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California's cities are each famous for one unique thing: Los Angeles has Hollywood, San Diego has surfing, San Francisco has hippies and Monterey has - cheese? The city of Monterey, located along the Pacific Coast's Monterey Bay in Central california, has long been known around the world as the home of Monterey Jack cheese. However, Monterey boasts a rich history, with its past residents including the likes of Henry Miller and John Steinbeck, whose novel "Cannery Row" was set in the city. In fact, Monterey offers the visitor many attractions - not just cheese!

Monterey has been dubbed by some as "the cradle of history" and is home to many "firsts" in California's history: including the Golden State's first theatre, brick house, publicly funded school, public library and its first printing press. Anyone hoping to get a glimpse of Monterey's rich historical tradition need only visit the Monterey State Historic Park, in which visitors will find many examples of early colonial architecture. major historic landmarks in Monterey include Larkin house, Royal Presidio Chapel and Colton hall - a public school and government meeting place that played host to California's first constitutional convention.

Moreover, Monterey is well-known for its spectacular marine habitats and its long fishing tradition. Monterey's fishing industry was for many years one of the most famous in the United States, but underwent severe decline in the 1950s due to over-fishing. Cannery Row, Monterey's once bustling sardine-canning street has now been converted into a major tourist attraction with many restaurants and shops lining the important historical site.

Cannery Row is also home to one of Monterey's most popular attractions: the Monterey Bay Aquarium. One of the largest aquariums in north america, the aquarium sees more than 1.8 million people pass through its doors every year and is home to 35, 000 plants and animals from around 623 species, including jellyfish, sea otters and stingrays. And in September 2004, the aquarium's Outer Bay exhibit momentously became home to the first Great White Shark to ever successfully be kept on exhibit.

If you're hoping to sample some of Monterey's non-cheesy delights, you'll find that getting around the city is simple due to its fairly compact nature. Any of the hotels in Monterey will leave you only a hop, skip and a jump away from the city's main attractions. And since Monterey is only a couple of hours away from San Francisco and San Jose, and only a little further away from San Diego, Sacramento and LA, it's an easily accessible day or weekend trip for tourists visiting any of California's major cities.

Andrew Regan is a freelance online journalist

People tend to eat more during the highs and the lows in their lives. Some go out and celebrate when they get a promotion. Some people wolf down a whole gallon of ice cream by themselves when they're depressed. Over the course of your life, you will have accumulated all those unwanted pounds because of eating based on your emotions. Blame it all on your stressful environment, which makes you want to reach for your comfort foods all the time. A hypnosis weight loss clinic makes use of hypnosis to help prevent such binges.

What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis works by creating a different state of mind. Under hypnosis, you are highly focused and thus become responsive to whatever suggestions are being said, including how to change your behavior so that it helps you lose all that extra weight. Through the years, a number of studies evaluated hypnosis for weight loss. Majority got positive albeit modest results. However, because of different methodologies, it cannot be helped that some studies will be questioned. As a result, it becomes difficult to determine just how useful hypnosis can be.

As with any weight loss product or program, hypnosis doesn't provide you with a magical cure. Nonetheless, it cannot be discounted that hypnosis can be extremely helpful, most especially when it is combined with a healthy diet and regular exercise. Even without guaranteed results, going to a hypnosis weight loss clinic can prove to be beneficial for you. hypnosis is safe and generally inexpensive. If anything, you can use it as an integration into your weight loss program.

What happens in a hypnosis weight loss clinic?
When you go to a hypnosis weight loss clinic, a therapist sits down with you to learn your eating habits and what triggers affect them. The therapist then makes use of techniques such as neuro-linguistic programming, regression, EFT, and various other hypnosis techniques to create a program customized for you. Through this program, you will be taught how to look at food in a different way.

The major difference between temporary and permanent weight loss is purely psychological. Enrolling in a hypnosis weight loss clinic will help you learn to think differently about how and what you eat. You will learn to identify and separate your emotions from what your emotions are. This way, what you gain from the program isn't dependent on just how strong your willpower is. Whatever you will gain comes from real and very much permanent changes in your mindset.

What hypnosis can do for you
First, hypnosis can help you achieve your weight loss goals by helping retrain your body not to need as much food. Your body might have been programmed to consume more food for a number of reasons. You may be eating more when you're bored. You may be eating more because it's part of socializing for you. You may be eating more during high stress situations in your life. You are eating not because your body needs it but because your body wants it. Eating for this reason is unhealthy and can cause health problems for you. Enrolling in a hypnosis weight loss clinic will help you learn how to eat for natural reasons again.

Second, hypnosis can help you achieve your weight loss goals by ensuring that you have energy to execute your exercise regimen. Without regular exercise, weight loss programs, no matter how powerful, are doomed to fail or become only partly effective. With regular exercise, you're not merely losing weight but you are essentially strengthening your body for a healthier you. Regular exercise helps you build muscle. With more muscle, you increase your metabolic rate, the rate at which you burn fat when at rest.

Finally, hypnosis allows you to get better sleep at night. If you get a good night's sleep, chances are you aren't tired and sluggish during the day. If you aren't tired and sluggish, you'd be spending more time doing activities other than sitting around, doing nothing because you are tired. Even though not in the form of actual exercise, being able to move around counts as physical activity that can help you achieve your weight loss goals. And apart from hypnosis, physical activity can also help you sleep better at night.

There are a number of hypnosis weight loss clinics to choose from. Visit a hypnosis weight loss clinic near you to find out if it will work for you.

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