Author Archive for Erika Slater

Erika Slater is a Certified Hypnotist specializing in smoking cessation, weight loss, and stress management. She offers private hypnosis sessions in her practice covering the metro-west Boston and Worcester region in Massachusetts. Erika also offers a selection of recommended self-hypnosis products. Ms. Slater writes and publishes articles on hypnosis and alternative health topics for a number of web sites.

Hypnosis opens our subconscious mind

What is Hypnosis Really Good For?

Hypnosis is generally misunderstood as a therapy. This is mostly because it deals with the unconscious mind – a powerful force if it can be controlled.

Mood eating plays havoc with diets

Weight Loss can be Less about Diet and More about Mood

For many weight loss is less about their diet and more about how they feel. Diets are unsuccessful for many if that’s all they do – so here’s more info.

Hypnosis can help with confidence and self-esteem

Confidence Hypnosis – Building a Beautiful Mind

Confidence hypnosis is just a mindset away and can unlock potentials you dream about and here are some basic steps you can take today to make a difference.

Do you think yourself fat?

Are You a Fat Head on a Thin Body?

If you’ve struggled to keep weight off then it could be because of your inner beliefs and you could have a fat head on a thin body working against you.

Top things to know about hypnosis to stop smoking

10 Things I Wished I’d Known Before using Hypnosis to Quit Smoking

Most people like to know what they are getting into when they’re about to embark on making a drastic change in their lives. Quitting smoking is drastic.

Exercise helps thinking through problems

Cleanse Your Mind While You Exercise

You’ve heard about how exercise helps to cleanse your body by keeping it operating at optimum levels – but exercise can also help to cleanse your mind.

Hypnosis can work with other techniques to increase success

Why Hypnosis is Not the Answer to Everything

As a Hypnotist you’d expect me to use the “hammer of hypnosis” to beat down every bad habit of a client asking for help. A few taps and everything is fixed.

Everybody wants to know if it's instant

How long does it take to quit smoking?

Often times, individuals thinking about quitting smoking will wonder, “How long does it take to quit?” In all honesty, this is a loaded question – here’s why.

Exercise for weight loss doesn't have to be hard!

Dispelling Two Myths About Exercise for Weight Loss

One of the sessions in my weight loss program covers exercise, and the struggle that people expect or experience using exercise to lose weight.

Here's your scrubbed brain - just kidding!

Please Just Scrub My Brain Clean and Make Me Better!

We’ll all guilty of struggling with a bad habit or personal issue and just wanting to find somebody that’ll make it all better with no work required of us.

But I don't wanna go to bed!!!!

It’s Late and Time to Send Your Smoking to Bed

Overcoming the fear of, or reality of, withdrawal symptoms when you stop smoking is a major concern for people who quit. Here’s one way of dealing with it.

Do you know what type you are?

Don’t Start A Diet Until You Know Which Metabolic Type You Are!

The same diet is not appropriate for everyone because not everyone is the same metabolic type. If you’re struggling to loose weight then info. here may help.

Change Your Beliefs: Understanding How You Communicate

Change Your Beliefs: Understanding How You Communicate

Nothing makes me happier than to teach someone to “fish”. Being able to change your beliefs goes a long way towards changing many things in your life.

Maple Syrup is shaping up to be a healthy food

Here’s a Quick Way to Help Preventing Diabetes with Maple Syrup

New research is showing that maple syrup can help prevent diabetes and even act as an anti-cancer inhibitor. Here’s how it may help you.

Buy organic of these first...

The Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen – Know When to Eat Organic

In my weight loss hypnosis sessions I talk a lot about healthy eating habits as this is not only key to getting the weight off but also to ensuring it doesn’t return.

Are you an "excluder" of "includer"?

Are You an Excluder or Includer When it comes to Quitting Cigarettes?

There are certain predictors of who’ll be successful in quitting cigarettes and those who’ll struggle. One predictor I tab as an “excluder” or “includer.”

A Pedomter counts your steps

Monitor Burning Calories with these 3 Tracking Tools

There’s a piece of business wisdom that goes something like “what you measure gets done.” So I’ve decided to apply that to measuring burning of calories.

Full of sugar as well as salt!

May as Well Face it You’re Addicted to Sugar

Even if you don’t take sugar in your coffee or tea the food industry is still ensuring you probably get way too much sugar for what you need.

Smoking can cause premature aging of skin

Smoker’s Face – Shut Down the Premature Aging of Your Skin

Smokers face is when the smoking habit causes premature aging of your skin through color, condition, and wrinkles – here’s why and what you can do about it.

Walking is a great beginning exercise

Exercise and “Feeling Like a Good for Nothing Fat Slob” to a Dream Body

In the final part of our series on getting from “Feeling Like a Good for Nothing Fat Slob” to a Dream Body we’ll explore exercise for weight loss.

Healthy diets do require attention to what you eat!

Dieting and “Feeling Like a Good for Nothing Fat Slob” To a Dream Body

In the second of our series on getting from “Feeling Like a Good for Nothing Fat Slob” to a dream body we’ll explore the diet myths we’ve been forced fed for years.

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

Getting From “Feeling Like a Good for Nothing Fat Slob” To a Dream Body

If you’re tired of looking in the mirror and “Feeling Like a Good for Nothing Fat Slob” but don’t know how to get to your dream body then take a read here.

Riders on the Storm MS Cycle Team

Lose Weight with Hypnosis – the Right Food in the Right Amount

Summer is only 3 months away and you can get ready for it with my group weight loss hypnosis classes to support MS and Brain Tumor Societies in Massachusetts.

Choose foods with low GI

Speeding Up Fat Loss by Understanding Your Glycemic Index

Not all carbohydrates are created equal and the Glycemic Index provides information to help choose the right foods to speed up fat loss.

Which path will you decide to take?

The Fork in the Road – Which Path Will You Take?

Every time you smoke a cigarette you’re making a decision similar to following a forest path and reaching a fork in the road – which path to take?

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