With cold, wintry days ahead for a lot of us, the prospect of braving the weather to get to the gym or go for a jog doesn’t sound very appealing. Keeping the motivation to adhere to your weight loss goals when the rest of the world wants to hibernate is effortless with self-hypnosis for weight loss.
Most people who are trying to get back into shape agree that motivation is especially challenging when the weather changes, so what if you could stay committed to your diet and exercise plan just by watching a hypnotherapy weight loss DVD or listening to a CD? Even better, a hypnotherapy weight loss program can diminish your cravings too.
Hypnotherapy for weight loss works simply, but effectively, by guiding you to a deeply relaxed state where your unconscious can more readily accept post-hypnotic suggestions, like the ones that will keep you motivated to keep on your fitness track, even in the middle of winter.
It is a fact that if a person exercises, it will speed up his/her metabolism and boost the rate that weight is dropped. Some of the most successful hypnosis exercise motivation techniques comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. With NLP, the unconscious mind is programmed to use the same thought processes that are creating a problem, to eliminate it. Said another way, the same thought processes that the unconscious mind utilizes to create cravings and oral compulsions could be used to completely eliminate them! And similarly, the same processes can be used to increase your motivation to exercise.
Anchoring is an NLP method that can be used to give you a “switch” for triggering behaviors and feelings. Creating an appetite suppression hypnotherapy anchor works simply and effectively like this: A qualified hypnotherapy weight loss professional will safely direct you into a tranquil hypnotic state. Then the hypnotherapist will ask you to recall a time when you were happy and excited about anything in your life.
The point of this exercise is to remember and re-experience as many sensations as you can from various times in your life when you felt motivated and eager to do anything you wanted to. Then, the hypnotherapist will ask you to anchor those feelings by simply touching two fingers together.
Next, you will be asked to visualize yourself exercising and enjoying it. As you establish this mental image, you’ll trigger your anchor by touching those two fingers together again. When you complete this action, your unconscious will connect the feeling of excitement and eagerness from the other memory to the thought of exercising.
From that point on, any time you wish to feel motivated to exercise, you can simply trigger your anchor and re-experience those same affirmative feelings that will motivate you to workout. NLP and weight loss hypnosis can even be helpful to discourage behaviors, so you can easily beat cravings. That sounds much easier and encouraging than beating yourself up for missing a workout or giving into temptation, doesn’t it?
A successful weight loss hypnosis program will also address the root cause of weight gain for many people, namely a lack of self-esteem. In a relaxed state, you can receive post-hypnotic suggestions that will build your self-esteem as you lose more weight. A self-esteem deficiency is a big part of being overweight.
Many people wonder if, after trying every new diet and buying every exercise implement on the market, something as straight forward as weight loss hypnosis can work for them. The good news is that it has been found that all normal people are hypnotizable to a greater or lesser extent. However, it is important to note that people with less than a 70 I.Q. or those who are in an active state of psychosis or with senility usually are not hypnotizable.
But for the rest of us, hypnotherapy for weight loss can actually make us look forward to working out and eating healthily. That said, the key proponent for victory in any fitness routine, whether it incorporates weight loss hypnosis or not, is wanting to attain your weight loss goals.
On a related note, that is precisely why you can not force someone to undergo weight loss hypnotherapy just by giving them suggestions. If someone is opposed to an idea, no amount of weight loss hypnosis they hear or see will take hold. Looking to the NLP explanation above, if someone does not have a memory of feeling motivated or positive, they can still be successful with hypnotherapy and NLP because they can imagine what it would feel like if they did feel that way, and anchor the imagined feelings.
So, if you’re like many of us and find your drive diminishing as the temperatures drop and the days get darker, weight loss hypnosis can assist you to regain (or maintain) your eagerness for carrying out and finally achieving your fitness aspirations.
Alan B. Densky, CH is a pioneer in the use of Video hypnosis appetite suppression. His Neuro-VISION technology was awarded a US Patent partially because of effectiveness. He offers quite a few effective diet hypnotherapy for weight loss programs. His site also offers lose weight hypnosis MP3 downloads.
