Losing weight is easy, right? Just eat less calories, exercise and you will be as skinny as a supermodel. No?
If you have ever tried to diet you know how much willpower is involved in cutting down your calories. Especially when everywhere you look you see delicious, mouth-watering food being advertised: cakes, ice cream, fried food, sodas. Yum!
Food is associated with so many emotions and good times that it's no wonder it's so hard to just say no. "Let's celebrate with a supersize restaurant meal", "come by for a chat and a double mocha choca latte coffee and a slice of pie", "how about a bag of chips and a soda while we kick back and watch a film", let alone holiday feasts.
How would you like to be able to regulate your food intake without having a battle of willpower with your stomach or your mind?
There is a way. Hypnosis.
All the emotional associations with food are stored in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind controls your behaviour. If you want to change your behaviour in the long term you have to change your subconscious mind.
The conscious mind is the critical, reasoning part of your mind. It tries to force your behaviour by using willpower. The trouble is that it can only consciously concentrate on a very few things at a time. The figure that is usually given is 5 to 9 things at a time. Under pressure this may be even less.
So when you go on a diet you use willpower to control and restrict your eating. As soon as something stresses you out, your conscious mind will focus on the more important thing and forget about your diet. You will fall back on your subconscious habits of eating to reduce stress.
So how can hypnosis help?
Your subconscious mind likes things to stay the same. It wants to keep you safe with behaviours it knows.
The only way that your mind changes its behaviours is in response to an emotional trigger. The stronger the emotion, the stronger the change in behaviour.
Luckily, the strong emotions don't need to be negative. You can use deep relaxation to change your behaviours.
Hypnotists use this knowledge to change your subconscious behaviours and associations. A typical hypnotic session starts with deep relaxation. The hypnotist then plants the seeds of new beneficial behaviour in your mind. This could be by direct suggestion, visualizations or stories using metaphors and allegories.
Your subconscious mind is smart enough to know that you need to change. It will pick up on the possible new eating behaviours that the hypnotic suggestions provided.
For many people, their behaviour will change instantly, as if receiving a revelation. It's as though someone just showed you an easy way to do something that you wasted so much of your time on before.
What kinds of courses or programs are available?
There are several good weight loss hypnosis courses available.
Some provide hypnotic suggestions to reprogram your body image so you focus your subconscious mind on how you want to be.
If you have ever tried to diet you know how much willpower is involved in cutting down your calories. Especially when everywhere you look you see delicious, mouth-watering food being advertised: cakes, ice cream, fried food, sodas. Yum!
Food is associated with so many emotions and good times that it's no wonder it's so hard to just say no. "Let's celebrate with a supersize restaurant meal", "come by for a chat and a double mocha choca latte coffee and a slice of pie", "how about a bag of chips and a soda while we kick back and watch a film", let alone holiday feasts.
How would you like to be able to regulate your food intake without having a battle of willpower with your stomach or your mind?
There is a way. Hypnosis.
All the emotional associations with food are stored in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind controls your behaviour. If you want to change your behaviour in the long term you have to change your subconscious mind.
The conscious mind is the critical, reasoning part of your mind. It tries to force your behaviour by using willpower. The trouble is that it can only consciously concentrate on a very few things at a time. The figure that is usually given is 5 to 9 things at a time. Under pressure this may be even less.
So when you go on a diet you use willpower to control and restrict your eating. As soon as something stresses you out, your conscious mind will focus on the more important thing and forget about your diet. You will fall back on your subconscious habits of eating to reduce stress.
So how can hypnosis help?
Your subconscious mind likes things to stay the same. It wants to keep you safe with behaviours it knows.
The only way that your mind changes its behaviours is in response to an emotional trigger. The stronger the emotion, the stronger the change in behaviour.
Luckily, the strong emotions don't need to be negative. You can use deep relaxation to change your behaviours.
Hypnotists use this knowledge to change your subconscious behaviours and associations. A typical hypnotic session starts with deep relaxation. The hypnotist then plants the seeds of new beneficial behaviour in your mind. This could be by direct suggestion, visualizations or stories using metaphors and allegories.
Your subconscious mind is smart enough to know that you need to change. It will pick up on the possible new eating behaviours that the hypnotic suggestions provided.
For many people, their behaviour will change instantly, as if receiving a revelation. It's as though someone just showed you an easy way to do something that you wasted so much of your time on before.
What kinds of courses or programs are available?
There are several good weight loss hypnosis courses available.
Some provide hypnotic suggestions to reprogram your body image so you focus your subconscious mind on how you want to be.
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