For anyone who has struggled with weight loss, hypnosis may just be the answer. Hypnosis has a good track record for helping those who need to lose some excess weight. To begin the hypnosis process, the recipient is placed in a deep, peaceful and calm state in which they are receptive to suggestions about weight loss. Hypnosis works by giving suggestions that are integrated into the brain of the subject who then awakens with a renewed sense of purpose in losing weight.
Hypnosis as a process is done by a hypnotherapist who, after putting the subject into a trance, then says things like “I am a thin person inside” after which the subject repeats it. He or she also says things like, “I have no desire to eat fatty foods” or “I have no desire to overeat at all.” The subject takes these things in and assimilates them into their thinking.
When it comes to weight loss, hypnosis can provide post hypnotic suggestions that help the person change their behavior after they awaken from the hypnotic trance—even changes in their behavior they are not aware of where they come from. It can take a single session of hypnosis to affect weight loss or it can be several sessions, depending on the susceptibility of the subject and the effectiveness of the hypnosis.
One of the more positive effects on weight loss, hypnosis can do no harm to the client and can bring about a change in the eating and exercise behavior of the client. It is rare for hypnosis to go overboard and result in an eating disorder. Most hypnotherapists try not to use statements that could lead to an eating disorder.
Most people who try hypnosis for weight loss have tried several other methodologies to lose weight, from Weight Watcher’s to medically supervised diets, and it is not until they get into their minds with hypnosis that long lasting and positive changes are made.
In the struggle with weight loss, hypnosis arises as an answer to the mental portion of what makes people eat too much. Hypnosis can also address the issue of exercise, giving suggestions like “You like to exercise an hour each day” or “Exercise makes you feel good about yourself.” This can provide the added component of getting enough exercise in order to lose weight. Hypnosis can also provide posthypnotic suggestions on exercise saying things like, “I will feel myself wanting to exercise every day,” or “Exercise makes me feel energized when I do it.”
Through the combination of exercise and weight loss, hypnosis can direct itself at all aspects of the weight loss process. An individual can often lose a hundred pounds or more after just a few hypnosis sessions. They feel better about themselves and they begin to feel the power of the hypnosis as the pounds are shed. At some point they may see the hypnotherapist to maintain their healthy habits rather than to keep losing. This represents the maintenance phase of weight loss and is also very important.
