There is a personality disorder that is called disconnect. It manifests itself in several ways. In the extreme, we have a Columbine or a Jeffery Dalmer. Those people had no regard for the enormous damage and hurt that they were perpetrating upon others. They were disconnected and had lost their moral compass. Those that exhibit these extreme characteristics are sociopaths. For the purposes of this chapter, we will discuss the less extreme, and more common, but still unacceptable types of disconnect.

One form of disconnect, is the person that misses appointments without cancelling. This is off the chart rude! Typically this person invents some emergency lie to cover up their “blowing the meeting off.” The reason that disconnect describes this person is that they are unable to comprehend that their absence will be noticed! Hello! We’re sitting here waiting for you! The program that houses their concept of consequences is under developed or corrupt. It should be uninstalled and an update loaded.

Another person that exhibits disconnect symptoms and poor manners as well, is one that’s chronically late. They have no grasp of the concept and consideration that others were on time and waiting for them! They are disconnected from the consequences of how their actions impact others. This person is also unorganized. They generally show disconnect in all parts of their lives including their personal relationships. Their files and belonging are never in order. They can’t find important papers or notes. This indicates that they were already late when the left their office – not after. Otherwise they would be neat and have their notes at their finger tips. Usually this person blames their tardiness on traffic. But traffic problems are not a sometime thing, they are generally always present, a part of life that can and will be overcome by leaving 15 minutes early!

Disconnect is further evidenced with procrastination, missed deadlines and the avoidance of action. It brings to mind, Parkinson’s Fourth Law which states: work shrinks or expands to fill the time allotted to it. A report is due, yet the individual sits on the internet or watches television and wastes irreplaceable time. This individual will use every minute and more of the time allotted for the project. Disconnect sabotages one’s success and personal and business relationships. A person suffering from disconnect is unreliable, can’t be counted on and is never a high performer. They often exemplify the Peter Principal: which states that one is promoted to their first level of incompetence!

A person suffering from disconnect is clueless and uncaring about the inconvenience that they’ve caused others. A person suffering from disconnect doesn’t even give others the common courtesy of returning phone calls or emails. Hello! Somebody out there is expecting to hear back from you, and when they don’t – the only opinion that they CAN form will be negative!

Fortunately, disconnect and the collateral damage that it causes can be remedied through hypnosis and hypnotherapy. That individual needs to make behavioral change, and even though they make resolutions to do so, those resolutions that they are attempting to keep, are being made in the conscious mind. But behavioral change can’t be made in the conscious mind, only in the subconscious. This disconnect behavior resides in the subconscious and therefore you must reprogram the subconscious mind. The only way to access the subconscious deliberately to reprogram it, is through hypnosis. Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious. This debilitating problem can’t be fixed by willpower and discipline alone. This individual that has functioned in an absent minded and thoughtlessness manner needs permanent behavioral change. And, permanent behavioral change cannot be made in the conscious mind, only the subconscious.

If you desire to have a richer, a fuller and more rewarding life – one key is to connect – not disconnect! You are also encouraged to read my chapter entitled Mental Fibrillation.

If you feel that disconnect has been sabotaging your life, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation. We will discuss it and how you can move beyond it.

Bob Crow is a behavioral therapist board certified in clinical and medical hypnotherapy. He practices in Atlanta Georgia working with those wishing to overcome stress, panic, phobias, procrastination and fears. With those that wish to perform better in sports, sales, public speaking, to stop smoking, to lose weight permanently, to quit sabotaging relationships and any other area of behavioral change that would make life more enjoyable.

There isn’t a day that goes by that someone doesn’t come into my office wanting some kind of change in their life – reinventing themselves to get a job, a better job, to have better personal relationships, to move past limiting thinking and fears, or to stopping smoking or to lose that excess weight permanently. The problem is that although they want a healthier, richer and fuller life – some of them want the change in their life, but they don’t want to, or are unwilling to make the changes! If you want to make behavioral change – that’s where hypnosis excels.

Albert Einstein’s often repeated quote “using the same solution on the same problem but expecting different results is the mark of insanity.” As a behavioral therapist, board certified in medical and clinical hypnosis, it probably isn’t the mark of insanity – but it is useless.

A man that seemed to be intelligent came to see me in order to stop smoking. To become a NON smoker, an individual will have three sessions within eight days. Very rarely will someone not become a “non smoker” after the very first session. The two additional sessions within the eight days are generally for reinforcement only. My success rate is so high, that I guess that I take it for granted. After five sessions he was still smoking. I asked “why do think that you still smoke?” He said “I love my cigarettes… they are my friends.” Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, he said “it would be impossible for me to get any form of cancer, emphysema, heart disease or to stroke from smoking cigarettes.” Needless to say, I couldn’t believe that he was serious. Despite appearing to be intelligent, it would appear that he had some serious holes and denial issues in his ability to reason. I can’t make him or anyone else, not want to smoke. He will continue smoking until he dies of something, or the quality of his life is reduced to just trying to breathe or beg for the attendants to up his morphine to fight off the pain. It’s sad. He was and is a nice man, but…

An attractive young woman thirty five years of age and about 30 pounds overweight came into my office and wanted hypnotherapy to “lose my fat once and for all”. That established that she wanted the change! Like most people she had gradually been putting on her excess pounds every year. She brought the book with her that had the diet and exercise program that she said, “I’ve been using for twelve years.” She informed me, that she was going to continue to use it. Further she stated “I don’t need your help with what to eat – only losing the weight!” Incredulously I inquired what she meant. She said that she wanted “to get thin using the program in her book.” That was the same program that had failed! She was determined to continue doing what hadn’t worked for 12 years! Interestingly, out of eight scheduled sessions she only came to three. She wanted the results of change without making changes. Perhaps she thought that I could sprinkle pixie dust on her so that she would lose her weight. I can’t make someone make the changes.

Men and women have come to see me with some extremely serious, but fixable issues in their marital lives. Most often, the problems are often of their own making, and behavioral change would remedy it! One man had a beautiful wife and two fine children. His conduct was solvable. He could have saved his marriage. But he wanted to continue in sexual behavior that was diametrically opposed to a loving and trusting relationship. I assured him that he could fix it through hypnosis if he wanted to. He said “I believe you… but what if I don’t want to quit?” I can’t make him want to quit. I have seen countless people that wanted the results of change… without making the changes that were required for a happy life.

Lindsay Lohan and many other performers and people in the public eye seem to want their life to become better – to change. However they don’t grasp that the behavior that has brought them to where they are today, if continued, will yield the same results as it has in the past. They will make no progress. Life will get no better!

If you want to make the necessary changes in your life to have a happier, a more fulfilling and a more rewarding life – hypnosis is the answer. The changes that you want to make can’t be made in your conscious mind… only the subconscious mind. The only way to access one’s subconscious is through hypnosis.  Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind. Give Bob Crow a call at 404.277.1827

“We just have to go on the cruise. We’ve been planning this cruise for years with Bill and Marie. It will just break their hearts if we don’t go with them.” Well, if in fact it does break their hearts; in all likelihood they will survive it. But are you just be avoiding again, the opportunity for you to lose the weight that you’ve been carrying for a long time? Could this be just another excuse on your part? Do you really even know why you are overweight? Whether you want to accept it or not – it’s for emotional reasons. Instead of thinking about breaking Maries heart, what the about the broken heart that you are experiencing by continuing to be overweight? How about in the private moments of your own life when you are upset, crying and broken hearted about being overweight? Does the concept of setting yourself up to fail at permanent weight loss or self sabotage come to mind?

Ocean cruises? Hello! I can think of dozens of really great vacations that are at least as much, if not more fun. Of course those vacations are not centered around food. Around five to seven meals a day? The brochures show thin people having a great time in their tiny bathing suits playing in the pool. But would you want to be seen anywhere near the pool in a swimming suit? Oh you can pretend you don’t care. You can pretend that as soon as you get home you are really going to get serious about losing weight. But by eating the amount of carbs you are eating on this cruise – you are just setting yourself up for more weight loss failure when you get back home. The more carbs one eats – the more one wants to eat!

Metaphorically speaking, if you want to be slim and trim – don’t stand next to the dessert cart of life. And should you maybe rethink your vacation options? If you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off, all you can eat buffets on land or sea are diametrically opposed and at cross purposes to your objectives… you are ambushing yourself! (Read the chapters in my book and blogs – Cutting back doesn’t work! and Celebratory eating… or are you deliberately trying to sabotage yourself?

Losing weight and keeping it off, and looking and feeling good and being healthy for the rest of your life, require behavioral change, i.e. you must reprogram the cognitive maps in your subconscious mind about how you think about food. Who do you know that’s dieted and kept any appreciable amount of weight off for two years with willpower and discipline alone? No one. That’s who!

Use of aversion therapy with hypnosis is an incredible tool for the chronic celebratory overeater that has self sabotaged themselves for years. Hypnotherapy will give the overeater an entirely new mindset that will enable them to overcome that moment of weakness.

It was a nice summer day. I had gone roller blading for the very first time in my life at Piedmont Park in Atlanta Georgia. I was not an intuitive skater – in fact I was not even a poor skater, I was somewhere beneath that.

I was descending a long hill when a toddler, probably only three years of age wandered onto the path ahead of me. From riding a mountain bike for some time with a speedometer on it, I would estimate that I was probably traveling at somewhere between 20 and 25 miles per hour. Not only did I not know how to stop, I didn’t even know how to slow down! I did know that if I hit that small child, the impact would probably kill her.

I wrenched my body to the left and hit a ten foot tall, vine covered dirt bank at full speed. It really hurt! I was dazed. I picked myself up and picked the dirt out of my face and eyes and coasted down to the water fountain to get a drink and wash myself off. The only way to describe how I felt was strange. Then my chest began hurting. My first thought was that I had cracked some ribs. The pain became very intense and I took my skates off and started walking back up the hill in my stocking feet to the entrance of the park. When the pain kept increasing I thought that maybe I had fractured my sternum. As I approached the entrance to the park the pain became unbearable and I collapsed. My heart had decelerated so fast against my sternum, that I had suffered a heart attack East Inflatable Rentals.

The next thing that I remembered was riding in the ambulance and seeing the overhead light in the ambulance appearing to be getting smaller and smaller. I heard the attendant speaking to the hospital. “Piedmont he’s 70 over 50 and dropping.” A little while later, “Piedmont he’s 50 over nothing.” A few moments passed, “Piedmont we’ve lost him.” After that, they applied the defibrillator paddles and that kept me alive until when we reached the hospital.

I was in the most intense pain of my life. I was scared. Really scared. I knew that I was probably going to die. A man with a very kind face appeared alongside the gurney as I was being wheeled into the emergency room. He took my hand between both of his and said in a voice that exuded confidence, “I’m Carl Jacobs. I’m the best cardiologist that there is. I have the whole “A” team working with me, and they never work weekends. You are going to be just fine.” Whether he knew that I would be okay or not wasn’t the point. He spoke those words with authority and confidence. That was twenty years ago this year. Dr. Carl Jacobs is an incredibly intelligent and talented cardiologist. I have absolutely no doubt that his knowledge and skills saved my life that weekend…. so did his confident voice. A voice that spoke with calm authority. I didn’t know whether I would live or die. But his voice convinced me that he knew, and so I relaxed, knowing that I would live.

Sometimes I have occasion to treat children that have not been trained to behave well, and often show no manners or respect whatsoever. Rodney and his parents were in my office and Rodney was all over the place and his parents were powerless to make him behave. “Rodney – sit still.”  “Rodney what did I just tell you?” “Rodney if you behave we’ll go to Dairy Queen.”“Rodney, when you get home you are going to have a time out.” If parents cannot control their child at the age of four – how do they expect to be able to do it at fourteen? Anyway, Rodney finally got down off his mother’s lap and began to pick up something off of my desk. I said in a firm voice to Rodney, a voice that was confident and that I expected Rodney to obey -“Rodney stop. Don’t touch that. Get back up on your mother’s knee.” He did. The amazed parents ask why he would listen to me and not them? I said “my voice conveyed confidence and authority and he knew that I expected him to obey me.” I said to them – “children know when someone is serious by the tone and strength in their voice. If you are not firm and if your voice is not full of confidence, don’t even expect him to obey you.”

A confident, self assured voice of authority works wonders whether you are advancing your point at the office, a civic group, church and especially if you are delivering a speech. If you are on a conference call or a meeting and you use a negative modifier – then you have just lost the ability to influence anyone. Something like this sabotages you. “This might sound like a dumb idea but… “If you think that you have an idea that is dumb… why would anyone else think that it is a good one?

If you feel that you could use more confidence to raise your children, to excel at public speaking, in grow in your career, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation.

Bob Crow is a behavioral therapist board certified in clinical and medical hypnotherapy. He practices in Atlanta Georgia working with those wishing to overcome stress, panic, phobias, procrastination and fears. With those that wish to perform better in sports, sales, public speaking, to stop smoking, to lose weight permanently, to quit sabotaging relationships and any other area of behavioral change that would make life more enjoyable.

“Pop” psychologists have been using the term the comfort zone for years. Their premise is that many people don’t move ahead in life with their dreams, because they are afraid to leave what they are use to, what they are familiar with, what has been called… the comfort zone.  But is the zone that they are trying to avoid leaving, really that comfortable? Is it even comfortable at all? In my behavioral therapy practice in Atlanta Ga, where I utilize hypnotherapy, I find that people are quite miserable in this so called comfort zone. They resist the behavioral changes that could literally transform their lives because they’re afraid of the unknown. One of the strongest drives that man has is to keep things familiar. Why not rename the comfort zone? Why not call it what it truly is – the familiar zone?

Why are some folks afraid of meeting new people? It’s because new people are unfamiliar to them. Why do some continue in an abusive relationship? Why do some stay in an unhappy personal situation? Why do some hang on to a dead end job? Because they fear change. Many would rather deal with the familiar, even though it is unpleasant, rather than with the unfamiliar.

Why don’t individuals leave their old familiar zone? Fear! It is because of fear. Fear of the unknown. They are allowing fear to hold them back; this lets them keep things familiar – and in their mind, they must keep things familiar!

Many people didn’t realize it, but when they tried in the past to make changes in their lives, they attempted to do so with the willpower and discipline of their conscious mind. But… their efforts were doomed to fail from the start, because one cannot make lasting behavioral change in the conscious or thinking mind – only in the subconscious mind. When things didn’t work out the way that they had planned, they became discouraged. They then reverted to their old familiar behavior! Familiar… but not comfortable.

Through hypnosis, one is able to access the alpha and theta states of the subconscious mind; therefore one is able to bring about true behavioral change. And without behavioral change… things will stay pretty much the same as they have been in the past.

Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind.  If you want to change your life – you’ve got to be willing to make changes and move out of your familiar zone. You cannot move ahead and stay where you are at the same time! The choice is yours. If you have decided that your comfort zone really hasn’t been very comfortable  and has been holding you back from a richer and fuller life, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation.

Bob Crow is a behavioral therapist board certified in clinical and medical hypnotherapy. He practices in Atlanta Georgia working with those wishing to overcome stress, panic, phobias, procrastination and fears. With those that wish to perform better in sports, sales, public speaking, to stop smoking, to lose weight permanently, to quit sabotaging relationships and any other area of behavioral change that would make life more enjoyable.

Many of the weight loss referrals that I receive in my hypnotherapy practice in Atlanta Georgia, come from surgeons that have performed gastric band bypass surgery on patients that have then regained their lost weight after the surgery. The majority of the patients that have undergone this potentially dangerous procedure that requires general anesthesia, have regained most if not all of their weight within two years of their surgery! With all of the risk involved with the tremendously costly gastric bypass surgery, how is this possible? It’s because this invasive surgical procedure does not address the reason that the patient was/is over weight in the first place. Without dealing with this problem, the patient will continue the eating patterns that caused them to be overweight, and in all likelihood regain their weight.  Some have likened the drastic surgical gastric bypass surgery procedure, as like putting a band aid on a broken leg instead of repairing the fracturelarge inflatable water slide rental!

Diets utilizing will power and discipline don’t work for permanent weight loss and never can! In fact, the willpower and discipline generally give out in 72 hours or less, and the individual has failed at, and then quits yet one more diet. The what’s the use feeling then sets in.

That the virtual gastric bypass procedure is infinitely safer is not open to debate, but the overwhelming reason to do the virtual gastric surgery procedure through hypnosis instead of the surgical bypass surgery, is not that it’s a less expensive and safer, which it certainly is, but because the virtual gastric bypass procedure  deals with the issues that have brought about the overweight condition in the first place, thereby delivering a permanent solution. The virtual gastric bypass procedure  addresses the root cause of the patient’s weight problem. It is also thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars less costly and the patient does not have to experience the painful recovery that one does from the surgical procedure.

No one overeats because their body is calling for more nourishment. Individuals overeat because of emotional reasons. They’re sad. They’re lonely. They’re worried. They’re angry. They’re stressed. The list goes on and on. One overeats to feel better and to overcome whatever hurt that they are experiencing.

In a word, surgical bypass surgery is a mechanical and temporary solution to an emotional problem, whereas virtual gastric bypass surgery is the cure to the emotional reasons that cause one to overeat. The cues to overeating are found in the cognitive maps of the subconscious mind. No amount of mechanical  (surgical), or talk therapy utilizing the conscious mind in the beta brainwave state, will remedy the causes of overeating. Overeating must be dealt with in the subconscious mind – and hypnosis for over three hundred years has been acknowledged as being the only bridge to the subconscious mind.  The bottom line is this, virtual gastric band bypass surgery utilizing hypnosis therapy works!

The individual electing virtual bypass surgery will not have to experience the stress of being in a surgical suite, the anesthesia that produces  the constipation, the cutting, the sutures, the staples and of course the convalescence period. The actual speed for the loss of weight to the virtual bypass procedure through hypnotherapy and the surgical procedure  is similar. One does not leave the hospital with a huge weight loss with the surgical procedure, it takes time for the body to use up its fat stores with either method.  For a complimentary consultation to see if virtual bypass surgery is something that you might consider – call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827.

It’s my birthday!

It’s your birthday!

It’s Friday!

I’m on vacation!

It’s a picnic!

It’s Thanksgiving!

It’s Christmas!

Okay, just one small piece.

What was I supposed to do? I couldn’t be rude, it was a baby shower.

What was I supposed to do? I couldn’t be rude, it was a wedding.

What was I supposed to do? It was my old boss’s retirement party.

What was I supposed to do? It was my high school class reunion.

How often do I get to have a girl’s night out?

How often do I go on a cruise?

Don’t I have to reward myself for being good once in a while?!?!?

If you don’t move beyond the above kind of thinking, you will never lose the weight that you desire to lose – instead you will destine yourself, to a life of one diet after another until you finally give up.

No matter what the supposed justification or rationalization, the above examples of what I call, celebratory eating, are really just EXCUSES to overeat! You say you want to be thin trim and healthy. In fact you’ve been saying that for years. But if you continue to behave contrary to your weight loss goals by using the above as reasons to snack and overeat – your weight and size will remain the same. If you want to change the way that you deal with overeating – you must do it in your subconscious mind. That way, you absentmindedly eat the right foods – instead of absentmindedly eating the wrong foods. That’s why hypnosis is the perfect solution for permanent weight loss. Absent minded overeating has worked to your detriment; let’s enlist your powerful subconscious mind and enable you to unconsciously eat right!

Use of aversion therapy with hypnosis is an incredible tool for the chronic celebratory overeater that has self sabotaged themselves for years. Hypnotherapy will give the celebratory overeater an entirely new mindset that will enable them to overcome those moments of weakness.

You’ve tried diets, discipline and willpower for years. If you feel that this is your time and your window of opportunity to finally lose the weight you’ve been wanting to lose for years, and to get off of the constant diet roller coaster, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation.

Bob Crow is a behavioral therapist board certified in clinical and medical hypnotherapy. He practices in Atlanta Georgia working with those wishing to overcome stress, panic, phobias, procrastination and fears. With those that wish to perform better in sports, sales, public speaking, to stop smoking, to lose weight permanently, to quit sabotaging relationships and any other area of behavioral change that would make life more enjoyable.

Bob Crow 404.277.1827 www.bobcrowhypnosis.com bob@bobcrowhypnosis.com

This material is the sole property of Bob Crow and his heirs. Copyright 2010 Bob Crow. Copying, duplicating, reprinting or transmitting this material in any form or any manner without the express written permission of Bob Crow or his heirs is strictly forbidden and is in violation of US and international law copyright law.

I get a steady stream of both children and adults with their presenting complaints being ADD. Some are unaware that in many cases their own actions have brought the ADD syndrome on. Others feel that their (ability?) to multitask is cool and have not yet connected multitasking with their inability to focus and to stay on target with tasks or projects until they are completed.

Multitasking has become a buzzword, much like the cool sounding MBA buzzwords that populate so many of today’s conference calls and memos. Driving one’s car while texting and talking on the phone should be more correctly called conflict-tasking, not multi-tasking. Reading an email while simultaneously watching television and doing homework would be another form of conflict-tasking.

A businessman I was working with told me of an interview that he himself had experienced. An HR person conducted this businessman’s phone interview while the HR person was driving his car and hunting for a parking space at the airport! Many notions come to mind. Could there be another way for that HR person to communicate that my client was unimportant? Would there be another way that the HR person could demonstrate his lack of courtesy, class and good manners? Could he find another way to illustrate that he was an exceptionally poor ambassador for the company that he represented?

A person feels like they are getting more done when they multitask. This is because they are keeping themselves over busy, at least maybe slightly overwhelmed and most likely in a mild state of confusion. In reality, they are fatiguing their brain by causing it to keep connecting – disconnecting – connecting – disconnecting etc.  I am well aware that many people pride themselves on multi–tasking, but unless they have the brain of an alien from another solar system, they are simply deluding themselves and decreasing their efficiency.

Everyone’s brain is capable of holding onto only one thought at a time. Did I say everyone’s? When we call on our brain to multi-task we are asking it not to focus, but to keep switching it’s attention back and forth between those several tasks. When a person keeps themselves in a continual beta mode, they are not able to utilize the beneficial and vital problem solving alpha waves. They lay in bed at night trying to fall asleep, while with the problems of the day keep playing over and over and over in their mind. They keep themselves in a continual beta mode state until they drop into a fitful non refreshing sleep out of sheer exhaustion. Then the alarm goes off and they are out of the house in 35 minutes, attempting to catch up. But they never do… That lifestyle causes this individual that is unable to concentrate and unable to focus to be ineffectual – contrary to what his ego thinks! For additional source material check the blog page on my website. Some titles to peruse would be Stress, Sickness and Syndromes, The Mind and It’s Modes, Disconnect!, Reclaim Your Brain! and Mental fibrillation.

Want to have better focus? Want to be able to concentrate? Want to enable your mind to function on a higher level? Want to quit being in a stress mode going from one crisis to another? Call Bob Crow for a complimentary consultation.

Bob Crow is a behavioral therapist board certified in clinical and medical hypnotherapy. He practices in Atlanta Georgia working with those wishing to overcome stress, panic, phobias, procrastination and fears. With those that wish to perform better in sports, sales, public speaking, to stop smoking, to lose weight permanently, to quit sabotaging relationships and any other area of behavioral change that would make life more enjoyable.

Early man didn’t connect childbirth with  sex because the birth of the offspring came so long after the sex act that they weren’t connected. Modern man doesn’t connect the debilitating stress load he’s carrying to heart attacks, strokes, syndromes including IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), chronic fatigue syndrome, cystic fibrosis, PTSS (post traumatic stress syndrome), fibromyalgia and cancer for the same reason. The symptoms don’t manifest themselves for years!

Every cancer researcher knows that there is a connection between stress and most if not all forms of cancer. Stress wrecks havoc on the immune system so it isn’t able to do its job. People can carry a serious stress load with apparently no ill effects for years.

We’ve long realized that man could be pushed over edge mentally by stress, and we now realize that he can be pushed over the edge into an illness or syndrome as well. If a person is mostly generating beta brain waves and does not go into the extremely beneficial alpha and theta waves except for when he falls deep asleep, his body and mind are not able to be refreshed by the alpha and the theta brain waves. One simply cannot relax when the brain is in the beta mode. Ever. Stress is experienced only in the beta state. Don’t get me wrong, we couldn’t function without moving into the beta state, but a balance must be struck.

Stress lowers the immune system. The immune system is what the body uses to fight off infection, disease and these things called syndromes. Syndromes can be every bit as debilitating as a disease, but what is a syndrome anyway? A syndrome is a disorder with some common signs and symptoms that taken together are characteristic of a particular malady. Quite often it defies a positive diagnosis. Alleviation of some or all of the symptoms varies from patient to patient, and regrettably is all that medical science is able to provide at this point in time.

To fight off stress, one must drop down from the beta mode, which is a fully engaged state, into alpha and theta which are the relaxing, the reflective, the introspective and the creative modes. The creative modes are not just for the arts or inventions, they are where the mind comes up with solutions to the problems of life. When the answers to the problems are found – the stress disappears. These two modes, the alpha and the theta mode are where our mind is refreshed and re-energized.bungee run for sale

Stress will most definitely make life less enjoyable and in many cases – unbearable. When we are presented with disappointment uncertainty or what seems like an unsolvable problem or a disaster – the most common reflex is to stress. But what if you instead reflexed to calm? What would that do for your life? Call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation.

Bob Crow is a behavioral therapist board certified in clinical and medical hypnotherapy. He practices in Atlanta Georgia working with those wishing to overcome stress, panic, phobias, procrastination and fears. With those that wish to perform better in sports, sales, public speaking, to stop smoking, to lose weight permanently, to quit sabotaging relationships and any other area of behavioral change that would make life more enjoyable.

Bob Crow 404.277.1827 www.bobcrowhypnosis.com bob@bobcrowhypnosis.com

This material is the sole property of Bob Crow and his heirs. Copyright 2010 Bob Crow. Copying, duplicating, reprinting or transmitting this material in any form or any manner without the express written permission of Bob Crow or his heirs is strictly forbidden and is in violation of US and international law copyright law.

Our mind is like an exquisitely designed automatic transmission shifting smoothly from Delta (deep sleep) to Beta (the highest level of awareness) or from the subconscious levels; delta, theta and alpha to the conscious level – beta in seamlessly. Unfortunately, some people treat their minds much like they could a manual transmission, forcing their mind from first gear (sleep) straight into fourth (fully alert) while missing the important intermediate gears. Day after day they jump out of bed from a sound sleep and are out the door in twenty five minutes. When they miss these middle gears, they are missing out on the relaxing modes, the reflective modes, the introspective modes and the creative modes that are so essential at excelling at problem solving and learning.  Missing the middle modes causes extreme stress. Stress weakens the immune system and we get sick or suffer from syndromes.  Just as it is hard on a car to go from 1^st to 4^th, likewise it is hard on not only our minds but our bodies as well, to always be in either low gear (sleep) or high gear (fully engaged) and miss the essential middle modes of life.

When in hypnosis, the mind will shift from the alpha, the alpha-theta and into the theta mode. Great public speakers, actors, fighter pilots, artists and top performing athletes spend much time in the alpha, alpha–theta and theta modes.

Beta – 15 Hz to 20 Hz

I sometimes refer to it as the command mind as beta is the conscious or analytical mind. Beta is where we spend most of our waking moments. We experience emotional sensations in the beta mode such as anxiety, anger, excitement, fear, surprise and stress. In beta, the mind is fully engaged. If you’re trying to actively accomplish a task whether it is following a recipe or trying to hook up your high def television set, or at work or flying an airplane, you are in the beta mode. It’s also the only mode where we can detect danger.  Beta is verbal, math and linear skills. Any time that you analyze you are in beta. If a news program engages you, you are in beta – ergo you are not relaxing as you are not in the alpha mode. You are in your beta mode when you read this chapter! When one is in their beta mode their brain’s frequency is around 20 kHz.  A public speaker or someone arguing would be in a higher level of beta, kind of like overdrive in a car. In this state the frequencies can range up to 40 kHz! High beta is an extremely intense or engaged state like a minister giving a highly spirited sermon or someone arguing or delivering a speech.

In the initial stages of hypnosis our mind transitions from the beta waves to the alpha waves. Our mind is still alert but beginning to relax. I always remind people at the onset of a hypnosis session that when I say ”sleep” it is not the sleep that we think of going into at night, but I am using the word sleep is a shortcut for saying – relax… mentally, physically and emotionally.

Alpha – 9 Hz to 15 Hz

Alpha brain wave activity is found among highly creative and intuitive individuals including those with exceptional insight into solving complex problems. Alpha waves are also quite relaxing, which explains the ability of some individuals to find solutions that were elusive to others.  In fact, if you close your eyes while in an alpha state, your alpha waves will measurably increase. That is why closed eyes enable one to go into hypnosis more easily.  Children spend a lot of their time in the alpha mode. Quite often a child will exercise their imagination much more than many adults will. When an adult reduces the amount of time that they spend in alpha and replaces it by staying in the beta mode, they will lose much of and generally all of their problem solving ability. Problems are always solved with the imagination and creativity found in their alpha or theta mode – never in beta. Many adults become overwhelmed by the stresses of life and stay in the beta mode continually. Then they finally drop asleep out of sheer exhaustion at night which is the delta mode. As a result – they are tired when they go to sleep, and are still tired when they awaken.

The alpha mind has been called the creative mind. When you meditate or reflect you are in an alpha state. When you figure out how to solve a problem, you are in the alpha state. In fact when in the alpha mode, one’s learning rate will be sharply increased. When you are absorbed – you are in alpha. Alpha is the first level of the subconscious mind! Some individuals when hypnotized never drop any deeper than the alpha state. Some wonder when they are hypnotized for the very first time if they actually were in hypnosis as they might remark “I didn’t feel any differently.” That is quite normal. Your mind was designed in such a way that it will shift up and down through the different modes without you noticing it! Have you ever been aware of the exact moment when you drifted off to sleep? Of course not!

Research has shown that the alpha mode is an ideal state for learning. In alpha the mind is sharp and it is very receptive to suggestions and ideas and here is where we have our epiphanies. It’s in the alpha mode where our thoughts and concepts come together. The alpha mode is an inspired state of mind. When a person senses danger there are virtually no alpha brain waves present.

Those who spend more time in alpha have less stress and experience decreased anxiety. Alpha mode is great for releasing tension. However one cannot just will themselves into the alpha state any more than one can make themselves fall asleep. If one wants to make it easier to drift into alpha, do not ingest caffeine as caffeine suppresses both the alpha and theta brain waves.

Those that frequently utilize hypnosis, generate more alpha waves than those that do not! Research scientists have discovered that certain kinds of music similar to the soundtrack of Somewhere In Time, will allow the mind to drift easier from beta into alpha. You.ve heard of artists, jazz musicians; top athletes including some golfers and runners as being in the zone. They are so focused when they are in the alpha mode they are unaware of their surroundings and any distractions. When they are in their zone, they generate great bursts of alpha waves while continuing to function pretty much on auto pilot, like when driving a car or walking.

Theta 5 Hz to 9 Hz

Somnambulism. Very deep relaxation, serenity and creativity. When you finish a task and allow your mind to wander or daydream you are in theta mode. If you have ever been driving and looked around and can’t remember how you got there or where you are, you were in a theta.

Theta is a highly creative state. One will pass through theta on the way into delta (sleep), but one cannot go into theta on purpose without hypnosis. We then move from delta into theta in our ninety minute sleep cycles, we go into REM sleep. Rapid eye movement. It has been found that we will process up to 8 hours of new data in only five minutes in REM sleep. A dream or nightmare that felt like it went on for hours, most likely lasted from only three to twenty seconds. Wow!

People who lose themselves when they go for a walk, or take a shower, or go on a long drive; or any task where they are functioning automatically, often are literally flooded by ideas. When this happens, the mind has shifted down into the theta mode. If I get up in the morning and am not rushing myself and before I am fully awake, I often find myself flooded and awash with ideas – these are times when I’m in either high theta or low alpha. The mind shifts so seamlessly – who knows? An individual is far far better off easing into the day and will be much sharper, more creative and able to solve tasks and deal with life better, than someone who goes from delta (deep sleep) to beta (full arousal) in twenty five minutes. Those people don’t allow their mind to utilize their two intermediate gears or modes, alpha and theta. They never catch up because the miss these modes. They go from beta to delta to beta to delta day after day after day, thus never allowing themselves to get refreshed and renewed. Although I awaken at five, I generally take two hours before I leave the house. Theta mode is physical automatic pilot. When walking you don’t have to think: left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot – repeat. A class two theta state that is initiated in hypnosis enhances focus and memory retrieval. This therapy is referred to as regression. A person that is regressed during hypnosis is often able to remember incidents that they have forgotten or suppressed for many many years.

Delta 1.5 to 4 Hz

Delta mode is pretty much deep sleep with our brain running very slowly, not dreaming, no awareness, no consciousness and of course no emotions or feelings. Approximately every 90 minutes our brain starts running a little faster and move up into the theta mode and dreams. When the brain’s frequency climbs even higher we will experience the REM sleep – which we discussed earlier!

If you would like to fully utilize your potential, you need to utilize the most powerful computer that you will ever have… your own mind! Call Bob Crow for a complimentary consultation.

Bob Crow is a behavioral therapist board certified in clinical and medical hypnotherapy. He practices in Atlanta Georgia working with those wishing to overcome stress, panic, phobias, procrastination and fears. With those that wish to perform better in sports, sales, public speaking, to stop smoking, to lose weight permanently, to quit sabotaging relationships and any other area of behavioral change that would make life more enjoyable.

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