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Lose Weight With Hypnosis
Call it mantras. Call it affirmations. Call it mindfulness. Call it whatever you want, but using hypnosis as a tool for losing weight works.
In fact, one University of Connecticut study reported that subjects who used hypnosis lost more weight than 90 percent of the other participants. Better yet, two years later they had maintained their weight loss.
The great thing is that you don't always need to see a professional hypnotist to benefit from hypnosis for weight loss. Here is one mental exercise you can do to help yourself shed that winter weight and support healthy and permanent weight loss. It only involves your breath and your imagination. How easy is that?
The first time you do this exercise, find a quiet place where you will not be interrupted. Then, sitting comfortably, breathe in for seven seconds, hold the breath in for seven seconds, and then exhale for seven seconds. Repeat this breath pattern five more times for a total of six cycles.
At the end of the sixth exhale, close your eyes and begin to breathe normally. As you relax, with each inhale, say to yourself “Relax” and with each exhale, say to yourself “Deeper.” Focus on this pattern until you begin to feel yourself going inward.
Once you feel like you're “in the zone,” imagine that you're walking down a pleasant road or path. It can be any setting that is peaceful, pleasant and has positive associations for you.
As you walk down this path, begin to see, begin to imagine yourself at your ideal weight somewhere off in the distance. And as you walk closer, the image of your healthiest self begins to come into focus. You can see what you're wearing, what you're doing, and who you're with. In every way, notice every detail in this scene of you at your healthiest and happiest and most vibrant, and make the scene more real, more detailed and more alive, until it feels that you're there.
Next, anchor that scene in your mind by connecting your thumb and forefinger together in the moment when the scene is most vibrant and lifelike. And, as you continue to focus on the scene of you at your healthiest, pulse your fingers together repeatedly. And as you do that, say a powerful mantra to yourself, silently or out loud.
Here's an example, “For my body, excess food is damaging and I need my body to live a long and healthy life.” Or you can write your own positive mantra. When writing your own mantra, avoid negative words like “don't” and “can't” and “shouldn't.” The subconscious doesn't understand the word “not” and using it in a mantra can have the reverse effect of what you intend.
The last step is to do an abbreviated version of the exercise above on a daily basis. And on the exhale, connect your thumb and forefinger together and silently (or out loud) say your mantra to yourself. Do this every morning after you wake up and at night before you go to bed. Do this before every meal, before stepping into a grocery store to buy food and before walking into a party.
Seeing is believing and you need to be able to conceive your goal first in order to achieve it. Here's to your health.
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