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Heidi Woodgate

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Hi, I am Heidi and I run the courses from Meopham and Gravesend. I am really pleased to have the opportunity to bring this unique approach to weight loss to Kent.

It now means that more people can benefit from already successful programme with the security of knowing it is supported by The Quest Institute, the leading centre for Cognitive Hypnotherapy.

What I like most about SlimQuest is the fact that it is not a get thin quick diet, but a new way of thinking about food. One of the main benefits is that it provides tools to change eating habits so that weight loss can be easily achieved and more importantly maintained.

I like the idea that anyone can take back control, this is not a programme that works for only a select few. Habits, particularly eating habits are automatic patterns of behaviour that have been learnt over time and anything that has been learnt, can be unlearnt. It doesn’t matter that everyone’s habits might be different, the techniques can be used for any craving, negative thought or behaviour that has prevented weight loss in the past.

What I also like is the fact that there are no lectures on what you should (or shouldn’t) eat, what you “should” be doing – I believe you already know this but just have difficulty putting it into practice. Therefore you set your own targets, manage your own goals and learn techniques that will last a life time to allow you to keep your weight under control.

www.northkenthypnotherapy.com

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Cathy Simmons

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Hi,

My name is Cathy Simmons and I am a SlimQuest coach offering the SlimQuest course in Hampstead, North West London.

It is a pleasure to be able to offer this course, especially as I myself have lost weight by following the SlimQuest model.  Along with all of the SlimQuest coaches, I was fortunate enough to train in Cognitive Hypnotherapy and NLP at the renowned Quest Institute and I am also an NLP Master Practitioner.  In addition I am an AMT certified EFT practitioner.

I run my Cognitive Hypnotherapy practice both in Hampstead and in the City of London and see clients for many diverse issues, from those you might expect, such as helping to stop smoking, weight loss, phobias and anxiety, to compulsive disorders, pain control, confidence and PTSD.

It seems quite amazing that one approach can help in so many different areas. How can this be? This begins to make sense once you start to realise that so many of our behaviours are driven by our unconscious mind. Have you ever behaved in a way that doesn’t consciously make any sense? Do you ever feel something that you don’t want to, without understanding why?

Our unconscious mind is an amazing thing. It keeps us safe, and over the years, it has built up a set of behaviours and responses that it has learned are in some way good for us, leading to certain automatic behaviours. For example, if a rhinoceros is charging towards us, we don’t stand back and consciously think “Hmm, I wonder what the best thing to do now is”!  No - thankfully, we automatically react in a way that keeps us safe (fight or run like crazy!).  Our amazing unconscious mind kicks in way before we consciously realise it.

However, sometimes, it makes some associations that lead to it learning that things are good for us, when they are less than helpful. For example, the unconscious mind of a smoker may have associated the act of smoking with some form of relief of tension – “It calms me down”. The unconscious mind does not realise that it was the cigarette itself that causes the tension, so it drives our behaviour to reach for a cigarette whenever we feel the slightest tension, before we are consciously aware of it.

It can be a similar thing with eating.  If our unconscious mind believes that eating leads to being loved, or comforted (good things), it will motivate us to continue to behave in this way, often before we are consciously aware of it.

Similarly we all have unconscious, underlying beliefs about ourselves, generally as a result of something or many things in our past. Our unconscious mind will motivate our behaviours according to that underlying belief, without us even realising it.  For example, if, as a child, someone is  constantly  told “You’re going to grow up to be as big as your mum” then they may end up unconsciously believing that it is inevitable that they will grow up to be big.

The good news is that Cognitive Hypnotherapy can help you change those unconscious beliefs and learnings in a gentle and permanent way, often more easily and quickly than you might imagine. So you can see why the flexibility of the Cognitive Hypnotherapy approach and the vast toolkit of techniques used in a respectful way with a client, can bring about so much change in so many areas of life.

You may wonder why I am so enthusiastic about Cognitive Hypnotherapy and NLP. I myself stopped smoking, years ago, using Hypnotherapy and NLP and was totally amazed that I have never been tempted to have one since.

Since training at the Quest Institute I have had so much benefit personally from the Cognitive Hypnotherapy approach, that I cannot help but be enthusiastic, and it is a joy to be able to offer the approach to help others.

It is a particular privilege to be able to run SlimQuest courses in Hampstead, my home village in London. SlimQuest gives us the opportunity to offer Cognitive Hypnotherapy and NLP for weight loss in an affordable and enjoyable way. As it is a group course, SlimQuest is offered at an extremely reasonable price making it a fun addition to my one-to-one therapy practice.

http://www,cathysimmons.co.uk

07792 312 465

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