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Hypnosis, thanks to the movies and TV shows, the very word conjures up the likeness of a beady-eyed hypnotist swinging a watch on a chain and chanting the words, "You are getting sleepy."

Do aYahoo search and you will find hundreds of thousands of web pages devoted to the topic. Unfortunately, many websites that sell pre-recorded self-hypnosis CDs make wild, unsubstantiated claims. I've been a hypnotist since 1978. So I think that I'm more than equipped to set the record straight on weight loss hypnosis.

First of all, post-hypnotic suggestion is a tool, just like a scalpel is a tool. Just as different surgeons have different skill levels in the use of a scalpel, different hypno-technicians have varying skill levels in the use of post-hypnotic suggestion. And to complicate the matter, there are different types of post-hypnotic suggestion.

Here are just a few of the silly claims about weight loss hypnosis that I've seen on websites on the Internet, along with the facts of reality:

"Hypnotherapy will speed up your metabolism." If you want to know the truth, the fact is that post-hypnotic suggestion cannot directly speed up your metabolism. But it can be very adequate at helping to program your subconsious mind with increased motivation to exercise. And exercise will speed up your metabolism. Similarly, post-hypnotic suggestion to speed up the metabolism for quick weight loss can be effected by programming the subconsious mind to motivate the intake of increased amounts of protein, because that intake will step up the metabolism.

"Hypnotherapy will make you become slimmer." This is false. But post-hypnotic suggestion can be used to help get rid of your appetite, so that you eat less. And eating less can help you to become slimmer. The average person's appetite and cravings for food and compulsion to eat are triggered by two subconscious programs:

A. When you pair eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for food and a desire to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example, if you eat as you talk on the phone, you will get an urge to eat every time you get on the phone.

B. When you feel stressed, you feel an urge to put something into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure. This is the result of programming that you received as a baby. When you got crabby, your mom put a bottle in your mouth. You got distracted, relaxed, and probably fell asleep. Now when you get cranky (anxious or tense), you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure.

C. There is a third unconscious program that is present for some people. It's called emotional eating. Emotional eating takes place when a person is motivated to make him or herself fat, because by being fat they will protect themselves in some way. For example, if a person gets their heart broken in a relationship, their subconsious mind will very often motivate them into a behavior that will prevent them from getting their heart broken again. Example: They are motivated to gain weight to keep them out of another relationship, because that will eliminate the possibility of another broken heart.

So just how can weight loss self-hypnosis fix the problems mentioned above? Click here to read the rest of this weight loss hypnosis article.

I have written several articles on this complex topic that available on my website. These articles outline some powerful techniques for using hypnosis for emotional eating.

Alan B. Densky, CH is the developer of the Neuro-VISION Appetite Suppression Video Hypnosis CDs, which was awarded a US Patent. He also offers Ericksonian Hypnosis & NLP CDs for appetite suppression. Visit the Neuro-VISION Weight Loss Hypnosis website and download a FREE Hypnotic Power Relaxation Program, or subscribe to one or more of the world-class hypnosis newsletters.