Guest blogger: Dr. Jay Polmar

It was just another Sunday, or really it wasn’t, after all the World Series was on, it was 1982, the St. Louis Cardinals against the Milwaukee Brewers, and I could use the day off, after all working with patients six days a week – at least back in ’82. We could call them patients. I had been a doctor, a Ph.D – with a specialty in hypnotherapy research, for two whole years already. I had been studying for almost 18 years, and I knew the field well – but what could I do with it, other than some habit control that was soon to be tested.

So, as I sat with my Grape Juice, in front of the TV waiting for the first pitch, a knock on the door, and I recognized, Deana McNatt from a consulting position I took, with her mother – at the door. Now, Deana and I didn’t always see eye to eye, but she was there on a mission. Drag Jay back to Lovelace Hospital, in due haste.

What’s going on? “My baby sister is in the hospital and is having a baby, and she is demanding you be there.” Deana’s baby sister was truly a baby herself. She was 15 years old, a high school sophomore, athletic and strong, and about to bring her own baby into the world. Deana’s mom was not happy about having a strange man help deliver her baby’s baby, her grandchild.

But, why not go and help? It was a government hospital, Sandia National Labs and an Air Force base nearby – what’s the worst they could do to me, throw me in the brig? There was a young girl, in trouble J, who needed my help – and I got to see how the hospital worked from the inside out.

There I was, a birthing room with all the craziness of the sisters, 2 of them, trying to be present when the birth took place … “Well, if Dr. Jay can be here, why can’t I – they cackled?” And, then, I said to Mrs. McNatt, we need peace – and all the girls were pushed out. Then, the young husband to be comes in “I want to be here” – and his future mother-in-law, pushes him out. Finally, it was me and the grandma to be, and a midwife nurse pops in. “I hear you’re going to do hypnosis. I always wanted to watch this”.  This was going to be a fun session.

“So, Shawna, now close your eyes, and relax – breathe deeply, and relax every part of you from your toes to your head”. And I continued for 45 minutes and the midwife, sat at the end of the bed, looking into Shawna’s womb, as if she was a catcher at the World Series ready to catch the pitch.

At each contraction was a suggestion for releasing the muscles’ tension and each push was a pleasure. No labor pains, but delivery was a pleasure. And slowly but surely out came the cutest little cone head baby I had ever seen.

As grandma and I smiled, the midwife cleaned up the after birth, I washed up, and walked out of the hospital, and went home, happy that I had once again come to help someone in need.

And when I went to the supermarket, I was amazed even a year later. That women would walk up to me and say – I remember you. You are that hypnosis doctor who delivered that baby at Lovelace Hospital, aren’t you?

Sometimes, I just think: Life Is Good!

We all know what it feels like to be worried, to have something or someone weighing down on your mind.  As well as the frustration of being unable to find a way to let it go or let them go.  There are often times when we’re struggling with our options and our need to find a way to move past the worry, so that we can really identify the source(s) of the issue.  We need the clear mind to work out the best solution for everyone concerned. It’s hard to get to that place where we are sufficiently detached from the negative emotions of the troubles in order that we can be able to do that. Unfortunately, worry can become all encompassing and can drive our lives in the wrong direction.

When troubles and worry take control, people can become totally paralyzed by it. Sometimes it is love, other times it’s finance, but when troubles and worries aren’t mastered, these problems related to someone we deeply love can become a compulsion, or an obsession. More than just worrying, letting trouble take control of our lives is a situation that can seem like we are drowning in fear and that our problems now define us.

The simple and effective solution is to reprogram the way you think about your problems. Instead of allowing them to pile up and hold you down you have another option of using hypnosis to refocus your thoughts and actions and effectively transform the problems to easy challenges, or even better, to opportunities for personal growth. With a mindset like that and hypnosis to guide your path to solutions intuitively coming to you –  it is easy to solve those problems and leave your troubles behind!

Hypnosis takes you step by step toward relaxation and on the way teaches you how to program your brain to react differently to everything you’ve struggled with. In a deep state of relaxation, your brain can hear and process information in a very different way. The benefits of hypnosis aren’t only relaxing or training your brain to release worries. It goes much further than that. Hypnosis can allow you to search the subconscious for catalogued ways of handling stress and process all of your troubles so that you can find solutions faster and more efficiently. Click here to get rid of all those troubles today:
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Letting go of your anger and forgiving someone who has hurt you is one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself. Holding on to resentment and hurt really just makes you feel bad. By not forgiving, by not moving on, you are refusing to let the bad feelings go away.  The worst thing about being unable to forgive is that the person you can’t forgive usually has no clue that they hurt you as much as you think they did. They forgot about the incident that caused you pain as soon as it happened. You have been letting it poison your life, and they could care less. Although the truth is they just didn’t know how bad it was for you.

Remember that forgiveness is all about you.  When you forgive you do not allow bad behavior, or the hurts you have endured, to be ok or acceptable behavior from others. In fact, you are only acknowledging that something bad has occurred. If you must, keep your distance from those people who continue you to hurt you, but allow forgiveness to release your bad feelings and the hurts that they have caused so that you can live a happier, healthier and fuller life.

Using hypnosis audio mp3’s to forgive is a great way to retrain your brain to let the bad feelings and hurts disappear and to place positive thoughts and feelings in its place. You can save relationships that are stressed and transform a negative attitude by filling your being with forgiveness. Why allow bitterness to ruin your friendships and relationships?  Hypnosis mp3’s utilized once a day can help to reprogram your thoughts and make forgiveness an easy and natural state of being. You owe it to yourself and to those you love. Forgiveness will open your mind and your heart to new possibilities and a positive, healthy future. If you want to accelerate the process of forgiving others, try this:  http://journeysinwardhypnotherapy.com/mp3/relationships/finding-forgiveness-mp3 and you might just find, it’s a lot easier to forgive yourself for choosing such difficult lessons of life to grow on.

We all have times in our lives when we feel blue, alone, or empty in a way that we do not know how to fill. Eating repetitively when we are depressed is a common syndrome that many people face, especially around the holidays. The psychologists often label this as Seasonal Affective Disorder. Eating something that makes us feel good also makes us feel full and gives us satisfaction for a brief time. Unfortunately, it does not last.  Once we start the cycle of depressive eating, it is very easy to get caught in that repetitive loop where we eat to feel better and then find that we must continue to eat to keep our bad feelings from creeping back into our lives again.

During the stressful and emotional holiday events, depressive eating often gets the best of us. Many of us find ourselves starting the New Year with more than a few extra pounds left over from depressive eating around holiday time. And often that is too much to cope with and we find ourselves even more depressed and slipping into a permanent cycle of stress/depressive eating that leaves us overweight and unable to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Don’t become a slave to repetitive depressive eating. You can learn to let go of this self-destructive habit.

Hypnosis for depressive eating repetition is especially effective because it helps you to change the programming that directs your habitual eating and eliminate the attitude that causes it in the first place. Use hypnosis to reprogram yourself to short circuit your impulse to eat when you feel sad or lonely. Effectively replace that impulse with a healthy and positive activity which might be exercise, walking, drinking water, swimming, aerobics, or just helping others. Hypnosis can help you transform your melancholy mood and depressive feelings a catalyst for change. Order you own mp3 and resolve that issue, starting today and transform your mind from depressive to expressively happy with your own self! Find out here:
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