Virtual Gastric Band in American News

As you will probably know. I am guest speaker at a training course for fellow hypnotists on the Virtual Gastric Band in New York this October and I am so pleased that it is already generating a buzz stateside.

Today, Virtual Gastric Band or Gastric Mind Band, as they're calling it in America has been featured on ABC7 Chicago News and Good Morning America both discussing the benefits of hypnosis in anticipation of New York's offering of the service.

I am so pleased that Marc Carlin has invited me to speak at the event and have every faith that the Virtual Gastric Band will take the States by storm.

view ABC7Chicago's report

Virtual Gastric Band Goes to New York

Thanks to HU17.net for the recent feature.
Click Here to read it.

NHS spend £50m on Slimming Pills

Hannah McLaverty-Willamson recently reported some frightening figures on expenditure by the NHS on the Therapy Lounge website. To read the article in full click here. or read the highlights below.

A dramatic rise in the number of patients being prescribed slimming pills, has left the NHS with a bill of nearly £50 million.

The number of prescriptions for Orlistat, one of the most popular slimming drugs recently broke the million mark for the first time. The cost of the prescription drug, which stops the body absorbing fat has soared to £35.7 million which is three quarters of the all of the money spent by the NHS on anti-obesity drugs.

As reported by the Daily Mail in 2009 alone the NHS spent £47 million on drugs similar to Orlistat, which is a 13 per cent rise on spending in 2008 and a huge 55 per cent increase since 2005.

At present it is estimated that 30,000 people die every year in the UK because of their obesity. The total cost of fat related illness to the NHS is thought to have cost more than £4 billion, which has left many people arguing that those suffering with obesity should find alternative ways to lose weight which is not at the tax payers expense.

Click Here to read how the Virtual Gastric Band can save the NHS millions.

Tony Parsons: NHS Gastric Band Disaster

Here is Journalist and Author Tony Parsons reaction to the news that a man is attempting to sue the NHS following his gastric band operation:

A man who lost 12 stone after having a gastric band fitted is to sue the NHS.

Good luck to him. I hope he takes them for a fortune.

Some say that Tim Daily, 47, is an embittered, selfish man to sue the cash-strapped NHS.

I say he has every right to be bitter. He may have lost half his body weight thanks to the wonders of a gastric band, but he has also effectively lost his life.

Tim can’t eat. That is the grotesque reality of a gastric band. After having his gut strangled, he can no longer swallow a biscuit without washing it down with morphine. He can’t work. His wife is his full-time carer. His life is a misery.

Over the last ten years, almost 5,000 people have had gastric bands fitted on the NHS. A total waste of public money. That is the real obscenity.

A gastric band is not a diet aid. It is an act of self-mutilation.

You should not be able to get self-mutilation on the NHS.

Click Here to read more from Tony Parsons

The Virtual Gastric Band can save the NHS £millions and is risk free with absolutely no excuse to sue afterwards.

Click Here to read more about the Virtual Gastric Band. If you are interested in the Virtual Gastric Band then please contact me for a free half hour consultation.

Tel: (01482) 863659

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Hypnosis for Game Addiction

Click Here to read a sad story of how a mother, so addicted to video games, neglected her children. In some cases of addiction Hypnosis can be a great help. If you have an addiction and wish to discuss hypnotherapy as a treatment then please contact me for a free half-hour consultation.

Em@il: think@sheilagranger.com

Tel: (01482) 863659

web: www.sheilagranger.com

NHS Nurses & Hypnosis for Weight Loss

Here is some great news. You will have already read about my 'Virtual Gastric Band' trial, that was supported by an NHS G.P and now more NHS employees are increasingly having faith in hypnotherapy as a viable treatment for weight loss. Click Here to read about two NHS Nurses that have trained in hypnotherapy as a means of tackling the obesity epidemic.

Click Here to read more about the 'Virtual Gastric Band'

If you are interested in the 'Virtual Gastric Band' please contact me for a free half-hour consultation.

Em@il: think@sheilagranger.com

Tel: (01482) 863659

Web: www.sheilagranger.com

What is Spontaneous Hypnosis?

Spontaneous hypnosis is the situation where the brain slips into the same state as in clinical hypnosis or deep meditation (high theta wave activity, combined with suppressed beta wave activity).

Daydreaming is the most common example; lucid dreaming would be another.

Hypnosis for Aerophobia

Aerophobia (fear of flying) is an incredibly common fear. Derren Brown's overtly sensational approach to the subject was broadcast on television last week. Hypnosis is not magic, you are always in control and always aware. It is about changing the way you think and enabling you to eliminate those deep rooted feelings that stop you from flying.

If you wish to discuss this further then please contact me for a free half-hour consultation.

Em@il: think@sheilagranger.com

Tel: (01482) 863659

web: www.sheilagranger.com

Hypnosis to Beat Breast Cancer Pain

The following article is from The Daily Mail...

Hypnosis could ease the pain of breast ­cancer. U.S. studies show that women with breast cancer which had spread to other parts of the body experienced significantly less pain if they underwent regular bouts of hypnosis.

In the latest study involving 124 women, half were given regular hypnosis as part of group therapy sessions. Their pain levels were then monitored for a year.
Although the therapy did not reduce the frequency of their pain, it did ease discomfort when it struck.

Around 40,000 women a year in Britain are diagnosed with breast cancer. If the tumour becomes metastatic, which means it has spread beyond the breast to other parts of the body such as the bones or liver, some patients can experience significant pain.

It’s believed hypnosis works by altering pain perception. You have to pay attention to pain for it to hurt, so inducing hypnotic relaxation transforms perception in parts of the body, or directs attention elsewhere.

Hypnosis and Athletes

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Vicky was intimidated every time she stepped on the basketball court, a place that had previously been her domain. Any time the ball wound up in her hands, her first priority was to get rid of it. Don't dribble. Don't shoot. Doing either was an invitation to error.

Despite her talent, her size and her ambition to play basketball, Vicky had grown so spooked and demoralized by the other players that her goal had devolved from being the best to not embarrassing herself.

After repeated pleas from her parents and her coaches to just play and not to be anxious, Vicky's mother took her to see someone to help: a hypnotist.

Click Here to find out how hypnosis helped Vicky