Weight Loss Hypnosis
The Secrets Of Weight Loss Hypnosis
Since about a decade ago, hypnosis has gained more and more
acceptance and popularity as a great alternative therapy that
can help you break a wide range of negative habits, such as
smoking, drug abuse, as well as overeating.
However, studies show that hypnosis is not a very successful
weight loss method. Instead, you should modify your diet habit
and start to exercise, and there are plenty of resources that
you can find to tell you how to do that. You can consult your
doctor, and there are also books on how to lose weight and
programs such as Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers.
If you start off okay and then hit a plateau in your weight
loss, then you can consider going for a session or two of
hypnosis and usually this is where hypnosis can work the best,
it can get you over a plateau, jumpstarting your weight loss
again after it has stalled, and then reinforce the process
you have already started. Try hypnosis if you have plateaued
and are now stuck, with ten or twenty pounds more to lose.
Some people are worried about going for hypnosis or hypnotherapy.
Well, this is totally understandable, after all, none of us
like feeling that we have lost control, and hypnosis is a
way of circumventing the workings of the conscious mind and
accessing the subconscious, where problems and behaviors are
effectively solved on a whole other level of being. With a
trained, registered hypnotherapist, there is nothing that
you should be fear of. Hypnotherapy will not take control
of you, instead, it is just one of the way to help you modify
your behavior in the way that you choose.
Forget about what you have seen in movies, with the hypnotized
subject clucking like a chicken whenever a certain word is
mentioned, for example. Real hypnotherapy is nothing like
that in fact.
In hypnotherapy, your therapist will ask you to relax, and
place your focus on an image or a moving object. You will
never actually lose consciousness, you are just very relaxed
at the same time you are totally aware of what’s going
on around you. In this state, the therapist may give you certain
suggestions. You will be able to see and hear what is going
on, and you will be in a receptive state, ready to accept
the given suggestions. When you are in such state, what the
therapist says will have a more profound effect on you than
it would have in another situation.
That’s what hypnosis is all about, your mind isn’t
altered, and you are not controlled by the therapist. Over
the next couple of days, you will most likely notice some
changes in your behavior, if you tend to overeat at night
then you might find that the desire to do so has diminished
enough for you to take control. Or if you tend to eat when
you are anxious, you may find that you are calmer, and less
likely to take advantage of this self-calming tool. Gradually,
you will fell better and simple, as a result, controlling
your eating habit effectively.
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