Hypnosis to Lose Weight: How To Lose Weight Quickly With Weight Control Hypnosis (Weight Loss Hypnosis)

Sep 4 by Joanna

If you have a problem with losing weight and controlling your eating habits and you are open to trying unorthodox methods of weight control, then weight loss hypnosis (or weight control hypnosis) may help you tremendously in your efforts to shed those pounds.

By now you have likely tried many diets, pills and supplements.

Some of them may have worked for a while, but sooner or later, you gained the weight back.

The reason is that permanent weight loss can happen only with nutritional awareness, long-term physical activity and exercising, altering emotional ties with eating, and changing poor eating habits into healthy ones.

All these changes are very DIFFICULT to implement, as we need to break a long-time habits, and it’s very easy to slip back into old ways. You may even start to believe that it is impossible for you to lose weight.

Hypnosis and self-hypnosis can help change your deep beliefs and achieve your weight loss goals.

However, make no mistake, YOU make these changes in yourself.

Losing weight is not a spectator sport – you have to be an active participant to become successful and achieve your goals.

YOU MUST BECOME INVOLVED!

Most people focus on the physical body when they think of losing weight. What we keep forgetting is that there are three aspects to our existence: physical, emotional and mental. Your efforts to lose weight, must integrate an awareness of each of these three. As long as there is an internal fighting or conflict, losing weight will ways be a struggle.

Both hypnosis and self-hypnosis can help yo develop more awareness of your different parts, especially those influencing your food choices and eating habits.

Some people may think that self hypnosis CDs and hypnosis downloads are just not as good as the real thing or that they don’t work, but I certainly disagree. They are very effective! I have seen and personally experienced the results. The bottom line of hypnosis is about suggestion and, as I said earlier, the more people hear the suggestion the more likely it is to be productive.

What is Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis

Hypnosis is not some mysterious state, where someone can be made to do something against his or her will. There is no relinquishing of willpower with hypnosis, as is often depicted in movies and novels. A hypnotherapist may help you develop the trance, but you are always in control.

Nearly everyone has experienced a trance-like state many times, though you may not have called it hypnosis. If you ever caught yourself daydreaming or been so engrossed in a task that you did not notice how much time passed, then you have experienced a hypnotic-like state. The main difference between these sort of trance and self-hypnosis are specific motivation and suggestions toward a desired goal. Hypnosis channels the trance to achieve some desired result.

Hypnosis is a state of mind in which suggestions are acted upon much more powerfully than is possible under normal conditions. While in hypnosis, one suppresses the power of conscious criticism. One’s focus of attention when in hypnotic trance is narrower, and one’s level of awareness on a focal point is much higher than if one were awake. During this heightened focus and awareness, suggestions appear to go directly into the unconscious mind. This means that you can control areas of yourself that are normally out of reach of your conscious mind.

If you are skeptical, try to consciously slow you heart rate or raise the temperature of you hand. These are examples of internal changes that are normally out of your conscious control. Yet in hypnosis, you can make changes in chemical, physical, psychological and emotional parts of yourself.

When you are in a hypnotic trance, you are completely relaxed. Relaxation is an integral part of losing weight and changing eating habits. In looking at your own eating patterns, you may notice that you eat more when you are nervous, anxious, or under pressure. Using self-hypnosis to deal with those feelings of tension and stress will help you reduce your craving for food.

Hypnosis and Weight Loss: How Diet Hypnosis Works

The reason you are overeating may be numerous. Perhaps you you learned your eating habits from your parents. There may be some emotional reasons that cause you to overeat. Or there is some specific compulsion or personality characteristic behind your eating problem. That is why some hypnotherapy weight loss techniques may be more effective for you than others.

Here are some general categories of weight loss through hypnosis techniques that may be used when dealing with various issues of being overweight:

1. Symptom Substitution: Using guided imagery and post hypnotic suggestions, you can substitute an unhealthy eating habit with another eating behavior, such as chewing gum or eating healthy, low calorie foods.

2. Symptom Transformation: You can change the compulsion to overeat into desired actions, for example, into physical activity, a hobby, home improvement projects, working on your garden, etc.

3. Symptom Amelioration: You can directly reduce the overeating. With proper post-hypnotic cues, you teach yourself that you are in control of your eating, and that you can choose to eat less as easily as eat more.

4. Symptom Utilization: This encourages you to accept and redefine your eating habits. Your conviction that you “cannot stop overeating” is accepted rather than denied or attacked. You instruct yourself that you will continue to overeat a specific amount. That amount can then become less and less.

5. Thin meditations: These blend the above strategies while developing a special focus of awareness on thought, feelings, and unconscious processes surrounding food, eating and nurturing. You move yourself into a greater sense of self acceptance and you naturally select healthier eating choices.

6. Body Imaging: While in trance-state, you can picture yourself getting thinner and lighter. You will imagine how you would like to appear. Perhaps you will see yourself fitting into your old clothing, that was too small for you. Your imaging could involve seeing yourself in some new clothes, looking slim, looking healthy. You might imagine yourself playing tennis or swimming. You would develop suggestions that will let you feel good about losing weight that will reinforce your motivation.

(Source: Self-Hypnosis The complete manual for health and self-change, by Brian M. Alman, PhD, and Peter Lambrou, PhD.)

Can Hypnosis Work for Everyone?

Dr. David Katz, an ABC medical contributor and a professor at Yale University, said hypnosis is not the definitive solution to weight control or weight loss. He also recommends exercise and seeing a nutritionist.

“Hypnosis can make a contribution [to weight loss] but it’s not the be-all, end-all,” Katz said.

He believes hypnosis has gained ground because people feel frustrated that nothing else seems to work.

“People who are more submissive tend to be more hypnotizable,” said Katz.

If you’re resistant to the idea of hypnosis, it may not work, he warned.

“It’s not magic; it’s a form of psychotherapy,” he said.

About 15 percent of the nation’s population is highly hypnotizable, while 10 percent to 15 percent can’t be hypnotized at all, according to a study by Stanford University.

Hypnosis is a temporary, altered state of consciousness. It’s a condition akin to being so absorbed in a good book that the outside world seems to fade away.

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I have successfully used hypnosis many times in my life, not just for weight loss, but to reduce my fear of flying, during pregnancy and birth, and on other occasions. There is no question in my mind that hypnosis can help shed weight without pill popping. Give it a chance, and you may be surprised by the results.

There are many excellent books and audio CDs that can provide you with more information about self-hypnosis and hypnosis for weight loss. Some of these may work better than others for your particular situation, so you may want to try a few to find the best fit.

Questions? Comments? Weight Loss Tips?

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