Does hypnosis work, if so then how does hypnosis work, does hypnosis work for weight loss, can hypnosis make you lose weight.

The way hypnosis works is by taking you into a state of consciousness where you focus only on the problem at hand (in this case loosing weight) and everything else is on the edges of your awareness, the meaning of the word hypnosis is ‘nervous sleep’ and comes from the Greek hypnos that means sleep, but hypnosis is different from normal sleep because the Alpha brain waves are high when you are hyptonised and low when you are sleeping plus when you are hypnotised you can still hear quite clearly.

Some people can be hypnotised more easily than others, you cannot be taught to be a ‘good subject’ but you can be taught how to self hypnotise, with hypnotism you are taught to focus on a subject, in this case either more exercise or less eating, most ‘good subjects’ are intelligent, creative and independent, hypnosis will focus your attention on one particular thing, you will still be aware of other things that are going on around you but your attention will be sharper on the one thing that you are focusing on, for this reason you cannot be made to do anything that you would not normally do if you were not hypnotised.

Hypnotherapy is when you use hypnosis for healing or positive development and is a bit like psycotherapy, it programmes your behavioural patterns to get rid of negative thoughts such as ‘i can’t lose weight’ or ‘i don’t like exercise’, when you are relaxed during hypnosis your breathing will slow down and your pulse rate will drop as will your metabolic state and hypnosis can also affect your hormones and nerves this is how hypnosis can help to stop pain and nausea.