Hypnosis For Weight Loss - A DIY Guide!

Lets be clear about this. What you do is controlled by your brain. The mind is in charge of the body. This is a simple concept that we all understand. When it comes to achieving goals however we can often be sidetracked into being concerned with external factors that we have little or no control over. Often people wanting to lose weight will blame their genetics, or their bone structure, or their hormones, or some other health factor that we have little control over. These are simply a distraction. In life we all have to work with what we have now, not how we wish things were. In fact, it is better to stop the 'blame game' entirely. Blaming ourselves, others, the world, etc. is most likely completely unproductive as well as draining and demotivating.

What is key is recognising that in order to achieve new goals we need to change our actions, and changing our actions can only be done by changing our mind.

Note that I am not just talking about changing what we think. Yes, this is important, but far more important is changing our subconscious drives. Our behaviour is directly driven by the emotional/subconscious mind. This fact was recognised by all the early psychiatrists and neurologists like Freud, Charcot and Jung.

Freud compared the mind to an iceberg with the smallest visible part compared to the conscious mind, and the deeper, larger, driving part of our mind being hidden beneath the surface.

Given that it is the subconscious mind that drives behaviour and that behavioural change is what is needed for new goals, how do we access that part of the mind?

Hypnosis. This is the key. Now hypnosis can be done formally with the help of a qualified hypnotherapist or you can use it yourself. There are several aspects of hypnosis that should be achieved:

1. Relaxation. This allows the 'critical facility' of the pre frontal cortex to be quietened. Slowing down the critical facility means that changes are more likely to be accepted into the deeper regions of the mind.

2. Visualisation/emotional recall. Purposefully triggering emotions or triggering visualisations that are connected with emotional states allows us to directly manipulate the emotional 'subconscious' mind.

3. Hypnotic suggestion. The best forms of suggestion, including hypnotic suggestion for weight loss, are done by a second party. Suggestions that are delievered by someone else are usually more effective than suggestions you give yourself. However autosuggestion (giving yourself suggestions) that you really can believe in is also effective.

Whether it is hypnosis for weight loss, hypnosis for depression, performance or motivation it doesn't really matter. Follow the simple steps below:

1. Relax in a comfortable position. It can be either sitting or lying. Then close your eyes.

2. Starting with your toes, clench and relax progressively every muscle group in your body until you reach the top of your head. As far as you can, focus on each muscle group. Especially notice the muscles in your abdomen.

3. As you release the muscles in your abdomen, take three slow deep breaths ensuring that your abdomen rises and falls. Do not breathe from your chest. This is the time to let it 'all hang out'.

4. Breathe normally and continue the relaxation process. Remember to clench and relax the shoulders, neck, upper arms, lower arms and hands.

5. Remember to relax the muscles of the face and jaw if necessary by clenching them first.

6. Mentally scan your body and re-relax any areas that you need to.

7. Introduce mental relaxation by imaging any worrying thoughts or nagging thoughts disappearing. You might like to image them floating away or disappearing into a mist or being breathed out with every out breath.

8. Visualise a favourite place. This can be a place from your memory or a place you can create in your imagination. It should be somewhere you feel relaxed and safe. Spend some time visualising each element that exists in this place - the floor, the walls, the view et cetera. Importantly also imagine the feeling of being there.

9. Recall the old feeling, the one you want to move away from. It could be a feeling of craving junk food, or it could be a feeling of dissatisfaction with a small meal, or it could be a feeling of anxiety that belies the secondary feelings. Think about what the feeling is that really drives your behaviours; then recall it. Just feel it for a few moments if you can, and now SWITCH as quickly as you can to a replacement feeling. The replacement feeling will be one of contentment, fullness, relaxation, achievement or success. Invoke a pleasant memory or imagined scenario to create the new emotion. Do this process a minimum of three times.

10. Recall any unhelpful 'old' thoughts. Replace them with a new, more helpful thoughts. For example replace 'It's OK to have one more' with 'I have the right to chose what I put in my body' or 'I am chosing to be in control'. Say the new thought to yourself and experience as much as possible the new feelings that are associated with this new, more balanced approach. You might imagine erasing the old thoughts by rubbing them off a chalk board. Do this a minimum of three times with each unhelpful thought you have identified.

11. Anchor the new feeling and thoughts by performing some movement like pressing together the thumb and forefinger. Alternatively you could pay extra attention to the relaxation in a specific part of your body. You could also recalling a piece of music or say a phrase in your mind that reminds you of this state.

12. Recall the old behaviour. Really imagine it as much as you can, like it was a scene on tv or a movie screen. Now imagine you had a rewind button. Hit rewind to get back to the beginning of the scene and then play events forward again, this time with the new behaviour. Again do this a minimum of three times.

13. Say to yourself 'this old problem is fading, every day I move further and further away from the old behaviours and old feeligns' 'I am creating a new destiny'.

14. When you are ready, gently come back to a normal state of awareness and open your eyes.

This whole process should take somewhere between about 10 and about 30 minutes.

When you have practised this a few times use the anchor that you created (the touch of the thumb and forefinger, or relaxation in part of your body or the phrase) whenever you need to feel and think the way that you planned. Make sure the thoughts and emotions are enough to overcome the situation; if they are not then you will need to practise the self hypnosis more often or get professional help.

I recommend that you practice this procedure around once a day for a week and then about once or twice a week until you are confident that the new thoughts, feelings and behaviour are firmly installed.

Changing your thoughts, feelings and actions through hypnosis is easy once you have practiced it a few times.

Best wishes in achieving your full potential!

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A Guide To Hypnosis

When the subject of hypnosis comes up many picture people on stage crowing like chickens, barking like dogs, and many other humiliating activities. They picture people whose minds are under the complete control and mercy of the hypnotist. This makes them afraid to take advantage of this great tool that could improve their lives.

First, you do not give your mind over to the hypnotist, in fact you won't do anything while in a hypnotic trance that you wouldn't do under normal waking conditions. With that out of the way you need to look at the many benefits of hypnosis. Often miraculous cures are effected for those who undergo the technique by enlisting the help of their subconscious minds to give their bodies a tune up from the inside. Hypnosis has helped people succeed with their goals, lose weight, quit smoking without side effects, boosted confidence, eliminate phobias, reduce stress, clear IBS, and many other conditions.

Can I Be Hypnotized?

It is unusual to find a person who cannot be hypnotized or effect self-hypnosis. The only documented cases of failure to reach the hypnotic state have been with mentally ill patients, those with extremely low IQ's, and people who really didn't want to be hypnotized and resisted.

What Is A Hypnotic Trance?

A hypnotic state is not that unusual of a condition. Many of us naturally go into and out of the state during our normal waking. It happens a lot when people drive and shift into auto pilot arriving at their destination and not really remembering the trip. The same thing happens when you become absorbed in a book or TV program. You tune out all else. Thus the hypnotic state is not that unusual. The state can be detected by monitoring brain waves. You will first pass through the alpha state, this is the brain wave frequency that is the entry point to the altered state that is hypnosis. The main thing to note is higher frequency brain waves are reduced as normal waking brain activity is quieted.

What Does Hypnosis Feel Like

The usual method of entering hypnosis is to relax so it is no surprise that you will feel very relaxed while in hypnosis. Being in hypnosis is a very pleasant state and most people remain aware of things going on around them, they also know that they still have control, they have not surrendered their minds to the evil hypnotist.

Is Hypnosis Dangerous?

As pointed out above, hypnosis is a natural state that we go into and out of without ever knowing what it is. In fact it is so safe that the American Medical Association describes it as safe with no harmful side effects. There are no cases of anyone ever being hurt by hypnosis.

Will I Be Made To Do Things Against My Will?

This just cannot happen. While your conscious mind is relaxed it is still in control, still hearing everything going on. Since it is the seat of determining what is right and wrong it will protect you. You cannot hypnotize your girlfriend and get her to remove her clothes unless that is what she already wants to do. Likewise you cannot be hypnotised and made to do a criminal act unless you want to. People can still lie to protect themselves while in a trance and you cannot be made to act like a chicken unless it is something you want to do.

What Are The Benefits Of Hypnosis?

Hypnosis can be used to effect positive changes in a persons life. This happens because under hypnosis the subconscious and conscious minds cooperate in ways unimaginable to people who have never experienced it. Relaxing the body and mind all by itself has a positive and therapeutic effect on a person but things go well beyond that. A wide variety of conditions have been cleared up by using hypnosis. Skin conditions, addictions, weight loss, IBD, and quitting smoking are commonly conditions that are cleared with hypnosis.

Hypnosis is also great at helping you achieve your goals it makes them more compelling by bridging the gap between your head and your heart. When you tie your emotions to the outcome you seek by this method you dramatically increase your chances of success. Suggestions of the goal or change that you are seeking are simply dropped into your subconscious during a session and upon awakening you will find your conscious mind right there with you and carrying out your goals.

Hypnosis is the ultimate tool for positive life change. You create your script for life in the form of positively phrased and very clear suggestions and then pass them to your subconscious while in the hypnotic state. This state can be entered with the help of a hypnotist or you can do it yourself by what is known as self-hypnosis. Start using hypnosis today and gain these great benefits in your life.

Mike Griffin is a hypnosis expert. For more great information on using hypnosis to improve your life in ways such as weight loss and hypnosis click the link, or just visit http://www.howtohypnotizeyourself.net/.

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