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Food Phobias and Fussy Eating: How to Break Out of the Restrictions and Fear

Those suffering from food phobias have restricted diets varying in extreme from avoiding meat to only eating a handful of items. However, some food phobics and fussy eaters have a list of food so limited, it seriously affects their health and many have issues adding variety to their main diet.

We all have foods we can't tolerate. Sometimes the taste, texture, origin or look of a food simply puts us off. Yet someone with extreme food phobia feels this way over a large variety of foods leaving precious little to nourish them.

Luckily, this type of eating disorder can be successfully treated. NLP and hypnosis treatments can help sufferers to add more variety and content to the limited range of what they deem, acceptable food.

Nutrition Studies and the Body's Resilience

A controversial study with very interesting findings on diet and nourishment was carried out by Professor Werner Kollath at the University of Rostock. He fed animals a junk-food type diet of processed foodstuffs devoid of virtually all minerals apart from zinc, potassium phosphate and a little thiamine. Up until their thirties they managed on this nutritiously low diet and grew normally. However, a rapid deterioration followed after that.

He also discovered that if the animals were then fed healthy, mainly raw foods, their previous junk-food diet did not have a negative impact on their long-term health, even though nutritionally bereft. The power of a living being to heal and repair itself is immense and beyond comprehension.

Why and How do People Get Food Phobias - Client Case Studies

Many NLP and hypnotherapy practitioner's typical clients are male, sometimes in their late teens, who realise they cannot go out with their friends for meals. Other's are men in their late twenties or early thirties who suddenly become worried about the health implications of not eating well. Often, practitioners wonder if a client's unconscious mind prompts them to do something at this age. Perhaps they realise they must change or, suffer the future implications if they do not eat a balanced diet.

Each food phobic or restricted eater has different reasons for their eating disorder. However, commonly, their problems start in childhood.

Many sufferers have childhood memories involving the decision to shun certain foods for varying reasons such as the taste, texture, smell or look of the food.

Another factor is power. The decision can be a means to exert their will and have a degree of control in their world. Many children will decide on a whim they no longer like tomatoes or peas this week and bananas and pears the next.

Emotional Challenges

One client refused to eat his mother's food to punish her for barring his father from their home. He was angry that Dad was no longer welcome in the house. Their separation was disturbing for him and this was his way of expressing his emotions. By default, his actions bought him attention, quickly learning he could manipulate situations. Looking back, he realised his mother was living in guilt and would compensate through giving him treats.

Forced to Eat Certain Foods

One food phobic's problems started in childhood, as many do. She now won't eat meat because she was forced to as a child. Steak, kidney and liver were the worst. To this day, the sight and smell makes her heave, as does boiling pork. So at six years of age she became a vegetarian. Some of her family owned farms so her decision wasn't well received. However, for her, this helped her decision because she'd made friends with many of the animals so eating them didn't seem right.

Of course, the particular phobic reasons for her vegetarianism pose no problem nutritionally or socially.

Another client would only eat white foods. Chicken, potatoes (no skin!), pasta only or with 'mushroom soup sauce' with the mushrooms strained out, white bread and chips. Any type of crisps were allowed as was chocolate. However, he became addicted consuming around ten bars a day. He had no recollection of when, why or how long he'd been this way.

Treatments

Luckily, in order for those with this type of eating disorder to heal, it is not necessary to know details of how they became this way. The special techniques of NLP and hypnotherapy can help remedy food phobias, often in two to three sessions. Also there are hypnosis recordings which can help overcome the issue in the privacy and comfort of your own home.

Debbie Williams invites you to visit her page where she shares information about how hypnosis can help you to learn to eat more variety and enjoy it http://www.debbiewilliamsassociates.co.uk/overcome_food_phobia.htm also her you tube channel has many helpful videos about hypnosis http://www.youtube.com/user/DebbieWilliamsNLP?feature=mhee

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PT 2 - Healing Through NLP And Hypnosis

Often those suffering from life-threatening illness live with more than the direct symptoms of their condition. Fear, high stress levels, depression, physical pain and exhaustion are also commonly experienced. The illness and the emotional rollercoaster that goes with it leads to an all-consuming merry-go-round, causing some sufferers to feel they can't go on any more.

With others, things aren't so desperate. The illness doesn't threaten their life but they experience difficulties with symptoms, challenges carrying out activities of daily living and problems with medication side effects.

Life can be altered beyond imagination, both personally and practically with relationships changing, driving licences invalidated and the need to give up work.

However, by embracing NLP and hypnotherapy many sufferers of both life-threatening and chronic illnesses have found relief from their condition. These therapies can offer fresh perspectives and life affirming approaches to living life to the full. Some patients experience spontaneous remission by listening to dedicated NLP and hypnotherapeutic recordings such as 'Spontaneous Remission from Disease' by Debbie Williams, a professional NLP and hypnotherapy practitioner.

One such person was a man who had suffered a horrific car crash in America. He was pronounced too severely damaged to live independently from life support and so, doctors planned to turn off the machine. However his sister, Rosie, had other ideas. She immediately boarded a plane to the States packing a trusted CD - 'Spontaneous Remission from Disease'.

Rosie sat by his bedside and relentlessly played it, day in and day out, over and over again. The powerful, healing words of Debbie Williams and Rosie's unshakeable belief that her brother would wake up proved to be a powerful combination. Fifty-five days later he awoke from the coma. This astounded doctors who were even more surprised with his ability to speak, something they certainly thought he would never do. He informed them he could hear the CD and this, along with the presence of his sister, gave him hope which he grasped with full force.

It wasn't just Rosie's brother who gained healing benefit from NLP and hypnotherapeutic techniques. Rosie herself gained strength, focus and belief he would wake from his coma, something that was very valuable when she found herself alone in a strange country caring for him.

Another patient, Patrick Stockhauson was suffering from hyperthyroidism causing rapid weight loss and a racing heart. Additionally, his medication caused weight gain and other side effects. He'd had enough and started listening to 'Spontaneous Remission from Disease' religiously, each night. Three weeks later, a check up found his thyroid to be functioning normally, astounding doctors. Eighteen months later, it is still functioning normally and he is off medication.

These success stories show how effective and powerful NLP and hypnotherapy techniques are in harnessing the power of the mind to heal.

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Pt 1 - Healing Through NLP and Hypnotherapy

Spontaneous remission, also known as spontaneous healing and spontaneous regression is a phenomenon that occurs when a disease unexpectedly improves or disappears altogether.

This occurrence usually leaves doctors at a loss, unable to explain why for example, a cancerous tumour regresses and disappears or why an under- or over active thyroid resumes to normal functioning seemingly on its own.

Medically there is no explanation for spontaneous remission. At best, medics hypothesise that hormones were a likely influence or, the immune system was key in aiding the remission. But, as for a conclusive medical explanation for the occurrence of spontaneous remission, there is none.

However, practitioners of NLP and hypnotherapy will tell you that there is a key link between the mind and body and how the power of the mind can be harnessed to heal disease. Indeed, many recipients of these therapies have taken a firm step on the road to healing after suffering from life-threatening illness. Seeds of healing can be planted in the body of the sufferer through the unique combination of NLP and hypnotherapeutic techniques.

These therapies work by re-educating and reprogramming the mind at a deep level, aiding the subconscious to process thoughts, release negative emotions, and change beliefs that have a negative impact on health. Powerful NLP and hypnotherapy can plant the seeds of spontaneous remission while helping to soothe the patient, encouraging optimism to enjoy life, to feel calmer, remove the fear, worry and exhaustion that living with a life-threatening disease causes.

NLP and hypnosis helps patients to live in the questions: What if a miracle were to happen and remission occurred? What would that look, sound and feel like? How would you feel?

The intention is to offer hope and relief from stress and take away the burden illness can cause. Through powerful suggestion, NLP and hypnotherapy fill the patient with vitality and possibilities for enjoying life to the full.

All of this combined helps to heal and, while all practitioners strongly state NLP and hypnotherapy should be used in conjunction with, not instead of, conventional treatment, there are some who have found they no longer need medication to control their condition. In some cases, some swear the NLP and hypnotherapeutic treatment has saved their lives.

One story involves a gentleman who was taken to hospital to undergo surgery. Unfortunately he was suffering from cancer that had spread throughout his body. The surgeons had done everything they could for him and he was sent home. What he didn't know was that he'd been given around six weeks to live, something that was shared with other relatives but not himself. They treated him as normal and didn't share this grave prognosis.

But, to everyone's astonishment and delight, he kept on going and seven years later he was still alive! The medics had called him back into the hospital for a check up five months after his operation, surprised and happy he was still alive. An examination revealed his body had shrunk the cancer.

He had believed he'd been healed. After his operation, the doctors had said they'd done all they could to help and that was good enough for him. By his understanding, this meant they'd fixed him!

The NLP and hypnotherapeutic methods of healing hold that our mind and bodies know how to heal themselves, but we can get in the way of our own healing by listening to self limiting beliefs.

While the therapies of NLP and hypnosis don't promise to heal, they can help to relieve the stress having a serious illness can bring and give the possibility of spontaneous remission.

Find more spontaneous remission stories in Part Two.

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Food Phobias and Picky Eating Habits

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Adult food phobias are exactly that - adults who are either terrified of eating certain types of food or who are fussy and picky around food. This prevents a balanced diet and therefore has enormous future health implications.

Selective eating is common in children and adolescents who are naturally picky about what they eat but then grow out of this in adulthood. However, some do not overcome this stage. Fussy eating continues with more extreme phobias around certain foods developing, seriously affecting relationships and causing conflicts and anxiety. A family outing to a restaurant or a romantic evening out becomes a major event and can be stressful for the sufferer who is surrounded by foods they're deeply uncomfortable with.

Health professionals have concluded that phobias around certain foods stem not so much from memories or trauma, but from an incident. The phobia or fussiness is then linked to the sight, taste, smell and texture of the food in question, like gagging on a cracker for example. From this incident a fear of choking could manifest from eating anything dry or crunchy. Some sufferers start having irrational cleanliness issues with how food is prepared.

Often conventional treatments don't work with sufferers pleading with doctors to help them. The condition has been linked with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and as such, cognitive behavioural therapy is used. However, a large amount of those with food phobias have found huge success with hypnotherapy and NLP (neuro linguistic programming).

Seeing a hypnotherapist or listening to a professional recording written specially for this condition has helped adults break free from their phobias and lead normal lives again. Interestingly with this type of therapy, usually only one session is needed but sufferers can listen to the hypnotherapy recording as much as is needed to gain benefit. The therapy works by reprogramming the mind and is therefore very deep and effective. NLP is like finding the owner's guide to your brain and therefore holds endless possibilities for improving the life of sufferers of this condition.

Hypnotherapy and NLP work from the inside out by making changes in the subconscious mind, so, after the session (usually only one session is needed), sufferers are attracted to the whole range of foods on offer and not just restricted to the unhealthy handful the phobia allows.

Those suffering from adult food phobias who are worried about their health, sick of friends laughing at their strange condition, who want freedom from gagging on certain foods and who are tired of their restricted diet, have found benefit by using hypnotherapy and NLP.

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