Hypnosis,
Weight Control, and The Thought That Won't Go Away
You've decided it's time to lose some weight. A lot or a little,
it doesn't really matter. What's important is your decision.
Your decision shows you care about you and you want to be
healthy and fit, and maybe, just maybe, you want to feel more
attractive than you do right now.
And
so, full of good intentions you've managed to resist temptation,
but life doesn't feel that exciting right now. The initial
enthusiasm is dissipating a little. The weight isn't dropping
off as fast as it was. You know this is the pattern of weight
loss but that slowing down of the weight coming off makes
the whole process seem more effortful. While the pounds were
falling off it was easy to stay motivated, but one pound in
a whole week, it's hardly worth the effort. I'm wasting my
time, but no I must be strong and stick at it.
…and
this TV program is boring; and now they're eating; there's
some chocolate in the fridge; now it's the adverts; more food;
I'm bored; chocolate; must resist… and so it goes…
Once
that thought of chocolate (and for chocolate you can substitute
any forbidden item that you've decided will be ok to keep
some supplies of - because others need them, because it would
be a waste to throw them away, because I'm going to give myself
a treat when I've lost so much weight…) enters your mind
the only way you can get rid of it is to eat some chocolate.
If you try to ignore that thought, it just gets stronger and
louder. It just stays there burrowing away like a grub in
an apple, filling your mind until you give in because it has
so much more power than you do.
At
least this is pretty much what you tell yourself. This is
how you make eating the chocolate ok - I'm weak-willed, I
couldn't resist, I have no will-power, the thought was too
strong. Truth is, you wanted some chocolate and the only way
you could give yourself permission to eat it was to make it
more powerful than you so you just had to give in to it. If
a thought about eating a piece of arsenic wandered into your
mind (and, heaven forbid there was some arsenic in the house)
you wouldn't have the least problem dismissing it - because
you don't really want it. If the thought wandered into your
mind about eating faeces, again no problem, dismissed easily.
But chocolate… you want that, so you kid yourself it's
too powerful and that makes it ok.
This
is a game.
It's
the game of pretending to lose weight. It's the game of being
able to tell people you are on a diet but too weak-willed
to resist chocolate. And because there will be other people
you know going through exactly the same thing it's like being
a member of some select group. It's like being special.
But
you do really want to lose weight because you don't like the
way you look and you don't like the size of clothes you have
to buy. You just don't want to have to stop doing anything
you enjoy in order to achieve what you want. You want something
for nothing. Nothing wrong with that I hasten to add, I like
gifts too. And if that were all it was there wouldn't be much
of a problem. But there's another part of your mind that knows
that something for nothing is a cheat. Something for nothing
deprives you of a sense of accomplishment, a sense of achievement.
Feeling a sense of achievement as a result of overcoming a
difficulty on your own is what makes life worth living.
The
difficulty is your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind
isn't on board with what you are wanting to achieve. It isn't
aligned with your greater will. Whenever your subconscious
mind isn't aligned with your greater will, you will experience
self-sabotage. Like with the Chocolate Thought, like with
wanting something for nothing but not allowing yourself to
have it because it's cheating.
Whenever
your subconscious needs re-alignment, hypnosis is the tool
to use. Hypnosis doesn't remove your sense of achievement
or accomplishment. What it does do is to facilitate your enjoyment
of eating healthily, and resisting the 'wrong' foods. It helps
you to feel good about yourself during the process so that
you are not so concerned about the speed of weight loss, but
more concerned with learning to enjoy creating a healthy diet
for yourself. Hypnosis for weight loss isn't actually about
dieting, it's about changing your view of you and re-aligning
your deeper drives and beliefs so you don't have to fight
or resist any thoughts. They will most probably not be there
to resist, but if they are you'll simply and effortlessly
ask yourself the question, in response to the thought, is
eating chocolate right now in alignment with my intention
to lose weight. A simple question to which you can answer
honestly. But if you still want the chocolate you will just
choose to eat it. No fight no battle, you'll just be aware
that you're doing something that isn't consistent with what
you want, but that right now that's what you're going to choose.
This
approach removes guilt. Guilt drives weight accumulation.
As soon as any food isn't forbidden, your desire for it will
lessen or disappear.
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