Fat might have little to do with our relationship with food and more to do with our relationship with our bodies and the world. Far from muffling the body’s cries of hunger and attempting to control its rebellious dimensions, maintaining a healthy weight and balanced relationship with food entails listening respectfully to our body. All ears when our body expresses hunger, but strangely deaf when it says it has had enough. We wage war on our bodies to both satisfy our appetites and conquer the inevitable consequence of those appetites, chief amongst them, fat.
Hypnosis, because of its powerful and proven capacity to affect the body with the mind (for example pain management, fertility, psycho-immunology, aversion therapy) is a powerful and multi dimensional tool to effect change in the body and in our relationship to it and therefore in our relationship to life and life forces.
Research conducted in the mid-nineties reanalysed 18 hypnotic studies. This analysis indicated that psychotherapy clients who learned self-hypnosis lost twice as much weight as those who didn't and, in one study kept it off for 2 years after therapy ended.
Hypnosis can be a powerful tool in weight management, addressing the mental and physical basis of the way we manage our relationship with food and promoting a renewed and powerful, positive exchange between mind and body that benefits both.