Want Permanent Weight Loss Success? Hypnotherapy Is The Answer

Medical science research at Tufts-New England Medical Center has provided irrefutable evidence that all diets are effective if you can stick to them. Atkins - low carb; The Zone - low glycemic index; Ornish - low fat; Weight Watchers - low calorie. But research has also proven that almost no one can stick to any diet because of his or her appetite. So to be successful with a diet, weight loss requires appetite suppression. Webster's Dictionary defines "Appetite" as: "The desire for gratification of some want, craving, or passion." So "appetite" is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure. Many people confuse hunger with appetite. Hunger is defined as "The body's call for nourishment." In other words, when the body needs sustenance, that's when you feel authentic hunger. By that differentiation, it is impossible for anyone to actually be hungry if they are overweight. However, it is possible for you to have feelings that you interpret as "hunger." And the stomach contracting in expectation of being fed causes those feelings. When you were a child and you became cranky, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become calm and often go to sleep. That sequence was repeated dozens of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it. Now that you are fully grown, if you feel tense or nervous, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - food! People Also Get Cravings and Urges Because Of Conditioning. When you link eating with any other action, the other activity will trigger cravings for food and a strong compulsion to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you eat when you talk on the phone, you will get an urge to eat every time that you talk on the phone. What About Compulsive Overeaters Who Eat Because Of Emotional Reasons? We define a compulsion as an "irresistible impulse." One of the presuppositions of NLP is: All behaviors are driven by a positive intention. In other words, our subconscious mind only motivates behaviors that benefit or protect us in some way. In NLP terms, we say that being fat is a behavior when it provides a positive outcome or intention. You must be wondering what the possible positive outcomes of being fat could possibly be. The list of probabilities is as long as the list of people who are grossly overweight. But I'll give you a classic example: A person gets their heart broken in a relationship. So to protect the self from getting the heart broken again, the unconscious motivates the self to gain weight to keep the self out of relationships and prevent another broken heart. A big secret to eliminating">http="http://www.neuro-vision.us/Articles/The-Secret-Formula-For-Successful-Change.htm">eliminating your appetite and losing your weight is called reframing. With reframing, we respect the fact that the mind is compelling us to eat for relaxation and pleasure. And if we are eating compulsively because being fat is protecting us, we respect that also. In a neuro-linguistic programming six-step reframe we bargain with our subconscious mind. In the case of eating for relaxation and pleasure, we ask our subconscious mind to assume the responsibility for substituting some other behaviors. The new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same relaxation and pleasure. But they must also be more consciously acceptable to us. When the unconscious mind is motivating us into alternate behaviors that provide the relaxation and pleasure that we require - we lose our appetite on this score. If you are a compulsive overeater we do an additional reframe. We ask your unconscious mind to assume the responsibility for finding and substituting new behaviors in place of being fat. These new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same protections and benefits. But they must be substitutions that are more consciously acceptable to you as an individual. When your subconscious mind is motivating you into alternate behaviors that provide the same protections that you require, you lose the compulsion to overeat. As far as feeling cravings because of conditioning (conditioned responses), we utilize various hypnotic and NLP techniques that "extinguish" those conditioned responses. That breaks the connection between the behaviors, and eliminates the cravings and urges. As soon as your appetite has been eliminated and all of your compulsions to overeat have been dealt with, you can easily stick to any type of healthful diet indefinitely so that it becomes a permanent lifestyle change. Appetite control and compulsive eating is a complex topic. I can only broach the surface of it in this article.