How can you lose weight or gain weight with hypnosis? Is
hypnotism dangerous? Does hypnotism really works? What is
hypnotism really like?

If you are reading this article, then you will probably have
given some thoughts to the questions in the preceding paragraph.
Hypnotism therapy not only can help you lose or gain weight, it
can help you to achieve many other benefits such as quitting
smoking, develop good health habits, develop positive thinking,
develop good money habits, eliminating bad habits and many other
positive benefits.

Firstly, before you read on, let’s clear up some myths and
unfounded fears about subjecting oneself to hypnosis therapy.

Most people have irrational fears about being a subject of
hypnotism. This is understandable because of the natural fear of
the unknown and besides, these irrational fears are further
reinforced into people’s mind by Hollywood movies and TV
cartoons showing evil hypnotists putting the heroes into a
zombie like state and under the full control of the evil
hypnotist. This is not only nonsensical, it is also impossible.

So how does hypnotism work? You see, in our consciousness, we
act through our conscious and subconscious mind. Our conscious
mind make decisions based on the knowledge and past experiences
stored in the huge data base in the sub-conscious or the
unconscious mind.

As an example, supposing when you were very young and
impressionable, some adult whom you respected told you that rich
people are jerks. This information will be stored in your
sub-conscious mind and although you may not be aware of it,
every time when you see some rich people, your internal self
chatter will most likely say that they probably accumulated
their wealth by cheating others or by things that jerks do.

Since you do not want to be a jerk, your conscious mind will
not think of ways to be rich. It will only think of having just
enough to get by and guess what, you will have enough to get by
because you are doing things to achieve that, but you will never
be rich because you are not doing anything to be rich. Make
sense?

Past experiences stored in the sub-conscious mind may be
correct information at that time because at that time, as in the
case above, that adult may only be referring to a particular
rich person who was a real jerk. However, events and situations
may have changed to render that bit of information irrelevant or
even limiting what you can do or achieve, like losing weight or
gaining weight.

Let us look at another example. If your family members and you
are overweight and since young, you have heard your parents
grumbled on many occasions that no matter what they do, they
just can’t seem to lose that extra weight and that being fat
must be a genetic condition.

These comments were then embedded into your unconscious mind
and today, if someone were to ask you to lose weight, your
unconcious will instinctively react by telling youself that
losing weight is not possible because you are genetically
programed to be obese and that no matter what you do, it will be
difficult for you to lose weight effectively.

Of course you will not lose weight with that mind set because
you will think that your weight loss effort will be a lost cause
and therefore will not even lift a finger to lose weight or
after a half hearted attempt, you give up. So, your limiting
belief is sabotaging your weight loss effort.

This same analogy can also be applied to people who are skinny
and who want to gain weight. There are many other situations
that hypnosis can help because of limiting beliefs such as “I
can never be rich because I do not have a college degree” or “It
is hard for me to attract a lover because I am ugly”.

Most of the time, people are not even aware that they are
sabotaging themselves with their own limiting beliefs. This is
where hypnotism comes in.

When you are in a hypnotic state, you are actually in a very
relaxed frame of mind. Unlike popular beliefs, you are still
conscious of what is going on, fully in control of your self and
you can get up and walk away immediately if you choose to. You
will never be in controlled by your hypnotist like those
depicted in cartoons and comic books.

You are put into a very relaxed state, so that your conscious
mind is not so active and your hypnotist can suggest new
positive messages into your subconscious mind. That means that
your therapist will help you to erase those negative limiting
beliefs from your sub-conscious mind and suggest new positive
beliefs into it like, it is possible for you to lose or gain
weight and motivate you to do something about your weight or
other problems such as quitting smoking.

Now that you are convinced that hypnosis is a valuable tool to
improve and enhance your life, there is still a problem. It can
get pretty expensive because one session with a hypnotist is
usually not enough to erase the limiting beliefs which you have
thought to be true for so many years.

Furthermore, there probably are more than one such beliefs and
your therapist will have to find them, eradicate them and the
replace them with new positive beliefs. Now hypnotists charge
their fees by the hour and this can make a big dent on your
budget.

The good news is that the overwhelming costs can be offset by
performing self hypnosis. No, you need not be an expert to
perform self hypnotism. All you have to do is to get your hands
on some hypnotism CDs or MP3s programs made to remedy your
specific problem. Then just go and lie down on your bed, turn on
the CDs or MP3s, close your eyes and you will have a
hypno-therapist right in your bedroom.

Having armed yourself with the new positive beliefs through
self hypnotism, you will naturally start taking conscious and
unconscious actions to achieve your dreams such as losing or
gaining weight.

So, can you lose weight or gain weight through self hypnotism?
Yes, you certainly can because if you say that you can’t, then
it is your limiting beliefs at work again right?

About The Author: Chris Chew is a celebrity fitness personal
trainer and author of “Burn Fat Build Muscles Fast” system. More
free articles at his sites at sgfitness.com and
sgfitnessonline.com

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