" Can Hypnosis Make YOU Thin?"

Are you tired of carrying around those extra pounds in weight? Are you sick of diets that don't work?

Are you ready to shed that flab once and for all? Are you looking for a real New Year goal to achieve?

Hypnosis through hypnotherapy may be the answer for you.

But not if you are expecting miracles.

Hypnosis is not a magic bullet. It cannot make you stop craving potato crisps or chips or never feel hungry again. It cannot make you excercise or make you like vegatables or make you do anything.

What, then, can hypnosis do that "will power or fad diets" cannot?

Hypnosis, a state of deep relaxation and intense mental focus, can however help YOU " re-program" old attitudes and beliefs about eating. While in a relaxed state of hypnosis your subconscious (inner mind) is more available to you, more open to receive positive powerful suggestions that will then become a part of those messages in the " back of your mind" that nudge you toward new behaviours. Like a modern day Jimminy Cricket, hypnotically implanted messages urge you to "do the right thing" - to follow through with the changes that you decided to make in your life.

Hypnotic messages that suggest new attitudes like " You eat smaller proportions of food and feel completely satisfied. You eat only in response to your body's natural need for food as fuel " can help re-program bad eating habits. Repetition of such bespoke postive suggestions, especially if listened to regularly on a recorded message, specifically designed for you by a professional clinical hypnotherapists, can boost your determination and enhance your conscious "willpower."

Often, however, such messages alone are not enough. It takes a combination of behavioural modification (watching what you eat, where you eat, when you eat, learning how to eat healthily, exercising regularily) and psychological education (understanding why you have certain eating patterns and how to change them) in order to achieve permanent weight reduction. A good professional clinical hypnotherapist will address both these issues as well. Not only should you receive mental suggestions for behavioural and lifestyle changes, your clinical hypnotherapist should explore with you any emotional connections to food and eating habits. Once you relise why you are eating when you are not hungry (and if we all ate only when we are really hungry and not when you think you are hungry, say if you are bored, then there would be no need for any weight reduction programs) you can begin to change that behaviour.

A good clinical hypnotherapist will work with positive programming, using your own success to spur you on and not rely on "aversion therapy" or "negative conditioning" to achieve results. Suggestions that stress positive changes (looking the way you want to look, feeling the way you want to feel, hearing yourself and others complimenting you on how you look) and that increase self-esteem will help you succeed not only in your weight reductiuon, but in other areas of your life as well.

Mental imagery is another important part of hypnosis. Using hypnosis for weight reduction, after achieving a deep state of relaxation your hypnotherapist might lead you through an imaginary journey where you might imagine yourself wearing clothes you've grown out of as they are a size to big. You might imagine the positive comments of your family, friends or work colleagues. You would be encouraged to use all five senses in your imagery, seeing and feeling yourself grow thinner, stronger, more healthy and vital. Studies show that the more real your inner experience, the more likely the final results will match your mental "program".

When used as part of an overall program of behavioural program and attitude adjustment, in conjunction with a calorie controlled eating diet, hypnosis can be that extra dimension that your weight reduction program needs for long term success. While not magic, hypnosis through professional hypnotherapy can provide powerful tools to help you fight the battle of the bulge, tools that just may make the difference to you succeeding in achieving your goal.