Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss

Hypnotherapy is one of the best tools that can be used to change behaviours and to help lose weight. But how?

There are many misconceptions surrounding hypnosis, but there is a big difference between stage hypnosis and visiting a clinical hypnotherapist to help implement change within your life.  Clinical hypnotherapy is a guided programme where the person being hypnotised is always in control. It takes a person into a highly relaxed and focused state. This heightened sense of focus allows their mind to be more open to change at a deeper level.

In order to reach this relaxed state, the hypnotherapist will use therapeutic words and phrases to guide and create visualisations in order to move from an awake state into an alternated state of consciousness. Once that relaxed state has been achieved then the change work can begin.

Changing our behaviours is hard especially when it comes to food and drink and relying on the thing, we like to call will power is setting ourselves up for failure. Lasting change can't simply occur by telling our conscious mind what we don’t want anymore. We must look to speak to the unconscious mind (as that’s what's really running the show). We do that by achieving that relaxed state, as you are then able to reach your inner resources that just aren't accessible when fully conscious and distracted by day-to-day tasks.

When it comes to weight loss, hypnotherapy can facilitate change in all of these areas:

1 – What your core reasons for wanted weight loss truly are and from that you can build on visualisations;

2 – How to change unhealthy thinking into healthy thinking e.g “There are biscuits in the house and I just need to eat them all so they are gone” into “I am satisfied with 2 biscuits”;

3 – Creating an intelligent relationship with food and exercise;

4 – Stopping emotional, boredom and stress eating by rewiring emotional responses to these triggers;

5 – Be trained in self-hypnosis to have a carry around tool kit that can be used to change perspective and behaviour in any aspects of life.

Alongside a healthy food and exercise plan, hypnotherapy is the missing piece of the puzzle that gives us the best possible chance of having the body and mindset we have always craved. If you are interested in hypnotherapy for weight loss, you can make an appointment with our Clinical Hypnotherapist Bethan. You can book via our website or call 01332 862922.