Uncategorized
Golf Performance
To a person who has never played golf, it seems like a very simplistic game. All one has to do is put your ball in a cup! Sounds easy! But for someone trying to become proficient at golf, it is much harder. Generally, you have up to nine clubs, and some of them have different
Vaping and E – Cigarettes
(A short course in destroying one’s brain) Many believe that E-Cigarettes only contain harmless water vapor. This is not so. And that assumption can be a fatal assumption. The only use of vaping is to rebel, and that’s about it! E-Cigarettes and vaping are known as the rebellious syndrome Most individuals, unless they are “contrarians”
What Makes a Bad Parent? Part IV
After practicing for over twenty five years, we have both came to the conclusion that many if not most parents, are not good at parenting! This is not to say that they are not good people, just not good parents. Where did they learn parenting anyway? Most likely from their parents! And their parents learned
What Makes a Bad Parent? Part III
They lived in Buckhead, a suburb of Atlanta on a street named Tuxedo Drive – one of the most expensive addresses in Atlanta. In the course of their interview I asked them where the son lived and how was he able to pay rent since he refused to work? They explained that their son lived
What Makes a Bad Parent partII
The helicopter mom was made to do things as a child, what she didn’t want to do. Their attitude as an adult is “I’ll make sure that my child won’t have to face and experience the challenges that I had to face when I was a child.” That approach is diametrically opposed to healthy parenting.
What Makes a Bad Parent?
Is it possible that parents could be enabling certain harmful or even destructive behaviors in their offspring? They will say, “I never meant to make them that way.” “I’ve always tried to make my children happy and give them what they wanted.” In many cases, those things were the things that the parents couldn’t and
These Trying Times
People come into come into my office complaining about “these trying times”. I think that they must hear that from television. I’ve been around long enough to have experienced depression, recessions, wars, police actions, epidemics, riots and what have you. It seems to me that the generations that experienced those things just kept their head
Ever feel anxious, but don’t know why?
Real, actual verifiable danger is one thing. It is also something that we can to react to by our fight or flight mechanism. The flight or fight mode is that which has allowed mankind to survive. We’re not going to talk about that today. What we’re going to visit about isn’t the same thing at
I’m not an alcoholic, but I might have a little drinking problem.
My name is Bob Crow. I’m a behavioral therapist that is board certified in both clinical and medical hypnotherapy. I work with individuals for a wide variety of presenting issues including alcoholism. My 9:00 appointment that Monday morning was a woman that immediately after sitting down said “I don’t want you to think that I’m
Hypnosis is not something that’s done to you…
Regardless of the stage hypnosis shows that you’ve attended or seen on TV, hypnosis is not something that someone does to someone. Hypnosis is a dissociative state that one freely enters. One can’t be hypnotized against one’s will, nor can one be hypnotized into doing something that one does not want to do. Period. No
Anxiety and hypnosis
Is hypnosis the answer to anxiety? Yes! Anxiety can often manifest itself as a vague uneasy feeling of impending doom or disaster. Anxiety can and does take away clarity of thought. Anxiety can and does cripple an individual to where joy is absent. Anxiety can cause a person to freeze and not to be able
Another New Year’s Resolution to lose weight?
Here Bob Crow describes how hypnosis for weight loss works better than typical New Year's resolutions. Using hypnotherapy helps to change how the person feels about food.
New Year’s Resolution – to stop smoking!
Hypnosis to stop smoking is described here. The reasons hypnosis works to stop smoking permanently.
Hypnosis and New Year’s Resolutions
How hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help you find the motivation to stop smoking and lose weight in the New Year.
Running scared…
This post covers why anxiety is so harmful and how hypnosis works to overcome the anxiety.
The Compensatory Eating Cycle
Here Bob describes how hypnosis for weight loss helps people to stop sabotaging their weight loss goals.
Hypnosis For Pain?
Hypnosis and what types of pain can be alleviated with hypnois.
Why don’t and why can’t conventional diets work for permanent weight loss.
Conventional diets can't and don't work for permanent weight loss. They never have and they never will. Why not? Because conventional diets attempt to deal with the emotional and physical food cravings with the willpower and discipline of the conscious mind. But those cravings aren't located there, they are located in the cognitive maps of
If you drink alcohol to change the way you feel – you are drinking too much!
Weekly, individuals come to see me in my hypnotherapy practice in Atlanta Georgia with the thought that they might be drinking just a little too much. Of course they will protest that they couldn't be an alcoholic, but maybe they ought to cut back a bit. It's not rare to find those that are drinking
Celebratory Eating
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?
Choking – underperforming under stress.
Many athletes, entertainers and others, who must execute their skill flawlessly, argue that they have a positive image of what they’re trying to accomplish. And… they probably do! But when it’s time for them to act in public, they often fall short of their best. Having positive thoughts and a good mental picture of a
Perfecting Parenting
The popular television series The Dog Whisperer hosted by Cesar Milan shows him working with difficult and sometimes dangerous dogs. Cesar says “he rehabilitates dogs and trains their owners.” Cesar is not only insightful with dogs, but he’s a superb people psychologist as well. In most cases dogs learn bad behavior because their owners either
Cutting back doesn’t work!
How hypnosis works for weight loss. Bob Crow and Atlanta, GA hypnotherapist describes some of the common pitfalls of dieting.
Bad Karma or bad choices?
Frequently people facing difficult circumstances in life, whether it is financial, career, relationships or legal, often cite the reason for their problems as “bad karma, bad luck or bad breaks.” When they attribute their problems to bad karma, they’re overlooking the fact that they initially made a choice or choices putting things into motion that
Actually, in many ways, Virtual Lap Band is superior to the surgical lap band procedure!
This blog details the differences and similarities between Virtual Hypnotic Lap Band or Gastric Bypass and the surgical version.
Anxiety
Anxiety in all of its forms responds incredibly well to hypnotherapy. Anxiety, along with making life generally unenjoyable and unpleasant, can cause severe physical symptoms, bring on various real ailments and even attack the immune system. In the extreme, some are so overcome with anxiety that they no longer will leave their house. It has
Irritable Bowel Syndrome – IBS
With some victims, the pain is often absolutely excruciating. The cramping can cause them to curl up in a ball on their bedroom floor, their office, in a meeting, maybe even in an airliner, a hotel lobby or a restaurant. It can be so intense that the individual doesn’t care if other people see them or not.
Confidence!!!
There’s no component in the realm of human endeavor that’s as essential to success and happiness as confidence. Confidence gives one power. Confidence gives one strength. Confidence enables one to act with authority. Although ability and intelligence are important, when one lives without confidence, the results will be disappointing. Even genius without confidence will always
Disgusted with dieting?
How often have you had a “what’s the use” day? What happened was that you messed up and ate what you shouldn’t have, but you tell yourself that tomorrow, you will really get back on track. Tomorrow?” Tomorrow is such a wonderful convenience because action doesn’t need to be taken today, it can wait until
Disconnect
There is a personality disorder that is called disconnect. It manifests itself in several ways. In the extreme, we have a Columbine or a Jeffery Dalmer. Those people had no regard for the enormous damage and hurt that they were perpetrating upon others. They were disconnected and had lost their moral compass. Those that exhibit
You can’t get the change – if you don’t want to make the changes!
There isn’t a day that goes by that someone doesn’t come into my office wanting some kind of change in their life – reinventing themselves to get a job, a better job, to have better personal relationships, to move past limiting thinking and fears, or to stopping smoking or to lose that excess weight permanently.
Ocean cruises and being thin and trim!
“We just have to go on the cruise. We’ve been planning this cruise for years with Bill and Marie. It will just break their hearts if we don’t go with them.” Well, if in fact it does break their hearts; in all likelihood they will survive it. But are you just be avoiding again, the
We’ve lost him Piedmont… how a confident voice saved my life!
It was a nice summer day. I had gone roller blading for the very first time in my life at Piedmont Park in Atlanta Georgia. I was not an intuitive skater – in fact I was not even a poor skater, I was somewhere beneath that. I was descending a long hill when a toddler,
The Comfort Zone?
“Pop” psychologists have been using the term the comfort zone for years. Their premise is that many people don’t move ahead in life with their dreams, because they are afraid to leave what they are use to, what they are familiar with, what has been called… the comfort zone. But is the zone that they
Virtual Gastric Bypass V.S. Surgical Gastric Bypass
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
Celebratory eating… or are you deliberately trying to sabotage yourself?
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
Multi-tasking or Conflict-tasking?
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
Stress, sickness and syndromes.
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
The mind and its modes.
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
Embarrased to be in sales?
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
Reclaim your brain with hypnosis!
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
Mental Fibrillation!
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
Business Casual?
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
Addictions and Hypnosis
Overcoming addictions by using hypnosis works. It works to stop smoking and also with alcohol and drug addictions.
About improving your life…
People come to see me because they want to improve some area of their life. Maybe they want to lose weight. Weight they’ve been trying to lose for years! To stop smoking, improve their golf, get better at sales or become a better public speaker. Maybe they even want to improve their relationships! Everyone wants
Use hypnosis to enable you to function under pressure.
Use hypnosis to function under pressure. Air traffic control …are you declaring an emergency Cactus 1539? 03:25:10 Captain gear up. 03:26:54 Captain flaps up. 03:27:07 Captain after takeoff check list complete. 03:27:10 Captain birds! 03:27:11 cockpit recorder (sounds of thumps followed by shuddering sound.) 03:27:14 First Officer uh oh! 03:27:15 First Officer
Overcoming procrastination through hypnosis.
Overcoming procrastination through hypnosis. Why does one fail to act even when motivated to act? Why does one fail to take action when they know they must take action? In my hypnotherapy practice in Atlanta Georgia, I see many people whose presenting complaint is procrastination. They realize the negative consequences it has in their life,
Rewiring Your Subconscious Mind
Rewiring Your Subconscious Mind When is the last time that you were walking and you had to remind yourself – left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot – etc? Of course the answer is never. Our mind automates as much as it can. One of the reasons that it’s so hard to break a
Cutting back doesn’t work!
Cutting back doesn’t work! I am a practicing hypnotherapist in Atlanta, Georgia. A great portion of my hypnosis practice here in Atlanta is weight loss. Many people that have came to see me over the years have previously attempted to lose weight by trying to cut back on what they eat. They’ve done this on