If you are like millions of Americans, one of your 2012 New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight. You may have tried all the diets and gimmicks out there but to no avail. You are frustrated, but really ready to finally reach your goal this year. Here is one suggestion that may actually help you. Hypnosis. Yes, why not let your subconscious help you? After all, some of your past programming is probably keeping you from succeeding. Here are eight ways that hypnosis can help you.
- Hypnosis is a safe, effective way to introduce ideas, suggestions, and images of your perfect weight into your subconscious. Multiple studies reinforce the power of hypnosis. You,and you alone, know where your hot buttons are, what foods that you have difficulty avoiding, and what you are willing to do to achieve your goals. These can be easily incorporated into your subconscious mind.
- Hypnosis lets you believe. Did you know that the subconscious mind allows you to accept false beliefs? It does so because it does not distinguish between what is real and what you imagine.
- Hypnosis allows you to reframe old patterns. So much of how we respond to things is due to old programming from our youth. We are almost on automatic pilot. Reprogramming old patterns, such as food preferences, emotional relationship with food, and eating patterns, by placing something new in their place will make it easier during the journey.
- Hypnosis has many tools that can help you succeed. These include altering sensation perceptions, time distortion, and posthypnotic suggestions.
- Hypnosis can help you attack obstacles in achieving your perfect weight. Perhaps exercise is considered a dirty word to you. Hypnosis can interject suggestions that exercise is desirable and rewarding, changing your attitude, and in effect, helping you to begin to initiate behaviors that will produce the wanted outcomes.
- Hypnosis helps you to relax. If you are like most people, stress is part of your daily life. It is difficult to let go. Hypnosis allows you to learn how to initiate a relaxed state that will allow your subconscious to take in the suggestions.
- Hypnosis helps to change how you feel about food. For many of us, food is a love-hate relationship. Hypnosis allows you to create a more loving relationship with food and what is can do for you, as a pleasurable experience as well as nourishment for the body in a positive way.
- Hypnosis allows you to repeat and practice suggestions that result in a permanent pattern of behavior resulting in the perfect weight that you want. Repetition of the suggestions of wanted behaviors through hypnosis will have your wanted lifestyle soon on auto-pilot.
Hypnosis is yet another tool that can help you in finding your perfect weight.
Disclaimer- The information contained in this article is for educational purposes only and should not be used for diagnosis or to guide treatment without the opinion of a health professional. Any reader who is concerned about his or her health should contact a health care provider for advice.
Reference:
Gurgevich, Steven & Gurgevich, Joy. (2009). The Self-Hypnosis Diet. Boulder: Sounds True.
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