Mastering the Magic of Hypnosis for Weight Loss

Hypnosis for weight loss has gained a lot of popularity these days. This is after the discovery that the brain plays a very big role in the loss of weight. It, in fact, plays a bigger role than most of the people imagine or think. People who have not been on a program for weight loss may not easily understand this.

It is often said that being overweight is the human fault. You might also have heard that to lose weight you must stop eating and begin exercising. Most of the people that are struggling with management of weight have engaged in very many activities to shed off that weight, but they have realized little or no positive results.

Although it is important to identify those factors that are causing weight gain and possibly unearth the reasons as to why the previous attempts of weight loss have failed, it only gets to that far and not beyond. There are some people who argue that acquiring the knowledge and information of the cause of weight loss and why attempts to lose it have failed is part of the battle [of loss of weight].

If indeed knowing this is half of the weight loss battle, then for sure it can be termed as the easiest half. All the people who want to lose weight already have some idea as to what is holding them back. What they do not know is how they can change that situation.

The talk therapy has these days become very popular in causing the individuals to change their minds and have better control of their body weight. There are various methods of talk therapy, but the hypnosis for weight loss has taken the center stage. Although it may sound like an old concept, hypnosis is one of the treatment techniques that are widely used by health practitioners and weight loss clinics because it has shown a high degree of effectiveness in most patients.

The hypnosis for weight loss is preferred and recommended because of its quick results, which are a long lasting then the computer-based therapy or psychoanalysis. Hypnosis is an approach that is unique because it focuses mostly on the positive aspects that led to improvement of the body and mind of the patient.

While most psychoanalysis methods aim at investigating the reasons that underlie the challenges to the loss of weight, hypnosis quickly by passes and then replaces those obstacles and thereby creates a rapid path of losing weight. Hypnosis can simply be defined as the ability of rewriting the behaviors and thoughts that go into your mind both unconsciously and consciously.

The hypnosis for weight loss uses reinforcement and repetition. The sessions generally comprise of 20 to 30 minutes of meditation that is guided and repeated every day. If it is administered for a continuous period of 30 days, the brain will adopt new thought pattern or habit.

The human brain absorbs everything that it hears or sees in most cases through multiple awareness levels. Once a person hears or sees something for the first time, it is stored in the brain's short memory. With repetition, the data that is stored in the short-term memory will act like permanent stamp on the mind leading to new habit or belief.

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Believing in Magic

Childhood experiences are often characterised by magical notions: Santa Claus, the tooth fairy and various other such ideas across a wide variety of cultures. To what extent we accept such fanciful ideas as true varies considerably, but it is commonly the case that, as we move through childhood, we rely less and less on magical ideas and adopt a more 'rational' approach.

During childhood magical thinking manifests itself in a number of ways: children can sometimes believe that if they want something enough, it will happen. Similarly, it is well documented that children who experience a major loss (such as the death of a parent) can sometimes feel responsible for what has happened: 'Daddy died because I was naughty'.

The textbooks generally tell us that children grow out of this 'magical thinking', that they leave it behind. However, my experience tells me that it is not as clear cut as some people seem to think. I have come to this conclusion based on my work in training and development over many years. In this work I have seen many examples of magical thinking amongst adults, in the sense that so many course participants seem to assume that being part of a training course will make them better at their jobs, 'as if by magic'.

So many people attend courses and work really hard during the day (or days). They concentrate hard; engage in discussions and other activities and make the effort to understand. However, when it comes to connecting their work on the course to their day-to-day work, this can become a problem. Many people appear to believe that, having gone through the process of the course, they are now better equipped to do their job - as if they can do this without:

• identifying specific behaviours they will endeavour to change Learning is a complex set of issues and not simply a matter of behaviour change, but development clearly involves some degree of behaviour change for the most part.

• establishing how particular concepts or understandings can be brought to bear Training courses can be fertile grounds for introducing, discussing and developing important ideas to inform practice. But simply being exposed to those ideas is unlikely to make much difference, unless we can link them to actual practices (and not just in an abstract way, as in a case study exercise, but in relation to their actual work tasks).Understanding a concept and being able to apply it in practice are two different things.

• identifying other steps that need to be taken to put the learning into practice Do any obstacles need to be removed? Are there any working practices or other aspects of working life that stand in the way of putting the learning into practice? What can be done about them?

I have discussed these issues many times with course participants towards the end of the course, and the reaction has been the same every time - a recognition that magical thinking is the norm (that is, thinking that performance improvement will happen by magic rather than by a process of transfer of learning), that so often in the past, they have returned to work after a very good course, but have not been able to transfer the learning. I have found these discussions to be a useful way of encouraging participants to avoid the magical thinking trap.

However, it is not simply the responsibility of individual participants to make the transfer of learning. Supervisors have an important role to play by encouraging and supporting such learning transfer. And, of course, senior managers have a responsibility to nurture a culture that values and supports learning and does not adopt the attitude that basically says to someone returning from a course: 'Right, you've had your little break, now get back to work'.

We will never get 100 per cent learning transfer (expecting that would be magical thinking too!), but there is no doubt considerable scope for improving the current percentage.

Dr Neil Thompson is an independent author, educator and adviser. For more information about Neil and his work, visit http://www.neilthompson.info/ This article first appeared in the THE human solutions BULLETIN. For details of this and other free resources, visit http://tinyurl.com/freeresourcesfromneil

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