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WHY and HOW this WORKS for
Weight Reduction and Weight Management
This
unique combination of guided imagery and visualization,
relaxation skills, and self-hypnosis works for weight
problems, where perhaps other approaches have been unsuccessful,
because this process addresses the core issues -
physical, mental, and emotional - that perpetuate and fuel the
problems with weight and unhealthy eating patterns. Furthermore, this
process addresses the core underlying issues simultaneously by:
- interrupting and transforming self-defeating habits and
unhealthy eating patterns into conscious food choices and healthy
eating plans;
- providing more effective coping skills for dealing with
stress or emotional distress, rather than turning to food;
- facilitating the ability to deeply relax, which not only
diminishes the power of compulsive eating, but restores the body,
enhances the immune system, re-energizes, and has numerous health
benefits;
- increasing motivation, confidence, sense of control, and
ability to follow through by replacing (or “re-programming”)
negative, limiting, discouraging and anxiety-provoking thoughts and
ideas with positive, affirming, and encouraging thoughts,
ideas, and images that uplift and inspire positive steps toward
goals.
In short, all the major components affecting weight reduction and
weight maintenance - the physical, activity level, nutritional,
emotional, stress and coping skills, mental, self-image and esteem -
all are brought together to enable you to create and to sustain
real changes and steps that accomplish your weight loss or management
goals.
Just as importantly, the techniques and tools of visualization and
guided imagery blended with relaxation skills and self-hypnosis work
for you to remedy long-standing, engrained problems or patterns
that may have held you back from achieving what you want, not only
with regard to weight, but also in other areas of your life. These
tools aid in reconstructing the negative thoughts and ideas that feed
pessimism, discouragement, and frustration, as well as reduce energy
and initiative; they are replaced with genuinely encouraging
and empowering positive thoughts, images and “self-talk”
that build confidence, self-esteem, optimism and strength to pursue
any chosen goal.
For more detail, select:
Topic Areas for Weight Reduction and Management
Why the Tools Were Developed - Therapist's Personal
Note Regarding Weight Concerns
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