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She then breaks, allowing guests to
clients were snowbirds from Michigan,
and it sounded like a wonderful place to
decide whether to stay (and pay the 869
fee, which also includes reinforcement
live," says Greenberg, who owns a second
materials) or leave, no questions asked.
home in Ann Arbor.
Listening to Greenberg's soothing yet
"That was one of the reasons I went,
knowing I could walk out before I paid,"
dynamically compelling manner during
her seminars, it's little surprise that she
says Dingman. "Rena explained that it
also is an ordained minister. Greenberg's
wasn't like anything you see in movies.
When we were leaving, a woman asked
Russian father grew up in Israel before
accepting a scholarship to Columbia
me if I felt any different, and I didn't. I
didn't know if I'd been hypnotized. So I
University in New York City, where he
met his wife to be, a German-Jewish
went grocery shopping, thinking it would
be a good way to test it out. And I found
Holocaust survivor attending Smith
that the normal things I would buy com-
College.
pulsively, like cookies, just didn't seem
Attending yeshivah from age 4
through the eighth grade, Greenberg
appealing to me."
Dingman, who says he used to devour
and her two siblings were raised in an
an entire pumpkin pie
in one sitting, says he
QUICK TIPS FOR WEIGHT LOSS
just stopped eating
certain things, started
Little ways to make big changes:
drinking more water,
• Have a bottle of water nearby at all times. "It gives you something
eating more vegetables,
to reach for, satisfies oral feelings, suppresses appetite and flushes
toxins," says Greenberg.
eating smaller portions
• Take a break. "Food is usually our excuse to take a break, but we
and doing activities
don't need any excuses. Throughout the day, stop, close your eyes
that he enjoys, like
if you can and take a few deep breaths with a positive affirmation,
mountain biking or
'Breathing in, I breathe in peace; breathing out, I breathe out peace."
hiking. "Before, I had
• Stretch. "We hold so much tension in our muscles that even just
high blood pressure,
a few shoulder rolls help, or bending down and touching our toes. If
high cholesterol, was
you're a mom at home, hug your knees to your chest on the floor. I
bordering on diabe-
have a little round trampoline, and if I'm too busy to exercise, I jump
tes. I had no energy. I
on the trampoline. Start with five jumping jacks, work up to 100.
didn't want to do any-
Turn on some music. Bring out the music you loved as a teenager
thing," he says. "Now,
— you'll feel like you're dancing and have a blast."
everything is fine. I
haven't taken any med-
ication in three years."
Deanna Dotterer also appreci-
Orthodox household. "Judaism is very
much in my heart still, but not so much
ated being informed at the seminar
in an outer way," explains Greenberg.
she attended in October 2005. At 283
"But it awakened a deeper spiritual
pounds, the 33-year-old Ferndale teacher
longing to know more about the world
was skeptical but went in with an open
of the divine." With a passion for the
mind. "It wasn't like, clap once and bark
poetry of Rumi teachings, Greenberg
like a dog," she says. "I felt it was pretty
took classes on "awakening the heart,"
straightforward." It's also not a quick fix,
a program inspired by Sufi teachings,
she points out. "Like with anything, you
eventually earning a master's degree in
really need to be ready, and I was."
divinity. "The same thing is at the core
Less than a month later, Dotterer's
of all religions: A deep devotion to God,
family had its usual enormous
Thanksgiving celebration. "Afterwards,
our creator," says Greenberg. "When I
do Hebrew prayers, I feel an even deeper
I realized I simply didn't go for the bad
connection."
stuff," she says. "And I noticed I had been
While the spiritual component to her
eating less, leaving more on my plate,
techniques acts as a subtle boost during
drinking more water. I used to have bad
Greenberg's seminars, it is much more
habits, like emotional eating even if I
prominent in her 2006 book, The Right
wasn't hungry. But now I was able to stop
Weigh: Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss
myself. I don't even realize it now when
(Hay House; $14.95), which outlines
it's happening. It's reprogrammed and it's
Greenberg's approach to readers. (A new
really working." To date, she also has lost
more than 100 pounds.
book, called The Craving Cure, published
by McGraw-Hill, is due out in June.)
Greenberg estimates that she con-
ducts an average of 10-15 seminars each
And it's an approach that works, says
month, and has hypnotized more than
Dotterer. "You can do all the crash diets
100,000 people. Starting the program
and starve yourself, but those don't last
in 1990 in Bradenton, Fla., where she
because they don't change your psycho-
and her husband, Barry, moved to raise
logical perspective," she explains. "This is
their two daughters, she has expanded
a retraining of my brain. This is for the
to conduct seminars in Pennsylvania,
rest
of rny life." 111
Ohio and Michigan. "Lots of my Florida
For more information and a schedule of this month's seminars
at hospitals in the area, log on to easywillpower.com .
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