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Will Suggestion Therapy Suppress My Appetite?

Perhaps the most popular use of hypnotic suggestion today is to help people to slim down. But many people have unfounded ideas about weight loss hypnosis and what it can accomplish for you, and there are a lot of bald-faced lies being told about how effective it is. Learn the truth right now!

Author: Alan B. Densky Ch

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Hypnotic suggestion, thanks to movies and TV, the very word conjures up the depiction of a beady-eyed hypno-therapist swinging an old watch repeating the words, "You are getting sleepy."

Do an MSN search, and you will find several million web pages focused on the topic, especially weight loss hypnosis. Unfortunately, many websites that sell self-hypnosis CD's for weight loss make ridiculous affirmations. Since 1978, I've been in professional practice. So I think that I'm more than experienced to set the record straight on weight loss hypnosis.

First of all, hypnosis is a tool, just like a scalpel is a tool. Just as varied surgeons have varied skill levels in the use of a scalpel, novel hypnotists have different skill levels in the use of hypnosis for weight loss. And to complicate the matter, there are many diversified forms and types of posthypnotic suggestion.

Here are some of the wild claims about weight loss hypnosis that I've seen on websites, along with the truth of the matter:

"Hypnosis for weight loss will speed up your metabolism." The total truth is that weight loss hypnosis cannot directly speed up your metabolism. But it can be very effective at helping to program your subconscious with increased motivation to exercise, and exercise can increase your metabolic rate. Similarly, autohypnosis to speed up the metabolism for quick weight loss can be effected by programming the subconscious to motivate the intake of increased amounts of protein, because that intake will step up your metabolism.

Posthypnotic suggestion will make you drop a few pounds. This is false. But weight loss hypnosis can be used to help diminish your appetite, so that you eat less, and eating less can help you to lose weight.

The average person's appetite and cravings are caused by two unconscious programs:
A. When you pair eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for food and a strong compulsion to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example, if you eat when you watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to eat each time you go to the movies.

B. When you feel tense, you feel a strong desire to put food into your mouth for relaxation. This is because of programming that you got when you were a baby. When you got disagreeable, your mother or father put a bottle in your mouth. You got distracted, relaxed, and probably fell asleep. Now when you get cranky (anxious or tense), you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure.

C. There is a third subconscious program that is present for some people. It's called emotional eating. Emotional eating takes place when a subject is motivated to make him or herself fat, because by being fat they will protect themselves in some way.

For example, if a person got their heart broken in a relationship, their unconscious will usually force them into an action that would prevent them from getting their heart broken again. Example: They are motivated to gain weight to keep them out of another relationship, because that will clean out the possibility of another broken heart.

D. I have written several articles on hypnosis for weight loss and emotional eating that are available on my website.

There are some powerful and effective ways to use hypnosis to eliminate emotional eating.

So just how can weight loss hypnosis fix the above problems? Let's cover them one at a time.

In paragraph "A" above: Conditioned responses can be "erased" quickly and easily using an art that I call the "Flash." The flash trains the mind to setup a new set of triggers. In the above example, the subject had unconsciously banded together the visualization of food in the hand, with the TV. Each time he / she sat down to watch the TV, the subconscious mind filled in the missing part of the picture: It "Flashed" the depiction of the food in the hand, and the subject felt a craving, and an urge to eat.

The Flash is a art we use to program the subconscious to use the depiction of the TV as a trigger for the mental impression of yourself watching TV without eating. When we lose the picture of the food, we lose the cravings.

When we momentarily disassociate (see ourselves from the point of view that someone else would), we are not able to sense our feelings (cravings and urges).

When we see ourselves participating in a behavior (watching TV without eating), we feel a strong urge to generate that behavior. So the subject loses the cravings, and actually gets an urge to push food away.

In paragraph "B" above: The subject is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure. We teach the subject self-hypnosis for weight loss, because the very essence of the hypnotic state is deep relaxation.

And we utilize the "Flash" to program the subconscious to use the thoughts that are triggering feelings of affliction and anxiety, as triggers for secondary thoughts that will trigger the relaxation response. When the subject feels more relaxed overall, oral compulsions are greatly diminished.

In paragraph "C" above: We discussed compulsory eating which makes the person overweight. The "behavior" of being overweight then provides some sort of emotional protection. So we use a technology called a NLP Six-Step Reframe, which programs the subconscious to assume responsibility for making the subject automatically substitute some other larger acceptable behavior that will provide the same emotional protection, in place of being overweight. And that reframe will discard the craving to eat for emotional purposes.

Self-hypnosis for weight loss can be a very powerful methodology. I can only uncover the tip of the iceberg in this short theme. Please see my website for larger comprehensive articles and information.

About Author

Alan B. Densky, CH established his professional hypnosis practice in Feb. 1978. He is the developer of the Neuro-VISION stop smoking & appetite suppression video hypnosis technology that received a United States Patent because of its effectiveness. Visit the Neuro-VISION self hypnosis site to retrieve Free hypnosis power relaxation mp3's, or subscribe to one or more world-class hypnosis newsletters.
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