In hypnosis, you're really trying to motivate the brain to make changes.
Early studies from the 90s found that people who used hypnosis lost more than twice as much weight as those who dieted without the cognitive therapy. A 2014 study worked with 60 obese women, and found that those who practiced hypnobehavioral therapy lost weight and improved their eating habits and body image
Hypnosis has a better success rate than any other type of therapy
20th August 2017
Hypnosis has a better success rate than any other type of therapy.
In 1970 a groundbreaking meta-analysis of hypnosis research studies was conducted by Alfred A. Barrios, which led to the mainstream acceptance of hypnosis as an extremely effective form of therapy.
How does clinical hypnosis work?
When someone is trying to make a major change in their life, like overcoming obesity, there can be a lot to think about: What foods you should be eating, how you should exercise, and where you'll feel safe enough to exercise, for example. Certain judgements or fears might get in the way of forming long-term habits that could transforms a person's health.
Multiple studies show that hypnosis has helped people achieve moderate weight loss.
In 1996, researchers at Oxford found that patients who received stress reduction hypnotherapy lost more weight than a control group that only received dietary advice. In 2014, scientists in Italy studied the effects of hypnobehavioral and hypnoenergetic therapy on women suffering from obesity. Both treatments improved their weight, BMI, and eating behaviors.
What a clinical hypnotherapist aims to do is guide their patients into a relaxed state using a number of techniques that vary from deep breathing to visualization.
