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Now here are answers to more of your questions about the power of your subconscious mind:

Q:  Does everyone respond to hypnosis?
A:  It’s estimated that approximately 85 percent of people in all age groups will willingly respond to hypnosis.

Q: How does hypnosis work?
A: The subconscious mind is the foundation of our problems and self images, where we store our beliefs, habits and behaviors, so it is the best source of our unrecognized and unused strengths and knowledge.

Because the subconscious mind responds in a manner that reinforces patterns of past experiences, our thoughts, beliefs, and memories motivate our unintentional responses.

Q:  Can children be hypnotized?
A:  Yes, but young children don’t yet possess the filter that accepts or rejects information. Everything communicated to them enters their subconscious and becomes their perception of reality and forms their conditioning through positive and negative suggestions that often act as a self-fulfilling prophesy.

In other words, negative behavior develops from harmful suggestions planted in their earliest years. This explains how our conscious mind might retain no memory of an event, yet it will continually act the way we do regardless of its effect on our wellbeing.

Q:  So does the conditioning of our childhood, if negative, cause us to exhibit negative or harmful behaviors throughout our lives?
A: Yes. But the good news is that there are many ways to reverse and replace these negative suggestions and rearrange information in the subconscious (like reprogramming your computer). While in a trance like hypnosis, you can access this information, reorganize and rearrange it, so it has a positive and constructive effect.

First of all, let’s explain the core of hypnosis, your subconscious mind.

Now, think of a computer. You put information – thoughts, pictures, memories, ideas, needs and desires – into the computer. That information stays in your computer (your subconscious mind) exactly as you’ve programmed it until you decide to change the data. If you want to, you can erase it – or you can keep the information in your computer’s memory forever.

Change the programming to change your life. Your subconscious mind, in fact, controls your entire life, because your hard drive holds all your habits and determines how you respond to things. It’s all in there.

So, when you learn to change the programming you are able to change your life.

The lucky people who have learned self-hypnosis (and it’s far easier than you may think) tend to be very successful, healthy and very skilled at improving their lives and overcoming bad habits.

Now here are answers to some of the most basic questions about just how to grab hold of the power of the subconscious mind.

Q: Exactly what is hypnosis?
A:  Hypnosis is simply an altered state of consciousness, usually characterized by a very pleasant state of relaxation. During hypnosis, the conscious, rational part of the brain is temporarily bypassed, making the subconscious receptive to therapy.

Q:  When people are hypnotized aren’t they turning over control to others?
A: People cannot be hypnotized against their will and even under hypnosis, they still remain in complete control of any suggestions given.

Q: Why do people choose to be hypnotized or learn self hypnosis?
A: The entire goal of hypnosis is to take back control of habitual responses that have resulted in a problem…things like overeating, smoking, alcohol or drug consumption.

There are lots of lists of people’s greatest fears.

But if you ask many women, right up there with public speaking and snakes is trying on bathing suits.

Maybe even worse is being seen in public in a bathing suit.

Now that it’s summer, the fear intensifies, because, let’s face it ladies, we’re not the lithe young things we used to be (or maybe never were). The years, lack of willpower and plain old bad habits have packed on the pounds.

Oh, it’s not that we haven’t tried. We’ve lost some and gained back more. 
And believe it or not, during the summer when being trim seems even more important is when many of use tend to gain – not lose – weight. We break out the barbeque grills or sip margaritas by the pool and quicker than you can say cellulite, we’re tipping the scales even higher.

It’s time to turn those fears around. In her book, A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson wrote:

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us,
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

We are indeed powerful. In fact, harnessing the amazing power of our own minds may be the real key to permanent weight loss.

The reason diets fail are so numerous, we need to take an added look:

Vicious Cycle Syndrome. If you’re like most dieters, sooner or later you’re bound to fall off the diet wagon. After a few days, a week, maybe even longer, your cravings for the bad stuff will get to you, so you surrender to the French fries. Then you beat yourself up so much over your one single boo-boo that you reason there’s no sense in dieting for the rest of the day… or week… or month.

End of diet story.

I had a bad day, so Pass The Pizza Syndrome. Remember when you fell off your swing and hurt yourself, so mom would give you a cookie? So many of us were raised to bury our feelings with a treat, that eating to make ourselves feel better has become a big hazard. When we’re feeling the pain of a break-up, being passed over for a promotion or sitting in traffic for hours, what do many of us do? You got it. Eat! Now pass the pizza or the ice cream.

Once again, end of diet story.

I Want It Now Syndrome. We live in an era of immediate gratification. But the reality is we can’t expect to lose 50 pounds in a few months. Losing weight isn’t easy, but those who give up when they don’t immediately look like a super model are doomed to fail.

End of diet story.

But It’s My Great Aunt Ida’s birthday syndrome. Special events like birthday parties, wedding receptions and holidays are bound to arise, making it difficult to stick to your diet. Go ahead and give yourself permission to disregard your diet for the day. Just remember to go back on it the next day. Otherwise, it’s end of diet story.

There are so many reasons that diets don’t succeed, it’s hard to even know where to begin. But one key reason is that diets are treatments, pseudo-solutions, created by someone else – someone who doesn’t know you, your habits, your likes and dislikes and your daily routine.

Many other reasons for diets’ failures are so common to most of us. You’ll probably recognize most of them:

Let’s take hunger. Even slender people eat when they’re hungry… it’s just part of life. And counting calories frequently doesn’t work, because once you’ve eaten your daily calorie allowance, surprise – you’re still hungry.

And that’s just when you throw in the towel and eat something naughty – that leftover piece of pie that’s been beckoning you from the fridge.

Let’s call this phase “the beginning of the end.”

Now let’s count calories – Problem #1. Yawn! There’s nothing much more monotonous or tiring than trying to track every morsel you put in your mouth. And if you’re relentlessly counting calories, you’re consequently and constantly thinking about – what else? Food.

Let’s count calories – Problem #2. The other irksome – and quite prevalent – side effect of counting and eating a low amount of calories is that inevitably your metabolism slows down. And your lowered metabolism makes it harder lose weight and – even if you do drop pounds – keeping the weight off. In fact, you need a jump in calories from time to time so your body doesn’t go into a very damaging starvation mode.

Becoming trim and fit isn’t all about how we look. A sad reminder was the recent death of veteran journalist and long-time moderator of “Meet the Press” Tim Russert, who suddenly collapsed and died of an apparent massive heart attack.

While we all were shocked and saddened by the event, perhaps equally shocking was its abruptness as well as by the number of people – more than a million every year – who have sudden heart attacks every year, often without warnings or symptoms. In fact, coronary artery disease is the NUMBER ONE cause of death in Americans. 

And among the biggest contributors to coronary artery disease is being overweight. We’re not just talking about morbid obesity here. Obesity is defined simply as too much body fat, so being just slightly overweight, having a sedentary lifestyle and making bad food choices can cause a wide variety of health problems.

People with excess body fat, especially at the waistline, are more likely to develop heart disease and stroke even if they have no other risk factors, because extra weight increases the heart’s work. We well know that many overweight people have difficulty losing weight, but dropping as few as 10 pounds can lower your heart disease risk. 

So isn’t it time to start looking better, feeling better and adopting a healthy lifestyle. It’s easier than you think. (http://yourslimvision.com/)  

All of you out there that have purchased the Your Slim Vision DVD, we would love to hear about your success! Feel free to post comments and share your stories here on the blog. And best of all, if you email a before and after picture of yourself to brothstein@yourslimvision.com, we will feature your story on the official Your Slim Vision site!

Your mind is so powerful that it can give you just about anything you want. The secret is your belief that what you’re aiming at is absolutely possible.

Remember when you were a child and your mother kissed your boo-boo to make it better… and it suddenly did feel better? You didn’t know it then, but your subconscious mind was telling you that your scraped knee didn’t hurt so much. But as you aged and “got smart,” your intellect told you that a kiss from mom couldn’t possibly heal.

Well, here’s some news for the grown-up, smart you: The four- or five-year-old you was using the power of the subconscious mind to get exactly what it wanted. Scientists today are learning that we respond to what the brain expects to happen.

Our brains work this way because we believe we will get just what we expect. Weight loss experts and others now realize that when you replace old negative expectations with affirmative ones, your brain can learn to expect – and achieve – a positive outcome.

Now a program called Your Slim Vision offers a line of products based on this untapped brain power – Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) – to help you use the power of thought to change any behavior and achieve a different and desired result.

If you’ve been riding the weight loss roller coaster for far too long, the key to successful and permanent weight loss may not be your body, but your mind.

But is it really possible to “will your way” to a slimmer, trimmer you?

Yes!

Just picture it. One approach is visualization. Athletes, for example, picture themselves succeeding – hitting a homerun or making the winning touchdown. Others take visualization one big step further, using self hypnosis to succeed.

Weight loss and other goals begin in the mind. You can easily learn to use self hypnosis to think like a thin person who makes healthy food choices to achieve permanent weight loss.

What you’re doing is simply programming your most powerful computer – your own brain – to produce the physical change you seek – in this case, losing weight. In fact, some of the most effective approaches to weight loss like the one offered by Your Slim Vision  teach you to use your subconscious mind to change behavior and think yourself thin.

Using your own brain power, you make healthy food choices and just say no to the bad stuff. Your brain will actually tell you that you don’t even want those double chocolate chip cookies. 

So can you really think your way to the weight you want and stay there? You bet you can!

Here it is, the long-awaited Broadminded interview:

YSV is Interviewed by Broadminded!