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Step #1 in my Weight Loss Hypnosis book is to Stress Less. Notice that this has NOTHING to do with eating. It has to do with calming your mind and centering your emotions so that when you do eat it is because you are hungry and not because you feel like everythings spinning out of control.

People tend to reach for food as a coping mechanism and believe it destresses them and they take quick comfort in carbs instead of refocusing on themselves.

If you can learn to refocus yourself, you’ll be able to quickly gain control of your eating, your weight, and your health.

Using videos to learn how to accomplish things, is one of the best things that the internet has done for us. In the next video you’ll see the impact of self-hypnosis in life.

Check out this quick video I just made that explains how you can lose weight by using self hypnosis for stress management:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxv_OnxWqKc&eurl=http://www.joshuaseth.com/lose-weight-with-stress-management-hypnosis/&feature=player_embedded

What we see around us everyday we come to view as normal. Take on a new perspective and all that changes. This is why travel used to be considered an essential part of education.

I have been performing my hypnosis show on a cruise ship in Europe this past week. It has been awesome (honestly, I can hardly believe I get paid to do this stuff!). Ive seen many wonders of the ancient world (the Colosseum in Rome, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, the ruins of Pompeii). And everywhere I go there is sumptuous local food to sample (gelato in Monaco, grilled octopus in Greece, Pizza in Naples). And everything tastes different than it does in America.

Even the familiar foods taste different. Pizza tastes different, The crusts are thinner and the sauces less sweet. There are no fast food restaurants that I have seen. Instead they have little shops open to the street that have freshly prepared sandwiches and baguettes behind glass. Not burgers and fries. In general, the foods are served in smaller portions, are less sugary, and are more commonly made from locally grown ingredients. They are NOT of full of additives and preservatives and chemicals. They are simple, fresh, and local. Perhaps its no small coincidence that I have seen very few overweight Europeans in these areas.

Because they go outside and walk more has something to do with this as well. You dont see everyone staring at TVs or laptop screens or plugged into cell phones and iPods. They really are walking around and talking with one another. But I digress.

In many places worldwide the population is leaner and more fit than the United States. I notice this every time Im in Australia and New Zealand too. I think were slowly killing ourselves in the States with the foods we eat and the lifestyles we lead. Personally Id rather pay a bit more for my food and only eat fresh food than consume all the chemicals that most of our prepackaged foods now contain.

120 million Americans are now severely overwieght (according to the governments own statistics). Thats a third of our population. Many of these people will develop other disease as a result of this condition, like diabetes, heart disease, and certain kinds of cancer. This is not the case in Europe and most of the rest of the world. Were doing this to ourselves. Its time to stop this madness and do something about it.

* Dont eat junk food just because its cheap or its fast or its convenient.

* Dont eat it just because its on your plate and you feel compelled to finish it.

* Eat food because your body needs it to replenish itself and restore its energy.

* Reconnect with your mind with your body.

* Know what its like to feel really satisfied after a meal instead of stuffed full.

* Learn what a real tomato tastes like.

* Regain control of your life.

As you view your surrounding, what you see isnt normal, its the sad result of the disconnection of our minds from our bodies and our bodies from the land on which we live. Weve been trained to think that following diets and counting calories are the roadmaps to fitness and good health. Its much simpler than that.

If you’d visit the Greek Isles or Cote dAzur in France and youd see that you can be absolutely perfectly satisfied with a freshly baked baguette, some olive oil, herbs, and tomatoes picked from from the garden out back, with perhaps a a small bit of protein and a single glass of red wine. Consume slowly with a beautiful companion and enjoy while overlooking the sea on a sun drenched afternoon.

No rules. Just life as it was meant to be lived. Simple, satisfying, and free.

From The Weight Loss Hypnosis Solution (August, 2008 from New You Publishing).