Quick Weight Loss Secrets Using Hypnosis

Research at Tufts-New England Medical Center has provided proof that all of the popular diets are effective when a person can stick to them. Atkins - low carb; The Zone - low glycemic index; Ornish - low fat; Weight Watchers - low calorie.

But medical researchers have provided convincing evidence that only a very small percentage of people can stick to any diet because of his or her appetite. So to be successful with a diet, hypnosis for weight loss can be quite helpful.

The Dictionary defines "Appetite" as: "The desire for gratification of some want, craving, or passion." So "appetite" is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure.

Many people confuse appetite with hunger. Hunger is defined as "The body's call for nourishment." In other words, when the body needs food, that's when you feel bona fide hunger. By that designation, it is practically impossible for anyone to "be hungry" if they are overweight.

However, it is possible for you to have feelings that you interpret as "hunger." And the stomach contracting in expectation of being fed causes those feelings.

When you were a toddler and you got cranky, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become calmer and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated thousands of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are an adult, if you feel nervous or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - food!

People Also Get Cravings and Urges Because Of Conditioning.

When you connect eating with any other action, the other behavior will trigger cravings for food and an urge to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you eat when you talk on the phone, you will get an urge to eat every time that you talk on the phone.

What About Compulsive Overeaters Who Eat Because Of Emotional Reasons?

The dictionary defines a compulsion as an "irresistible impulse." One of the presuppositions of NLP is: There is a positive intention behind all behaviors. In other words, our unconscious mind will only motivate us into behaviors that benefit or protect us in some way. So in NLP terms, being fat is a behavior when it provides a positive outcome for us.

You must be wondering what the positive outcomes of being fat are. The list of probabilities is as long as the list of people who are grossly overweight. But I'll give you a classic example: A person gets their heart broken in a relationship. So to protect the self from getting the heart broken again, the unconscious motivates the self to get fat to keep the self out of relationships and prevent another broken heart.

A big secret to getting rid of your appetite is called reframing. With an NLP six-step reframe, we respect the fact that the mind is pushing us to consume food for relaxation and pleasure. And if we are eating compulsively because being fat is protecting us, we respect that also.

In an NLP reframe we compromise with our unconscious mind. In the scenario of eating for relaxation and pleasure, we ask our subconscious to assume the responsibility for substituting some other behaviors. The substituted behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same relaxation and pleasure. But they must also be more acceptable to us on a conscious level. When the unconscious mind is motivating us into alternate behaviors that provide the relaxation and pleasure that we require - we lose our appetite on this score.

If you are a compulsive eater we do an additional reframe. We ask your unconscious to assume the responsibility for finding and substituting new behaviors in place of being fat. These new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same benefits and protections. But they must be behaviors that are more consciously acceptable to you. When your unconscious mind is motivating you into alternate behaviors that provide the same protections that you require, you lose the urges to overeat.

As far as feeling cravings because of conditioning (conditioned responses), we utilize various NLP and hypnotic techniques that erase those conditioned responses. That breaks the connection between the behaviors, and eliminates the cravings and urges.

As soon as your appetite has been eliminated and all of your compulsions to overeat have been dealt with, you can stick to any diet of your choosing indefinitely so that it becomes a permanent lifestyle change.

Appetite suppression and compulsive eating can be a very complex topic. I can only broach the surface of it in this article. You can read several additional articles on this topic on my website.

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Alan B. Densky, CH opened his practice since 1978. His specialty is Ericksonian hypnosis & NLP CD's for appetite control, and Video NLP/hypnosis for appetite suppression. He also offers a wide variety of NLP & hypnosis CD's & DVD's for a broad range of other topics and can be reached through his Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis website at http://www.neuro-vision.us/