Weight Loss Hypnotherapy

Using hypnotherapy for weight loss still involves eating differently, or exercising but it can make the process a whole lot easier, by aligning thoughts, feelings and emotions together so you can find it easy to follow  a healthy diet, rather than a conflict.. You don’t eat the biscuits. Not because of strength of willpower, but instead because they are just unappealing. You eat less food at dinner time. Not because you force yourself to eat less, but because you just now seem satisfied on half as much.

Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss aligns plans, goals, feelings and emotions to help you move forward. If you can relate to any of the points below then perhaps hypnotherapy for weight loss is for you.

1. You have been on a number of diets before and the weight just won’t come off. Or it comes off and comes right back on. You would consider yourself a Yo-Yo dieter up and down, up and down.
2. When you get depressed upset or emotional you find yourself eating. Perhaps you are bored, anger or lonely, and you found self heading for the fridge.
3. The chocolate, lollies or ice cream is like a strong feeling of  ‘I just have to have it, I need it’, like a craving or addiction, that food just keeps calling for you.
4. You find it hard or uncomfortable to turn food down, when offered to you by friends or family.
5. You constantly eat and snack and yet you never feel full.
6. The weight came on quickly once you stopped smoking, or stopped some other busy activity like work.
7. You suffer an inner contest of wills. Good verses bad, little angel versus the little devil. I shouldn’t  eat this, I have to have it.  I have to exercise, I could stay in bed another minute.

Hypnotherapy works with feelings and emotions  So instead of  feeling  a contest of wills, craving or a need to continually snack instead, those feelings simple are not there and the need to eat more at dinner, or to eat certain foods can be reduced  which makes it easy to eat healthy, and make healthy decisions and in doing so,  lose weight.

Hypnosis For Weight Loss

Now in a therapy room using weight loss hypnosis techniques you are probably not interested in any of the above. But there are some aspects to a stage hypnotists bag of tricks you’ll want your hypnotherapist to include in your session.

What a stage hypnotist is able to do, is rapidly induce que controlled behavior. You see a red light while driving you apply the break. The phone rings you answer. I throw a ball, your hand goes out and catches it. There is the stimulus the red light. There is the reaction, putting your foot on the brake. There is the stimulus the ringing of the telephone, and there is the reaction, picking up the phone. There is no need to consciously make the decision to take action.

A hypnotist on stage is using a similar process, just speeding up the time it takes to learn the reflex response. When I say the word sleep, your eyes close. When I say lion, you roar like a lion. When I click my fingers you act like a washing machine, etc

When it comes to weight loss hypnosis a hypnotherapist should be including some cue controlled reactions.
When I see  chocolate it makes me feel disgusted. When I open the fridge door, I look for healthy foods. When I serve my portions I put half as much on the plate. The type of behaviours you want to develop are discussed with  the hypnotherapist.

For some people these cue controlled behaviors incorporated into their hypnosis sessions works very well and changes in eating habits may occur very rapidly. For others the effects are more subtle.   But remember this is only one small aspect to hypnotherapy for weightless. If it works for you great, you are going to get off to a flying start.  There are many other techniques to help you lose weight through hypnosis, and your hypnotherapist will be able to find the best tools that work for you.

Paul Dixon is a Hypnotherpaist based in Takapuna Auckland and works out of the Cheri Clinic.

So you want to stay motivated. Motivation comes in two forms, internal and external.

External motivation is anything happening in the external world that drives you towards losing weight. Life events such as planning to have a baby and increasing the chances of fertility, looking for Mr or Miss right, the big wedding day or an overseas holiday are all external motivators. Because the motivation is tied to an event, once the event passes so too does the motivation and old eating habits tend to return and with this comes the weight.

Internal motivation, is when we take action for the benefit of ourselves. This motivation can be divided into goal directed motivation and anxiety directed motivation. Anxiety driven weight loss occurs when a person steps on the scales, finds their weight has jumped, and panics. In this scenario people take action so as to move away from discomfort.

Anxiety driven behavior can produce an initial surge of activity, with crash diets and exercise regimes, however as the weight begins to come off, the anxiety lessens, and as it was the anxiety which was the motivator once it is no longer there the person is back eating the old foods, and the exercise program is a distant memory.
However goal directed motivation tied to the value, belief and worth of who you are is different than anxiety driven motivation. If your sense of self worth increases, your sense of appreciate of yourself rises with it. And as your sense of appreciation rises it is easier to spend more time looking out for yourself and ensure you eat right.  If you have had children or a pet or someone in your life you love you look after them, it isn’t a struggle it doesn’t require motivation, you simple take action because you value and appreciate them. The same applies to you.

You also probably know of or met someone who really is a slob, who you just  feel has a low value of themselves to get that way. Well it is all by degrees. The reflection of that person is really no different than the reflection of yourself in the weight you are right now.

Self worth is a learned process, formed by previous life experiences.  We are not usually consciously aware of our own sense of value. Hypnosis is one method to change any old and outdated misconceptions of ourselves that may still be lurking in the back of minds. Beliefs or ideals that quietly sit there directing our behavior. “Why bother, It isn’t worth the hassle”. “You’re not worth the hassle”. “”Never worked before, Will never work again”. “You are just not pretty, why bother trying”.

If you lack motivation, and give up too quickly, if the diet is always tomorrow and the exercise always next week, then perhaps it is time to appreciate yourself a whole lot more. With hypnotherapy it can become a whole lot easier to perceive yourself differently from both a conscious and subconscious perspective. When you appreciate something you remain motivated to look after it, and with this comes a better healthier looking you.