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Health & Wellbeing: Now Gastric Bands For €800, Global Recession, Not Quite
 

Now Gastric Bands For €800, Global Recession, Not Quite


The media saturating us in non-stop doom and gloom news about the world’s financial problems, a ‘little gem of an idea’ that originated in Spain is giving those seriously interested in losing weight something to really smile about.


[USPRwire, Sat Oct 18 2008] With the media saturating us in non-stop doom and gloom news about the world’s financial problems, a ‘little gem of an idea’ that originated in Spain is giving those seriously interested in losing weight something to really smile about.

Imagine being overweight and visiting a clinic and for two hours being gently taken through a virtual reality type experence, which included guided imagery, visualisation, hypnotherapy and other techniques, afterwards waking up fully convinced that you had just undergone a medical procedure under general anaesthetic. The imagined procedure involved the fitting of a Gastric Band around your stomach. You were aware of the 'clinical smell' of the operating theatre, and the unusual sounds of the medical equipment: in fact you are so convinced that you feel the need to touch your stomach, just to be sure!

During the following weeks and months you continued to experience all the sensations expected by a person who had physically had a band fitted, including the steady and continuous weight loss. However, even though your band is imaginary it is producing virtually identical results, there has been no surgery or general anaesthetic with none of the associated risks, and of course you haven’t spent thousands of pounds on the procedure. Does all this sound like a dream? Well maybe not anymore!

When we read about groundbreaking developments in health and medicine, they usually originate in large, highly funded organisations in America, London or the Middle East. However, the seemingly unique Gastric mind Band therapy was conceived and developed near Marbella in Southern Spain by co-founders and clinical therapists at the Elite Clinic, Martin and Marion Shirran.

As with many unique innovations, the GmB therapy originated from a brief conversation with a client, who said to Martin, "I just know that if I had a Gastric Band fitted like my neighbour the weight would drop off me. Couldn't you just hypnotise me and make me believe that I had undergone the procedure and be done with it?"

During a flight back to London that evening Martin and Marion talked through the clients ‘off the cuff’ comment and realised that there may be some substance to it, as expected hypnotherapy alone however proved not to be the solution. Over the following twelve months they developed a unique therapy, which cleverly combined Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, NLP, Hypnotherapy and guided imagery together with a sprinkling of virtual reality each being used to ‘underpin’ the other, resulting in the GmB therapy and the client's wish being granted, and the creation of possibly the ultimate PLACEBO…
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Contact:

Martin Shirran
The Elite Clinic
Fuengirola, Malaga 29640
Spain
(34) 951 311 591
mail@eliteclinics.com
http://www.gmband.com

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Company: The Elite Clinic
Contact Name: Martin Shirran
Contact Email: mail@eliteclinics.com
Contact Phone: (34) 951 311 591
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