Believe it or not, hypnosis has been around for longer than what we know as traditional medicine has. As much as paradigms changed with the years in terms of medical treatments, the foundations of hypnosis remained the same. In these last more than three centuries of application it was used for many illnesses and ailments alike. A recent use that is still being tested is the use to treat morbid obesity. Is it an effective method? Read on to find out more about it.
Overeating and Obesity
Morbid obesity is usually not the result of an overnight hormone failure or a birth-defect. It is usually more related to bad feeding habits as well as poor exercising routines, a sedentary life and very often some kind of anxiety disorder or a lot of stress. Overeating is a habit, a bad one. For most people who suffer from it, overeating is something they carry from the earliest moments of their life. There are cases in which the whole family suffers from the same disease and bad habits are cascading from one generation to the next.
Today the United States of America are the country with the highest percentage of obesity. Out of the total adult population, 36.2% is obese. It is followed by Turkey with 32% but what is truly alarming is the difference in the population. While Turkey is close to 80 million people, the US has 325 million people. So, percentage-wise is close, but we are talking about 26 million obese Turkish people against 117 million obese people in the US.
According to the prestigious website Healthline the second cause of obesity is “Engineered Junk Food”. According to the portal, that kind of food is engineered to keep people hooked and deeply promote overeating. How can you use Hypnotherapy to lose weight and burn fat? - Hacking Your Mindset.
Hypnotherapy and Obesity
Every complex problem demands for a complex solution and obesity is, by no means, an exception to that rule. There are many ways to tackle obesity. The best-known of them all is perhaps eating healthy and exercising often. That is necessary for living a better life, but sometimes patients find it very hard to find the will power to transform their life and find themselves in a vicious cycle of overeating, being sedentary and complaining. What hypnotherapy can do for those people is to go deep into their more receptive state of consciousness and try to change their eating habits and exercising habits by suggesting different ways to overcome the obstacles.
While it is still being tested, a recent controlled trial with an 18-month follow up indicated that those following a hypnotherapy treatment lost up to 8lbs more than the control group.
