Seminars Can Help Folks Keep New Year’s Resolutions

Posted Jan 4, 2007 by Suzanne Schmidt

Updated Jan 4, 2007 at 02:55 PM

By SUZANNE M. SCHMIDT
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Many people are making New Year’s resolutions to lose weight and quit smoking, which is a goal close to Rena Greenberg’s heart.
Greenberg helps people to lose weight and quit smoking through her company, Wellness Seminars Inc. Greenberg will have two seminars at University Community Hospital, 3100 E. Fletcher Ave., in early January.
The first seminar, which will be about losing weight, will be Jan. 4 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and the second seminar, focusing on how to stop smoking, will be Jan. 9 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The seminars are a combined approach of the power of hypnosis and behavior modification.
Greenberg said through her program, she hopes to help people work through the conflict in their subconscious and conscious mind.
“People might want to lose weight consciously, but in their subconscious they want to eat as they have in the past,” Greenberg said. “The conscious is always overrun by the subconscious. The subconscious is always stronger, that is why diets fail in the long run. As long as the conflict is there, they will always gain the weight back.”
Greenberg uses the power of hypnosis to help people get in touch with their deeper wisdom.
“I use heart-centered hypnosis,” Greenberg said. “I go beyond the limits of the conscious mind in order to achieve permanent weight loss. Heart-centered hypnosis is what I use because it is the most powerful way to really connect with the greater power inside ourselves.”
Greenberg will hypnotize the entire group at the seminar and then try to reprogram the subconscious to not have desire for fattening foods.
“I try to help their desire to look good, over power their cravings,” Greenberg said. “I give them suggestions and images to help reinforce their goals. I give suggestions to eat smaller portions, to eat healthier and to increase their activity level.”
Darryl Schumacher, a Plant City resident, said Greenberg’s program has worked so well he has lost 103 pounds in the past year.
He went to Greenberg’s seminar at UCH last January.
“She tells you she is going to plant the seed in your mind and let it grow,” Schumacher said. “I eat less and when I do eat, I eat right and I am more active now.”
With the one-time fee of $69 per seminar, each participant will receive a tape and booklet to help them stay on task. Each participant is also allowed to come back to as many seminars as they need to for free.
“I paid once, but attended her seminar many times,” Schumacher said. “It was really working and I wanted to keep going to reaffirm my goals to myself. I have tried most diets including the Atkins diet, the soup diet and I have counted calories. The reason why it wasn’t working is because it was just a diet. I couldn’t wait to get off the diet and go back to eating like I used to. I needed a lifestyle change.”
Schumacher said he went from wearing a XXX-size shirt to a large and he couldn’t be happier.
“I eat to live, instead of living to eat,” Schumacher said. “I am not even having cravings. I have been running 5K races. I eat things now that I never ate before. I crave salads and vegetables and those are things I would never have touched before.”
Greenberg also helps people to quit smoking with the same heart-centered hypnosis method.
“I help them to identify as a non-smoker,” Greenberg said. “One of the hardest parts about quitting smoking is believing in your ability to do so. Each person needs to be able to believe in their power to change.”
Greenberg became interested in heart-centered hypnosis after her own troubles with weight. When she was 25, she would exercise too much and eat a lot of sugar, carbohydrates and caffeine.
“I always needed a stimulant,” Greenberg said. “I went to the emergency room at the age of 26 with an irregular heart beat. The only thing that was keeping me alive was my age. I studied biofeedback therapy.”
Through her studies, she discovered that when a person is hypnotized and hooked up to machines reading their physiological response, the person is very relaxed.
“There is a different feeling that comes over you when you are hypnotized,” Greenberg said. “It became clear to me how I could help people work through their negative habits.”
The tape and booklet helps to reinforce the messages Greenberg suggests to a person’s subconscious.
“Repetition helps so much with hypnosis,” Greenberg said. “They leave with the ability to change their inner programming. Hypnosis is very powerful; they walk out of the seminar with something shifted in their mind.”
Greenberg has published “The Right Weigh: Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss” and will soon publish her second book, “The Craving” in June.
Wellness Seminars Inc. is based in Bradenton. Greenberg gives seminars throughout the area.
For more information, visit http://www.easywillpower.com or call 1-800-848-2822.

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