Anorexia Nervosa And Hypnosis

How to stop anorexia with self hypnosis

Of all of the problems we class as ‘eating disorders’ the one that tends to take the longest to sort out is anorexia nervosa. It can be done, though, and good self hypnosis recordings can really help people.

Anorexia statistics

Anorexia is an illness that is said to affect between 0.5% and 1% of Americans, and 90%-95% of these sufferers are adolescent girls and women. The disorder usually starts in early adolescence or mid adolescence, is one of the most common psychiatric problems for younger women and is one of the most dangerous of the mental health conditions in that it has one of the highest death rates.

The main symptoms of anorexia nervosa

These include a huge fear of gaining weight and a revulsion of body fat, especially the person’s own body-fat, a literal distortion of what the person looks like, sometimes a total denial that there is a weight problem and very often the girl or the woman has no menstruation.

What to look out for with anorexia nervosa – the warning signs

Warning signs include excessive weight loss, thinking about food and weight and calories and diets all the time, being ‘unable’ to eat certain types of food, talking about being overweight a lot, not admitting they are hungry and having elaborate rituals around food. The main thing, of course, is the total preoccupation with food and weight.

Anorexia nervosa heath problems

These include low blood pressure, slow heart rate and the eventual risk of heart failure, weakness, dehydration, osteoporosis, hair loss and the growth of downy hair over the body (to keep the body warm!)

How can self hypnosis recordings help with anorexia

Self hypnosis recordings literally train your mind, and they do this in a variety of ways. Repeated suggestions to be healthy, fit and lean and relaxed about food will have a cumulative effect. The issue is that they may take some time to have a beneficial effect and someone suffering from anorexia, due to the debilitating symptoms, tend to give up if they aren’t getting results. It becomes just another thing they tried and failed at.

Being persistent

So it is vital that the person gets into the routine of listening, after all, most of these recordings can be played every night at bedtime so the only effort involved is pressing the ‘play’ button on the CD player or MP3 player.

NLP and anorexia

Some recordings, such as Debbie Williams’ ‘Stop Anorexia’ also provide simple NLP mind-training exercises. Debbie suffered from an eating disorder herself when she was younger and really does understand how difficult it can be to overcome issues such as anorexia without the appropriate kind of help. As a practising NLP trainer and hypnotherapist her recordings are based both on personal experience and more than ten years clinical experience specialising in eating disorders.

Stop Anorexia Nervosa is also available from the UK.

Stop Overeating: Self Hypnosis Help For Overeating

Methods To Stop Overeating That Work!

There are a number of tried and tested methods to help someone to eat a sensible balanced diet, to stop overeating or stop binge eating. If you were to closely follow the following regime it would almost certainly work for you:

• Only eat when you are hungry • Eat slowly, very slowly, and always put the knife and fork down while you are chewing. Really focus your mind on the taste of the food. • Eat whatever you want to • Just eat when you eat, don’t watch TV or read a newspaper whist eating. • Stop eating when you are full

These are proven methods to help someone eat well. They do have some drawbacks, though.

• It is very important to eat breakfast every day, so what if you are not hungry at breakfast time? • How do you get into the habit of eating slowly? • The idea of eating whatever you want to seems bizarre to those who overeat. Wouldn’t this make overeating and binge eating more likely? (no, by the way) • How can you have a social meal with the family, or a business lunch, if you are focussing only on the food? • How do you know when you are full? • How do you stop overeating when you are full?

Eating well as a way of life

Some people do get their heads around the principles above and are very successful. Many others, however, try to adopt these principles but find themselves slipping back into old habits, and it seems to them that trying to eat this way was just another ‘diet’ that didn’t last. What many people need, to stop them from overeating and to start eating healthily, is help.

Stop overeating: How self hypnosis can help with over-eating problems

Overeating is a habit, and hypnosis is brilliant at dealing with habits. It deals with them at an unconscious level, using suggestion, relaxation, visualization, and a host of other things that have been proven to help people change these habits. Some self help recordings to stop overeating also use NLP techniques which more consciously ‘train’ your mind to begin to create the sort of outcome that you desire.

‘Stop Overeating’ by Debbie Williams

One such self hypnosis recording is Debbie Williams’ ‘Stop Overeating’. Debbie overcame her own personal battles with an eating disorder many years ago and now has more than ten years of clinical experience helping people with such issues as bulimia, anorexia, binge eating disorder, weight control and overeating. Her new recordings use both hypnotherapy and NLP to retrain the mind at both conscious and unconscious levels and carry a full guarantee. You will need to listen repeatedly for best effect.

This page - Weight Control Hypnosis, will take you to a larger selection of titles. This recording is also available here Stop Overeating

Stop Blushing: Self Hypnosis To Help With Blushing

Self Hypnosis To Stop Blushing

In private practice I am called upon pretty much every week to help one of more people to stop blushing, usually successfully. If you aren’t a ‘serial blusher’ you probably don’t appreciate what a crippling condition excessive blushing can be for a person.

Some People Blush Repeatedly

Some people blush repeatedly through the day and live in constant fear of virtually any kind of social interaction. Other blush when they are ‘on the spot' so to speak, when they are suddenly called upon to contribute something to a meeting, when it’s their turn to tell a joke at a dinner party, or even when they are suddenly surprised to meet a friend in the street.

The Fear Of Blushing

It is, of course, the fear of blushing that causes this, and time and time again I have worked with people to get them to stop worrying about blushing in advance. For everyone who blushes excessively will tend to fear blushing in advance, to imagine being embarrassed and going red ahead of time. When you stop them imagining being embarrassed, the problem stops, it’s usually that simple.

Hypnosis To Stop Blushing

There are countless hypnotherapy, or ‘hypnosis’ techniques that have proved to be successful in getting someone to stop blushing so much, and a hypnotherapist, a good hypnotherapist that is, will have a whole range of things he or she can do to help.

The Woman Who Wouldn’t Stop Blushing

When I work one-to-one with someone to help them with this issue I use a combination of NLP and hypnotherapy to train them to be in control of their imagination, and also to recondition the response at a more ‘unconscious’ level. This usually works.

But not always ...

I once saw a woman who had a most unusual blushing pattern. Often, she could stand up and give presentations to hundreds of people and not blush, and not even think about it. Then sometimes, she would meet someone by the coffee machine and blush. If you blush too much then you will appreciate how unusual this is, most people who blush excessively would be terrified at the prospect of speaking in front of a small group of people, let alone hundreds.

I did what I usually did

And it didn’t work. I can often get someone to stop blushing, excessive blushing anyway, in one or two sessions. The very least I tend to get is a substantial reduction in the reddening response. Not this time, though. So I thought, ‘what else can I do’, and then I did something so simple and straightforward that worked immediately and amazed us both.

The Control Panel Of The Mind

She wasn’t in a deep trance, just lightly relaxed, and I said to her ... ‘Go into the control room of your mind, just make it up, the control room can look like anything you want it to, make it look comfortable. On one of the walls see a big dial, like the dial on the safe, and see the numbers on the dial going from one to one hundred. See that the pointer is set at ‘fifty’ because right now the skin tone on your face is about average. Now, when you reach out and turn the dial up, notice that your face will get redder and redder. Fifty, click, fifty one, click, fifty two...'

And she sat there and by the time she got to sixty five her face was bright red

‘Good’, I said, ‘notice that you can control the blushing response. Now count down, sixty four, click, sixty three, click’ and so forth. By the time we got back to ‘fifty’ her face had a normal ‘skin tone’. We even went down to ‘forty’ and she became paler and paler. It only took a few moments. Then we went back up and down the scale a few times and I watched her go red, then go to ‘normal’ repeatedly. Then she did it with her eyes open. The she went to the bathroom and did it in front of the mirror. It was amazing to watch someone calmly having that much control over their neurology.

It totaly sorted her blushing problems

Self Hypnosis Recordings For Blushing

If you are a hypnotherapist you probably won’t be surprised by someone’s capacity to do this kind of thing, after all, this kind of ‘device’ is commonly used to get someone to stop blushing. Some will use a visualization of a thermometer, some will use imagery of being ‘cool’, the best will use a host of techniques to help someone put an end to their blushing problems for good Stop Blushing by hypnotherapist and NLP Trainer Debbie Williams is an excellent example of an effective multi-layered approach to this problem and uses both Neuro-linguistics and self hypnosis to retrain your mind to be more relaxed and more at ease with yourself. Stop Bushing is also avaiable in the UK and it is fully guaranteed to help you.

I Want To Look Younger

De-Age Yourself With Self Hypnosis

Now obviously this may look and sound like a totally ridiculous claim so allow me give you a bit of background. As I have said in previous posts, I spent many years studying hypnosis and NLP, doing course after course after course with all sorts of trainers, many with a man called Richard Bandler who co-founded the field of neuro-linguistic programming. I just fell in love with the whole experience and I did so because it was such fun and, more importantly, time after time I saw things happen that simply worked. Again and again I saw people with seemingly insurmountable problems cured.

Staying Sceptical

You would think that after a few years of witnessing such marvels I would readily believe anything I saw but that wasn’t (and still isn’t) the case.

Getting Younger With Hypnosis

So one day, having been promoted from ‘delegate’ to ‘assistant’ I was standing at the back of the room watching Richard on stage. He picked someone out of the audience, a highly stressed and worried looking middle aged woman who didn’t look as if she had smiled in years. He sat her on a stool, got her to close her eyes and began to get her to relax. He spoke to her for a few minutes, then he spoke to the audience for a few minutes and then to her again. I was kind of lost in what he was saying so it was with total shock and complete disbelief that after about twenty minutes, when I glanced again at the woman, I saw that she looked about fifteen years younger.

The Transformation Was Radical

Anyone who relaxes thoroughly is going to look less tense and more relaxed, obviously. But this was such a huge change that it was difficult to accept it was real. So I started going through the possible ‘reasons’ why this woman now looked so dramatically younger and more vibrant. My first thought was that perhaps I and the rest of the audience had been hypnotised somehow to make us believe she looked younger. Then I looked to see if they could have done something tricky with the lighting in the room. But there was no tricky lighting in the room.

But she looked just as good and youthful the next day and came in with her husband who went over to shake Richard’s hand and thank him.

‘Amazing’ I thought but for some reason I didn’t use the techniques he had used that day for several years. After all, most people who come and see me for NLP and hypnosis tend to have other things on their mind, like stopping being depressed, angry, stopping using cocaine and so forth. No-one has contacted me and said, ‘I want to look ten years younger, can you help?’

The Day I First Used The ‘Soften’ Self Hypnosis Technique

The one day, several years later, a middle aged and very stressed and anxious lady came to see me.

‘What do you want?’ I said as she sat down,

‘I want to stop feeling so terrible about myself’, she replied.

‘And what stops you stopping yourself feeling that way?’ I said.

‘Can’t you tell?’ She asked, looking surprised.

I looked at her and couldn’t for the life of me see what she was talking about. Yes, she looked stressed and worn out, but I couldn’t see anything specific.

Stressed Out Over Her Face

‘It’s my eyes’, she said, after a while, and I looked again. And, now that she mentioned it, I could see that one of her eyeballs was slightly, very slightly, bigger than the other.

It turned out that a few years before she had had a thyroid problem which had changed the size of one eye. Whilst to the average observer, and contrary to what my wife may say, I am very observant in certain circumstances, this wasn’t at all obvious, but it was very obvious to her. Every day, for four years, she had looked in the mirror and felt like shit, to use her words.

Then I remembered the de-aging hypnosis I had seen years before.

‘How Would You Like To Look Ten Years Younger Because I Can Help You To’ I said.

And, understandably, she gave me a kind of ‘sure you can’ look of disbelief and annoyance. So I got her to sit still, be quiet, and listen.

This technique involves relaxing the face in a very specific way. You may well have come across progressive relaxation techniques which involve you imagining relaxing your feet, then your legs, then your hips etc, and this is a sort of advanced version of this kind of process. Other techniques will invite you to tense certain parts of your body, really tense them up, and then really let that part go.

And both of these sorts of approaches can be effective, but not as effectively as this: Obviously you will have to read this through a couple of times before you do it.

The Self Hypnosis De-Aging Technique,

Close your eyes and be very, very aware of your face. Move your awareness to the corner of one of your eyes and specifically imagine this corner of the eye, and the little localised area of the face around the corner of the eye, beginning to relax. In your mind’s eye, see what this area of the face would look like if it is relaxing more, and just pretend it is. And then, importantly, you imagine the word ‘soften’ being spoken very softly and very gently, and as if the source of the sound of the word ‘soften’ is that corner of the eye...

(A word on this word ‘soften’. Make sure that when you imagine this word being ‘spoken’ that you imagine it is being said in a voice that sounds utterly relaxing to you, perhaps a deep, resonant quiet voice, whatever suits you. Gently stretch the word ‘soften’ – sooofften – it’s much easier to say than write...)

Then, repeat this word, like a slow motion gentle mantra coming from the corner of the eye. Do this for about 30 seconds. Then float your awareness to the other corner of the eye, imagine what it would look like if it were relaxing more, imagine what it would feel like, and ‘hear’ the word soften coming from there.

Then simply repeat the process from the corner of the other eye, then the other corner, then the corners of your mouth, then deep inside the hinges of your jaw, then from under each eyebrow in turn, from the centre of your forehead, and from your temples. You can do the temples in stereo if you like.

Then Visualize Sunlight

Sorry if this sounds a bit new-agey, I simply use it because it works.

(p>Visualize sunlight cascading down from above, like a slow-motion waterfall, but made of light. Envision it pouring gently over your head, over your scalp and ears and eyes and nose, down the back of your head, and also inside your head, down through your brain and mouth and teeth and tongue and throat, down into your chest, and then imagine your heart smoothly distributing the light to every cell in your body, via your blood-stream. Especially imagine the light gently radiating out through the pores of your skin in your face.

Then go back and run the ‘soften’ process again. Do this at night as you lay in bed and you will start to look younger, it’s much more effective than anti-wrinkle creams. Do it every day and you WILL notice the difference.

‘Because You’re Worth It...’

The Lady With The Eye

To get back to my story about the lady with the slightly bigger eye, I ran these processes with her during that hour long hypnosis session and by the end she looked hugely different, much more relaxed, as if the weight of the years had been carried away.

When she came back the next week I did not recognize her. Literally. I was waiting on the landing outside the office and she had to walk right up to me before I realised that it was her. True, she had done her hair differently, but the previous week I would have guessed her age at about fiftyish, and now I was looking at a woman who seemed no more than forty, tops.

I Am Not A Wizard

‘Are you a wizard?’ she said, wide eyed.

‘No I am not a wizard,’ I replied, ‘I just get people to sit down in my office for a spell.’ (Sorry)

It transpired that she had seen, in the intervening week, two sets of people she hadn’t seen for years, and both sets of people had totally refused to believe that she had not had plastic surgery, and to be fair to them, I don’t blame them for being sceptical. I remembered that I had been sceptical whilst I watched this being demonstrated in front of my own eyes.

Why This Anti-Aging Relaxation Technique Works So Well

I have given some thought as to why this technique works so well and I think it is because it involves so many ‘senses’. You get so use your visual sense to imagine ‘seeing’ parts of the face relaxing, you use your feeling sense to imagine feeling each part of the face relaxing in turn, and you use your auditory sense as you imagine the word ‘soften’ coming from each location. As the face relaxes thoroughly, the blood gets to flow more freely through the little blood vessels just under the surface of the skin, bringing more oxygen and more nutrients to the cells, giving them a kind of spring-clean on the inside. And soft tissue cells replace very rapidly, some as frequently as every thirty six hours.(/p>

At least, these are the suggestions I give my clients.

Like any technique, it will only work when you practice it. The lady with the eye did this several times a day that first week. So find out for yourself and have a go, and let me know what results you get.

There are a number of really good self hypnosis relaxation recordings available, including one of my personal favourites, Self Healing With Hypnosis, by the late great Duncan McColl. If you have any good techniques of your own then I would love to hear from you so please feel free to post them to this blog.

Thanks

Steve Tromans