Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Special Mega Annual Issue, 15 June 2018 | Page 32

The ABC of Weight Loss with the Power of
Hypnosis

What has hypnosis got to do with weight loss?
This is a question I get asked repeatedly, as people look upon me with
disbelief, when I tell them that I have used hypnosis to help me shed off
the excess 10 kilos in 5 months, which I was unable to achieve with just
regular diet and exercise.
Having been overweight throughout my childhood and teen years, I
know what being overweight does to your self-esteem and confidence.
Going shopping for clothes was a “nightmare” as nothing would fit, so
most of my clothes had to be tailor-made. Back then, where I lived, it
was difficult for overweight people to find readymade clothes. As a
teenager, I remember looking at the mannequins in the shops and telling
myself that, when I become slim, I will come back and buy all these
lovely clothes. But being slim, just remained a dream.
I lived through my adolescence being labelled by society as “fatso”,
“greedy”, “lazy”, “ugly”, “giant”, “humpty dumpty” and many other
derogatory terms. These negative labels, oblivious to me, formed my
deeply rooted subconscious limiting beliefs that I was not good enough, I
was not pretty enough, I was not deserving enough, I was not worthy
enough and that there is something wrong with me. I remember times
when I would sit by myself and day dream what it would be like to be that
slim, attractive, beautiful girl who was adored, praised and loved by
everyone.
I wish I knew then, what I know now, that it wasn’t my fault and there
was nothing wrong with me. Just like the girls I admired, I too could be
slim, healthy and beautiful, if only I knew that the power to change was
not outside but was within me all along. We all have the power to change
but we are using the wrong mind to make the changes. We are using the
conscious mind which has very limited power to sustain the changes and
sooner or later, we very easily succumb back to our old habits.