Hypnotherapy for Weight Management & Body Image

The Cause of Weight Problems and the Use of Hypnosis to Treat Weight Loss, Weight Gain and Poor Body Image.

There is usually very little a person struggling with weight issues doesn’t know about dieting, calories and exercise. If you have become interested in hypnotherapy for weight management then you have more than likely yo-yoed for years and done all the fad diets, gimmicks and exercise plans.

They do work – as long as you stick to the plan – eating less and exercising more will always result in losing weight. The problem is that none of the plans address the drivers inside a person that’s causing them to over or under eat, and they just treat the symptom (weight), rather than the cause.

The bottom line is – if you could consistently follow any reasonable eating plan you would have done so by now.

So it is time to address the cause – those emotions that are driving your eating behavior. There’s a reason why you respond to stress (either good stress like celebrations, or negative stress like boredom, sadness etc) by ‘feeding the feeling’, it’s a learned response and using hypnotherapy that response is un-learned.

Once you learn to respect yourself and your body, and once you begin to respect food, and see it clearly for what it is (nourishment to keep you healthy), you begin to normalize your weight effortlessly.

Poor Body Image

Who among us, particularly if you are a woman, can say truly that we love our body image? The media, social conditioning and all of the bill boards bombard us with one simple message – you body isn’t good enough. They do this to sell us something. It simply isn’t in the diet, fashion or magazine industry’s interest to tell us that we look great just as we are – that’s not going to shift units of stock.

It’s not surprising then that some of this suggestion has got into our internal programming, and most of us will have little hang up’s about our body, but it’s unlikely to cause any major problem. It will begin to cause a substantial problem when those messages are added to an already shaky foundation of unresolved subconscious stress and bad programming, eroding our confidence and increasing our anxiety .

When those hang up’s become a constant and never ending record in our heads about what’s wrong with us and how ugly we are then it’s time to get that sorted. There’s one person you really should do everything in your power to have onside – and that person is you!

Once you resolve the underlying cracks in the foundation of your self-esteem and body image, you will find it incredibly liberating. Just imagine if you focused the energy you are wasting on telling yourself you are not good enough into something you really wanted to ‘be’, ‘do’ or ‘have’?

Weight and Body Image CAN Be Helped!

Why Hypnoanalysis is so successful at treating weight and body image problems

Generally speaking over or under eating is a surface symptom, a management technique, to deal with emotions. These can be celebratory emotions or feelings of boredom, unhappiness, low confidence etc. In other words some form of ‘stress’ drives the eating behavior.

As hypnoanalysis releases the built up subconscious stress in your mind, it has an excellent knock on result in your eating habits and self image.

The underlying problem is the level of built up stress stored in your sub-conscious mind. The eating response as a coping strategy is caused by the sufferer bottling up some strong emotions. The only way to resolve the eating pattern - is to release the bottled up emotions that are driving / triggering it.

These bottled up emotions are stored in the person’s subconscious mind so the sufferer has no conscious awareness of them. In our formative years (with only a child’s resourcefulness) bottling the emotions up was the best plan of action for dealing with difficult strong emotion. It was done by our subconscious mind so we weren't overwhelmed by the emotions, and could get on with growing up.

However, now that you are grown up you do have the resourcefulness of an adult and can easily face and resolve those emotions that were too much for the child. Your subconscious mind wants you to do this and will do everything in its power to encourage you to resolve the internal conflict (emotion) - including giving you the symptom! It's as if that symptom is a signal telling you that there's something inside you ready to be resolved. Most other types of therapy cannot gain access to these 'locked away' emotions and experiences, whereas Pure Hypno-Analysis can.

The process of Hypnoanalysis requires a strong bond of trust and rapport being created between the therapist, and the client. Over a period of about eight sessions, we slowly and effortlessly link thoughts and memories back through time (using a process of 'free association') until we come to the bottled up emotions. When we release these emotions, the excessive anxiety is resolved forever, and the poor body image and detrimental eating pattern goes with it.

Come Along For a Chat

To find out more about it, you can come along and meet with me in my clinic in Rathfarnham for an initial consultation, and we can have a chat about the problems you're having.

It's free of charge and very informal.

Success, joy and wellbeing to you!

Ailish McGrath
Private Clinic - Rathfarnham, Dublin 16
Ph: 01-4954841
info@IChooseToHeal.com