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Stocking filler, or spare tyre … What are you wishing for this year?

October 24th, 2011

Yes folks we’re at that time again! The shops started the run up even earlier, I’m sure next year we’ll have tinsel in the supermarket by JUNE!

So here’s a thought … Do you really need to put weight on over Christmas. Is it possible to enjoy feasting without needed to fast come January?

With the Essential Hypnotic Gastric Band, you could be slimmer by Christmas!

No need to weight for the New Year, start your life today and enjoy guilt free festivities…

Most of us have tried dieting with little success; Lou Palmer of Essential Awareness has been using The Hypnotic Gastric Band with fantastic results for 100s of clients over 5 years.

•In a 1-to-1 session your mind will believe that a gastric band has been fitted.

•You will rid yourself of a lifetime habit of comfort and boredom eating!

•The Hypnotic Gastric Band is 100% safe.

•Save yourself money! The Essential Hypnotic Gastric Band is far cheaper than the £7,000 the operation could cost you!

“I’ve released over 3 stone and reached my target weight. I’m now slimmer than before I got married! I’m loving the program and CD – it’s the best thing ever. I can incorporate it into my day really easily. And I like looking myself in the mirror again. I am so much calmer and focussed in everything I am doing – it’s great.
My confidence has grown and because of this I have been promoted at work.”
SA, Bristol

“It must be working as I’ve lost 2 stone so far. Thank you so much for helping me regain control of my weight.
I don’t feel any desire to revert back to my old eating habits – it feels great! The Essential Hypnotic Gastric Band workshop has delivered so much more than my expectations.”
BD, Chepstow

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It’s my story and I’m gonna keep it, this is who I AM

August 18th, 2010


Our “story” is what we often use to identify who we are; but is it really that helpful? If you had an experience early in life which left you feeling like a victim for example, potentially that role will go on to form the person you will be in the future … who wants to feel and act like a victim for the rest of their lives?!

This will most likely be at an unconscious  level to being with, but then the way people react to us because of this role or sub personality (as its often known) will become the norm. Sometimes the attention we gain through this role becomes our way of feeling loved or accepted, perhaps it’s a case of any attention is better than none … This story leads us to retelling it over and over again to reaffirm who we are and gain attention/energy at the same time, which not only keeps the memory of the incident alive in our minds but also at a cellar level too.  All of which impacts the victim mentality, which leads us to view our reality through the eyes of a victim, potentially leading us to attract even more experiences of being victimised! Talk about make your own life hard work …

Not only do we form control dramas from the adults around us as children; we continue to form them all the way through our lives, until the point when we realise what we are creating in each moment.

The best reason to shed our stories is because we can never truly heal ourselves from within our story.  We can only resign to accepting our lot in the script of our life; locking ourselves into the suffering written within that particular drama. If we are going to spin yarns about our life journey, we should make them grand and empowering!  Is it not better to be a brave traveller who’s life  taught them how to trust their instincts? Rather than to see yourself as a victim of betrayal; who now cannot bring themselves to trust others …

None of our “stories” are the real truth, just the way we have chosen to react to an event. They’re scripts we have created. They are not life, because life exists only in each moment; they are memories, thoughts in your mind. Keeping you stuck in the past scripted as the misunderstood daughter, the unappreciated artist, or the victim of chronic illness.

Want to know more?

Go to www.essentialawareness.org/life-direction

Have a go yourself … make the choice to release these characters you play in life:

  1. On a strip of paper for each one, right down all the roles you currently play in your life. E.G. Mother, wife, friend, provider, person trying to release weight or give up smoking…
  2. Then take a skewer and place the strip of paper on the end of it (one at a time, so you can focus solely each individual role)
  3. Take a few seconds and focus on this role and how it affects your life, then blow all of that and your intention to release it onto the paper before setting light to it. Watch it burn and as its dies away imagine that you have released the future of that character. Do this until its extinguished, until you are no longer mother, daughter, woman. In doing so, you’ll unravel the energetic cords the keep you bound to that character.
  4. With roles that concern others in you life, hold the affirmation: “ I am placing in the fire who I expect you to be …  so that you can become who you came in this word to be”

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Essential Awareness Newsletter June 2010

June 29th, 2010

Newsletter June 2010

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

Hello and welcome to my first news letter of 2010

My apologies that it has been a long time coming; I have been taking time out from writing due to a family bereavement.

Change seems to be even more in full flow than ever before, not only for us as individuals but globally as well. We are deeply conditioned to feel uncertain of change, perhaps even to fear it- if the recent media coverage of the elections is anything to go by… But what is there to fear really? Everyday there is a massive amount of change going on within each and every one of us. Our cells die off and new ones are made, with every breath we release the old and bring in the new. What a strange world this would be if nothing ever changed!

Quite often the fear is not due to change itself but of the unknown. Well its time to wake yourself up and tune in for a reality check! Whenever you feel fearful, ask yourself is this fear justified or am I loosing perspective on what is really happening in my day to day existence? By living with this one question you have the power to change your own life, instantaneously!

Much change has happened here at Essential Awareness, there is now a regular fortnightly meditation class…

The Essential Big Chill

Fancy finishing off your week and starting the next with less stress? Why not try the Essential Big Chill… an evening of meditation and personal development.

First hour – Meditation

  • Mindfulness of breathing
  • Developing love and kindness
  • Meeting and working with your guides

Second hour – Personal Development and Discussions

All are welcome to join both sessions. No experience needed. The price for the evening is £10 or come to either session for £5.

The Essential Big Chill is run fortnightly with the next one on Sunday 6th June at 6pm

Special Offer -
Purchase 6 sessions in advance and get one FREE!

Contact me to book your place! 0800 8406 123

Hypnotic Gastric Band 1 day workshop

Time to release your winter indulgence?

£185 (includes manual and refreshments)

Find out more in my blog post: Can a Hypnotic Gastric Band really work?

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Can a Hypnotic Gastric Band really work?

January 22nd, 2010

Most of us have tried dieting with no success; Lou Palmer of Essential Awareness has been using The Hypnotic Gastric Band with fantastic results. In just three sessions (or a one day workshop) your unconscious mind will believe that a gastric band has been fitted, shrinking the size of your stomach to that of a Satsuma, so you will only be able to eat tiny portions of food.
With no surgery needed, this technique brings hope to many overweight people. Not only will you have the band fitted but you will also address your underlying belief and behaviour patterns regarding releasing excess weight, and ridding yourself of a lifetime habit of comfort/boredom eating!
How does it work? In just three sessions of hypnotherapy, your therapist Lou Palmer will take you step-by-step through the medical procedure of a gastric band operation as if you were actually inside an operating theatre, so eventually you began to feel a tightening sensation in your stomach. Curiously, you can remember every part of the ‘procedure’ – including being wheeled into theatre, the clink of the surgeon’s knife and even the smell of the anaesthetic.
You should expect to shed up to three pounds a week because you will believe you have had a band fitted into your stomach.
A real gastric band operation usually costs £7,000 and has the same level of risk related to any major operation including infection and DVT.
Essential Awareness uses a combination of hypnotherapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, so you will be taken on a ‘virtual tour’ through the ‘operation’ with in-depth guided imagery and visualisation to fit an imaginary gastric band around your stomach, forming a pouch the size of a Satsuma.
After three sessions of the treatment – which is 100% safe because it eliminates the risks of general anaesthetic, DVT and MRSA – you began to feel a tightening sensation in your stomach.
Lou Palmer, who has used this the Essential Awareness Weight Release program on herself has dropped from a large size 16 to a size 14 since October last year (in three months).

‘I had to try it for myself, after hoofing on a large amount of weight after a back accident, I new I needed more than a diet. My eating habits needed addressing just as much as the amount of food I was consuming. I find the combination of therapies has helped me and my clients rethink their whole attitude to food, so they adopt a new lifestyle of healthy eating, making it a long term solution rather than a temporary one! If you try and eat a large portion you will feel a pulling sensation in your tummy as if my stomach is stretching. You simply cannot fit large portions of food in any more.
I have tried! After forcing down my usual portion of Pizza when I had first fitted the band I felt really sick, as if it was stuck in my throat. Not nice, I need to lie down for ages afterwards!’
This treatment is a win-win situation for clients and the NHS, and is great solution for many overweight adults and teenagers who are sadly part of Obese Britain. And although this isn’t in itself new, its application in the weight loss field is believed to be pioneering.
KD from Bristol says, ‘I don’t know how much I have released as I am no longer weighing myself but I have definitely noticed a huge difference physically. My husband keeps saying how much weight I have lost. I feel I look very different when I look in the mirror, both in face and body. I just don’t eat as much; my body just doesn’t want it. I put less on my plate and am eating a lot less in general. There just isn’t the battle in my head anymore, I feel everything is in harmony and I have no idea how it works…it just does

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December 09 Newsletter

January 13th, 2010

Essential Awareness

Lou Palmer Adv Dip Hyp-CBT, C.P.AMT
Licensed Hypnotherapist and Advanced Essential Reprogramming Practitioner
specialising in Anxiety Disorders

Newsletter December 2009

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The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
– Wayne Dyer

Be the change you want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Hello and welcome once again for the last newsletter for this year!

With much Love and Gratitude I thank you All for your support and Love…

May you all be happy,

May you all be healthy,

May you all be free from suffering.

Between the 21st and 22nd of December I celebrate a very old festival called the Winter Solstice – a festival of peace to celebrate the coming of the light. It is held on the shortest day and longest night of the year.

The Winter Solstice celebrates the rebirth of the Sun God, the son of the Goddess and in ancient times, when people were more intimately connected with the cycles of nature this was of great importance. The sunlight gives us not only its warmth for food but life itself, the true Source of our energy.

Our Christmas rituals show many of the old ways even today. Sprigs of holly and ivy were brought into the home to celebrate the Winter Solstice, being evergreen plants, they symbolise the eternal nature of the sun, which never dies, but merely sleeps during the winter months.

The Yule log once brought into the home was lit to banish evil spirits, defeat darkness and bring good luck for the coming year. It’s focus is on family togetherness and the union of all humankind. Yule logs would smoulder for twelve days before another ceremony was held to put them out. A part of the log was kept to be strapped to the plough the next spring to bless the land, and another piece was taken to light the next Yule’s log.

Mistletoe, still a central part of Christmas celebrations today it is hung over doors for protection, the kissing came much later on! Mistletoe grows only on oak trees and is associated with peace and goodwill, both values that still surround this time of year.

NEW FOR 2010!

The Essential Big Chill

Fancy finishing off your week and starting the next with less stress? Why not try the Essential big chill… an evening of meditation and personal development with talks from guest speakers.

Every other Sunday starting from the 10th Jan 2010 at 6pm, lasting for 2.5 hrs.

First hour – Meditation
Mindfulness of breathing
Developing love and kindness,
Meeting and working with your guides.

Second hour – Personal Development and Discussions

All are welcome to join both sessions. No experience needed. The price for the evening is £10 or come to either session for £5.

First month Special offer – Purchase 6 sessions in advance and get one free!

That’s only £60 pounds for 7 evenings!

Contact me to book your place »

Hypnotic Gastric Band 1 day workshop

Time to release your winter indulgence?

£270 (includes manual and refreshments)

Jan special offer – Pay £270 for one person and bring along a friend absolutely FREE!

23rd and 30th Jan 10-5pm. Limited places only 20 per day. Venue TBA.

Contact me for more information and
your FREE telephone consultation »

Love, light and many blessings

Lou Palmer

De-clutter your life and your mind!

Free phone 0800 8406 123 or use my Contact Form

Fantastic opportunity to win a fab pad for £20! Click here for more details:
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My Christmas Wish for the Children

December 3rd, 2009

Dear Friend,

Having come through a very dark period in my late thirties that saw me fighting a pre-cancerous blood condition (essential thrombocythemia), and losing two adult friends to Meningitis I decided two things: 1. Life is too short to bypass your dreams and 2. I wanted to give something back.

I’d dreamt of visiting Peru and walking the Inca Trail for over twenty years, so what better way to combine those two thoughts but to undertake the Inca Trail Challenge for The Meningitis Trust? Having worked hard to bring my health to a new level I trained for 10 months in preparation for the Trek, losing 4 ½ stone in the process, and set off for Peru in October 2009.

Following the success of my fundraising trek in the Andes I have returned from Peru with a new challenge to raise money to help the Peruvian Mountain Children.

Walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu was an inspiring and outstanding experience that I would happily undertake again tomorrow, and Peru is a stunningly beautiful Country. However it highlighted to me just how much help is required by the children of the mountains who suffer not only with an extreme lack of food and warm clothing but also live without very basic schooling and medical facilities.

I have therefore undertaken to set up my own charity to help alleviate some of this suffering by hopefully providing micro school and hospital facilities in the mountains surrounding Cusco, in Peru.

My intention is to raise money in the first instance through a Property Prize Competition set up by myself and my mum: www.fabpad2win.co.uk offers the chance to win one of two properties up for grabs in a “Spot the Ball” type Prize Draw. The two lucky winners will win their own mortgage free apartment whilst at the same time raising money for charity.

The aim is to raise money for the Mountain Children of Peru, the NSPCC and the Meningitis Trust,

The Peruvian mountain children have touched my heart and require just as much, if not more help than those in Western Cultures due to the lack of infrastructure and trade monies into the country. My heart goes out to them and I am overwhelmed by a desire to do all I can to help. I have a number of idea’s for raising funds and helping to alleviate some of the suffering experienced by the children in Peru and what better way to start than by also offering two lucky people the opportunity to own their own home in these difficult times (see www.fabpad2win.co.uk). The charity is in its infancy right now but I envisage offering some very real help through the provision of warm clothes and food within the next 6 months and school and hospital facilities within 18 months to 2 years”.

The NSPCC are one of the most recognised UK charities for children and are currently launching a major appeal in the South West to expand the ChildLine call centre, “Childs Voice Appeal”. Unfortunately Bristol has the highest incidence of callers to ChildLine in the South West Region and we want to help.
The Meningitis Trust is close to my heart and was the start of this whole new vision for me, so the intention is to continue raising funds for them also.

Children are our future and they have not yet acquired the skills to survive in the world. As adults we have a responsibility to ensure their health, safety and ability to acquire knowledge throughout their growing and formative years. For these reasons I am inspired to set up the charity and raise funds, initially through the Property Prize Competition.

At times, on the Trail, when I started to doubt if I could take another step up I took inspiration from the celebrity crew that climbed Killimanjaro earlier this year, thought again of how far I had come with my health, the dear friends I have lost and how important it is to me to continue to provide help to those that have bigger needs than I do.

I find myself at a new beginning, a vision born out of a love for life and others, a desire to help those in desperate need and probably the biggest challenge of my life. But big oaks grown out of little acorns, we all learn to walk before we can run and we all get by with a little help form our friends.

For these reasons I am writing to ask if you would please help me to help them and enter the competition at www.fabpad2win.co.uk and enable me to raise funds for the mountain children of Peru. I am hoping with all my heart that you are able to do this for me and for the children here at home and in Peru.
I would be very grateful if you would also be kind enough to pass this on to all of your contacts.

With much love and gratitude to you.
Josie Palmer

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Free yourself from the perils of stinking thinking!

November 18th, 2009

Free yourself from the perils of stinking thinking!

We are all aware of the term “we are what we eat”, so how about “we are what we think”?

How often do you refer to yourself in a negative way, I’m fat, stupid, not pretty enough or good enough to do that, or have that.

For many years, positive suggestion has been used in hypnotherapy; becoming aware of your thoughts and how they affect you has been the basis for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which has been researched more extensively than any other psychotherapeutic approach. Several studies have revealed CBT to be more effective than medication alone for treating conditions of anxiety and depression. Combine the two (Hypno-CBT) and you have the possibility of reprogramming your subconscious and your conscious minds.

(For more information on Hypno-CBT take a look at www.essentialawareness.org)

However, there is a way we can start to make changes in our daily lives:

• Spend some time and become a silent witness to your thoughts. I’ve found through my years of private practice that the majority of clients speak to themselves in a way that you’d never dream of speaking to a stranger, let alone someone you cared for!

• Now you’re aware of your thought patterns, start by making small achievable changes. To never have another negative thought would be a tall order, so recognise the negative thought as it happens, and ask yourself is it really true? E.g. ‘everyone hates me’. Take a look around, you may find the situation you are in makes you feel this way but in reality no one hates you, let alone the whole world!

• Thought stopping is the easiest way to combat negative thinking; acknowledge that you are thinking negatively, and then do something to change it! Imagine a BIG flashing “STOP!” Sign coming towards you, and then remember something that makes you feel great instead, or how about having a giggle? Laugh every time you feel negative! That way you will have a lovely release of serotonin making yourself feel good as well as combating your negative thinking.

• If you wake up feeling moody, spend a few minutes changing your outlook for the day. Think of something that makes you feel happy, feel it through out every cell in your body, see your day ahead positively, visualise completing everything on your To-do list (providing you’re not trying to be super human that day!). Set yourself attainable goals and then congratulate yourself when you complete them, and most importantly SMILE.

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Hello and welcome

November 16th, 2009

to the Essential Awareness blog! I’ll be updating this page regularly with all the latest EA news and info so be sure to check back regularly…

For now, you can browse the Newsletter Archive for past Essential Awareness newsletters. And if you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to my free newsletter to stay up to date and get a little lift in your inbox!

Please share your ponderings by adding a comment….  I’m particularly interested in hearing what books you have read and can’t put down. Whether they transport you to another place and time, like a holiday without all the travelling, or have they opened a part of your mind your never knew you had? Did they make you laugh out loud or sob in private? Whatever the reason join me in sharing a good page turner!

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