Hypnotic Suggestion For Weight Control
Hypnotic suggestion helps people
lose weight by helping to reduce the appetite.
If you are overweight and you do not think you overeat, it may be the
types of food that you are eating. If
you feel that you eat the correct type of food and you do not eat in excess,
you may have a physical problem and you would be well advised to visit your
doctor or health professional before using any form of hypnotic suggestion..
Hypnotic suggestion is NEVER used to
make a person under-eat, therefore weight loss may be a little slow but it's
more permanent because the appetite becomes moderate but healthy. Habits good
and bad are formed in the subconscious mind, and once established, all habits
are extremely powerful and difficult to get rid of. So a person who has a
strong habit of over-eating has got into a bad habit and the difficulty getting
out of the habit is because it has become subconsciously ingrained. With
hypnosis the idea is to introduce a new, good habit into the subconscious mind
that will "over-rule" the bad habit, but if the new habit attempts to
get the person to starve (a very unwise way to use hypnosis), the instinct of
self-preservation may be triggered and apart from the metabolism slowing down
in an attempt to store food, the person may well end up over-eating more than
they were before. So hypnotic suggestion is always used to encourage healthy
eating.
Hypnotic Suggestion for Weight Control with a
Hypnotherapist.
A person
may overeat because of stress or to satisfy other `inner` needs. In these cases
therapy is directed towards the release of such inner conflicts thus enabling
the client to eat for physical health and not as a means of reducing stress. Hypnotic
suggestion may be used to empower the client to release the root-cause of such
inner stresses, subjecting it to the conscious awareness to resolve.
Hypnotherapy is usually used on a weekly
basis, until the appetite is normal again.
The number of sessions required may vary greatly from individual to
individual. Once the appetite is
acceptable and the client can eat sensibly without struggle the sessions can
end. Occasionally clients return for a
'one-off' session just to help keep the appetite normal. This ranges from anything from once to four
times a year. Not everybody finds this necessary however.
With hypnosis there is no 'goal
weight' to aim for. Each client is
encouraged to go by what he or she feels and not what the scales tell him or
her! This eliminates a lot of the
frustration that arises out of conventional diets.
Hypnotic
Suggestion Using Self-hypnosis.
In most
cases a client may be encouraged to practice self-hypnosis at home in order to
feel better about themselves. With self-hypnosis though, suggestions tend to
take a different form. All hypnotic suggestion is persuasion, and there is no
better power for persuasion than mental images. The hypnotherapist would
probably teach the client how to create mental images of their ideal body. Whilst
this may be a little difficult at first with practice, the confidence will grow
and many people soon begin to find that they can detect the altered state of
consciousness known as self-hypnosis very much easier than they could when they
first started using it. The state of self-hypnosis is practically identical to
a meditative state that people often use when practicing disciplines like yoga.
A Visit to a Hypnotherapist to Learn Hypnotic Suggestion using Self-Hypnosis
is not Always Necessary.
Some
people take to self-hypnosis easier than others, in fact it has been found that
face-to-face appointments with a hynotherapist have been unnecessary and a recording
(on CD or MP3) has had some positive results.
Also, if somebody is on a special diet, the use of
hypnotic suggestion using self hypnosis
can enhance that person's ability to stick to it as long as is necessary.
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Please note: With regard to diet is strongly recommended that you should take the advice of a doctor or specialist (such as that of a qualified dietition) before embarking on a diet.