“Dramatic Weight Loss Using Hypnosis is a Breeze...”
This is what 142 people said after achieving significant weight loss using hypnosis in a 8-week study, in which a total of 292 overweight people participated.
They’ve been separated into two groups, one used hypnosis for weight loss, while the other used only conventional weight loss diets.
The net result?
After 8 weeks, the hypnosis group lost an average of 16.5 pounds more than the dieting group!
Even more interesting is that the hypnosis group continued to release weight (or maintained the ideal weight) in the 2-year follow up.
If you'd like to know more details before deciding whether to use hypnotherapy or not, you are not alone. Many people have justified questions about weight loss using hypnosis - here are the answers to the most frequently asked.
Weight Loss Using Hypnosis FAQ
Q: Why is hypnosis effective in weight loss?
A: That's because hypnotherapy addresses the cause of your weight problem: emotional eating.
NO diet does this.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (January 2005 issue), even the most sophisticated weight loss programs don't work in the long run. However, weight loss using hypnosis succeeds where conventional diets fail.
Why?
Because it addresses your eating habits and self image issues at the core level (your subconscious mind), changing the way you think about food and the way you see and think about yourself subconsciously.
Q: What does my subconscious have to do with losing weight?
A: Your subconscious is the part of your mind that controls your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It holds your deepest beliefs. If subconsciously you think that losing weight is hard or that it doesn't last, you always end up rationalizing why you don't exercise and why all diets fail you. That's where weight loss hypnosis comes in to help. The hypnosis instructions access directly the subconscious mind overwriting the faulty beliefs and setting up new, supporting ones.
Q: So how does weight loss using hypnosis occur, exactly?
A: Well, whether you overeat, resist exercising, or crave unhealthy foods - carefully crafted hypnosis instructions help you distinguish between emotional hunger and real hunger. All of the sudden, you have the tool to deal with this so you can focus on living a healthier, more satisfying life.
Used regularly for a few weeks, the specific hypnosis instructions change the way you look at food, at exercising, and at yourself.
You stop craving sweets or fatty foods and binge eating. You start eating in the same manner as naturally thin people do.
The hypnosis suggestions sink deeply into your subconscious mind creating a new, healthier self-image. As a result, you begin acting according to what you now believe is true.
And rest assured, you will not accept suggestions or commands that are against your core values or that may be detrimental to yourself or others.
Q: How many pounds can I lose safely with hypnosis?
A: Whether you have an excess of 10, 20, 50 or 100 pounds, achieving your goal of weight loss using hypnosis is much easier.
Why?
Simply because hypnosis helps you change how you interact with food, eliminate your cravings, find the motivation to eat healthy foods, enjoy exercising, create a positive self image and stop self sabotage.
Q: When have hypnosis started to be used as an aid in weight loss?
A: You should know that the idea of weight loss using hypnosis didn't appear out of the blue. Hypnotic trances have been used since ancient times - in Greek mythology, Hypnos was the god of sleep.
For example, Babylonians used hypnosis techniques for pain relief, Egyptians used it in their dream temples, Indian yogis and shamans used self-hypnosis as a pain-control tool, for meditation and as a spiritual ritual.
Although hypnosis is often speculated and shrouded in superstition, today this potent alternative therapeutic tool is used with great success in many fields: medicine, peak performance, self-development, sales, stress management, creative writing, even police work.
Many problematic issues are helped by hypnosis - weight loss is just one of them.
Actually, weight loss using hypnosis is so effective, that both the American and the British Medical Associations have approved it. AMA approved hypnosis in 1958 and recognized it "as a useful method to deal with stress-related problems, like overeating".
Q: When it comes to effectiveness and cost, what's the difference between therapist-assisted sessions and self hypnosis for weight loss?
A: A therapist-assisted session is customized to your own issues, hence you need less sessions, less often. However, to achieve lasting results, you must go to at least 8-10 weekly sessions. Considering that a session is anywhere between $160 and $250 or more (depending on the therapist's credentials and clientele), the cost is prohibitive for many people.
As a much affordable option (and to reach a larger audience), many successful therapists developed effective hypnosis audios using various types of hypnosis instructions and techniques: NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), guided imagery for emotional healing, subliminal hypnosis instructions, Ericksonian hypnosis, advanced brainwave technology - all powerful ways to re-pattern your subconscious thoughts and beliefs.
So nowadays you don't need to spend thousands going to a therapist's office. Just get the right program for you, put on headphones and listen to the hypnosis instructions repeatedly at home, at work or even in your sleep.
Q: What's the difference between the techniques you've described above?
A: Well, various hypnosis techniques are more or less effective depending on the root cause of your overweight problem and on your personality.
Achieving weight loss using hypnosis is not only possible, but easier than you've ever thought previously when you use the hypnosis technique appropriate for your specific situation - here's how to figure out what type of hypnosis instructions will work for you >>
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