I Have A Weight Problem, Can NLP Help Get Rid Of It?

Hypnosis, thanks to the movies, the very word conjures up the image of a hawlk-eyed hypnotist swinging a pendulum and droning, "You are getting sleepy."

Do an MSN search and you will find several million web pages devoted to the topic. Unfortunately, many websites that sell recorded hypnosis tapes make wild, unsubstantiated claims. I've been a hypnotist since 1978. So I think that I'm more than experienced enough to set the record straight on weight loss hypnosis.

First of all, self-hypnosis is a tool, just like a scalpel is a tool. Just as all surgeons have different skill levels in the use of a scalpel, different hypno-technicians have varying skill levels in the use of self-hypnosis. And to complicate the matter, there are different forms and types of self-hypnosis.

Here are just a few of the ridiculous claims about weight loss hypnosis that I've read about on the Internet, along with the truth of the matter:

"Hypnosis will speed up your metabolism." The truth is that self-hypnosis cannot directly speed up your metabolism. But it can be very adequate at helping to re-program your unconscious with increased motivation to exercise. And that exercise can increase your metabolic rate. Similarly, self-hypnosis to speed up the metabolism for quick weight loss can be effected by re-programming the unconscious to motivate the intake of increased amounts of protein, because that intake will step up the metabolic rate.

"Hypnosis will make you become slimmer." This is false. But self-hypnosis can be used to help clean out your appetite, so that you eat less. And eating less can help you to become slimmer. The average person's appetite and cravings for food and compulsion to eat are triggered by two subconscious programs:

A. When you combine eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for food and a desire to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example, if you eat as you drive your car, you will get an urge to eat every time you drive a car.

B. When you feel stressed, you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure. This is the result of programming that you received as an infant. When you got out of sorts, your mom or dad put a bottle in your mouth. You got distracted, relaxed, and probably fell asleep. Now when you get cranky (anxious or tense), you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure.

C. There is a third unconscious program that is present for some people. It's called emotional eating. Emotional eating takes place when an individual is motivated to make him or herself fat, because by being fat they will protect themselves in some way. For example, if an individual gets their heart broken in a relationship, their unconscious will very often motivate them into a behavior that would prevent them from getting their heart broken again. Example: They are motivated to get fat to keep them out of another relationship, because that will eliminate the possibility of another broken heart.

So just how can weight loss hypnosis get rid of the above mentioned problems? Click here to read the remainder of this weight loss hypnosis article.

I've written several articles on this complex topic that available on my website. These articles explain some powerful ways to use hypnotherapy for emotional compulsive eating.