Lose Weight
Hypnosis and Weight Loss
Hypnosis is a facilitator, a tool to aid you in your work in reaching your goals. That work can include understanding what you have to do to improve your health.
Without realising it, the majority of us have experienced being in a hypnotic state. For example, when you are driving in the car, and get to your destination so quickly that you don’t realise it - you were hypnotised by the road and trip.
When you crave and indulge in the wrong type of foods, and your weight increases, your blood sugar goes up. If you continue in this way, you may begin to notice some of the symptoms of diabetes - thirst, frequent urination, sleepiness, or you may feel pains or tingling in your feet or fingers. All of these occur when your sugars are high and you don’t change your lifestyle habits.
To make changes it is necessary to train your subconscious mind to be resistant to bad influences, and also, to use hypnosis to form new behaviour and thought patterns that are more to your benefit.
Hypnosis and self-hypnosis are wonderful tools. They enable you to change your focus, and understand yourself and your actions. They can enable you to gain the control you need. The more you use hypnosis, the more effective it becomes. It is a use it or lose it proposition, though. You have to use it to make it work.
There are a wide range of therapies available to assist you in losing the weight you desire. These therapies can be experienced on a session by session basis at a cost of £55 per session which includes the provision of a CD recording of that session. Alternatively there is the 3 Step or 4 Step Hypnotic Gastric Band Programme - see the "Hypnotic Gastric Band" tab for details. If you require further information on the therapies available please do not hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to discuss the options with you.
Freedom or Failure?
If you consider a weight management process as a denial of what you want to eat, you will doom yourself to failure. This is, instead, a way to change your mind and your habits and patterns. You are finding a way to manage your health, and weight management and food management is certainly a part of it. With this process, you are finding a way towards better health and a longer life. In the span of your life, the months that you will spend rethinking and modifying your eating habits are a very small part of it. In this relatively small amount of time, you are finding something, not being denied something. You are finding freedom from excess weight, freedom from further health issues, freedom from being duped and controlled by external influences, and instead, finding the slimmer person who is inside you. When you reach your goal, your mind - conscious and subconscious - will have been modified enough that the earlier cravings have changed.
Your body is like a car - you have to have fuel to make it run. What happens if you overfill the tank? You waste the fuel. For your car, the fuel spills on the ground. For your body, it is stored as potential energy in the form of fat. That fat triggers insulin resistance, and contributes to diabetes.
If you are ready to begin your weight management programme, then it is time to stop worrying about food!
Hypnosis for Exercise
You doctor has most likely explained to you that exercise is vital to help you manage your weight. It is, but most of us have a tendency to put off exercising. You can use hypnosis or self-hypnosis to get into a mental state where you can do your exercise and enjoy it. Another benefit associated with exercise is that when you exercise, after a while, your body releases endorphins, and you can continue to keep going for a bit longer. This is the second wind that people talk about when exercising. The more you exercise, the better off you are. When you exercise you are burning the calories, thus burning off some of your stored energy. You can also use self-hypnosis to motivate that part of you that is avoiding the exercise to start doing some exercise. Think of the advantages to the exercise or movement:
1. It improves your blood sugar levels.
2. It tones your body, helping to take off the layers.
3. It builds your strength.
4. It helps strengthen your heart.
The Conscious Mind - some people call this the ‘awake’ part of the mind. It is that part of us that is rational, can be tempted, and makes the snap decisions that often keep us from the successes we desire.
The Subconscious Mind - this is the underneath part of the mind, and is like a tape recorder, in that it records everything, all experiences from the time we are cognisant on. All our memories and experiences are stored in the subconscious mind.
Why is it important to know this? All of our life experiences are stored in some way in the subconscious mind. There is a sort of line that blocks them all from coming into our conscious awareness (called the critical factor). This discerns what we will most readily recall. In a way, it is a control mechanism. If you could remember everything that has happened in your entire life, all at once, you would be overwhelmed. So the critical factor suppresses most of what we don’t need to think about. Experiences that both motivate us and hold us back are all stored underneath, so to speak, in the subconscious mind. To bring those experiences up, we use hypnosis to bypass the critical factor.
The subconscious mind is interesting. It takes things at face value. The subconscious mind doesn’t really understand negative words. For example, if I were to tell a person who smokes ‘Don’t smoke’ while in hypnosis, all the subconscious mind would hear is the word ‘smoke’. Similarly, I would never say, ‘Don’t eat’, because that part of the mind would panic (‘What do you mean, don’t eat? I HAVE to eat!)
By using positive suggestions you are giving the subconscious mind something to do, rather than dwell on denial. Your subconscious mind can make a choice, when given acceptable options. One of the most important factors in achieving success in weight management is getting agreement with your subconscious mind. The Inner You must be ready and willing to make the change - not just for the moment, but for a lasting change. We may do something out of habit, and not understand why. Hypnosis and self-hypnosis can help us be aware of our habits and actions, determine why we do those things, and release them. Then we can achieve success.
