Main menu:

 

Free Report

Are you suffering?
Read this free report
'Symptoms of Burnout'

Full Name

Email


Help Yourself ebook


Tips and strategies for getting your life back on track and loving life!

Click here for more details

Workshops

How to Lead the Life You Want
The next Workshop November 21, contact me to book your place.

Click here for more details

Categories

Subscribe

or to receive notification
of new articles by email,
enter your Email below


Powered by FeedBlitz

Search posts

Archive

Links

Why does Hypnosis work so well for losing weight?

Just the mere word “diet” implies something you do temporarily. So, you diet AGAINST your normal patterns of behaviour which are in your subconscious mind. You may lose a little weight, temporarily. But you see, because your subconscious mind likes to keep things consistent it will regulate your body to go back to that it was doing before the diet. Isn’t that true?

Your subconscious mind holds all your unconscious beliefs, beliefs you may not even know that you have. These are the beliefs that keep the weight on your body.

The subconscious is NOT a “bad guy”. Well, no one is really at fault when it comes to your weight. Your subconscious just does whatever it is programmed to do. It has received bad programming, through the suggestions it picks up through your five senses; hearing, seeing, taste, touch, smell. Plus your habits play a big role as do your emotions. So, no matter how hard you try to break a habit at a conscious level of mind, your subconscious mind is much more powerful and will win you over, eventually causing you to go back to what is considered “normal” for you.

This is definitely NOT because you are weak willed by any means. It is just the way our brains function best for us. For example: Let’s look at anything that you learn how to do. Eventually these things becomes a program, that is hard-wired into your subconscious mind, which frees up your conscious mind to do other things, primarily analyze, make decisions, and learn new things. Can you imagine if you had to rely on your conscious mind every time you need to remember how to drive your car, write a sentence, type, read a book, speak, or play sports? Remember when you first did these things? They were completely conscious endeavours. Now that they have formed into existing behaviour patterns within your subconscious mind, they are there for you, without even thinking about them.

Now, imagine un-learning these things! For example, a new language AND forgetting English at the same time (or your native tongue)!!! Or writing with your left hand if you’re right handed and visa versa. THIS is how hard it is to change your habits when it comes to food or weight or anything!

As mentioned earlier, it’s not that you are weak. It’s just the way your brain works and it’s really to your advantage that it works this way. Through hypnosis, we can speak directly to your subconscious mind and speed up the process of change by changing the programs. And even though your subconscious mind is 10 times more powerful than your conscious mind, it readily accepts new information when you bi-pass what we call the critical factor, which is what happens during hypnosis.
As you can see, in order to make true, permanent changes in your life, it is necessary to get your subconscious mind in agreement with what you want to accomplish… rather than fighting and struggling to work against it. Hypnosis will have you WANTING to eat the right kinds of foods. WANTING to drink more water. WANTING to exercise.

Now, sometimes and matter of fact in most cases of over or under weight, weight is usually a symptom rather than a cause. In hypnosis we can address the various causes. What diet can be more natural than a hypnosis diet?

Comments

Comment from NLP Gyan
Time: August 3, 2008, 8:26 pm

Nice article about NLP and weight loss.

Comment from NLP Edinburgh
Time: August 20, 2008, 11:55 am

Fantastic article - thank you!

Comment from NLP Info
Time: November 28, 2008, 7:17 pm

The Neuro-linguistic programming and weight loss is related to the belief that mind and body are parts of the same cybernetic system and they affect each other. Since they act as one and influence each other, healthy food in the mind and a slim beautiful self is automatically and with regular mid exercises, a slimmer and more beautiful body!

Comment from NLP Guy
Time: January 10, 2009, 10:55 am

Very nice article. Weight loss is a tough issue really. I believe the most recent statistic is that over 90% of those that lose weight, will eventually gain it back plus some. So I think the key is to understand that it’s not something that just a couple of sessions will take care of but that it’s a life long commitment to achieving greater and greater health as apposed to just losing weight.

One of the things that stood out most to me that was taught to me by my NLP Trainer is that if you want to change a behavioral pattern as challenging as overeating and “keep the change”, you’ve got to align it with your true purpose in life. Otherwise, statistically, even with hypnosis and nlp (even though they are incredible tools), most will fall back into their old habits.

Write a comment