Let Love In (eBook)

Debra Berndt, CHT, is the world’s leading Love Hypnotist and an internationally recognized relationship expert who has been featured extensively on television and radio, including ABC News, WB2 News, Playboy Radio, and Life Coach TV, and has been interviewed as a relationship expert for Match.com, MSN, Lavalife, and Expert Village. Debra offers private sessions, seminars, a weekly radio show, and over a hundred self-hypnosis programs at AttractRealLove.com. She has a private practice in New York City, where she lives with the love of her life.

Acknowledgments.Introduction.1 Relationship Assessment.PART ONE Unpack Your Baggage and Get Ready for Love!2 Your Dating Destiny: It’s All in Your Mind!3 Releasing the Beliefs That Keep You Single.4 Forgiveness: Leaving the Past in the Past.5 Get How Great You Are!6 Being Clear on Why You Want Love.7 A Clear Definition of Love.PART TWO Taking Action: Roadblocks on Love’s Highway.8 Don’t Give Your Feelings the Cold Shoulder.9 Seduction, Substitutions, and Settling.10 Just Do It: The Nonaction Trap.PART THREE Staying in Your Lane of Love: Keeping the Faith.11 Dancing with the Green-Eyed Monster.12 Feeling Desperate When Dateless.13 Letting Down Your Guard and Opening Your Heart.14 Gaining Access to Your Spiritual Resources.15 Pulling It All Together.Conclusion: You Are Already Perfect.Index.

Berndt, a clinical hypnotherapist with an online radio show (the Love Hypnotist Show), believes that hypnotherapy techniques used for smoking cessation and weight loss can also be used to secure a happy relationship. As our fears, insecurities and relationship baggage is often deeply ingrained in the unconscious, Berndt offers a three-pronged plan to revealing and overcoming those unconscious obstacles: uncovering the issues, taking action to eliminate "roadblocks," and maintaining a healthy mindset. Each chapter is full of checklists, journal suggestions and step-by-step self-hypnosis exercises, as well as warm and friendly guidance that’s blissfully low-pressure (and low-risk): "you need to be in only a light trance to experience the benefits of hypnosis," not much different from being engrossed in a book or movie—except that the goal isn't to check out of reality but to confront it on its most hard-to-read levels. A useful, relaxed approach to cognitive therapy, Berndt's guide gives readers an intuitive, healthy way to confront romance-defeating thoughts and behavior. (Mar.) (Publishers Weekly.com, February 8, 2010)