You may have watched hypnosis on T.V, or attended a hypnotist stage show, and would have viewed people performing some very unusual behaviors. People, singing, dancing, acting like that are washing machines, or viewing objects like they were invisible. When it comes to using hypnosis to lose weight you are probably not interested in any of the above. But there are some aspects to a stage hypnotist's bag of tricks you'll want your hypnotherapist to use in your hypnosis weight loss session. What a stage hypnotist is able to do, is rapidly induce que controlled behavior. Now we train ourselves to do this all time.

You see a red light while driving, you apply the break. A ball is thrown towards you and your hand goes out and catches it. There is the stimulus the red light. There is the reaction, putting your foot on the brake. There is the stimulus a ball coming towards your head and there is the reaction catching the ball. There is the stimulus the ringing of the telephone, and there is the reaction, picking up the phone. There is no need to consciously make the decision to take action.

A hypnotist on stage is using a similar process, just speeding up the time it takes to learn the response. When I say the word sleep, you close your eyes. When I click my fingers you roar like a lion. When it comes to using hypnosis for weight loss a hypnotherapist should be including some cue controlled reactions. When you see the brown wrapping of a chocolate bar it makes you feel disgusted. When you open the fridge door, you only see the healthy foods. When serve your dinner portions , you put half as much on the plate and are just as satisfied. For some people these cue controlled behaviors incorporated into their hypnosis sessions work very well and changes in eating habits may occur very rapidly. For others the effects are more subtle.

To increase the effectiveness of these reactions you want to be very specific about what the stimulus is and what the response is. For example, saying, when you see bad foods, you no longer feel like them is a poor choice of words. A good choice is, when you see the bright red color of a bottle of coke, you feel disgust at the thought of all the sugar entering your healthy body, so you turn and walk away.

But remember this is only one small aspect to hypnotherapy for weight loss. If it works for you great, you are going to get off to a flying start. There are many other techniques to help you lose weight through hypnosis, and your hypnotherapist will be able to find the best tools that work for you.