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Originally Posted by TamiL
I think hypnosis has something to do with how gullable you are.
Wow, I kinda resent that statement.
My personal counselor also does hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy is an effective tool for many things in a person's life. I have tried it... the first time, she did a small like 5 minute mini-hypnotherapy thing called "collapsing anchors" Basically, you pick something that you want to get rid of (works well with binge foods) - I picked Ice cream as at that time I was eating over a gallon a week. Then you go into a meditative state and YOU think of the most disgusting thing you can and visualize it in one hand. Then YOU think of the food or whatever you want to get rid of and everything about that thing that you love and enjoy and visualize it in the other hand. Then you smash the two things together so that what you want to get rid of is completely associated with the most disgusting thing you can think of.
I was skeptical... and I didn't want to get rid of ice cream. That evening, my husband and I went to the grocery store and I could not walk down the frozen foods section because of the ice cream - it made me physically ill to even see the ice cream containers. That was last October, and from then until mid-May I had no ice cream and it wasn't that I still had a physical reaction to it, it was that I had been away from it long enough that I just didn't care if I had it. Then I decided that before I started Optifast that a cherry-dipped cone from dairy queen would be good - and it was, and it didn't trigger a binge like it once would have.
The thing with this that my counselor warned was that people will switch what they are trying to get rid of in their mind without telling her, or they don't really visualize what they need to because they don't want it to work - so then it doesn't work.
I have also had a 2hour long hypnotherapy session to help me with some emotional issues that started in childhood, it was effective but would have been more effective if I had multiple sessions.
Its just like anything else though... it works as a TOOL not as a FIX-ALL.