conscious eating

What is conscious eating and exercise look like? It looks like all the things we know how to do and what we should be doing. Eating right, adding exercise and increasing our activity levels, and eating in moderation. Unconscious or subconscious eating and exercise tends to be affected by stress and emotions, emotional eating ring a bell? Unconscious behaviors are the habits we’ve formed over the years that have been ingrained into our minds, whether it’s lack of exercise or a short month long burst of activity that fizzles out.
As hypnotherapists, we see people stuck in their thinking ruts. They are wholly focused on dieting for a short term goal, which they rarely can maintain. They jump into an exercise routine for a week or a month and then lack the motivation to continue. It’s the way Americans have been dieting and exercising for the last thirty or more years, with quick results and fads.
Often, people want to use hypnosis to force them into healthy thinking and to force them to eat correctly. They are looking for that “jump”, the quick, spurt of motivation that will change their lives, but we know from experience that quick solutions are not a solution at all. Hypnosis can help change patterns; eating patterns and exercise, it can help re-wire your thinking. It can help rebuild habits and relieve the stress and emotions that can plague every weight loss client.

What can sabotage many weight loss clients, is their belief that if they just go “deeper” into a hypnotic state or get that “magic” that they need to motivate them, then they will be happy and then the program will work. Hypnosis is different than a stage show that is designed for entertainment, hypnosis for weight loss or other therapeutic contexts is meant to provide lasting change. Lasting change isn’t about a feeling or getting a quick burst of energy, it’s about small, incremental changes that add up to permanent success.
Often, people’s perception of what hypnosis should be is so strong, that even with consultations explaining otherwise and the actual experience of a session, they still want that elusive missing feeling of going under. You should be awake, but relaxed and not in any altered state during hypnosis. Each person is different and experiences vary, but there is no special session that will “make” you do anything, unless you have a strong desire to combine the subconscious with a conscious effort.
Conscious efforts look like this: Educating yourself on healthy eating habits, getting rid of junk food in the house and making sure you have plenty of fresh foods on hand, tracking your food each day, starting a new exercise routine and sticking to it, joining a gym or finding a friend to keep you active and accountable. The subconscious is what we use as a tool to help the conscious side along, we work on establishing positive suggestions and beliefs to eliminate negative self-talk. We work on habit formation with food and exercise and we work on the stress or emotional side that can sabotage the most motivated of us.
Belief is everything in hypnosis, if you believe it can work for you, it often will. Positive attitudes work wonders towards real change. We see it everyday, those who know that real work lies ahead, not just listening to hypnotic Cd’s each night. That conscious efforts need to take place alongside hypnosis, these are the most successful people we see. They know we must combine both sides to achieve lasting changes and lasting success.

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