Video Hypnosis For Appetite Suppression

Medical science research at Tufts-New England Medical Center has provided irrefutable evidence that all popular diets work when dieters can stick to them. Atkins - low carb; The Zone - low glycemic index; Ornish - low fat; Weight Watchers - low calorie.

But researchers have provided convincing evidence that almost no one can stick to any diet because of his or her appetite. So to be successful with a diet, hypnosis for appetite control can be very effective.

The Dictionary defines "Appetite" as: "The desire for gratification of some need, want, craving, or passion." So "appetite" is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure.

It's a mistake to 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 bona fide hunger. By that designation, it is almost impossible to "be hungry" if you 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 an infant and you became upset, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become mellower and often fall asleep. That sequence was repeated thousands 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 all grownup, if you feel anxious or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - food!

People Also Get Cravings and Urges Because Of Conditioning.

When you link eating food with any other behavior, the other action will trigger cravings for food and a feeling of urgency to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you eat when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to eat each time you drive your car.

What About Compulsive Overeaters Who Eat Because Of Emotional Reasons?

A compulsion is defined as an "irresistible impulse." One of the presuppositions of NLP is: There is a positive intention behind all behaviors. In other words, our subconscious mind will only motivate us into behaviors that benefit or protect us in some way. So in NLP terms, being fat is a behavior when it provides a positive outcome for us.

You may be wondering what the possible positive outcomes of being fat are. The list of possibilities is as long as the list of people who are fat. 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 getting rid of your appetite is called reframing. With an NLP six-step reframe, we respect the fact that the subconscious mind is motivating us to consume extra food 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 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 making us substitute alternate 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 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 eater we do an additional reframe. We ask your unconscious 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 behaviors that are more consciously acceptable to you and your unique personality. When your subconscious is motivating you into alternate behaviors that provide the same protections that you require, you lose the strong urge 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 dissolves the compulsions.

Once your appetite has been eliminated and all of your compulsions to overeat have been dealt with, you can stick to any diet of your choosing indefinitely so that it becomes a permanent lifestyle change.

Appetite control and compulsive eating can be a very complex topic. I can only scratch the surface of it in this article. But you can read several additional articles on this topic on my website.