DANIEL is a software engineer at a prestigious Information and Communications Technology (“ICT”) consultancy house. “Incoherent Convoluted Thinking”, his colleagues would often make light fun of the acronym that is much revered in certain industries, especially after gulping down more than a few mugs of good beer at a dinner of usually greasy franchised fastfood or even greasier traditional hawker fare.

This is typical of Daniel’s work style and life style; long hours at work that is only briefly interrupted by quick meals of fastfood, both the Western franchise and Asian hawker-by-the-roadside styles, before scurrying back to his workstation, to continue working into the late hours of the night. So, it is no wonder that Daniel, at 95kg, and most of his colleagues, range from the chubby to the obese.

To make matters worse, spotlighted in the brightest corner of the office pantry is a vending machine filled with the most heavenly assortment of snacks: candies, chocolate bars, nachos, potato and tortilla chips, cookies, etc., etc., etc. Seemingly harmless, but yet each time Daniel and his colleagues take a break from their workstations, it would call out to them like a Siren of Greek mythology and they are hypnotically drawn to it like the Argonauts, mechanically plugging in the coins, pressing the selection buttons and watching in a hypnotic trance as the spiral rings turn, pushing the candies, chocolate bars and bags of chips off the shelves onto the catch tray below.

One day, as Daniel reached down to collect his loot from the machine, he suddenly felt light-headed and short of breath. Struggling to straighten himself upright, his legs feeling wobbly with pulse racing a bit, “Phew, I gotta cut down on all this snacking and eating; I gotta lose weight!” he wisely advised himself.

Simon, one of his few in-shape colleagues, overheard Daniel and remarked, “Come on, Daniel, how many times have I heard you say that! You are just NATO, No Action Talk Only! Here’s a secret that helped me keep in shape: use hypnotherapy to help you achieve your weight loss goal.

Daniel’s knee-jerk response was “Hypnotherapy? Sounds like another ICT = Incoherent Convoluted Thinking! NATO, eh?” muttered Daniel as he Google-d for “hypnotherapy”. He was astounded at the 3,980,000 entries found! “Maybe, there is something here for me!” He turned to Simon and implored, “Please tell me more about hypnotherapy.”

Simon slowly explained that he attended t he MindFrame Seminar , where he learned the MindFrame Technique®, which is the culmination of over 30 years of research and development at The Winchester Foundation in South Africa. The Seminar has helped people overcome their obstacles that are stopping them from achieving their goals.

You are thought firstly, one must realise that there are really no problems, only misperceptions in one’s mind created by one’s own self. Subsequently, you must look at the problem straight on and turn it around.

That may seem difficult at first as old bad habits try to come back, but the MindFrame Seminar teaches how to bring your focus back to your goals. A part from the teachings, meditation is part of the Seminar often used to deepen your relaxation and help you concentrate on what you want to achieve.

“So, would you like me to introduce my master hypnotherapist,” Simon offered. “Yes! What have I got to lose? Probably just some weight!” Daniel responded eagerly!