suggestions for
changing your eating and exercise habits, and improving your self-care.
You are not only helped to experience this heightened state of
suggestibility and relaxed, focused concentration in the office, but
also on your own at home. This is accomplished by my making you an audio
tape (CD or cassette) that you are instructed to listen to at least once
a day at home for several months. By repeatedly listening to my
therapeutic suggestions over and over again, these messages get through
to the subconscious control center in your brain. This helps to
re-program your eating and exercise habits, your body image, and your
self image.
I also teach you how to use self-hypnosis so that you can enter this
state of focused concentration on your own, to meditate on your positive
but realistic goals and your positive self image.
Hypnosis is also an effective tool for uncovering the underlying,
unconscious emotional factors that cause you to overeat or make poor
food choices when you are stressed, anxious, bored, depressed, and so
forth. Once these emotional eating factors are made conscious, the
hypnosis tool is then used to help you change them to more positive
motivators so you can make better choices under stress.
Hypnosis for weight loss is very effective when the reason you
are overweight is overeating, or "problem eating".
Overeating is usually an automatic, anxiety-based coping behavior. It
tends to occur frequently and repetitively without your having much
conscious control over it. You may overeat in many different situations
without realizing you have done so until after the fact.
When your overeating, or "problem eating" is an automatic
(subconsciously driven) habit behavior, it is usually associated with
your misinterpreting the messages being received from your stomach and
the rest of your body. Your overeating behavior is immediately
reinforced, or gratified, because it feels good, or satisfies the need
to make sense of your body's messages.
However, your overeating behavior usually triggers negative physical
sensations afterwards, such as your feeling overly full, bloated and
stuffed, as well as negative emotional feelings afterwards, such as
guilt, anxiety, shame, etc. It is also a behavior that you probably
recognize as having negative health consequences.
I specialize in the effective brief hypnotic treatment of overeating
or "compulsive eating". Through the use of individually designed
psychological, educational, and behavioral interventions and clinical
hypnosis, I can help you change and control your problem eating
behavior.
Most of my patients who come to me for "hypnosis for weight control"
have a history of going on and off various diets. For the majority of my
patients, these diets have not been successful at keeping the weight off
for the long-term.
Many of my "weight patients" report having experienced some success on
some diets initially, but then, at some point, they began to have
difficulty continuing to adhere to the particular dietary regimen.
Initial weight loss that is not maintained is often followed by larger
weight gains or "weight rebound". These "dieting failures" often lead to
demoralization and depression associated with negative coping behaviors.
My approach to Weight Loss Hypnotherapy involves first finding
the reasons you eat too much or too often. Then, I help you come up with
alternative, healthier ways to cope with these causative and maintaining
factors. On a conscious level, you may answer the question of "Why do I
do this?" one way, but typically your answer is a conscious
rationalization that does not address what is really going on. This is
where hypnosis can also be a very helpful tool.
Call me at 215-947-7867 (947-STOP).
The Hypnosis Tool:
I use hypnosis to
analyze the underlying, subconscious causes of your overeating behavior,
and as a tool for helping you initiate and continue the process of
positive change. Often “addiction to food” masks anxiety, and this
underlying anxiety and your ways of coping with it need to be addressed.
If you have a habit of "problem eating", you probably eat to reduce
feelings of anxiety that may or may not be related to current stress.
In your Intake Evaluation, together we will develop a thorough
initial understanding of your eating patterns and a hypnotic and
behavioral treatment plan for solving your overeating problem.
People who are successful at changing and controlling "problem eating
behavior", and in losing weight, reframe their relationship with food
and with formerly problematic food-social situations. My approach will
help you to do just that.
In our initial session, you are also hypnotized and helped to feel
comfortable with hypnosis.
I typically see weight loss patients for two to five visits. Of course,
this is individualized to your unique needs and situation. Following the
intake session, I use hypnosis to:
1. Help you recognize why you overeat and to find alternative
coping strategies.
2. To interrupt your continuous preoccupation with food.
3. To correct the mistaken belief that many or all body messages
mean you are hungry.
4. To teach you how to safely externalize feelings of stress that
had been influencing your frequent eating.
5. To change your unhealthy eating patterns and behaviors.
6. To motivate you to engage in new behavioral habits that start
burning calories.
7. To help you to begin substituting self-hypnosis and relaxation
for overeating and other stress coping strategies that have not been
working.
8. To assist you in "ego strengthening" and self-esteem boosting.
For more information about how I can use hypnosis with you to help you
lose weight, see my article on
Self-Hypnosis and my
Weight Loss Hypnotherapy slide presentation.
If you want to stop overeating and start losing weight now, I can help
you do it!
For more information and to schedule an appointment with me, call me at
215-947-7867 (947-STOP), or e-mail me, Dr. Eimer,
here.
Isn't your health and well being worth it?
Call today: 215-947-7867 (947-STOP), or
email me.
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