Weight

Being overweight can be caused from several things, such as a glandular problem with your hypothalamus, thyroid, and so forth. These medical conditions should be addressed with your Health Care Provider. But, for most of us it is just plain overeating and consuming more calories than we are burning and utilizing on a daily basis, driven by emotional eating. Then we may also be eating the wrong things, we hesitate here to call them foods, (junk foods as we call them) and we eat them in the wrong combinations of starches, alkalines, acids, and carbohydrates and are unaware of the glycemic indexing combinations of foods. We may not understand that all the carbohydrate foods we eat because a release of glucose into the bloodstream-and a corresponding rise in insulin-but some raise glucose more than others. Excess insulin tends to cause bell fat storage. My purpose here is not to be a weight loss expert from the metabolic standpoint. But, I do want to assist your weight loss progress on the emotional drivers of overeating, as addressed best with hypnotherapy. Most of us are what are called emotional eaters, meaning that we are eating to make ourselves feel better. I have a theory about this and where it comes from that I will now share.

Many of us have been raise by parents, who went through the depression, or who were raised by parents that went through the depression. During this time if you wanted to show someone who visited you that you loved, cared, and approved of them, you would feed you. The greatest expression of love and acceptance was if you could give someone something "sweet to eat". Sugar was in short supply and we as Americans developed a mental attachment and emotional association of being loved and approved being stimulated by eating sweet foods. This became a tradition that is still in effect today, (to the third and fourth generations). I never remember a time visiting with either of my Grandmothers that they did not want to give me some cookies, candy, ice dream or all three. In social settings we always have food and plenty of it, if we want people to think well of us, and stimulate feel good feeling in them.

My mother used ice cream as a reward in our family, and as a young boy, whenever I would do my chores in an acceptable or exceptional way or did extra tasks, I would be rewarded with ice cream. Receiving ice cream, came to mean, I had worked hard and was a good son, a good boy. To this day, there is still nothing that I enjoy more than a bowl of ice cream. I want to be" a good son/boy, we all want to think of ourselves as being good. I have been conditioned to satisfy emotional heart hungers, with physical food.

Another example is that, I have experienced a craving for bitter dark chocolate from time to time throughout my life. For years at Christmas or other occasions when chocolates would be brought out, I always sought out the dark, bitterer chocolates, the ones that most people didn't want. Someone once asked me, "why do you do that?" I said I didn't know. But it triggered in my mind that I did know how to find out.

I went into self hypnosis, and remembered an experience I had when I was about 10 or 11. I was ice-skating on a pond about a half a mile below our home in the field, with friends playing broom hockey. We had walked down in the midmorning on a very cold winter day. I skated to close to the area where the water entered the pond, the ice was thinner there and it cracked. I fell through into the freezing water.

Fortunately, the water was only just above my waist. But I was freezing cold, and by the time I walked back home. My Levi's were literally frozen stiff. My feet were frozen, and as I got to the back door of our house, my mother saw me, and immediately began to
take care of me by removing my shoes and socks, and placing my feet in it in a pan of cool water.

She then went to the cupboard and got the brown can of cocoa and started making me some hot chocolate. In her haste to get the hot chocolate going and take care of me the same time, She dumped in way too much cocoa, and very little sugar. She returned rubbing my feet with her hands, further warming up my feet as they continued to thaw. She went and got me a cup of this hot cocoa, it was
dark and bitter, but I completely enjoyed it, associating it with the love kindness, warmth, and security of the moment, from my mother.

Not consciously understanding how I had been sensitized by this experience before doing the self hypnosis, I now fully understood where these urges for the dark chocolate developed. I could then recognize why I often would go to the refrigerator and take a handful of the dark chocolate chips and just eat them. I was deductively stimulating feelings of being loved, accepted, and approved associating them with the love and kindness and caring from my mother.

We all have food associations, maybe several, but we must come to know and understand that food is not love, It's not acceptance, and it's not approval. It's just food, that we have been conditioned to stimulate some of those Wonderful feelings with eating certain foods. Depending where we are in our personal sense of security in our lives at the moment, we may be stuffing ourselves physically with food, attempting to fill ourselves with personal acceptance, approval and love. We are to learn, to give ourselves, love, acceptance and approval, in other ways, separating them out from our food.

Many believe that if emotional eating is the cause of being overweight, that the amount of the internalized emotional content is equal to the excess weight. We see this often in Hypnotherapy, and I must say it is one of the great benefits of Hypnotherapy, to be in a safe environment and have the time, chance and opportunity to vent emotionally, and release the pended up emotional content. The pounds seem to just fall of in equal proportions to the emotional releases. They stay off as well when real changes in predominate thoughts have taken place, those thoughts that were driving the emotionall eating in the first place.

The part Hypnotherapy plays Best in Weight Loss is addressing these emotional ties to food and overeating, attempting to continuously stimulate these naturally programmed in deductively stimulated feel good feelings by eating sweet foods. You can know and understand where these stimulations come from in your life and change them with alternative ways to feel good about yourself without the stimulas of eating. When these mentally associated urges come, we need what is called, Impulse Control". You will develop this in your Hypnotherapy Sessions in either individual or group settings, and you maintain, Impulse Control" by utilization of the Self Esteem Cd and the Weight Management Cd, which have been coordinated in the, The White Series, to give you maximum benefit in the least amount of thime while you sleep. Mostly these are used as reinforcements to the work done in session, but with longer term listening, they are effective by themselves. Please review the CD information and you will be amazed with the results you receive by nightly rotating The Enhanced Self Esteem and the Weight Management Cd's leaving them on repeat.

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