Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 4 Issue- 10, 1 April 2020 | Page 27

—the pictures in their head, —the beliefs they hold and —their memories and expectations —Focusing their attention on food or eating increases appetite. —Memories of past pleasures at a favourite restaurant, —holiday recipe A happy experience can produce increased salivation and the urge to eat. When a particular eating experience brings them pleasure, they remember it, and the memory creates a desire to repeat the pleasure. Some of these people may need to learn to be less self-critical, less of a perfectionist and more flexible in their beliefs about the way things ought to be. As a therapist, you may need to help such clients recognise when they’re making excuses or rationalisations that allow them to eat, and to focus their thoughts on the benefits to be gained from persisting in their weight management efforts, as well as the costs they’ll pay if they don’t. In the next instalment of this series we’ll look at some of the other overeating trigger.   Dr. Bruce E. Kaloski, Ph.D. CaliforniaClinical Hypnotherapist Past Life Regression Therapist Author, Lecturer, Trainer Website: www.doctorkaloski.com E-mail:[email protected]