Hypnosis for weight loss

Hypnosis for weight loss

        Many of us have rather vague and obscure ideas about what hypnosis actually is. Our perception and understanding of hypnosis is often influenced by how it is dealt with in movies. It has been a popular theme of Hollywood productions to portray hypnosis as something that people with bad intentions use to get control over other individuals and to use them to act on their behalf as if they were obsessed with the ideas of someone else. Often hypnosis is therefore understood as a dangerous tool, which is used to manipulate others. Such movies have left us fascinated about how much hypnosis can actually cause and many of us now believe that hypnosis is something to stay away from. However, there are also people who don’t believe that there is anything like hypnosis, classify it as sheer nonsense and consequently don’t believe that hypnosis can have any effect on us.

         The truth, however, is very different. Hypnosis is definitely something real. Its effects and mechanisms have been proofed and examined by a lot of researchers. Hypnosis is currently attracting more and more interest by researchers and by patients with very diverse types of problems. The term “hypnosis” originates from ancient Greek, in which it means as much as “sleep”.  Many researchers have found out more about hypnosis in a scientific manner over the last decades. Especially over the past few years, a lot of publications on researches have been made and hypnosis is dealt with scientifically for many different purposes. Hypnotherapy can be seen as one of the results of this scientific approach to hypnosis. It is now getting increasingly accepted for dealing with a number of situations and conditions of our lives.

         Hypnotherapy has become popular among many psychotherapists. It can be used as part of a therapy for treating various problems, diseases and issues of our lives, including anxiety, nervousness, depression, etc. Also psychosomatic conditions like certain skin diseases have been reported to be treatable with hypnotherapy. Also when it comes to assisting clients with their wish to lose weight, hypnotherapy is now getting increasingly accepted. Generally, hypnotherapy uses different approaches, but when it comes to assist with weight-related problems, analytical hypnotherapy is the main approach employed for treatment.

          The approach of analytical hypnotherapy suggests that eating too much is very often a result of situations, conditions or circumstances, which we are not conscious about. These may also be situations, conditions or circumstances, which we found ourselves in in the past and often do not actively or consciously remember anymore. Living with such situations, conditions or circumstances can cause us to develop unusual eating habits, which are not in line with the actual physical requirements for nutrition of our bodies. Because we are not aware of what causes us to eat more than we actually need to, we find it extremely difficult to give up our eating habits, even though we feel very uncomfortable about them and the results that they have on our bodies and our lives.

          Hypnotherapy thus aims to discover what makes us eat more than we actually need and once we get conscious about those reasons, we can work on changing our eating habits accordingly and then lose weight.

          Hypnotherapy is an approach that might eventually make you learn and understand more about yourself and also about all sorts of problems, which you have not been aware of previously. Becoming aware of your problems might also make you want to see a general psychologist for getting long-term advice and therapy. The results that you might get from doing hypnotherapy might thus be much more than you expected originally and they may reach far beyond reducing your weight.

          If you would like to try hypnosis for weight loss, it is absolutely essential to find a professional. This means that hypnotherapy is different to other options that you have for losing weight: When it comes to changing your diet, doing exercises, trying out new recipes, reducing the amount of fat and sugar that you consume, etc. you can do very much (or even everything) on your own. Hypnotherapy, however, is something that you definitely cannot do yourself. You should to talk to a doctor, who can refer you to a specially trained professional. A warning should be issued at this point: There are a lot of rather questionable individuals offering hypnosis services, for example on the internet. You should be very careful and not blindly trust them, but really try to find a professional therapist, who can offer reliable services with hypnotherapy to you. Obviously asking for help from your doctor, who might have treated many people with weight problems previously, is a good idea as he will probably have contacts to special clinics or other professionals, who are trustworthy.

We recommend you to try out hypnotherapy with a professional therapist and we wish you a lot of success!