Western Healing Weight Control / Eating Disorders

Weight Control / Eating Disorders

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It's a familiar problem: you have two voices inside your head; the good voice, the rational self; that says "you don't need that biscuit" and the bad voice, the emotional self that says "yeah, but I really want it". These two selves go to war inside your head and the battlefield, otherwise known as will power, becomes a central focus in your life.

Why do we fight inside our heads? Usually because there are unresolved, unconscious, emotional tensions, usually from our childhood. I help you release these tensions through my own therapy technique, which can be very intense, but for each emotion, it usually takes no longer than a minute or so.

I will help you demolish the battlefield of your mind through healing from past tensions and through positive suggestions and visualization.

Weight problems generally require more than one session for long term gain, although you will generally achieve results even from the first session.

By receiving hypnosis you are making changes to your sub-conscious mind and resolving the underlying causes of the weight gain. This means that after losing the weight you are not continually yo-yoing up and down with your weight. As you can change your eating patterns and habits through hypnosis, it ensures you are adopting a healthy lifestyle rather than going on a diet, which will then end and your weight will increase again.

Hypnosis alone will not allow you to lose weight. But if you have found a qualified counselor, there will be advice given about eating sensibly, exercising regularly and drinking more water.

Weight loss Hypnosis is not a quick and easy way to cure obesity. It is instead a means to an end. The end result is that you will learn control over your life and over what foods you choose to eat.

Weight Control and Hypnosis

When most people think of losing weight, they think of diets and denial - fighting against your natural impulses. Even if you manage to lose weight this way, the fact is you cannot maintain this indefinitely, and sooner or later (usually sooner!) the weight is back on again. You will not lose weight permanently by fighting against yourself.

So how can hypnosis help you lose weight?

Healthy weight loss comes from learning how to listen to your body, being guided by its signals, and by supporting that at a deeper level of the mind where our feelings and responses are being organized. Hypnosis provides us with a tool to access this part of our mind, and make changes at that level. Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnosis techniques towards a therapeutic outcome, such as helping you to change your eating habits and your emotional patterns of behaviour.

The goal is not to see how quickly you can shed a few kilos, your goal is to create balance and harmony. This balance brings to you a guidance system, and as you follow this guidance your eating patterns and emotional habits arrange themselves according to what you want them to be. A sense of enjoyment and satisfaction within this process automatically leads to a continuation of this process. In this way your body gradually lets go of those extra kilos naturally,and allows you to enjoy being at your ideal weight permanently, without the need for constant struggle. This is a much happier and a much more lasting outcome.

Hypnotherapy is a gentle and natural way of working to bring our actions in line with our minds. We take into account things such as:

Emotional eating - such as eating for comfort, or when you are bored;

Habitual eating - eating when you're not hungry;

Specific foods which are a "problem",

Social eating - celebrating with food, rewarding yourself with food, etc.

Regaining Control

Weight loss work using hypnosis is designed to give you the motivation to eat and drink in a thoughtful and appropriate way, finding your natural body balance. This is not a denial program, but a good feeling program. By using your inner mind's assistance through hypnotherapy techniques you can have relaxed, good feelings about yourself, enjoy eating, and secure lasting weight control.

Hypnosis is beyond will-power, so does not call upon you to perform heroic feats of self denial; it is beyond daily insecurities so continues to work for you even when you are distracted by other priorities in your world. Hypnosis frees you to live more fully by subconsciously accomplishing all those things which you most desire but have, as yet, been unable to achieve even with your most focused thoughts.

10 Things Parents Can Do to Help Prevent Eating Disorders

By: Michael Levine, PhD

Consider your thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors toward your own body and the way that these beliefs have been shaped by the forces of weightism and sexism. Then educate your children about (a) the genetic basis for the natural diversity of human body shapes and sizes and (b) the nature and ugliness of prejudice.
- Make an effort to maintain positive attitudes and healthy behaviors. Children learn from the things you say and do!
Examine closely your dreams and goals for your children and other loved ones. Are you over emphasizing beauty and body shape, particularly for girls?
- Avoid conveying an attitude which says in effect, "I will like you more if you lose weight't eat so much, look more like the slender models in ads, fit into smaller clothes, etc."
- Decide what you can do and what you can stop doing to reduce the teasing, criticism, blaming, staring, etc. that reinforce the idea that larger or fatter is "bad" and smaller or thinner is "good."
Learn about and discuss with your sons and daughters
(a) the dangers of trying to alter one's body shape through dieting,
(b) the value of moderate exercise for health, and
(c) the importance of eating a variety of foods in well-balanced meals consumed at least three times a day.
- Avoid categorizing and labelling foods (e.g. good/bad or safe/dangerous). All foods can be eaten in moderation.
- Be a good role model in regard to sensible eating, exercise, and self-acceptance.
Make a commitment not to avoid activities (such as swimming, sunbathing, dancing, etc.) simply because they call attention to your weight and shape. Refuse to wear clothes that are uncomfortable or that you don't like but wear simply because they divert attention from your weight or shape.

Make a commitment to exercise for the joy of feeling your body move and grow stronger, not to purge fat from your body or to compensate for calories, power, excitement, popularity, or perfection.

Practice taking people seriously for what they say, feel, and do, not for how slender or "well put together" they appear.

Help children appreciate and resist the ways in which television, magazines, and other media distort the true diversity of human body types and imply that a slender body means power, excitement, popularity, or perfection.

Educate boys and girls about various forms of prejudice, including weightism, and help them understand their responsibilities for preventing them.

Encourage your children to be active and to enjoy what their bodies can do and feel like. Do not limit their caloric intake unless a physician requests that you do this because of a medical problem.

Do whatever you can to promote the self-esteem and self-respect of all of your children in intellectual, athletic, and social endeavors. Give boys and girls the same opportunities and encouragement. Be careful not to suggest that females are less important than males, e.g., by exempting males from housework or childcare. A well-rounded sense of self and solid self-esteem are perhaps the best antidotes to dieting and disordered eating.