For Immediate Release:
Love at First Bite:
Maintaining Relationship with Food Without The Obsession
HypnoDining Returns Americans to The Table to Love Eating and to Eat Less!
Pittsburgh, December 2009. Americans consume thousands of pounds of potato chips per year. The global potato chip market generates several billions of dollars in the United States alone. Yet if you took the time to hold a potato chip in your hand, smell it, feel it and just touch your tongue to it, you might eat a second one but not as many as usual.
"Potato chips are a big stress food. You can easily eat half a bag within minutes and not realize it. Chips and other snack foods can be savored with "mindful eating."
Sanna Carapellotti, MS CHt, of Mental Performances.com, a Pittsburgh based hypnotherapy service says, "A mindful eating approach creates no guilt or stomach upset."
Carapellotti, Medical Hypnotherapy expert, is dedicated to reconnecting people with slower and more conscious eating habits. Often referred to as "being mindful," this approach transforms people's relationship to food and eating and is more than simply eating slow.
The practice of mindful eating is gaining ground acrosss the nation. Mindfulness is about increasing awareness, being in the moment and can be applied to eating.
The first bite is generally delicious and tasty, each subsquent bite becomes less and less satisfying, especially when stress eating. Through mindfulness, the first bite "party-in-your-mouth" experience can offer a similar satisfaction with each bite.
"We have to eat every day and sadly we are faced with destructive cycles several times a day," says Sanna, "Eating has become painful and unsatisfying. We pay a huge price for how we eat."
A solution lies in increasing awareness. Carapellotti developed HypnoDining to engage clients in how and why they eat. HypnoDining participants become enlightened eaters through hypnotic techniques, guided imagery and psychological acupressure and an extraordinary eating experience. Eating is a mind body event.
Sanna's HypnoDining seminars are not therapy-, nutrition-, or counseling- based, although changing one's eating habits can be highly transformative. Each clients with guided audio reinforcement, Daily Discipline emails and a Re-Minder refridgerator magnet.
The benefits of attending the HypnoDining:
Increase awareness of thoughts and emotions that trigger mindless eating.
Discover how slow eating can ease digestive stress.
Understand stress eating.
Eat fewer calories without counting them.
Realize the value of food cravings and what they mean.
Savor food with all the senses eliminating rushed meals and unconscious snacking.
The learning objectives of the HypnoDining's Five Step Solution of Mindful Eating Practices:
Integrate on-the-spot stress reduction to combat stress eating;
Create optimal condition for mindful eating of food;
Identify cravings andhow to "read" them;
Reveal the process of eating, hunger and cultural influences;
Experience Whole Body Mindful Eating practices, including a chocolate meditation.
The chocolate meditation re-introduces you to chocolate - in a hypnotic state. You don't taste chocolate after the first bite if you eat it for stress or PMS." Sanna says that chocolate and all foods are like fine wine offering a multi-dimensional satisfying adventure.
Those who attend the HypnoDining seminars want a better relationship with food are wanting a healthier food consciousness.
We are eating ourselves to death. 20% of our total calories are from snacks. Americans increase of calories increased from 1970 - 2000 by a whooping 183,450 EXCESS calories a year. Mindful eating STOPS excessive food intake. The HypnoDining seminars, returns Americans to the table with an awareness of what and how they are eating.
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