Food manufacturers are doing their bit to help by cutting down on the amount of salt they use in their recipes.

Trouble is, most of us end up reaching for the salt cellar and adding at least as much salt as the food manufacturers have taken out.

So how do you go about cutting your salt intake but keeping your palate happy?

One way is to gradually reduce the amount of salt you’re eating.

So long as you’re happy to read the small print on the labels, this is a good way to go.

Like any habit or addiction, ,ake sure that you cut down gradually. Going “cold turkey” isn’t fun and will likely backfire on you, causing you to crave salt.

Another way is to add a hypnosis track to your armory. Cut down on your salt intake and give yourself positive help and suggestions at the same time.

That way, you’ll be training your palette to expect less salt in the food you eat and will also be working with your mind to make sure that your thoughts don’t get in the way.

A salt reduction hypnosis track is inexpensive and - especially if your salt reduction is on doctor’s orders - will help you quickly and easily adjust to your new, lower salt, regime.

Check out the salt reduction hypnosis session here for an immediate download.

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You may be addicted to shopping because you’re a shopaholic and like buying new things. Or you may be like an increasing number of people who “comfort shop” to help make them feel better, at least until the credit card bill arrives.

Whatever the cause of your compulsive shopping addiction, help is at hand.

The first step is to realize that you are addicted to shopping. This may need the help of one or more honest friends or colleagues but if you don’t take this step, it won’t be easy to change your behavior.

Next, work out when you most often shop until you drop:

• When you’re bored
• When you’re depressed or feeling down
• Or some other trigger that causes you to go out and spend money

Once you’ve done this, you’ll need to start work on changing your reaction to these situations.

If you most often go out and shop when you’re bored, start work on ways to keep yourself occupied. Maybe take up a new hobby - ideally one that doesn’t cause you to spend thousands of dollars more on it. Maybe get out more or socialize with friends. Whatever works best for you and takes your mind off the boredom.

On the other hand, if your shopping addiction kicks in when you’re feeling down, then you’ll need to do something to help change your mood. This could be as simple as playing your favorite song or it may need tackling at a more deep rooted level.

One simple and inexpensive way is to get hold of a hypnosis track that tackles your shopping addiction. Just play the track on your iPod and no-one else need know that you’re working on your addiction to shopping.

Take a look at this shopping addiction hypnosis track for more help.

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But if you really do suffer from irritable male syndrome, what can be done about it?

Sure, you may enjoy being ratty some of the time. But there are occasions when it would be better for all concerned if you could just lighten up. But how can you do that?

There are various different things you can use to start to chill out:

• A meditation or relaxation program can help.
• An anger management program may be useful.
• Or, if the situation isn’t as bad as a full blown anger management problem, it’s worth looking at a specialist hypnosis track to deal with your irritability.

Hypnosis works well for this kind of problem.

You can deal with your irritability in your own time and no-one else need know that you are listening to a hypnosis track on your iPod. The secret is yours, unless you want to tell those around you how you overcame your irritability and general rattiness.

One thing to note is that whatever technique you use - whether it’s irritability hypnosis, a personal session with a shrink, whatever - there will still be occasions when you get irritable. That’s just modern day life.

What’s important is how you deal with those situations and it’s in those instances that your hypnosis session will come into it’s own.

Listen to the track regularly - I’d suggest once a day for the first week or two - and you will start to notice that things that bugged you before don’t appear as important (hint: that’s because they never were important!) and the times when you would have got wound up and irritated gradually get less and less.

Check out an inexpensive hypnosis track for irritability here and start to make yourself a more pleasant person to be around.

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Quite often, the fear is based on a number of different factors.

The good news is that it’s possible to overcome your phobia of flying.

The different factors that make you afraid of boarding a plane can include:

• Fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia)
• Fear of heights
• The feeling that you are not in control

You can help reduce your fear of flying by learning to relax. OK, that may not be as easy as you’d like when you board a plane or sit in the waiting room. Remember to breathe. Take long, deep breaths. Inhale slowly, exhale slowly. If you’re in luck and your phobia is mild, that may be all you need to do.

But if that doesn’t work, the next best step is to get hold of a hypnosis track to help overcome your flying fear.

The hypnosis will work with your unconscious mind and will gradually change the way you perceive flying. Get hold of a good hypnosis track and listen to it on a daily basis for a couple weeks before you are due to fly. I find that a good time to do this kind of listening is just before I go to sleep as it gives my mind time to work on any underlying issues whilst it isn’t having to concentrate on other things.

Good luck with overcoming your fear of flying and remember that - despite what you’re currently thinking - flying is the safest form of transport we use.

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But is it really possible to hypnotize someone just by talking to them?

If you’ve ever been mesmerized someone, you already know the answer is yes. It may have been your partner who took you into a trance - you just stared into their eyes and that was it. Which we often call “love at first sight” but in truth, you were hypnotized (maybe unknowingly) by your partner.

A lot of conversational hypnosis is based around a thing called an embedded command.

So if I asked you if you would like to think about eating a delicious meal, I’m really commanding (or telling) your mind to think about it.

Sometimes embedded commands can be quite blunt and to the point. Asking your child when they want to do their homework for instance.

Or they can be subtly blended into the words you use so that most people won’t know that you are asking them to do what you are asking. The subtle blends are often told in the form of a story.

People are more relaxed if you tell them a story. So if I started talking about the different things I did when I started to learn hypnosis and went into detail about trying to trance other people without their knowledge, you’d probably be consciously listening to what I told you I did.

I might then drop into the conversation that one of the ways to get someone to drop into trance now would be to use what is known as a pattern interrupt. This could be as simple as going to shake someone’s hand and then stopping just before the handshake took place - you may have seen street hypnotists perform this before. And you probably didn’t notice the command earlier in this paragraph that told you to drop into trance now. That one was aimed at you…

There are a couple of courses I’ve found that will teach you much, much more about this kind of covert hypnosis.

The “Rolls Royce” course is called Conversational Hypnosis and if you’re really serious about learning to use hypnosis in everyday conversation, it’s the one to go for.

More affordable, and still top quality, is the Hypnosis Coach course. It’s been written by a master hypnotist and comes with lots of bonuses to speed your learning.

Practice embedding commands in your everyday conversation. The more you do this, the more natural they’ll become and you’ll start to get people to do what you want without them even realizing it.

Enjoy!

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If you’ve kept all of them, congratulations!

But go on, admit it, have you really kept all those resolutions you made?

This article in the  American Chronical has more details, but the main reasons we do this are:

1. We make the resolutions too complicated or too severe to follow.
2. They’re negative - focusing on what you’re not going to do,  rather than what you are going to do.
3. We’re denying an important need instead of working out how to change that to something positive. So for instance instead of focusing on our weight and over-eating, we should be looking at how to enjoy our food more.
4. We expect to fail. We make resolutions but don’t really expect to keep them. Which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
5. We don’t get any support. Instead of telling the whole world, concentrate on just telling those people who will support you in your goals.

So, if you’ve already given up on your New Years resolutions, read more about repairing them in this article.

And if you need help with anything specific, there’s almost certainly a hypnosis track available for it in our hypnosis store.

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Look out for events and open days near you as hypnotists the world over share their expertise and maybe even give out sample hypnosis sessions.

The official World Hypnotism Day site is here.

Amongst other things, there’s a box where you can sign up to get 4 hypnosis audios covering weight loss, stopping smoking, feeling younger and sleeping soundly.

There’s also an event locater so you see if they know about anything happening close to you.

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Another batch of New Years resolutions.

How often have you made a resolution in the heat of the moment, only to realize a few days later that there’s no way you can stick to it without some form of outside help.

We all start the new year fresh. It’s really going to be different this time. Honest.

Then a few days later, we’re back in the old routine. Back at work. Back taking the kids to school. Whatever we’ve been doing, year in, year out, for what seems like forever.

So how can you make this year different?

Start by picking one or at most two resolutions.

Not some great big list, like Earl carries around.

Just one or at most two resolutions. So you can remember them. And stand a much better chance of sticking to them.

Next, announce your resolution to as many people as possible.

Tell friends and work colleagues.

Post it on Facebook.

Write about it on your blog.

Then, get help to keep it.

Most of us make our resolutions as breaking a habit we want rid of. Whether it’s carrying too much weight, quitting smoking, whatever.

One of the easiest ways to get help is with hypnosis.

You don’t need to book a session with a local hypnotist (although these are often excellent and can be tailored to your exact needs). Instead, you can act on impulse and download a hypnosis track like one of the hundreds of hypnosis MP3s in our store.

Then simply listen to the track on a daily basis. You’ll find yourself keeping your resolution longer this year just with this simple trick!

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And you’re probably also like most people in that by the end of January, your resolutions are dead and buried. Waiting to be remembered in a guilty moment in a few months time. And brought back to the life at the start of January next year.

Only to be ignored again.

How can you stop this unhelpful cycle of making promises to yourself and then promptly breaking them?

Start with some focus.

Instead of making tens or even hundreds of New Years resolutions, pick one.

That’s right, just one.

You’ll remember what it is, because there’s only one thing to remember.

So will everyone you tell about it.

Yup, broadcast your new years resolution to the world.

Tell your friends.

And enemies - for once, they might be useful. They’ll be the first to let you know you’ve strayed and wiping the gleeful smirk off their face will be an extra incentive to keep your resolution this year.

Write it on your blog.

Post a sticky note everywhere you look.

You shouldn’t be able to turn anywhere without being reminded of your new goal.

Then get extra help.

Buy a hypnosis MP3 from our store. There’s bound to be a relevant one there. They’re cheap and easy. Just play it on a regular basis.

The ideal is to play your helper track at least once a day. Make the time to do this by cutting out irrelevant things in your life like watching the television news (in the unlikely event of anything important happening, you’ll be told).

If you miss a day or slip from your task, don’t quit. Go back to it with new vigor.

If you could stick to the resolution without slipping, you’d already have done it. Treat these setbacks with the contempt they deserve and win out over them!

Good luck keeping your New Years resolution this year.

Or go here for more New Years resolution help.

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It’s run by the same people who produce hundreds of hypnosis MP3s, so you know the quality is top notch.

Amongst other benefits, the Hypnosis Growth Zone allows you to select 2 hypnosis tracks to download every month. You’ve got a completely free choice of tracks. If you prefer, you can select a hypnosis script instead.

As well as the hypnosis tracks, you get emailed a daily inspirational thought, which should set your day off in the right direction.

You can also start to learn how your mind works - there’s an audio newsletter section that is available to listen to whenever you want.

If you want to take your hypnosis to the next level, I highly recommend the Hypnosis Growth Zone. Check it out here.

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