What Everybody Ought To Know - About Hypnosis and Weight Loss

Authored By Valerie Slaughter

What the heck does hypnosis have to do with weight loss? Do images of a
night club act come to mind? Someone "barking like a dog" on stage and
doing whatever the magician (hypnosist) says?

Whatever your impression of hypnosis may be, you may be surprised to
learn that as an alternative treatment for everthing from pain to stop
smoking to weight loss, hypnosis is being used in medical institutions
to help manage these conditions.

According to Jean Fain, a psychologist who uses hypnosis at Harvard Medical School's Cambridge Hospital, "The country is getting fatter and
fatter, so different weight loss methods are getting more attention."

O.K.. how does hypnosis work? First, you must remember that no one can
make you do something that is against your will. Alternatively,
hypnosis can help you master your own states of awareness and can
affect your own bodily functions and psychologial responses.

According to Gary Montgomery, president of the Society of Psychological
Hypnosis and Division of American Psychological Association, the
hypnotic state is defined as a state of focused concentration, much
like being so absorbed in a good book that the outside world seems to
fade away. During this state, you become more open to suggestions.

Much like the way televsision plays upon your need for food and to lose
weight. Constantly repeating the theme of looking thin, being wealthy.
popular and fit, drives their message into your subconscious while you
are watching the television.

Proof of this effect can be seen when you sit in front of your
television and start munching and are unaware, until later, how much
you had eaten. This is a hypnotic state! Or what about sitting at a
red light? So, when you are in a "trance" or deep concentration, you
are unusally responsive to a suggestion or image.

How many times have you watched television and an ad for a hamburger
comes on and you then become hungry? Or after watching an ad for a
weight loss product, you start to feel guilty for your weight. This
combination of consumption of juck food and dieting creates guilt and,
believe it or not, excess weight.

Hypnosis can help you create your own defense against this constant
bombardment of television, newspaper and radio ads. By learning the
technique of positive self-hypnosis, you may actually counter all of
this negative feedback.

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