We send patients to a medical hypnotist - with mixed outcomes

Thank you very much for your answer.

I understood it as you are sending people to medical hypnoses in order to get them rid of body weight excess.

Also you did not answer my question.

Kind regards.

reprogramming, hopefully takes place through hypnosis. There is not much more I can add

Thank you!

Hi Victoria,

I am a medical hypnotherapist who has seen clients for weight loss. Even with hypnosis, weight loss is difficult. I recommend clients have an exercise and diet program, like weight watchers, and add hypnosis. Hypnosis can help someone stick with those programs. Also hypnosis can help a client experience during a session, avoiding whatever foods they want to avoid. What I found with some women is they use increased weight gain to avoid unwanted physical advances and to feel more powerful if their environment is dominated by controlling people. There are a number of techniques like regression that can help the client understand the why of over eating.

There are many different techniques that can be used by a hypnotherapist. It might take some time to find what works for a specific individual.

Good luck!

I also understand that Self Hypnosis at a level of consciousness more superficial than medical hypnosis can work. When I was learning the Silva Method there were various anecdotal examples. I'm not sure if this has been tested in controlled circumstances or widespread retrospective studies done.

I always teach my clients how to do self-hypnosis. The depth they achieve depends on the client. There's a fair amount of research on hypnosis. Some people have more ability to enter a hypnotic state than others. The research is often done comparing highly hypnotizable clients with those who have not been hypnotized. There are tests a hypnotist can do before a session to determine some level of hypnotizability. I have had a few clients that I told hypnosis was not a good modality for them. They were wasting there time and money. I had one client on the opposite end of that spectrum. One hypnosis session helped him manage whatever was going on in his life - like stop smoking.

Dear Madelaine,

Thank you for your answer. I have not received a notification of your first letter, which I just saw.

Apart of hypnoses, other approaches could be applied to reprogram disastrous behavioral program of sub consciousness to correct behavioral program of sub consciousness in order person to get FOREVER rid of the excess body weight mass (also smoking and alcohol problems). For the moment, I follow four powerful and effective strategies: affirmations, positive self-talk, visualization and meditation. I am interested in working with clients to help them to get FOREVER rid of excess body weight mass (no more yo-yo effect), without special diets, gruelling exercises, and hypnoses.

Could you please comment?

Kind regards,

Victoria

Dear Madelaine,

Thank you for your answer. I have not received a notification of your first letter, which I just saw.

Apart of hypnoses, other approaches could be applied to reprogram disastrous behavioural program of sub consciousness to correct behavioural program of sub consciousness in order person to get FOREVER rid of the excess body weight mass (also smoking and alcohol problems). For the moment, I follow four powerful and effective strategies: affirmations, positive self-talk, visualization and meditation. I am interested in working with clients to help them to get FOREVER rid of extra body weight mass (no more yo-yo effect), without special diets, gruelling exercises, and hypnoses.

Could you please comment?

Kind regards,

Victoria

There are some issues with positive affirmations and positive self-talk in they can have the opposite effect in those with low self-esteem as what they are saying is entirely too incongruous with how they actually feel.

What is the difference between self-hypnosis and self-suggestion in re-programming disastrous behavioral program of subconsciousness to correct behavioral program of subconsciousness in order to get FOREVER rid of excess body weight. EXAMPLES? ?