Diet with Hypnotherapy

Mid morning. Roberta stands in front of the refrigerator struggling with herself. Eat the cake. Don't eat the cake. Eat the cake, maybe just a little piece. She gives in and begins eating until half the cake is gone. Thinking she has ruined the whole day anyway, she rationalizes hat she may as well finish the rest and start on her diet tomorrow. Sound familiar?

At this point Roberta is thinking in blocks of time - a day, a week, or even a month. What would happen if we were able to let go of that type of programming? What if we were able to let go of the guilt from the big breakfast we ate as we sit down to lunch? Or the anxiety of anticipation of dinner, seen in the context of a day?

When you consider that you will eat approximately 80,000 meals and 50,000 snacks over the period of a lifetime, this is a staggering number of eating events to cope with.

The good news is that it can be easy when you change your subconscious programming.

Here's a tip on how to start: begin to think of each eating event as unique and separate event on a continuous chain - on a timeline. There is no before and there is no after. Once you have completed a meal, it's over forever. The next one is a brand new opportunity to nourish yourself successfully, both physically and mentally. When you begin to look at your eating in this way, you become free of the emotional burden you may be carrying around that sabotages even your best efforts at control. There is no more waiting for tomorrow to start again.

The same concept works with letting go of pounds. Need to lose 20 pounds? That's a daunting task! But as you let go of one pound, it's gone. Now you need to let go of one pound again. Anyone can let go of just one pound, right? You will repeat this process for the number of times you desire, but the task becomes doable with your new perspective.

How do we knock down the barriers that hold us back? How can we reprogram our internal, subconscious life script that seems to take us in every direction but the one we really want to go in? The ideal way is through hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis allows direct access to the subconscious mind, where your beliefs systems reside. Desired changes are easy when you conscious and subconscious work together. Associations lodged in the subconscious can be altered. This allows or changes in behavior and thinking - often immediate. Food or situation triggers, which might send you off on an eating spree, are desensitized in this manner as well.

Based on the timeline perspective, using hypnosis, your subconscious is being programmed to eat the first and only meal over and over again. It's the only one that counts. When you are able to view eating in this way, and believe it, each meal becomes a pleasant opportunity for success and control.

In addition, hypnotherapy is an excellent tool for relieving fear and phobias, stress, anxiety - all factors affecting health. More reasons one might decide to go to a hypnotherapist include motivation in school or career, performance enhancement in sports and exam taking, and even pain management.

While they are not licensed by the state of California, hypnotherapists often work through referrals by medical health professionals, coordinating treatment for clients.

The actual therapeutic session is a wonderfully relaxing and positive experience as you drift gently into the sate of hypnotic relaxation. People often mistakenly believe that they will be unconscious or out of control. Ever driven home and have no memory of how you got there? Ever been so involved in a movie that you don't hear knocking on the door? Then you've been hypnotized.

In fact, the hypnotic state is one of hyper awareness and a client will never do something they would not willingly do in a conscious state. The best way to think of it is the same state as the transitional moments before falling asleep at night.

Something you can do just before going to sleep is to relax comfortably and visualize a line - a timeline - in front of you with thousands of dots on it equally spread out. See how it is a continuous chain with no beginning and no end. Take in a few deep breaths and concentrate on relaxing all the muscles in your body.

Let your mind clear and now repeat silently to yourself that you are focusing on eating on the timeline, just dealing with one meal at a time. No past, no future. Think about this and what it means to you. You will begin freeing yourself of old perspectives and develop new ones.

Hypnosis : The Explanation of its Power

Hypnosis is an effective means to change bad habits into good ones, negative feelings into positive ones while still being easy and enjoyable. Hypnosis works because of the way the human brain works. All emotion, beliefs and habits are kept in the subconscious mind. Hypnosis provides a direct link to our subconscious thus allowing us to manipulate our habits and replace negatives with positive beliefs.

Many of us think of hypnosis as something similar to "deep sleep", but in reality it is more complex than that. Under hypnosis you are in a comfortable and relaxed state that focuses your concentration and attention, bypassing the filters of your conscious mind. Getting past these filters is what allows the subconscious mind to be receptive to positive suggestions and taps into the powerful mind-body connection. Experiencing a heightened state of awareness is common to most people while hypnotized, while approximately ten percent of people will become so relaxed that they do not remember the session.

Hypnosis is not always the result of one person hypnotizing another, or even someone hypnotizing themselves. Everyone experiences natural hypnotic states at least twice a day, right before falling asleep and immediately after waking. Many people will also enter a natural hypnotic state while driving, often called "highway hypnosis". In fact, natural hypnosis may occur anytime you become complete absorbed in an activity such as reading a book or watching a movie. Everything else seems to get blocked out, even to the point of not hearing people talk to you. Whenever concentration is intense, natural hypnotic states are easy to slip into.

Hypnosis, and hypnotherapy, are not new. Hypnosis is known to have been used by the Egyptians in sleep temples as well as by the Greeks as an important part of the healing treatments. In modern times, the use of hypnosis came back with the work of Franz Mesmer, an Austrian physician in the 1700's. It was later brought to the medical arena in the 1800's by Dr. James Braid working in hypnoanesthesia. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy was also used as an effective and rapid treatment of post-traumatic stress disorders following both World Wars and the Korean War.

Since 1958, the American Medical Association has approved of hypnosis as an effective treatment and recommends that training be included in medical school curriculum. It is also recogized as a Complimentary and Alternative Medicine treatment modality by the National Institute of Health which continues to fund research in the feild of hypnosis.

While hypnosis is publicly best known for helping people break bad habits such as smoking and in the area of weight loss, researchers have also shown dramatic results in other areas. Areas that hypnotherapy has shined is as an adjunct to conventional treatments for cancer and for pain management. It is also known that hypnosis will often help in reducing and managing stress, overcoming insomnia, building self-esteem, and even improving performance on tests or in sports.

There are not many people who do not have habits or feelings that we would like to change. Unfortunately, it generally seems that nothing we do makes a lasting difference. It is not a flaw in our decision making or lack a will power, but rather a result of how our brains work. Hypnosis is the tool that unlocks the subconscious mind so that our conscious decisions to change are carried out in our day to day lives.