Sometimes you just need some one-on-one hypnosis to keep you out of the cookie jar, or stopping at Starbucks.

It is really fun to be hypnotized  to not want to eat cookies, or chocolate, or candy.

However, the associations are usually so strong from years of repetitive experience that an upset like grief, a big change, or even a disturbing conversation, can sometimes send you back to your old comforting stand-by.

This is where EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is really helpful.

It is an effective way to PLAY with your thinking.

It is as though you have an entrenched stream of thought.

It can go like this: When I need a break, want to treat myself, I grab my favorite>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

With EFT, you can state the truth as you are tapping on your body, “Even though I say I want to be healthy, and not have this annoying fat on my body, I still want to eat this Snickers Bar, and have a Diet Coke. Even though I know I can’t keep doing this and feel great in my body, I TOTALLY love and accept myself.”

The power is in acknowledging the truth instead of staying in the fight. (Please read that sentence again!)

You have battling parts. One part wants to feel healthy and proud, and the other part wants what she wants, and to be left alone.

This is exhausting!

With hypnosis, you can be powerfully veered from this battle, but in my experience, EFT gives you another very useful tool. I don’t know about you, but I LOVE good tools!

This is my favorite example in my own life, and forgive me if you have heard this story before.

I did not want to pick up my high-school daughter from volleyball practice. She had been gnarly before school that morning and I had had a very busy day and I wanted to go home and not make ONE MORE STOP!

The owner of Husky’s Deli in West Seattle was on the radio, being interviewed about his family’s tradition of making ice cream.   When my girls were little, and we didn’t have a hectic schedule, we would wander in, order an ice cream cone and sit outside and enjoy it. It was fun, and I can see them trying to manage the cones and the ice cream in their little hands.

Well, suddenly all I could think of was ice cream. I could go to QFC and they had Dove bars on a stick and I could be late, and I started laughing.

What I really wanted was the leisure of NO SCHEDULE, thank you very much. The ice cream wasn’t going to change that!

At the next stop light, I did some EFT on myself. I drove right to the high school,  picked up my daughter, and made her a wonderful dinner.  I totally forgot about the ice cream until the following week when I was teaching, and I used it as an example.

Out minds are really interesting,and knowing yours is very useful.

In my practice and in my own life, I have found the combination of hypnosis and EFT to be an absolutely phenomenal combination for change.

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Cake used to be such a problem for me, I should have worn a sign that said,

“DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAKE UNATTENDED.”

Now I can laugh and remember that my mind is powerful and that I can use it to stop my sugar cravings. You can too!

When they gave you your first coke,cookie or whatever, they didn’t warn you…..

SUGAR CAN BE ADDICTIVE

Sugar can be  harder than a crack addiction because it is everywhere….and it is socially acceptable.

Many of my clients, and probably you, don’t really want to give up sugar because it feels like you are going to miss some fun.

I know the feeling…….

However, I have discovered with a little hypnosis, you can dramatically decrease your desire for sweets, stop craving sugar, and you can increase your sensitivity so that many things begin to taste too sweet…

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Do you avoid looking at your body in the mirror?

Recently I stood in front of the video camera and recorded myself with NO makeup!

When I watched it, I realized I really liked me. Yes, I have wrinkles, the camera adds a few pounds, but beyond that, I could see me.

I am wonderfully kind and earnest.

Can you see you?

Growing up I had a beloved, ballsy, and funny Aunt Eleanor.

She loved donuts,Tom Jones, and Pepsi.

She was way too young when she died of liver cancer.

One summer she lost fifty pounds. She ate a fudgesicle every day for lunch.

My aunt could not see herself.

A very funny guy, @TheEntertainer says,

“We are really all here in Human Suits.”

I trained myself to not look at my clients bodies, but rather to really see them. I noticed that as I did this, I began to see myself as well.

I am not my body and neither are you. If we were, we would take it with us when we leave here, and universally, we leave our bodies behind.

I assist you in rediscovering your own magnificence.

It has nothing to do with weight, money, lovers,cars, or the latest handbag (although you can desire and have any of that).

It really has to do with uncovering the magnificence that each of us has within us.

When you are attacking your body as not good enough, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR PRECIOUS ENERGY ON THE WRONG THING!

It is like wanting to go to London from New York and looking for a car to make the trip.

You can try a new kind of tire, a car that floats, a way to get fuel. You can see this is insane and extremely inefficient. We need an airline ticket or a cruise ship.

Going on a diet to lose weight, so you can feel in control, and accept yourself, is like planning to get to London by car.

The airline ticket is changing your mind so you take care of yourself because you can. And you can because you want to. And you want to because you are pretty fricking awesome.

Start your journey today.

I want you to be able to look in the mirror and see that you are lovable.

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Instead of Weight Watching, Try Minding Your Magnificence

Most of us have a few eating personalities.

Do you have an Inner Cereal Monster?

In my next Make Peace with Food and You class we will have a great time calling out our personalities, naming them, and the laughing very hard as we decide how to handle them.

We meet one Friday night a month.   Email Lisa   @ Lisa Crunick .com if you would like to join us.

One of my favorite fairy tales is The Crescent Moon Bear.

A woman is  distraught because her husband has returned from war a different man. He is distant, and grouchy, and she sorely misses the sweetness of the companionship she remembers.

She goes to a healer and is told to journey to the top of the mountain and to get a  white hair from the neck of a black bear.

It is no small quest. She must climb the mountain, find the bear, and coax him with food. Oh, and then get close enough to a bear to pull out a hair.

She succeeds and runs down the mountain only to have the healer  throw her precious prize into the fire.

The woman is told to go home and practice everything she learned from the bear on her husband.

This is really a tale about taking one’s own pain and anger and learning love and trust. Everything she needed to know she learned within her journey.

For people who are ashamed for being overweight, the journey to love and trust oneself, can feel as dangerous as getting a bear’s neck hair.

But ultimately, it is the path to inner peace.

Pick the right journey for you.

The “Let’s get this party started” feeling quickly faded in the Make Peace with Food and You group.

One woman said,”If I am overweight, I shouldn’t eat those M&M’s , so I certainly don’t want to eat them in front of everyone.”

Someone else said, “I feel ashamed.”

The archaic meaning of shame is covering oneself.

A few weeks later, in the same group, what I heard was, “This is who I am.  Accepting me, and not coming from a place where I have to change me, kind of freed me to be nicer me. My obsession with food just isn’t there.”

I wish that for each and every person.

 

Private Hypnosis and EFT Weight Loss Sessions

I offer an initial discounted session. Sometimes my clients change their minds in one session.

A very nice man came in because he was addicted to candy bars. He works out, has a good life, loving wife, likes his work, and so on.

Slamming candy bars into his mouth, as a diabetic, wasn’t doing his health, belt size or self-esteem any favors.

When I understood I said to him, “We can go into your past and figure out why you need to feel bad about yourself, because from everything you have told me, that is the only reason I can see you are doing this. Or, we can give you a way to interrupt your behavior and make different choices.”

No surprise, he chose choices. A few days later, he proudly sent me his glucometer numbers.

Today he wrote me:

“Have not had a drop of candy since I saw you. I barely ever do the circuit interruption either. It’s been over a month. Please write away on how you saved a candy addicted-diabetics life. You are awesome Lisa, Thank you so much for my future.”

Love it. Love it!  Oh, by the way, this was a ten-year habit.

One EFT Session Takes Care of  Vertigo

The second example is a co-practitioner I found in the waiting room. She had a worried look on her face and had a few too many tarot cards spread out on the table.

She had been hit by a car,and was trying to decide whether to settle with her insurance company. The problem was she still had vertigo. She was able to work, but WTH, this was no way to live or work.

We figured out the exact moment the vertigo began by going through the accident moment by moment. As we worked, it began to lessen and then it went away completely and it has never come back. That was over a year ago.

Whether you need to stop smoking, or are afraid to sleep, are heartbroken, or just have a pesky habit you need to break, come in for an introductory session.  Changing your mind can be easier, and faster, than you imagined.

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Seven Practical Steps to Reduce Sugar Cravings

Well, not any candy bar; nine times out of ten, it was a Snickers Bar.

The thought of going on a diet hasn’t crossed my mind for over twenty years.  The concept of deprivation does not work for me.

So after writing yesterday’s post, I was at the store, where we all know, retailers prominently display candy bars.

I picked up a Snickers Bar.

I was a little amused. It has been months since I had one. And the rule is I can have what I want.

Well, I ate two bites and I was done.

This has never happened in my entire life. I have always finished a snickers bar.

I have never even shared one.

It just didn’t taste good to me. It tasted like something I had outgrown.

I didn’t get here over night.

But from my own experience and that of my many clients, I can tell you it is totally worth it!

And there’s more. A client near and dear to my heart, called to share that she had verbalized to the most pain-provoking person in her life, words of forgiveness.

Now she had said the forgiveness words in my office.  Most of the time, this is a fake it until you make it proposition.

The important part is setting the intention.

The intention of forgiveness creates an opening.

She said, “For the first time in years, I don’t feel an emptiness and I feel lighter.”

I know that sounds strange, but it makes perfect sense to her, and to me.

So that’s it.

Seven Steps to Craving Less Sugar.

Go ahead and try to stop me!

When I was the size of the little girl in the photo, my dad tried to get me to hand over my chewing gum before I went to sleep.

I refused.

His argument that I was going to wake up with gum in my hair was reasonable.

I swallowed MY GUM.

I feel the same about my food. Don’t even try to tell me I can’t have a candy bar.

So what about you?  Who is running your food show?  Is your inner rebel  a stubborn two year old? a snarky teen?

As long as you and your rebel are happy, stop reading.

If you would like to change, and could use some help, keep reading!

You have probably heard that the most lasting change is from the inside out.

That may seem like a lot of work. And EVERYONE wants a magic pill.

There is no magic pill.

Science now backs up what hypnotist, healers, and shamans have accepted for years.

Think of your brain as malleable plastic. You could create neurology for twenty years by reacting the same way every time you see a dog, a spider, or a candy bar.  You may believe that your brain is hardwired and that you cannot change it, but you can.   Your thoughts actually change your brain.

By negotiating with that little girl in the picture, I can have a candy bar any time I want, but now I only  occasionally want one.

This is not really a recipe. This is intuitive. You toss it together to please your taste buds and give your tummy that happy, satisfied feeling. And we love that to be easy, right?

This salad was inspired by “Oh my gosh, Robert is here and I want to feed him something delicious and he is totally vegan.”  And it turns out that everyone loves this salad.

Ingredients

1 cup of cooked quinoa (red or black)  *Easy recipe

10 oz of cooked and cooled lima beans

Chopped cooked beets. I used fresh, however you could use canned. Be sure to drain them really well.

2 T Sesame Seed Oil.

Rice vinegar to taste

a  pinch of sugar

This salad is beautiful.

Mix Sesame seed oil and rice vinegar in the bottom of the bowl.

Add lima beans and quinoa.

Garnish top with beets.

Day 2. Mix leftover bean salad with fresh greens. You may want to add more sesame seed oil and rice vinegar.  Yummy!
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The easiest way to cook quinoa:

Rinse one cup of red or black quinoa.

Put in a saucepan and add 2 cups of water and bring to a boil.

Put on a lid and turn the stove off.

The quinoa will be perfect in about twenty minutes.

Quinoa is really handy to have in your refrigerator. It is a complete protein which you can easily add it to many things. I enjoy it beneath a fried egg, with a little cottage cheese in the morning.

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