I have been an executive recruiter for seventeen years. When I met Inga Chamberlain I was burned out. I was surviving but not enjoying work or making the income I should. Inga helped me change my self-talk from negative to positive.
Improving Sales by Improving Yourself
Hi, my name is Inga Chamberlain and I am a salesperson.
Ever feel like you’re confessing to a terrible character flaw when you say what it is you do for a living? Has anyone but me noticed that “sales” has become a dirty word?
I still remember in the 80’s when I worked as an executive recruiter. During sales cold phone calls, I was routinely hung up on. Obviously this is demoralizing to someone in sales. I got really sick of feeling badly and like I was bothering people by calling them. I realized my self esteem was part of the problem and I had limiting beliefs about myself and salespeople in general. This is how I found NLP. I decided to change myself instead of changing careers and it worked! I not only continued in sales but started my own recruiting firm and for 10 years happily sold my service to a national market.
So how did NLP help me to change? First I worked on developing the self confidence that could stand up to those demoralizing phone calls. During this time I also worked on increasing my skill set to have better sales techniques . I used NLP to help me build rapport on the phone and close more effectively. But the main changes came from changing me. How I saw myself and my place in the world. I also used NLP and hypnosis to overcome a strong fear of public speaking so that I could make presentations more effectively. I then proceeded to change anything else that was holding me back and in the end also got rid of a fear of heights some general Anxiety and some left over trauma from childhood.
When I decided to leave the executive search industry to become a trainer , coach, speaker and hypnotherapist the transition was easy. I had already done all the ground work necessary to be successful in any field I might choose because I had increased my emotional intelligence or EQ as Daniel Goleman calls it. I had gotten rid of the things that hold most people back.
In my private practice in Atlanta , Georgia I work with many salespeople who want to improve their sales. We always start by using NLP and hypnosis to remove negative conditioning, beliefs and behaviors. Then we boost confidence levels and condition in new positive habits and behaviors. One of the most common problems with low performing salespeople is that they don’t like being in sales(or their perception of sales). By changing the way they see their career and themselves a salesperson can dramatically improve productivity and income. But even more important, they will feel good about themselves and their choice of career.
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Weight Loss, Why not just stop eating?
One sure way to lose weight, it might seem, is simply to stop eating for a while. Simple as it sounds, that idea is fraught with potential problems.
The basic weight loss equation certainly remains valid in this case: using more calories than are consumed results in weight loss. If you don’t take in calories by eating, it’s fairly easy to satisfy that equation. Your body burns 70 calories per hour even just sitting idle on the couch.
But while you may be idle, your body’s systems are not.
First of all, the body – deprived of food – will slow down the metabolism and burn calories more slowly. weight loss can be sudden at first, but the rate slows very soon thereafter.
At first, it goes after glycogen stored in the liver and converts it to glucose to burn for energy. That energy is used to power all the body’s activities.
When that is used up (to a degree), the body then begins going after the energy stored in the bonds of certain molecules in fat cells. The process is called ketosis and accounts for why your breath sometimes smells like fingernail polish (made with ketones) after hard exercise.
So far, that all sounds good. You burn calories, reduce body fat and lose weight. Exactly what you wanted. But, unfortunately, this isn’t all the body is doing under these circumstances.
Because of the relatively rapid weight loss/calorie burning from this method of ‘dieting’ the body will experience a ‘rebound’ effect. In other words, it will cause you to crave food like crazy. The food you do eat will cause you to put on more pounds than you lost. The body is compensating for a radical deficit.
At the same time, there are serious health risks to simply starving or a long term fast. Going without food for a few hours or even a day isn’t dangerous, though it can be uncomfortable since you’ll get very hungry. But this method causes a number of carefully balanced nutrients to get out of whack.
It upsets the delicate balance of insulin, sugar and a variety of other essential compounds. Apart from regulating energy levels, they influence hormones that regulate the brain and nervous system.
Concentrations of potassium and sodium get out of balance unless you compensate with sports-style drinks, which can be more difficult to adjust in the absence of food. Those minerals are key to regulating the heartbeat, not to mention being found in every cell of the body and the fluid in between where they participate in an enormous variety of vital tasks.
Fatigue, dizziness and difficulty concentrating are only three of the milder symptoms that will result. Dehydration is likely, since much of the fluid we gain is from food, not just liquid. That can easily lead to heat stroke if the weather is at all warm and you are even a little active.
The kidneys will have a more difficult time filtering properly. They clean waste material from the blood, play a role in regulating blood pressure and stimulate the bone marrow to make red blood cells.
The odds of heart attack are increased, brain function suffers,… the list is endless. Even if the fast is ended long before death (at about 4 weeks), serious physical effects would occur.
Instead of fasting, eat a balanced, healthy diet of limited calories – combined with an age and circumstance-appropriate exercise program and find a way to stay on track. Motivation is the key to staying with any new kind of life style. Lets not kid ourselves, what permanent weight loss requires is a permanent change in life style. Hypnotherapy is one of the best ways to create a new habit and get rid of old negative or unhealthy ways of thinking about food. That is the surest way to lose pounds safely. Your physical health will be in harmony with your mind and your new healthy eating/exercise habits will become part of who you are.
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Stopping Test Anxiety
Test Anxiety just like any Anxiety is overcome using hypnosis. Test Anxiety causes the student to become highly stressed. Often times the feeling is more like panic then simple anxiety. When the body goes into hyper drive so does the mind. This creates the flight or fight response and drives blood flow away from the brain. This then creates the “self fulfilling prophecy” so common with fear. The fear does to the brain exactly what the student does not want. It takes away his ability to remember the answers, the ability to think clearly.
I use hypnosis to create a feeling of calm that is linked to the test taking experience on a subconscious level. So the new feeling of calm now becomes automatic. I also help the student be better prepared and more confident of their ability to absorb the information during study sessions and increase their recall and focus.
Recently, I worked with a financial planner who was scheduled to take an important exam. She was completely panicked since in the past she did not do well in test situations. She was so anxious about the test which was 3 weeks away that she was having problems sleeping and studying effectively. We worked together for 5 sessions and she felt calm and confident during the test and passed the exam with flying colors.
I work with children and adults to enhance their test taking ability and overcome fears. hypnosis serves as the bridge to the subconscious mind and gives much faster results then other types of interventions.
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Stop Smoking Now!
Helping my clients stop smoking is probably one of the easiest things that I do. Once someone has decided that they want to stop smoking or go back to being a "non-smoker" the process is quick and relatively simple. It is easier than many other issues because it is so unhealthy. No one can really dispute that fact and unlike eating, you do not need to smoke to live. The process involves working with the individual to determine the reasons behind their habit. We also reframe the "addiction" to nicotine. Then I record a powerful "stop smoking" CD while I hypnotize the client. This works incredibly well. The typical result is that the individual stops smoking that day and then comes back for at least 1 reinforcement session. For more information on addictions and habits click here to book now for a free phone consultation.
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Fertility and Hypnosis
hypnosis can have a huge impact on a mother’s ability to conceive. Infertility is a growing problem. Whether it is related to toxins in the environment or because more couples are waiting to have their first child until they are in there late 30’s and early 40’s, there is a growing population of the “infertile”. More and more couples are now turning to hypnosis as a way to overcome issues relating to their fertility
There are many reasons why hypnosis is helpful with fertility. It is obvious to many that the mind and the body interact. What they might not be aware of is exactly the degree of that interaction and the power that can be gained over the physiology with hypnosis. An obvious example is when we panic: we begin to sweat and our hearts beat faster as adrenaline is pumped into our blood. Meanwhile, Indian mystics can actually control the rate at which their hearts beat. In a similar way, a woman’s mental and emotional state can control the hormone balance in her body. This, in turn, controls the woman’s ability to become pregnant.
A large part of the problem with many people is they have an underlying fear of some aspect of pregnancy or simply a negative attitude about their ability to conceive. It is important for the woman to feel totally confident in her ability to conceive and to clear out any fears which place a mental and therefore physical obstacle to becoming pregnant. Fear of having a miscarriage is just one of the fears that can effectively create an obstacle to conception.
Hypnosis has also been proven in some clinical studies to double the success rate of IVF procedures. The reason hypnosis makes such a dramatic difference is not fully known but the body can be made to relax more completely and this makes all the hormone systems work more effectively. You can also relax the uterus which then allows for the egg to be implanted more easily.
So whether you are having a fertility procedure or simply want to clear out fears and negativity regarding becoming pregnant call Inga Chamberlain and find out if hypnosis is right for you. the fear that is attached to a particular trigger. Things like fear of flying, spiders, heights, elevators are all effectively relieved through hypnotherapy and NLP. Why not harness the power you already have within, your subconscious mind? Call Inga Chamberlain for more information at 770-560-4861 and author. Her book “The Power of Choice” is expected to be out in late 2010.
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