Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Hypnotherapy, Weight Loss & Eating Disorders

Hypnotherapy can help weight control in many different ways, including helping with obesity, anorexia and bulimia. Therapists usually start to help the client by improving their self-esteem and boosting their confidence. In the typical case of obesity the majority (95%) of people who diet often put the weight straight back on after stopping the diet, and usually more weight is gained in the process.

Weight loss is achieved more rapidly with hypnosis. Hypnotherapy can help you access and overcome your subconscious mind’s reasons for weight gain. The reason for people having problems with dieting is often because will power is used and will power is the result of the conscious mind. However, it is not your conscious mind that is in control, it is your unconsciousness, with all its past experiences, which is the reason for your behaviour. Hypnosis can help as it alters your subconscious reasons.

With Anorexia, the major trouble is that it doesn’t make you feel like you have a problem. You continue to feel in control of your weight and the food you eat and may even feel anxious if changes occur.

Being anorexic makes you feel unhappy and you know this, but in your mind you would rather be unhappy than put on weight, as that’s one thing your trying to steer clear of - and that is where Hypnotherapy can help you. You probably feel anxious most of the time and your self-esteem may be very low, which means that you don't feel that great about yourself. Hypnotherapy helps as it makes you feel more confident and more relaxed and also more in control as well as helping you to gain more self-esteem and self-respect.

Bulimia is an eating disorder where the client will binge on food and vomit afterwards. This is another situation where self-esteem will be low and you may have low confidence. Hypnotherapy can help bulimia, by giving suggestions to stop binge eating as well as also helping with levels of anxiety.

A Hypnotherapist will identify and discuss with a client the triggers of bulimia, which includes, loneliness, anger, personal life, depression and self-esteem. Hypnotherapists will also increase the client’s levels of confidence and self-esteem.

Whatever difficulties you are having with eating, therapy CAN help.

For more help see: http://www.tombarber.co.uk/uses_for_hypnotherapy.htm

Bye for now,

Tom.
www.tombarber.co.uk

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