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Pacific Hypnotics, 26 Albert Street, Warragul (2025)

06/01/2023

POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Quite a few years back the positive psychology movement began, and they realised that there was a lot of money being spent on research into what makes us unhappy, but very little money spent on research as to what actually makes us happy, more research more studies, many experiments later it was found that the one thing that contributed greatly to our happiness was gratitude.
When you give somebody a hug, when you show gratitude, when you’re grateful, your stress diminishes,
When you’ve had a chat with a close friend, and at the end you said to yourself, " thank God for Mick, I’m very lucky to have a friend like him."
From today forward lets start each morning focusing on the good things in your life
" I might not have the largest house but it’s my home, I feel safe, I feel secure, I feel loved here, just by showing gratitude each and every day a massive and positive impact occurs, you cannot be angry, stress and anxiety are absent when you are grateful.

2023, this is a year when you won’t go mad making brand-new resolutions that might last three weeks, this is the year when you simply decide to refine your daily routine,
Each morning exercise for five minutes, it hasn’t got to be too strenuous, maybe a walk 'You always feel better when you get back from a walk than when you began', and on your walk why not take time to smell the roses.
You realise what you’re doing now, is beginning a new daily routine, a routine that will have a positive impact on your life, and when you return from your walk, enjoy breakfast, planning a day to include having meaningful conversation with family or friends.
The important thing is you’re starting a small but important routine in your life, part of that routine is having a positive attitude, of being grateful and the positive psychology folk are pleased (as they should be) that those studies into what makes us happy show that if you’re actively grateful for a few moments every day, you’ll enjoy better mental and physical health.
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19/03/2020

All around us people are reacting differently to the Corona virus, some are going about life in the way they did pre Covid 19
Others really do have high levels of anxiety, I know here at the clinic and over the net people are contacting us with anxiety issues in greater numbers than a month ago.
I often ask people to scale their feelings, give it a figure out of 10. A 9 if you are really concerned about your future and your health because of the corona virus, or a 1 if you are living life pretty much as you were 3 months ago. You maybe a little annoyed that a few restrictions have meant that you cannot do all the things that you really enjoy, it maybe impacting on your travel plans, a wedding, or a footy match.
Whatever your current level, what can you do to raise that level one or 2 notches and move forward.
Just a couple of small changes and you will begin to turn negative thinking into more positive thinking.
Remember A lot of stuff that goes really badly doesn't go completely badly. Learning to know the difference, as well as what can start to turn a negative into a positive and make things just a bit better, can start the ball rolling towards greater wellbeing and help prevent a lot of unneeded suffering.(Thank you Mark Tyrell)

Dr. Bruce Lipton (Author of Biology of Belief) goes on to say “we are being programmed with the belief that this particular cold virus is “deadly.” This fear has shut down concerts, conferences, and major public events all over the world. The fear has led to quarantines and closing down of international travel. It has even led to a major scarcity of toilet paper in Australia, were concerned citizens emptied the shelves of this commodity in anticipation that they will be walled up in their homes with this infection”
“First, how deadly is this version of the virus? Yes, there have been corona-related deaths reported with the statistics suggesting that ~2% of the infected population dies. Wow! That number is almost 1% more deaths than are attributed to any conventional flu the world experiences. What is misleading is the fear that everyone who carries this virus may die from their cold. This is simply untrue! The health of almost all the victims of this coronavirus was already compromised before they were infected.“
Dr. Bruce uses the example that the news reported 6 deaths in the state of Washington last week. However 4 of the cases were linked to the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland. Each of the residents were over 70 and had significant underlying health conditions
What will cause more harm to people over a longer period of time are the high levels of anxiety being created by many who think they are helping the masses when just maybe they are exasperating the problem.
The virus to most of us is an inconvenience, and we will all perceive it differently, it isof greater concern to the elderly, to those who are ill and may have a suspect immune system. Those in their 20s, fit and healthy will most likely be less concerned. Remember there have been been setbacks in the past and there will be in the future and they eventually pass, and when they do some will embrace the changes and move forward.
Now is not the time to fear the future but to embrace it, and embrace the changes it brings, successful people grasp change with both hands
Don't let anxiety about Covid 19 cloud your future, plan and realise the opportunities that come with change.
And if your are still a little anxious, give Tony a call 0414 910 353, a chat on the phone cost nothing
Skype and face time is also available.

30/12/2019

Pacific Hypnotics
Anthony (Tony) Marshall
Counsellor
Clinical Hypnotherapist 0414 910 353

Anxiety,
Depression,
Smoking Cessation,
Relationship Counselling,

2020 Resolutions

Only a few days to new years eve, 2020 is about to begin and many will be making resolutions that will quickly be broken.
Come the end of January most of you will already have broken the resolution you made with the best of intentions.
History tells us that most of those great plans and resolutions are out the door by the third week of January.
Lets lose weight is a commitment many of you will make, it is one of the more popular resolutions and it is one that is rarely maintained and yet it is your health that we are talking about.
You have tried diets, everytime a new diet appears on the social pages, many of you will give it a try and on all of those occasions you lose a few Ks and for a while you are feeling pretty good, you have new found optimism, more vitality, the children and friends notice a positive change in your demenour, then something happens in your life and where do you turn, to food, ah comfort food, and not just food, usually to foods with lots of sugars. the diet is out the door.
Not only is the diet out the door but the weight comes on again and before long you weigh more than what you did when you made your new years eve resolution.
You made that resolution for one reason and that is because you did not want to be overweight, you might be big b***d, your parents maybe overweight and now you do not want to be overweight Its that simple.
What are you going to do about it, about your health
Ok lets start again this year lets add a liitle hypnotherapy, NLP and self discipline into the mix.
How about setting a target to lose a lousy 2 ks a month, yep lets shed those pounds nice and slowly as you develop a new lifestyle, a lifestyle that will see an improvement in your health and wellbeing.
This is not an easy fix, you still have to do the work, ask yourself, what is my health worth? Simply put it is not easy doing the hard yards but it is worth it.
If this is the year that you REALLY do want commit to a new healthier you,
Contact Tony 0414 910 353 or simply email blues30@hotmail.com

30/12/2019

Pacific Hypnotics
Anthony (Tony) Marshall
+61414 910 353

2020 Resolutions

Only a few days to new years eve, 2020 is about to begin and many will be making resolutions that will quickly be broken.
Come the end of January most of you will already have broken the resolution you made with the best of intentions.
History tells us that most of those great plans and resolutions are out the door by the third week of January.
That is very quick.
Lets lose weight is a commitment many of you will make, it is one of the more popular resolutions and it is one that is rarely maintained and yet it is your health that we are talking about.
You have tried diets, everytime a new diet appears on the social pages, many of you will give it a try and on all of those occasions you lose a few Ks and for a while you are feeling pretty good, you have new found optimism, more vitality, the children and friends notice a positive change in your demenor, then something happens in your life, and where do you turn, to food, ah comfort food, and not just food, usually foods with lots of sugars. the diet is out the door.
Not only is the diet out the door but the weight comes on again and before long you weigh more than what you did when you made your new years eve resolution.
You made that resolution for one reason and that is because you are overweight, simply put you are fat, you might be big b***d, your parents maybe overweight and now you are fat. Its that simple. You are the person who boards a plane and passengers on board cross their fingers and quietly say, “Please don’t sit next to me”
What are you going to do about it, about your health.

Ok lets start again this year lets add a liitle hypnotherapy, NLP and self discipline into the mix.
How about setting a target to lose a lousy 2 ks a month, yep lets shed those pounds nice and slowly as you develop a new lifestyle, a lifestyle that will see an improvement in your health and wellbeing.
This is not an easy fix, you still have to do the work, ask yourself, what is my health worth? Simply put it is not easy doing the hard yards but it is worth it.
Just for a few moments close your and take 2 nice slow relaxing breaths, think back to a time when you were really happy, no depression or anxiety, really healthy and slimmer, its a good feeling.
Ask yourself if this is the year that you REALLY do want commit to a new healthier you, if so simply
Contact Tony 0414 910 353 or email blues30@hotmail.com

03/07/2019

Power of habit. There have been times in your life when you have really wanted something, maybe a higher grade at school, a new bike etc.
To achieve it you needed self discipline and you did display self discipline

There are things in your life that were once just a dream, they became a goal and you achieved that goal. That dream you achieved.
Allow yourself to take advantage of uncertainty.
Tell yourself the truth.
Fear stops us all, fear of action, the unknown.
Fear translates to uncertainty.
Think of someone who is successful in their field, they show an exuberant nature, are confident and where does that come from, it comes from setting a target, maybe a small target but a target, they step on uncertainty, and turn it into certainty.
It is time to focus on what you can change, focus on things in your life that you are grateful for, family, children. great health, friends.
It is time to become a leader in your own world.
Leaders focus on what they want. On what they can control, on what they are grateful for, and that brings a sense of commitment.
That commitment to new targets, no matter how mall those targets might be, they are there, they are real and they eliminate uncertainty.
From this moment on you are stamping on uncertainty and you will not let disappointments cause you to lose focus on the end goal, they should strengthen you and increase your resolve to attain that target, that goal.
The next step is to let your body define you. Walk tall, head up, shoulders back.
The greatest golfers, musicians, managers, leaders have a confident presence, they were not born with it, it was learnt by having good habits, setting small goals, achieving those small targets and moving onto larger targets. They were not born with it, they had a focus, they practised and their body displayed their confidence.
Tell yourself daily, and on numerous times that you have great wealth, family, health, work ethic , good food, shelter, the list goes on.
Focus on what you want to bring to your life, to your children and as a result to yourself and it changes your state of mind

You are made to thrive, not survive
Nothing changes your life like decision, real decision and when you make that decision, you commit to it.
If you want to take the island burn the boat, Who said that?
Step on uncertainty. Make a decision and if you don’t like the result change it. Your job, the food you ordered from the menu, if you don’t like who you are in the job, change your perception, change your appreciation, relax ,set new targets and change.
A great manager can manage the most gifted individuals and also the most humble employee. and gains respect and developes sensible rapport.
General Schwarzkopf and Aussie Prime Minister Bob Hawke did not realise it at the time, but they did have something in common, they could talk and consult with the most intelligent manager and consultants, importantly they would also involved humble lower ranks in the military or in the trade union movement prior to making important decisions.
They then made a decision
They both realised that no one has all the information, no one. So make the decision and move forward, e.g. Hawke and Schwarzkopf.
When put in charge. Take charge make the decision, if it is wrong, you change it and that is better than procrastinating for another 12 months.
The leader makes decisions, don’t like your body, your hairstyle, your weight, your relationship, change. Create new Habits.

21/07/2018

Weight Loss Oh no you say, and I probably agree
Three components: good nutrition, physical activity and a change in your behaviour are required. Doesn’t that sound easy?
Reject processed foods full of additives or other artificial substances in favor of whole foods. You’ll be trading in excess salt, sugar and fat for dense nutrients your body can use. You would not put kerosene in your car, and yet you most probably put lots of processed foods into your body. Thats crazy,
Obviously you need to consume fewer calories than you burn to lose weight, we all know that, so the right portion sizes and calories, that is vital
Lets engage in physical activity that you enjoy every day. You don’t have to run a marathon, try taking the stairs at work, parking the car and walking to the shop, or riding the bike is a great way to start. Simply choose what works for you, plan your days activities around that and you’ll get it done each day.
The “yo-yo” effect of dieting and gaining weight back again is a result of failing to modify problematic behaviors. It doesn’t matter if you’ve failed in your weight loss efforts in the past — you can do it this time!
You can do it because you are going to modify your emotions and behaviors so you can manage your weight effectively moving forward. This means learning to think differently about planning meals, staying active and prioritizing physical health, surrounding yourself with supportive friends and family and believing that you can — and will — achieve your goal.
Let’s be honest since Adam was a boy people have paid good money to find a way to lose weight, have tried all sorts of diets and the result the weight goes up. The weight goes down yo yo dieting.
If you want lose weight and improve your lifestyle and health
You have to make behavioural changes let me repeat that, you have to make behavioural changes.
You can still eat many of your favourite foods but in smaller amounts, stop eating when you are full, listen to your body its complex and its smart.
You will enjoy more fresh food, in the knowledge that processed foods are not for you.
Yes you will do a little more exercise but just the right amount for you, you are not expected to become an elite athlete
But you will find that within a few days you have more energy. Your sleep improves and you will have a new outlook on life
And you are doing it without a diet. It will be slow because you are making changes to your lifestyle you are changing the ways you behave, but the end result is going to be well worth it.

Lets start now by joining the Pacific Hypnotics weight loss programme
The cost $150 for 3 months
What do you get
Weekly counselling and you will have daily contact with Tony either by Skype or email
An exercise and relaxation programme that suits you and we all love to relax
Your daily eating habits will be monitored and tailored to ensure that you are eating in a way that is healthy and invigorating and generally making you feel better.

Remember your body is a machine that eliminates waste, up to 2 lbs a day. It has six organs that are in control of this function: the colon, kidneys, liver, lungs, lymph nodes and skin.. If they’re not working properly, or when even one of these organs is compromised, the entire body and your health can suffer as toxins cause disease.
Weight and your health
If you’re carrying many extra pounds, you face a higher-than-average risk of a whopping 50 different health problems. These conditions include the nation’s leading causes of death—heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain cancers. Perhaps even more compelling is the strong link between excess weight and depression, because this common mood disorder can have a profound, negative impact on your daily life. You would be surprised how many people I see with depression/anxiety who are very much overweight.
Weight and depression
Do people gain weight because they’re depressed, or do they become depressed because they’re overweight? A review of 15 studies found evidence that both scenarios are likely true. The study, published in 2010 in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that obese people have a 55% higher risk of developing depression over time compared with people of normal weight. Here are some reasons why obesity may increase risk of depression:
• Both conditions appear to stem (at least in part) from alterations in brain chemistry and function in response to stress.
• Psychological factors are also plausible. In our culture, thin equals beautiful, and being overweight can lower self-esteem, a known trigger for depression.
• Odd eating patterns and eating disorders, as well as the physical discomfort of being obese, are known to foster depression.
The study also found that depressed people have a 58% higher risk of becoming obese. Here are some reasons why depression may lead to obesity:
• Elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol (common in people with depression) may alter substances in fat cells that make fat accumulation, especially in the belly, more likely, according to one theory.
• People who feel depressed often feel too blue to eat properly and exercise regularly, making them more prone to gain weight.
• Some medications used to treat depression cause weight gain.
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Weight, heart disease, and stroke
Some of the most common problems seen in people who carry excess weight, such as high blood pressure and unhealthy levels of cholesterol and other fats in the blood, tend to occur together. Both can lead to concurrent health problems—namely, heart disease and stroke.
High blood pressure is about six times more common in people who are obese than in those who are lean. According to the American Heart Association, 22 pounds of excess weight boosts systolic blood pressure (the first number in a reading) by an average of 3 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) and diastolic blood pressure (the second number) by an average of 2.3 mm Hg, which translates to a 24% increase in stroke risk.
A 2007 study in Archives of Internal Medicine examined the connection between weight and heart disease by pooling results from 21 different studies involving more than 300,000 people. The study found:
• Being overweight boosted the risk of heart disease by 32%
• Obesity increased the risk by 81%
Although the adverse effects of overweight on blood pressure and cholesterol levels could account for 45% of the increased heart disease risk, even modest amounts of excess weight can increase the odds of heart disease independent of those well-known risks, the authors concluded. And remember is this is a large study.
Compared with people of normal weight, overweight people face a 22% higher risk of stroke. For those who are obese, the increased risk rises to 64%, according to a 2010 report in the journal Stroke, which pooled results from 25 studies involving more than two million people.
Weight and diabetes
Overweight and obesity are so closely linked to diabetes, experts have coined the term “diabesity” to describe the phenomenon. About 90% of people with type 2 diabetes (the most common form of the disease) are overweight or obese. The incidence of diabetes rose dramatically—by nearly 65%—from 1996 to 2006.
A high blood sugar level, the hallmark of diabetes, is one of the features of metabolic syndrome. If untreated or poorly controlled, diabetes can lead to a number of grave health problems, including kidney failure, blindness, and foot or leg amputations. Diabetes is currently the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. And with just a little self discipline each and every one of us can take steps to minimise the chance of being sufferers of diabetes type 2.
Weight and lifespan
Being overweight or obese can make just getting around a challenge. Compared with people at a healthy weight, those carrying extra pounds have a harder time walking a quarter-mile, lifting 10 pounds, and rising from an armless chair. The burden of these problems appears to be greater than in years past, probably because people are now obese for a greater portion of their lives, experts speculate.
And because excess weight plays a role in so many common and deadly diseases, overweight and obesity can cut years off your life. A New England Journal of Medicine study that followed more than half a million 50- to 71-year-olds for a decade found an increase of 20% to 40% in death rates among people who were overweight at midlife. Among obese people, the death rate was two to three times as high.
A 2010 study in the same journal, which pooled findings from 19 studies that followed nearly 1.5 million white adults 19 to 84 years old for a similar period of time, found that the risk of death increased along with body size, ranging from 44% higher for those who were mildly obese to 250% higher for those with a BMI of 40 to 50.
Lose weight, feel better
Losing excess weight can make you feel better both physically and emotionally and can help you live a longer, healthier life. Especially encouraging is the fact that you don’t have to lose a tremendous amount of weight to become healthier. Even a modest weight loss of 5% to 10% of your starting weight can lead to significant health benefits. Some examples:
Adapted with permission from Lose Weight and Keep It Off, a special health report published by Harvard Health Publications.
And from Ben
Hi Tony

I thought I would contact you today, as I had a very surprising Weigh-In this morning.

When I took my weight today it was 77.4 Kg and that was after 80.2 Kg last Monday. On that basis, I have lost 2.8 Kg for the week, which I don’t believe!!! Realistically, I know I have lost weight, because I am cold all the time. However, there must have been an error in my Weigh-In last week.

I am very pleased with the result, because it means I have lost 5 Kg since I started with you and it is all heading in the right direction. I have kept pretty rigidly to my eating plan this week and I have a determination to get to 76 Kg by 28 July. As you said last week, it was good that I faltered, because it forced me to take stock, re-jig my eating plan and move forward again. The thumb and forefinger trigger certainly helped a couple of nights, when I was itching to graze after tea.

Ben

If you are overweight and have read the above article you will realise that the time has come to lose some of that weight and improve your general health and well being. Ask Tony about the pacific hypnotics weight loss programme. blues30@hotmail.com or if you are in Australia 0414 910 353

06/07/2018

What happens to Narcissists in their later life?

Narcissists often appear as confident and have a charisma that means they make a favorable impression on first meeting. job interviewers are easily impressed by them; . Over time, however, it seems that narcissists out themselves as the self-absorbed, emotionally immature braggarts they really are. Meanwhile, emotionally intelligent people are like the proverbial tortoise: Slow and steady, they will eventually win people over with their ability to recognize the emotions of others and respond accordingly
As Narcissists and narcissistic people age, the results are not pretty. Where they might have been able to charm and manipulate their way through life efficiently when they were younger, most lose social and psychological power over others as they begin to age.
Not only do their bodies start to fail them over time, but once they lose the “cute” of their younger years, if they haven’t emotionally or psychologically matured, most conversations with them end up feeling dreadfully painful. We all know the person who takes part in 3 conversations at once, who is the expert on all 3 conversations and imparts their often unwanted advice on all around.
Studies show what happens narcissists in later life.
They tend to dominate their social environment using brutal, covert situational abuse tactics, but as their social circle starts to narrow inevitably, usually from the early 40’s , they are able to find fewer and fewer people emotionally and psychologically capable of providing care due to the narcissistic predator’s unquenchable thirst to abuse. The sycophants leave in droves.
Truly, Narcissists, Sociopaths, Psychopaths and other toxic people spend their productive years honing the art of how to abuse people. This is how their power and control “wheel” tends to wobble over time.
1. Most thrive well into their 20s and 30s, having given the impression to everyone they have been popular or the “cool person” since childhood.
2. By the time they reach their 40s, the tables begin to turn.
3. As they begin to show age and resent it, they lose the power to charm and entrance people by using their looks.
4. By the time they hit their 50s and 60s, most narcissistic people start to lose friends and have less influence.
5. Seriously, it’s all part of the way karma works. Narcissists don’t devolve over time. They are cursed to remain the same, only become less and less successful at their attempts to bully or manipulate the emotional bodies of other people while acting covertly.
6. While healthy people in their 40s and 50s are starting to hit their personal best, professionally and personally speaking. If they [the 80%-ers, not the Narcissists] chose to marry young, their children hit high school and college graduations and the “empty nest” seem to happen right on time.
7. Parents who mature along with their children — perpetually remaining in the adult hot-seat — reach child graduation time with a sense of relief coupled with familial pride.
8. Simply getting a child through high school and into university is a tremendous milestone of success for functional parents. Not only is it a pleasure to still be young enough when kids graduate to be able to pursue new career goals (with parents unencumbered fiscally and physically), finding a pet-sitter is the most challenging caretaking event when and if the opportunity to travel arises.
9. Narcissistic people have a different life lesson coming to them during these transitional years. Rather than celebrating empty nest, children of Narcissistic Parents and toxic families turn 18 and cannot wait to fly. Many children of Narcissistic parents fail to finish high school .
10. Either they don’t have the study skills normal, loved children develop with the help of parents over time (because they parents themselves failed academically) or the chaos the Narcissistic Mother or Narcissistic Father has created throughout the duration of their childhood cripples them socially and emotionally from a functional perspective throughout their 20s.
11. If they refuse to get help — instead, turning to drugs or alcohol use to abate anxiety — the children are doomed to repeat the pattern of self-sabotaging themselves or bullying other people throughout their life.
12. Narcy people get more obstinate about their need to “win” arguments or social interactions they have artificially projected an air of competitiveness into while attempting to gaslight friends and family into thinking they are being victimized in a narcissistic rivalry.
13. Narcopaths (Narcissistic Sociopaths) also tend to get more demanding and caustic with verbal abuse as time passes.
14. Narcissistic people live their life as pathological liars (so they never truly develop character). The ultimate bullies, they grow up to become the crassest, cruel, opinionated, and/or obstinate old people.
15. Narcissistic personality disorder types are toxic by nature. Primarily self-centered and competitive by nature, they constantly perceive intentional slights where none was ever intended. And when they re-act to that perceived criticism it is usually an ever reaction that is harmful to all.
16. The narcissistic people themselves spend most of their time finding fault with others, manufacturing chaos for others out of boredom, or spend their time pitching temper tantrums while attention-seeking while attempting to impose their will on others by frightening them with their conspicuous displays of contempt
In later years as the social media followers fade away, the mood swings of the narcissist become even more severe and regular, the family suffers more, (if that is actually possable) and the elements of bi-polar become more apparent. The mood swings, high levels of self confidence, their own importance and energy levels are elevated.
Studies show that there are 2 types of therapy best suited to narcissism, both failed. There is not a lot on the plus side to recommend being close to someone with NPD. Put simply avoid as much as possible associating with the narcissist that you know, walk away. Big ask but it is your health.

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