You can lose weight - if you get your mind right!
Or to be accurate, if you access your Right Mind!
I have seen several clients who follow – according to them – a healthy eating plan, and work with a personal trainer in a gym for many hours, over many months… and still don’t lose weight. Some don’t even seem to lose inches.
People often want to come for a quick-fix Hypnosis session. They ask if Hypnosis can help, meaning: Will you be able to make me unconscious for 30 minutes and do something so that I can wake up with some magic power to lose a ton of weight overnight without any effort and keep it off for good while I instantly lose all my old habits that caused me to gain the weight in the first place…?
You know, sometimes this type of hypnosis actually occurs. Generally, though, there can be many obstacles. For instance, if trauma caused the need to have a big body, or an un-sexy body [etc.], it is usually necessary to de-brief the trauma first. While techniques like EMDR [see my web site – link below] work amazingly fast and effectively, de-briefing of long-term or chronic traumatic stress [like sexual or physical abuse over months or years] may still take many months.
It is often very hard for people whose trust have been betrayed, to trust the Letting-go process of hypnosis also. Of course there are some clever techniques - especially in Ericksonian hypnosis [see my web site] that can bypass resistance, but it’s usually not realistic to expect a quick fix cure with something like persistent obesity.
Notice how hard it is for some smokers to give up smoking, even with the aid of hypnosis… And we can live without cigarettes. That means that even when we are able to remove strong trigger stimuli, a compulsive behaviour may be hard to change. So when the stimulus [food] cannot ever be completely removed, the process may be very difficult.
What I have seen, is how using Law of Attraction [LOA] principles can create a shift in the type of stuckness in weight problems as described at the top of this article. That is most helpful, especially when combined with EMDR and ego-strengthening hypnosis.
There are many free resources that can teach you basic LOA approaches.
If you’d like to read a quick eBook that summarises some of the most effective ways to change your mind in order to access success in health [or anything else], and specifically in weight loss, you can sign up for the Selfgrow monthly newsletter.
Every edition has psychological or life skills information and tips, and when you sign up, you can also download the free eBook Spiritual Dieting.
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Getting into the Right Mind is essential for productive change.
Keep focussing on growth and improving your mental and physical health: You’re worth it!
