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Make 1982 your year to im
prove!
The diets that you've given up
and the stop smoking resolutions
you\e cast aside, can be things
of the past. On January 11, the
American Lung Association of
North Carolina, Catawba Valley
Region will offer you the chance
to give up cigarettes and shed
those extra pounds successfully
'with Self Psych hypnosis clinics.
Hypnotherapist James H.
Hoke, nationally known for his
best-selling self-help book, “I
Would If 1 Could And 1 Can,”
will conduct the clinics, geared
to help participants’ subconcious
minds agree with their intellec
tual decision to stop smoking or
lose weight.
The stop smoking clinic will
be at 6<X) p.m. and the weight
control clinic at 8KX) p.m. at the
Eastridge Mall on New Hope
Road in Gastonia. To register,
call the American Lung Associa
tion at (704) 464-2413 or the Self
Psych office toll free at
1-800-521-3998. The I'/j hour
clinics feature a unique money-
back offer; participants can get
the $35 fee back after the first of
three hypnotic inductions if they
feel the session will not work for
the. Former participants of
previous Self Psych clinics may
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Poinsettia
Sure Sign
Of Christmas
Ready or not. there's no de
nying the arrival of the holiday
season once the poinsettia plant
begins to make its appearance.
Whether it appears on the
cover of a greeting card, in the
windows of a local department
store, or in a sea of red. pink and
white flowers at a roadside nur
sery. the poinsettia is a sure sign
that Christmas is just around the
comer.
Although the poinsettia plant
is not indigenous to the United
States, Americans have come to
associate its brilliant red. deli
cate pink and snowy white
bracts with the Christmas sea-
^This exotic flowering plant,
used to decorate homes and
churches in Mexico during the
Christmas season, was intro
duced to the United States in
1828 by Dr. Joel Robert Poin
sett. at that time the U.S. am
bassador to Mexico. Upon re
turning from his term of service
in Mexico, he brought the plants
home to his native South
Carolina.
Poinsett propogated these
plants, which he called
"Painted Leaves," in his own
greenhouses, and sent cuttings
to botanists throughout the
country. The plant was later
named “Poinsettia” in his
honor.
Poinsettias grow wild in
Mexico and other areas of Cen
tral America, where they are
shrubs that can reach 30 feet in
height. Their brilliant flowers
are most profuse in mid-
December.
The Spanish name for poin
settias Flor de la Nocht-butna
(flower of the holy night), de
rives from a Mexican legend
which holds that the plant origi
nated in a miracle.
As the legend has it. a poor
peasant child, ashamed at hav
ing nothing to take to a service
honoring the nativity of the
Christ child, sadly picked a few
weeds along the toad to give as
an offering at the church.
As he knelt at the altar with
his humble gift, the child's ear
nest prayer and tears of rever
ence transformed the weeds into
the flowering plant that has be
come as much a part of Christ
mas in this country as the ever
green tree.
Today, poinsettias are still
imported from Mexico, though
commercial growers in Hawaii
and other warm-weather states
add to the supply. A careful
plant-lover, however, can keep
the plant from one season to the
next and enjoy its brilliant flow
ering year after year.
The poinsettia will flourish
outdoors during the summer
months in most parts of the
country, becoming denser with
foliage as the weeks of sunshine
pass. Prior to putting the plant
outdoors, it should be pruned to
avoid its becoming too “leg
gy.”
In order to have the plant
bloom at Christmastime, poin
settias require equal amounts of
daylight and dailtness from the
first week of October to the sec
ond week in November.
return for reinforcement at the
same time for a reduced fee.
Each clinic includes literature
and a cassette tape to reinforce
the hypnotic suggestions for
positive change.
Most people take a backward
approach to giving up cigarettes
or stopping overeating, Hoke
contends. They do it outside in,
instead of inside out,” Hoke
says. They tell themselves what
they should do instead of making
themselves feel like doing it.
Feelings are what we deal with
in hypnosis. We help you feel
good about not smoking and
eating sensibly.”
Hoke says that giving up
cigarettesis not the way to stop
smoking. That’s why most peo
ple fail when they try to kick the
habit alone,” he says. They try
to give up something they like-
and that won’t work in the long
run. The only permanent, com
fortable way to stop smoking is
to convert yourself to a non-
smoker, and hypnosis helps you
do that.”
Changing the way you feel
about food is also the key to suc
cessful weight loss. “Hypnosis
works with the part of your
mind that likes to eat-the part
that pills, shots, and diets never
reach,” Hoke says. His weight
clinic-which includes sugges
tions to help participants enjoy
eating less, eating slower, and
eating the right foods-features a
30-day success diary and weight
control plan. Participants who
complete the plan receive a
bonus cassette tape, “Take
Charge Of Your Life.”
Both clinics stress the self-
image development necessary to
make positive life changes.
“When you outgrow you
dependency on cigarettes, you’ll
have greater willpower and self
control in every part of your
life,” Hoke says.
&lf Psych, Inc., has con
ducted stop smoking weight con
trol clinics for American Lung
Association affiliates in 74 cities
in 11 states, and for community
programs throughout Michigan.
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