How To Hypnotize Yourself Into Losing Weight

This article was co-authored by Alexandra Janelli. Alexandra Janelli is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Anxiety & Stress Management Coach, and owner and founder of Modrn Sanctuary, a holistic health and wellness facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 10 years of experience, Alexandra specializes in helping clients push through their roadblocks to achieve their goals using her hypnotherapeutic approach. Alexandra holds a BS from the University of Miami. She graduated from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute with an Advanced Training Graduate Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Handwriting Analysis. Alexandra is also a Certified Life Coach from the iPEC Coach Training Program. She has worked with Academy Award Nominee Actors, world-renowned photographers, singers, top-level executives, and professionals across many sectors of business. Alexandra has been featured on MTV, Elle Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Men's Fitness, Swell City Guide, Dossier Journal, The New Yorker, and Time Out Chicago.

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Some experts suggest that you can, through the power of hypnosis, rewire your subconscious to reduce your appetite and increase your motivation to live a healthier lifestyle. The science on this is unclear, with some studies suggesting it is effective and others that it has a minimal impact.

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This article was co-authored by Alexandra Janelli. Alexandra Janelli is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Anxiety & Stress Management Coach, and owner and founder of Modrn Sanctuary, a holistic health and wellness facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 10 years of experience, Alexandra specializes in helping clients push through their roadblocks to achieve their goals using her hypnotherapeutic approach. Alexandra holds a BS from the University of Miami. She graduated from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute with an Advanced Training Graduate Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Handwriting Analysis. Alexandra is also a Certified Life Coach from the iPEC Coach Training Program. She has worked with Academy Award Nominee Actors, world-renowned photographers, singers, top-level executives, and professionals across many sectors of business. Alexandra has been featured on MTV, Elle Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Men's Fitness, Swell City Guide, Dossier Journal, The New Yorker, and Time Out Chicago. This article has been viewed 215, 313 times.

To try losing weight using self-hypnosis, start by sitting or lying down somewhere comfortable where you won't be disturbed. Then, close your eyes and start taking deep breaths, imagining that all the stress and tension in your body is disappearing. Once you feel relaxed, imagine a pendulum swinging back and forth in your mind, and slowly count down from 10 to 1 to enter a state of self-hypnosis. When you're finished counting down, try telling yourself that you don't like unhealthy foods. For example, you could think something like, Ice cream tastes bad and makes me feel sick. You should also repeat a positive mantra, like, Overeating hurts me and my body. I should eat healthier. After about 20 minutes, wake yourself up from your self-hypnosis by counting up from 1 to 10. Repeat the process every day for 20 minutes for best results. For more advice, like how to maintain a healthy diet, scroll down!Self hypnosis for weight loss is a fantastic self help tool that can help you shed those extra few pounds and change your life for the better if you have been struggling with losing weight for a while. In this article, I will give you a summary of the seven biggest benefits weight loss through self hypnosis can bring you.

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1.    You can Practice Self Hypnosis for Weight Loss from the Comfort of your own Home People prefer doing self hypnosis at home for a variety of reasons:

If this any of these reasons apply to you, working towards weight loss at home might suit you down to the ground.

Using self hypnosis for weight loss will enable you to do the suggestion hypnosis part of your weight loss program for very little money. If you wanted to, you could even design your own self hypnosis program and do the whole lot for free.

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When you compare this to the commitment of seeing a weight loss hypnotist for maybe eight appointments over the space of a year, self hypnosis for weight loss represents a substantial saving.

If you are an emotional eater, or are planning to lose a substantial amount of weight, I would still recommend you back up the suggestion program with some regression hypnosis to remove the underlying causes of weight issues. Find more details on this subject in my article “Could you lose weight by hypnosis?”

Self hypnosis for weight loss will bring your body on a journey of losing weight slowly and gently, the natural way, giving your body enough time to adjust at every step.

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What could be more enjoyable than breaking your busy lifestyle with periods of relaxation where you can lie back and let go while working towards weight loss?

With self hypnosis there is no 'efforting' and no struggle. The underlying principle is about convincing your subconscious mind to come on board with your weight loss plan. This means generating determination and an abundance of positive feelings towards the idea of losing weight.

This approach can put people miles ahead of those who struggle in conventional weight loss programs. Self hypnosis for weight loss can take the struggle out of weight loss when complex decisions become easy because your mind is set on your goal.

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With self hypnosis, you will act as both hypnotist and client. This feature will be particularly important for you if you don’t like the idea of handing over your mind to a weight loss hypnotist.

Self help hypnosis can have some challenges, but there are ways of mastering those and achieving the same or similar results you can achieve by working with a hypnotist.

I think this takes on a special meaning for self hypnosis. My observation is that when people take charge to do things for themselves, they are more invested in both process and outcome. As a result, when using self hypnosis to lose weight, you will notice yourself becoming very determined and motivated to see this process through until you reach your goal.

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A self hypnosis program can fit into your busy lifestyle easily. Some exercises can be done when multi tasking, for example when you are doing a monotonous task such as washing the dishes, while you are walking, or commuting to work.

Other exercise will require a little bit of space where you are undisturbed, but 20 minutes a day will already bring you a long way here.

If- as part of your self hypnosis program, you are planning to listen to a recorded hypnotherapy session, you can do this at bedtime while you are settling.  Scheduling the hypnosis session in this way can help you work around your parenting responsibilities if you have kids.

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If you don’t like the idea of handing over your mind to a hypnotherapist, working with self hypnosis for weight loss may be just the thing for you. With self hypnosis you avoiding the issue of making yourself dependent on a practitioner. Here, you can be in complete control of your weight loss program.

When you use self hypnosis for weight loss you will learn a variety of tools. You will develop a good sense of which ones you like better than others. You will choose those you prefer and you will learn to make them work for you.

Once you have reached your weight loss goal, you can apply these tools to any other changes you might want to make in your life.

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