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According to a new study accepted for publication, eating a meal quickly, as compared to slowly, curtails the release of hormones in the gut that induce feelings of being full. The decreased release of these hormones, can often lead to overeating. Read the rest of this entry »

Mirrors can be magical. When you look into a mirror do you see a true reflection? Well no. Evidence clearly demonstrates that we see a reflection closer to want we want to see rather than a true image.  For example, overweight people see a slimmer reflection and anorexics see a much larger body in their reflection. But it doesn’t stop there. Read the rest of this entry »

Research published in autumn of 2009 concludes that eating high calorie food after 8pm results in 48% more of the calories being turned into fat. This research was instigated following the observation that night shift workers have much higher incidents of obesity   and other weight related problems.  Read the rest of this entry »

Some of the latest research has proven what I think most dieters already know. Diets do not work and yo-yo dieting is dangerous to your health. In fact, this research has shown that long term dieting results in you being heaver than if you never started dieting at all and just lived naturally. Being aware that diets do not work means a new approach to weight loss is required and, thankfully, one now exists – SlimQuest. Read the rest of this entry »

Which means that in order to best recall information, you need to be in same state as when you learnt it.

An ex-Met Police Training sergeant once told me how he was given a remedial class to bring up to speed.

He decided to use anchors so instructed students when studying to have with them a tissue with a few drops of peppermint oil on it. Read the rest of this entry »

Most of us mainly think with a mixture of images or pictures coupled with the things we say to ourselves and it is this mental activity that is one of the main generators of our feelings and emotions.

Become aware of your thoughts and you can begin to manage them which means you can directly influence how you feel and how you behave. We have been talking to ourselves continually since we learned to speak which means we have been programming our behaviours all our life. And because this process have been going on for so long, there are many people who are even unaware of this continual internal dialogue that goes on and on inside each and every one of us. Read the rest of this entry »

There is an interesting article in the Daily Telegraph on page 15 today (21st May 2009) telling the story of a 35 year old woman who lost nearly 4st (that’s 56 lbs) by being hypnotized into believeing she had a Gastric Band. It took 5 sessions and her dress size fell from a size 22 to a size 14

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I feel rather disappointed that many of our heroes are retuning from tours of duty suffering from PTSD and are being offered limited help by ‘the system’ if any at all. Why is it that ‘the system’ seems unable to help with PTSD effectively?

One of the symptoms of PTSD is the continuous flashbacks that occur – totally unexpectantly. Why is this? I believe the answer can be found in the Reconsolidation Theory published by Joseph LeDoux, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists. Read the rest of this entry »

On one level we all agree to a consensual reality; a group reality if you will. We all agree that this is a table, that is a chair.

But that is not the reality in which we live. Our group reality says this is a tree but my individual reality depends on the meaning I give to the tree. Does it provide fruit, shade and firewood or is a problem – something that’s in my way & has to be dug up.

Imagine you’ve won a free weekend to the National Line Dancing Championships being held at a Holiday Camp. How does that make you feel? For some that’s a dream come true because tickets are like gold dust. Others would rather stick pins in their eyes. So whose version of reality is right? Read the rest of this entry »