Many people who’ve never tried to lose weight may argue that losing weight has nothing to do with your mind because what you’re trying to transform is your physical body. However, those of us who’ve been on a weight loss journey for a while now know that our mind plays a massive role when we’re trying to lose weight.
From cravings to emotional eating and feeling a lack of motivation on gym days, your mind is constantly involved. And this is exactly why hypnosis for weight loss is effective. During hypnosis, you’re in a trance-like state, and your subconscious mind is more alert and open to suggestions. Since our subconscious mind is majorly responsible for most of our choices, guiding it toward choices that promote weight loss isn’t a bad idea.
Here’s how this works.
It Makes You Believe That You Can Do It
For starters, hypnosis can help your belief that you can do it. If you believe, even at a subconscious level, that you can’t lose weight, there’s a higher chance that you’ll fail. So, if you feel this way, you can use hypnosis to ingrain the idea in your mind—the idea or belief that you can definitely lose weight and achieve your body goals.
This is going to be the first step, and it’s a way of setting yourself up for success. Also, when you truly believe that you can lose weight, you will find it easier to accept other weight loss suggestions presented to you during your hypnosis session.
It Helps You Find Ways to Deal with Your Food Cravings
Very often, food cravings are based on dysfunctional beliefs. For instance, do you believe in the idea of comfort food? This is essentially the belief that eating some types of food (often fatty foods and carbs) will help you feel better if you’re feeling low.
This is mostly just our mind tricking us so that we give in to our food cravings. Hypnosis can help replace these beliefs to help you avoid foods that you will probably regret eating later.
It Can Help You Eliminate Emotional Conflicts That Are in The Way of You Losing Weight
Sometimes, we’re unable to lose weight due to emotional conflicts linked to it. This can be very direct conflicts, like, for instance, if you were bullied for your weight, or this can be other indirect emotional conflicts that are keeping you from focusing on your weight loss journey.
You can also address emotional conflicts through hypnosis to help you achieve better results on your weight loss journey.
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