"...group hypnosis reaches its greatest potential in relieving pain in obstetric patients and in the therapy of obesity."

--William S. Kroger, M.D., Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. Philadelphia and Montreal: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963.
 

LOSE WEIGHT

 

EASILY!

 

CHANGE APPETITE, EATING, DRINKING,

AND EXERCISE HABITS IN ONE SESSION.

 

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SPECIAL PROMOTION SAVE $30.

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FAMOUS HYPNOTHERAPIST, 

DR. DON DE GRAZIA

Specialist in clinical hypnosis for smoking cessation

for 35 years.

 

Sponsored by Outreach Counseling Center 

of Oak Park, Illinois
 

FREE SEMINAR

     The free seminar is very interesting and extremely informative.  Dr. De Grazia will show you things you can do to increase your hypnotizability.  He will be happy to answer any questions you might have about hypnosis in general or about our weight-loss program in particular.

SPECIAL PROMOTION--SAVE $30
 

     The actual hypnotizing will begin a few minutes after the 40-minute free seminar is finished.  A special promotion is planned which will allow you to save $30 from the regular small-group price of $158.  If you stay to be hypnotized after the free seminar, the cost will be only $128, a savings of almost 20%.

LIFETIME PROGRAM

     This is a one-session program.  You only have to come there once, but if you ever need help again for the rest of your life, you will always be welcome to come back again at a reduced rate, which is currently only $64, less than half of the regular price.

     There are no time limits or limits to the number of times you can come back--people sometimes come back more than twenty years later--so this is a lifetime program to make sure you keep your appetite, and your eating, drinking, and exercise habits the way you want them for the rest of your life.

YOU CHOOSE THE CHANGES

     It is aimed at causing you to change your appetite and your eating, drinking, and exercise habits in whatever specific ways you want to see them to change.  In other words we don’t aim the hypnosis at any one particular diet.  We do give a lot of suggestions but the actual changes that occur will be whatever changes you decide that you want to see occur.

     The program takes about two hours so the turning point in your eating, drinking, and exercise habits should take place by about 9 pm.

NOT BASED ON WILL POWER

     This is not aimed at causing you to increase your will power.  The purpose of this program is to cause you to simply not want the things that you want to stop wanting and to have a taste for the foods that you would like to have a taste for.

     It doesn’t work for everybody, but it definitely works for most people.  Thousands of people in the Chicago area have lost weight through our program during the past thirty-five years.

HISTORIC PROGRAM

     Thousands of people in the Chicago area have lost weight in Dr. De Grazia's Outreach Counseling Center hypnosis programs over the past thirty-five years.  We're pretty sure he has hypnotized more people in the Chicago area than anyone else in history.

     He has been a specialist in clinical hypnosis for weight loss and smoking cessation for more than thirty years and has helped three generations in several families lose weight or stop smoking.

         He has conducted private-group hypnosis programs in the past in Chicago's City Hall in the City Clerk's office for city officials, at the third district precinct headquarters for Chicago police officers, at some of Chicago's largest and most prestigious hospitals, and at many corporations for their employees.

DE GRAZIA BIO

     Don De Grazia was born and raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago where he was a member of the wrestling team, lived at International House, and studied philosophy and then psychology.

     He has had post-doctoral training in various aspects of clinical and experimental hypnosis. In 1983 he participated in a series of workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which were co-sponsored by the Harvard University Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, which is part of the Harvard University Medical School complex. In 1982 he participated in a series of workshops which were co-sponsored by the University of Indiana Medical School, Dental School, and Graduate School of Psychology.

     As a young man he joined the US Air Force, earned a commission, and flew in Northrop F-89 Scorpions and Lockheed F-94 Starfires, both of which are night fighters (all-weather interceptors). He remains an officer in the US Air Force Reserve.
     
     He is also a writer who has been published in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Japan. He has won several international awards for his writing. In the year 2000, the Illinois Arts Council, an agency of the State of Illinois, selected his fiction for its annual literary award.

RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY

     This weight-loss program will be a special small-group session.  We have to limit the number of people in both the free seminar and the actual hypnosis in order to gain the many advantages that result from a small group, so advance reservations are definitely necessary.  There is sometimes quite a long waiting list by the day of the session.

 

 

 

 

OUT-OF-STATE ATTENDEES

     There are at least a few people from Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Tennessee, or more distant places, in most of our small-group sessions.  If you need overnight accommodations, please contact the Carleton Hotel directly at 888-227-5386.

     O'Hare International Airport and Midway Airport are both only about ten miles from the Carleton Hotel. 

     For information about visiting Oak Park's world-famous architectural sites while you are here, contact the Oak Park Visitors Center at 1-888-OAK PARK.

 

 

Positive Relationships Between Hypnosis & Various Belief Systems

• HYPNOSIS AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM
  Official approval by the Holy See of the responsible use of hypnosis, and closely related reasoning by Saint Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica.
   

• HYPNOSIS AND THE PROTESTANT FAITHS
  The use of hypnotherapy in pastoral counseling by ordained ministers of major protestant denominations and in protestant hospitals by health workers.
   

• HYPNOSIS AND JUDAISM
  The approval of hypnosis by leading rabbis and the use of hypnotherapy by rabbis who are also psychotherapists.
   

• ZEN IN THE ART OF HYPNOSIS
  Hypnosis, Zen, and eastern meditation states.
   

• HYPNOTHERAPY AND EXISTENTIALISM
  Relationships between hypnosis, psychotherapy and the ideas of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Dostoevsky, Freud, Camus, and Kafka.

 

"I am having an easier time avoiding problem foods."             --Donna McClenney,                 Alsip, Illinois "Lost the desire for junk food. It wasn't using will power."             --Tammy Reed                Oak Forest, Illinois

"I lost 15 pounds in about 2 months."            --Janice Guild,               Hazel Crest, Illinois   "100% satisfaction. No rebound effect. I never went back to old bad habits. Effortless. No work at all."                  --Sherry Deese                     Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Your program works. I lost 100 pounds."

           --Darlene Hastie, 

               Sauk Village, Illinois

 

"Lost 28 pounds in one and a half months."

          --Judy La Brec, 

              Evergreen Park, Illinois

 

"Lost 8 lbs. very quickly. It was easy."

                 --Dawn Shelton, 

                    Beecher, Indiana 

 

"Lost 12 pounds. I felt full and didn't eat as much. You are great, Dr. De Grazia."

                  --Maxine Hoyt, 

                      Chicago, Illinois

 

"It helped me first to quit smoking... absolutely no desire. Then on January 22, 1996, came for weight loss, lost 8 pounds & feel great. Have recommended this program to lot's of people."
            --Arlene Coleman, 

                Calumet City, Illinois

 

"I lost 30 pounds very quickly without feeling like I was deprived or had to try too hard. Was relaxing and comfortable."

          --Jackie Barczykowski, 

              Alsip, Illinois

 

"I lost weight (45 pounds). It worked for me."

               --June Jones, 

                  Chicago, Illinois

 

"I came in February of '95 and lost 28 pounds & kept it off. How easy it was to lose the weight."

          --Barbara Fletcher, 

              Orland Park, Illinois   

 

"Helped me control my eating. Lost 25 pounds."

              --Lisa O'Neill, 

                 Bedford Park, Illinois

 

"Lessened amount of my eating."

               --Caroline McCarter, 

                   Lynwood, Illinois

 

"The program did help me. Along with changing my outlook on food and setting goals--prioritizing things in my day to day life--it became a natural and comfortable life-style. The simplicity of all the suggestions made it actually fun."

             --Donna Wiltjer, 

                Worth, Illinois

 

"It helps me to stop craving foods which I want to avoid, and increase my desire for healthy foods.  It is easy."

            --Cathy Morrissey, 

                Orland Park, Illinois

 

"I lost 15 pounds in a month. Really works."

                 --Connie Villa, 

                    Chicago, Illinois

 

"I lost weight from the August session. Easy to follow booster. Made me feel better emotionally, physically."

              --Linda Kavalauskas, 

                  Oak Forest, Illinois

 

"I lost 65 pounds."

               --Maria Napoles, 

                  Chicago, Illinois

 

"I have lost 40 pounds."

             --Gwen Bell, 

                Orland Park, Illinois

 

"I really did lose some weight."

                 --Wanda Taylor, 

                    Hazelcrest, Illinois

HYPNOTISTS, HYPNOTHERAPISTS, & HYPNOTISM
A Brief Glossary

HYPNOSIS:  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), who won the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine in 1904, studied the physiology of hypnosis exhaustively and concluded that hypnosis  involves a temporary  inhibition of the cerebral cortex, the conscious, intelligent, uniquely human part of our brain. 

          Since then scientists with modern instruments have confirmed that cortical inhibition does indeed occur under hypnosis. Many scientists believe this cortical inhibition explains why, in a state of hypnosis, suggestions are able to reach the lower brain centers and initiate desired changes in habits and perception.    

          Fortunately, subjects respond only to post-hypnotic suggestions to which they want to respond, and do not respond to undesired suggestions.  After hypnosis, people generally report a relaxed, peaceful feeling, and a general feeling of well-being. 

          There are many theories as to why evolution (and/or God) has given us this faculty, but clearly it serves a beneficial purpose or natural selection would not have preserved it so universally.   Forms of hypnosis are found in almost every culture in the world from the most advanced to the most primitive.

 

HYPNOTISM:   Hypnotism is the same thing as hypnosis. The word hypnotism was used more in the days of the early hypnotists and is used less by modern scientists.

 

HYPNOTIST:   One who is skilled in the induction of hypnosis for any of numerous purposes, some of which are mentioned below.

 

HYPNOTHERAPIST:   A hypnotist who uses hypnosis for therapeutic purposes.

 

HYPNOTHERAPY:  The use of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes such as dealing with addictions, habit disorders, eating disorders, anxiety neuroses, memory enhancement, pain, et al.

 

CLINICAL HYPNOSIS:  Hypnosis conducted in a clinical setting.

 

EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS:  Research conducted by a specialized group of scientists at universities and research centers throughout the world who conduct experiments designed to reveal more about the nature and use of hypnosis. 

 

PASTORAL HYPNOSIS:  Many ordained ministers in major Christian denominations conduct pastoral counseling programs.  Some pastoral counselors use hypnotherapy in some of their counseling sessions.  This is referred to as pastoral hypnosis.  Doctor of  Divinity dissertations have been written at major theological seminaries on hypnosis as a pastoral counseling modality.

 

FORENSIC HYPNOSIS:  The use of hypnosis to help witnesses or defendants recall details. This technique has been used to help solve many famous crimes and was used in such high profile  cases as  those of Ted Bundy, Sam Sheppard, and Albert DeSalvo, a.k.a. The Boston Strangler.  It should be used only by knowledgeable practitioners who understand its limits.

 

GROUP HYPNOSIS:  Group hypnosis was all the rage among the fashionable set in eighteenth century Paris and Vienna when Viennese physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer was "mesmerizing" groups there. 

          His circle included the composers Haydn and Mozart, whose first operetta, Bastien et Bastienne,  was first performed in Messmer's private garden. 

          Group hypnosis is currently experiencing a resurgence of popularity in parts of Europe and America.

          Many authorities believe that more people will go into hypnosis, and into a deeper state, when it is done in a group due to the close relationship between hypnosis and certain group instincts and to a phenomenon that scientists sometimes refer to as emotional contagion.

          If the groups are too large, though, that could reduce the success rate.

 

 

 

 

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to change your eating
and exercise habits!
 

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