Anxiety in all of its forms responds incredibly well to hypnotherapy.

Anxiety, along with making life generally unenjoyable and unpleasant, can cause severe physical symptoms, bring on various real ailments and even attack the immune system. In the extreme, some are so overcome with anxiety that they no longer will leave their house. It has been shown that chronic anxiety can shorten one’s life!

Whether an individual suffers generalized anxiety disorder, from specific present day situational anxiety, vague and uneasy feelings of anxiousness, or an incident or incidents from childhood – hypnosis is the only therapy that will enable an individual to move past these types of anxiety permanently.

This writer is not of the belief that chemical lobotomies (using drugs to mask the symptoms) are called for except in cases where one is experiencing psychotic episodes. Those of course are beyond the scope of this discussion. This writer is not suggesting hypnosis for psychosis, that should be left to another type of therapist that can deal with organic and chemical imbalances with medical chemicals, or a neurological work up to rule out brain tumors.

But most individuals are not dealing with brain tumors and different types of psychological problems. Most that suffer from anxiety find themselves literally crippled in their daily lives including with how they deal with family and friends, their work relationships, worrying about the safety of their family, their finances and the list goes on and on. Some though, are dealing with taking an important exam – the bar, medical boards, sitting for their CPA, SAT, FAA exams including private pilot, sea plane, instrument, or multi engine ratings – utilizing several hypnotherapy sessions is far far more productive than “cramming” for exams and hoping to just pass. Wouldn’t it be nice to “ace” a test rather than just get by?

So if your are debilitated by, or held back by or self sabotaged by any kind of anxiety, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation to determine whether you want to move past anxiety through hypnosis.

With some victims, the pain is often absolutely excruciating. The cramping can cause them to curl up in a ball on their bedroom floor, their office, in a meeting, maybe even in an airliner, a hotel lobby or a restaurant. It can be so intense that the individual doesn’t care if other people see them or not.

Sufferers are often embarrassed when they need to leave a meeting, an appointment, church, a social function or even a date without wanting to explain their sudden departure when trying to find a rest room. Many are debilitated by having both constipation and dysentery within hours of each other. This makes it extremely difficult to schedule or attend meetings and keep appointments. The fear about when it may next strike makes one dread upcoming events. Some never plan an early morning flight as there is no way predicting for how their intestines and bowels will perform on a given day. Will it be debilitating cramps today or inconvenient dysentery?

These are just some of the presenting symptoms of a disorder known as Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS.

Treating this malady with hypnosis has proven to be quite affective and has made it an attractive therapy for many sufferers. The therapy is enjoyable and relaxing without the downside side effects that are part and parcel of many medications. Hypnotherapy uses the healing power of one’s own subconscious mind. Think about it. If you cut your finger, what heals the cut?  Right – your own body. Your body also develops antibodies to fight many infections without any outside help or cues.

There is also a not insignificant serendipity with hypnotherapy. Quite often, migraine or stress headaches either diminish or disappear altogether!  Remember, stress does not make our life happy!

If you have sought treatment for IBS and have not experienced relief, please call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation.

There’s no component in the realm of human endeavor that’s as essential to success and happiness as confidence. Confidence gives one power. Confidence gives one strength. Confidence enables one to act with authority. Although ability and intelligence are important, when one lives without confidence, the results will be disappointing. Even genius without confidence will always lead to under achievement!

If one has confidence, one can excel! It doesn’t really matter whether we’re talking about sports, public speaking, sales, relationships, singing, acting, meeting people… or whatever it is. Most often, not always, but most often, we have lots of confidence when no one is watching, but the fear of failure in front of others can be crippling, and the lack of confidence increases with the amount of pressure imposed on the individual either by themselves or by others.

A child is born with confidence. A child is also born with a pre-frontal cortex that’s not fully developed until maybe their late teens, and in the case of males, until they are twenty one or two. Among other things the pre-frontal cortex supplies impulse control. Since a toddler lacks the ability to govern their impulses, parents, brothers and sisters and extended family do it for them. But how they do it, will determine if they destroy the child’s self confidence in the process. Most often they do it with various critical corrections or useless questions that the child has no answer to like, “why did you do that?” “or what were you thinking?”  or “just who do you think you are?” In addition to serving no teaching or useful purpose, these questions begin to cause the child to doubt, not just their ability to reason, but to question and doubt their own self worth. This continues on through the adolescent years, when they are probably making even more poor decisions, and then on into the work place. Absenting living a confident life, doubt overwhelms them.

We’ve seen what happens to a person when they are filled with doubt and without confidence. Who hasn’t witnessed an event where an individual had to play taps or sing our national anthem in front of an audience, and they messed up! The trumpet player had played the notes over and over and over again correctly when he had practiced in the band room… but that was when he was alone. The vocalist had rehearsed the national anthem again and again and again… but that was in private. Then, on the day of the performance, the biggest confidence robber of all, doubt, rears its’ ugly head.  “What if I blow it?” Doubt is a real confidence killer. The fear of failing or not performing well when it really counts is paralyzing.

How has reading positive books, going to hear positive speakers, listening to motivational CDs, and telling yourself that you have confidence, worked out for you so far? The reason those things haven’t worked and can’t work is that those efforts to make behavioral change are all attempted in the conscious mind. Behavioral change can’t be made in the conscious mind. Ever. Behavioral change can only be made in the subconscious mind.

Interestingly, we were not born with a fear of failing. It and the fear of snakes, heights, public speaking and everything else was programmed into us probably by parents, grandparents, brother, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, school teachers, friends… you name them because the list is endless. We were actually born with only two fears, loud noises and falling backwards. Everything else was taught and learned.

I once had a major league baseball player in my office that had been hitting over 300 for about four months. Then he lost is confidence and his batting average dropped to a little under 200. Diagnosing how he might have changed his swing or stance or whatever he might have started doing differently with the batting coach hadn’t worked. In fact his hitting only got worse. But when we dealt with his lack of confidence in hypnosis on the subconscious level, the results were forthcoming and outstanding!

With hypnosis, we work on improving the confidence in the cognitive maps of a person’s subconscious mind by getting rid of the malignant thinking! Here’s an example. The software of your mind became corrupted years ago. Now when your computer gets a virus, even if you kept turning it on and off repeatedly and thinking positively and hoping that it’d somehow start to work again, if you didn’t remove the virus, that would be an exercise in futility. We must run mental antivirus software through the power of hypnosis on our subconscious mind!

After removing the virus, you must now reprogram your subconscious for confidence. We work on the lack of confidence in the alpha and theta modes of the subconscious mind. This is the only place where one can make permanent behavioral change. Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind.

What is the process we use to enable a person to have real confidence? First we will try and determine the circumstances that brought about the erosion of their confidence. Then we will enable the person to move past this through hypnosis. Finally, also in hypnosis the subconscious mind is reprogrammed to actually be confident, not just to act confident!

We are designed for success, but often programmed for mediocrity if not failure itself. If you want to really develop your confidence, not for just a couple of days but for the rest of your life, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation.

Stop smoking with hypnosis is the most effective way to get rid of this nasty habit.  In order to stop smoking using hypnosis it is important that you understand the downside of smoking.

Did you know that in addition to the 5000 or so carcinogenic agents found in cigarettes, there are five extremely deadly poisons?

Did you also know that smoking cigarettes causes other types of cancer to develop besides lung cancer?  Obviously this fact makes it even more important to stop smoking with hypnosis.

Here’s how it works. When a cigarette is lit, the fire acts as a catalyst that releases the poisons and carcinogenic agents. When the smoke is inhaled, the mucous membranes of the lungs, gums and throat absorb these carcinogenic agents including the five deadly poisons that are present in all cigarettes. Those poisons are formaldehyde – carbon monoxide – nicotine – arsenic (that has been a favorite poison used for centuries to murder people) and cyanide. Interestingly, these deadly poisons are being brought into one’s body on purpose – not by accident. If one was subjected to those same poisons while working in the work place – they would bring a law suit against their employer.

But I digress. Anyway, this poison-filled carcinogenic smoke is now sucked down into the bronchial air ways… and the lungs. Now in addition to throat, mouth, gum and lung cancer – this person has opened themselves up to contracting emphysema. Can we have a show of hands of how many want to fight with all of their might for their next breath, and never quite get it? Most people would not want to pull a little green bottle behind them while they shop for groceries, or to be pushed in a wheel chair while sucking on an oxygen tube.

Again I digress. Well anyway, now all of these deadly cancer causing ingredients and poisons are floating around in the lungs. The blood is pumped from the heart into the lungs where it is supposed to get oxygen rich blood. But instead of getting oxygen rich blood, this blood is contaminated! This blood has been infused with those five deadly poisons – carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, nicotine, arsenic and cyanide and all of the cancer causing agents. It travels through the entire body. That is why smokers contract ovarian, testicular, bladder, pancreatic, breast, liver, and stomach cancer. Surveys have shown that the majority of the U.S. population still thinks that smoking cigarettes only causes lung cancer. Wrong!

Believe it or not it gets worse. Smoking cigarettes not only constricts (makes much smaller) the blood vessels in the brain, but it also turns the body into a blood clotting machine. What does this mean? It means that when you throw off a blood clot, (you don’t need to get cut to get a blood clot) and if the blood clot travels to your brain, it stands a good chance of getting stuck in the blood vessels. This is known as a stroke. Some strokes kill. Some paralyze one to varying degrees – from total paralysis, to impaired speech, to being trapped in your body with no way of communicating, to reduced mental and cognitive abilities.

The Surgeon General’s warning means nothing to most people. But the downside to smoking is a far greater risk than this writer would ever take.

You’ve tried pills, patches, shots and gum.
You’re still smoking.

My non smoking program consists of three sessions within two weeks. Rarely does someone leave my office and not immediately become a non smoker the very first day! The other two sessions are generally used for reinforcement. If you wish to become a non smoker for life, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827.

How often have you had a “what’s the use” day? What happened was that you messed up and ate what you shouldn’t have, but you tell yourself that tomorrow, you will really get back on track. Tomorrow?” Tomorrow is such a wonderful convenience because action doesn’t need to be taken today, it can wait until tomorrow.

How often have you torn yourself apart because you went off your diet? How many days have gotten off to a bad start, only because of what the bathroom scales said? How often have you gotten mad at yourself and called yourself names, only because you were still overweight? Did you know that diets don’t work long term? Did you know that the average diet only lasts 72 hours? That’s 72 hours!!! You have known that when you are discouraged, you eat what you shouldn’t eat, but at that particular moment in time, it doesn’t matter. Because there’s always… tomorrow!

Researchers have found that over 96.78% of dieters cannot keep any appreciable amount of weight off for even two years! In fact, the weight is regained on most individuals in less than three months! They reverted to their previous eating habits and behavior, and that behavior is what brings the weight right back. After all the pain of conventional diets or the restrictions of eating the pre packaged foods, why does this happen?

A diet makes one feel deprived, and feeling deprived leads one into feeling depressed. When the overeater is depressed, he overeats in order to feel better. Emotional overeating is what brought on the gain in weight to start with. Conventional diets and prepackaged weight loss programs always leave the root cause of the overeating, still in place. Thus the lost weight will be regained when they either run out of the prepackaged foods or remain depressed because they have to diet. Talk about a cycle!

When one overeats, it’s not because their body is calling for yet more nutrition to rebuild itself or to provide energy. One overeats for emotional reasons. An overeater is attempting to make themselves feel better! But overeating and snacking don’t make them feel better. After they have overeaten, they feel worse… and the overeating cycle goes on and on.
What’s the answer? Since the problem is emotional in nature, and since the emotions are located in the subconscious mind, doesn’t it only make sense to deal with losing weight on the subconscious level? Hypnosis is the bridge to the Alfa and Theta states of the subconscious mind.

If you would like to quit your dieting attempts and really lose your excess weight permanently, call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation.

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.