Use Hypnosis And Permanently Lose Your Weight
Medical research at Tufts-New England Medical Center has provided irrefutable evidence that all popular diets work when dieters are able to stick to them. Atkins - low carb; The Zone - low glycemic index; Ornish - low fat; Weight Watchers - low calorie.
But researchers have also proven beyond a doubt that very few people can stick to their diet because their appetite is out of control.
So to be successful with a diet, weight loss hypnosis can be very effective.
The Dictionary defines “Appetite” as: “The desire for gratification of some want, craving, or passion.” So “appetite” is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure.
Many people confuse appetite with hunger. Hunger is defined as “The body’s call for nourishment.” In other words, when the body needs food, that’s when you feel honest hunger. By that description, it is impossible for anyone to “be hungry” if they are overweight.
However, it is possible for you to have feelings that you interpret as “hunger.” And the stomach contracting in expectation of being fed causes those feelings.
When you were a toddler and you became upset, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often fall asleep. That sequence of events was repeated thousands of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.
Now that you are mature, if you feel upset, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - food!
People Also Get Cravings and Urges Because Of Conditioning.
When you link eating with any other action, the other action will trigger cravings for food and a compulsion to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you eat when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to eat each time you drive your car.
What About Compulsive Overeaters Who Eat Because Of Emotional Reasons?
We define a compulsion as an “irresistible impulse.” NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming has a presupposition: All behaviors are driven by a positive intention. In other words, our unconscious mind will only motivate us into behaviors that benefit or protect us in some way. So in NLP terms, being fat is a behavior when it provides a positive outcome for us.
You may be wondering what the possible positive outcomes of being fat are. The list of possibilities is as long as the list of people who are fat. But I’ll give you a classic example: A person gets their heart broken in a relationship. So to protect the self from getting the heart broken again, the unconscious motivates the self to gain a lot of weight to keep the self out of relationships and prevent another broken heart.
A big secret to getting rid of your appetite is called reframing. With an NLP Reframe, we respect the fact that the unconscious mind is motivating us to consume food for relaxation and pleasure. And if we are eating compulsively because being fat is protecting us, we respect that also.
In an NLP Reframe, we bargain with our subconscious mind. In the case of eating for relaxation and pleasure, we ask our subconscious to assume the responsibility for making us automatically substitute alternate behaviors. The alternate behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same relaxation and pleasure. But they must also be more acceptable to us on a conscious level. When the unconscious is motivating us into alternate behaviors that provide the relaxation and pleasure that we require - we lose our appetite on this score.
If you are an emotional eater, we do an additional reframe. We ask your subconscious to accept responsibility for finding new behaviors in place of being heavy. These new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same protection. But they must be actions that are more consciously acceptable to you. When your subconscious is motivating you into alternate behaviors that provide the same outcomes that you require, you lose the urges to overeat.
As far as feeling cravings because of conditioning (conditioned responses), we utilize various NLP and hypnotic techniques that erase or “extinguish” those conditioned responses. That breaks the connection between the behaviors, and eliminates the cravings and urges.
As soon as your appetite has been eliminated, and all compulsions to overeat have been overcome, you can easily stick to any diet that you chose on an indefinite basis so that it becomes a permanent lifestyle change.
Alan B. Densky, CH is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists. Alan opened his practice in 1978. Visit his Neuro-VISION website. On the site he maintains a free article library. And he offers free hypnosis newsletters and MP3’s.
Alan B. Densky, CH is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists. Alan opened his practice in 1978. You can learn more by going to his Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis website. On the site he maintains a free article library. And he offers free hypnosis newsletters and MP3’s.
- Alan B. Densky, CH
