempted, I just imagine pickle juice. It is kind of fun and I am almost fifty pounds down, yeah me!”

Did it take each of us some time? Yes. Was it worth it? You betcha!

A newer client talked about how she loves to go out and treat herself. Her affection wanders but is consistent in that all sweets are special, and especially when shared.

As we used EFT on her desire for the beautiful and sexy piece of cake I did bring to class, her craving waned and she made the comment, “If you are going to mess with me, I don’t want it.”

We did a couple of EFT rounds of tapping and I slipped in some statements about entitlement.

When I finally ask her if I could throw her piece of the cake in the garbage, she did not flinch, but I could feel that going through her mind was, “I can go buy my own piece of cake.”

We saw each other the next day and this is what she said:

“When I left class I thought, I can go buy a piece of cake. But then I thought, I am kind of hungry, I want some protein. For some reason I drove by Red Lobster and I wanted to go in. I have never even been to a Red Lobster before. Then I wanted deep fried prawns. I haven’t had deep fried prawns since I was a little kid. It used to be my favorite. I stopped eating them after I ordered prawns a restaurant that was a little more expensive than usual for my family. When I bit into one it was runny, but I knew if I said I didn’t like it, I would get into trouble, so I said it didn’t taste right, because that was the safer thing to say. My step dad immediately said, “You ordered it you have to eat it.” My mom reached over and took a small taste and she said, “They don’t taste right.” My step dad thought she was just siding with me and insisted I eat them. Well, my mom bless her, ate half, and we both got really sick. He never admitted there was anything wrong with those prawns. We were just sticking together. “

At home her step dad was allowed sweets, but she wasn’t.

That Hypnosis Happy Hour for Sugar was in July. I ran into her yesterday and she said, Yes, I still have my favorite bakeries, but my approach is different, I don’t feel so compelled and sometimes I can take a few bites and leave the rest.

I also spoke to Claire today; she said she made a pumpkin pie, ate one piece, felt satisfied, and someone else ate the rest.

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Did you happen to see the dreamy Australian Olympian,Steve Hooker, win the Gold Medal in pole vaulting?

I didn’t either. Below is a link for you to check out some incredible photographs of pole vaulting.

This is not a sissy sport.

Apparently this Seth was throwing tantrums a few years back because he could not make himself do what he wanted to do, which was jump. He had been injured and was afraid.

Who can’t relate to that?

Hooker told the Australian daily, “ I was in a miserable bad mood. Your whole life, it really brings it down when it’s really what you want to do and you can’t do it just because it’s not clicking in your brain. A lot of people’s careers end with this sort of thing but I just really worked hard. I tried a million different things to try and get around it.”

What finally did it……. hypnosis. And as I read the various interviews, I was fascinated but how he repeatedly describes relaxing and being in the moment.

He says, “One of the big changes I have made, is that I don’t think about consequences of missing or clearing. I didn’t think about the interviews I would have to do if I missed and came fifth in the Olympics, none of that stuff.”

Of his big night he says, “I was pushing too hard on the runway and I just really needed to let it go,” he says. “My whole focus at the moment is about relaxing. I jump much better when I relax. But I wasn’t that relaxed at the start of the competition.”

Going from throwing tantrums to relaxing into the moment is clearly changing your mind. We can thank Steve Hooker for giving us a great example of how it can be done.

I have successfully worked with many athletes.

My first experience was when Alex, a dear friend of ours, asked me to help her get over her fear of high jumping. She and my daughter braved the track field their Freshman year, and while my daughter took to the High Jump immediately, Alex was afraid, but did not want to be left behind. I worked with her for about twenty minutes. And to her credit, not only was she jumping the next day, she went on to set the school record in High Jump as a Freshman. This got me into a bit of trouble with my daughter, but all was forgiven when she went on to Place at state (yes, she had a little hypnotic help).

Most kids access their imagination quickly and can often make changes very quickly.

For instance,this past week I worked with an adorable young girl who was afraid to fall asleep. EFT is a fun effective way to help kids get over fears and together we sang, “I am going to wipe (her particular scary image) right out of my head…. one.. two…… three… four.. five..and then with the flair of a girl who knew all about Hermine in Harry Potter she said, “Disappear”. Pure magic.

I can not personally speak for her method because I am asleep before I can think about it. However, when I do the little routine:sing “I am going to wipe (chosen message) out of head. One..two..three..four…five…Disappear. My mood improves immeasurably.

And on that note, you have a fine day.

For the IAAF story on Steve Hooker Pole Vaulting and pictures:

Quote: To surrender is the most noble thing you can do. It is not an act of defeat, but rather an openness to the unknown. T.O.

Even though I recognized the sender as Client W, I would have, against all conventional wisdom, opened the email titled, “The Baby Looks Done”.

I love to hear the words “I am done”. Whether it is smoking, biting nails, eating whole cakes, cowering before an “ex”, the words, “I am done” are pure, musical joy to my ears.

Come to think of it, I am in the business of guiding people to be done with things, and I have had some interesting cases.

I received a short email from someone looking for a hypnosis CD for claustrophobia. I wrote back that while hypnosis CDs can be helpful for many things, curing a phobia, on one’s own, with a CD, is not recommended.

We chatted and yes, she remembered how it all started. She was locked in a closet.

With that information, I felt safe telling her that we could probably take care of it in one session.

We tapped (EFT) for about fifteen minutes on different aspects of her phobia and it soon became apparent that her claustrophobia might be a little trickier than I had originally thought. Later, in hypnosis, when she told me she was being buried alive, I knew it was way more than I anticipated, but truly, I love this stuff.

She had years she did not consciously remember, and while I certainly I did not question the wisdom of her subconscious mind in keeping the memories buried, I knew I would need some serious cooperation to resolve the phobia.

I ask her Subconscious if it was OK to get rid of the phobia and got an affirmative. That was easy! The ensuing battle was not so easy. Just weeks before coming in, she had felt stuck in a shower and in desperation had torn the whole door off. The person, who installed it, had no idea how she could have managed to do such a thing.

I reasoned, thanked, pleaded, praised and argued for a long time with her subconscious mind. When she opened her eyes, she said, “I am done with it. It’s over”

I checked on her a few days later and she had easily entered the bank vault at her new job, and just wasn’t fearful.

A Hypnotherapist will often comment that the subconscious mind is very much like a child, and in this case, the child was very determined, but the baby is done, and the woman has her freedom back.

I am going to refer to her as Client C. She came in a few weeks ago, feeling very pleased with herself. Her sugar consumption has decreased dramatically, and she was eating better, and feeling better. Client C is sunshine and bubbles, the kind of person you want to take on vacation with you. She is fun and curious so when she blurted out, “I hate to exercise” I was a little surprised.

“Why do you hate to exercise?”
“I really don’t know.”

“Has this always been true?”
“I used to like it. Before kids, I went to classes with my friends and it was fun. Now I feel nauseous when I am on the treadmill, and even when I am walking up stairs or any kind of an incline.”

“When did that start happening?”

“Maybe after we moved to the lake. It was when the kids were younger and I was so busy running around, I didn’t have time to think about exercising.”

Client C lost a sibling to drowning. While she was growing up she was not consciously aware of this, and discovered, as a young adult, in a newspaper article, that her parents had lost a child when she was very young. Both she and her brother were forced to take swimming lessons, lots of them. I already knew that she didn’t care for swimming.
When I ask her to close her eyes and think of a pool, the image was over the top of her head, and she immediately began to feel nauseous. We worked on moving the image to a friendlier place. She was able to do that and the feeling went away.
Later, in a very deep hypnotic state, I guided her to go inside and fix the inner imbalance. She saw waves in front of her and felt nauseous for a moment, and then, as she was “fixing it”, the waves went from horizontal to vertical, and the sick feeling went away. She went into hypnosis convinced that her family just has inner ear problems.
She emailed me later in the week with a warning, “Sit down when you read this”.
” I got on my treadmill twice this week.”
I wasn’t surprised, but I was happy because it is a break through for her to take better care of herself. And it gives her confidence on how powerful her mind really is. She was convinced that she just stuck with a genetic inner ear problem because her brother has the same issue.
In her follow up appointment, she also let me know that she had tested walking up the open steps at the mall; she didn’t feel sick, but she also had not been back on the treadmill, or gone for a walk. We did similar work with the unconscious, so that ‘walking her dogs’ is just something she does, because it is just what she does.
And, by the way, the image of a pool was no longer over her head, nor did the thought of it make her feel sick.

I will keep you posted.

I love what I do,
Lisa

On Sunday, I had the first Sugar Workshop of the year, and boy did I enjoy it.

This is a topic near and dear to me. And then to top it off, a client, I will call S, came in after the class for a “tune up”.

Client S, is a rare soul, who gave up pies, cookies, cakes, and candy for almost six years. Six years. Just imagine that for a moment!! I really admire her. For her, these things are like drugs and she is wise to just think,” not for me.”

Well, several changes happened in her life at once, and she found herself,
eating pies, cookies, cakes and candy. Not just one particular thing, or brand, but whatever was available. Client S is also very fit, and enjoys doing circuitry classes at her gym. A circuitry class includes jump roping, squats, and push ups.

I asked her, “What is the worst thing about being back on sugar?”

Her answer, “I feel sluggish and tired. My body is not as responsive.”

Who eats a candy bar to feel sluggish?

Isn’t it interesting that we associate treats as “pick me ups,” and that ultimately, they have exactly the opposite effect? Most of us will notice a DRAMATIC increase in our energy, after just a few days without sugar.

Try it………

The next class is Feb 10th, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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