How Can Hypnotherapy Help With Weight Loss & Management?
Hypnosis works with the subconscious mind where all emotions and patterns are stored and where we can find the root of the problem.
For weight reduction, the root cause is most likely connected with emotional eating patterns.
Emotional eating is simply using food to comfort feelings of being out of control, seeking protection, feeling insecurity, anger, loneliness, sadness, fearful, upset or worry. Those who suffer from some form of emotional eating pattern tend to develop negative programming and self-image over a long time that is hardwired into the subconscious mind and drives the perpetual cycle of conditioned emotional eating along with the thoughts and feelings that precede and follow the patterned behavior.
A skilled hypnotherapist can effectively tap into your subconscious mind and discover the source of emotional eating and re-program your relationship with food as well as address eating habits and lifestyle changes. Hypnotherapy turns negative thoughts and feelings into empowering ones. Old beliefs and feelings are replaced with new, positive, healthy ones.
As a result, you will no longer feel the need to reach for food to comfort you. You will also have a greater awareness and understanding as to why you have certain eating patterns, how to recognize it and how to counteract and change the behavior.
This is why hypnosis succeeds where traditional diets alone can often fail.
Is There Evidence To Support The Success of Hypnotherapy & Weight Loss?
Numerous clinical studies have proven that hypnosis is amazingly effective in helping people lose weight:
1) In a 9-week study of two weight management groups (one using hypnosis and one not using hypnosis), the hypnosis group continued to get results in the two-year follow-up, while the non-hypnosis group showed no further results (Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985).
2) In a study of 60 women separated into hypnosis versus non-hypnosis groups, the groups using hypnosis lost an average of 17 pounds, while the non-hypnosis group lost an average of only .5 pounds (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1986).
3) In a meta-analysis, comparing the results of adding hypnosis to weight loss treatment across multiple studies showed that adding hypnosis increased weight loss by an average of 97% during treatment, and even more importantly increased the effectiveness post-treatment by over 146%. This demonstrates that hypnosis works even better over time (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996).
The bottom line: when hypnosis sessions are incorporated as part of a healthy weight management program, the results are always better — more than 146% better over the long term!
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