Friday, February 23, 2007

How Can You Lose Weight With Hypnosis?

By Terry Didcott

A lot of people wonder how you can lose weight with hypnosis. Well, the honest answer is that with hypnosis alone, you are unlikely to! There needs to be something more to affect the change in the body's metabolism combined with a modification in mental state. Sounds complicated? It's not really. I'll do my best to explain in everyday, layman's terms some of the processes that go on when hypnosis is used to lose weight. You will need several ingredients in the mix for that to happen. For instance, first of all, before you enter the hypnotic state, you will mentally set yourself a goal in the amount of weight you want to lose. Then the hypnotic session is commenced and used as the tool needed to prepare you to accept the verbal weight loss suggestions. These suggestions are necessary to subtly alter the way you perceive the important steps that you must take in order to lose that weight. Then you will be placed in the correct frame of mind to accept and action those steps which are necessary to lose the amount of weight needed to reach your goal.

I'll explain these several points in greater length.

First of all, you must make a goal for yourself. That goal is the amount of weight you want to lose, in pounds or kilos, whichever unit of measure you are comfortable with. Make it a realistic goal. Why? Well, if you don't, then like any unobtainable goal, you will not reach it. So with your realistic goal in mind and, for good measure, a realistic time span in which you would feel happy to attain it, you can then prepare for hypnosis.

Hypnosis in itself won't actually do anything for you except to make you relax and feel very calm. That is great if you are under a lot of stress and need to relax. There has to be more. What most people think of as purely hypnosis, is actually a combination of hypnosis and suggestion. The hypnosis enables you to relax sufficiently for you to subconsciously accept the suggestions that are given.

In a nutshell, the suggestions used are along the lines of: You will lose weight by feeling good about eating less of the bad things that make you gain weight - and more of the good things that will boost your metabolism to burn off the excess fat that want to be rid of. That's pretty much how suggestions work, in their simplest terms. There is a bit more to it than that, in the way that those suggestions are delivered by the skilled hypnotherapist. There is a more in-depth explanation of this process posted on my website, below.

Success comes from the combination of setting your goal, then using hypnosis to enable you to accept the powerful weight loss suggestions that will enable you to lose weight without any kind of formal diet.

Still sceptical? Well, you could just carry on with different diets. I suspect that as you are reading this, you are looking for an alternative to diets that may not be working for you, al least not in the long term. You could go and see a hypnotherapist and pay their fee, which is your choice, of course.

A less expensive way of trying out hypnotherapy for weight loss without diet is to use a specially recorded CD which includes instructions on how to set your weight loss goal. You then relax in a comfortable chair or sofa, or even a bed and play the CD. You listen to the hypnotherapist as he takes you through the relaxation process followed by the suggestions for you to lose weight. At the end, you are brought back to full consciousness and you can go about the rest your day as normal.

CDs like these are available online from many sources, each with their various merits. Interestingly, CDs with the attributes as I have described can be found at my website too. The choice is, of course yours. Do you believe you are worth it?


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