Hypnotherapy for Weigh Loss

Your mind is a powerful force – it can make you believe things, crave things, do thing. Hypnosis can help you to choose and remain focused.

We all know weight loss is usually best achieved with diet and exercise. “Hypnosis can help by changing people’s mindsets and help create an honest relationship with yourself through diet, exercise and counselling.” Losing weight can be a long and challenging journey, not a short term obsession. If you’ve ever tried and failed to lose weight before, it’s not unusual for people to get into a cycle of dieting, overeating, feeling guilty and dieting again which is known as ‘yoyo dieting’ and makes weight-loss difficult to sustain but the answer for this could be Hypnosis especially if you have tried everything else.

Hypnotherapy is a state of inner absorption and concentration, like being in a trance. It’s the most natural way which creates emotional attachment to your goal. It enables a change in your long term habits and behaviours by creating leverage which in turn changes your relationship with food and enables your unconscious mind to work for you. As there is a lot of baggage in our subconscious minds, losing weight starts with a change in identity moving away from your old self to your new self image. It’s as much about how you think than about what you eat. Hypnotherapy begins from within and changes your thinking, for instance – you might eat a carrot and wish you were eating a carrot cake, but with hypnotherapy you can learn to enjoy the carrot and not give that cake a second thought.

How does hypnotherapy for weight-loss work?

Close your eyes. Imagine your food cravings floating away. Imagine a day of eating only what’s good for you. Imagine hypnosis actually helping you lose weight, because it actually does.

Many things have to be change. We have to want the benefits of that change, and we have to want them enough that we’re prepared to do whatever it takes to get them done and with full believe. It also involves overcoming the obstacles that our mind has set up for us.

Hypnosis is usually done with the help of a hypnotherapist targeting the unconscious mind with powerful suggestion techniques, using verbal repetition and mental images where you’re feeding your subconscious mind with positive suggestions bypassing the analytical and reasonable part of it. When you’re under hypnosis, your attention is highly focused, and you’re more responsive to suggestions, including behavior changes that can help you lose weight.

The idea of hypnosis is still met with scepticism due to misconceptions about what it is. It is useful to know that during hypnosis you will not:

• be out of control
• be asleep
• be told to do anything you don’t want to do
• have your memory erased
• be forced to reveal your deepest darkest secrets.

How it works?

1. Hypnotherapist is essentially a coach who will guide you into deep relaxation.
2. Once your body and mind are relaxed (much like a daydream), he will be able to access your unconscious mind.
3. Soothing, carefully worded scripts can be used to explore a client’s reasons for overeating and suggest new ways of thinking through visualisations. You have the control to reject any suggestions you don’t feel happy.
4. Slowly you will learn how to replace your negative habits and eating patterns with positive ones suggested by your hypnotherapist.

Most commonly asked questions in hypnotherapy consultations is – will hypnotherapy work for me? The answer is it’s hard to know until you try it yourself.

Hypnotherapy for weight-loss techniques

Everyone has different reasons for wanting to lose weight, some suggestions you might encounter include:

• Envisioning the body you want or the level of fitness/health you wish to achieve.
• Imagining how you will feel with your new look and health.
• Imagining yourself reaching that goal effortlessly.
• See how much you have improved from today.
• Imagining how energised and confident you will feel.
• Realising that the more you exercise, the more you will want to exercise and the easier it will become to do so.
• Whenever you get the urge to eat something unhealthy, or eat when you’re not hungry, imagine not reaching your goal and think about how that will make you feel.

These visualisations and many more are designed to empower you so that you can take control of your choices. Hopefully you will learn to enjoy the taste of healthy food and stop cravings. By tackling those deep feelings forming the foundations of your eating habits, you can learn to adopt a healthier lifestyle and enjoy doing so.

Benefits of Hypnotherapy:

• Allows you to stop dieting and encourage you to begin to take care of yourself in a more positive way by eating healthily and enjoying exercise.
• Help you to stop obsessing about food and enable you to let go of those feelings of failure and guilt.
• Enables you to combat food cravings.
• Teaches you to understand your relationship with food and find the triggers that make you overeat.
• Enables you to start to believe that you can do it that you too can become slim, confident and energised.
• Helps to adopt healthier eating habits/ portion control
• Helps to regain control of your weight/ lose weight
• Helps to control hunger and appetite
• Helps to overcome Boredom eating
• Helps to increase motivation
• Helps to regulate metabolism
• Helps you stop emotional eating
• Helps you curb those cravings

Hypnotherapy can allow you to have a change of attitude towards the food that you eat so that you no longer crave for or finish everything on your plate even if you are not hungry. This enables you to enjoy eating healthily and at the same time lose weight in a safe and natural way.

While many people succeed in losing weight in the short term, they often have trouble keeping it off and that’s where hypnotherapy can lead to success.

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Hypnotherapy – A Natural Healing Power

“Hypnotherapy – a state of focused consciousness can be the answer to the various issues that you face on a daily basis or it may be the key to eliminating that one fear that is stopping you from reaching your goals”.

Hypnotherapy – a completely natural state is a therapeutic tool which is around us in use for thousands of years as a healing, self-help and self-improvement modality. For thousands of years, philosophers and wise men have known that our thoughts can control our body and behaviour.

Hypnosis is not mind control. Rather, the client gains control over a part of his or her life that may have been previously out of control. All hypnosis is really self-hypnosis and no one can force you.

Many people are afraid of it even today as its proper use remains a mystery to most people. We spontaneously drift into hypnosis many times during the day without even realising and we call it daydreaming. Hypnotherapist simply guides the client on purpose to help them achieve their goals. Even though the client may not “feel anything”, the suggestions given can have a very powerful & positive effect.

If one is considering to under-go hypnosis process, one has to understand it thoroughly knowing how it works and how it sometimes doesn’t work. It can provide immediate results if the process is well understood and effectively used.

What is Hypnotherapy?

It is recognised that there is no generally accepted definition of hypnosis, though considerable consensus exists at a descriptive level.
Martin T Orne, MD, PhD (1927 – 2000)

“Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which the subconscious mind plays the dominant role.” The seat of our habits and the steering wheel of our behaviors lie within the subconscious mind. Everything we have ever thought, felt, tasted, smelled, seen, heard, read, or fantasized is recorded in our subconscious mind.

“Hypnosis” and “Hypnotherapy” are derived from Greek word “Hypnos” which means “Sleep.” Hypnotherapists use a hypnotic trance in order to make you relief and overcome addictions, pains, stress, or other related states of mind.

Hypnotherapy is:

• Powerful tool for all areas of self improvement.
• The use of hypnosis to help you move towards health and wholeness.
• Used to help you reach goals when nothing else has helped.
• Let go of the thoughts of the day and to focus on the issues you came in for.
• Work together of the client and the hypnotherapist to overcome the issue at hand.
• Safe, healthy and natural.
• A state when you are most relaxed, or daydreaming, or open to receive suggestions.
• A suggestion, a proposal for your subconscious to accept a new belief therefore it needs to be positive.

How it Works?

Suggestion plays a very important part in hypnosis. Hypnosis bypasses the conscious minds, allowing direct communication with the unconscious ones. People can be hypnotized to different levels depending on the requirements of their well being.

Hypnotherapy can help you in the following areas of life:

• Self Improvement
• Motivation
• Reaching Goals and Succeeding
• Lack of Confidence
• Anger and Stress Management
• Health Management
• Getting into shape
• Habits Management
• Bedwetting in Children
• Teeth Grinding and nail biting
• Quit Smoking
• Drinking and other Addiction
• Asthma and Anxiety
• Compulsive eating
• Eating Disorders
• Weight Loss
• Skin Problems
• Fears and Phobias
• Psychological Issues
• Depression
• Relationship Issues
• Physiological Issues
• General Confidence
• Sexual Issues
• Study Skills
• Concentration and Learning skills
• Schizophrenia
• Past Life Regression
• Maternity
• Pain Management
• Many More

Hypnotherapists may use trance to explore the root of a problem, your physical and mental health and help you change deep-seated attitudes or feelings. At the end of the session, the hypnotherapist suggests that you return to normal consciousness.

The ability to be hypnotized is generally an indication that the client has stronger visualization skills. Once you are in trance, the hypnotherapists will address your sub-conscious mind. People with arthritis may be told they can turn the pain down like the volume of a radio, or smokers that they will no longer find smoking pleasurable.

How can hypnotherapy help me?

You have within you all the resources to solve your problems.

Whatever your mind created, whether it’s fears & phobias, panic attacks, blushing, insomnia, unwanted habits, etc, your mind can take away. The question is, how do you do it?

Hypnotherapy is a guide helping you to reach your goal by activating your inner resources. Unlike many therapies, hypnotherapy concentrates on the solution and not the problem.

 

Benefits of Hypnosis:

Did you know that just being in a hypnotized state has extraordinary mental and physical benefits? Yes, this is a fact.

Hypnosis:

• Help promote a deeper, healthier breathing pattern
• Relieves stress and tension
• Relaxes the body, slow down the functions, slow heart rate, lower respiration and blood pressure levels
• Muscles naturally relax
• Lower chemical imbalances
• Promote the human body’s natural healing abilities
• Correct hormone imbalances
• Relieves from mental fog, dizziness, irritability, chest pain, feeling numb, and many more
• Strengths our immune systems
• Relieve from pain and discomfort
• Deep restful sleep
• Feel good naturally
• Generates a sense of power and control

Hypnosis: What it is not / Myths!

• Sleep, unconsciousness, coma, surrender of mental powers and control, magic, an unnatural process
• Misconception is that only people of low intellect can be hypnotised.  The fact is people of average and above intelligence make the best subjects.
• When you are in hypnosis you will not accept any suggestion that contravenes your normal belief system. Just as you can’t get stuck in a daydream or sleep, you can’t get stuck in hypnosis.
• Being hypnotized shows weakness and lack of control
• It’s dangerous
• Chance that you get stuck and unable to emerge from it.
• I can achieve anything suggested to me
• Result should be guaranteed
• You will not remember anything said or done while you were hypnotized
• One session cures the problem

What can happen is that you enjoy the wonderful feeling of relaxed body and mind that you don’t want to come out of hypnosis.  ‘I’ve never felt so relaxed in my life’, is a comment most hypnotizers receive.

Now that you have an idea of what hypnosis is and isn’t, it’s time to consider how it can help you.