Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 4, issue 12, 1 June 2020 | Page 9

might be someone you’re forced to be around-like employers,
employees, or clients, guests, friends, relatives, visitors-they can eat all
they want. It doesn’t bother you at all.
You can see and smell the food they’re eating but it doesn’t bother you
at all because you are in dynamic control of your life, your health and
your eating habits. As a matter of fact, every time you see them eat, or
smell the food, you feel even better … you feel even stronger. Every
time they eat around you, it makes you feel even more determined to
remain in complete and total control. You now find it so easy to
politely and firmly refuse food of any kind in these situations.
Imagine yourself now in just such a situation. Hear someone offer you
a plate of food perhaps, or maybe it’s a cookie or donut or pastry or
chocolate, it doesn’t really matter. Hear yourself telling them, “No
thank you.” Now notice how good that makes you feel. Every time you
say “no” to anyone else or yourself in such a situation as this a
tremendous feeling of health and pride comes over you. An
overwhelming realisation that finally you’re the one who’s in charge.
You’re the one who’s in control.
Emotional Trigger
Finding now that you eat for health and nutrition only. Eating is not a
substitute for anything else. You may have problems, personal or
professional, from time to time but you no longer try to solve or forget
about these problems by eating. If you’re upset, disappointed or
emotionally distraught about anything, you no longer think of eating
to solve your problems. Eating is for nutrition only.
You can and you will solve your problems without resorting to food.
You’re becoming increasingly more able in developing skills in coping
more effectively with emotions. You’re learning to either avoid
situations that produce emotions or you are reacting differently to