Hypnosis for Weight Loss - My Experience

The subconscious mind is a subject of much debate. Some say that it wields more power over our everyday actions than we know, while others discount it as more or less an additional complexity of the vast human mind to be pondered, but nothing so powerful as to control our every choice. This is where self for weight loss hypnosis enters the picture.

First, let's start off on a little history lesson on hypnosis. Hypnosis as we know it today actually has its roots (arguably) in several different cultures, at around the same time, hundreds of years ago. It's roots go back to early Hindu cultures as well as early European civilizations as a means of healing one's body and treating ailments.

Here's where it gets interesting. It is believed that hypnosis may have crept into modern medicine and common practice inadvertently through what may have been the first failed "placebo" experiment on whether magnet therapy worked or not, performed hundreds of years ago at the request of the medical community.

Magnet therapy was put into practice and was believed to have helped heal many people's ailments until it was put to the test and found that the only effect it had on anyone was what was called a "placebo" effect.

A placebo effect is basically an effect that is physiologically real (you can feel it physically, and your body obeys the suggestion of the mind), but is in fact simply brought on, or conjured up, by the human mind. It is essentially the power of suggestion at work, and that is exactly what hypnosis is - the utilization of the power of subconscious suggestion.

Hypnosis is a deeply relaxed "trance" state where suggestions made verbally by the hypnotizer are grabbed by the subconscious mind of the person being hypnotized, and the power of suggestion is such that the subject's body and mind obey the "orders" of the hypnotizer, without even fully and consciously realizing why or how.

I experienced the power that hypnotism can have when I purchased some weight loss CD's and attempted self hypnosis as a means to help control my ballooning appetite - and waistline, and was shocked at how it actually worked and gave me an unshakable sense of self control and "calm" that I'd never felt before.

My previous attempts at losing extra weight that I had gained were not pleasant experiences. I am not "overweight" by most standards, but I definitely fluctuate in the ten pound bracket up and down all of the time because I really do love food. Just experiencing the different tastes and textures of food is such an experience to me that I sometimes don't realize that what I'm putting in my mouth is polluting my body and adding unnecessary extra weight.

Not only are the foods I choose wrong many times, but I also can tend to eat too much at one sitting, feeling bloated and moody afterwards. So, I wanted to take control of my eating habits again, and had always wanted to try self hypnosis to see if it could help me gain that quiet inner strength and that little voice guiding me to make the right decisions, and quelling my appetite.

And it did. The first time I listened to the it I was, as instructed in a deeply relaxed state which was accomplished by following the hypnotist's instructions to take several deep breaths. The soothing voice was accompanied by what sounded like trance music, and I became so relaxed I actually dozed off (which she said was ok, in fact, expected).

I did it right before bed, and I woke up the next morning pretty much forgetting that I had listened to it. I went through my day without the usual cravings for sugar and high fat, high salt foods that usually litter my day at work due to stress or boredom with mundane tasks (can't we all identify with that).

I tend to have somewhat of an oral fixation, especially when at work, meaning that I like to always be chewing or sipping on something. But I noticed this overwhelming urge did not hit me, and instead I just sipped on my water and some hot tea, and only ate when I was truly hungry. Strangely enough, I didn't even have my usual mid-afternoon craving for chocolate.

Often times I'd be hitting up the candy machine for Peanut M&M's around that time, and the afternoon came and went without the urge to eat chocolate. I thought this was a major accomplishment for me, but I also wondered if it wasn't some of that "placebo effect" entering in.

Since I knew that I had listened to the hypnosis CD, was I actually "talking myself into" believing the hypnosis was cutting my appetite and shaping my food decisions as well as my intentions to work out?

Well, isn't that what hypnosis is - that is, a placebo effect in itself? I suppose it doesn't really matter, because the end result is that I saw a dramatic change in my eating habits, all seemingly without the pain of a constant internal struggle to not eat.

As far as the root cause of it, I really could care less. It accomplished the task of giving me a renewed sense of self control and eating to live, not living to eat, and that is all that matters in the end!

Danna Schneider is the cofounder of Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss, where there's more about the self hypnosis CD's mentioned in this article, and more about people's real experiences with hypnotherapy for losing weight. She also founded a new blog dedicated to fitness and exercise equipment reviews and discussions called Fitness Equipment Reviews : Treadmill Reviews : Elliptical Reviews, a blog about physical fitness and health.

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The Truth About Hypnosis Weight Loss Clinics

People tend to eat more during the highs and the lows in their lives. Some go out and celebrate when they get a promotion. Some people wolf down a whole gallon of ice cream by themselves when they're depressed. Over the course of your life, you will have accumulated all those unwanted pounds because of eating based on your emotions. Blame it all on your stressful environment, which makes you want to reach for your comfort foods all the time. A hypnosis weight loss clinic makes use of hypnosis to help prevent such binges.

What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis works by creating a different state of mind. Under hypnosis, you are highly focused and thus become responsive to whatever suggestions are being said, including how to change your behavior so that it helps you lose all that extra weight. Through the years, a number of studies evaluated hypnosis for weight loss. Majority got positive albeit modest results. However, because of different methodologies, it cannot be helped that some studies will be questioned. As a result, it becomes difficult to determine just how useful hypnosis can be.

As with any weight loss product or program, hypnosis doesn't provide you with a magical cure. Nonetheless, it cannot be discounted that hypnosis can be extremely helpful, most especially when it is combined with a healthy diet and regular exercise. Even without guaranteed results, going to a hypnosis weight loss clinic can prove to be beneficial for you. Hypnosis is safe and generally inexpensive. If anything, you can use it as an integration into your weight loss program.

What happens in a hypnosis weight loss clinic?
When you go to a hypnosis weight loss clinic, a therapist sits down with you to learn your eating habits and what triggers affect them. The therapist then makes use of techniques such as neuro-linguistic programming, regression, EFT, and various other hypnosis techniques to create a program customized for you. Through this program, you will be taught how to look at food in a different way.

The major difference between temporary and permanent weight loss is purely psychological. Enrolling in a hypnosis weight loss clinic will help you learn to think differently about how and what you eat. You will learn to identify and separate your emotions from what your emotions are. This way, what you gain from the program isn't dependent on just how strong your willpower is. Whatever you will gain comes from real and very much permanent changes in your mindset.

What hypnosis can do for you
First, hypnosis can help you achieve your weight loss goals by helping retrain your body not to need as much food. Your body might have been programmed to consume more food for a number of reasons. You may be eating more when you're bored. You may be eating more because it's part of socializing for you. You may be eating more during high stress situations in your life. You are eating not because your body needs it but because your body wants it. Eating for this reason is unhealthy and can cause health problems for you. Enrolling in a hypnosis weight loss clinic will help you learn how to eat for natural reasons again.

Second, hypnosis can help you achieve your weight loss goals by ensuring that you have energy to execute your exercise regimen. Without regular exercise, weight loss programs, no matter how powerful, are doomed to fail or become only partly effective. With regular exercise, you're not merely losing weight but you are essentially strengthening your body for a healthier you. Regular exercise helps you build muscle. With more muscle, you increase your metabolic rate, the rate at which you burn fat when at rest.

Finally, hypnosis allows you to get better sleep at night. If you get a good night's sleep, chances are you aren't tired and sluggish during the day. If you aren't tired and sluggish, you'd be spending more time doing activities other than sitting around, doing nothing because you are tired. Even though not in the form of actual exercise, being able to move around counts as physical activity that can help you achieve your weight loss goals. And apart from hypnosis, physical activity can also help you sleep better at night.

There are a number of hypnosis weight loss clinics to choose from. Visit a hypnosis weight loss clinic near you to find out if it will work for you.

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