PRESS RELEASE FEBRUARY 2009
LimbaSlim: New Weight Release System Replaces “Willpower”
with a Combination of Hypnosis and Aromatherapy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday Harbor, WA
360 472 1295
February 1, 2009 – Information about LimbaSlim, a new weight release system that trains the brain to feed the body right.
Thirty percent of Americans say they are seriously trying to lose weight. For women, the figure is 38%. (Gallup, July 2008.) There are diet products in every grocery store, drug store, even health food store. Most of these products involve supplements (“Take this to clean your body out and lose weight overnight!”) While the intelligent consumer knows deep inside that bodyfat can’t be flushed away by a pill or potion, in their desperation, they continue to seek (and the market continues to promise) quick results and overnight solutions. When the latest product doesn’t work, the overweight consumer is left with a feeling of failure, which, ironically, often leads to more over eating. And the market is always there, happily repackaging the same snake oil, ad infinitum.
But finally there is an intelligent answer.
LimbaSlim offers a new, natural solution to the dilemma of overweight, via a new take on classic neuro conditioning that retrains the brain to love the body and feed it right. Forever.
It's All In Your Head
Have you ever noticed how a whiff of a familiar scent can trigger an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia? From the smell of fresh-mowed lawns in the old neighborhood to the cologne you wore on your first date, fragrance can bring a flood of vivid memories so real that we feel ourselves momentarily transported back in time.
Scientists call this olfactory memory: The familiarity of a long-ago fragrance stimulates the portion of the brain responsible for memory and emotion stimulation that science can now track through advanced brain imaging. The LimbaSlim Weight Release Program utilizes the phenomenon of olfactory memory by combining aromatherapy with powerful visualization techniques to help you achieve your perfect body.
Waft the LimbaSniffer (an organic blend of essential oils) beneath your nose before listening to the LimbaSlim guided meditation (a gentle self-hypnosis) to create a new yet familiar mind path to fitness and health. After a short time with the LimbaSlim Weight Release Program, you will find that foods don't tempt you or control you, and you will make healthful choices effortlessly as the weight melts away - and stays away - naturally. By carrying the LimbaSniffer with you throughout the day, you will be able to take a quick sniff anytime to strengthen your resolve and mentally recreate that confident feeling you experienced during the LimbaSlim meditation.
It isn’t magic. It’s science.
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The LimbaSlim program is a 10-minute guided meditation CD plus a LimbaSniffer infused with a proprietary blend of pure organic essential oils.
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LimbaSlim. It’s like willpower – only easier ®
JANUARY 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Rebecca Parks Barnard
Friday Harbor, WA
360 472 1295
21 Women for 21 Days – LimbaSlim SUCCESS!
On October 12, 2009, 21 women from around the United States embarked on a 6-week consumer trial of LimbaSlim, a new at-home clinical hypnosis program created by Rebecca Parks Barnard, certified hypnotherapist and owner of Limba Systems, LLC, of Friday Harbor, WA.It has been known for centuries that hypnosis can change habits by modifying the subconscious mind. The problem with hypnosis is that the effect is temporary. According to a study at UCLA, a post hypnotic suggestion will fade and the unwanted behavior will return, unless the hypnosis is repeated for 21 successive days. This is great for hypnotists' income, but difficult - and expensive - for patients.
We all know that smells trigger memories. Called olfactory memory, an unexpected sniff of a fragrance from the past can conjure a memory that is nearly hallucinatory in its power to transport one back in time. Think of the smells of childhood: Grandma's perfume, the smell of the beach...everyone has olfactory memories. They're almost like deja-vu, and they are centered deep within the brain's ancient limbic system, the same part of the brain responsible for habits and addictions. Limba Systems has found a way to combine behavior-modifying hypnosis with the staying power of olfactory memory. The listener sniffs a unique scent (specially created with a nod to aromatherapy) while listening to a 10-minute Limba hypnosis recording. After listening for several days, the newly created olfactory memory can then be triggered again anytime by a simple sniff of the same fragrance. 21 days of this creates permanent unconscious changes in behavior. This system can be applied to weight control, fitness motivation, sleep, smoking cessation and more.The Limba kit includes a 10-minute behavioral modification hypnosis CD plus a pocket-sized vial of organic fragrance (referred to hereafter as a LimbaSniffer, or Sniffer.) Trial participants were instructed to listen to their LimbaSlim or LimbaFit hypnosis every day for 21 days. While they listened, they sniffed the appropriate LimbaSniffer - a custom blend of pure organic essential oils specially formulated to create a new olfactory memory of each hypnosis. After one week, participants were to begin carrying their LimbaSniffer with them and sniff as needed (as when tempted to overeat), while continuing to listen to the CD every day. Results began to show immediately. Statistically, about 15 percent of people are so highly suggestible that a single hypnosis session can be effective. Among the LimbaTrial participants, this statistic proved fairly accurate, with immediate results - after one listen! - noticed by three of the 21 women. Limba Systems measured results by the mental status of the participant as related to her personal weight and fitness issues: Did she feel better about her body? Is she eating more healthfully? Is she moving more? Is she binging less? Is she better able to resist unhealthful/fattening foods even when under stress? How is she thinking about food now that LimbaSlim is a part of her daily routine?
Many of the women had been dieting their whole lives, but were "off the wagon" when they began the trial. 17 of the 21 had gained weight in the six months prior to the Limba trial. Most were feeling hopeless, and looked at the Limba trial as just another thing to try. It was free to participate, and they were only required to be honest in their written appraisals. An online support group was set up for them to talk to one another and ask questions. Their only job in the trial was to listen every day for 21 days, and to keep in touch with Rebecca for 42 days via email or within the support group. If they missed a day, they were to start the count over. (Two women asked to start over after missing two days.) The first week there were some adjustments: figuring where in their day to find time for the hypnosis, finding a quiet room, loading into their iPods, etc. After the first week, "LimbaListening" as they dubbed it became part of their daily routine and they became bonded with the hypnosis as a welcome part of their day. The participants were not instructed to consciously change their eating. Their only job was to listen and sniff for 21 days straight. Limba Systems wanted to see what would happen when there were absolutely no "diet" or "calorie" rules. Rebecca's premise as a hypnotherapist is that overeating is all in your head, and she theorized that if the brain could be reprogrammed, a change in eating would follow automatically. Rebecca has long felt that "dieting" is counterproductive, as it sets up a way of eating that is impossible to maintain for a lifetime. Diets are negative thing - a dieter looks forward to the day the diet ends. Limba hypnosis is all positive. The hypnosis speaks of choosing healthful foods, honoring your appetite and respecting your body. It is fun and positive, and leaves the listener feeling empowered and in control. It trains the listener to treat their bodies as the gifts they are. Self loathing - the root of almost all overeating - is erased and replaced with a new love for the body that carries throughout the day. The participants continued to report their results for three weeks beyond the initial 21 days, for a total of 42 days. Although the program was designed to be listened to for 21 straight days followed by listening "as needed", most of the trial participants reported that they were not going to stop listening to their Limba CDs every day, which is also fine. After six weeks, Limba Systems reports that the trial results are astounding - even more positive than expected. It is not about the number of pounds lost. (The maximum healthy weight loss would be 12 pounds in 42 days.) Limba trains the brain to think differently about eating and body image. It offers a permanent life change - a new way of eating and thinking about the body that changes one's mind forever.
TRIAL RESULTS
100% (21 of 21) said that LimbaSlim has helped them. 90% (19 of 21) said they had newfound control over what they ate. 95% (20 of 21) said they could more easily resist food temptations. 86% (18 of 21) reported that they now shop for more healthful foods. 76% (16 of 21) reported that they now cook more healthful meals. 95% (20 of 21) said that they are now satisfied with less food. 86% (18 of 21) lost weight.
86% (18 of 21) reported marked improvement in body image.100% (21 of 21) intend to continue using the LimbaSlim program
