Weight Loss

 

Is maintaining a comfortable weight a struggle for you? Is your life a constant see-saw of weight gain, weight loss, weight gain? Have you tried most of the fad diets?  Hypnosis may be your answer because it works at a mind level, not a mouth or stomach level, and your weight is determined by your mind.

 

Some common comments from weight loss clients

 

             ‘I can’t get my mind right’

 

             ‘I can’t get focused’

 

             ‘If I could just get in the right frame of mind’

 

             ‘I could do it alright if I could just set my mind to it’

 

Weight on the Mind

 

Yes, losing weight is very much about getting your mind right and with hypnosis, it is very easy. This is because your mind works on two levels, the conscious which is only 10% of the mind and the subconscious which is an amazing 90% and holds an array of hidden powers and inner abilities that for many people remain untapped for their entire lives. People enlist all of their will power in an effort to lose weight which is very important, but the will power is a product of the tiny conscious mind which also holds our temporary memory. It is also the analytical reasoning mind.

 

The subconscious mind on the other hand is like our inner organic computer, it stores every memory since the time of our birth and it represses memories it believes are harmful or painful. It contains all of  our automatic body functions and our permanent memory.  It is your subconscious mind that gives you those hunger pangs in the middle of the day telling you to feel hungry at that particular time because it also holds our habits.  It contains our emotions and imagination and it is also the goal achieving mind. However it is very childlike and has no reasoning ability – therefore it will believe everything it receives as fact. This is the reason hypnosis is so powerful in helping you to achieve your desired weight and maintain it, because with hypnosis we can bypass your conscious mind which produces all of your analytical, self-limiting doubts and negative thoughts, we can then gain access to your subconscious mind and therapy at a subconscious level can commence. When we gain access to your subconscious, we can work with your imagination and emotions and change habits of a lifetime where they exist. It is extremely important to enlist the power of your imagination when aiming to achieve a goal, because when the imagination and the will are in conflict, the imagination will usually win. (e.g. if you are using all of  your will power to achieve something but you imagine yourself failing – conflict)

 

Nora’s Approach

 

As a hypnotherapist Nora doesn’t, in most cases use diet procedures. She finds that a problem with diets is that there is a major change of eating habit patterns and that all the time you are looking forward to achievement of the weight goal, at which time  you can resume eating "normal" food.

 

Once the weight loss is achieved, you celebrate by enjoying a reward meal of favourite tastes. Then there often begins an upward weight trend, which can recover all of the lost weight and even add a few pounds more.

 

Therefore Nora’s  approach is that you can eat whatever is most desired. The only difference is that, through the effects of hypnosis, a much smaller amount of food will be desired and consumed. With hypnosis she can also give you a desire to eat healthier, to drink more water and believe it or not to get out there and exercise.

 

The advantage is that since no enjoyable foods are denied, nothing is given up; there is no need or desire to return to foods that have been forbidden. You simply continue to eat what has been enjoyed all along, except that quantities are vastly reduced and through hypnosis the appetite is fully satisfied with modest portions of food and you will be eating healthier.

 

The above procedure is particularly effective with people whose excess weight is from a habit of overeating, especially where the habit involves taking of multiple helpings at meals.

 

Where undesirable weight is due to overeating, metabolism is likely much less involved than the mind. Changing thoughts and attitudes of the mind can lead to major changes in life. It can be very helpful, therefore, to determine what may be the causes of a tendency to overeat.

 

Sometimes this information is evident or well known. Other times it may be suppressed, buried in some incident or event of the past for which overeating provides a sense of compensation or relief from pressures or anxieties, lacks in life, grief, anger or other emotions, sometimes dating back to childhood. Regression under hypnosis is often effective in ferreting out causes, and sometimes even the simple understanding of causes can result in elimination of the problem.

 

Of course there are some people whose excess weight is due to physiological causes. Such cases may  require medical intervention.

 

Overview of Hypnosis for Weight Loss

 

 

The only safe and sure way to control weight is by exercising and by changing your eating habits.

 

You may have struggled with elimination diets which are sometimes self-defeating. These diets stress what you cannot eat, setting up an inner conflict that can enforce a craving. A better approach is to eat three balanced meals; eating things you like, but in sensible amounts. With hypnosis, your inner mind can regulate what is a sensible amount for you.

 

There are no magic pills, no special sweat suits that have any lasting effect, until you change your way of thinking first. A slim body begins with slim thoughts, just as a healthy body begins with healthy thoughts.

 

With hypnosis Nora can help you take off weight quickly, easily, naturally, and permanently. You can create a new attitude of yourself as slim, healthy, and energetic

 

You will be given a positive reinforcement tape/cd free to play at home every day to reinforce the work done in therapy.

 

Through hypnotherapy she can also increase your self-confidence and self-esteem. She can help you to eliminate other problems or difficulties in your life and help you to tap into the amazing powers and inner abilites that you were born with.

 

You CAN lose weight and you CAN be the person that you want to be.

 

‘ Strive to be happy’