Will Autosuggestion Really Suppress My Appetite?

Posthypnotic suggestion, thanks to TV and movies, the very word conjures up the impression of a hawk-eyed hypnotherapist swinging a pendulum repeating, "You are getting sleepy."

Use any search engine, and you will find hundreds of thousands of web pages devoted to the topic, especially weight loss hypnosis. Unfortunately, many websites that sell hypnosis tapes for weight loss make wild, unsubstantiated postulations. Since 1978, I've been in professional practice. So I think that I'm more than competent to set the record straight on weight loss hypnosis.

First of all, self-hypnosis is a tool, just like a scalpel is a tool. Just as assorted surgeons have varying skill levels in the use of a scalpel, varied hypnotists have noteworthy skill levels in the use of hypnosis for weight loss. And to complicate the matter, there are many novel forms of posthypnotic suggestion.

Here are some of the ridiculous suppositions about weight loss hypnosis that I've seen on websites, along with the truth of the matter:

"Hypnosis for weight loss will speed up your metabolism." If you want to know the facts, the fact of the matter is that weight loss hypnosis can't speed up your metabolism. But it can be very feasible at helping to program your unconscious with increased motivation to exercise, and exercise will increase your metabolic rate. Similarly, autosuggestion to speed up the metabolism for quick weight loss can be effected by programming the subconscious to motivate the intake of increased amounts of protein, because that intake will step up the metabolic rate.

Hypnotism will make you become thinner. This is false. But weight loss hypnosis can be used to help discard your appetite, so that you eat less, and eating less can help you to shed some weight.

Your cravings and urges are caused by two unconscious programs:
A. When you pair eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for food and an urge to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example, if you eat while you drive, you will automatically get an urge to eat each time you drive your car.

B. When you feel tense, you feel a strong urge to put food into your mouth for relaxation. This is the result of training that you received as a baby. When you got uneasy, your mom put a bottle in your mouth. You got distracted, relaxed, and probably fell asleep. Now when you get cranky (anxious or tense), you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure.

C. There is a third subconscious program that is present for some people. It's called emotional eating. Emotional eating takes place when a hypnotic subject is motivated to make him or herself fat, because by being fat they will protect themselves in some way.

For example, if a subject got their heart broken in a relationship, their subconscious might force them into a behavior that would prevent them from getting their heart broken again. Example: They are motivated to gain weight to keep them out of another relationship, because that will clean out the possibility of another broken heart.

D. I have written articles on hypnosis for weight loss and emotional eating that are available on my website. There are some powerful and effective ways to use hypnosis to overcome emotional eating.

There are some effective and powerful ways to use posthypnotic suggestion to reduce or overcome emotional eating. So just how can weight loss posthypnotic suggestion fix the above problems? Let's cover them one at a time.

In paragraph "A" above: Conditioned responses can be "wiped out" without effort using an approach that I call the "Flash." The flash programs the mind to setup new triggers. In the above example, the subject had unconsciously linked the impression of food in the hand, with the TV. Each time he / she sat down to watch the TV, the unconscious mind filled in the missing part of the depiction: It "Flashed" the depiction of the food in the hand, and the subject felt a craving, and an compulsion to eat.

The Flash is a method that allows us to program the subconscious to use the picture of the TV as a trigger for a mental image of yourself watching TV without eating. When we lose the mental impression of the food, we lose the cravings.

When we momentarily disassociate (see ourselves from the point of view that someone else would), we are not able to sense our feelings (cravings and urges).

When we see ourselves participating in a behavior (watching TV without eating), we feel a strong urge to generate that behavior. So the subject loses the cravings, and actually gets a compulsion to reject food.

In paragraph "B" above: The subject is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure. We teach the subject self-hypnosis for weight loss, because the very essence of the hypnotic state is deep relaxation.

And we utilize the "Flash" to program the unconscious to use the mental pictures that are triggering feelings of worry and affliction, as triggers for secondary mental pictures and thoughts that will trigger the relaxation response. When the subject feels more relaxed overall, oral cravings are greatly diminished.

In paragraph "C" above: We discussed emotional eating which makes the person overweight. The "behavior" of being overweight then provides some sort of emotional protection. So we use a avenue called an NLP Six-Step Reframe, which programs the unconscious to be responsible for making the subject automatically substitute some other more acceptable behavior that will provide the same emotional protection, in place of being overweight. And that reframe will clean out the compulsion to eat for emotional purposes.

Self-hypnosis for weight loss can be a very effective method. I can only uncover the tip of the iceberg in this short tale. Please see my website for more comprehensive articles and information.

(c) 2007 by Alan B. Densky, CH. This article may be reproduced on your website as long as you retain all clickable links contained within.

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Alan B. Densky, CH began his NLP and hypnosis practice in Feb. 1978. He is the creator of Neuro-VISION quit smoking hypnosis & appetite suppression video hypnosis, which garnered a US Patent because of its effectiveness. Go to www.Neuro-VISION.us to receive a Free hypnotic power relaxation MP3.

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