My name is Bob Crow. I’m a behavioral therapist board certified in both clinical and medical hypnosis.  Hypnosis is not our only therapy… but by far it’s the most effective. I work with those that desire to lose weight through hypnosis, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Many of these individuals are tired of the weight loss roller coaster and seek a permanent weight loss solution through hypnosis in Atlanta. The program consists of three phases and it’s most important to finish all three to assure permanent weight loss. The three phases are the weight loss phase. The re feeding phase is where some of the foods that weren’t available in the weight loss phase are re introduced under controlled conditions. And lastly, the maintenance phase which enables one to not regain the weight they’ve lost.

Those that stick to my program seven days a week – have great success. You noticed that I said seven days. Not five. Not six. But seven days a week. But most people when they’ve tried conventional weight loss programs, took the weekend off! But if you take the weekend off, whatever calorie deficit achieved through the week, will be lost on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. Many that say they’d like to lose weight have been doing it that way for years, but with no lasting long term success. The eating cues most often come from events or places.

What is it about weekends that causes most diets to tank? Well on the weekends the daily routine is changed. Many get up later which allows their blood glucose to drop to lower levels than it would be when they get up through the week. They eat later and absent mindedly eat what they shouldn’t. With their daily routine changed the opportunity is there to eat foods that aren’t in the weight loss phase. Samples available at Costco and other grocery stores. Tail gate parties, weddings and ball games. Also if they go to the mall, they are off their eating schedule, so they go to the food courts located in the malls.

One’s weekend might start this way. Friends are met after work. The friends get there before you do and order drinks and chips. Before you arrived, you were determined not to eat what’s detrimental to you, but the appetizers and maybe your favorite drink await you. And… well a couple of nachos won’t hurt. Will they? Actually yes. When one eats the foods that they shouldn’t in the weight loss phase, they’ll re-awaken their desire for those foods and won’t be able to eat just two, or three or four chips or whatever it is.

One of your new behavioral changes will be to view food as fuel for your body and mind! The old you, viewed food as entertainment, something to make you or feel better or something to do. So if you hang out people on the weekends that still look at food this way, you’ll do what they do. You’ll eat! And if you eat the things that put the weight on you in the first place, you’re guaranteeing that you’ll destroy your hard won week’s progress. By the way…don’t make your weight loss program a topic of table conversation either. Friends don’t know how to lose weight and keep it off. They only have opinions!

Is there a way to break the cycle of five weight loss days followed by the diet destroying days on the weekends? Yes there is! It’s hypnotherapy. Hypnosis will enable you to not want to take the weekend off and to avoid many of the things that you did to sabotage yourself in the past. If you’re serious about losing excess weight and want to make the behavioral changes that will enable you to do so, I invite you to call Bob Crow for a complimentary consultation to get you onto the road to your last weight loss program ever!

My name is Bob Crow. I’m a behavioral therapist that is board certified in both clinical and medical hypnotherapy. I practice in Atlanta, Georgia at the Atlanta Center for Behavioral Change.

With hypnotherapy it’s impossible for me to make someone do something that they don’t want to do – stage hypnosis shows to the contrary. Hypnosis therapy will enable an individual to make behavioral changes that they want to make. There may be changes that they need to make, but wanting to make them is more important than needing to make them. The want to needs to be stronger than the need to!

For example – the evidence is undisputable that cigarette smoking does cause several kinds of cancer in addition to lung cancer. The 5000 to 7000 carcinogenic agents in every cigarette are absorbed by the blood in the lungs. This blood is pumped throughout the entire body. Hence one can also contract testicular, ovarian, bladder, breast, kidney, liver and well you get the picture. The important thing is for a smoker to not only know that he or she needs to stop smoking, but more importantly that they must want to stop smoking as well.

An obese individual knows that a high fat, high sugar and high simple carbohydrate diet can bring on and exacerbate diabetes, colon cancer, breast cancer and heart disease. The most important thing is not for an individual to know that they need to immediately change their eating choices and habits, but more importantly that they want to change their eating behavior.

If a person wants to make a behavioral change, hypnosis by a qualified hypnotherapist most definitely is the best choice. The smoking and overeating habits reside in the cognitive maps of the subconscious mind, therefore resolutions to stop smoking or eat healthier and in the correct amounts won’t enable the individual to change because that person is trying to accomplish that with their conscious mind. Long term – that simply cannot be done. Remember – your want to must be greater than your need to!

I invite you to call me, Bob Crow for a consultation for any area of your life that you feel needs behavioral change. Call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 at the Atlanta Center for Behavioral Change.

Hypnosis is the remedy for failing to take action. Rarely does one continue to not take action for any other reason than fear. Kicking the can down the road, preparing and over preparing, delaying for just the right moment are all nothing more than procrastination. Period. Rationalization is just lying to yourself! An individual paralyzed by fear will most often dispute and deny this is the case. They continue to come up with reasons – actually their excuses to delay the action that they need to take. Of course they vehemently defend that they’re avoiding taking this action.

Why doesn’t reading self help books and listening to positive CDs help? It’s because those efforts can only access the conscious mind! But… the fear that keeps one from taking action is located in the subconscious mind!

Quite often the individual wanting to sell someone something will have one coffee meeting after another without ever… asking for the business! They don’t want to ask for the business, because the individual that they’re selling to might… say no! An individual paralyzed by fear doesn’t realize it, but by putting off taking the action or asking for the order, they feel that they can’t be turned down, so therefore they haven’t failed!

If you think that this might be something that you need to confront, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation. Bob Crow is a behavioral therapist, board certified in clinical and medical hypnotherapy. Bob Crow is a co founder of the Atlanta Center for Behavioral Change.

My name is Bob Crow. I’m a behavioral therapist practicing in Atlanta Georgia, board certified in medical and clinical hypnosis. What is the difference between a phobia and a fear? A phobia is an unreasonable fear such as riding in an elevator, claustrophobia or agoraphobia which is being afraid of leaving one’s home. In general all phobias should be eliminated. Some fears are healthy – I’m afraid of sticking my hand in the cage of a lion at the zoo. That fear keeps me safe.

With the exception of being afraid of loud noises and falling backwards, we are born fearless. We aren’t born afraid of heights, snakes, making sales calls or public speaking. We are taught those fears, often by well meaning parents, relatives and others that influence us negatively. A young child spends the first five years of his or her life mainly in their subconscious mind. Anything and everything negative or positive that is told to the child about themselves goes straight into the child’s cognitive maps. The cognitive maps are a combination of auto pilot and guide. Kind of a “this is what I know and believe”.  At this point, everything they’re told about themselves – good or bad… they will believe because the minds filter, the conscious or “critical” mind which allows them to select what they want to believe isn’t developed yet. So… limiting beliefs are accepted as gospel.

No amount of rational thought or positive thinking can counter fears or phobias, because rational thought is a function of the conscious mind… but the limiting beliefs and or self opinions are located in the subconscious mind in those cognitive maps.

So where does one go to negate fears of public speaking or a phobia of riding an elevator? The only place is the subconscious mind. And… hypnosis is the only way that we can access the subconscious deliberately. Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind.

If you have a fear of public speaking or any other fear that you want to move past, or if you have a debilitating phobia, contact Bob Crow at the Atlanta Center for behavioral change – 404.277.1827.

Fear of public speaking responds very well to hypnosis.  Many people have this fear.  In fact it is one of the most common phobias.  One study states “people fear public speaking more than death”.  Perhaps that statement is a bit extreme.  But how many people, other than professional speakers, do you know that really want to make a speech?

Salespeople fear making presentations, school children don’t want to speak in front of the class, and business people call in sick so that they don’t need to make a big presentation.  What’s really going on here?

In most cases it is a combination of fears. Fear of failure and fear of criticism are two of the most prevalent.  But in some cases the individual isn’t sure.  All they know is that the thought of getting up in front of a group and speaking is terrifying.

The physical symptoms can be extreme.  Hands shake and sweat, the heart pounds, you can’t think and your face may be red.  These are all symptoms of the fight or flight syndrome kicking in strongly.  Once these symptoms have started it is next to impossible to pull yourself back out of this feeling.

With hypnosis and NLP we change the triggers that cause your body to overreact to the perception of danger. We calm the central nervous system and change how you feel about speaking.  We also improve confidence and take away the fear of what others may be thinking.

If you have a fear of public speaking, call me to become more effective in all parts of your life.

Bob Crow  404-277-1827

Hypnosis is an incredible tool to stop smoking. Smoking is a dangerous, even deadly habit. It’s a leading cause of cancer. It also increases your risk for heart attacks, strokes, lung disease, and other health problems, including bone fractures and cataracts.   Millions of people in America still smoke even though the evidence is clear that smoking kills.

During hypnosis to stop smoking we use suggestions to create an aversion to smoking. By giving the suggestion that the cigarette will taste bad, the desire to smoke will decrease. We use suggestions to help overcome the habitual thoughts by replacing them with healthier thought processes.  We also use suggestions to reinforce all the health benefits of becoming a non-smoker such as:

• Breath is fresher
• Sense of smell is improved
• Sense of taste improves.
• Increased cardiovascular function
• Lungs heal and risk of cancer begins to drop within months.

Along with the physical benefits of becoming a non-smoker there are also psychological benefits.

• Improved self confidence
• Improved self-esteem due to overcoming this addiction/habit.
• Freedom to go where you wish
• The ability to widen your social connections
• Increased desire to improve health.

When you stop smoking your world will open up in many ways. Many of my clients who become non-smokers find that they begin to have a more active lifestyle.  Some might start an exercise program or be able to travel more easily without feeling restricted on airplanes, trains etc.  Many find that other health concerns improve or resolve completely.  Of course lung related issues will improve but there are many other syndromes and illnesses that also may improve:

• Back Pain
• Insomnia
• Fibromyalgia
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Irritable Bowel/ Diverticulitis
• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Improved memory

Stopping smoking is the one thing that every smoker should do this year.  The improvements will be seen within weeks.  Now is the time to take action and overcome this disgusting habit.

If you’d like to become a non-smoker this New Year, call me for all the information you need to decide.

404-277-1827

Bob Crow

Have you ever asked yourself “why’d I do that?” You did it because of the programming of the cognitive maps in your subconscious mind! But why hypnosis?

Who we are. What we’re about… our personality, our habits, our moods, our memory banks, our cognitive maps – are found in our subconscious mind. In order to make any permanent behavioral changes in your life, you’ve got to make changes in how you see yourself and what you see yourself capable of achieving! I’m Bob Crow – a behavioral therapist that is board certified in both clinical and medical hypnotherapy. I practice in Atlanta Georgia.

Many have tried to improve their life using discipline, willpower, resolutions and positive thinking. The reason that one cannot make these changes permanent is because they are attempting do so with the conscious mind – not the subconscious mind.

Some have wanted to:

• Stop smoking.
• Lose weight permanently.
• Maybe not drink as much.
• Be more confident.
• Be more self assured.
• Be a better sales person.
• Become a great public speaker.
• Become a better husband, wife or manager.

Others might have desired to

• Shoot scratch golf.
• To have a killer serve in tennis.
• To perfect their music or acting.
• To be an engaging entertainer.
• To get rid of anxiety.
• In other words to excel in life!

In efforts to make behavioral changes in their lives, they’ve read tons and tons of self help and positive thinking books. They’ve attended motivational speeches and bought and listened to motivational cds and cassette tapes. They’ve really tried. But they tried by using their conscious mind – not their subconscious mind!

Efforts to make behavioral change using the conscious mind are destined to fail. Period! Permanent behavioral change – meaning behavioral change that lasts for more than a couple of days… can’t be made in the conscious mind. Habits, either good or bad aren’t located there. They’re located in the subconscious mind! That’s where one has to go in order to effect real, permanent behavioral change.

Permanent behavioral change must occur in the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is made up of the alpha and theta states. The alpha and theta states or modes are where we find our cognitive maps. A working definition of the cognitive maps comes from the Downs and Stea* text book – Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Behavior: “Cognitive mapping is the process by which and individual acquires, stores and recalls information about their everyday life.” These cognitive maps are where we find our habits and opinions. Opinions of who we are… confident, self assured and strong or timid, scared and fearful? These maps direct our behavior. If we want to change our behavior – we must do it by reprogramming the cognitive maps in our subconscious mind. Reprogramming these cognitive maps are the key to changing our behavior. The only way to access the subconscious mind deliberately is through hypnosis.

Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind.

One can just keep on trying to make the changes in their life just as they have in the past with positive thinking, the self help books and the listening to motivational speeches. But if it hasn’t worked long term in the past, then it won’t work in the future either. Albert Einstein said that “trying the same solution that hasn’t worked before, on the same problem, hoping that somehow it will work today, is the mark of insanity.” Well I don’t think its insanity, but it is kind of useless – isn’t it?

If you have an area in your life that you would like to improve… or if you would like to re-invent yourself, contact Bob Crow for a complimentary consultation. 404-277-1827

* Downs and Stea – Cognitive mapping.

Hypnosis is the way to improve your sales and how you see yourself. If your sales aren’t what you want them to be and you want to improve them and significantly increase your income, you’ve got to make some changes in not only how you function as a sales person – but how you see yourself as a sales person. Otherwise, your sales and income will continue pretty much as they have been in the past. You need to make permanent behavioral change. Hypnosis is one of the best kept secrets of high performing sales professionals and is also used extensively in sports.  If you’re reading this article, you’ve already tried the conventional methods. You’ve read the positive sales and self help books. You’ve went to countless workshops and sales meetings that were going to get you organized and really moving. You’ve bought and listened to the cds. Why were the long term effects of these efforts, minimal if not nonexistent?

The common denominator is that all of these approaches attempted to make permanent behavioral change in the conscious mind – not the subconscious mind. That can’t be done. Permanent behavioral can only occur in the subconscious mind. That’s where you’ll find your personality (how you relate with the world), your habits, moods, feelings, emotions, and memory banks. That’s also where we find the cognitive maps – kind of like our auto pilot. The only way for us to access our subconscious mind deliberately, is through hypnosis, as hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind.

I’m a behavioral therapist in Atlanta Georgia that uses hypnotherapy. I’m board certified in both medical and clinical hypnosis. I’ve been working with sales people for over twenty five years – enabling them to make permanent behavioral changes that resulted in real, measurable increases in their sales and most importantly, their income.

How many of you when you were a little boy or a little girl dreamed of being in sales? Right. That’s what I thought. Many that are in sales feel as though it was something that they settled for, as nothing else was available at the time. Many half jokingly say, “I didn’t selected sales – it selected me.” What does that mean? A doctor wouldn’t say that. Nor would a dentist or an architect. That kind of response is at cross purposes to a salesperson believing that what they do is worthwhile.

Last year I was speaking to group of about 700 real estate sales people. I found it interesting that none of these “sales people” wanted to admit that they were in sales! They’d call refer to themselves as  associates, consultants, partners, advisers… anything, anything…  but a sales person. It didn’t seem to me like they had a good opinion of what they did for a living. My impression was they didn’t appear to be proud of it! Sales is not talking people into buying what they don’t want. Allow me to give you the Bob Crow definition of sales. Sales…is acquainting people with what is good!

Whether I’m traveling around the country putting on The 10% Edge or A Day Off The Race seminars, delivering keynote speeches, riding in an elevator or standing in line somewhere, I always ask someone that’s standing nearby this simple question. “Are you buying or selling today? Most at first look confused that a stranger would be speaking to them, but some will say, “I’m selling!’ – some will say “I’m buying.” And some say “neither”. I chide the people that say neither and tell them “we’re all either selling or buying everyday!” Many people don’t understand that when they’re on a job interview – they’re selling. When they’re in a meeting trying to convince others to see their point of view – they’re selling! Many that are in sales don’t understand how important their subconscious view of what they do is, and how it affects their performance. Let me share with you a story about the importance of sales in a business.

After WWII, many military pilots came home and started flying schools. They’d buy a Piper Cub, get some space at a small airport, string a banner between two telephone poles that advertised Learn to Fly and then they’d wait. They’d wait for someone to drive by that wanted to learn how to fly and take them up for a flying lesson and then they would land and wait… they’d wait for someone else to drive by that wanted to learn how to fly. If someone else would stop by, they’d repeat the process. They spent much more time waiting for customers to appear than they did giving flying lessons.

Two other men came home from WWII with a different approach. They pooled their army pay and bought five small planes and hired pilots as instructors. Their business grew, prospered and flourished. Soon they became dealers for selling planes, selling parts, radios, fixing the motors, selling gas and whatever else was related to flying. The business was worth several million dollars when the sold it. How did they do it? Since neither of them knew how to fly, that turned out to be what made them successful. They tended to the sales side of their business! They spent their time getting customers. They went to colleges, junior colleges and trade schools and sold the concept that “airlines were the coming thing, and those that knew how to fly would have a chance to get on with the airline, and make lots of money. Again, sales and getting customers is the most important part of any business.

I appear from time to time on radio and television shows. I once was a guest on a television program where the studio audience could ask me questions. One woman stood up and asked, “What about blank” – she then named a very famous afternoon TV hostess. She continued, “Why can’t she keep her weight off after she loses it?” The TV personality had a history of losing 70 pounds and regaining them. She’d then go on another diet – lose 65 or 70 pounds only to regain it. And repeat the process again and again. Some had estimated through the years that she had probably lost and regained close to 600 pounds until finally she just gave up. It was an excellent question because: we cannot perform in a manner that is inconsistent with how our subconscious mind sees ourselves. My answer to the questioner was – This woman’s subconscious mind saw her as a heavy person, and when she lost her weight – her subconscious mind corrected for the perceived error and allowed her to sabotage herself, thereby regaining weight.

Does that have anything to do with sales? Yes. Just as the TV Hostess would never  have believed that she’d been self sabotaging herself for years, neither does the sales person that’s not performing at the top of their game. He or she just goes on “beating themselves up”.  If your subconscious mind sees you as an average sales person – you will in fact perform as an average sales person, and no amount of visualizing success in your conscious mind, no amount of reading positive books or listening to motivational speeches can change that. Those efforts only work with the conscious mind, but that’s not where the problem lies.

Any permanent behavioral change that you wish to make, and that includes how you see yourself, can only be made in the subconscious mind. Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind. If you want to make some positive permanent behavioral changes in your life, give me a call.

Hypnosis helps a salesperson to excel, to the best they can be.  There aren’t too many people that from the first grade on, want to grow up and be a salesperson. In fact many people get into sales by default – meaning at some point in their life, it was the only option available to them..  In my practice I use hypnosis to help salespeople become more effective, high functioning people and by doing so they become better at sales.

The day of the slick “used car” type of salesperson has been long gone. Now people are more counter suggestive than they were a long time ago. But if you are willing to get to the top of your game in sales today, you can have an incredible life and lifestyle. It can truly be a rewarding experience. In a word – be the best.

Let’s take a moment and let me give you the Bob Crow definition of what sales really is. Are you ready? Please allow this to sink in.

Sales…is acquainting people with what is good. With that as how you see yourself and what you do – you should definitely hold your head high and be the very best at it. That means being so good in all phases of your work, not just selling aspect, but all of it. Getting up and doing the things that make things happen.  Remember this truth. Are you ready? If you do what you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do it… someday… you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.

See yourself as an authority. Speak with authority. Act with authority. See yourself as not only great at your personal sales and at the top of your game; but see yourself as being in demand as a speaker as well, instead of parroting the slick slogans, catchy comebacks and clever closes some hotshot speaker says work allow your true confidence to come through.

How does one make these changes? Well not with the conscious mind that’s for sure. How many seminars or workshops or conferences have you left excited about, only to fall right back into your old rut? Right. You can’t make behavioral changes in the conscious mind; these changes must take place in the cognitive maps of the subconscious mind. If you want to really excel at sales – give me a call. If you want to get to the top of your game and stay there, call me at 404.277.1827 for a consultation.

Hypnosis is an effective tool for getting rid of  nausea and fatigue of chemotherapy. Those that must under go chemotherapy are counseled by those that are administering it that “they should expect to feel tired and experience nausea”. And then they do. They were given a powerful negative suggestion by the administrator. The person that indicated that they going to feel bad, made this suggestion with good intentions. They didn’t want the person that was to undergo chemo to feel that the side effects were unusual, so they tell them to expect them! That is a suggestion. They will now expect those side effects!

Hypnosis deals with suggestions to the subconscious mind, and those suggestions have proved to be beneficial for medical purposes for well over two hundred years! Hypnotic suggestions allow people to quit smoking, quit drinking, to experience painless dentistry and to make permanent behavioral changes in their lives . Hypnotic suggestions are used to enable individuals to undergo colonoscopies  and cystoscopic examinations without either pain or discomfort! Isn’t this incredible? Doesn’t it make sense that if hypnosis will allow one to undergo medical procedures that normally are conducted with anesthesia without discomfort, these same types of suggestion while in hypnosis, will allow a person relief from the nausea and fatigue of chemo?  In fact the stomach and how it feels  is directly connected to the subconscious mind

I routinely see those that are seeking relief from the symptoms of IBS or Crohn’s disease. Are we saying that we have found a cure for them? Of course not. But isn’t it pretty cool that they can live their lives without the pain, the dysentery, the discomfort and the fear of an attack?

If you or someone you know is undergoing chemo or about to, give me a call for a complimentary consultation.