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

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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

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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.

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

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I’m amazed at the number of people in sales, that are embarrassed to be in sales. They refer to themselves as advocates, as advisers, as counselors, as consultants, as account managers – as anything but a salesman. There is an old and true adage – “nothing happens unless somebody sells something.” That being the case, isn’t being a salesperson be something to be proud of?

So why are so many people that are classified as sales people reluctant to identify themselves as such? Do they themselves look down upon salespeople? Ahh… maybe we are on to something here. On my office wall are found these words. One cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with how they see themselves. If you don’t like the image of what you do and who you are, you will never excel in sales… or anything else.

One can’t be a par golfer if they see themselves as a bogey golfer. One can’t be thin if they view themselves as overweight. One can’t stop smoking if they see themselves as a smoker. And one simply cannot be a great salesman if they themselves look down upon sales as an inferior profession.  It is a conflict that is impossible to overcome when one wishes to excel at something that one hold in contempt.

Have you ever considered that it might not be what you sell, but how prestigious that you, not others perceive it is? Could it be that since maybe the item that you might sell is relatively small or common, that you have a lesser opinion of what you do? If you sold 8 million dollar business jets would you feel inferior or would you feel proud? How would you dress if you sold to the chairman-of-the-board of a truly large company? Would you wear a golf shirt? Or would you dress in the best that you own? Would you wear flip flops or would you wear a nice pair of pumps or highly shined shoes. Read the chapter in my book Harnessing Hypnosis entitled Business Casual??? It isn’t the fact that you are in sales has you bothered; it’s how you perceive what others think about you being in sales that upsets you on some level. Have you ever noticed how convinced you are that the current positive book you are reading hold the missing secret?  The facts are these, no amount of seminars, sales rallies, motivational speeches that you attend or hear… no matter how many and what positive books you read will enable you to make behavioral change. These tools only work in the conscious mind, and you can’t make behavioral change in the conscious mind… only in the subconscious mind.

Just as you were not born afraid of spiders, snakes, heights or public speaking, you were not born looking down your nose at selling. It was programmed without you even noticing it from movies, television, comedians, you mother not wanting to answer the door for door to door salesmen… but you were programmed about sales negatively. Now it’s in your cognitive maps. Those maps reside in your subconscious mind. No amount of positive thinking or motivation will make more than a couple of days dent in that erroneous opinion.  To change that concept you need behavioral change and behavior change cannot be made in the conscious or what is sometimes referred to as the analytical mind. Behavioral change can only be made in the subconscious mind, and the only way for you to access your subconscious mind is with hypnosis. Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious.

If you would like to investigate how you truly can excel in sales give Bob Crow a call for a complimentary appointment.

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

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The pre frontal cortex is the part of the brain that has been attributed to positive attitudes, optimism, the ability to solve problems, and where one makes executive decisions and derives their cognitive functioning abilities. Reasoning, problem solving, planning complex cognitive behaviors and personality expression originate here. If you are a high functioning individual you will have a highly developed pre frontal cortex. Studies have proved that repeated hypnosis enhances the prefrontal cortex.

When a heart goes into atrial or ventricular fibrillation, the heart rate goes extremely high – 160 or higher. It’s pumping very little blood, if any; in fact it would best be described as twitching or quivering – not pumping.

Some individuals get stressed to the point of panic and they go into what I have termed “mental fibrillation.” The brain is running fast, in fact it’s in overdrive, but it is unable to pump out ideas and unable to resolve issues. What’s the solution?

Our two minds consist of our conscious or analyzing mind that provides us with our math, verbal and linear skills. Our 90% stronger subconscious mind is divided into two parts. The smaller part is the autonomic nervous system which controls digestion, breathing, eye blinking and pulse. We don’t have to think about these things, however we can override some of them like eye blinking and breathing.

The much larger part of the subconscious mind is the home of our habits, our moods, our memory banks, our behavior, our imagination, our creativity and our concept of who we are – our personality. The subconscious mind also houses our two problem solvers – our imagination and our creativity.

When we are confronted by a problem, a disappointment or uncertainty, the reflex action is to stress. But when one stresses, one is shut off from one’s only two problems solvers – imagination and creativity. When we panic or stress, the prefrontal cortex is playing an extremely diminished role, the imagination and creativity are effectively shut down. We are unable to solve problems or resolve issues. The normal reflex is to panic when we are overcome by circumstances and situations. And when we panic, we are in mental fibrillation. Our brain just keeps rehashing the problem instead of solving it!

When the heart is stressed and goes into fibrillation as on the television program House MD, defibrillation paddles are used to bring the heart back into an efficient and normal rhythm. But what if… instead of reflexing to stress, which drove the mind into mental fibrillation in the first place, one reflexed to calm? Hypnosis, which is a state of focused concentration, is similar to the defibrillation paddles used on hearts. It creates in our mind a relaxed, efficient and effective operating mode. One performs better in sports, public speaking and life when one is relaxed, not tense. Our mind just works better. When sensing that the load in life is too much, in hypnosis, you will be given a cue that will be your own personal defibrillator and keep you connected to your only two problem solvers – your imagination and your creativity.

If you want to reclaim your brain and all of its power and potential, 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.

Bob Crow 404.277.1827 www.bobcrowhypnosis.com bob@bobcrowhypnosis

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.

When the mind can’t solve problems unless it’s organic, it’s because the imagination is underdeveloped hence the creativity has little to work with.

We all have two minds, the conscious mind which is where we find our math, verbal and linear skills, and the 90% more powerful, subconscious mind. It’s in our subconscious mind where we find our moods, our habits, our memory banks, our behavior and our concept of who we are – our personality. The subconscious mind also houses our two problem solvers – our imagination and our creativity.

No one has solved a problem without the tools of imagination and creativity. Ever. And in order for the creativity to work, the imagination must be developed. A child is born with an imagination, but it is possible to stunt the imagination both in children and in adults. Some misinformed parents and/or family members actually deter the development of the imagination believing that it is somehow harmful for a child to have one. They ridicule the child. Unfortunately that continues into adulthood by “well meaning” friends and colleagues. “You need to get real.”

Years ago on one summer morning, my five year old son was riding a type of tricycle called a big wheel. I mentioned something to him about riding his big wheel and he corrected me and told me that “it was a jet airliner.” I watched him “take off” in our large driveway and he began to “fly.” I came back from the bank and he was still outside on his big wheel and I asked him if he was “going to come in for a landing in his jet.” He informed me that “it wasn’t a jet it was a tractor.” We lived on a street with very little traffic which terminated in a cul-de-sac. After lunch I happened to look out into the yard and there was Randy on his big wheel, but he had it parked behind a shrub next to the street with my large flashlight hooked over the handle bar and facing backward (his radar unit no doubt). He sat very quietly and pretty soon my daughter came down the street on her bicycle. As soon as she went past him, out he came making the noise of a siren and pulled his sister over to the side and “arrested” her for speeding.

That’s called imagination. My son saw his big wheel as an airliner, a tractor and a police car in a very short period of time with absolutely no problem in doing so. Of course he still has imagination, and is able to solve problems and strategize for the company he works for.  In my practice, I routinely see children as well as adults with little to no apparent imagination, and hence – no creativity. How can they solve life’s problems?

What could cause this? For some reason many parents feel that their children must constantly be entertained. Haven’t you come up behind a minivan at night and seen two or even three video screens on? The kids don’t even have to watch the same show! When we were children on a car trip we counted cows or horses or cars with only one headlight on. The child isn’t given any opportunity to think and imagine – only to respond to outside or artificial stimuli. My children learned to read when they were four years old. Reading stimulates the imagination! Continued TV or computer gaming or other machine driven sensory input does not allow one’s imagination to develop, to think, to initiate though – only to react. In fact, quite often they are barely able to keep up. They just hang on and the input device leads them and directs their responses and their thinking. Many kids are diagnosed with something called Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD. Here’s a thought. Could it be that when the outside stimulus is absent, there is nothing for them to respond to? And since their under developed imagination plays such a very small part in their lives – they just drift. Children spend hours in front of the television. When they get bored with the TV, there’s the game boy, the internet, and all of the 21^st century machine driven diversions we can come up with to take control of the mind, instead of developing the imagination. Those devices program the brain to respond rather than stimulate original thought.

We move into the difficult pre teen and teenage years. It gets worse. Now in addition to continuing to do little reading, there are still the hours in front of the TV, the game boy, the computer games, email, twitter, facebook and etc., the cell phone and… texting. Texting has been shown to access what is known as the brain’s addiction center. Texting has been found to be the ultimate way to disconnect. People don’t even need to speak. And what they write is cryptic – like;  “R U Cumng 2 NITE?” Wow! How cool is that? No wonder the upcoming generations can’t spell.

Many families don’t even eat dinner together, another lost opportunity for real communication. One has to have the ability to communicate with others. No matter how bright one is, no matter how brilliant their concepts are, if they are unable to effectively and confidently communicate their thinking and ideas to others by conversation or by writing them or both, their thoughts are lost. So instead of the family sharing, the father might be checking emails, the mother is on her cell phone. And absenting conversation from the parents, the boy is reacting to the cues on his computer game and the girl is texting to her new best friend. The word dysfunctional comes to mind.

As adults, life’s pressures – finance, jobs, family and relationships bewilder and bury people under a huge load. If their imagination is under developed, they do not have the ability to solve their problems. Often In their jobs, they have responsibility but no authority to get things done. This adds to the pressures. Endless consensus building meetings and responding to everyday minutia and CYA emails leave a person feeling frustrated. The good feeling of accomplishment is often missing. Many can’t even come home and point to something they did that day and say “I did this.” Instead, they drag themselves in front of the television and then drug themselves by watching the shows, or they waste hours on the internet. They go to bed with unresolved issues because their imagination and creativity are so atrophied that they are unable to solve the load that they are carrying.

Many seek diversions that they can lose themselves in. Drugs of choice which include but are not limited to alcohol, drugs, sex, affairs, pornography even spending money to make themselves feel better. Life’s problems overwhelm them, and the tools that will deal with these problems, the imagination and creativity are for the most part unavailable.

Many couples along with not eating together don’t even go to bed at the same time. One is still sitting in front of the TV or internet trying to escape by frying their brain. The other person lays in bed trying to go to sleep while their problems keep playing over and over again in their mind. The brain is running fast, but it can’t resolve the problems. This person is in mental fibrillation, and they wake up in the morning up tired and un refreshed. Mental fibrillation only occurs in the beta mode – our conscious or analytical mind, never in our alpha or theta states.

When a heart goes into atrial or ventricular fibrillation, it is beating very fast… but pumping very little blood. The mind goes into mental fibrillation when the imagination has atrophied or never developed to the point where it is not available to solve problems. Think of mental fibrillation as the panic mode. Oh it’s running fast, but it is not able to pump out solutions. .

Is there a solution? If so what is it? It’s hypnosis or hypnotherapy. Hypnosis can be likened to the defibrillation paddles mentioned by Dr.Oz or that are used on the television program House MD. Many people’s hard drive (the brain) is okay, but some of their software (imagination and creativity) are either corrupted or not even open. As we’ve stated repeatedly – the only two tools we have to solve problems are the imagination and the creativity located in our subconscious mind. Positive books and positive thinking, while non harmful can’t help make behavioral change because they work only in the conscious mind. Real and permanent behavioral change can only take place in the subconscious mind. Hypnosis is the only way to access our subconscious on purpose as hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind.

If you would like to investigate bringing your problem solving abilities on line, call Bob Crow for a complimentary discussion of your objectives.

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.

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.

Almost every time a person calls me about participating in my Become a non smoker_tmprogram,I hear something like that. They relate to me the number of times that they paused in there smoking habit for awhile, but if they are smoking again, then they never actually stopped. Through will power and discipline they took a break from smoking, that’s all, but the fact that they smoke now means that they were never a non smoker!

This writer is one of those that believe that there is some nicotine component to smoking, but if it were the end all and be all to stopping smoking, why do people smoke while on the patches, or chewing the gum, or taking the shots and medicine? It’s because those things only treat the symptom – not the cause.

Smoking is a habit that resides in the cognitive maps of the subconscious mind. That’s why when people attempt to stop smoking, having the next cigarette is all that’s on their mind! Their subconscious has that desire there all the time. It never leaves them! We have two minds, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The subconscious is 90% stronger than the conscious. The subconscious is where our habits, moods, behavior, memory banks, creativity, imagination and cognitive maps live. To stop smoking one must make behavioral change. It’s impossible to make permanent behavioral change in the conscious mind. Period. Behavioral change must be made in the subconscious mind. The only way to access your subconscious is through hypnosis. Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind.

If you want to become a non smoker for life – call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for an appointment.

Most likely when I attend a networking function these days, I’ll see a person that purports to be a “CEO” of a mortgage company or a financial planner dressed casually. They wear a golf shirt with their company name and logo on it! Wow! How professional!  Appropriate business wear? Maybe for installing satellite dishes or delivering pizzas. But for business? No.

Steve Jobs of Apple Computer_tm can get away with it, but some might argue that much of his market is expensive entertainment or novelties items sold to an extremely young, unemployed demographic group. To many of these young people he is a folk hero and dresses in a manner they approve of. Now I am not referring to the superb Mac computers that are in use by professionals and business people around the world. Those people will buy the Mac computers no matter how Steve Jobs dresses. The rest of us cannot afford to be making the statement that Steve Jobs does.

You are needing a cardiologist, a CPA for an important tax matter or a defense attorney and that person walks into the room where you are waiting for them wearing flip flops, a super bowl twenty-one tee shirt and a pair of shorts. What message are they sending to you? That they are sharp and competent? More likely it is that their approach to their work is likewise casual. That’s not the message most people want to receive! We cannot perform in a manner that is inconsistent with how we see ourselves.

I was sharing the elevator in my office building with a person that always wore a much worn sweat shirt and jogging pants. I inquired as to what he did for a living. He said “guess!” I said “landscaper?” He said “a mortgage officer.” I myself don’t want someone providing a professional service to me that has no pride in their personal appearance.

Many people emulate the clueless and classless appearance of the newer entrants into the entertainment industry. I had a forty two year old executive come into my office wearing a spike hairdo that came to a point! He said that his superiors and colleagues didn’t take him seriously. I said “You have the right to wear your hair in any way that you want, however, the message that you are sending is that you are a techie. They will discount what you have to say about strategy.” A simple neat hairdo change solved his problem. Do you really think that most people want to take professional advice from someone that looks like they were on American Idol 趣味冲关?

If a professional dresses this way, they are rationalizing that they can dress however they want to. And they can. But dressing in a casual manner in the market place, most often indicates a less than precise approach to one’s work. They mask their lack of confidence by under dressing. Gotta be comfortable. Right?

A chiropractor came into my office in very casual attire and said her name was “Doctor Tara.” She attended all the networking events but couldn’t get any business and said “I just don’t understand why.” I said “the intake history says your name is Tara Ledford. People want their doctors to look and act like doctors. Why don’t you call yourself Doctor Ledford instead of Dr. Tara and wear the white smock that established chiropractors wear? You don’t look professional. Why would someone seek your care?” At first she was upset. She wanted to dress the way she wanted to dress, but she repackaged herself as Dr. Ledford. She dressed like a Dr. Ledford would dress. She is now taken seriously and her practice is thriving. Not only will her present and future patients see her as a professional, but now she sees herself as a professional. Not as someone’s new best friend!

We can only make that first impression once, and remember – we cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves.

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

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.