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Hypnotherapy for Weight loss

Losing weight can be a difficult process, we are constantly reminded by TV programmes, advertising and social media feeds full of pictures of food, and the presence of these can make the temptation to veer away from healthy eating very strong.

Then there are the various diets which focus upon restricting what you eat, rather than considering how you eat, or what you think about the food you are putting into your body. It’s no surprise to have developed certain negative mind-sets around what we put in our bodies.

Hypnosis for weight loss can be an effective method in challenging these mind-sets and moments of temptation, helping you to live a healthier life.

The aim of hypnotherapy for weight loss is to make you feel confident about your body, change negative thoughts about eating and help you lose weight responsibly, without impacting your emotional well-being. By targeting the unconscious mind with powerful suggestion techniques, the hypnotherapist can help you develop a positive relationship with your food and exercise, which is important to achieve healthy weight loss and long-term weight management.

While it is important for people to lose weight for health reasons if they are overweight, it’s not good to feel ashamed about the need or desire to lose weight. Because body shape doesn’t fit with the western idea of beauty, people are constantly looking for ‘quick fixes’ to cut corners.

Gruelling exercise regimes and fad diet are just some of the ways people try to lose weight. What you have to ask yourself is – am I happy doing this? Can I carry on doing this for the rest of my life?

This is where weight loss hypnotherapy can help. In order to change your body, you first need to change your mind-set. You have to ask yourself – why am I unhappy with my body, and why can’t I lose weight?

How does hypnosis for weight loss work?

Hypnotherapy for weight loss is becoming more popular, with people all over the world finding it easier to maintain a healthy weight in the long-term.

Over a series of hypnotherapy sessions you will learn how to replace your negative habits and eating patterns with positive ones suggested by the hypnotherapist.

• The hypnotherapist will guide you into a state of deep state of relaxation.
• Once this has been achieved your body and mind will be fully relaxed and the hypnotherapist will be able to access your unconscious mind.
• Bespoke worded scripts would be used to explore and uncover the client’s true reasons for overeating and suggest new alternative thinking patterns.

Weight loss hypnotherapy, you can learn to enjoy the taste of healthy food and stop craving fatty, sugary, foods. You should also learn to enjoy your body and not see it as a source of anxiety. This is achieved by challenging those deep feelings that form the foundations of your eating habits; hypnosis for weight loss can help you adopt a healthier lifestyle and a happier state of mind.

Lots of people try and fail to lose weight for different reasons. These reasons, otherwise known as ‘secondary gains’, are often unconscious, making it hard for us to overcome them.

You might consciously want to lose weight, but something in the subconscious is preventing you from making it a reality. Hypnosis for weight loss aims to expose these reasons, allowing you to finally break through barriers that may have been preventing you from losing weight for many years.

Here are some of the reasons that you might find it hard to successfully lose weight.

Comfort eating:

When we are babies we learn to associate feeding with the comfort of our mothers. Which may never really leaves us, so, when life gets stressful, we might revert back to those early days of complete dependency. This is where emotional eating can become a problem.

If you’ve ever found yourself ordering a takeaway when you feel lonely or reaching for a chocolate bar after a busy day, or just feeling sad, then you might be a comfort eater. As a comfort eater, you will find it more difficult to lose weight because you’ve let food become your coping mechanism and, without it, you might not know how to deal with your emotions.

Hypnotherapy can help to address this, helping you learn how to process negative emotions in a way that doesn’t lead to comfort eating and change your existing relationship with the food you eat.

In order to lose weight, you have to be completely honest about how much you eat and exercise, it’s easy to forget about the odd snack here and there. Perhaps you pick at ingredients while you make dinner? Do you grab something on your commute to work, or tuck into a biscuit with your afternoon tea?

It’s often these fast foods that catch us out but they really do add up. Even if you religiously stick to salad for dinner, conveniently ignoring all the things you eat in-between won’t be doing you any favours. This type of mindless eating is something hypnotherapy for weight loss can help you to overcome.

 

Cutting out certain foods from your diet can make them all the more appealing. If you find yourself restricting the foods you eat, you’re more likely to want to binge when your willpower takes a dip.

The key to achieve a long term and healthy weight loss is to learn mindful eating. If you can eat mindfully, savouring every bite, then you’ll be able to enjoy your favourite foods in moderation and avoid putting on weight.

Hypnosis for weight loss is helping clients to eat consciously – putting emotional factors aside and promotes a long tem healthy weight, while developing a stable relationship with food.

You don’t exercise enough:

Exercise is just as important as diet when it comes to losing weight. Sometimes mental blocks can stop us wanting to exercise, these may include:

• feeling too self-conscious to exercise in public
• feeling a lack of energy
• convincing yourself you’ll ‘go tomorrow’ (every day)

Hypnotherapy for weight loss can help you break down those mental blocks that are stopping you from achieving your goal. More often than not, getting your body moving and your heart pumping will make you feel better about yourself in general, leading to healthier behaviours and happiness in the long-term.

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Relaxation is achieved when the body and mind are free from tension, stress and anxiety. The practice of relaxation has always been an important part of your well-being, especially when feeling stressed.

Each and every one of us is different and will have our own unique way of achieving a form of relaxation. For example reading a book, watching your favourite television programme, exercising, or simply taking a bath etc. all very good methods of relaxing the body, but often the mind can still feel cluttered and busy. True relaxation will help to ease the mind, providing a sense of calmness, whilst switching off from the external noises in your life.

The importance of relaxation

The practice of relaxation is a key part of providing a healthy balance throughout our day to day lives, along with physical exercise, what we eat and our ability to handle stress.

Stress affects us all in different ways and often we don’t even realise how stressed we actually are; we can even become accustomed to being tense and think of it as normal. We face constant demands, not only from work but also from our families and social lives – and this affects our stress levels on a major scale.

Prolonged periods of stress can have a negative effect on our overall well-being, not only affecting our mood, but can also lead to health problems, for example high blood pressure, digestive problems, bowel conditions, possibly even lower our immune systems and slow our body’s recovery from major traumas.

For these reasons alone it is important to look for the signs of excessive levels of tension, as you may be more stressed than you realise.

• tense muscles
• heart racing
• waking up tired
• difficulty sleeping
• grinding your teeth
• aches and pains
• persistent tiredness or exhaustion
• sense of rush, panic or lack of time
• loss of appetite
• growing number of minor ailments such as headaches or stomach upsets
• ‘stomach in knots’ sensation

Hypnotherapy for relaxation

With the practice of hypnotherapy we can help to reduce stress levels and bring balance back to the body and mind. Regular sessions will release pressure and tension, helping you to look after yourself better.

Through this process the mind is guided away from the troubles of everyday life and into a place of tranquillity and peace, while entering into a deep relaxed state, where suggestions can be suggested to encourage new behaviour patterns and providing relief from stress related issues.

This form of relaxation therapy is comfortable, safe and can be a highly liberating experience for both the body and mind.

Some of the benefits thought to arise from this type of deep relaxation are:

• Sleeping better.
• improving energy levels
• helping to restore and strengthen the immune system
• stress relief and reducing tension headaches, back pain and migraines
• reduce any emotional upsets and unlocking emotional blockages that can contribute to stress
• aiding concentration ability
• lowering of blood pressure

Relaxation hypnotherapy can provide a confidential and comfortable setting, which can help to release tension and stress from your mind and body.

JD Hypnotherapy providing therapy throughout Stevenage and Hertfordshire.

Hello everyone I am very pleased to announce that after many months of studying and hard work, I have finished and passed my Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma course that I have been working on and have now received my new Diploma certificate.

Each and every one of us will experience moments of stress in our lives from time to time. For which we all try to cope and manage in our own individual way.

Some people will thrive on those highly exhilarating and emotional situations, which helps stimulate their body and mind, providing high motivational success.

Whereas others will just feel anxious and stressed with a feeling of dread; being unable to cope with a particular situation.

If left untreated, this emotional feeling could start to change our belief system and heavily impact upon our wellbeing and lives: both mentally and physically.

Origins of stress can often be a result from an unpleasant situation we experienced in our past, possibly from our professional or even personal lives.

Not forgetting any physical pain and discomfort the body maybe experiencing, possibly due to an accident or childbirth even a tooth ache.

The list of physical and emotional pain can be vast and if not treated can all develop into a stressful state of mind leading to anxious thoughts about any future predicaments.

(Sometimes just fear of the unknown will cause uncertainty leading to stress.)

With the practice of hypnotherapy we can help reduce and manage stress.

This can be achieved with the power of positive suggestion: boosting confidence and self-esteem – aiding relaxation and help maintain a sense of calmness when confronted with a stressful situation; along with the practice of various coping skills and breathing exercises.

Once the core root of the problem has been established, using the power of hypnotherapy we can help to challenge the old negative thought pattern – associated with the stressful event and with positive suggestions help provide a new, and improved, pattern of behaviour.

 

JD Hypnotherapy providing stress management throughout Stevenage and Hertfordshire.

 

 Throughout life we all suffer from our own individual anxiety fears from time to time, as it is a part of being human.

These anxieties can arise from something that happened to us in the past and can leave a negative impression on our belief system or perhaps what we think happened, either way, we may fear this uncertainty could generate anxiety for the future.

There are many forms of anxiety, some can be quite mild but there are times when the levels of our anxiety can rise to a much higher level and remain difficult to control which can seriously impact upon our lives if not treated. For example, you may avoid certain situations, events, even people, due to fear of the anxiety becoming too much to manage. Even day-to-day events like driving, working or perhaps just socializing with friends.

These negative responses of avoidance may well form a pattern and hold us back in life. With the practice of hypnotherapy we can help reduce and manage those negative thought patterns from taking over our lives and regain a sense of control.

This can be achieved with the power of positive suggestion, boosting confidence and self-esteem and help maintain calmness when anxiety strikes with the practice of various coping skills.

These positive suggestions can help us lead a new confident pattern of behaviour, which in turn can change the way we respond to those former anxious thoughts and feelings.

 

JD Hypnotherapy treating anxiety fears throughout Stevenage and Hertfordshire.