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Hypnosis induction: it’s really just relaxation

July 16th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

“Hypnosis induction” sounds complication. However it’s simply involves you (or the person undergoing hypnosis) becoming completely physically relaxed, and following a single train of thought. The hypnotherapist guides you, so there’s nothing you need to do, you simply allow it to happen.

Induction methods include visualization and arm-levitation methods and many others. Each hypnotherapist has his or her own preferred method.

Hypnosis is always quite a pleasant state to be in, because of the relaxation of induction. For many people, it’s the first time they’ve relaxed in years. If you’re practicing self-hypnosis, you may want to sit up while you do it, because you can become so relaxed that you fall asleep if you lie down.

A hypnotherapy session involved three phases: the induction, the suggestion phase, and finally the return to normal waking consciousness.

For example, if you’re undergoing hypnosis to lose weight, the induction might consist of several minutes of your hypnotherapist leading you through an induction of relaxing all the various parts of your body, and visualizing a scene of a beach, and your total relaxation in this particular scene.

The induction is over as soon as the hypnotherapist is confident that you’re completely relaxed, and open to suggestions.

Discover Self-Hypnosis: End Weight Worry Forever

June 22nd, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Although self-hypnosis is easy to learn and to use, it’s a very powerful tool, especially if you want to lose weight.

As a weight loss tool, you can use self-hypnosis in two ways: firstly to discover what’s causing you to overeat. This is valuable knowledge. Secondly, to give yourself hypnotic suggestions which will help you to lose weight, such as that you’re in control of food, and that you’re highly motivated to lose weight.

You’re Hypnotized Every Day - So Take Control Now

Self-hypnosis is just autosuggestion (suggestions we give ourselves), and we all respond to suggestion. After all, we may have piled on our weight because we responded to suggestions from TV commercials, and tempting aromas wafting from a bakery, and from memories of the sensual pleasure of eating. It’s time to discover how to give yourself suggestions which will help you to lose weight.

You may be amazed when you realize that you’re hypnotized many times each  day. For example, have you ever completed a task completely without thinking? Or lost yourself in a movie or book? You were hypnotized. Learning self-hypnosis just means discovering a method which allows you to consciously do what you do very well already.

Self-Hypnosis Is A Powerful Tool For Investigation And Accomplishing Weight Loss

Once you learn the basics of self-hypnosis, you’re in control of your weight. You’ll want to analyze your eating habits while you’re in a slight trance. This enables you to be non-judgmental, and to discover what’s driving your weight gain.

For example, let’s say that suddenly you realize that you’ve eaten an entire container of ice cream. Instead of being hard on yourself, imagine putting yourself in a slight trance and thinking about what led up to your eating binge. You may discover that you had a stressful day, and that you ate to calm yourself.

With this new knowledge, you can choose to get stress relief from another activity: perhaps calling a friend, going to a movie, or going for a walk. You can immediately instill this new behavior with self-hypnosis. Now the next time you have a hard day, you impulsively call a friend you’ve been meaning to call for weeks - this new behavior happens completely automatically, you don’t have to think about it, any more than you thought about reaching for the ice cream.

Intrigued about the potential of self-hypnosis to help you to lose weight? The best way to learn self-hypnosis is with the instruction of a hypnotherapist. Check your local phone book. Or, if you’re a do-it-yourself kind of person, you can learn self-hypnosis from tapes, CDs, DVDs, or books. 

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