In trying to improve my life one of the things I have struggled with is sugar addiction. At first I thought that I was one of those people who just happen to have a sweet tooth and was unconcerned. Things changed when I found out that my sweet tooth was compromising my health. It started with an outbreak of what I thought was eczema on my skin but turned out to be related to a candida overgrowth. Suddenly I needed to stop eating those chocolate bars and cakes that I loved so much. That's when I found myself in a battle for my life. I found out that there was a vicious cycle, the candida caused sugar cravings and in turn eating sugar fuels the growth of the candida. I used all of my willpower to cut out sugar from my life. I would go for months without any chocolate bars, the longest was three months of total abstinence.
Then things started becoming weird. People I know and even strangers on the street started offering me sweets. Since they were offering me those sweets out of the kindness of their hearts I felt I couldn't refuse them without hurting their feelings. I would take them and shove them in my bag. Then I had a dilemma. I could not offer those sweets to the kids in my life knowing the dangers to their health and I still felt bad about throwing something that was given in kindness away. But I was still full of resolve. At one point I had packets of sweets I had not bought in my bag. Then things got even stranger. I found myself in danger of being arrested for shoplifting sweets. I would walk into a store, deliberately fight the urge to buy anything sweet, then as I was walking out the door with my groceries the urge to grab sweets from those kiosks on the way out would be overwhelming. It would have been strange because after the arrest they would have found that I had the money to buy the sweets I stole.
I read a book called The Yeast Syndrome (John P.Trowbridge, Morton Walker) and I found out that the yeast in the body affects brain chemistry, that's how it controls your behavior. I would swear it does more than that (maybe it also controls the behavior of the people around you so that they give you sweets)!
I was losing the battle with sugar cravings (or the candida). I would find myself bingeing on chocolate bars. After those binges I started having trouble breathing. The book I was reading was saying the candida can spread all over the body and start invading organs. There were days I found myself lying in bed in pain unable to breath wondering if I had just killed myself! I decided I needed hypnosis to make me stop because I could not do it by myself. Going to a hypnotherapist turned out to be expensive but I felt I had no choice. I was still looking for a hypnotherapist locally when I found out about a site belonging to Steve G. Jones called betterlivingwithhypnosis which sells hypnosis audios for everything, including sugar cravings. I signed up for the newsletter thinking I would go back later because I wasn't sure about the whole thing. A few weeks later I received an email that said he was having a sale and you can download a tape for 65c so I decided to try it with sugar addiction. However when I got there I went a little crazy and ended up buying 10 audios for about $7. That was before he hypnotised me!
I have been listening to the tape for two weeks now. I don't know if it's working but all I can say is that it was worth every cent I paid. The relaxation part itself (which is over 20 minutes) is worth the money. I did not know that being hypnotised was so enjoyable. I was worried that I would get bored listening to the same tape everyday (you are supposed to listen to the tape continuously for at least three weeks) but instead I look forward to it. One word I can use to describe the experience is "thrilling".
In the following days I found myself feeling nauseous quite often. I was beginning to wonder if maybe I was getting sick or something. One day after lunch I was feeling nauseous again then it hit me, I had just eaten a jam doughnut for lunch. . During the hypnosis part of the tape I visualised something truly disgusting to connect with sugar. Every time I ate something with sugar I've been feeling nauseous without even being aware of it. I hope that must mean I have been successfully hypnotised. My life may depend on it.
Steve G. Jones website is http://www.betterlivingwithhypnosis.net/
Friday, September 10, 2010
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