Hypnosis Gets to Root of Weight Issue and Food Addiction

One of today’s callers wants to lose weight with hypnosis and hynotherapy.  In the FREE 20 minute phone consultation I had with her, she shared with me that she is an ”emotional eater”.  

Together we discussed what might be the unconscious drive underneath her emotional eating.  We quickly determined that the first real issue to tackle and resolve was her anxiety pattern that had been driving her emotional eating pattern and ultimately her over weight problem. Her eating pattern was a form of self hypnosis and self medication, followed by guilt, shame, and helplessness.

She is now very excited about using hypnosis and hypnotherapy to end the cycle of destruction that she’s been struggling with for so many years, i.e., conscious or unconscious unhealthy eating patterns due to her underlying anxiety.  

She began to understand that dealing with her anxiety could improve her entire life and relationships, starting with herself.  She could also see that by taking back control of her own life with the use of hypnosis, she could finally take charge of her eating behavior.

And, it made sense to her that without dealing with the anxiety first, the hypnosis for weight loss would be a mere band-aid, at best, or as she’d done in the past, turn to another dysfunctional pattern to seek comfort when she felt anxious or worried.

As I always say, “All addictions are our attempt to give to ourself”….including food addictions!  The Covington Hypnosis Method process is the most effective method we know of to get to the root cause, create relief, and develop new options––new patterns that work for the greater good of our clients.

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Hello World! Students learning effective Hypnotherapy skills!

Welcome to our new hypnosis website!  Special thanks to Denise and Randy for helping make the new site professional, attractive, and user friendly.

Thank you for visiting today.  I am so excited that I am learning to blog and will be able to communicate with you on a regular basis.

What’s Happening? I am in the middle of my 2009 Hypnotherapy Certification Training with absolutely wonderful students. Each student brings such richness, diversity and personal experience, curiosity, and wisdom to the entire class creating even more benefit for everyone.

This past weekend, I taught them the hypnosis process for helping people lose weight, stop smoking, overcome fear of flying and test taking anxiety, as well as utilize power learning, and much more.

The students were particularly excited to learn the hypnosis process of accessing their own Full Potential Highest Self and personally received coaching from me to become skilled at helping others do the same.  Their future clients, as mine have, will find this skill alone to be invaluable.

Be Blessed, Be Empowered!  Jane Ann

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What’s Holding You Back?

Jane Ann Covington, BA, CCHT, RBT
for the Piedmont Review

Humans are notorious for arguing for their limitations. I learned early in my career that how we are when we’re young, we tend to become more so as we grow older…. unless we consciously change. Most of us know that changing some aspects of ourselves would be a good thing, but we just don’t know how or even what to do. Often, the harder we try to change, the more we feel like a failure. Sometimes, there’s like a block inside and we don’t even know what is holding us back.

The common denominator in our life is our mind, albeit conscious and subconscious.

In comes a 57 year old businessman who had cancer and was in the process of retiring on disability. He felt angry inside a lot of the time. He was very surprised at discovering from his unconscious, as reported in hypnosis regression: “I’m three years old. I’m in the living room with Mama and Daddy, and my older brother. I’m scared. My parents are arguing, yelling, and I’m afraid. I hate my father.” Stressful! At that very early age, my client’s environment had already colored his perception with fear and anger.

Even though the client had long ago learned to curb his destructive behavior around others from court ordered anger management classes and the medication he’d been on for years, he still felt angry and toxic inside. He originally came to see me because he’d heard that hypnosis might help a person with cancer.

He’s since learned new ways of thinking and believing, instead of blaming those around him, or the circumstances of life. He’s also had a great deal of stress relief by letting go of old hurts and unconscious fears. Perhaps more importantly, he’s learning to see life more clearly and to make more mature choices. He’s also learning to access new options that allow him to experience a variety of emotions that are more balanced and appropriate. He can now feel fear, anger, confusion, joy, curiosity, love, and more. He’s getting healthier in all kinds of ways.

So you might ask what does your childhood have to do with your life now? Here’s the answer: How most people act emotionally as an adult was programmed into them by age six, and most of that by age three. Researchers tell us that early childhood and, recently discovered, that pre-teen years are when most of our unconscious patterns become ingrained in our psyche and will continue throughout our lifetime…if we don’t do something about our old programming.

Another client, a 42 year old teacher with an uncontrollable eating habit reports in hypnosis regression: “I’m twelve years old. I’m in the den on the couch eating a bag of potato chips. My parents and sister and brother are also watching TV. I’m feeling really bad about myself. I’m on the cheerleading squad. I’m overweight. I feel really self conscious. Dad keeps telling me to ‘eat whatever I want, just don’t get fat.’ I wish I could do something, but I just don’t know what to do.” Stressful!

In the big picture of her life it turned out that her Dad’s comment closely resembled her own internal conflict of going on one diet after another, but in the end eating uncontrollably. In fact, this woman had always been shocked to see herself in the mirror nearly 100 pounds overweight.

Only when she was able to visit the source of the unconscious pattern through hypnosis was she able to make and hold on to a more mature perspective. Twenty five years of self criticism and dieting over. She has control now, makes appropriate choices, and is succeeding. Stress Relief!

We’ve all heard the notion that people consciously sabotage themselves because they must like to suffer. I don’t buy this shallow perspective. Truth is, it’s not enough to want to change.

Change is stressful because it goes against our programming, whether we accomplish our goal or not, or because we don’t change. Early subconscious conditioning is typically stronger than our conscious mind alone can easily overcome. The conscious mind is only ten percent of our brain. The subconscious mind is the other ninety percent of the brain.

Stress is what your mind and body experience in reaction to life. Starting from birth, or even while still in the womb as when our parents are fearful, smoke, drink, or get angry, stress can build. Reflecting to the other end of life, stress is often experienced in anticipation of the unknown aspects of death, some 50 years or more beyond our current age.

But stress can be found everywhere in between as well. Stress is born of a mind filled with beliefs, perceptions, and experiences that are frequently unhelpful, inaccurate, or offer quite limited interpretations of humanity and our own options for living.

It’s good to question our beliefs, perceptions, and behaviors. What beliefs and attitudes are blocking you? Are you anxious when meeting people, afraid to fly or speak in public? What stops you? Your mind!

For all of us who struggle to make changes in our lives, or want to give up, take heart. Just as the problem is in the mind, so is the answer. All behavior comes from learned responses. If we are being driven by something that no longer serves us, we can certainly learn something else. It may take work, but hypnosis make it much easier. Overall learning it’s really much different than when we were children. We just stopped thinking it was ok to keep trying something new.

Hypnosis with a trained expert in the field offers a new, faster option for learning new ways of seeing the world. Find ways to create new choices that are more easily integrated. Whether you want to loose weight, release fears, stop smoking, stop anxiety in its tracks, free yourself from criticism and negative self talk. For these and all other issues, remember the mind is the common denominator.
How are you using this powerful tool you have? To help you expand in life, or to keep you on a path that leads you into a rut! Don’t get the rut mixed up with your path.

Feeding your mind new ideas, new challenges, new options can help create the life that is wanted! Read more, listen to educational programs, helpful tapes and CD’s, go to lectures. Continuing to learn will help keep you younger long and make you more interesting to those around you, and to yourself.

WAKE Up and smell the options!

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Fear of Flying & Other Uncomfortable Blocks

Jane Ann Covington,  BA, CCHT, RBT
for The Piedmont Review

“It scares me to death to just think about getting on a plane!” This client has a fear of flying. She’s been through all the conventional attempts to deal with her fear–from self medication (alcohol), prescriptions and therapy, education about flying, to shear avoidance–all in an attempt to make the necessity of flying an experience that she can live with.

In Atlanta alone hundreds of thousands of people have this and/or other fears that stop them from fully living their life every day. Fear can affects us mentally and emotionally, as well as physically, socially, and even financially.

A specific circumstance or even anticipation leading to anxiety, in addition to the fear of failure, can stop people from acting on an opportunity that could greatly enhance the quality of their life. Excessive fear can make you feel paralyzed, numb, lightheaded, unable to catch your breath, make your heart feel like it’s going to jump out of your chest. Scary, often unrealistic beliefs can make your mind go blank, make you feel sick to your stomach, give you a throbbing headache and more, but mainly you feel totally out of control.

What greatly compounds the problem is an additional fear of looking foolish in the eyes of others backed up by being criticized for being irrational. For instance, statistics show that flying is much safer than driving, yet they easily drove themselves to our appointment.

Most of my clients are pretty successful in their overall life. They’re smart enough to have figured out that a fear such as the fear of flying mostly has to do with how they are thinking about their fear, especially when measured against the perception of others.

The good news is that most of our fears are learned responses. But telling people or yourself to “change your thinking” or “chill out” doesn’t make it any easier for these folks. When you think about it, that’s usually easier said than done.

Even more terrifying to many is that this out-of-control, anxious, total mind-body feeling can seem to come out of the blue. Nevertheless, the feeling is actually generated in our minds from our imagination and what we focus on. Then thoughts become habits; habits become patterns; patterns become knee jerk reactions.

When the client’s history is carefully reviewed there is often a moment in time when they typically have frightfully misinterpreted the world around them, or their own inner world, and perceive themselves to be out of control. This is where the problem begins.

My client, now age 42, amazed at her own recollection of the first time she had that same feeling, reports in hypnosis, “I am 16. My family and I are traveling to Hawaii for the first time. Everyone is excited. As we approach Honolulu, we hit turbulence and the plane feels like it’s going to drop out of the sky. Suddenly my heart feels like it’s in my throat. I can’t catch my breath. I am feeling sick to my stomach. I am scared that after all those hours on the plane, it will crash.”

After that experience, and increasingly over the years, every time my client would even think about taking a flight she would not only have the same feeling, but it had gotten worse and worse. Just the thought of flying would send her over the edge feeling overwhelmingly anxious by the time she came to see me.

Of course, these same reactions are common in people who develop fear of driving after an accident, fear of public speaking or making that presentation at the next meeting, fear of leaving that relationship that isn’t working for you or your partner, meeting new people out socially, and more.

Fortunately, there are ways to move beyond the old debilitating glitch back into balance. The goal, in this case, is for her to become comfortable with flying; to learn an appropriate response that allows freedom to act according to current conditions and goals rather than react in response to previous circumstances.

There’s no magic that can turn the tide and set her free. However, when taken through a very specific reeducation process including education, coaching, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, personal discovery, awareness, time, integration, and retraining with a little outside mindwork/homework, it may seem almost like magic because it can typically be accomplished over a 30 day period.

Although the client is coming to me to have me influence them, one of the most effective methods of the work we do is that they learn to influence themselves more appropriately. This regaining of control of themselves goes a long way to transforming their prior irrational response.

So, in the end, success is most often achieved by reeducating the conscious, logical mind along with retraining the subconscious mind’s reaction to flying.

Almost always, clients report how much easier and faster the change came when compared to their original expectation of what it would take, given the years they suffered with the problem. This is good! And, there is hope……because the mind is the common denominator in all that we do and all that we are!

Jane Ann Covington can be reached at Center for Developing Mastery (404) 442-8700 for more information or to schedule an appointment. She is a certified hypnotherapist, life coach, speaker, producer, writer, and educator. She is featured on the new CD Mastering Stress Overnite. She may also be accessed online at www.hypnosisinstitute.com

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Hypnosis can and will change your life!

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be dynamically powerful to help individuals in many ways including stop smoking, lose weight, anxiety and phobias, procrastination, increase motivation, improve self esteem and confidence, focus and memory, health, realize your Full Potential Highest Self with the dynamic Covington Method that includes a unique and customized combination process of hypnosis, hypnotherapy, coaching and education. Discover our unique, fast, effective, long lasting effects of hypnosis and hypnotherapy and how the can be achieved with Jane Ann Covington’s results focused methods and techniques.

Hypnosis can and will change your life!

Let’s face it, people are often complicated. Jane Ann Covington’s techniques of hypnosis, hypnotherapy, coaching and education with the Covington Method will break down old blocks and help you to act according to current conditions instead of react to old unhelpful patterns and habits.

Since 1975

Jane Ann’s comfortable, yet effective style comes from working with clients since 1975, using hypnosis and hypnotherapy as a certified clinical hypnotherapist, registered behavioral therapist, cognitive educator, coach, speaker, and trainer, with a background in business and corporate development, athletics, academic research.

Want to Reach Your Full Potential?

Jane Ann can help you reach your Full Potential to improve and develop your business, personal, and individual experience of living. The Covington Method is a guaranteed success-oriented process.

The right combination of hypnosis, hypnotherapy, education, and coaching specific to you and your special goals and needs, can and will change and improve your life for the better right Now and catapult you to a new level of thinking, options, behavior and out come!!!

What are you waiting for…the world out there to change? Why Wait? Don’t wait for the change that must come from within!

Jane Ann Covington specializes in issues that have not responded to other methods!

The Covington Method of Hypnotherapy, Hypnosis, Education and Coaching has proven to be effective with issues when other treatment methods have not worked. Jane Ann Covington empowers, inspires and motivates people from all walks of life to discover why you are the way you are and supports you to effectively change if you want to. Call Today for a private, free 20 minute consultation with Jane Ann Covington, to discover and learn how this unique combination of hypnosis, hypnotherapy, education, and coaching can help you!

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This is the real thing…

“All my life I had a fear of failure. My mind would  create worse case scenarios that would scare me away going after my dreams.  I had read every book that I could find on positive mental attitude and overcoming fears, and quite frankly they seemed to have no effect.

With just a couple of sessions with Jane Ann, however, I feel like a different person. I understand that anxiety and worry won’t accomplish anything, and quite frankly, I don’t waste time on them anymore.

1000 times more powerful than the best self-help book ever written, the value of the Covington method is that it is tailored specifically for you.

Once Jane Ann understands who you are she applies the solution that is custom tailored to help you overcome your obstacles.

This is not one-size-fits all pop psychology. This is the real thing condensed into a powerful solution built just for you.

It is a lot more than merely helping you overcome anxiety.  The Covington Method can help you become the person you’ve always known that deep down you could be.”
- Reed S. (California Attorney)

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Feedback from people who overcame anxiety, fears and obstacles

Stress

“Listening to the tape you made me as I go to sleep at night has transformed my life.”
     - R. Jonnaski

“The stress was killing me. I feel like myself again; thanks to a few sessions of hypnosis and learning how to easily and effectively help myself. Thank you, Ms. Covington.”
     - A. Knight

Fear of Public Speaking

“It was the most important meeting of my life. I was going before the entire state legislature to present the case for our agency funding. I never thought I could do it, but I was a huge success and got my points across! Working with you, Jane Ann, did more for me than help me overcome my fear of public speaking. My confidence has increased in all respects”
     - N. McGhrath

“The thought of speaking with more than one person at a time use to petrify me and I couldn’t breathe. My heart would race. I would break into a cold sweat and feel faint. My mind would go blank. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to get over this old pattern. It didn’t happen overnight, but within a few months, I felt like a new person. I’ll probably never be a public speaker, but at least I feel like I can live in the world with other people.”
     - J. Roberts

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